"Garage Band" query?

Rick

Rick

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Growing up in the 50's & 60's I can't recall one band that actually played in a garage. It was either a basement or attic. Maybe its a regional thing since most homes in Woodhaven, NY did'nt have attached garages. Any comments?
 
Locally it was rec rooms, a county annex, a barber shop , a flower shop, a local music shop. Knights Bridge started practicing in a garage after they released their 45.
 
You might have to ask the person who invented the term "garage band". Maybe he grew up in surroundings where people have no basements... ;)
 
Frantic said:
Only if you think that there would be more than a 1% chance in Hades that everyone on Earth would follow your lead. ;)
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Huh?
I wasn't thinking of changing the terminology if that's what you mean. It was a joke. Trying to imagine that we'd all use the word "basement" instead of "garage". Never mind...
 
I seem to remember that The Partridge Family practiced in the garage. In that case, maybe the term should be used to describe velveteen-clad lounge pop singers.
 
The band I was in that released a 45 in the mid '60s practiced in one bandmember's garage about 95% of the time. Another band I was in after that also always practiced in a garage, a later band practiced in a vacant apartment that a fan's father owned. Practice venues varied a lot in my area (Richmond, VA) back in the day, but by and large the majority (over 50%) of them were in garages.
Clyde
 
I once read that after The Beatles appeared at the "Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964 that it was a milestone in American Pop culture and thousands of young people (mostly boys ;) ) nationwide started bands, bought cheap equipment, cleared out their parents GARAGES and began practising.
 
Vinyldigger said:
I once read that after The Beatles appeared at the "Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964 that it was a milestone in American Pop culture and thousands of young people (mostly boys ;) ) nationwide started bands, bought cheap equipment, cleared out their parents GARAGES and began practising.
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I was 7 and in 1st grade and all the kids were talking about the Beatles being on the Ed Sullivan show that night. I couldn't wait to watch them. My dad said it was on too late and I had to go to bed. Our TV was down in the basement and my bedroom was upstairs right above the TV. When they came on I slid underneath my bed and put my ear to the hardwood floor and listened to the whole show. Cool memory but sure wish I could have seen them.:crap:
 
In 1961 I was just 14 when they started out here in Hamburg, Germany and my parents didn't allow me :( to take a trip to our world-famous "Red Light" district, the "Reeperbahn" and the "Kaiserkeller" were they had their first stage appearance.
 
But in 1963 I turned 16 and THEN I started my "career" as a "Club-Goer" and the first band I ever saw on stage at the Star-Club was Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. That was in the spring of 1963 and from then on it was NO stopping and I made friends with a lot of musicians; The Rattles, The German Bonds, The Summer-Set featuring a young Les Humphries and many more. To TOP all this, I was on the same stage with Jimi Hendrix at his last concert during "The Love & Peace Festival" in Northern Germany in September 1970. There I also made friends with Aleix Korner, the "Father of British Blues". He was the stage-announcer and I was head of stage security. Don't ask me WHAT we were smoking here :lol:snapshot1.jpgsnapshot.jpgmusiker_m[1].jpgnhow_jimi-hendrix-sw_c_frauke-bergemann_580x237[1].jpg the guy in the background facing the crowd, that's me
 
Frantic said:
I was 7 and in 1st grade and all the kids were talking about the Beatles being on the Ed Sullivan show that night. I couldn't wait to watch them. My dad said it was on too late and I had to go to bed. Our TV was down in the basement and my bedroom was upstairs right above the TV. When they came on I slid underneath my bed and put my ear to the hardwood floor and listened to the whole show. Cool memory but sure wish I could have seen them.:crap:
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I was 9 then and living in the Washington D.C. area. I made it a point to watch the 'Moptops' on the Ed Sullivan Show that fateful Sunday night in 1964 to hear what they sounded like....which turned out to be an English-accent version of the Everly Brothers (with some Buddy Holly thrown in). The real surprise was the energy, the unique style of the band (weird-looking guitars and suits) and the audience reaction. I'd seen a very brief Beatles clip before then on The Jack Parr Program so the haircuts were not a big surprise. The next day was unseasonably warm, and in the schoolyard that Monday morning every girl in school (and maybe 4 boys) were talking about nothing but The Beatles. I never did forgive my parents for not letting me go to that first U.S. Beatles concert at the D.C. Armory...even though I had enough allowance money to buy myself a ticket.
My old buddy Chip Ellinghaus was suspended from school shortly thereafter for combing his hair down over his forehead and wearing a turtleneck sweater and boots to class. It was a Catholic school with a strict dress code and the nuns all reacted very, very badly (lol).

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Ned said:
In 1966 we called them "cover bands"

Ned
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I knew quite a few musicians back then and most of them didn't call teen beat garage bands playing Beatles/Animals/Rolling Stones etc.
songs "cover bands" even though most of their sets were versions of recent hits. The term "cover bands" was more commonly used to
describe older groups that played 'over-21' lounges and clubs, rehashing "Volare", "Yellow Bird" and similar adult pop hits of the day.
 
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