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Looking at You by the MC5 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-04-26 15:29:54
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2025-11-22 13:10:17
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By way of a tribute to the great Wayne Kramer who died earlier this year, I thought I'd examine Looking at You by the MC5, which contains some of Kramer's finest soloing. We have not one but three awesome solos, and I also take you through how to play the main riff.

Everything's tabbed out below. As I say in the video, rather than learning these solos note for note, you might prefer just to steal a few licks, then do things your own way.

The backing track is just the main riff repeated, and I've extended it to a couple of minutes. Use it to practise the solos or to improvise some ideas of your own - E minor pentatonic/blues/natural minor/dorian will all work great. Have fun.

Hope you enjoy it!

-Adrian

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Looking At You by the MC5 Guitar Lesson

Tab and backing track can be found on Patreon (pay what you like): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My NEW intermediate-level soloing course: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases Please subscribe here for many more YouTube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/anyonecanplayguitarcouk Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram (occasionally I post here): https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/ Twitter: given up on it Facebook: a page exists, I never look at it 00:00 Hi 00:27 Solo 1 play-through 01:01 About the song 02:20 Main riff 03:53 Solo 1 breakdown 09:00 Solo 2 play-through 09:49 Solo 2 breakdown 13:59 Solo 3 play-through 14:23 Solo 3 breakdown 16:01 Gear used in this video 18:14 Bye

Comments

Adam Rizer

Been waiting for this moment my entire punk rock life! Thanks!

Luca Solari

ahahah, REAL punk rock!!!

Peter Healy

Great stuff!!! Adrian, walking us through Brother Wayne and the MC5 is never pointless.

HagRunDan

I knew this song from the Damned cover. And was astonished. THANKS

Tom Dellinger

Another great one Adrian and was pleasantly surprised to see you get into Wayne Kramer a bit. He toured a version of MC5 two years ago (he was the only original member) and I photographed his stop in San Francisco. I had a couple of local friends in the band on lead vocals and bass. Also on guitar he had Stevie Salas who made a huge impression on me. Someone well worth looking into, I was shocked by his death. I had been talking with Brad (lead vocalist) shortly before his passing about a new album in the works to be followed by another tour. Wayne's passing came as a shock. That show was one of my absolute faves of that year. Wayne and this band were on fire and I was excited about their next round. I put a quick gallery up at my website with photos from that show: https://www.tomdellinger.com/mc5-san-francisco-05-22

Matty

Any chance of a Duane Eddy track sometime soon. I think you would nail it Adrian. BTW....my wife wants to know why I just bought a Squire JazzMaster. I blamed you. Sorry!

Haroun Haroun

Brother Wayne actually gave guitar lessons to people incarcerated in American prisons via the Billy Bragg charity 'Jail Guitar Doors'. Maybe you should do a Billy Bragg lesson, some of his early minimal stuff like 'new england' 'milkman of human kindness' or 'Levi stubbs', I know he's a bit schmaltzy but Billy is a very underrated guitarist. Anyway here is Brother Wayne's lesson of 'looking at you'! https://youtu.be/7Tm-mKxFaY4?si=oZQa-Y7n8gznb_IO

Gus Ironside

Thank you, Adrian! This is one of the songs that I’ve wanted to learn for some time. I noticed a couple of your You Tube followers suggested the mighty City Slang by Sonic’s Rendezvous Band as the subject for another tutorial video, which I’d love to see. Another suggestion I have is City Kids by The Pink Fairies, which was written by the great Larry Wallis (Pink Fairies, Motörhead, UFO, Stiff Records solo artist and producer). I love Larry’s fluid psych-punk soloing and I think City Kids would make for a great tutorial subject.