MC5

In the past year the Detroit rock and roll scene has exploded into the national consciousness, largely through the efforts of what has developed into the most exciting rock and roll band to be found on earth-the totally insane MC5. The 5 have been working and playing in and around Detroit for over four years now—they’ve come all the way from polish weddings and $5-a-night deejay hops through the starvation scene trying to be professional musicians after high school, the bogus management scene, the year, almost two years of working $125 a night teen club and fraternity party gigs, the local bigshot scene with no recording contract but a huge personal appearance following, to their present position as one of the most talked-about bands in the USA, fired by a major record company for alleged “unprofessionalism” and immediately hired by another, Atlantic Records, in a six-figure production deal, with stories in TIME and Newsweek, Billboard and Rolling Stone, the East Village Other and the Great Neck (Long Island) North High School “Guide Post”, and tours across the country east to west and back.