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The Band That Ate Tacoma
The legendary Sonics reunite in NYC
Gather 'round children, while I share with you the story of the most thrilling, brutal, glorious noise ever to come storming out of the Great Northwest. Need a hint? Well it ain't Pearl Jam – I can tell you that. Back when Eddie Vedder and Courtney Love were going doody in their dighties, these guys were laying waste to everything that dared muster the nerve to cross their rock 'n' roll paths.
I am speaking, ladies and gents, of the mighty, mighty Sonics.
On November 2 to 4, Cavestomp — that most venerated of '60s garage- and punk-preserving institutions — will welcome the reunited Sonics to Brooklyn's Warsaw club for two shows. We were blown away when the festival brought '60s obscurities the Monks together to perform at the Big Apple's Westbeth Theatre in 1999. But of all the rock 'n' roll reunions that I've witnessed, heard of, or dreamed about, this is the biggie. John Lennon rising from the grave to jam with Elvis wouldn't inspire the kind of ardor I feel at the proposal of a Sonics reunion. Here's why:
Those old Sonics sides (many of which have been collected and made available to us geeks by the genius Norton Records label — bless you Billy and Miriam) simply blow the doors off of 90 percent of everything that ever claimed to be rock 'n' roll. In a word, these guys slayed.
I am speaking, ladies and gents, of the mighty, mighty Sonics.
On November 2 to 4, Cavestomp — that most venerated of '60s garage- and punk-preserving institutions — will welcome the reunited Sonics to Brooklyn's Warsaw club for two shows. We were blown away when the festival brought '60s obscurities the Monks together to perform at the Big Apple's Westbeth Theatre in 1999. But of all the rock 'n' roll reunions that I've witnessed, heard of, or dreamed about, this is the biggie. John Lennon rising from the grave to jam with Elvis wouldn't inspire the kind of ardor I feel at the proposal of a Sonics reunion. Here's why:
Those old Sonics sides (many of which have been collected and made available to us geeks by the genius Norton Records label — bless you Billy and Miriam) simply blow the doors off of 90 percent of everything that ever claimed to be rock 'n' roll. In a word, these guys slayed.
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