| Influences | 60's GARAGE: Pebbles, Back from the Grave, Nuggets, Highs in the Mid-Sixties...you know the drill! British Mod & Freakbeat (Wimple Winch!), British Invasion (Stones, Beatles, Kinks, Who, Yardbirds), RHYTHM & BLUES: Jimmy Reed, CHESS RECORDS, Hank Ballard, THE ENTIRE CITY OF CHICAGO!, IKE TURNER... BO DIDDLEY & FATS DOMINO ! SOUL: DETROIT!!!!, STAX, MALACO, TK, and the SOUTH in general... LOUISIANA (Allen TOUSSAINT, Meters), DAVID RUFFIN, OTIS REDDING, THE CONTOURS, Bett(y)ies Wright and Swann, Barbaras Lynn and George, Shirley Ellis, Evie Sands, so many more... PSYCH: Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Baroques, Amon Duul II, Can, The ID... NEWER STUFF: Reigning Sound, Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, New Lou Reeds, Black Hollies, Black Lips, even the color black! Shalitas, Miscreants, Brian Wilson Shock Treatment, Goner Records, Crypt Records, Norton Records, HoZac Records, Burger Records, Killer Diller Records, Dusty Medical Records... all the bands who will play with us, and your band! |
