I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...
Wayne Talbott said:
For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?
Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band