The other year, it occurred to me
I don’t accept their social currency,
I have no use for their rewards.
— The Evens, Dinner With the President, Get Evens (2007)
In terms of bands like MC5, the Stooges, they all saw themselves as being an alternative to the alternative music that was then popular, epitomized by San Francisco peace-and-love. This was darker, a much more street level kind of a movement. All those bands and the people around them saw this as the next step beyond what was fashionable.
AMG Records / Grease Records Fun 1 (1967)