Punk: Attitude Page #2

Hey, white boy

You're chasing all women around

But when their record came out

it was actually listenable...

and you know, to me, it was a beautiful

record, I played it all the time.

Lou Reed and his crew

making this atonal music...

coming from art and heroin and death

in the middle of like feel good...

that's Punk Rock.

Kick out the jams, motherfuckers.

Come on, go back

That's me

Feel pretty good

Yes, I could get crazy

The MC5 was part of

an entire generation...

that was in agreement that the direction

the country was going in was wrong.

We were the ones that were

gonna have to go to Vietnam...

we didn't agree with the way they

treated people of colour in America.

We didn't agree with the way they

surpressed our cultural efforts...

our ideas about things and

we just wanted to be heard.

Feel unhappy having

a good time

Doing all right

Doing all right

Doing all right

Doing all right

Yeah, basically our luck was cultural

revolution by any means necessary...

including rock 'n' roll, dope

and f***ing in the streets...

that was number 1.

We read in the Black Panther newspaper

that Hughie Newton said...

there needs to be a

white Panther party...

to do parallel work that

the Black Panthers were doing.

We said that's us, we're ready,

yeah, let's go.

When you get that feeling

You gotta sock'em out

Put that mike in my hand

Let me kick out the jams

Kick out the jams

Gotta kick out the jams

One of our songs was called

"Kick Out The Jams"...

and we cooked up this intro for

the tune where Tyler would scream...

"Kick out the jams, mother f***ers"

and we knew it was a little bit wicked...

and we're kind of breaking a taboo,

gosh they said a bad word...

but what the hell, you know, this is

rock 'n' roll and it's all in good fun...

but when they rushed

the album out...

the programmers heard

the motherf***er and...

they lost it, they lost it...

and it effectively broke the back of

the whole, the MC5's entire campaign.

It's hard to think of today...

when you almost have

to say motherf***er.

I mean, you're talking about people,

a rock 'n' roll band, you know.

We're on acid, you know.

We're smoking 50 joints a day...

you know, around, biting along

with the bands for hundreds of miles...

with James Brown playing on ten,

in the car, you know.

We had some friends

up in Ann Arbour...

that shared some principles

with the MC5...

sonically especially, and they called

their band the Stooges.

Gimme danger

Little stranger

And I'll feel you bleed

Gimme danger

Little stranger

And I'll heal your disease

I remember the first time

I saw Iggy Pop...

he was covered with oil

and glitter...

and everyone was kinda staring at him,

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