THE HARD STUFF
Dope, Crime, The MC5 and my Life of Impossibilities
Wayne Kramer's story is a reminder that out of darkness comes light. The sixties were NOT all peace and love – but peace and love can be born out of turbulence and unrest. Wayne’s story is a revolutionary story. But it’s also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell.
I first heard the MC5 my freshman year in college. A friend played me their live album, and I was hooked at the words “Kick out the jams, motherfuckers.” The missing link between Free Jazz and Punk Rock, as pundits have called them, to me they were all about the guitar interplay between Fred Sonic Smith and Wayne Kramer. I knew that they had played the riots at the Democratic National Convention and I knew that they were White Panthers. That they would flame out before they could ever be as well-known as they should have been. That they were seen as proto-punks and visionaries.
What I didn’t know was that I would one day have the honor of representing Wayne Kramer’s memoir. And boy do we need someone like Wayne in our lives these days! Wayne’s story is a reminder that out of darkness comes light. The sixties were NOT all peace and love – but peace and love can be born out of turbulence and unrest. Wayne’s story is a revolutionary story. But it’s also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, Key West to Nashville to sunny LA, in and out of prison, on and off drugs, Wayne’s is the classic journeyman narrative, with a twist: he’s here to remind us that revolution is always an option, and maybe it’s time to kick out some more jams, motherfuckers.
Wayne Kramer (born April 30, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer.
What I didn’t know was that I would one day have the honor of representing Wayne Kramer’s memoir. And boy do we need someone like Wayne in our lives these days! Wayne’s story is a reminder that out of darkness comes light. The sixties were NOT all peace and love – but peace and love can be born out of turbulence and unrest. Wayne’s story is a revolutionary story. But it’s also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, Key West to Nashville to sunny LA, in and out of prison, on and off drugs, Wayne’s is the classic journeyman narrative, with a twist: he’s here to remind us that revolution is always an option, and maybe it’s time to kick out some more jams, motherfuckers.
Wayne Kramer (born April 30, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer.
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