Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer - Gang War! [RSD Black Friday 2025] 2LP

RELEASES ON THE 28/11/25

The late MC5 and New York Dolls legendary guitarists collaborated in this band that lasted a whole year - but had no releases. This is the best of 3 live shows - in red and black vinyl. Notes by Johnny 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 collaboradon is looked on as a ‘rock fantasy’ supergroup.

These live Toronto, Boston and New York recordings bear tesdmony to this unique partnership between two celebrated rock guitar icons.

About this product: this is the RSD Black Friday '25 release on 2x red w/ black splatter vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.