The Up

The Up

Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 21 October 1969

THE UP, A group we'll all be hearing a lot about in the near future, will get in the recording studios Oct. 24, 25, 26 ...

New Political Rock Group: The Up Begins Where the MC5 Left Off

Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1970

ABOVE AND beyond his highly publicized political life, John Sinclair had a great interest in the rock 'n roll world. His band, the MC5, attained ...

Rock For...

Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 4 July 1970

THE LIFE of the young rock and roll musician is and has always been filled with the bitter contradictions of honko Amerika................. ...

Rock & Roll Dope: the May Day Peace Festival, Iowa

Report by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 7 May 1971

(AT THE moment I'm writing this the Up is solidly entrenched in Amerika's midwest — it's 2 am and we're sitting around getting high at a ...

Rock & Roll Dope: John Sinclair

Retrospective by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 28 May 1971

IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat ...

Rock And Roll Dope: the Up

Column by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 2 July 1971

UP PLAYED for the Scapegoat Six in Kennedy Square last Tuesday and after running a bunch of errands around the Motor City all afternoon we ...