MC5! How Come I NEVER heard these guys until Today????

I feel seriously deprived!

These guys rock, and I see them as the single inspiration for everything Punk! Screw the Ramones, these guys were doing punk in the 60's!

ON EDIT: How come these guys aren't on classic rock stations? These guys were way more influential than Steppenwolf or Huey Lewis...

Yes, MC5, Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Great stuff.

She helped with this:

www.futurenowfilms.com/

"One of the most electrifying acts to ever storm a Rock'n'Roll stage, the MC5's Detroit performances in the late 60s are legend. Their debut album, Kick Out the Jams, set a high-energy sonic standard rarely matched in the thirty years since its release. The MC5's uncompromising stance and radical affiliations placed them, briefly, at the musical forefront of a generation bent on political and cultural change. In the midst of the most turbulent years in our nation's history, the MC5 embraced the promise and embodied the possibilities of a real American Revolution."

She knows her MC5.

Not Revolution Lite like Airplane, but flat our "UP AGAINST THE WALL"

Gotta love that!

Doesn't sound terribly revolutionary to me. :shrug:

And I knew their rep, that's all

KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

for as long as it's taken them to finish their film. The filmmakers, David Thomas and Laurel Legler, are the ones who their MC5.

See if you can't bring the film to your town for a screening. It's been getting good reviews.

And you're right about the MC5. They were fucking awesome! :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:

Ah said, the Motor City is burning, people,
I ain't hanging round to fight it out.
Ah said, the Motor City is burning, people,
just not hang around to fight it out.
Well, I'm taking my wife and my people and ???
Well, just before I go, baby, ???? ,
firemans on the street, people all around,
Now, I guess it's true,
I'd just like to strike a match for freedom myself,
I may be a white boy, but I can be bad, too.
Yes, it's true now, yes, it's true now.

"Let it all burn! Let it all burn!"
Motor City is burning

John Sinclair Interview: http://www.furious.com/perfect/MC5/johnsinclair.html

Seriously, not many people that grew up outside of the Detroit area ever heard of them. I grew up there in the time that they were pouplar and I can only recall one song that got much play on the raido, "Kick Out The Jams"...and that was the edited version.

I bought their album "High Time" ages ago it feels but songs like Future/Now, "The Future's Here Right Now (If You're Willing To Play The Price)", still resonate and reverbate in my head.

Since we're talking about the MC5, we must not forget Two-Joints John:

http://www.signal66.com/music/lostindc/00_0324a.html

Like alot of his stuff ("Jean Genie" was about Iggy Pop, etc)

"Panic in Detroit" was heavy on references to John Sinclair and the MC5, but mostly Sinclair.

or just click on this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22john+sinclair%22+%22panic+in+detroit%22

And did he drive a Diesel van?

Early 1970's thought of them as another loud late '60s band. Sort of like a revolutionary Blue Cheer.

Punk? Punk? I was listening to Jethro Tull at the time.

MC5 album from the college radio station. We always got boxes and boxes of promo records and of course, if it wasn't mainstream it never even got any play in those days. The MC5, The Allman Brothers, The Mothers, Captain Beefheart .......I must have swiped 50 albums from the station that only would have been thrown out anyway. I really honed my musical appetite from working at that campus radio station. I owe then a debt of gratitude.

He's like the cornerstone of all modern rock!

don't forget the dolls