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SOME OF THE BEST BANDS YOU NEVER HEARD OF
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Name: Alex Northrup Name: David B. McCall Thanks, David...send us a page for
The Continentals! -Dan Name: Steve Gornall Hi, this is Lenny Mintz, I was the
drummer for the Mushrooms, with Glen Frey and also played
with The Gang in Detroit in the late 60's. Name: jaxon Hello......My name is anthony
decuir i live in west covina calif. I grew up in ecorse mich
(52-67). I was looking through the web listings for ecorse
and came across your site. I remember some of the bands
listed(the warlocks) and some not listed (the
mastertones,unrelated segments,playgirls,plesure seekers
terry knight and the pack.to name a few.) I would like some
pen pals to write to from the ecorse area. Feel free to give
my e mail address anthonydecuir_2000@yahoo.com
to anyone from the area that would like to write me. Thanks
for your time....... Name: Jack Baker Name: Gary Shelton Name: Bob Ketchum/ The Vipers Thanks Gary & Bob...the stuff
you sent us on The Vipers was outstanding! -Dan Name: John Novik Name: Jack Kobold Name: Frank Stone You've got a great site here.
When's the convention? Name: RAY BANE Huh??? Name: Tom Bannister Name: Peter Rechter The Secrets are a blend of
60‚s Beat & 80‚s pre New Romantic. If you
would like to take a visit to our web site :
www.secretdeals.com.au
you can hear the grabs of our
songs & read the fab reviews. Below are a few snippets
of what people in the Rock Industry in Australia, America
& England have written about our CD. We have recently put together a CD
that features all the songs recorded by the Silhouettes
& Tol Puddle Martyrs back in the 60's. This cd features
a web site full of photos, artwork, history & the 1968
film clip of the Tol Puddle Martyrs cult classic "Time Will
Come". The Secrets‚ from Melbourne
Australia have produced a great new CD ŒTime Will
Come‚, saturated with 60‚s riffs, hooks &
melodies, a must for anyone interested in sixties pop
brought up to date for the noughties. The CD features 10 well crafted
tracks, as well as a selection of hidden goodies and video
clips revealing past secrets. The Secrets crash onto your CD
player with Claudette Jones, a wild 60's punker, with biting
fuzz guitar and snotty vocals. Working their way through a
collection of pure pop and power pop gems from the buoyant
Good Times Bad Times‚ and Feel Pretty Good‚ to the
infectious Think About The Boy‚ and S.O.S, as they
dream, pump, bop and rock their way through their album to
the moody, magnificent, Tol Puddle Martyrs psychedelic
drenched hit from 1968, Time Will Come. Not bad for guys who could have
kicked the habit years ago and remained elusive cult
figures. - Compiled from reviews written by:
Stan Rofe, Billy Pinnell, Ian McFarlane, Keith Glass, Robert
Hazelby, Bruce Brodeen & Chris Spencer. The Tol Puddle Martyrs, the second
incarnation of Peter & the Silhouettes, produced some of
the rarest and most sought after recordings from the killer
60s punk period. The Martyrs developed a huge cult following
in Central & Northern Victoria with their wild and
raucous fuzz guitar/organ drenched material. This interactive CD features 8
tracks, 6 original recordings and two reworkings of the
classics, Claudette Jones‚ and Time Will Come, featured
on the recent album release Time Will Come‚ as recorded
by The Secrets, Rechter's current brainchild. A web site
comprising rare photos, artwork and history of this
influential 60s garage band is included in this package, as
well as the original 1968 film clip to the Tol Puddle
Martyrs, ŒTime Will Come. Ian McFarlane, renowned Australian
rock historian writes : The moody, magnificent Time Will
Come‚ is certainly one of the great Aussie psychedelic
recordings; an enigmatic, organ drenched trip that still
sounds amazing today. And this new version sounds damm fine
too. Hey kids, I've heard both CD's
(thanks, Peter) and highly recommend them. Do yourself a
favor and check 'em out! - Dan Name: Dave Matlock Name: Jim Butler Name: Jim Butler Name: HAYDN RUFFLEY Name: Jay Fortier Name: Chip Curley Name: Jeff Pinto Name: Phil Gray Name: Laura Anne Katter Name: Gürbüz Oktay Name: John Claude Axberg Name: megan
Email: springalo430@hotmail.com
From: New York (state...not city)
Comments: Garage bands rock! I just wish I was around in the
60's. I'm putting together a band myself. Good job on the
page!
