Mc5's Kick Out the Jams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826416605)

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.

Author: Don McLeese
ISBN-10: 0826416608
ISBN-13: 9780826416605
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2005
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 6.58h x 4.72w x 0.36d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 132