MC 5 – So Rare

From Back Cover:
Alongside their Detroit-area brethren the Stooges, MC5 essentially laid the foundations for the emergence of punk, deafeningly loud and uncompromisingly intense, the group’s politics were ultimately as crucial as their music, their revolutionary sloganeering and anti-establishment outrage crystallizing the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening.  Under the guidance of svengali John Sinclair (the infamous founder of the radical White Panther Party), MC5 celebrated the holy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, their incendiary live sets offering a defiantly bacchanalian counterpoint to the peace and love reveries of their hippie contemporaries. Although corporate censorship, label interference, and legal hassles combined to cripple the band’s hopes of mainstream notoriety, both their sound and their sensibility remain seminal influences on successive generations of artists.  This DVD compiles 108 minutes of essential rare footage of the band starting in 1968 through 1997.

Setlist:
Black T’ Comm! (Detroit UHF TV Channel 56, October, 1967)
Kick Out Th’ Jams (Sinclair Trans-Earth Promo, January, 1968)
Kick Out Th’ Jams (Tartar Field, WSU Campus, Live From Earth, Detroit UHF TV, July-18-1970)

The Lively Spot, Teen Dance Show, Windsor, Ontario, Canada on July-15-1971
American Ruse
Looking At You

Rock En Stock, Herouville Castle, France, March, 1972
Thunder Express
Kick Out Th’ Jams
Empty Heart

Beat Club, Bremen, Germany on March-25-1972
Kick Out Th’ Jams (long version)
Kick Out Th’ Jams (edit version)

I Believe (excerpt from “Backstage Pass”, Cleveland TV Special On Punk, circa 1980)
Lo-Budget But Rather Interesting “Film Student Project” Affair, includes interviews (Back On Shakin’ Street, Detroit, 1989)
Soundbites From Wayne Kramer, Mick Jones, Henry Rollings plus very short excerpts from Lively Spot (MTV Segment, late 1996)
ArtE French TV Punk Documentary Excerpt (1997)

Wayne Kramer Epitaph Promos
Crack In Th’ Universe
Back T’ Detroit

Audio & Video Quality:  This DVD would only be of interest to hard-core MC5 fans due to it’s relatively poor quality and rarity.  90% of the material is poor to fair quality, ranging from 6.5-7.5 using our website Quality Rating Table.  A couple of clips, only about 10% of the total are in good quality, about an 8.0.

Total Running Time:  108 minutes.

Disc Format:  1 PAL DVD-R disc.

Special Price:  $13.00, regularly $22.00.