Thanks Alex, and good luck with
the band...keep us posted! -Dan
Email: zalerian@aol.com
From: Texas
Comments: I spent 5 fun years with the Continentals. Your
site brings back many memories.
Email: evenstevegornall@cs.com
From: San Francisco
Comments: I can't believe anyone still remembers 'Nature'
What a surprise to find your site. It's great! I finally got
to play Pine Knob as Joe Cocker's lead guitarist back in
'96'. Still kickin' out the jams Motor City style! Steve
Gornall.
Saw your site thought I would write.
Email: jaxalonmusic@xonfilms.com
From: http://jaxalonmusic.com
Comments: You've got a great site! Thanks for all the hard
work you've put into it. Keep it up.
From: San Diego California
Comments: Played around San Diego from '65 - '75, great band
names like "American Grit", "Fusion", and "Begger's Opera".
Lot's of fun, great friends, wonderful memories
Email: shelton1@cox-internet.com
From: Mountain Home Arkansas
Comments: Just another visit to your cool web
sight!!!!!!!!!!
Had talked to you in the past about the "VIPERS" Bob Ketchum
has also spoke with you. cedarcrest@oznet.com We "the
VIPERS" are going to get together soon and go into Bob's
studio,"CedarcrestStudios'" and record our origional tunes.
Maby put it on a vinal album. Pretty cool ,Uh ?
CYA.
Email: cedarcrest@oznet.com
From: the hills of Arkansas
Comments: Great job, guys! I've had a lot of comments since
you posted our first band on your site. Keep up the good
work. Reading about all these old geezers (like me) give a
fella a sort of "fifties fit".
Email: JN1217@netzero.com
From: Baltimore, Maryland
Comments: I, like yourselves, played in a few bands but the
really 1st one was: King Soloman's Minds!!..It was great to
play (No cable-TV,No "Net",No VCR..) We HAD to do
somethin!!We had a great deal of fun and we had to build
much of the equipment(PA , Lights, etc.) ourselves due to
"lack 'o money"..We played places I didn't know existed!!. I
Played Bass., Well that was in '67,'68, & 69..it was
cool man cool!!
Email: jackjk2614@aol.com
From: South Bend IN
Comments: Yes I was in a sixties rock band and decided a
couple of years ago to get my guitar out of the case after a
twenty year respite!
Email: ac3p@arrl.net
From: Baltimore, Md.
Comments: Thanks to you guys, we had a mini-reunion of 3 of
the four King Solomon's Minds. We hope to get everyone
together soon and jam. I wonder where the other Baltimore
garage bands are.There were names like The Gigs, The
Vandals, Brenda and the Sentries. Must have been hundred's
of them in the late '60's.
That would just be too cool!
Maybe one of these days... -Dan
Email: RRB49@PACBELL.NET
From: ROYAL,OAK66-67SF.CANOW
Comments: the BUMMERS *45 *I CAN'T IMAGINE & L.S.D.
FALCON RECORDS * HIGHLIGHTS * PLAYED THE CROW'S NEST * LOTS
OF BATTLES * KIMBALL H.S. HOMECOMING DANCE W/SEGAR I
THINK+BUMMER MOVIE TO FOLLOW> GIVE ME A CALL
Email: tbannist@maine.rr.com
From: Boston area
Comments: Great site, good to see that someone is
recognizing the forefathers of real rock n'roll. A great
site to check out another classic 60's garage band is "Thee
Wytches" http://wytches.cjb.net/
I had seen this band back in the 60's at small venues, and
always wondered why they didn't make it big time. Check em
out!
Email: the_secrets@hotmail.com
From: Melbourne, Australia
Comments: My name is Peter Rechter, from Melbourne,
Australia. Back in the 60's I played in Peter & the
Silhouettes & the Tol Puddle Martyrs My current band,
The Secrets, have recently released a CD titled: "Time Will
Come" on our own label Secret Deals.
