Ye Olde Metal: MC5's Kick Out The Jams

The 2014 Martin Popoff short ebook about the making of the MC5 album, Kick Out The Jams.


MC5’s incendiary debut album Kick Out The Jams was a flamethrower of a live conceit, and gathering it in as a metalhead moptop a few years after launch, sorta mid-’70s, was a scary affair, given its druggy call to revolution. But now here we are, able to come to terms with it in collusion, as I talk to Wayne Kramer, Dennis Thompson, band manager John Sinclair and since deceased bassist Michael Davis about one of a tight half dozen records arguable as the first heavy metal album of all time. Note: this is an expanded version of a chapter from Ye Olde Metal: 1968 To 1972, so if you have that book, you have a goodly portion of this rock document, even if in fact, the original has been vastly overhauled and expanded to create this one-buck nugget.