lotsajizz wrote on May 13
th, 2008 at 12:51pm:
I like the era and the genre plenty. My beef is that the poll seems to have done nothing but repeat the Nuggets lineup. It may well be a good poll for favorite group on Nuggets, but it's a poor poll for garage bands '65-'68. It needed more thought, especially as what fell into the announced 65-68 time frame.
So what bands would you suggest? there are a lot of other bands.
1-Every Mothers Son/Five Americans/Lemon Pipers/Outsiders/Swinging Medallions/Fifth Estate/Royal Guardsmen, the list could go on & on.
As to not to much thought was put in this poll, you've got to be kidding me, I spent a lot of time & thought putting this together, Nuggets list is the bands that were well 'known, & even those bands people don't recognize, let alone some unknown band that never had a hit record.
As for Paul Revere & Raiders, I have trouble regarding them as a garage band because they had major big hits in the 60's, it's like calling The Byrds/Lovin' Spoonful/Young Rascals/Beach Boys/Turtles/McCoys/Love/Association, etc a garage band, their very early hits had that garage sound, which is stripped down with just guitars, Bass, Drums & keyboard, like "Just Like Me' has got that Kinks slide the barre chord sound, but later on their records were produced with horns & orchestra, Terry Melcher produced them on Columbia, I'm leaving them for later on with a poll on American Bands.
As for American Garage bands in the 65-68 time period, Nuggets has got the perfect list, if you can come up with other bands that are not on the list, list them.