THE REAL THINGS  While in high school, Chicago teenagers Robert Homa and John Kowalski of Haymarket Square had been in a garage rock band called the Real Things; the name was in honor of the British band the Pretty Things. Stanton Swihart notes in Allmusic about this predecessor band: “Not your typical amateurs, the Real Things actually played professional instruments and earned professional gigs until they disintegrated in 1967 due to the usual reasons of the season.” (June 2015) |