GONN 
On the Pebbles, Volume 2 LP is a song by a band called the Satans – yes, it’s true – and the song is called “Makin’ Deals”, so the name carried over into their music as well. The song is quite remarkable in anticipating the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” by several years; one of the lyrics is even: “Can you guess my name?” They only released the one single (no big surprise there). The parents of the bandmembers in the legendary Iowa garage-rock band GONN were not keen on their original name the Pagans; I can only imagine what this band’s parents must have thought. (July 2012) * * *
GONN is another legendary garage rock band; their amazing song “Blackout of Gretely” was slated to be included on the original Nuggets album but was omitted due to its length (4:29 – most garage rock tracks clock in at 3:00 or less). But Greg Shaw had included this song as a bonus track on the CD reissue on AIP Records of Pebbles, Volume 1 and also put their follow-up single “Doin’ Me In” on the Pebbles, Volume 10 CD. I had also acquired a retrospective album by GONN that was identified as Rough Diamonds, Volume 9; Rough Diamonds is a series of albums that Greg Shaw put out on Voxx Records by garage rock bands who had recorded more than just a few singles.
Even better was their 1995 reunion album – actually their first true album of any kind – GONN with the Wind that I have played over and over again. The Wikipedia article on GONN has had more additions and changes to it than most of these, but it is still largely my work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GONN . For whatever reason, the article on GONN took much longer to put together than most of the others. I had also just had an extended fight with the powers that be at Wikipedia over whether Milan was “notable” enough to warrant an article.
(September 2013) |
