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              ~ LEGENDARY CALL TO ARMS ~  

  1968 EXPLOSION OF THE MIGHTY FIVE

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                  KICK OUT THE JAMS     

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                  USA - (red, big E)  ELEKTRA - EKS 74042    

Just taken out of original  FACTORY CELLOPHANE to check pressing!!!

  THE MC5 

just as groovy....

 "Brothers & Sisters"  Version from '68 :::: in TOP CONDITION :/:

50 years old 1968 issue 2ndpressing collectible in thick gatefold pressing ... issued in the same year ('68) as the alternate issue, on Elektra Records::::

includes the original Elektra GOLD inner sleeve to the pressing !

Thick gatefold cover omitting the "Liner Notes" ...

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The mighty FIVE's incinedary attack on the system, with the call out to R-I-S-E.....

Okay, here's the deal, this IS a '68 pressing that was quickly edited when consumer complaints rolled into corporate Elektra complaining about certain material within. Elektra worried that major retail stores would boycott their label, quickly withdrew thee "obscene" version and replaced it with the edit release omitting the offensive text and audio language ...

The original Elektra Records inner sleeve is included

"The MC5 not only talked about revolution, we believed it," guitarist Wayne Kramer recalled. "The part about destroying the government and taking over and shooting it out with the pigs and all that--that didn't work. But the other part about the concept of possibilities, the revolution of ideas--that has changed the world."

Indeed, the power of those ideas remains undiminished on the group's greatest album, its 1968 debut, "Kick Out the Jams."

"When the Detroit uprising jumped off, we thought the beginning of the end had arrived, and we were busy planning for the 'post-revolutionary construction' which would start with the victory of the insurrection," MC5 manager John Sinclair reflects -- "But the fantasy ended with the brutal suppression of the slave revolt in the streets and the gun-butts of the National Guard and U.S. Army troops who beat our door down and threatened to shoot us all on the spot." The musicians of the MC5 would later say that they'd always been less interested in fomenting revolution than in being a great rock band. And in the end, it was the MC5's music that was the most revolutionary.

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"Ramblin' Rose" – 4:15 "Kick Out the Jams" – 2:52 "Come Together" – 4:29 "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)" – 5:41 II  "Borderline" – 2:45 "Motor City Is Burning" - 6:04 "I Want You Right Now"  – 5:31 "Starship" (MC5, Sun Ra) – 8:15

 

CONDITION:

The Cover: The thick cover, solid everywhere: sharp MINT just taken out of factory cellophane, issued 50 years ago ...this is normally a wear prone cover, so pretty much an impossible feat to find a completely-clean artifact as this survivor. The colors are still bright, No split seams, no bends, no writing ... 4 sharp corners, no delete marks!

...Absolute keeeper collection copy! 

The Vinyl: is all glossy all over, M- TOP COPY as killer MINT audio play grade copy;  and with spotless-clean (red) big E Elektra labels

   A cool addition to anyone's music library! 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people..

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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