MC5 'Thunder Express' limited YELLOW vinyl LP

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• LIMITED EDITION LP in YELLOW vinyl   (Also on CD)
  
• STUDIO RECORDING from 1972, recorded at Herouville Castle for a French TV show, PLUS four extra tracks from two rare early singles. Now with inner bag and contemporaneous notes. The title song THUNDER EXPRESS and a cover of the Stones' EMPTY HEART have not been recorded elsewhere.
  

MC5 (Motor City Five), the legendary Detroit band.  Their first single (included here) was released in 1967.  In 1968 they played the infamous Democratic Convention that turned into a police riot, and they went on to be the ‘Official White Panther Party Band’.  Their manager John Sinclair became a hippie martyr, after being jailed for 10 years for 2 joints, inspiring John Lennon’s ‘10 For 2’ song. 

Thrown off their first label Electra, they signed to Atlantic for 2 more albums but only achieved underground success.  Now greatly revered as one of the seminal rock’n’roll bands and a huge inspiration for punk. 

'Thunder Express' documents their first and last studio work - six tracks recorded in France in 1972 at Studio Castle Herouville for a TV show; and 4 tracks from their first two singles from 1967 & '68.  The title track and Empty Heart (a Rolling Stones cover from their 1964 x5 EP) are the only versions recorded. 

Includes inner bag with notes and interview from 1970, along with the White Panther Party '10-Point Program'.

Side One:  Kick Out The Jams, Empty Heart, Ramblin’ Rose, Thunder Express, I Can Only Give You Everything*, I Just Don’t Know*.  Side Two:  Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa, Motor City Is Burning, Looking At You*, Borderline*  *bonus early singles. 

Live clip filmed at this LP's recording:-

Cat no: FREUDLP071Y  A Skydog/Jungle release.