Best MC5 recording - heres's my opinion

[zmdem]

The 45 of "Looking at You". Memory fades a bit, but I think it was 1967, on the A Squared label (?). I like the later version on the "Back in the USA" LP, but the earlier version smokes !

[JohnnyRingo]

1. I saw them on the "back in the USA" tour

One of the best concert experiences of my young life.

Lead singer Rob Tyner died several years ago and guitar player Fred "Sonic" Smith died sometime earlier. He was Patti Smith's husband.

I have an orig Kick out the Jams album stamped with the White Panther logo

Kick out the Jams Motherfuckers!

[zmdem]

3. Better edit your post

.. Electra records says "Kick out the jams brother and sisters" ;)

Is better

[JohnnyRingo]

6. They were just trying to protect me

My mom used to let me listen to anything I wanted to.
Someone had to step in.

[NWHarkness]

2. I have a special feeling for Back In The USA

Because it was recorded just a few blocks from my Jr. High and after school we would go hang around outside and talk to the band as they came and went.

[zmdem]

4. I like the record a lot too

Shame that all those great songs got such a lame ass production by Jon Landau.

[enigmatic]

5. The remanents of MC5 were here in Edmonton..

less then a month ago; I didn't go, but heard it was pretty good..

[JohnnyRingo]

7. WOW ! That's a brush with history AND stardom, all in one

Remember the Stooges from Ann Arbor? (I think it was Ann Arbor)
Iggy Stooge (Later Pop) invented throwing up on their audience and stage diving (Passing out).

And people thought we just listened to The Beatles all day.

[zmdem]

8. Don't forget

Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, The Frost, The Rationals.

Michigan was a hotbed in those days

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Speaking of the Rationals...

Scott Morgan is still touring, and his band TEARS IT UP.

He plays several Sonic's Rendezvous Band songs as well (closes with "City Slang").

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Gotta agree with "Looking at You"

and the studio version of "Borderline" on the flipside.

That single came closer to capturing their live sound than either of their studio albums.