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.”...
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