MC5 KICK OUT THE JAMS (1969) UNCENSORED, SINCLAIR LINER NOTES, GOLD EKS-74042
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MC5     KICK OUT THE JAMS

ELEKTRA RECORDS   1969

Some gatefold edge wear, rub; adhesive along bottom edge.   Vinyl fairly good - few pops, crackles, jumps ahead a second during Kick Out the Jams lyric "crazy now baby", and skips and repeats at one point on side 2's Starship.   Retains decent gloss.   Printed in the USA.    As shown.   Insured post.

LEGENDARY DETROIT CALL TO ARMS ~ 1968 EXPLOSION OF THE MOTOR CITY FIVE, UNCENSORED ORIGINAL + REVOLUTIONARY LINER NOTES INSIDE GATEFOLD.

 

                                                                                                USA - big E gold ELEKTRA - EKS- 74042 Pressing.

ORIGINAL 1969 pressing collectible in thick gatefold cover, the legendary uncensored pressing...   MC5's incendiary attack on the system, with the call out to R-I-S-E..... 

"The MC5 not only talked about revolution, we believed it," guitarist Wayne Kramer recalled. 

"The part about destroying the government and taking over and shooting it out with the pigs and all that--that didn't work.   But the other part about the concept of possibilities, the revolution of ideas -- that has changed the world."

Indeed, the power of those ideas remains undiminished on the group's greatest album, its 1969 debut recorded live on Oct. 30 & 31, 1968 at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, "Kick Out the Jams."

"When the Detroit uprising jumped off, we thought the beginning of the end had arrived, and we were busy planning for the 'post-revolutionary construction' which would start with the victory of the insurrection," MC5 manager John Sinclair reflects.   --  "But the fantasy ended with the brutal suppression of the slave revolt in the streets and the gun-butts of the National Guard and U.S. Army troops who beat our door down and threatened to shoot us all on the spot."   The musicians of the MC5 would later say that they'd always been less interested in fomenting revolution than in being a great rock band.   And in the end, it was the MC5's music that was the most revolutionary.

  1. "Ramblin' Rose"  – 4:15
  2. "Kick Out the Jams" – 2:52
  3. "Come Together" – 4:29
  4. "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" – 5:41
  5. "Borderline" – 2:45
  6. "Motor City Is Burning" (Fred "Sonic" Smith) - 6:04
  7. "I Want You Right Now" (The Troggs) – 5:31
  8. "Starship" (MC5, Sun Ra) – 8:15

More info: http://makemyday.free.fr/kotjalbum.htm




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