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The mid 1960s was a turbulent time for Detroit, and the music of the Motor City Five or MC5 as they would become known stood as an aural reflection of events like the Cass Corridor race riots and area youth protests. Although rock music has become synonymous with censorship issues and the confrontation of authority, the MC5 vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Sonic Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson were one of the first bands to stand up for freedom of speech and expression in performance. In explaining the band's enormous influence, Village Voice contributor Mike Rubin asserted in 1991 that the MC5's aggressive approach lives on in any heavy metal band from Motley Crue to Metallica and their antiestablishment posture was at a least as big an influence on punk rock. The MC5 did not start out as the innovative bad boys they would later become, The band formed in the winter of 1964 from the ashes of Smith and Kramer's junior high rhythm and blues band the Bountyhunters. Initially the Five were a pedestrian rock and roll outfit whose concert repertoire relied primarily on the material of other more famous performers, The band quickly earned a reputation with concert promoters, however for showing up late if at all playing too loudly, and often not playing long enough to satisfy concertgoers, Not yet quite bad the MC5 were at this point merely irresponsible. As if their unreliable reputation was not enough to hamper their progress, the MC5 soon found themselves in competition with the Motown sound. While Motown Records and its rhythm and blues acts were putting the Detroit music scene on the map, they were also creating a formidable shadow from which young rock and roll acts found it difficult to escape, Vocalist Tyner commented on this predicament in Motorbooty magazine, stating To be a white singer in Detroit at that time, you simply were the wrong man for the job, I did not feel comfortable as a performer until I could pull off James Brown material without flaw.
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