MC5's Kick Out the Jams (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Don McLeese | knygos.lt

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When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic
flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who
gone berserk. It s a unique band that can land itself on the cover of
Rolling Stone a month before the release of its debut album and then be
booted from its record contract just a few months later. Rock had never
before seen the likes of the MC5 and never will again. Many of us who
were floored by the 5 in concert were convinced that this was the most
transcendently pulverizing rock we would ever experience, while many
more who heard or read about the band dismissed the 5 as a caricature, a
fraud, White Panther bozos play-acting at revolution. There was always
plenty of humor to the 5 visionary knuckleheads though the question
was whether they were in on the joke. Frequently ridiculed during their
short career, they ve since been hailed as a primal influence on
everything from punk to metal to Rage Against the Machine to the Detroit
populist resurgence of the White Stripes, Kid Rock and Eminem.