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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 ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company: Big Brother: James Gurley Talks to the Sun

Interview by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 29 March 1968

SUN: LET'S TALK some about the old Detroit, before the days of LSD 25. When did you leave Detroit? ...

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 ...

MC5: The MC5 Interview

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 ...

Family Planning

Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 4 July 1969

THE FAMILY used to scare me a bit. Onstage they seemed to perform with a mixture of super coolness, a nonchalance that sometimes gave me ...

Grand Funk Railroad Arrive in Detroit for First Visit

Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 1969

THE STIGMA "local group" has been slapped on many bands and as a result several great groups have found themselves confined to their home territory. ...

Ed Sanders, The Fugs: Ed Sanders: We Reach The Moon

Interview by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 17 October 1969

This interview between Ed Sanders and Nick Tosches took place on Labor Day evening, 1969 at Ed Sanders' Lower East Side apartment in New York ...

Lonnie Mack: Mack the 'Memphis' Man Returns: 'I'm Glad I'm in the Band'

Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 October 1969

THE SONG 'Memphis', made Johnny Rivers a big star. Remember? He recorded it live at the Whiskey A Go Go, making the club famous throughout ...

The Edgar Broughton Band: Edgar Broughton: Meet Edgar The Agitator

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 January 1970

BOUNCERS ARE one of the bad old traditions of pop music, with roots reaching back through the 'Rock Around the Clock' riots to the Sinatra ...

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: The Mitch Ryder Interview

Interview by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, July 1970

This interview was found in the vaults by Harold Colson, an ace Librarian at the University of California at San Diego.Harold is researching the Stones’ ...

Steppenwolf: On Politics and Pop

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 July 1970

FOR YEARS popular rhythm artists have expressed often in fairly heated fashion, or occasionally with affected languor, political opinions. ...

MC5 Problem

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 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 ...

MC5 — Still The Bad Boys Of Rock

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970

ONE THING that American rock bands can generally do better than their British counterparts is to channel their energy into the notes. ...

Funkadelic: It's Just To Get People's Attention

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971

EVER since Keith Emerson set fire to an American flag on the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall, the banning of groups from that particular ...

Mick Farren: Rock Rebel with a Cause

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 28 August 1971

TWENTY-SIX-year-old Mick Farren, ex-singer with the Deviants, writer, political activist and spokesman for the underground, has been called many things. However, he prefers to define ...

Jethro Tull: Rocking In The USA

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 October 1971

This week, Jethro Tull flew out to start their eleventh tour of America. Like other top British Rock acts, they are reaping the rich rewards ...

MC5: The MC5: Back in the UK

Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972

THE MC5 don't want to be stars, if you can dig that. They reason that they are there with you to fill the air with ...

MC5: The MC5 on Shock Rock

Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 19 February 1972

OF ALL THE groups who have dabbled in politics over the last few years, the MC5 seem to have gained the reputation as one of ...

MC5 Turn Onto Love

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 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 ...