Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer's - Gang War!

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: FREUDCD076  
Barcode: 5013145207628
Release Date: 28 Nov 2025
Genre: Punk/New York Dolls/MC5

The New York Dolls/Heartbreakers guitarist in collaboration with the MC5 guitarist!
Double-LP with five extra ‘Live at Max’s’ tracks, previously only heard on bootleg.
Gatefold sleeve with flyers and extended notes by Thunders biographer Nina Antonia.

In 1979, JOHNNY THUNDERS, renowned Heartbreakers and New York Dolls guitarist, teamed up with WAYNE KRAMER, also legendary guitarist of Detroit’s seminal MC5, to form ‘GANG WAR’, an alliance that lasted the best part of a year.  Johnny had just released his So Alone album, and Wayne was not long out of jail after serving two of four years for a coke bust.  Although Gang War released no records and were without a label – at the time they were an underground act – in retrospect the collaboration is looked on as a ‘rock fantasy’ supergroup. These live Toronto, Boston & New York recordings bear testimony to this unique partnership between two celebrated rock guitar icons.

CD TRACKLIST:
Ramblin’ Rose, London Boys, These Boots Are Made For Walking, M.I.A., The Harder They Come, Endless Party, I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys, I’ll Go Away, Hey Thanks, Courageous Cat Theme, Just Because I’m White/Bright Lights Big City, Around & Around, The Harder They Come, Ten Commandments Of Love, Like A Rolling Stone, Endless Party, Do You Love Me? (17 tracks)