PositiveThe Georgia StraightHis new memoir...creates a full, deeply personal depiction of the Motor City in its blue-collar heyday ... The Hard Stuff contrasts the brilliant arc of his band with the darkness that engulfed him in the years that followed 1972 collapse of the MC5, run to ground by drugs and infighting. Disillusioned and wired to heroin, he entered a spiral of petty crime and dealing. Inexorably, the quantities he handled grew larger and larger, his contacts reached farther and farther into the underworld. In 1975, an arrest on cocaine-trafficking charges sent him to federal prison for more than two years.
