Tidal Waves

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地区: United States of America 美国

艺人介绍

by Bruce EderThe Tidal Waves were a quintet from the Detroit area made up of Bob Slap, Bill Long, Mark Karpinski, and Tom and Jon Wearing. The group was part of a vibrant southern Michigan band scene that also included acts like The Pleasure Seekers, The Underdogs, The Unrelated Segments, and The Rationals, as well as a young and punkier Bob Seger, playing clubs like the Hideout, the Crows Nest, The Hullabaloos (actually a chain of clubs), the Fifth Dimension, and the Pumpkin, scattered around the southern part of the state. The Tidal Wave were actually among the best of them, despite their youth (three of their were in junior high when they satarted out in 1965). They had a hard, aggressive attack on their instruments (which, surprisingly for a band as punk sounding as this one, included a saxophone, a la the Kingsmen) and three strong (if not necessarily good) singers, and a good sense of melody and what to do with it. Their debut single, Farmer John b/w She Left Me All Alone, was recorded in January of 1966 and made No. 1 on the local charts in Detroit later that year. The group, with some line-up changes (Dennis Mills came in on guitar, and also wrote their third single Action! (Speaks Louder Than Words)), released two more singles before calling it quits in 1967. Six of their songs were reissued by Collectables in 1998 paired off with the music of The Unrelated Segments on a CD called Where You Gonna Go?—amazingly, good as the Segments stuff is (and it is), the Tidal Waves are even better, with a sound vaguely similar to the early Who (check out the guitar break on Shes My Woman and see if it doesnt remind you of The Goods Gone). The only pity is that they never charted nationally—SVRs limited local distribution made that impossible to accomplish—and didnt leave behind enough for a full album.