October 30, 1968. The Grande Ballroom, Detroit. The MC5 walked onstage and Rob Tyner grabbed the microphone: "Kick out the jams, motherfuckers."
The album that followed — recorded live that night and the next — is one of the most ferocious documents in rock history. Raw, political, loud, and completely uncompromising. It was banned by some retailers. It got the band dropped from their label. It didn't matter. The record existed, and nothing sounded like it.
Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith played guitar like the revolution was happening right now. Dennis Thompson and Michael Davis held the bottom end while the whole thing threatened to fly apart. And Tyner stood at the center of it all, preaching.
Punk rock starts here. Hard rock starts here. Every band that ever turned it up to eleven and meant it starts here.
This shirt is for the people who know what happened at the Grande Ballroom.
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