V.A. Do the Alligator!! (Frat & Early Garage USA 64-67)

Pues tenemos hoy un nuevo trabajo del amigo "6T's Soul Searcher", que ya empieza a ser habitual, tanto en este blog como en su hermano "Spanish Blogs Dream Team", donde ya hemos podido disfrutar de interesantísimos trabajos de diversos estilos. 

El de hoy, está dedicado al primer garage, eso que se llamó "Frat Rock", de difícil definición, como casi todas las etiqueta, y para no liarme, mejor os lo explicará el.

En los últimos tiempos me he fijado mucho en la música americana del año 1964, año digamos de transición entre los ya agotados sonidos de rock and roll y el garage que ya empezaba a despuntar, y las jóvenes bandas, basándose principalmente en los viejos sonidos, trataban de darle una vuelta de tuerca mas, digamos, que fue el germen del garage, que se centra casi exclusivamente entre 1965 y 1967.

Música bastante primitiva sin muchos alardes y bastante sobria, nada de florituras instrumentales, solo canciones directas que logran conectar con el oyente a la primera. Prácticamente ninguna de estas bandas llegaron a tener reconocimiento, pero dejaron un legado de música de lo mas visceral y sincera. 

Muchos de estos temas ya los conoceréis por haber aparecido por aquí en algunos "Tommentones", o por haber tenido sus monofráficos, como es el caso de "Gregory Dee & The Avanties", "King Richard & The Knights", "The Rockin' Ramrods" o "The Tigermen".

Así esta colección está dominada por canciones casi exclusivamente de 1964 y 1965, con escasas incursiones en años posteriores. Pero bueno, os dejo que el amigo "6T's Soul Searcher" nos presente esta colección, que a buen seguro lo hará mejor que yo:

THREE-CHORD ROCK INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

“Louie Louie” was like a lot of other early Garage Rock songs, born from an R&B impulse. In its immediate aftermath, an even more powerful impulse made its way into garages all across the USA,but mainly it remained a regional phenomenon.Teenagers in each city would tell you their local bands were the absolute kings of the sound.That’s the garage element a bigger drum fill,a much more pronounced organ riff,and a bunch of guys just kind of making noise.

Frat Rock was a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that reached its zenith in the early 1960's.The genre is named after the fact that many of these bands played gigs at fraternity houses. It was considered an important influence and precursor to garage rock,and many of the bands associated with the genre are also considered early Garage Rock. The Frat Rock genre itself also had numerous outside influences, including Soul music,Hot Rod & Surf Music,R&B,Rockn'Roll.Frat Rock was designed first and foremost for the drunken party, a bigger drum fill, a much more pronounced organ riff, and a bunch of guys just kind of making noise.The genre ran out of steam around the mid 60's giving way to Garage Punk,no need to write anything about USA Garage Punk...who doesn't know it ???

Some bands survived but the majority of the bands faded away.Accomplices were studies, work and not least the recruitment for the war in Vietnam, where many of these guys ended up fighting.

Towards the end of the 80's-90's and early 2000's there was a sort of Frat Rock Revival played by bands like The Untamed Youth (of the Genius Deke Dickerson),Saturn V and Barbary Coasters,The Outta Site,The Swingin' Neckbreakers,The Royal Pendletons,The Ogres and many others.

Un saluto a tutti e un ringraziamento a Jose'.

TOGA TOGA TOGA 

6T's Soul Searcher

CD 1:

1 THE COASTLINERS Alright (1965 TX)

2 THE TWILIGHTERS Spell Bound (1967 MO)

3 BABY HUEY & THE BABY SITTERS Monkey Man (1965 IL)

4 DOUG BROWN & OMENS TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Friday) (1965 MI)

5 SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS She Drives Me Out Of My Mind (1966 SC)

6 THE APPARITIONS She's So Satisfyin' (1966 MO)

7 THE RANGERS Justine (1964 CA)

8 THE TRADEMARKS Everything'll Be Alright (1965 FL)

9 OGNIR & THE NITE PEOPLE I Found A New Love (1965 PA)

10 THE SHY ONES 12 Months Later (1967 OH)

11 MERRELL & THE EXILES She's Gone (1964 CA)

12 THE ROCKIN' RAMRODS Play It  (1966 MA)

13 THE D MEN I Just Don't Care (1965 CT)

14 THE US FOUR The Alligator (1967 KY)

15 THE INVADERS OF BURDINE'S COMBO CASTLE Honda Come Back (1966 FL)

16 THE ROYALITES Dance Time  (1965 CA)

17 THE DIMENSIONS Penny  (1966 WA)

18 THE KAVALIERS Get Your Feet Off Of Me (1966 AL)

19 THE SOUL SURVIVORS Shakin' With Linda (1967 PA)

20 THE GO-BETWEENS Knock Knock (1965 NY)

21 DON BARBER & THE DUKES The Waddle (1965 NY)

22 THE CASTELLS That's Where They Meet (196? WA)

23 THE YOUNG SAVAGES The Invaders Are Comin (1967 IL)

24 GREGORY DEE & THE AVANTIES Nervous Breakdown (1965 MI)

25 MICKEY & THE CLEAN CUTS Soapy (1965 OH)

26 DEE JAY & THE RUNAWAYS The Gorilla(1965 IA)

CD 2:

1 THE GALAXIES IV Let Me Hear You Say Yeah (1964 NJ) 

2 JERRY & THE PLAYMATES Want A Love You (1966 OK) 

3 KENNY  & THE FIENDS She Kept Doing Him Wrong (1964 CA) 

4 ENNY & THE KASUALS DON'T LET YOUR BABY GO (1965 TX) 

5 KING RICHARD & THE KNIGHTS Those Things You Do (1965 NM) 

6 SONNY DAY & THE RARE BREED Tarzan  (1966) 

7 THE AMBERTONES If I Do  (1965 CA) 

8 THE COURIERS Stomping Time Again (1965 PA) 

9 THE EXTREMES Long Dark Collar  (1965 WA) 

10 THE HUSTLERS Tell Me Baby (1965 LA) 

11 THE MOTOR CITY BONNEVILLES Make Up Your Mind (1965 MI) 

12 THE NEW FUGITIVES That's Queer (1966 MI) 

13 THE SOUNDS UNLIMITED Keeps Your Hand Off Of It (1965 TX) 

14 THE TEEMATES Movin' Out (1964 NY) 

15 THE TIGERMEN Tiger Girl (1965 NY) 

16 THE VANDALS We're The Vandals (1965 FL) 

17 TOM THUMB & THE CASUALS Go Go Time (1965 WA) 

18 THE UNDERDOGS Friday At The Hideout (1965 MI) 

19 THE SHADEMEN That's Tuff  (1966 OH) 

20 THE CHARTBUSTERS She's The One (1964 Washington DC) 

21 THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES Alley-Oop (1966 CA) 

22 FLOYD DAKIL COMBO Dance Franny Dance (1964 TX) 

23 JOEY GEE & THE COME ONS She's Mean (1965 WI) 

24 THE AMERICAN FOUR Luci Baines (1964 CA) 

25 THE TRIUMPHS Garner State Park (1965 TX) 

Os dejo también una muestra de lo que encontraréis en esta colección:

THE RANGERS Justine (1964 CA)

GREGORY DEE & THE AVANTIES Nervous Breakdown (1965 MI)

FLOYD DAKIL COMBO Dance Franny Dance (1964 TX) 

THE AMERICAN FOUR Luci Baines (1964 CA)

Desde luego, todo un lujo de colección, con la que seguro no os aburriréis lo mas mínimo.

Hasta la semana próxima.

Y antes de terminar me gustaría recordar todos los trabajos realizados tanto en este blog como en el SBDT por el amigo 6T's Soul Searcher:

V.A. Italian Nuggets

V.A. 100 Mod Masterpieces

V.A. The Windrush Generation Helped To Build Britania (Jamaican Invasion Of Britain 1954-1966) 

V.A. Rockin' Blues (This music could seriously damage your shoe leather !!!) 1952-1963

V.A. God Damn The Bloody White Socks (Mod Revival 77/82)

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