BeatRoute Magazine Alberta print e-edtion - June 2016
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper based in Western Canada with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise.
BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper based in Western Canada with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise.
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THE SONICS<br />
Sled Island presents... the greatest garage band of all<br />
Illustration: TOMB<br />
Straight Outta Tacoma, Washington 1960. The Parypa brothers, Larry and<br />
Andy, set the band in motion, but it wasn’t until 1963 when they recruited<br />
screamin’ Gerry Roslie as the lead vocalist and keyboard player, Rob Lind on<br />
sax and the mighty Bob “Boom Boom” Bennet on drums that The Sonics<br />
came alive. With their first two records, Here Are The Sonics (1965) and Boom<br />
(1966), recorded in ramshackle studio on a two-track machine with a single<br />
microphone, punk rock made its segue into the world changing it forever.<br />
Forever for The Sonics wasn’t that long. By then end of 1966 they were heading<br />
down another musical road that wound up a dead end. Still, for thousands of<br />
bands following in their wake, they remained the purest of garage bands... there<br />
was no substitute. In <strong>2016</strong>, The Sonics are back. Veteran drummer Dusty Watson<br />
now sits in Boom Boom’s seat, driving the band exactly how they were first<br />
designed — bomb-fucking-bastic. Newcomer Freddie Dennis plays bass singing<br />
some lead vocals — fierce and on fire. Here Are The Sonics, once more.<br />
BEATROUTE • JUNE <strong>2016</strong> | 7
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