You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
The MC5 returned to Detroit, at the Eastown Theater January 9-10, for their first appearance of 1970, with a drastically changed stage show and performance.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
(The MC5 returned to Detroit, at the Eastown Theater January 9-10, for their first appearance of 1970, with a drastically changed stage show and performance. It was radically different even from their last previous local appearance with Led Zeppelin in November.
The Eastown was damaged by a fire Friday night, cutting the Five’s set short. Saturday they moved to their old stomping grounds, the Grande Ballroom and played a set that surprised a great many of us and disappointed not a few.
What follows are some impressions of that set by a formerly diehard MC5 fan. -Ed.)
Call Me Animal - a touch of irony on the new MC5 album. What’s become of the animalism in the Five? If they call themselves animals, they are the most sophisticated pack ever to stampede across a stage that I’ve seen.