MC5: High Time 12″

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However, after only two more albums 1970’s Back in the USA and 1971’s High Time MC5 was dropped by their label, and although they stuck together for a bit longer, they broke up after a final performance in Detroit on New Year’s Eve 1972. High Times may have marked the end of MC5, but the Geoffrey Haslam-produced set still finds the band in fine musical form and as accessible as ever with well-crafted cuts like Sister Anne,” “Poison” and “Skunk (Sonically Speaking).”

Dave Marsh wrote in the liner notes to the 1992 reissue of High Times: “Sadly, High Time’s 1971 release represented the end of the line for MC5. Hard drugs had entered the bandmembers’ lives, and within a year they’d split up, drifting off into various other configurations. At least two members wound up in federal prison on drug charges, and they never did reunite before the untimely death of Rob Tyner in mid-summer 1992.”