Rock & Roll 500: #460 MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Members nominated: Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred “Sonic” Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner. Five-time nominee. Eligible in 1991.
Wayne Kramer said in an interview with Songfacts, “We were using the expression for a long time, because we would be critical of other bands that came to Detroit that the MC5 would open for. They’d come into town with this big reputation, and then they’d get up on stage and they weren’t very good. So, we used to harass them. We’d yell at them, ‘Kick out the jams or get off the stage, motherf–ker!’ Finally, one day we said, ‘I like that expression. We should use that as the title of a song.'” (Beware of language issues in the video)
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