The Gants
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艺人介绍
Originally known as The Kingsman, The Gants were a garage rock band which was popular primarily during the 1960’s. The band was composed of lead singer Sid Herring, guitarist Johnny Freeman (aka Freakie), bass guitarist Vince Montgomery, and drummer Don Wood. It was formed in 1963, when the members were in high school.
The band started out playing cover songs at local dances in Greenwood, Mississippi, but as they began to expand into venues outside of town, Johnny Freeman, whose parents would not allow him to travel out of town, was replaced by Johnny Sanders. When Sanders joined the group, they changed their name to The Gants, so named after a popular brand of button-down shirts with a collar.
The Gants opened for The Animals in 1965 on their Florida tour. They also played with the Dave Clark 5 in Jackson, Mississippi, and The Yardbirds and The Box Tops in Memphis, Tennessee.
The bands vocalist, Sid Herring, wrote some original songs and in 1965, the band released its first single, a cover of Road Runner by Bo Diddley. The flip side of the record contained their original song, My Baby Don’t Care (Statue label). It was picked up by a major label (Liberty Records) and re-released later in the year.
Their first album was released on Liberty Records label in late 1965 – the album was titled Roadrunner. In 1966, another single was released by Liberty Records, entitled Little Boy Sad.
The band found time to tour and record during school vacations, but were restricted in their appearances. Their principal threatened to report them to the draft board if they took time off from school for a tour. The band had to cancel the tour.
In 1966, the band released two more album Gants Galore and Gants Again.
Sanders quit the band in the mid-1960’s to go to med school and was replaced by original guitarist Johnny Freeman. The band traveled to Hollywood, California in the summer of 1967, where they stayed for a couple of months. The band, except Herring, returned to Greenwood. Herring met and married his wife while in California, returning to Mississippi the following year, eventually moving to Memphis Tennessee.
The Gants kept a minor cult following despite their lack of hits. They remain popular with a number of their fans to this day. Their single Little Boy Sad was included on Oxford American magazine’s Southern Sample music CD.
The Gants reformed and began to play together again around 2005 to 2010.
Three of the original Gants have passed away. Bassist Vince Montgomery died in 2001; Don Wood in 2011; and Johnny Sanders in 2012.
On June 10, 2017 Sid Herring and Johnny Freeman of The Gants performed in Jackson, along with another Greenwood garage band, The Nurks, at Murrah High School’s 50th class reunion.
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