It was 1976, and he read an article in Billboard magazine about the Ramones and the burgeoning New York punk scene, which kept saying that these kind of bands were inspired by the MC5.
But for all the undoubted brilliance of their albums, the MC5's actual career often resembled a band lurching from one disaster to the next - hype, mediocre sales, wounding battles with record companies, retailers and gig promoters, hard drugs - and, by the time of their split, Kramer was more or less destitute: broke and addicted to heroin, he became a petty criminal and drug dealer, hence the prison sentence.
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