RE: bomp-digest V2000 #344

[Alan Wright <AlanW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<You said it very well.  For me it is as important to recognize and applaud
the originators of the garage sound in person as it is to hear them recreate
(sometimes amazingly well) their original sounds.  I suspect that some folks
who complain about them being on the bill are more tuned into the current
bands and think of the '60s ones as coming out of the distant past (I know
of a few folks like that).>
This reminds me, I've been meaning to toss out a question. As someone who
got into '60s garage/punk bands rather young (in my teen years), then
discovered a burgeoning neo-60s scene was happening around me (this was the
'80s). How many of you out there are young enough that your introduction to
garage music WAS/IS through '80s bands. I mean, will the '80s retro-scene
become a retro-retro scene with bands covering '80s bands covering '60s
bands? Or covering '80s bands songs. I know that already that has started to
happen, and in some of the bands I was in (Primate 5 and Castros
especially), someone in the band would bring in a cover song, thinking it
was by Thee Headcoats, or the Chesterfield Kings of whomever, and I'd have
to point out that those guys were covering a '60s band. Like in the Primate
5, when I joined they were already doing "Gonna Make You Mine," which they
thought was a Mighty Caesars song, so I had to make them listen to the
Shadows of Knight version. 

Anyways, I'd be interested in people's comments on this. I know there are a
fair number on this list the same age as me, but I also know there are some
young 20-something  people out there as well.

Alan W.