Sold Date: April 7, 2017
Start Date: April 27, 2016
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MC5 - Part of the Problem OR Part of the Solution
You've waded through the thousands of MC5 live recordings and outtakes, retread and re-released every Zenta New Year with different artwork, different names but the same old audio. Are you looking for something new to quench your high-energy Detroit rock and roll thirst? Try this on for size. Rumored to be the original demo reel John Sinclair mailed off to Elektra Records back in 1968, this collection of live material is 100% unheard since then! Hard to imagine why as these explosive renditions hold up to the best of the 5's catalog. If ripping versions of ''Borderline'' and ''Come Together'' aren't enough, also included are THREE songs NEVER heard of before from the band. ''Softly in Love'' is an original that starts softly and slowly builds to a droning eruption while ''What's a Matter Baby'' sizzles along like John Lee Hooker's original and while ''Slow Down'' trumps the Beatles version tenfold. Once these are gone...they gone.
Limited to 1000 copies worldwide
Side One: Ramblin' Rose (Ted Taylor) Kick Out the Jams Come Together Softly in Love I Put a Spell on You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) (incomplete) Tutti Frutti (Little Richard) Borderline   Side Two: Born Under a Bad Sign (Albert King) Cold Sweat (James Brown) What's a Matter Baby? (John Lee Hooker) Slow Down (Larry Williams) I Want You Right Now (incomplete)