Wayne Kramer Forgets The Motor City
Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 17 March 1979
"SOMETIMES we used to pass the Milan jail when the MC5 were driving to gigs outside of Detroit, and I used to look up at that place and say, 'Man, I may do a lot of silly shit in my life but I'm never going to end up in there.' And of course that's exactly where I ended up!"
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