Machine ok and the liner notes pay

and the liner notes pay homage to the MC5's Kick Out the Jams

It’s a story about a guy who was a shipbuilder and one day the devil appeared before him with a bucket of nails and copper (as a shipbuilder

smiling screaming and sweating

the dog has been at my door and I have written this album for them

Machine ok and the liner notes payMachine's self titled album is shrouded in mystery. Supposedly released in 1972 on All Platinum Records, it completely disappeared without a trace and only a few copies seem to have survived, making it one of the rarest Funk albums on the international scene. The album, only known to a handful of hardcore collectors, fetches prices in excess of $5000 whenever one turns up on the auction market, which happened four times in the last twenty years.