Who Loves The Skunk: the Velvet Undergound's Loaded vs. the MC5's High Time

High Time is easily the MC5 album I listen to most but Loaded is prob the VU I play most.

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In Danny Says somebody refers to the MC5 as being 6ft 2. I'd never thought about them being tall until then.
Are they?

Just occured to me that John Sinclair is supposed to be pretty tall. But imagined the band as medium height. Anybody know?

6ft 2, if you include the afros.

a pity that nobody brought zappa or seger into this thread

anyway, "loaded" is a pop masterpiece. "oh sweet nuthin" is gold. i honestly feel bad for anyone who can't here that there's "something there" on, well, first listen. "new age" and "i found a reason" are the two weak tracks, though i kind of like the robert mitchum line on the latter.

"back in the USA" is definitely the 5's best, marred by two bad, horrifically bad, covers. "high school" is maybe the best song ever.

"high time" sounds indulgent, confused. who the fuck calls a track "skunk (sonically speaking)" ?

much as I love the 5, Loaded has better songs

In Danny Says somebody refers to the MC5 as being 6ft 2. I'd never thought about them being tall until then.
Are they?

Just occured to me that John Sinclair is supposed to be pretty tall. But imagined the band as medium height. Anybody know?

Patti Smith is around 5'7" or 5'8", Fred was at least half a head taller than her. In most pics he seems right in the middle of the band height-wise. So 6'2" sounds about right.

Yeah just seen a couple fo shots where members look only slightly shorter than John Sinclair
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/248/MI0001248203.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://news.1xrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/465238060.jpg
I take it afro you see at back in lower one is Kramer

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Xp rarely seem to get photos of the 5 with other people that you can guage height from.
Mostly seem to be band together or on stage where they're raised anyway.

I stood in physical proximity to three members of the 5 a couple times during the late 70s in Ann Arbor; adjust for my addled memory. So approximately: Fred Smith was probably just over 6 feet, Michael Davis about same, Wayne Kramer maybe an inch or two shorter. Watched Fred on stage many times, he was broad-shouldered slender guy, unusually athletic-built for a rock and roll musician.

told this story before, but: once I saw Lou Reed (w/Laurie Anderson) at my swimming pool in NYC back in the 90s. Can't remember how tall he was but he had a pot belly and couldn't swim for shit.