MC5's Wayne Kramer talks rock 'n' roll with Salon's Amanda Marcotte. Kramer looks back on the Detroit punk band's rise, their big impact on 1960s counterculture, and how drugs got in the way to their later success. Kramer's memoir "The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities" is available now and MC5 is kicking off their 50th anniversary tour this September.