This is the final installment of Jeri's LSD series, and we're ending it in Detroit.

A group of kids from Lincoln Park start playing guitar after school in 1963, and by 1968, they are living in a commune run by their manager, getting surveilled by the FBI, and sharing a roof with someone on the bureau's ten most wanted list.

MC5 was performing punk rock before anyone had a name for it. This episode is about MC5's history, impact on culture, their relationship to LSD, and how a revolutionary-minded poet saw a broke Detroit cover band as the vessel for revolution.

Kick Out The Jams (Live Recording): https://open.spotify.com/track/1cLfXnBwTFuRngRZfQeLof?si=1445176dcf9d4370

Sources:

• Boisvert, L. (2026, April 16). 57 years ago, MC5 got booted from Elektra Records after profanity-laden magazine ad. VICE. https://www.vice.com/en/article/57-years-ago-mc5-got-booted-from-elektra-records-after-profanity-laden-magazine-ad/

• Wikipedia contributors. (2025). MC5. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC5

• Every Record Tells A Story. (2021, September 14). Recalled and censored: The story of the MC5's Kick Out the Jams. https://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2021/09/14/recalled-and-censored-the-story-of-the-mc5s-kick-out-the-jams/