Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USABirthday: 07 September 1948Bio: Dennis Thompson (born September 7, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, United States) was 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. After the MC5 broke up, Thompson was a member of the 1975–1976 Los Angeles based super-group The New Order, the 1981 Australia based super-group New Race, The Motor City Bad Boys, and The Secrets. In 2001, he guested for Asmodeus X on the song, The Tiger (St. Thomas Records).
