Gary Grimshaw for MC5, 1969

Classic Gary Grimshaw poster for MC5 at the Straight Theater on Haight St (now the Goodwill), 1969. MC5 were banned from the Avalon and other venues controlled by Bill Graham because of what went down earlier that winter at their shows at Fillmore East (culminating in a riot in which the East Village Motherfuckers “beat [Graham] with a chain and broke his nose”)

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