Leni Sinclair Photo
From Born a Ramblin Sam blog
By all rights, the MC5 should have been seminal heavy rockers in the same vein as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or any other hard rock bands that were far more famous, but when they arrived with the epochal Kick Out the Jams in 1969, their politics were too radical and their music too confrontational and heavy for the American mainstream.
The title track of the album has seen radio airplay in a sanitized form and they were very much aligned with the contemporary radicalism of that era moreso than most other proto-punks, but the MC5 were willingly disassociated from mainstream rock ‘n’ roll, insistent on not compromising their message for melody or record sales.
Everyone from The Sex Pistols to Rage Against the Machine have shown considerable influence from Rob, Fred, Dennis, Wayne and Michael , meaning that these Motor City outcasts have their hands on pretty much everything heavy and underground in rock ‘n’ roll.
9 comments:
"This clip is so fuckin' amazing! It really makes me feel like I was born too late."
Yes Thank you MC5. I was at the live recording at the Grande Ballroom
what a night! ..High Energy. I still feel it when I hear the Music.
wow what a rush....what a time in history
This one's...killer
I've heard 'never give up your youth' but being born in 1967 kinda sucks cause I missed all that!
I remember when I bought the album (complete with Sinclair's liner notes) at a record store in Southgate. The clerk had the albums under the counter and not on display... I had to ask for it! It was like buying porn haha! But it was much better than porn... it was a truly subversive act!
Got it at Mixed Media the day it came out
"Back in Callie, SF and Bezerklee, we got them out of jail and drove to Leary's house in the hills, then Owsley arrived with a new batch in a gallon of wine, as the bottle got passed, wine and acid, everyone got high and drunk, at that moment, Max Scheer the editor of the Berkely Barb said to Tim and Rosemary. " These guys are the proto rock band ""
Hey Dennis -
I really dig gettin' your blogs and am wondering: Are you putting them together or is someone else? The layout of each of them are great and some of the memories you add into them are even better!
Just tellin' ya a job well done man! If you're behind the layout and production of them, you're one hell of a talented guy.
Billy Goodson
Thank you Billy Kim Retro Kimmer Maki and I both work on the blog but she does the web work and I write alot
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