60s Garage Band Drum Artwork

WOW, what a surprise to see my original drum head on here and The Woolies. Real cool. I wonder why they didn't use our "color" drum art? Where did this come from? Who put it together? Drum Art, could make a fun book, Mike. Maybe after TBM?
 
That was a labour of love by someone.

Anything related to "Garage Rock" is approached as a labor of love. It's such a small nitch, it has to be to survive. However, the music will survive regardless of the name you place on it. Since the term "Garage Rock" was created by collectors and historians for collectors and historians, the music still rocks and rolls. But, the term is needed by the collectors and historians to describe the sound of a particular musical sound peculiar to a specific era. The collectors and the like still recognize the music as "Rock and Roll", but needed a way to easily describe the sound of an individual piece of Rock and Roll music. So, to narrowly focus on a small sector of the music of the 60's, requires a dedication and "love" of a small part of a bigger picture. Ir's like being an art collector who only enjoys the art of a single artists style. Like to some music = "Garage", as art = say "Monet" to some into art. It's all art but with a labor of love for say "Monet" style. It's all music but with a labor of love for the "Garage" style and sound.
 
True. I guess people still love "Garage Rock" so much because the bands themselves loved what they were doing, and you can hear that. It's passionate music, and they put a lot of love in their bass drum designs, too.
 
True. I guess people still love "Garage Rock" so much because the bands themselves loved what they were doing, and you can hear that. It's passionate music, and they put a lot of love in their bass drum designs, too.

But, it wasn't "Garage Rock" in name back then, it was Rock and Roll. And the passion you hear was because the musicians were passionate about the R&R music they played. They/we put a lot of love into our music because we had a lot of love for Rock and Roll. To me, our 2nd 45 was much superior to the first, just as the second and final drum head/logo was far superior to the first. Why, because the first drum head was done with paint or something of the name by a band member. The second was better because of the love of art by the logo creator.
 
Drum Art, could make a fun book, Mike. Maybe after TBM?

I saw a book with WWII airplane nose art, so I think you're right!

I like the Chocolate Watchband one best and Sir Douglas Quintet one runner-up, but then there aren't a lot of surf groups' included which had cartoons incorporated.

I always liked the Beatles design with the buggy antennae sprouting from the B better than the famous Gothic letters one. They seem to have only used it very briefly during Ringo's earliest days with them.
 
Amazing. There's about everything you can possibly do with letters in this vid (well, not really, but still, very imaginative).
I like a lot of them. The Twilites' is cool. The 2nd Vandals' in guitar shape is way cool.
The fact that "Opus 1" had their own drum logo is great.
"Nazz" is definitely one of the best I ever saw.
But I must say I'm glad our own looks similar to the Swamp Rats'. :lol:
 
wildpaws said:
Thought this would be appropriate, this one is from one of the bands I was part of in the '60s, the Wild Ones of Richmond, VA as recently profiled on Garagehangover.
Clyde
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That's great, too, Clyde. Very cool.