I can't speak from experience, but I'm sure there is a certain rush of emotions one feels upon release from prison and for Wayne Kramer, he's feeling GOOD! (James Brown inflection intended here.)
As the 1970's wore on, seemingly different groups of around 1970 were finding common cause. Wayne Kramer's band, the MC5, fizzled early on, sending its members in all directions. Hawkwind spawned Motorhead, which in turn attracted a later member (Larry Wallis) of the Pink Fairies into its ranks, which isn't all that strange as that band had moved toward a more stripped-down heavier sound. For what it's worth, in addition to brief stints with the Pink Fairies and Motorhead, Wallis also played a few gigs with UFO which went nowhere. For a guy that was all over the place it seemed to make sense that by 1978 he would find common cause with newly-released Wayne Kramer. As just about anything associated with the MC5 would end up being extremely combustive, this pairing didn't last particularly long. In fact there's not a whole lot of data on this particular live recording, which has been heartily augmented with pre-drug bust Wayne Kramer solo material of varying quality. According to some on-the-fly research I just did, Kramer's career was largely a series of short-lived collaborations with various rock notables, this is when he was in the music biz, which was shaky during the 1980's.
This release is highly unofficial in a number of ways. Incidentally, it would be until 1991 that Wayne Kramer would release a proper solo album.
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