RE: bomp-digest V2000 #344

[IAM FUZZCO <fuzzco66@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Alan Wright <AlanW@SeattleArtMuseum.org> wrote:
> 
> <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.  
> 
> 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.

I got into this music in the late 80's via the
"current" bands. 

I'm kinda mixed on this issue.  Where I think it is
important to give the original bands their due, and I
love the old records, few of the festival reunions
have held ANY interest to me. 

I think there is a certain something about these bands
that we make up in our heads: That seeing the
Standells for the first time will be as exciting as
hearing the Standells for the first time.

Too many of the ones I've seen just sound like a bunch
of middle aged used car salesmen and lawyers covering
60s garage tunes, as opposed to the guys who have
actually stayed to together as unit and sound (IMO)
much better.

With that said, I always dig see current garage bands
from other parts of the world at these festivals,
rather than old timers who get back together "just
because". 

If it were a choice of seeing the Troggs or the
Woggles, the Woggles would win everytime.  

When I watch and applaud a Monks or Shadows of Knight,
I am not applauding this performance, rather the ones
I did not see. 



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