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MC5: Kicking Out The Jams With The Motor City Rebels

Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

"If you take everything in the universe and break it down to a common denominator, all you've got is energy", said the MC5's Wayne Kramer in 1969. "It's the level we communicate from – that's the essence of the urban sound."

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