Rock And Roll Dope: MC5

IT WAS A Friday night back in the fall of 1966 when Gary Grimshaw, myself and some brothers and sisters from Detroit set up some overhead projectors and movie machines on a rickety little platform we had built about six feet off the floor in back of the old building in the west side ghettoes along Grand River — we were getting ready to do the first psychedelic light show ever seen in public in the Motor City. And, even though we didn't realize it then, we were getting ready to do a lot more than that — we were about to take part in what was to become a landmark occasion in the history of a whole new lifestyle and music that was sweeping the country and changing every person that it came in contact with. It was the opening night of the Grande Ballroom, the birthplace of high energy Michigan music.