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MC5: White Panther Statement

Essay by John Sinclair, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 November 1968

FIRST I MUST say that this statement, like all statements is bullshit without an active program to back it up. We have a program which ...

Why Isn't London Jumping?

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Oz, December 1968

Update, 2019. My Oz episodes — 1. IN DECEMBER 1968, age 28, I was interviewed for the post of editor of Radio Times, the BBC's ...

Band, The, Buffalo Springfield, Country Joe & The Fish, Doors, The, Aretha Franklin, MC5, Moby Grape, Nico, Otis Redding, Steppenwolf, Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa: 1968: The Shaken City Walls

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 24 December 1968

"AN ELECTRIC caterwauling of power... burning it, flashing it, whirling it down some arc of consciousness, the sound screaming up to a climax of vibrations ...

Rock for Sale

Report by Michael Lydon, Ramparts, 1969

IN 1956, WHEN rock & roll was just about a year old, Frankie Lymon, lead singer of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, wrote and recorded ...

MC5: The MC5 Set List

Overview by John Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1969

Here is a typical MC5 program, as performed at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. As well as serving as notes for "an evening recital of ...

MC5: The MC5: Rock frenzy points a way

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 4 January 1969

THOSE OF us who have watched rock with interest, believing it to be as good a barometer of the changing times as art or the ...

Family Entertainment?

Profile by Charlie Gillett, Times Educational Supplement, 31 January 1969

I'D NEVER SEEN The Family before, but the girl next to me had at Woburn Abbey and the Albert Hall, where she said they'd been ...

MC5: The MC5 Kick Out The Jams!

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Oz, 1 February 1969

2019 note: My Oz episodes — 2. My first piece for Oz, "Why isn't London jumping?", a tirade against the BBC's programming of pop music, ...

MC5: The MC5: Kick Out the Jams (Elektra)

Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 17 March 1969

"Works of art which lack artistic quality have no force, however progressive they are politically. Therefore, we oppose both works of art with a wrong ...

MC5 Brings Back Body Rock To Overthrow The Country

Report by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 24 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 ...

Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stone Magazine: Ripples from the Stone

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 25 March 1969

FEW REVIEWS can make a first-rank artist doubt his ability at the height of his success. At this level, critics can rarely do more than ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 28 March 1969

MC5 Muddle ...

MC5: The Story Of The MC5 On The West Coast In March Part One

Report by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 28 March 1969

John Sinclair, Minister of Information, White Panther Party ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams

Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 5 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 ...

Country Joe & The Fish: Country Joe: Fish Head

Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969

INTERVIEWING COUNTRY Joe McDonald was an escapade I embarked on with fear in my heart, butterflies in my stomach and a copy of How to ...

Judy Collins: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Elektra EKS74033)

Review by Miles, International Times, 11 April 1969

THOUGH GLITTERING ecstatic static runs through Hendrix Fudge USA Touch, there's nothing but boring old feedback, too loud for subtlety, in MC5 & Blue Cheer ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, May 1969

'Ramblin' Rose'; 'Kick Out The Jams'; 'Come Together'; 'Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)'; 'Borderline'; 'Motor City Is Burning'; 'I Want You ...

Fats Domino, Flying Burrito Brothers, MC5, Moby Grape, Neil Young, Paul Winter Consort, John Braden: Albums from the MC5, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers et al

Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 7 May 1969

"I guess you could say our thing is a condemnation of everything that is false and deceitful in our society." — John Sinclair, of the ...

MC5: The MC5

Profile and Interview by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 14 May 1969

ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET to the — YEAHHHHH the — Fuckit yeah yeah sheeeeit baby Get. Down. On. It. Cmon mothahfuckahs CMON MOTHAH-FUCKAHS MAKE FUCK A ...

Who, The: The Who: Sensation

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Village Voice, 22 May 1969

Update, 2019: WHO PLAYS concept albums now? With a couple of exceptions, not me. I don't mean albums whose separate numbers have a common approach, ...