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Garage Band Hangover

Hey has anybody on this site been on the website Garage Band Hangover?

Very cool site if you are into 60s obscure( is there any
other type?) garage bands. 100s of bands and 1000s of songs
that you can listen. In fact some of the songs would rival
most of the garage bands that charted. Vestells, Werps,
Humans, the Bucaneer's,Abstrack Sound, the Centurys, and
one of my favs: Pat Wallace's song: Fill the Hole ( gee
I wonder what that is about?) The Werps use of the trumpet
as a solo instrument with a Hammond B3 whipping it up.
Forgot how great the Hammond grooved with the garage sound!
All the songs are the same 3 chords as Gloria or Louie, Louie: E-A-D. Tons of teenage angst. Bragging rights. What is so cool about real garage band music, no Beatle re-treads ( or so little of it). Just kids that wanted to get laid, party all night and get revenge for the girls that cheated on them........you know real music as signals for self identification for a teenager of the 60s!

BTW: the site is divided up into states so you can look up who was who in the 60s for your state. I identified more with the NorthEast garage sound than I did the California psychedelic garage band sound. I was also surprised at the dearth of bands from the NorthWest, since that was the home of the Sonics, Paul Revere, and the Kingsmen. Texas really surprised me with the number of garage bands as well. Some of them were really rocking!

So who was your obscure fav garage band of the 60s?
shubertmaniac
ths364
181 posts
 
I'll have to take a look at that site. I think my favorite garage band from that era would be "Bubble Puppy", but I haven't listened to them in years.
Seems like the MC5,The Stooges, SRC and Blue Cheer would fit my garage band favorites list as well unless they were too popular.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
src, the leaves, the music explosion, the rationals, frut, the standells, hardwater, stained glass, yada yada....
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
just saw the website....my picks are too big...my new picks are gary and the hornets, the bare facts.
shubertmaniac OP
350 posts
 
I have not even touched the surface. They are way too many
bands and songs to listen. Hey the guy that puts all those
bands and songs on the website is a genius and hard worker that is for sure. Right at this minute, I am listen to the Bucaneer's

You're Never Gonna Love Me

With the lines:

You're never gonna love me anymore, anymore,
I know I cheated TWICE before, twice before,
And I cheated AGAIN.......

With lines like that what is not to love???

or songs like Pat Wallace's "Let me fill your hole".

Killer chordal progression and you gotta laugh at the
lines. Let's party all night and get laid lyrics.

Just what every teenager in the 60s wanted, at least
this 60s guy. Self-Idenification. NO aesthetic theory
NO art. Not its function at all.

Where else are you hear a tambourine, tom-tom drums,high-hat harmonica a Hammond organ, and a guitarist using all the strings and all the frets of a Strat?

The Hammond organ on Love's a Fire by the Werps is so maniac with the trumpet as solo. Who would of thought of a trumpet as a solo instrument for a Garage Band?? Voodoo Doll by them is a very very weird song, and I mean weird.

Some unbelieve-able great music and of course some of the lame-est. Some of those groups sounded like they practiced for two minutes, went into a studio and cut a couple of sides. some really horrendous and hideous music.

But

Screw crap like "I want to hold your hand"!

The Aliens version of "Gloria" is now playing. The 13th O'Clock's version of Psychotic Reaction.... a true killer....I could go on and on.
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