Song:The Witch
Album:Required Etiquette
The Sonics were a minor league garage band who weren't much in the 60s but are now hailed as a big influence on punk of the 70s and the Pacific Northwest music scene in particular. The group was from Tacoma, WA and started in 1963 when guitarist Larry Parypa hooked up with drummer Bob Bennett of a local band called The Searchers. Lead singer and organist Gerry Roslie and sax player Rob Lind were in that band. Larry's brother Andy played bass. The Sonics started performing in local clubs and they got the attention of The Wailers bassist Buck Ormsby and he signed them to their Etiquette label. The Sonics performed a crude mix of standard garage band covers but Roslie's Little Richard influenced stage antics and his original songs like The Witch got them a fan following. They recorded two albums for Etiquette and then signed with Jerden Records in 1966. The cleaned up sound of the Jerden recordings killed The Sonics and they split up in 1968. This various artists comp from Ace Records includes several of their songs on Etiquette. The Sonics have reunited occasionally and actually toured last year. They are now revered by punk bands especially in their home turf of Washington state. Here are The Sonics performing The Witch in Seattle Oct. 2008.
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