MC5 Documentary

[rp]

http://www.amazon.com/MC5-Testimonial-D ... estimonial

This is, in my not so humble opinion, the best documentary of the best, certainly the most committed w/ total heart, soul, and brains, rock band there ever was, or will likely ever be. How the world has changed.

It's out of print apparently from the amazon link, I won't tell you how you should go about getting it but it's out there if you want it. Do what you must do brothers and sisters.

MC5: A True Testimonial (Unreleased documentary 2002)

[Cygnus X1]

IIRC they had a lot of influence on many.
Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Nugent, Quicksilver to name a few.
They broke a lot of ground for certain.

[Structo]

I only learned of that band years later.

I love the classic "Kick Out the Jams MoFo"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwFeN0Zl1bQ

That actually reminded me of Vintage Trouble on the Letterman Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZZnS4Jvwc

[rp]

They and the Stooges gave birth to Punk, not insignificant. They passed on the wild, free, manic, energy.

This is sublime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyrcUlX7sPg

[martin manning]

Nice auld lang syne. To gauge their impact I asked my 20-year-old what he knew about MC5: "some people say they invented punk, but I think the Stooges should get most of the credit..." I knew of this band from radio airplay, and in fact I grew up less than 90 miles from the Grande, but I was too young to have seen them. We considered them a "local" band. In my mind (at the time) they had a sound that was different from any other, very high-energy, and not too polished. It's funny how isolated we were back then without the Internet. Information came via radio (where everything aired had to pass FCC rules), so-called underground newspapers, the record stores, and word-of-mouth.

For some background on the "Filmore mid-west" see: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Ballroom I'd bet my aunts and uncles went dancing there in the '30's-'40's.