60's Garage Rock scene.

[Mad_Cabbie]

Welcome to my attempt at being cultural.


Meet Los Saicos, The Peruvian Band Credited With Inventing Punk Rock

American punk music was not exactly the brainchild of those mop-headed Ramone kids. Instead, the genre has earlier roots in a little band known as "Death." Born out of Detroit, the group of three brothers are credited with forming not only the first black punk band, but quite possibly the first U.S. punk band ever.

Now a documentary by Noisey is shedding light on what might be one of the first punk bands... in the world. The group in question was called Los Saicos, consisting of four guys by the names of Erwin Flores, Rolando Carpio, César "Papi" Castrillón, and Pancho Guevara who played together for approximately two years in the 1960s. Channeling just enough anger and garage sensibilities, the motley crew of amateur musicians combined psychobilly with surf rock a decade before punk hit the shores of England or the dark venues of New York City.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67aY1sSssjs]Was Punk Rock Born in Peru? - Los Saicos (Trailer) - YouTube[/ame]

The title of "first punk band" is certainly debatable, but Los Saitos' claim to the title has grown in recent years as contemporary musicians like The Black Lips have cited the Peruvian group as inspiration. "They are the first to play what later became punk. There was no name for that at the time, but the riffs are definitely punk," explained José Beramendi, the producer of the 2012 documentary "Saicomania", to The Guardian. "You expect this sound from North America or Europe, but it's not something you expect to hear in the 1960s in Latin America."

"Punk rock music is a piece of shit," explains Erwin Flores, lead singer of Los Saicos in the short Noisey film, featured above. "It's music made by musicians who have no idea what they are doing. Musicians play whatever they want, and people who don't have a clue get excited about it."

Sounds punk rock to us. Watch the 13-minute documentary above and let us know your thoughts on Los Saicos in the comments. Does it make you want to turn "Demolición" up to 11?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/los-saicos_n_3757986.html

This was from a band called The Castaways.
Liar, liar - a real gem.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsFK3JJ_-E]Castaways- Liar Liar - YouTube[/ame]

Garage Rock was born out of rockabilly, but reflecting the upheaval of the tumultuous political landscape of the mid 60's - it eventually became the model for Punk rock in the 70's.

Elvis doing his best Sid Vicious

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbx7j2R9zo]The Tracers - She said yeah (60's FUZZ GARAGE) - YouTube[/ame]

The musical syntax, if you will, or "chord structure" is very similar to rockabilly. As well as the usual "12 Bar Blues" song structure, (not always) but often found in blues.

Garage Rock has a more angry and subversive side, though.

Some of it made it's way into the mainstream. Like this hit for the Zombies.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZv14aFjMBo]Zombies - She's Not There (Top Quality) - YouTube[/ame]

Anyway, post your own early garage rock, punk or whatever you want - I promise not to judge.

 

[Pennywise]

The Velvet Underground and The Stooges set the stage for 70's punk. Methinks this claim of the first going to some black dudes is horse shit designed to take away the stage from the angry white boys and their anthems.

And then Garage Rock was invented by Latinos? Come on. Baloney. There was a great Mexican Punk band in the 80's called The Plugz who had some cool tunes in the REPO MAN soundtrack.

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

Here are some other cool songs....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a-zSk6hEK0]The Sonics-He's Waiting (1966 Screaming Punk Garage from Tacoma,Washington - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtD5NplShk]The Missing Links WILD ABOUT YOU 1960's aussie garage punk rock - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pRnR4y1bWU]The Church Mice - College Psychology On Love 45 single Garage Punk Rock Folk 1960s NY - YouTube[/ame]

For the record, I'm not even saying that punk was around in the 60's - It was certainly never called "Punk" anyway.

It later evolved into Punk.

 

[Pennywise]

There was an awesome series of records that came out in the mid 80's called BACK FROM THE GRAVE, and it was all compilations of unknown Garage bands of the 60's, all stuff that influenced the retro Garage and Psychobilly stuff and greats like THE CRAMPS.

That Peruvian band looks pretty cool, but they were too dislocated from the American scene to have influenced any bands in real time. Music is like any other artistic format, it tends to evolve (or devolve) of its own volition, with experimentation and changes taking place across geographic hurdles, separate and apart.

Garage Rock is the Older Brother of PUNK. More sophisticated and not as bratty.

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

There was an awesome series of records that came out in the mid 80's called BACK FROM THE GRAVE, and it was all compilations of unknown Garage bands of the 60's, all stuff that influenced the retro Garage and Psychobilly stuff and greats like THE CRAMPS.

That Peruvian band looks pretty cool, but they were too dislocated from the American scene to have influenced any bands in real time. Music is like any other artistic format, it tends to evolve (or devolve) of its own volition, with experimentation and changes taking place across geographic hurdles, separate and apart.

Garage Rock is the Older Brother of PUNK. More sophisticated and not as bratty.

I would agree. The 80's puck scene was my fave. Dead Milkmen and the Smith's.

Also, I was a HUGE femmes fan.

 

[Pennywise]

There was an awesome series of records that came out in the mid 80's called BACK FROM THE GRAVE, and it was all compilations of unknown Garage bands of the 60's, all stuff that influenced the retro Garage and Psychobilly stuff and greats like THE CRAMPS.

That Peruvian band looks pretty cool, but they were too dislocated from the American scene to have influenced any bands in real time. Music is like any other artistic format, it tends to evolve (or devolve) of its own volition, with experimentation and changes taking place across geographic hurdles, separate and apart.

Garage Rock is the Older Brother of PUNK. More sophisticated and not as bratty.

I would agree. The 80's puck scene was my fave. Dead Milkmen and the Smith's.

Also, I was a HUGE femmes fan.

Except for DEAD MILKMEN the others are more Post Punk, more melodic, less full of angst. If you like Violent Femmes and The Smiths, RINO Records released a really good series of Post Punk CDs a while back, loaded with stuff like Ultravox, OMD, Gang of 4, Echo and The Bunnymen, etc. Really great stuff you should check out.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

The Velvet Underground and The Stooges set the stage for 70's punk. Methinks this claim of the first going to some black dudes is horse shit designed to take away the stage from the angry white boys and their anthems.

And then Garage Rock was invented by Latinos? Come on. Baloney. There was a great Mexican Punk band in the 80's called The Plugz who had some cool tunes in the REPO MAN soundtrack.

I have rocked out some of the best times while driving to the Velvet Underground. They sort of moved me from mundane to... well "underground."

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGu697BMss]Beginning To See The Light - Velvet Underground - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

The Velvet Underground and The Stooges set the stage for 70's punk. Methinks this claim of the first going to some black dudes is horse shit designed to take away the stage from the angry white boys and their anthems.

And then Garage Rock was invented by Latinos? Come on. Baloney. There was a great Mexican Punk band in the 80's called The Plugz who had some cool tunes in the REPO MAN soundtrack.

I have rocked out some of the best times while driving to the Velvet Underground. They sort of moved me from mundane to... well "underground."

Beginning To See The Light - Velvet Underground - YouTube[/url]

Thanks for the post - I dig it!

Here's another cool tune worth checking out:

[ame=http://youtu.be/FDSfuJ280Fo]Pastels - Circuit Breaker. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Harry Dresden]