"Sister Anne" (6:26) (w/Lemmy on vocals) is from the DKT/MC5 gig at London's 100 Club on March 13, 2003. "One Of The Guys" (2:22) is the original MC5 A-Squared single from 1966; Lemmy was not around for that one...
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
The Five alive were a magnificent sight to behold and behear. Twin guitars bent backwards in tandem, instruments machine-gunning the heavens; rhythm section thrashing and propelling like a four-on-the-floor speedshift; lead singer bobbing and weaving and shimmying and shouting out incantations. The roar off the stage was primal, enveloping, wall-rattling; the message of carnal freedom unmistakable. In the lingo of the times, as propagandized by John Sinclair, Minister of Information for the White Panther party,… more »