He fell even harder for the sound of the guitar once he heard it run through an amplifier.
When she remarried, he and his stepfather didn’t exactly get along - in fact, Kramer says the stepfather was at times abusive, to both him and his sister - but the older man was also a musician whose use of the guitar while courting his mother didn’t escape Kramer’s attention. His father ran out on the family early on, but his mother operated a successful beauty parlor she eventually grew into a franchise. “I wanted my son to know the road his dad traveled to get to him.” Kramer was stuck on an ending at first, he admits, but realized the symbolism was perfect. Eventually he emerged as a hero to a younger generation of rockers on his 1995 record for Epitaph Records, also called “The Hard Stuff” and in 2014 cut an ambitious jazz album, “Lexington,” that doubled as the soundtrack to a PBS documentary about the drug war.īut what put him in a memoir-writing mood was the birth of his son, now 5 years old. Kramer’s new autobiography, “The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 and My Life of Impossibilities,” recounts in harrowing detail his years of drug addiction and criminal activity following the MC5’s breakup, which bottomed out with federal prison time. But all those cheers came at a steep price.
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