Well.. It's my job. I'm on the road for Texas Pete Hot Sauce. (No.. not a joke.)... While I plan to be a brewer of the most amazing hoppy elixirs... I have to take my HD camera rig on the road. This weekend I was at the Michigan/Iowa game in Ann Arbor.
Driving into the town, I was thinking about the MC5... I kept replaying that moment in A True Testmonial .. where Wayne Kramer says that the heat was on.. so The Five had to "get out of Dodge".. and "Gotta Keep Movin'" plays.. as a POV camera angle shoots away from Kramer outside the Grande... and takes off on I94 to the college town.
The MC5 were feeling "the heat" of inner city Detroit in 1968. Crime... Cops.. and Copulation on the prowl... off they moved to the 45 minutes west to a "mansion" in the college district of Ann Arbor. The stories are amazing that came out of that house.. The birth of the White Panther Party... The dope... The Elektra Records signing...the guns... the jams in complete darkness... and of course.. the fucking in the streets. So how else could I NOT think about this holy site?
So... i'm shooting off Hill Street... That sounded familiar... Out comes the Blackberry.. and away I look. "The Mc5 took residence at 1510 Hill Street Ann Arbor"... I look across the street from THE ROCK.. (a Michigan college mainstay for spray painting the victories and sorrows of the previous football game) and there I am... 1500 block of Hill Street... I look closely.. and SHIT... There's the house.. right across the street! So .. i must as a fan boy.. take a pic... Now.. i look very "UGH'.. in the pic... but then... can i look giddy.. if i'm ready to fuck up "The MAN"?
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