MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Original Uncensored Version)

When Uncle Eddy was a school teacher in the early '70s, he gave his students a project to present any kind of art to the class. A troubled kid played this version of this song and rocked out to it. The principal was mortified. Uncle Eddy was the kind of radical liberal hippie teacher the school administrators didn't particularly care for. Soon after, he left the profession for a career in the petroleum industry. I played it on my weekly radio show on WRRG, got officially slapped on the wrist but with an unofficial "right on, man" from my station manager, and it was given a Do Not Play sticker. So my godfather and I both got in a little trouble over this song! In 2004, the MC5 reunited and played the Metro while Uncle Eddy was in town for his annual Chicago BluesFest trip. Filling in for the long-deceased singer Rob Tyner were Evan Dando (Lemonheads) and Mark Arm (Mudhoney). And filling in for the also deceased Fred "Sonic" Smith (Patti's husband) on guitar, the great Marshall Crenshaw. We left after this song.

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