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- The Sonics, “Have Love, Will Travel” “Rock and roll—it’s the only place you can scream like that without going to jail,” Sonics vocalist-keyboardist Gerry Roslie told me a few years ago.
- 13th Floor Elevators, “You’re Gonna Miss Me” As garage rock turned psychedelic by the latter half of the ’60s, “You’re Gonna Miss Me” was a significant milestone along the way.
- The Kingsmen, “Louie Louie” In many ways, The Kingsmen’s version of “Louie Louie” is the template for garage rock. Three chords fuel a lo-fi masterpiece built around trebly guitar, blaring organ and singer Jack Ely’s murky vocals, which attracted the attention of the FBI and prompted the governor of Indiana to ban the song for its supposed indecency.
- The Seeds, “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” Sky Saxon sounds just as desperate on “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” as he does on “Pushin’ Too Hard,” but the band must have sweated out whatever uppers they were on before slinking their way through this one.
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or '60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The style is characterized by basic chord structures played on electric guitars and other instruments ...
- Late 1950s to early 1960s, United States and Canada
- Garage punk, '60s punk
The Fifth Estate - formerly known as The D-Men, is an American rock band formed in 1963 in Stamford, Connecticut. They are best known for their hit song "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead". Five Americans - a 1960s American rock band, most famous for their song, "Western Union", which reached number 5.
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Garage Rock was a simple, raw form of rock & roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-'60s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks, and Rolling Stones, these midwestern American groups played a variation on British Invasion rock. Since they were usually young and amateurish, the results were much cruder than ...
Taken from my rather vast collection of 60s garage, these are the original artist versions of the songs most often recorded by 60s garage bands. Some of the original songs were at least 30 years old by the time the 60s punks got a hold of them. It's remarkable how many of these songs came from the r&b/soul world.
Nov 2, 2016 · 3. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Domingo "Sam the Sham" Samudio never did explain exactly what a “Wooly Bully” was, but don’t let it stop you from getting down to this dancefloor staple. 4 ...
For that original album, Kaye collected classics of mid-1960s garage rock, often performed by short-lived bands who may have only had a single hit. Occasionally, a particular member of one of ...
