10 AUGUST 2002: THE STORY
OF THE MC5…ON FILM.

World premiere at the Chicago
Underground Film Festival:

OPENING NIGHT

THURSDAY AUGUST22 7:00pm

“MC5 * A True Testimonial”

Dave Thomas

Documentary Video 140 min
2002

“The MC5 was like an aberration,
a really lucky stroke of guys who were hugely passionate in the mid to
late 60s who were driven by an arrogant idealism that was a lot more physical
and a lot more testosterone-driven than most Rock around it˜and they were
so cool and they kicked it out so hard that they scared everybody away.”
ˆ Dave Wyndorf, Monster Magnet

Brothers and Sisters, The
Chicago Underground Film Festival is proud to present the world premiere
of „MC5 * A True Testimonial,‰ an in-depth revelation of the last great
untold story of the 1960s, the story of the MC5.

One of the most electrifying
acts to ever storm a rock-‚n‚-roll stage, the MC5’s Detroit performances
in the late 60s are legend. Their debut album, „Kick Out the Jams,‰ set
a high-energy sonic standard rarely matched in the thirty years since its
release. The MC5’s uncompromising stance and radical affiliations placed
them, briefly, at the musical forefront of a generation bent on political
and cultural change. In the midst of the most turbulent years in our nation’s
history, the MC5 embraced the promise and embodied the possibilities of
a real American Revolution.

For their efforts the MC5
were rewarded with critical indifference, broken contracts, police hassles
and the censorship and suppression of their music. The MC5 became, in their
own words, “perfect targets for the double-cross.” Relegated to some dark
and forgotten corner of rock history, they have become little more than
a curiosity, a footnote, victims of the American Ruse.

But their legend has lived
on, and while the influence of the MC5 continues to resurface in Punk,
in Heavy Metal, in Grunge, entire generations know little of their actual
story. Through rare film and television footage, still photographs, and
interviews with all of the key players, the whole story of the MC5 is brought
to life again. This is a story of stars and bars and drag strips and riots;
Panthers and pot-busts; this is the real story of five genuine American
heroes who had FBI files before they had a recording contract. The story
of a revolution fueled by twin guitars and decked out in sequined suits;
a story of the fire and of the smoke behind the American Dream.

Right Now, . . . it’s time
to Get Down With It, . . . it’s time to Testify, . . . it’s time to tell
the true story of one of the most unique and influential American Rock-Œn‚-Roll
bands: the MC5 and their place in Rock‚s and America‚s History.

Are you ready to Testify?

THANKS: JOE C.