"If you're going to do anything, do it full measure, don't equivocate, be all the way in": How the MC5's Kick Out The Jams became a rallying call for a generation

The MC5 standing topless in front of a US flag.

The induction of Detroit revolutionaries the MC5 into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame was bittersweet. No band deserved it more, but it came too late, with the most recently surviving members – guitarist Brother Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson – both passing away this year. In 2019, Kramer told us about the band's extraordinary, incendiary anthem, Kick Out The Jams.

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