Garage rock

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Garage rock

Stylistic origins

Rock and roll, rockabilly, beat,rhythm and blues, soul, blues, surf rock, instrumental rock

Cultural origins

Late 1950s, United States

Typical

Electric

instruments guitar, bass, drums,keyboards, tambourine,harmonica

Derivative forms

Punk rock, garage rock revival,garage punk, psychedelic rock,power pop, glam rock, hard rock,protopunk, punk blues, indie rock,psychobilly, heavy metal, Paisley underground

Subgenres

Acid punk - Garage punk (complete list)

Regional scenes

Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Grand Rapids,Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Portland, Seattle, Twin Cities,Texas, Southern Florida, Boston

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the 1970s, some critics referred to the style as punk rock, the first form of music to bear this description; although it is sometimes called garage punk, protopunk, or 1960s punk, the style has predominantly been referred to as garage rock.
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1 History

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1.1 Origins 1.2 Peak of popularity 1.3 Decline 1.4 Revivals

2 See also 3 References

3.1 Additional references

4 External links

History[edit source | editbeta]

Origins[edit source | editbeta]
The term garage rock comes from the perception that many such performers were young and amateurish, and often rehearsed in a family garage.[1] Some bands were made up of middle-class teenagers from the suburbs, but some were from rural or urban areas, while others were composed of professional musicians in their twenties.[2] The performances were often amateurish or nave, with typical themes revolving around the traumas of high school life and songs about "lying girls" being particularly common.[3] The lyrics and delivery were notably more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming.[1] Instrumentation was often characterised by the use of guitars distorted through a fuzzbox.[4] Nevertheless, garage rock acts were diverse in both musical ability and in

style, ranging from crude one-chord music (likethe Seeds and the Keggs) to near-studio musician quality (including the Knickerbockers, the Remains, and the Fifth Estate). There were also regional variations in many parts of America with flourishing scenes particularly in California and Texas.[3] The Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon had perhaps the most defined regional sound.[5]

The D-Men (later The Fifth Estate) in 1964

The style had been evolving from regional scenes as early as 1958. Link Wray, with his innovative use of power chords and distortion, was an early influence.[6][7][8][9] "Tall Cool One" (1959) by The Fabulous Wailers and "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen (1963) are mainstream examples of the genre in its formative stages.[10] By 1963, garage band singles were creeping into the national charts in greater numbers, including Paul Revere and the Raiders (Boise),[11] the Trashmen (Minneapolis)[12] and the Rivieras (South Bend, Indiana).[13] Other influential garage bands, such as the Sonics (Tacoma, Washington), never reached the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[14] In this early period many bands were heavily influenced by surf rock and there was a cross-pollination between garage rock and energetic and upbeat party frat rock, though the latter is sometimes viewed as merely a sub-genre of garage rock.[15]