Product Description

Kick Out the Jams features many never before seen films of the MC5 as created by Leni Sinclair & conceptual artist Cary Loren during the peak of their career. Tracks include: "Kick Out The Jams," "Come Together," "Looking At You," and more. Bonus footag

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86654 in DVD
• Published on: 2005
• Released on: 2005-07-12
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 35 minutes

Customer Reviews

MC 5 - 'Kick Out The Jams' (Music Video Distribution) 4 1/2 stars
Saw a review somewhere that this DVD featured maybe five minutes of actual footage of the MC 5 performing live on stage. Wrong! There's more like between 20 to 30 minutes with scenes edited into the DVD program but most of the time, the other scenes, snippets, etc. are usually MC 5-related anyway. Film makers Leni Sinclair and Cary Loren pulled together to assemble this retrospect of the life, good times and career of the Motor City Five. I'm assuming they managed to collect several super 8 silent home movies of the band playing at a college campus, a school party and at regular concert venues. Did a decent job of 'synchronizing' the home movies along with some MC 5 songs. Picture quality is (a bit grainy during a few spots) but still good, CONSIDERING the age of these precious films. Good bits and pieces of vintage hard rock treasures like "Ramblin' Rose", "Kick Out The Jams", "I Want You Right Now" (a possibly love song?), "Starship", the seven-minute "Motor City Is Burning" and the absolute foot-stomping "Shaking Street" make this DVD a must-see. Also dug the semi-humorous twenty-minute interview with John Sinclair {the sixth MC 5 member?}. Liked the way they spliced psychedelic images in here and there. Almost appears as if these film clips were manually transfered from super 8 to video, then onto the DVD. I've never seen a DVD like this. Very nice. Recommended.

MC5: MTV-style
First off I enjoy Leni's photos and always will. Her film making talents were OK as home movies, but this mish-mash with some 3 or 4 different bootleg recordings is a bit much. At best there are about 12 minutes of the 5 here, but with reverses, color drops and posterizations she was able to milk it out for about a half hour. A simple one shot run through with commentary by the remaining members would be fine. The sound is the best we can ever hope to get as well, but a single source would have been sufficient. The bonus feature with John is a bit embarrassing. If that's how he wants to be remembered, fine. I've seen him doing poetry readings and talked with him on occasion but this is sad. As someone once said, there's nothing worse than an aging hipster.

Can I give this zero stars?
I love the MC5 as much as anyone but this is ridiculous. I knew before I bought this that the audio and the video were not synced up; however, I thought that I would get 30 minutes of raw live footage of the MC5. WRONG! This DVD has maybe five minutes of live footage of the MC5 that has been annoyingly sped up, slowed down, colorized, looped, etc. This is absolutely and totally worthless. Just when you think Music Video Distribution can't sink any lower something like this comes out. Is this John Sinclair's attempt to destroy the legacy of the MC5 or cash in on the legacy of the MC5 at any cost?