The Secrets, offspring of the Aussie 60's cult band, The Tol
Puddle Martyrs, have remained deeply influenced by the
sounds of the 60's and have kept this spirit alive with
integrity and ingenuity.
Comments: Great idea for a site and wild Jack Ruby/LHOswald
pic. Grew up in Southern Ontario but never played in a band.
Didn't see any I was aware of but would have liked to have
found Amish from Preston (now Cambridge) and Your Favorite
Thing from Kitchener.
Email: jake0228@home,com
From: The Gang
Comments: Guess I need to get off my butt and add to our
site. Dan,I really do have some things written down. I can
start one for The Lourds too.. I'll be in touch..
Hey Jim, I'm looking forward to
it! -Dan
Email: HAYDNRUFF@HOTMAIL.COM
From: LIVERPOOL
Comments: UNUSUAL SITE AND THE ONLY PROPER REFERENCE TO MY
FATHER BILLY RUFFLEY AKA FARON OF FARONS FLAMINGOS I NOW
ALSO PLAY BASS AND SING IN A BAND CALLED BAMBOO SOUL
ALTHOUGH WE SOUND NOTHING LIKE MY FATHER
Email: j.fortier@attbi.com
From: Jenison, Michigan
Comments: Hey...great site guys. Thanks for providing a
place for us old rockers to post and share a few memories. I
had a band called "Band X" that played out of Manistee,
Michigan from 1965 to 1972. We played a lot of places in
West Michigan at first, and then hooked up with a booking
agent from Flint in '68 and played with a lot of the Detroit
and East Side bands. We had a single called "How Good The
Rain" in '68 that got some decent regional airplay. I am in
the process of compiling some stuff that will be on a Grand
Rapids website called grandrapidsrocks.com Thanks again,
keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words
Jay...how 'bout sending in the form for a page on your old
band? -Dan
Email: Chip.Curley@comcast.net
From: Nashville, Tennessee
Comments: I remember my first twin-12 Silvertone Amp and Red
Truetone Guitar. Seems like
yesterday
http://mglinks.com/shadows.htm
From: Northwest Detroit
Comments: Great site! It brings back a lot of memories
growing up in the 60's. From the Beatles landing at Willow
Run Airport, to Cobwebs & Strange-Greenhalgh Band from
down the street!
From: Las Vegas Nevada
Comments: I was in a band called the Monacles in Garden
Grove Calif. some of the best years of my life. Good friends
good music what more could we have asked for.
What more? How about a page on
our site for The Monacles!!! -Dan
Name: Denny Heath
Email: heathd@monti.net
From: Monticello, Indiana
Comments: I'm off work for a few weeks from elbow surgery
(to much guitar playing for a 50 year old man) and trying to
think of something other than naked women to look at. I
thought of garage bands of the 60's, and lo and behold I
came across this site. Sounds like fun, so I'm anxious to
tell you all about my old band "The Knaves". Can't wait to
get started.
Name: Bruce D. Edwards
Email: bde@excite.com
From: Hell, Michigan
Comments: Very cool site. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Mi very
entrenched in the band scene. I was the harp player for the
Lookouts, a blues band out of Ann Arbor. Our band had very
close ties to The Primemovers (my brother Jay was the bass
player and grew up one block from Dan and Mike Earlwine (not
sure if I spelled the last name right)and they were very
close friends of the family (thank you Mike and Dan for your
influnce on myself and The Lookouts)and still are. Reading
about the bands and all the good times back then is sure
refreshing. I remember all the free concerts at west park
and Huron High and finaly got moved to Fuller Park. I use to
go and help set up bands and their equipment and then enjoy
the music. What great bands and what a great time in the
history of music for this area. Keep this site going, it is
worth every minute of your time to me and truly brings back
memories. I still play harp (not with a band presently) but,
I do jam with bands now and then and still enjoy it very
much. The Tap Room in Ypsi is a great place to go and hear
blues and I go on tuesday nights to the open jams. Blues is
still alive and well in this area and I enjoy it all. Take
care all you fellow bands man and women and keep those tunes
a playing.
Name: Allen Hall
Email: Hallge@aol.com
From: Chicago / originally Indpl. Ind.
