Results for Elvin Jones

  • Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

    by Denise SullivanOctober 1, 2008Comments (3)

    If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped (read more)

  • Don't Blame It On the Boogie

    by Denise SullivanSeptember 3, 2008Comments (2)

    Before the shame of "Boogie Oogie Oogie", the boogie had seen some very good years—from the roaring ’20s and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, up till the ’70s when consummate rocker Marc Bolan of T. Rex claimed he was Born to Boogie. (read more)