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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