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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
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I didn't say she was born there! ;-)
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I think Lou Ann works well with Jimmie Vaughan on a few cuts on his album "Do you get the blues." I regret not having gone to listen to her in the Triple Threat Revue (SRV & Double Trouble) at Rome Inn way back in time. I have heard her at Antone's (in the 80's). It's a good voice and I don't mean to take anything away from her. But Janis has this amazingly harmonic-rich voice that I find unique. That said, I understand if it's too much for some folks or if "a little goes a long way."
I don't know that Janis actually spent much time in Austin but she certainly made an impression in the time she was here.
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Last time I was in Austin (I was planning on moving there to resume playing with a good guitarist I had been in a Band with in L.A., who was now in Cornell Hurd's Band, but he was dying of lung cancer by the time I got there) I went to Antone's and Threadgill's, to see where that whole crowd that came out of Austin had appeared live. Tiny stages! Wasn't Janis a waitress at Threadgill's? Had a pretty good steak there.
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