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The Witch

Album: Introducing The Sonics

Released: Mar 21, 2011

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Genre: Garage / Rock / Roots Music
Location TACOMA, Washington, Un
Profile Views: 172048
Last Login: 6/21/2011
Member Since 6/11/2008
Website thesonicsboom.com
Record Label The Sonics Record Co.
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BOOKING INFO: thesonicsboom@comcast.net www.thesonicsboom.com Follow us on Twitter @realsonicsboom Facebook - The Official Sonics Page .... ...... .... ...... .... ...... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ...... ..............
Members
Jerry Roslie, keyboards/vox; Larry Parypa, guitar/vox; Rob Lind, saxes/harp/vox; Freddie Dennis, bass/vox; Ricky Lynn Johnson, drums/vox... .. {}.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. ....
Influences
.... ..The Sonics .. Review in BeatCrave.... The best thing Sunset Junction did this year was book The Sonics and that’s the complete truth. Although the headlining act, Built to Spill, was coming up, I was beginning to think the Tacoma-Washington-based band would hold the the largest crowd of the night. With all ages and fans of every sort, The Sonics played a fantastic set. One young fan even shouted “Turn that fucker up!”among the excitement. They played everything from “Louie, Louie” to “Psycho” to “The Witch,” and the crowd was just eating it up. Their dirty raw lyrics mixed in with their incredible musicianship on stage was almost too much to handle. After nearly four decades, The Sonics still had it. Saxophone, keys and harmonicas were put to their best use and it’s no wonder why they are considered to be one of the first punk rock groups to come out from the Pacific Northwest. With girls wanting to climb over the barricade, The Sonics proved they had right to be loved in the music community – for probably as long as they live....... ..........Concert review | Screams for the scary good Sonics at Halloween Paramount show...... Concert review by Patrick MacDonald: ..Seattle Times music critic.... The Sonics, the classic Northwest rock band, returned from the dead on Halloween night for a concert at Seattle's Paramount Theatre with Girl Trouble and Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden..... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .............. ...... ..........
Sounds Like
You better hear more!!! .. .. .. .. .. .. .... Have Love Will Travel in Athens, Greece 2009 .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... Louie Louie at The Paramount in Seattle 2008 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .... Have Love Will Travel - Cavestomp 2007- NYC .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .... The Witch - The Forum, London 2008 .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .... Psycho-A-Go-Go .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .... Cinderella - Sjock Festival 2008 .. .......... The main reason why Sonic is so high cred in the music scene is that they represent a good mix of cannon good own songs, and an ability to turn other people's classics to their own, "says Dyrnes. He points to songs like "Louie, Louie," "Have... Love Will Travel," "The Witch" and "Psycho" - songs that are etched in the cerebral cortex of any rock lover. .. -iTromso (July 2010) .......... City Arts Magazine - May/June 2008 Issue .. Cover – “MEET THE SONICS” “The Greatest Rock Band Ever!” .. ........ “The Beatles, by the way, were also fans of the Sonics, along with the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana.” “…their songs have been covered by Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, the Fall, Mudhoney, the Nomads and countless others.” Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart) ….by Charles Cross (Author, Jimi Hendrix – Room Full Of Mirrors; Kurt Cobain – Heavier Than Heaven) .. ........ The Independent, UK March 25 2008 - Review The Sonics/The Horrors, The Forum, LONDON “Rocks demonic upstarts are given a lesson in the dark arts” “Their brutal version of “Louie Louie” wipes the floor with the hundreds of other versions. “The Witch”, their first single, is, if that were possible, cruder, rougher, wilder still.” …by Pierre Perrone, Monday, 24 March 2008 .. ........ The Guardian UK - March 24, 2008 4 STARS, the forum London “The Sonics’ first British gig is a sell-out” “they still sound more savage than you might expect” “Anyone seeking evidence of the Sonics’ wide-ranging appeal need look no further than the queue for the bar: mods alongside rockers, balding record collectors, even evidence of the continued existence of the psychobilly, a punk/teddy-boy hybrid presumed extinct since the mid-1980’s. …by Alexis Petrids Monday March 24, 2008 .. ........ UNDER THE INFLUENCE “THE Sonics are by far the hardest-sounding ‘60’s band- it’s super-American music, about cars and girls and the basic pleasures of being a teenager, but to the 10th power. Like Chuck Berry, but even more intense” …Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, The Hives .. ........ Y! Music UK & Ireland The Sonics – Forum, London “when they deliver a scorching version of “Louie Louie” that pretty much invents the Stooges and MC5 on the spot, you know you’re in the presence of true greatness. Roll over Beethoven and tell Jack White the news: The Sonics still boom.” …by Ian Watson, Thursday March 27, 2008 .. ........ Evening Standard - thisislondon UK 4 STARS – The Forum – Review “the simple madness which inspired them is undimmed. This is the sound of planet rock in the early stages of creation” …by Pete Clark, March 25, 2008 .. ........ Baby Shambles – London “In Baby Shambles we all like different music, but the one band we all agree on unanimously are the Sonics” …Shambles’ bassist – Drew McConnell .. ........ LCD Soundsystems James Murphy (chanting….”The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics…” in the middle of his band’s song “Losing My Edge”) …excerpt quote – Pete Clark – Evening Standard 3/25/08 .. ........ “They’ve got the most amazing drum sound I’ve ever heard” – Kurt Cobain .. ........ Eagles of Death Metal - Magnet Magazine 79 Jesse Hughes Picks His Heaviest Albums - 1 Sonics BOOM (1966) “In my opinion, the Sonics are really the fathers of punk rock. They inspired the Stooges, the Hives directly lifted their riffs for Veri Vidi Vicious from the Sonics.” “Shot down” – “one of the greatest songs ever made” …Jesse Hughes School Of Rock – Magnet Mag 79 .. ........ SONICS in New York Warsaw Hall – November 2007 A Blog Review by Alex Scordelis “the Sonics who showed up at Cavestomp! turned out to be just as earth-shaking, bone-rattlin’, and eardrum-splitting as they were back when they were laying waste to dance halls across the Pacific Northwest in the 1960’s.” “Seeing the Sonics open with “He’s waitin’” ranks with my all-time favorite concert moments. It was a moment I had dreamed about for so long, that finally witnessing it gave me some wicked chills.” …Warsaw eye witness review - Alex Scordelis .. ........ The Cramps Influences: The Sonics..

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