Friday, April 10, 2009

Pacific Northwest group makes it big!

Our featured band was instrumental in helping popularize the Pacific Northwest garage rock scene of the mid-Sixties, styled as America's answer to the British Invasion. The most consistently popular garage-rock band of the decade. Notable for a hilarious and convoluted stage show unlike anything else at the time. A major influence on mod British bands of the era and their later punk brethren. The first rock band to be given a weekly gig as a "house band" on a major television series (Dick Clark's Where The Action Is, 1965-1967 and also Happening '68, both on ABC).

3 comments:

  1. This is a tough one! I know there were a few bands from the Seattle area but I could not think of their names. So long ago. I could only come up with one name that I finally remembered - The Regents. Don't know if it's them.

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  2. Great info site. I'm a baby boomer so I also enjoy the oldies from the 60's. There are so many artists and groups that it's hard to remember most of them. Doesn't matter where they are from. As long as the music is great.

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  3. Yes, it is difficult to remember all the great individual artists and groups of the 60's. And the country had a lot of problems at home and abroad. I think that music always makes us feel a little better after we listen to songs of our past.

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