Dennis Thompson

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Dennis Thompson

dr, *1948
Musician of Rock and Alternative
A.k.a. Dennis A. Tomich Dennis Tomich

Dennis Thompson (born September 7, 1948) is the drummer with the 1960s/1970s Detroit proto-punk/hard rock group MC5, which had a #82 US single with "Kick Out the Jams" and a #30 US album with the same name.Thompson was given the nickname "Machine Gun" because of his "assault" style of fast, hard-hitting drumming that sonically resembles the sound of a Thompson machine gun (commonly referred to as a "Tommy Gun"). His powerful drumming pre-figured and influenced punk, metal, and hardcore punk drumming styles.

Instruments

Drums
Vocals
Tamborine

Genres

Rock
Alternative
Hip-Hop/Rap

Plays With

MC5

New Race

Secrets

The MC2

The New Order

Rob Tyner Band

Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Black To Comm	Primal Scream / MC5 / Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Dennis Thompson	2011	Album

External Links

Home Page

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Discogs

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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