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For this show, Leonard is joined in the studio by a bona fide rock icon, lead guitarist and founding member of the MC5, Wayne Kramer. From his genre-defining wall of feedback on the band’s seminal work “Kick Out The Jams” to their infamous performance at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that landed them both in jail and on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine before they even had a record deal, few groups had as wild or influential a time in the spotlight. The “big brother” band of The Stooges in their earliest days, the pioneers, purveyors and arguably creators of punk and heavy metal music, the MC5 created a sound far ahead of its time. And at the heart of that sound was Wayne Kramer’s guitar. “The MC5’s story is important because it’s five guys from Detroit who, against all prevailing wisdom, at a time when the music business really didn’t want to know, tried to make something happen,” Wayne said in a 2011 lecture at Loyola University. “I think there’s something to be said for that. Unequivocal commitment to trying to achieve—the sense of possibility.”