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Detroit has always been a major player in all genres of music but maybe none more so then in Rock and Roll. In the late 60s The MC5 which is short for Motor City 5 because there were 5 band members were Heavy Metal before there was Heavy Metal and Punk before there was Punk. They called their music "high energy music" and that it was and more. They were also the musical political wing of the White Panther Party of John Sinclair which Brother CJ Crawford proclaims on the album which I really don't think anyone was really into lol. What band puts out a live album as their first album? They had studio albums after but live is what they were all about. It was very difficult to get that "high energy music" in a studio. The famous expletive that starts out their signature song Kick Out The Jams is not meant to be offensive and is never again uttered. It is almost comical and was a reference to the British bands playing the legendary Grand Ballroom in Detroit where this was recorded who were seen as too laid back to kick it up a notch to kick out the music the songs. To music historians this is where Metal and Punk began. KICK OUT THE JAMS!Read full review
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If Austin, TX is now the "epicenter" for music of today...then, the greater Detroit area was the epicenter of the comtemporary sound of the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Whether you were white or black, the music just poured out across the country from the Motor City. Aside from the Motown sound...the Detroit rock & roll side gave us Grand Funk Railroad, Bob Seger, The Amboy Dukes featuring Ted Nugent, The Stooges featuring Iggy Stooge, Rare Earth, The Frost, SRC, Savage Grace, Brownsville Station and many more who maybe weren't originally from the area, but, came to Michigan to cut their teeth like Mountain, Catfish and Alice Cooper. But,NO rock band exhibited more of the revolutionary,raw punk rock sound of that era more than the MC5! This album was recorded at the famous Grande Ballroom in the fall of 1968 one year after the summer Detroit riots and with the Vietanm war still raging on. "I give you a testamonial....The MC5...!!!"Read full review
This is the '90s CD reissue of this iconic band's 1969 debut on Elektra, with liner notes by the late Rob Tyner, the group's vocalist. Nobody, but nobody, rocked harder than the Five in the late '60s, and this album, recorded live on Halloween, 1968, at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, proves it. The group was actually politically active, too, which set them apart from, say, the West Coast psychedelic bands of the same period. "Come Together" is indescribably chaotic. These guys make fellow Detroiter Ted Nugent sound like Lawrence Welk. The group is long gone, having succumbed to the usual, but its name is still invoked with a certain amount of awe all these years later. This record demonstrates why.
Great sounds of rebellion. One can feel the angst, even back then. Definitely. good party tunes!
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I listened when I was younger due my late dad being a big fan. Kick out the jams mother f***r.
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