Power Trip

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MC 5 includes: Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith (guitar). Includes liner notes by John Sinclair. Personnel: Rob Tyner (vocals, flute, percussion); Fred "Sonic" Smith , Wayne Kramer (electric guitar); John Sinclair (tenor saxophone); Michael Davis (electric bass); Dennis Thompson (drums). Liner Note Authors: Dave Marsh ; Dave Segal; John Sinclair ; David Fricke. Recording information: Chez Flames Recording, New Orleans, LA (09/08/1968-??/??/1994); First Unitarian Church, Detroit, MI (09/08/1968-??/??/1994); Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI (09/08/1968-??/??/1994); Head Sounds Studio, Ypsilanti, MI (09/08/1968-??/??/1994); United Sound Studios, Detroit, MI (09/08/1968-??/??/1994). Photographer: Leni Sinclair. Unknown Contributor Role: Keith Keller. Arranger: MC5. One of the more interesting (if not necessarily the most essential) of the posthumous MC 5 vault plunderings of the '90s, POWER TRIP is a rag-tag anthology of concert tapes, studio rehearsals, and outtakes, with a healthy offering of the band's (today rather quaint) political rhetoric (thank you, Brother Wayne Kramer). The bulk of the album is dedicated to some of the 5's more free-form numbers, including a few open-ended jams (like "Black to Comm") that were staples of their live show but never recorded officially. There's also a stupendously heavy version of the blues stanadard "Born Under a Bad Sign," plus the title tune, an early workup of the 10-years-ahead-of-its-time punk/funk/free-jazz fusion they later renamed "Skunk (Sonically Speaking)."