Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that was popular in the mid-1960s in the United States, Canada, and other countries. It has experienced several more recent revivals. In the beginning, it was not yet defined as a musical genre. Attention to the sound from rock critics in the early 1970s helped it become appreciated as a genre.
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| Cultural origins | Late 1950s, United States and Canada |
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It is called "garage rock" because many of the groups that played it were made up of young amateurs, often in high school and college, who sometimes rehearsed in their families' garages. Some of the bands were older and professional. The groups in this genre are often referred to as "garage bands".
The style, which led up to psychedelic rock, often had simple lyrics and sometimes used guitars distorted through a device called a fuzzbox. Surf rock was an early influence. Later the Beatles and the beat groups of the British Invasion became popular. This led to many aspiring musicians to form bands in the United States and elsewhere between 1963 and 1968. Some bands produced regional hits, and a few even had national chart hits.
With the rise of psychedelia, a number of garage bands started to add strange and exotic elements to their sound, but after 1968, as more complex forms of rock music took over, garage rock records declined in popularity.
In the early 1970s certain critics began to refer to the style as "punk rock", which made it the first form of music to use that name. It is sometimes called "garage punk", "protopunk", or "'60s punk" to set it apart from the more well-known punk rock movement that came later in 1970s. The garage rock style has been revived several times in recent decades and continues to influence many modern groups who prefer a "back to basics" and "do it yourself" musical approach.
Garage Rock Media
The D-Men (later the Fifth Estate) in 1964
The Music Machine, featuring Sean Bonniwell, in 1966
Trade ad for Count Five's single "You Must Believe Me".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
The Pleasure Seekers in 1966 (Suzi Quatro far right)
Paul Revere & the Raiders in 1967
The Remains in 1966
Trade ad for The Standells's single "Dirty Water".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed on the source below.
The Shadows of Knight in 1966
The Five Americans from Oklahoma had a hit with "Western Union" 1967.
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Other websites
- '60s Garage Bands – histories of local and regional bands of the 1960s
- Beyond the Beat Generation – interviews with former members of 1960s garage bands
- Everett True's Australian Garage Rock Primer - about Australian garage rock bands of the 1960s and later
- G45 Central Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine - website and blog with discussions about garage rock
- Garage Hangover – garage bands of the 1960s by state, province and country
- GS Archived 2014-01-20 at the Wayback Machine - about the 'group sounds' garage/beat boom in Japan
- It's Psychedelic Baby - articles, interviews, and reviews of 1960s psychedelic and garage acts
- Start - Website covering as many as 1400 Dutch 'Nederbeat' bands of the 1960s (in both Dutch and English)
- Ugly Things - magazine with information on garage rock and vintage from the 1960s and other eras