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Various Artists – Northwest Battle of the Bands [New Vinyl] Colored Vinyl, Green
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Northwest Battle of the Bands
Format: Vinyl
Attributes: Colored Vinyl, Green
Genre: Rock
UPC: 090771012913
Condition: New
Release Date: 2001
Record Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Album Tracks
1. Move Over & Let Me Fly – Live Five
2. I Should Know – Tom Thumb
3. High Time – the Sonics
4. Hey Girl
5. Knock You Flat – the Dimensions
6. My Generation – the Bards
7. Daddy Walked in Darkness – Gil Bateman
8. Please Come Down
9. Get Yourself Home
10. Who Do You Love – Jack Horner & The Plums
11. Sorry Charlie – the Scotsmen
12. Black Cat – the Checkers
13. Mercy Mercy – Mercy Boys
14. Try Me – the Moguls
15. Tough Enough – the Scotsmen
16. Louie, Louie – Don & The Goodtimes
17. I’ve Searched – the Juveniles
18. Louise – the Raymarks
19. Alki Point – the Jesters
20. Again – the New Yorkers
21. You Better Slow Down – the Heirs
22. Another Side
23. Alice Designs – the Gamblers, Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers, Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers
24. Little Sally Tease – Don & The Goodtimes
25. You Got Your Head on Backwards – the Sonics
All 25 of these 1963-1967 tracks were generated by the mini-empire of Jerry Dennon, who recorded numerous Northwest bands for issue on his own labels or lease to others. Not one of these tunes made a national impact, and even if you have a good number of ’60s garage anthologies on your shelves, you may well have heard of none of these bands, besides the Sonics and perhaps Don and the Goodtimes. As garage comps go, it’s middle-of-the-pack, but respectable, aided by a concentration on original material rather than covers. Most Northwest bands — including most of those on this CD — were distinguished from other regions by a heavier R&B influence and lumpier backbeats, although they did pick up some accoutrements of the bluesier side of the British Invasion in fuzz guitar lines, harmonica, harmonies, Animals-/Them-style organs, and blustery vocals. There’s nothing here that screams shoulda-been-hit (or even forgotten gem), but it pounds along pretty authoritatively, with some occasional eyebrow-raising weirdness, as in the Bards’ cuckoo version of My Generation,” which is actually one of the best covers ever of this familiar standard. As far as some unusual pre-fame names, Larry Coryell is the guitarist on the Checkers’ 1963 R&B instrumental “Black Cat,” while the New Yorkers, one of the poppiest acts here on their 1967 single “Again,” would evolve into the Hudson Brothers
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