Forgotten Bands of the Sixties

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Listening to The Ventures right now, they are a really cool instrumental band, kind of like the Beach Boys without lyrics. I am liking it.
 

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I listened to Dwayne Eddy and the Ventures a lot in the early sixties.
The Ventures moved into the surf music period which brings to mind Dick Dale.
Surf music was very big here in SoCal in the sixties and hot rod music came shortly after.

You could make quite a list of forgotten bands of the sixties from surf and hot rod music alone.
 

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It's so awesome though, this best of is 29 songs, I am on number 19 and they just flow into each other. So chill to listen too.

80's surf punk is the same way. Agent Orange and them, they were sweet but quite forgettable these days. That's cool you were alive for the 60's Hot Rod scene, always seemed cool from the movies and what my parents tell me. My family wasn't in socal but the car culture was a big part of their lives in the sixties and they taught me a lot about it.
 

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Yeah, I was twelve years old when the Beatles came out and early teens during the surf/hot rod period.
The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were as responsible as anyone for making that period popular. Of course, here in SoCal we have always loved our cars (Nobody Walks In L.A.)

The sixties was a very cool time to be a teenager.
(back then, we were the only ones that had Disneyland)
 

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The hot rod scene was huge when I was a wee tot. I can remember the music that was inspired by this scene being what my parents partied to. Really hot rod is nothing more than surf music about cars ;) If I am not mistaken, the Beach Boys were big into the Hotrod music, too.


Jaguars ~ Chevy Shut Down




Jan & Dean ~ Dead Man's Curve




The Rip Chords ~ Hey Little Cobra




A bit of trivia....The lead singer of the Rip Chords was Doris Day's son.
 

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The Beach Boys were into it with songs like Little Deuce Coupe. One of my favorite BB songs back then was I Get Around which was about crusing on Saturday night. A good beat and a lot of that harmonizing that they were famous for.
Jan and Dean were big also with songs like Dead Man's Curve and The Little Old Lady From Pasadena. The went a step further in surf music with Sidewalk Surfing, obviously about skateboarding.
Dead Man's Curve became serious when one of them almost died in a car crash.
 

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Blue Cheer,the Five Americans & Count Five -AH That first album was something else..


keep those model subway trains running - watch the closing doors :rolleyes:
 

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Okay, we have a thread like this in the 70s forum and I was thinking maybe we should have one here. I've found some interesting bands on that thread so let's try one from the sixties. I was pretty much a kid in the sixties so I don't remember and know as much about it as I do about the other decades following. I'm just hoping to pick up on some great bands I might have missed.

So? Anyone?

ton of bands that have been forgotten that had some great songs but never cought on in a big way or just fell apart and disolved into history. Here are a few that I can think of off hand.

Bloodrock
Atomic Rooster
Brownsville Station
Uriah Heep
Savoy Brown
Ten Years After
Long John Baldry
Buddy Miles
Humble Pie
Framptons Camel
Chicken Shack
The Spencer Davis Group
Yardbirds
Velvet Under Ground
Montros
Iron Butterfly
Procol Harem
Moby Grape
Buffalo Springfield
Blues Image
Bubble Puppy
The Hollies
Spirit
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Turtles
Jay and The Americans
Canned Heat
Todd Rudgren
Wayne Cochran
The Fuggs
Thunderclap Newman
The Mcoys
Stone Pony
David Peel and the Lower Eastside
The Jeff Beck Group
That's all I can think of right now but I'll try and dig a few more out of my brain later
 

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How about The Smoke...



The Marketts



Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs



Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus

 

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