Our Beat.Media Article on Sixties Garage Rockn'Roll

We wrote this article for Beat.Media about how to introduce yourself to Sixties Garage Rock n Roll. It talks about this Nuggets Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era from Rhino Records featuring at least of the garage band you need to know to be a Savant.

Sixties Garage Rock n Roll is a very warm, twangy, fuzzy trip that goes for miles and miles before you even get close to becoming familiar with the bands playing their own brand of angst, heartache, rebellion and wise talk molded with a varied pantry of musical influences from blues to rock n roll and rhythm n blues to pop ballads.

A Great Introduction to Sixties Garage Rock n' Roll

One of the best introductions to Sixties Garage Rock n Roll is ' The Nuggets, Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 ' compilation. The memory of first laying eyes on this comp still saturates my mind with mist, as if walking once again through the epic and overwhelming jungle of Los Angeles Tower Records.

On this post as a continuation from the Beat.Media article "A Great Introduction to Sixties Garage Rock n Roll" here's quite a few videos from The Standells, Zachary Thaks, Love, The Seeds, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Captain Beefheart and His Magical Band.

The Neumans: Classic LA Nostalgia Garage at its BEST

Classic LA Nostalgia at its best
I heard that they got their band name from the cover boy of Mad Magazine.

With names like Rex Beaton, Gravel Beaton and Billie Telephone, this band was hard to beat. That's the bottom line. The 5 piece group also included an organist, which isn't too too common in Los Angeles. As Angelinos like to say, “Good luck With That!”