Jeffrey Z Rothstein
Chaucer,
I was too young to have actually seen he MC5 during their brief comet-like trajectory over the Midwest, but I always feel like I was there anyway; sort of like occupying two separate temporalities simultaneously, as if the membranous edges of adjacent dimensions keep intruding on each other, causing an unresolvable tension. I refer specifically to the way the MC5 hover ghostlike in the music of almost every worthwhile anarchic punk band, from the Dictators to X to Barbetomagus, and even the Ruins and Pansonic, that drove with Quaalude stained eyes down the very road that they plowed and furrowed with their anger-as-noise aesthetic--not to mention Fred Sonic Smith's angry-cartoon-hornets on fermented honey guitar. Rock and roll--which is always in a necrotic commercial trance--would be far more impoverished were it not for the Motor City 5. They arguably did for pop music what H.P.Lovecraft did for the art of the pseudo-history, and they have that same hair-raising resonance.
nuff said.
2014-06-19

Ivan R
The Motor City Five

Made the Sixties seem and sound very much more dangerous
than Crosby, Stills and Nash

and so they got the police force rattled up,
and kick started the Punk-movement in style

great poem dude!
2014-06-18