An excerpt from John King's Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities and a reminder of how much attitudes can change about car-dominated cities and infrastructure
Wayne Kramer, who has died aged 75, was the guitarist and co-founder of MC5, the Detroit band who fused ear-shredding garage rock and revolutionary politics, inspiring the likes of the Clash and a whole legion of bands who enlisted in the 1970s punk movement; with lines like “I’m sick and tired of paying these dues/ And I’m sick to my guts of the American ruse” they attacked the establishment against a backdrop of crunching riffs.
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