So now, ladies and gentlemen, it is star time. Are you ready for star time? from W.BeeZ Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis.

And I'm Greg Kot. This week our guest is Wayne Kramer, musician and lead guitarist for the legendary Detroit rock band, the MC5.

He'll discuss the lows of addiction and prison and the highs of performing live.

If musicians are tuned in to each other and have a fundamental agreement about what they're trying to do,

everything works beautifully.

We'll also review new music from hip-hop artist no name and pay tribute to the late Chicago blues legend

Otis Rush.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions on will talk with musician Wayne Kramer,

legendary guitarist for the Detroit band, the MC5, currently on tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of that band's signature debut,

Kick out the jams.

We'll talk to Wayne about his new memoir, his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction,

and his time in prison prison and how that helped turn his life

around. But first we have to pay tribute to the late great Otis Rush.

Well, I take with you, babe.

But I got to quit you, babe.

But I've got to put you, baby.

But I got to put you baby. His first single in 1956.

Otis Rush died recently at the age of 84.

Jim, not as well known as some of the great Chicago blues icons,

you know, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon, even Buddy Guy,

Howlin Wolf. But I would say as influential as any of them, a really

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