How are you?
Following the last week, I am going to
start my 68th lecture.
The topic for this week is “Garage Rock”,
the 7th theme of “The History of Rock”.
This lecture is a summary of the
contents of “68. History of Rock Music: 7. Garage Rock” introduced on November
12, 2016.
Garage rock is a style of rock and roll that gained popularity mainly in the US and Canada in the mid-1960s. The term garage rock was derived from the fact that many of the musicians of this genre are young amateurs and often practiced in the garages of their homes, and garage bands refer to bands that are included in this genre.
A pioneer of psychedelic rock, this genre is characterized by powerful sound having an amateurish feeling, innocent feeling, or intentionally not-refined feeling along with the distortion sound of a guitar using a fuzzbox.
In the mid-1960s, Garage Rock had a completely different influence than before. It was the first visit of the Beatles in the United States in February 1964, following by the birth of British Invasion leading bands from 1964 to 1966. As the result, many bands in the United States changed their musical styles and it became a stimulus for many young people to form bands.
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| The Beatles arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport (7 February 1964) |
Garage bands were particularly influenced by harder, blues-based British beat groups such as the Kinks, the Who, the Animals, the Yardbirds, and the Rolling Stones.
Many garage bands have also been formed outside North America, among which British band the Troggs has achieved worldwide success with the song "Wild Thing." One of the first successful garage bands across the United States was the Beau Brummels, who released songs "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little."
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| The Troggs |
Garage Rock was not exclusively for men, and many all-female bands playing musical instruments were born. One of these earliest bands is Goldie and the Gingerbreads from New York, and The Luv'd Ones from Michigan is best known for their song "Up Down Sue."
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| Goldie and the Gingerbreads |
The Pleasure Seekers from Detroit, formed in 1964, was a band which Suzi Quatro, who later became famous solo rockers, and her sisters were members and the band changed its name to the Cradle band in 1969, changing their music style to a heavier sound than before.
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| The Pleasure Seekers |
Around 1966, the popularity of garage rock reached its peak, but after 1968, as more sophisticated types of rock music took over the music market, garage rock's popularity began to decline.
New styles of music such as psychedelic rock, acid rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, country rock and bubblegum pop were born or replaced garage rock. At the end of 1968, garage rock mostly disappeared from the music charts, and the Balloon Farm band's song "Question of Temperature" was one of the last songs in the genre, with some hits.
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| Balloon Farm |
Garage rock, which initially had no special name and was not recognized as a separate genre, began to be classified as a specific genre from the early 1970s, when it was mostly disappeared.
In an effort to define it as a separate genre, some critics in the early 1970s referred to this style as "garage punk", "protopunk" or "60s punk", and distinguished it from the genre commonly known as punk rock in the mid and late 1970s.
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Next week, I will lecture 8th topic “Extreme Metal”.
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