Heart Of Stone wrote on May 14
th, 2008 at 8:37am:
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.
If you're seriously going to consider a band like Every Mother's Son or the Outsiders as "garage bands" but disallow Paul Revere and the Raiders as a garage band on the basis of hits, horns and orchestra, then I am going to give you a
Homeboys DEFINE American garage sound. Mark Lindsay's holler and songwriting define garage in that they are pretty much squarely in the excellent-but-ungenius arena where the bulk of the major players in this genre excel. The Just Like Us LP has about two originals and a ton of covers of current R&B and rock 'n' roll hits - just like every garage LP of the era. Good Thing and Hungry are garage ORGASMS, Good Thing in particular. That they had a TV show and Melcher production means little in the face of the raging sound of their best tunage.
I mean, this is a pointless, and for me, merely semantic & fun argument - all any of it is, really, is rock and roll, who cares if it's "garage" or not, but stupid rock and roll arguments are pretty much the point of this board, so whatever. Paul Revere and the Raiders have been refused their due for too long. So . . .
Paul Revere/Raiders. Garage Band.
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