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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: bluefunknebula on April 02, 2004, 11:36:50 am
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this sucks...i been waiting to see this for years, somebody just emailed this to me:
(Detroit News) On Halloween night 2003 — Zenta New Year to Detroit hippies — Chicago filmmakers David Thomas and Laurel Legler screened their years-in-the-making documentary “MC5: A True Testimonial” at the Detroit Institute of Arts... RCA/BMG was set to release the film on DVD on May 4, with a short theatrical run immediately before that, suddenly last week the film was abruptly stopped by the MC5’s publishing company, Warner Chappell, on behalf of Wayne Kramer, a surviving member of the group.
For those close to the MC5, it’s a haunting reminder of the band’s traumatic breakup in 1972, when Rolling Stone ran a story on them called “Shattered Dreams in the Motor City"...
Jackson Smith, the Detroit-based musician son of Fred and Patti Smith, is also disappointed that release of “A True Testimonial” is being held up.
“It’s a travesty that it would be blocked,” Smith says. “It’s a great document of the band, it’s a great document of life, and it’s a great document of things ... far and beyond the band.”...
Much more information can be found at:
http://velvetrope.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=443723&Forum=All_Forums&Words=Dream_Of_Life&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=441899&Search=true&ses#Post443723
http://www.detnews.com/2004/events/0403/31/d01-108227.htm
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Bummer. That would have been cool to see.
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Yeah but the good news is that the remaining members will be touring this summer. It\'s on rollingstone.com.
MC5 ter brah.
Holly
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No shit? Great to hear. Hope it\'s not a Clear Channel Event.
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if you read those articles you\'ll see what a mess the whole situation is. wayne kramer should NOT be using the name MC5. without rob tyner and fred "sonic" smith there is no 5!!! and he should NOT be calling his DVD of the surviving members "sonic revolution". that is just plain wrong!
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Originally posted by bluefunknebula
if you read those articles you\'ll see what a mess the whole situation is. wayne kramer should NOT be using the name MC5. without rob tyner and fred "sonic" smith there is no 5!!! and he should NOT be calling his DVD of the surviving members "sonic revolution". that is just plain wrong!
Wow Thanx for the info. I had not gotten around to reading them as I have a slight aversion to all things Rolling Stone since around \'92.