# Motor City Is Burning guitar solo > Wayne Kramer's guitar solo on Motor City Is Burning by MC5 (1969) starts at about 2:30. From the album Kick Out the Jams. A hard rock classic from the 1960s. Canonical URL: MC5, 1969, from *Kick Out the Jams*. Solo by *Wayne Kramer*. A slow John Lee Hooker blues pushed to breaking point, with Kramer's lead tearing through the groove. Motor City Is Burning by MC5 is #5 in our ranking of the best MC5 guitar solos. The solo is played by Wayne Kramer and the song was released in 1969. ## In our lists - [The Best MC5 Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/mc5-guitar-solos/) — #5 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Motor City Is Burning? Wayne Kramer played the solo on MC5's Motor City Is Burning (1969). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)