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Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, September 1971
WHENEVER I USED to say I liked the MC5, I would always preface the statement with some remark like "sure, I know they're a bunch ...
MC5 - A True Testimonal (Future/Now Films)
Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, November 2002
SEVEN YEARS in the making, this is a multi-dimensional boot up the jacksy to the increasing legion of lazy tosspots that compares anything with a ...
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AUDIO: The MC5's Wayne Kramer (1994)
Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, January 1994
Detroit guitar-wrangler Wayne Kramer looks back at the MC5 and departed comrades Fred Smith and Rob Tyner, drugs and jail, and his life after the Five.
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ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Interview by John Sinclair, Warren-Forest Sun, The, May 1967
The following interview with ROBIN TYNER, the lead singer of the MC5, the major Detroit avant-rock band, was recorded by JOHN SINCLAIR in the first ...
Report by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, The, June 1968
A STRANGE polarization (or maybe it's a natural one) seems to be happening with rock and roll fans right now, with white teen-age audiences turning ...
Report by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, The, July 1968
I PROMISED you when I started this column that I'd take you behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry so you can see ...
Report by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, The, July 1968
IN THE past two weeks since the last issue of this paper a bunch of new developments have taken place: Almost every job for the ...
Report by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, The, August 1968
Poet-MC5 manager John Sinclair and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith were brutally assaulted, beaten, MACEd, and arrested by members of the National Security Police, the Oakland ...
MC5 Brings Back Body Rock To Overthrow The Country
Report by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, March 1969
NEW YORK (PSS) – MC5, the Detroit rock band, has released its first album, Kick Out the Jams. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, near Detroit, MC5 ...
Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, April 1969
WHOEVER THOUGHT when that dirty little quickie 'Wild In The Streets' came out that it would leave such an imprint on the culture? First the ...
Interview by David G. Walley, Jazz & Pop, July 1969
THIS INTERVIEW took place in the New York apartment of the MC5's press agent Danny Fields, the day after the Detroit band signed their new ...
Ronnie Hawkins: Ronnie Hawkins and Mr. Dynamo
Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, August 1969
RONNIE HAWKINS came down out of the Ozarks, and after gigging with Carl Perkins and Harold Jenkins (later Conway Twitty), he decided he wanted to ...
MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, March 1970
WHAT A difference a year can make. This time last year the MC5 were riding high on the crest of the biggest hype in the ...
Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, May 1970
WOP-BOP-A-LU-BOP-A-LOP-BAM-BOOM. Thud. 'Tutti Frutti', which opens the partly excellent MC5 album, is easily the worst cut on it, and in a way a clue to ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, August 1970
THE MC5 are a very good, very determined rock band. In the old days when people weren't too bothered about listening to them, they used ...
The Byrds: (Untitled); MC5: Back in the U.S.A.; Burning Red Ivanhoe
Review by Richard Williams, Times, The, December 1970
BESIDES BEING ONE of the seminal rock and roll bands, the Byrds also possess perhaps the music's oldest case-history. Of the group which came out ...
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 1971
‘SISTER ANNE,’ ‘Over And Over,’ and ‘Gotta Keep Movin’’ on the new MC5 album are without doubt among the best hard rock performances of the ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, September 1971
IT SEEMS almost too perfectly ironic that now, at a time in their career when most people have written them off as either dead or ...
Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, October 1971
Their mamas all warned 'emnot to come into townBut they got it in their blood,now they gotta get down– 'Shakin' Street', The MC5 ...
Teenage Outrage in Croydon: the MC5
Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, March 1972
THE Fox in Crydon, Surrey, is a very long way indeed from the Grande Ballroom in Dee-troit, Michigan, and the MC5 were a very long ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
IT COMES AS something of a shock when the MC5 – long since branded as a revolutionary and rather spine-jarring band – looks deep into ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, April 1972
MC5 decided to conduct their interview with me in one of their cupboard-size hotel bedrooms. On the door was a poster of Chairman Mao, on ...
Overview by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, December 1972
DETROIT, FOUNDED in 1736 by a turncoat (to both sides) halfbreed Indian named Quazimodo from the Kuitee tribe which dwelled circa 1670-1777 on the shores ...
Kramer Climbs Back From MC5 Wreckage
Report by Mick Farren, NME, April 1974
NEW BAND AND A NEW IMAGE: Mick Farren in Detroit ...
Report by Mick Farren, NME, December 1974
THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this ...
MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1977
‘BROTHERS AND sisters...the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or whether ...
The MC5: How the Jams Were Kicked Out!
Retrospective by John Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1977
In Britain, the MC5 are now far more popular than they ever were in their heyday – a fact which has prompted the recent re-release ...
Wayne Kramer: Broke, Busted, Disgusted, Agents Can't Be Trusted
Interview by Max Bell, NME, August 1977
Former MC5 guitarist WAYNE KRAMER live from Lexington Penitentiary, talks to MAX BELL about times past and time passing ...
Rob Tyner: The Secret Life Of The MC5
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
ROB TYNER, NOW fronting a new MC5 after about four years away from the stage, was recently in this country to check out what's going ...
Wayne Kramer Forgets The Motor City
Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 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 ...
MC5: Kicking Out The Jams With The Motor City Rebels
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 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 ...
MC5: Babes In Arms (ROIR cassette)
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, August 1983
IDEALLY VLADIMIR Mayakovsky should be sitting down to this review, because never before or since has there been a band quite like the MC5 – ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, January 1992
DETROIT'S ECLECTIC, MILITANT-HIPPY combo MC5 were the ultimate in late '60s punkadelia. Though they never sold any significant quantity of records, the influence of their ...
Review by Jon Savage, Dave DiMartino, MOJO, February 2000
First overall retrospective of seminal late ‘60s/early ‘70s rabble rousers: includes material from all stages of their career. ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, April 2000
DETROIT, MICHIGAN’S Motor City 5 slicked their savage, sonic sedition with pure, high octane, rock ‘n’ roll rocket fuel. When they initially spat their fretboard ...
The MC5: The Battle Of New York
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, September 2002
AS THEIR FLIGHT FROM DETROIT TOUCHED DOWN AT NEW York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, December 26, 1968, the MC5 figured they had the future by ...
MC5 members and friends: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, March 2003
FORGED IN DETROIT in 1965, the MC5 played rock'n'roll in an America where motorbike police charged their fans, and ferment and trouble trailed the band ...
DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial
Report by John Sinclair, Detroit Metro Times, June 2004
IT'S BEEN MORE than 10 years since Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson took the stage together in Detroit at Rob Tyner's memorial concert ...
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2004
EVERYONE knows the old saw about the Eskimos having over 400 words for snow and the Parisians' two-dozen fevered phrases for passion. ...
The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
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