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MC5.

Sometimes you just get lucky. Here’s the classic 1969 debut by Detroit’s own MC5, the incendiary Kick Out The Jams. Recorded live, it’s a slamming album often heralded as the progenitor of punk, especially due to the killer title track, captured here like lightning in a bottle, turning a merely suggestive track about getting it on backstage before a concert into a volatile explosion of adrenaline. So how did I get lucky? No, not like the singer; I came across this album for a buck at a garage sale a few years ago, and while I already owned a scratchy copy, I picked it up, hoping that this was the moderately rare early version with uncensored audio, as the song famously starts with singer Rob Tyner exhorting to the audience “Kick Out The Jams, motherf…s!” As you might guess, that got removed from the records almost as soon as they hit store shelves. I figured I could gamble a buck on finding that. As it turned out, not only was the music uncensored on this copy, but so was the record jacket, which made it even more rare. Inside the gatefold is an essay by the band’s manager/shaman, controversial White Panther leader John Sinclair. The essay ALSO got removed from the album, too, even before the obscene song introduction, making fully uncensored copies of the album impossible to find. Since I found this copy, I’ve only ever spotted another one once, at Academy Records in NYC on the wall, going for $200. So yes, I lucked out. The MC5 are once again nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame this year and surely won’t get in, but you gotta admit—few things are more rock n roll than having your first album censored twice before the world even knows who you are.

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#kickoutthejams #themc5 #robtyner #fredsonicsmith #waynekramer #michaeldavis #dennismachinegunthompson #brotherjccrawford #johnsinclair #brucebotnick #jacholzman photography ; #joelbrodsky #magdalenasinclair as bummed out as I am over the dissolution of #daftpunk there be no punk rock without this band and this record! Yeah I remember buying this album and playing #kickoutthejams in my Catholic Boarding School #reginamundi to all the wonderful priests chagrin, this album came out in February 22nd 1969 a date that lives in infamy and was recorded at #thegrandeballroom in #devilsnight yeah it’s all that! I had the pleasure of working with all the members in their various off shoots #destroyallmonsters #sonicsrendezvousband #gangwar and the fact that #pattismith met Fred at our beloved #bookiesclub870 says it all - this band was more than all that live, as I remember #theallmanbrothersband opening for them! This is a must of any punk rock connoisseur Enjoy Mother F***ers! (at Hollywood Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLnv586lGpT/?igshid=qbq12jyn527o