22 Facts About Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

Garage rock continues to appeal to musicians and audiences who prefer a "back to basics" or "do-it-yourself" musical approach.

Some garage rock bands went on tour, particularly those better-known, but even more obscure groups sometimes received bookings or airplay beyond their immediate locales.

Garage rock acts were diverse in both musical ability and in style, ranging from crude and amateurish to near-studio level musicianship.

Much of the revival of interest in 1960s garage rock can be traced to the release of the 1972 album Nuggets compiled by Lenny Kaye.

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The term "punk Garage rock" was later appropriated by the more commonly-known punk Garage rock movement that emerged in the mid-1970s and is most commonly applied to groups associated with that movement or who followed in its wake.

Guitarist Link Wray has been cited as an early influence on garage rock and is known for his innovative use of guitar techniques and effects such as power chords and distortion.

Garage rock is best known for his 1958 instrumental "Rumble", which featured the sound of distorted, "clanging" guitar chords, which anticipated much of what was to come.

Frat Garage rock persisted into the mid-1960s with acts such as the Swingin' Medallions, who had a top twenty hit with "Double Shot " in 1966.

The resulting success of Dylan, the Byrds, and other folk rock acts influenced the sound and approach of numerous garage bands.

Garage rock was not an exclusively male phenomenon—it fostered the emergence of all-female bands whose members played their own instruments.

Garage rock flourished up and down the Atlantic coast, with acts such as the Vagrants, from Long Island, and Richard and the Young Lions from Newark, New Jersey, and the Blues Magoos from the Bronx, who got their start in New York's Greenwich Village scene and had a hit in 1966 with " Nothin' Yet", which appeared on their debut album, Psychedelic Lollipop, along with a lengthy rendition of the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road".

Garage rock craze came into full swing in California, particularly in Los Angeles.

Outside of the mainland, garage rock became a fixture in the islands and territories adjacent to the continent.

The Equals, a racially integrated band from North London whose membership included guitarist Eddy Grant, later a popular solo artist, specialized in an upbeat style of Garage rock—their 1966 recording "Baby Come Back" was a hit in Europe before becoming a British number one in 1968.

Garage rock helped lay the groundwork for the acid rock of the late 1960s.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and other late-1960s big-production spectaculars, Garage rock albums became increasingly elaborate and were expected to display maturity and complexity, while the 45-RPM single ceded to the long-play album as the preferred medium.

New styles either evolved out of garage rock or replaced it, such as acid rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, country rock, and bubblegum.

In 1974, an updated garage rock scene began to coalesce around the Rathskeller club in Kenmore Square.

Between 1969 and 1975, other movements further removed from the American garage rock tradition emerged, that nonetheless displayed hallmarks of proto-punk, such as Glam and pub rock in Great Britain, as well as Krautrock in Germany.

Garage rock has experienced various revivals in the ensuing years and continues to influence numerous modern acts who prefer a "back to basics" and "do it yourself" musical approach.

Girls in the Garage was the first female garage rock series, and Ace Records' issued the more recent Girls with Guitars compilations.