[Ads-l] Antedating of "Garage Band"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are citation details based on scans in the Internet Archive.

Date: March 18, 1971
Issue Number 77
Periodical: Rolling Stone
Section: Records
(Review by John Mendelsohn of the album Long Player by the group Faces)
Quote Page 41, Column 2
Publisher: Straight Arrow Publishers, San Francisco, California
Database: Internet Archive (scans)

[Begin excerpt]
On the former the group is content to faithfully recite the original
arrangement, which act, in these dark days of Blood, Sweat & Tears,
Keith Emerson, and every last punk teenage garage band having its Own
Original Approach, is awfully refreshing. Here a monstro climax seems
to be forewarned by the group's stopping three-quarters of the way
through only to pick up again, but it thankfully never materializes.
[End excerpt]

Bill's citation is intriguing. It appears that the name of a band in
1969 was "THE GARAGE BAND".

Garson


On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 8:37 AM Shapiro, Fred
<00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> Sorry about my previous version of this posting, I am having a lot of problems with my email.
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> garage band (OED 1974)
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> 1971 Rolling Stone 18 Mar.
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> These dark days of Blood, Sweat & Tears, Keith Emerson, and every last punk teenage garage band having its Own Original Approach.
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> NOTE:  I am taking this citation from a Rolling Stone website that does not supply page numbers.
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> Fred Shapiro
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