What is Sixties Garage?

Heitkotter77 · Jun 20, 2015

Rick said:
Mr. 77, Curious to know what school in NYC. I attended PS97 in the 50's when corporal punishment was still acceptable.

PS 33 in Queens.

bosshoss · Jun 21, 2015

Rick said:
Mr. Hoss, the gentleman left center with full beard.. what is he wearing? a kilt? what is that?

That's David Marshall, my father's lifelong best friend. He was also a Lintas artist. Quite often the artists would volunteer to model as props for various ads the team was creating. David was dressed as a butcher that day.

beccabear67 · Jun 21, 2015

Now I'm wondering if your father would have painted Ringo or Jimmy Nicol? :cool:

bosshoss · Jun 22, 2015

He painted Ringo. Maybe it was in this style, which he did from the same year 1964 :boggle:

axel · Jun 22, 2015

bosshoss said:
He painted Ringo. Maybe it was in this style, which he did from the same year 1964

Very nice. I'd love to see more of your father's work.

axel · Jun 22, 2015

Frantic said:
Betty Kaye a promoter here in Sacramento (who Alec and I knew personally) is 100% responsible for the Kinks being banned from touring the U.S.

100% meaning that guy alone is responsible? What's the story?

axel · Jul 3, 2015

As for garage as a style: I think it's not mainly a matter of sound, but of certain chords and melody lines.
In the liner notes of a Paul Revere Best of album from the 80s the writer says: "The Raiders' sound was simply polished garage." That's silly in a way but it hits the mark. The Raiders are garage not because they sound as if they're playing in a garage, but because songs like "Kicks", "Just Like Me" etc. have those certain riffs and chords that distinguish it from most British "beat" or "British r&b" bands or any other musical style.

Lewis · Jul 6, 2015

Just to pick up on a few points made in this thread - Freakbeat certainly wasn't a response to US psychedelia. Freakbeat was a term invented and used retrospecvtively from the early 80s to describe post-beat mod/pop-art/proto-psych, invented by Phil Smee of Bam Caruso along with the originators of Freakbeat fanzine, though their definition was different.

US garage had very little influence in the UK at the time. Bands like Music Machine, Count 5, ? and The Mysterions, Blues Magoos, Seeds and Prunes all had records released in the UK at the time and none charted, though perhaps 'Too Much To Dream' got to number 40 or something. The UK was always heavily influenced by US sounds but the BIG influences on the UK through '65 and '66 were The Byrds, Dylan and The Beach Boys. Even the 'polished garage' of Paul Revere made no impact at all over here.

Psychedelia was certainly a US invention, though similar revolutionary drug-fuelled counter-cultures were developing simultaneously in the major European metropolitan centres, notably Amsterdam and London. US psych had very little influence on the sound of UK psychedelia, partly because US psych was read about long before it was ever heard in Britain. So UK psych sounded very different, being quite freeform and avant-garde live, while being very 'pop' generally on record. The UK scene was dominated by a handfuul of major labels which meant most 45s were made to sound both polished and commercial throughout the 60s. You just didn't get the same rawness or primitivism on UK records.