Category: Music

Charlie Watts has died. This is the first example of his drumming that comes to mind.

Boston, you’re my home. Well, not Boston proper, but close enough. 1968 was the year that WBCN went from being a Classical longhair radio station to being a Hippie longhair radio station. It also happened to be the year my family moved to a Boston suburb. The timing was perfect for my coming-of-age transition from AM Pop radio kid to FM Rock radio adolescent.

The Boston Globe has an article about a YouTube playlist of 1960’s New England garage bands, posted by Ryan H. Walsh, based upon a checklist compiled by Aram Heller. The article is behind a paywall, but it’s based on this Web page by Walsh.

Here is Ryan’s YouTube playlist with 200 recorded Nuggets and Pebbles that were probably mostly heard by the bands that made them and their friends.

As true today as it was the summer of the Bicentennial year, when this record was new.

A not-even-one-hit-wonder band from that most happening decade of musical delights.

Amber “Waves of Grain” Records for Wheat and the Breadmen? 😉