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Given the huge glut of semi-authorized (and clearly unauthorized) MC5 material that has surfaced over the years (especially in the last decade), there's been a real need for someone to sort through the many live recordings circulating of the band and edit the cream into some sort of workable box set. Despite its title, Are You Ready to Testify?: The Live Bootleg Anthology is not that collection; instead, this three-disc set simply repackages two previously available albums of lo-fi MC5 live recordings. Disc two comes from a January 1, 1970, performance at the Saginaw Civic Center that the Bomp!-distributed Total Energy imprint released in 1996 as Teenage Lust, while disc one contains an edited and resequenced version of the June 27, 1968, Sturgis Armory show Total Energy issued as Starship in 1998. Disc three is a four-song EP taken from the widely bootlegged tape of a September 1968 concert at Detroit's First Unitarian Church; this material and the version of the Sturgis Armory show appearing on disc one were previously released together on a single disc from Receiver, 1995's Black to Comm. (Receiver also recycled some of the Civic Center material on another live compilation, Looking at You.) In short, if you're already an MC5 completist, chances are excellent that you already have this music in some form, and Sanctuary doesn't appear to have gone to any great lengths to clean up the sound on these aging tapes. Despite the often regrettable audio quality (especially the speed faults during the last few tracks of the Sturgis material), there are some great moments here, especially when the band tears into classic R&B tunes (the versions of "Fire of Love" and "I Believe to My Soul" are brilliant), and it does feature a few otherwise unrecorded MC5 tunes, including two versions of the epochal "Black to Comm" and the mega-rare "Upper Egypt." But newbies are advised that the best place to hear the MC5 live these days is still 1969's sonic firestorm Kick Out the Jams, and while Are You Ready to Testify? does offer further evidence of the band's consistently furious on-stage attack, the sloppy sound quality ultimately blurs the impact -- when they call this material "bootleg," they ain't kidding. ~ Mark Deming

Includes a mini fold-out poster.

MC5: Michael Davis (bass guitar); Fred "Sonic" Smith , Wayne Kramer (background vocals); Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner.

Personnel: Fred "Sonic" Smith , Wayne Kramer (vocals, guitar); Rob Tyner (vocals, harmonica); Dennis Thompson (drums).

Liner Note Author: David Wells .

Recording information: First Unitarian Church, Detroit, MI (06/27/1968-01/01/1970); Saginaw Civic Center, MI (06/27/1968-01/01/1970); Sturgis Armoury (06/27/1968-01/01/1970).Spin (p.109) - "The sick James Brown medley proves these Detroit freaks did groove-spectacle as well as any of their Motown brothers, offspring Jack White included."

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Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Live Performances, Box Sets, Punk, Hard Rock
Label Castle Music Ltd.
Orig Year 2005
All Time Product Rank 180,508
CD Universe Part number 6843167
Catalog number 236186
Discs 3
Release Date May 10, 2005
Studio/Live Live
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer John Sinclair
Personnel Michael Davis - bass guitar
Wayne Kramer - background vocals
Dennis Thompson - drums
Fred "Sonic" Smith
Rob Tyner - vocals, harmonica
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1Ramblin' Rose2:53 $1.19
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2Kick Out The Jams3:43 $1.19
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3Come Together5:14 $1.19
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4Revolutionary Blues5:52 $1.19
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5I'm The Man For You5:06 $1.19
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6James Brown Medley8:19 $1.19
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7Upper Egypt5:04 $1.19
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8Tutti Frutti1:46 $1.19
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9Borderline3:13 $1.19
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10Born Under A Bad Sign4:45 $1.19
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Disc 2
1Intro / Ramblin' Rose3:42 $1.19
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2Human Being Lawnmower2:51 $1.19
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3Tonight3:07 $1.19
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4I'm The Man For You5:17 $1.19
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5It's A Man's Man's Man's World5:50 $1.19
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6Teenage Lust2:46 $1.19
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7Looking At You4:57 $1.19
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8Fire Of Love3:56 $1.19
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9Shakin' Street3:30 $1.19
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10Starship2:13 $1.19
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11Kick Out The Jams3:01 $1.19
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12Black To Comm7:26 $1.19
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Disc 3
1I Want You5:08 $1.19
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2Starship7:28 $1.19
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3I Believe To My Soul3:47 $1.19
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4Black To Comm11:01
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