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“Let me be who I am / and let me kick out the jams.” The MC5 may have gotten all the attention for the obscenity that kicked off their debut single, recorded live in front of a heaving mass of 3,000 Detroit rock-and-rollers all losing their minds, but the truth is, it’s a truly ferocious blast of sonic reckless abandon.

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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.

Happy Independence Day to my American Friends! 24% of my Instagram followers are from the USA 🇺🇸 making it my #1 country by number of followers. . So where’s my own country on the list? Not even in the top 5! 🤨 It’s the same old story: so many Canadians have to seek fame and fortune south of the border before they are recognized in their own country. Neil Young, Drake, Nickelback...the list is endless. 😂 Anyhoo: Next up we’ll be celebrating the independence day of the country where I have the second most followers (hint: it’s Sete de Setembro 🇧🇷)! 😀 #WayneKramer #Strat spotted at Ludlow Guitars, #NYC back in 2012. . . #happy4thofjuly #mc5 #fender #stratocaster #straturday #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #fenderguitars #customshop #fendercustomshop #reissue #relic #closetclassic #tone #guitargear #guitarsdaily #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography (at Ludlow Guitars) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzfh1d9BAg0/?igshid=viudeuyy90ft

Right now...right now it’s time to...KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHAHF*CKAS!!!! #WayneKramer #Stratocaster spotted at the old #LudlowStreetGuitars in NYC, May 2012. #fender #strat #straturday #mc5 #kickoutthejams #newyorkcity #flashback #guitar #guitars #guitarra #chitarra #guitarre #electricguitar #fenderguitars #customshop #fendercustomshop #tone #guitargear #guitarsdaily #guitarsofinstagram #geartalk #guitargear #vintagegear #guitarsdaily #fendersofinstagram #guitarphotography (at Ludlow Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/BugVa39BjVy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rlb2wuvofli8