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...dreams of the Stones-violent, sensual, perverse, etc.-rests on him: we must remake the concert with his image. And it's hard to maintain the tempo of abuse that we demand of him, even with all our fantasies riding on his every move. After all, someone in the MC5 took a shit on stage in Seattle; Morrison whipped his cock out in Florida. What else can a poor boy do? At the Boston concert the Stones' MC invited the mob to rush the stage, perhaps unsure of whether Jagger merely whirling his belt around could have done...
...more explicit, the four-letter words are more frequent. And it all begins to smack of what publicity men call "the hype." Says Ed Denson, Country Joe's manager: "When these people talk about revolution, they mean protest, but they found that the word revolution shocks. The MC5 are taking a protest one step further to get attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs are only that-songs, not bricks...
...MC5 are a free, high-energy source that will drive us wild into the streets of America yelling and screaming and tearing down everything that would keep people slaves," says their 26-year-FRIEDMAN old manager and mentor, John Sinclair, who also runs the group's hippie-style communal household in Ann Arbor, Mich. Sinclair and the MC5 are self-styled "musical guerrillas," who flaunt their memberships in a minuscule left-wing organization called the White Panther Party (sample plank in its platform: "Total assault on the culture by any means necessary including rock 'n' roll, dope...
Since then, various groups have carried forward the attack on middle-age values and life styles. The Fugs developed a special brand of buffoonery that included two outrageous onstage stunts now favored by the MC5: removing their clothes and burning the U.S. flag. The Mothers of Invention honed a cutting musical satire ("It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your...