Rock & Roll Dope #5 - by John Sinclair - 1968 - Fifth
Estate
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 County Sheriff's Department, and
the Michigan State Police while performing...
Rock & Roll Dope #4 - by John Sinclair - 1968 - Fifth
Estate
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 brings a
new and different creep scene into being
Rock & Roll Dope #3 - by John Sinclair - 1968 - Fifth
Estate
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 what your bands
have to go through just to be able to do their thing on stage
Rock & Roll Dope #2 - by John Sinclair - 1968 - Fifth
Estate
A strange polarization seems to be happening with rock and roll fans
right now, with white teen-age audiences turning toward either total
freek scenes or greasy reactionary hostility when confronted with the
revolutionary guerrilla tactics of the MC5
Kick Out The Jams - by Richard Goldstein - 1968 -
Village Voice
The MC5 and their people share a rambling twenty room house near the
University of Michigan campus. The floors are clean, the stereo system
is in good condition, and the dope facilities are excellent
Had The Horns Of The Huns Ever Had Noise To
Compare? - by
Norman Mailer - 1968 - Miami & The Siege Of Chicago
There was no stage - the entrance of a flatbed truck from which the
entertainers could have played had not been permitted. So the musicians
were half hidden, the public address system was not particularly clear
The Continuing Saga of the MC-5 - by Robert Christgau - 1969 -
Village Voice
I first encountered the MC-5 in Detroit, two weeks after missing them
in Lincoln Park, where they were the only rock band to brave Mayor
Daley's blue vibrations. That means more to me than to those who regard
Chicago
Rock and Roll Revival - by Dennis Frawley - 1969 - Fifth
Estate
Detroit's 1st Rock and Roll Revival held Memorial Day weekend at the
Fairgrounds significantly began the summer's slew of pop festivals
across the country
Motor City Madness - by Art Johnson - 1969 - Berkeley
Barb
Coming home late at night from the Fifth Estate office back in '68, I
could hear the Five blasting the primitive atonality into the
glass-littered streets outside what was then their home, the Artist's
Workshop
THE MC5 at Ungano's, NYC - by Fred Kirby - 1969 - Billboard
NEW YORK - Ungano's vibrated with excitement and sound on Tuesday (6)
as the MC5 opened a three - night stand
THE MC5 at Ungano's, NYC - by Hubert Saal - 1969 - Newsweek
The souped-up music of the MC5 starts off in high and never throttles
down. Until recently, pop music from Detroit was all Motown, the slick
manufactured charm symbolized by the Supremes
Kicking The Great Neck Jams - by William Aronstein - 1969 -
Changes
Out of all of the nation's bands, the MC5 is one of the very few who
will perform at a high school even though there is more money in a club
MC-5 in San Francisco - by Art Johnson - 1969 - Fifth
Estate
SAN FRANCISCO - The MC5 have blasted their way out of the grease pits
of FoMoCo city, resolved their feud with the Motherfuckers of New
York's lower east side, and wound up in the San Francisco jailhouse
after a near street fight with a squad of TACs
MC-5 at the "Straight Theater" Story
- by Mike Walter -
1969 - Clover Infopage
We had never heard of the MC5 before the Straight Theater gig. After
that one night we never forgot them. I was a roadie for Clover at the
time and was one of the first to arrive to set-up the equipment for the
night
"Rough Trade From Venus" - by Chris Hodenfield - 1970 -
Strange Days
Wayne Kramer had been drinking. Dennis Thompson, the drummer, was
leaning against the wall of the hall in the Marquee, and Fred Smith the
guitar came up and told him
You've Come A Long Way, Baby - by Connie White - 1970 - Creem,
Motor City Music Archives
The MC5 returned to Detroit, at the Eastown Theater January 9 -10, for
their first appearance of 1970, with a drastically changed stage show
and performance. It was radically different even from their last
previous local appearance with Led Zeppelin in November
MC5 -
by Richard Goldstein , The MC5 is a Whole Thing - by John Sinclair
, Brother John Sinclair in Darkest America
- by Dean Latimer -
1970 - MC5 Gateway
from paperback magazine 'COUNTDOWN' , an associate member of the
Undergound Press Syndicate , first printing by the New American Library
Teen Outrage In Croydon - by Charles Shaar Murray - 1972 -
Cream magazine
The gig was chronically under-advertised, and there was every reason to
doubt that any significant proportion of the audience knew who the MC5
were
MC5 : No More Violence - by Steve Turner - 1972 - Beat
Instrumental , Rock's Backpages
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 the wall a centre-page spread from Penthouse
Edge Of The Swtichblade : to Hell, and Back,
with the MC5 -
by Ralph Heibutzki - 1995 - DISCoveries
Nothing strikes closer to home than run-ins with missed
opportunities. While some might say "time heals all wounds,"
such words offer cold comfort in the high-stakes rock'n'roll game,
whose meanest mercenaries are all too eager to spit out the bones
The MC5 : How the Jams Were Kicked Out!
