What can you can give me?

I’ve been reading and thoroughly enjoying Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki, and Ben Edmonds’s MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band. Amidst the terrific stories about their early years and swift, raucous rise as local legends is a fact that confounds me: to a member, the MC5 were disappointed with the performance and sound on their incendiary, righteous debut, Kick Out the Jams.

Complaints abound: the show that was recorded on October 30, 1968 at the Grande in Detroit was an off n...