RAMRODS

artist: RAMRODS (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
venue: "at a party" // Red Carpet
location: Detroit, Michigan, USA // Detroit, Michigan, USA
date: 1977 // 1978
length: 10 minutes // 29 minutes

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Short lived and under the radar Detroit group - members would later play with only slightly less under the radar acts DARK CARNIVAL and NIKKI & THE CORVETTES. The live set captured "at a party" in '77 features a STOOGES track, the tail end of "Helter Skelter" and a searing version of THE WHO's "My Generation" in addition to the band's eponymous tracks "I'm A Ramrod."  

STOOGES

artist: THE STOOGES (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
venue: Whisky A Go Go
location: Hollywood, California, USA?
date: 1973
length: 30 minutes

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A notably fast set....decent sound quality, just faster than you're expecting. Damn this band was good.

STOOGES

artist: THE STOOGES (Ann Aorbor, Michigan, USA)
venue: American Theater
location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
date: 18 August 1973
length: 53 minutes

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Worth it for the radio ad tacked onto the front end of the set. Recording is admittedly raw, but this is also a document of screaming set that was delivered when I had been on the earth for less than a year. And I am not a young person. So I thank the Technical Gods and I settle into THE STOOGES. "Raw Power" is the opener, the version of "Gimme Danger" gives me chills...listen until the end please. 

SONIC RENDEZVOUS BAND

artist: SONIC RENDEZVOUS BAND (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
venue: Second Chance
location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
date: 18 February 1980
length: 88 minutes

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MC5

artist: MC5 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
venue: Unitarian Church
location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
date: 09 August 1968
length: 29 minutes

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CRUCIFUCKS

artist: CRUCIFUCKS (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
venue: The Hung Jury
location: Washington DC
date: 16 November 1986
length: 31 minutes

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From the CRUCIFUCKS/MDC tour (though the MDC set was Dave Dictor solo acoustic on this date...)

IGGY + THE STOOGES

artist: IGGY & THE STOOGES
venue: Whiskey A Go Go

location: Los Angeles, California, USA
date: 16 September 1973
length: 57 minutes

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CRUCIFUCKS

artist: CRUCIFUCKS (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
venue: Freezer Theater
location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
date: 11 June 1982
length: 28 minutes

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DARK CARNIVAL

artist: DARK CARNIVAL (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
venue: Magic Bus
location: Ferndale, Michigan, USA
date: 01 July 1995
length: 53 minutes

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Very good review of this band's final recording here. Ron Asheton and Niagara from DESTROY ALL MONSTERS...it's weird to think about a band with DEAD BOYS and STOOGES members wailing away at under the radar bar shows in the '90s. 

CRUCIFUCKS

artist: CRUCIFUCKS (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
venue: The National Mall
location: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
date: 03 July 1983
length: 31 minutes

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Worth it just to hear Doc snarl "Cops For Fertilizer" at a bunch of civilians. Take a minute to conceptualize this set, when and where it was recorded, and then reassess what is punk. 

THE MUTANTS

artist: THE MUTANTS aka MOTOR CITY MUTANTS (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
venue: Harpo's
location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
date: ?? April 1979
length: 29 minutes

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CRUCIFUCKS

artist: CRUCIFUCKS (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
venue: Cargo's
location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
date: 29 July 1982
length: 15 minutes

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CRUCIFUCKS

artist: CRUCIFUCKS (Lansing, Michigan, USA)
venue: ??
location: Eugene, Oregon, USA
date: 17 October 1984
length: 31 minutes

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If I said CRUCIFUCKS were the punkest band of all time could you prove me wrong?

TYVEK

artist: TYVEK (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

venue: various

location: various (but probably not far from Detroit, Michigan, USA)

date: ?? 2009/2010

length: 57 minutes

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DESTROY ALL MONSTERS

artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (Michigan, USA)

venue: ??

location: Detroit, Michigan, USA

date: ?? ?? 1981

length: 45 minutes

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Destroy All Monsters featured ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton during this era.