Comments: I was the bass player for the Beathovens and just
plugged the name into Google. It was fun to see your
efforts. When you are 16, anything is
possible....
Name: The Krabbz
http://thekrabbz.homestead.com/thekrabbz.html
From: USA
Comments: cool site!
Name: Lynne
From: Greater Chicago
Comments: Yes...Mogan David and the Grapes of Wrath DID
exist. I never heard them but I am very close to one of the
members. Perhaps I can convince him to go public. I am sure
he will be very interested to see this site.
Greetings from Memphis Tn.; Checked out your web site , I
had a kick a-- band in 1966 "Tonto and the Renegades" we had
2 45's out in Michigan the last was produced by Dick Wagner
in 1967 (Bossmen, Frost, Alice Cooper) we are still popular
in Europe, copies of our first single are on 3 different CDs
out of Italy and Germany. We were from Lansing Mi. I'm Terry
Slocum, I wrote Little Boy Blue in 1966 which is a smash
over seas today. We set the standards for early garage
stuff... we started before the Beatles in 1963 and I'm still
bashin' the Frets after all theese years!!!......Keep
Rockin,
Terry (the basher) Slocum........
Terry, you should fill out our
form and submit a page for Tonto & the Renegades!
Click on the button below..."Your First Band".
-Dan
Email: ohmymod@aol.com
From: Aurora, Illinoise
Comments: Lovely site - I can only say that I'll keep coming
back in hopes that maybe more folks will post info. It's
very very fascinating chiefly because my influences are
quite obscure. Psychedelic/Garage/Freakbeat. It's the way.
And I can only hope more young musicians see the beauty that
was. Pretty Things, Kaleidoscope, Gants, Calico Wall, Gonn,
Blossom Toes, The United States of America, Mark Wirtz/West,
Music Machine(please read the book, nasty Linda Ronstadt
stories) , Jason Crest and Bubble Puppy! *hehe*. And many
thanks to the folks at Get Back! Akarma and Sundazed for the
re-issues. Blessed Be! Any reunions? Please email. Prolly
working on a Blundstone/Argent show here in Chicago very
soon! Or if you want to know the happs in Chicago as far as
shows or events... Cheers!
The Mad Katter
Name: Jerry O'Brien
Email: Neartothekitchen@aol.com
From: Brea, CA by way of Brooklyn, NY
Comments: Really neat site only read the page about Broken
Glass but I will be back. The big G band of my youth was a
group called "Souled Out" I was only a fan but brings back
some very fond memories.
Peace J O
Email: oktaygurbuz1971@hotmail.com
From: Geneva/Switzerland
Comments: Hello, I'm a 31 years old garage rock fan and try
to invite some original band to play in Switzerland, like
Gonn, the Remains... but it's hard to realise these
dreams.
Oktay
Email: axbroband@hotmail.com
From: East Texas Piney Woods
Comments: Memories that I thought would last forever...now I
can hardly remember a damn thing. I'm 52, still playing in a
band with my brother (he was also in our first band). Our
first band was "The Only Ones" from Longview, Texas.
Recently we've been contacted by European Record
Labels(Germany, Italy and Greece), to reissue our old 45 rpm
we recorded in '66. Because of all the buzz about our band I
bought the domain: http://www.theonlyones.com
We recorded "Can't Trust A Woman" and "Another Place". Since
the last 35 years have been a blurr...it's hard to remember
that far back! I do remember it was Magic!
Email: PinkFloydZoSo@aol.com
From: NJ
Comments: first off, i dont remember the 60s. in fact, i
wasnt born yet (1988). but my mom pretty much raised me on
the old rock n roll (zep, dylan, the doors, the who, paul
revere and the raiders, the kinks, you get the idea) and
therefore, its become a part of my life. being quite
interested in underground music, i stumbled upon this page
through some search engine, and i remember my mom picking
out certain bands that she remembered "back in the day" (the
culture). also, i can relate to plenty of the experiences
the bands have mentioned, being in a neo-hippie garage band,
myself. sure the hair's gotten way longer, the pants
baggier, and the parents more tolerant, but its still the
good old rock n roll (well, maybe a morbid angel cover here
and there). heres to the awesome bands who never made it
big, but still kicked ass!
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