MC5 Thunder Express

Kick Out The Jams, Empty Heart, Ramblin’ Rose, Thunder Express, Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa, Motor City Is Burning, I Can Only Give You Everything*, I Just Don’t Know*, Looking At You*, Borderline* *bonus early singles.

‘Thunder Express’ documents their first and last studio work – six tracks recorded in France in 1972 at Studio Castle Herouville for a TV show; and 4 tracks from their first two singles from ’66 & ’68. The title track is unavailable elsewhere. Includes 12-page booklet with notes and interview from 1970, along with the White Panther Party ’10-Point Program’. MC5 (Motor City Five), the legendary Detroit band. Their first single (included here) was released in 1967. In 1968 they played the infamous Democratic Convention that turned into a police riot, and they went on to be the ‘Official White Panther Party Band’. Their manager John Sinclair became a hippie martyr, after being jailed for 10 years for 2 joints, inspiring John Lennon’s ‘10 For 2’ song.