Detroit's MC5 played rock and roll like a political weapon, marrying free-jazz noise and Chuck Berry riffs to genuinely radical politics and a live show captured for the ages on Kick Out the Jams. They were loud, chaotic, and unapologetically confrontational at a moment when most rock bands were still playing nice. Punk would later claim them as one of its patron saints.

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1969

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