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MC5: All-Night Graduation Party

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 1966

DO THE graduating seniors at Lincoln Park High spend graduation night carousing at wild private parties? Not since 1964, when a group of parents under ...

MC5, Outsiders, The, Donna Lynn: The MC-5: 'More Like One Big Musician'

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 February 1967

SOME PEOPLE call it psychedelic. The MC-5 call it the "new music". They should know, for they are the leading exponents of the far-out sounds ...

MC5: An Interview with Rob Tyner

Interview by John Sinclair, The Warren-Forest Sun, 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 ...

MC5: Our Hippies — What They Say and Do

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 1967

IN SAN Francisco a sight-seeing bus runs tours into the Haight-Ashbury district billing it as "the only foreign tour within the continental limits of the ...

MC5: 'Aid, Comfort For Parents Of Hippies'

Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 1967

In response to the story on the parents of hippies which appeared in the Free Press Women's Section last Sunday, and the two stories about ...

Jefferson Airplane, MC5, Rationals, The: Jefferson Airplane, the Rationals, the MC5: Ford Auditorium, Detroit

Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1967

The Jefferson Airplane, Soaring on Pop Power ...

MC5: Flash! July 27th 1968 — Total Assault On The Culture

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1967

MC5 ARRESTED IN ANN ARBOR FOR PLAYING FREE MUSIC IN WEST PARK CHARGED WITH DISTURBING THE PEACE ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Byrds, The, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Soft Machine, Rationals, The: Rock & Roll Crusader: Detroit

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968

DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #2

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 19 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 ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #3

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 4 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 ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #4

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 18 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 ...

MC5 Deposition 7/23/68

Press Release by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1968

WHAT FOLLOWS is a deposition written by Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson of the MC5 upon their return from the Loft and the ...

MC5, John Sinclair: Flash! July 26th, 1968: MC5 Attacked By Police On Job

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1968

JOHN SINCLAIR, FRED SMITH BEATEN, MACED, ARRESTED — CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICERS ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #5

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 1 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 ...

John Mayall, MC5, Traffic: Rock and Roll Dope #6

Comment by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, 15 August 1968

NOW THAT things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...