Morello, who on the nominating committee at the Rock Hall, says he's been pushing for the inclusion of the MC5 for years and recent changes in the Cleveland-based organization has led to more fan favorites, like Rush, Kiss, Judas Priest — and now MC5.

If the essence of Detroit music is relentless forward motion, the MC5 delivered that with the most frenetic joy to its audiences. “They were the James Brown Revue crossed with the Rolling Stones,” the singer Meat Loaf once said,