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MC5: Young, Powerful and Full Of Sperm

Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 December 1991

It wasn't all flowers and freedom in the '60s for Detroit's finest rock'n'revolutionary band the MC5, whose legendary 1968 debut LP Kick Out The Jams, long an inspiration to budding guitar rebels everywhere, is now to be released — uncensored! — on CD, following the demise of vocalist Rob Tyner. One-time lead guitarist WAYNE KRAMER unravels the MC5 myth and sets the record straight about that flag-burning incident. Five finger exercise: EDWIN POUNCEY

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