- by John Sinclair
- 1977 - ZigZag , Rock's Backpages
When I first started working with the MC5 as their official manager in
the late summer of 1967, they had just had all their equipment
repossessed (all except for Dennis Thompson's drums), due to their
failure to make any payments on it for an eight-month period
FRED "Sonic" SMITH - by C. Ross - 1996 - Oceanstar
As guitar heroes go, Fred "Sonic" Smith was one of the best, his
musical legacy firmly established by his time spent as one half of the
dual guitar arsenal that fueled the legendary MC5
The MC5 : The Lost Chapter In Rock &
Roll History -
by Mike Cusimano - 1998 - Lollipop Magazine
The old airplane hangar called Gilligans in Buffalo is rocking with
excitement in 1969. The long haired musicians have bullet holsters
thrown over their shoulders. The Motor City Five jump right into their
controversial song "Kick Out The Jams"
MC5 - A True Testimonial - by David C.Thomas - 1998 -
Perfect Sound Forever
The film will place the story of the MC5 in its historic context,
exploring the tension between the idealistic goals of an exploding
counterculture and the demands of a commercial marketplace, celebrating
the band's accomplishments and high-energy aesthetic, examining the
factors that contributed to the rise and fall of the MC5
MC5- Live at the Grande - by Eric Rairigh - 1998 - Perfect
Sound Forever
You could see the stage about 250 to 300 ft. away, not a chair in
sight. Did we like to dance or what! Around the perimeter, we would
troll, lookin' for our cocktail of choice for the night
Sonic's Rendezvous - by Freddie Brooks - 1998 -
Perfect Sound Forever
I first heard of the MC5 while a teenager and living in Texas. Got the
Kick Out The Jams record and flipped. There was an address inside for
the White Panther Party began corresponding and soon opened a WPP
chapter in Fort Worth
The Rise and the Fall of the MC5 - by Ian Fines - 1998 - Perfect
Sound Forever
It is Halloween night, 1968. An anticipatory excitement is building
within the eager crowd at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. There is something
extraordinary in the air, beyond the smell of incense and marijuana
Rob Tyner - A Four Part Tribute
Interrogations -
conducted by Jason Gross - 1998 - Perfect Sound Forever
Who was the person who was the voice of the MC5? We wondered this
ourselves so we got the word from Tyner's bandmates, friends, fans
about who this PERSON really was other than what we've heard on the
records
Rocket Reducer - by Wayne Kramer - 1998 - LAWeekly
You don't think there's something hilarious about tripping your brains
out and having the police kick in your door and getting your van
firebombed by right-wing fanatics and having more sex than you could
ever have dreamed of?
MC5 - The Motor City Visits Chemical Valley
- by Christopher
Skelton - 2001 - Classicrockpage
I'd like to share with you all some very fond memories about the MC5. I
hope that you enjoy it. In the words of their manager John Sinclair, "I
give you a testimonial. The MC5!"
GARY GRIMSHAW on the MC5 - 2001 - MC5 Gateway
We called it "Stinkin' Park". We were myself, Rob Tyner, Kelly
Martinsen and Carl Schigelone. The four of us were the core of a gang
of sorts, an Art Gang
MC5 Live at Beat Forum Nov.23 1972,
Gladsaxe, Denmark -
by Anders Röder - 2001 - MC5 Gateway
Around 1000 people attended the concert held by Beat Forum in Hoeje
Gladsaxe salen also known as The Kennedy Gym. The doors opened at 7.30
pm
Former DJ at WKNR in Detroit JERRY GOODWIN
recalls - 2001 -
MC5 Gateway
As a DJ at WKNR-AM in Detroit in '65 I did regular "record hops" on a
weekly basis. I used a band at that time called "Jack and the Misfits."
When that band broke up I then picked up "The Motor City Five"
Excerpts from PETER CAVANAUGH'S book "LOCAL
D.J." - 2001 -
MC5 Gateway
I had seen the band initially at Delta College outside the Tri-City
airport near Saginaw in late January. I worked with them for the first
time at the "Foxy Lady" in Bay City a few months later
THE
WHITE PANTHERS' "Total Assault on the Culture" - by Jeff A.Hale - 2001 - MC5
Gateway
The White Panther Party (WPP) of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan was a
radical counterculture group which became a major target for the FBI's
counter-intelligence (or "COINTELPRO") program between 1968 and 1971
Riots I Have Known And Loved - by Wayne Kramer - 2002 - Left Of
The Dial
Usually, when the band stops playing and the mob doesn't have anything
to focus on, the riot starts. At least that's the way it generally went
down with my band: The MC5
MC5 at Narragansett's Festival, Boston, 1969
- by Tom Brinkmann
- 2003 - Headpress
it had the infamous "motherfucker" line uncensored. By the time I
bought my copy, the line had been changed to "brothers and sisters". I
also heard you could steam off the inside fold-out sleeve where the
original liner notes had been pasted over and censored - which I
promptly did
THE MC5 now : A Brief Muse - by Ian Fines - 2003 - MC5 Gateway
What has become of the MC5 legacy? is some bitch from Friends or other
tv crap show going to be the official band rep of the day? a hipster
thing is it?
MC5's MICHAEL DAVIS' Gear - by Michael Davis - 2003 - MC5
Gateway
What you have is an overview of the gear that Michael used during the
MC5 days from 1965 to 72
DENNIS 'Kokaine' FRAWLEY, BOB 'Karma'
RUDNICK & The MC5 -
2007 - MC5 Gateway
After the MC5 released their second 7" Looking at you b/w Borderline in
1968, manager "John Sinclair, on a trip east to hustle up work for the
band, took the record to East Village Other columnists Bob Rudnick and
Dennis Frawley
REAL COOL TIME - MC5 and the Stooges
-
by Chris Hodenfield - 2008 - MC5 Gateway
Concert report of the MC5 & Stooges & David Peel
& Mollock at the Pavilion,
Flushing Meadow, NY, 9/1969
JANUARY 1969 MC5 (kick out the jams)
-
by Alain Dister - 1977 - MC5 Gateway
The 5 plays in Buffalo the last evening of these eventful days, at
first organized for LEMAR, movement to legalize marijuana, but soon
implied in student fight. Their concert hall: a sport place stuffed
with a very young audience