Face The Music: Garage Bands Mystery Cache
Face The Music: Garage Bands
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There are countless thousands of rock bands that have formed over time in garages and basements. Some have never played a single song in front of an audience and are lost forever to obscurity, while a rare few have grown to develop a fan base or even become a commercial success.
The term “garage rock” itself refers to the raw form of music was popular in the nascent days of rock and roll; before studio-manufactured bands and computerized compositions. Garage rock declined by about 1970, only to be reborn and rebranded as punk rock in the late 1970s and to experience somewhat of a revival into the 2000s.
Regardless of what it is called, and whether or not it is a commercial success, the spirit of garage rock lives on in every group of musicians that get together to plug in, jam, and dream of sharing their music with screaming fans, whether it be an audience of 100 or 100,000.
Here are some questions regarding some garage bands from the genesis and revival of garage rock. Match the band to the answer and assign the number to the letter. The cache is at 44 AB.CDE 87 FG.HIJ
A The Remains
B Paul Revere and the Raiders
C The Trashmen
D The Count Five
E Question Mark and the Mysterians
F The Kingsmen
G The Ramones
H The Stooges
I The White Stripes
J The Squires
2. Although this band has recorded off and on for over 40 years, it is perhaps better known for its shirtless lead singer.
3. Despite being described as the quintessential example of the garage band genre, this group that was ready and willing to go all the way was a commercial failure, releasing just one single that failed to be even a regional hit.
3. This garage band has been described as “America’s greatest lost band.” After disbanding in the mid-1960s, they eventually reformed to play at several garage revival shows in the 1990s, and they were the subject of a 2008 documentary.
4. A song about heartbreak took this band from counting teardrops to counting royalties as the tune topped #1 on the billboard charts.
5. This band’s most well-known single, actually a cover of a 1955 song, is perhaps best known for the singer’s delivery of the song lyrics. Concerns that those lyrics were obscene prompted a two-year FBI investigation that concluded the lyrics were unintelligible at any speed.
0. This band has, amazingly, been performing for over 50 years. Not surprisingly, it has featured a lot of lineup changes during that time and has had over two dozen different members. One of their best-known songs was sampled by Tim McGraw in a 1994 country hit.
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7. Despite releasing a top-10 single about a girl that was driving the singer quite literally crazy, this cape-wearing group disbanded by 1970, just a few years after forming.
1. This band rose to prominence in the early 2000s as part of the garage rock revival scene. Its album that paid tribute to a pachyderm garnered media attention and modest commercial success.
8. This band has been classified as one of the first, if not the first, punk rock group. Interestingly, two of the band’s founding members had been in a high school garage band called the Tangerine Puppets.
Caches in the Face the Music series are:
I Love the 80s--Do U2?
I Wanna Rock!
A Classic(al) Conundrum
Ain't Got No Rhythm
Mondegreen Moments
Livin' in Oblivion
Frizz, I Have a Theory
Garage Bands
The Last Movement
Additional Hints
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