Elektra fact sheet from 1968

~ AN ELEKTRA FACT SHEET ~

Here is a two pages hand-written fact sheet which was found incidentally and recently in the gatefold sleeve of an original copy of the MC-5 album "Kick Out The Jams". The former owner of that album has written up the original fact sheet somewhere between Summer 1969 and 1972.

The following fact sheet was made up by Elektra (They're now with Atlantic) and the answers are supplied by Wayne Kramer, guitar player for the MC5.

Real Name : Wayne Kramer

Birthplace : Detroit, Michigan

Birthdate : 4/30/48 Taurus - Leo rising

Height : 5' 11" Weight : 160-65

Mother's name : Mable Baggett

Father's name : Stanley Kambes

Brothers & Sisters : Peggy (6), Kathy (16)

Present home : Ann Arbor, Mich. (moved recently)

Instruments played : guitar, drums, bass, all keyboards, occasional saxophones, and i'm starting on brass.

Where educated : I moved once a year the 12 years i was in school (except for 4 years in Lincoln Park)

Age entered show business : 11

First public appearance : Lincoln Park Bandshell

First professional appearance : the Crystal Bar on Michigan & Central Avenue, in Detroit, in Winter '65.

Biggest break in career : I get bigger breaks everyday

Biggest disapointment,etc : Too many to go into

Music likes : Reality, i.e. real and natural, i.e. down in the all & people who are the solution

Music dislikes : equipment breakdown, bogue tuning, people who are the problem

Fav. band : Stooges, Sun Ra, Shepp, Trane

Fav. instrumentalist : Tyner et al., Trane & group, Shepp & group, Sanders & group, Ra & ditto

Fav. songwriter : Tyner et al.

Fav. food : home made pie

Fav. drink : water, beer, whisky & coke, wine, ---, et al.

Fav. clothes : custom made

Fav. actor : Arthur Jones (?)

Fav. actress : Chris Hovnanian

Fav. singer : Ituri forrest Pygmies (?), James Brown, Pharoah Sanders

Personal manager : John Sinclair

Musical direction : for fuckin out record prod! "el supremo" (subj to change)

Composition : we all write our own parts.

Former occupation : door to door salesman (mags, cards, etc), car washer, laborer.

Hobbies : I'm on full time hobbie.

Best friends : 5, Brother J.C. Crawford, Stooges, Rationals, Steve, Ron, John Sinclair, Jac, Danny, Bruce, Bill Sommers, Pun, Panther, Harvey, Chris, Sigrid, ---, Ed, Frank, Bill, Winston & all the cool kids at Dearborn High.

Pets : cats, birds