Genres: Garage Rock Active: 60's
Shadows of Knight, Los Shakers, Los Gatos, Plan 9, Zakary Thaks, The Gonn, The Grodes, The Chartbusters, Larry & the Blue Notes, The Rising Storm, The Nightcrawlers, The Missing Links, Remains, New Colony Six, The Haunted, The Gants, The Barbarians, The Standells, The Sting Rays |  |
The best group that South America produced during the 1960s, and not merely a novelty item. Formed in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the mid-'60s, the group relocated to Argentina in 1966 after winning a contract with EMI Argentina. Their sole LP and a few singles show the group to possess an uncanny ability to imitate early Rolling Stones songs without being that obvious about it. Almost all of their material was original, sung in English by Polo Pereira, who (with a slight accent) emulates Mick Jagger's early snarl more accurately than anyone else from the time. You can detect apparent reference points to early Jagger/Richards tunes like "Off the Hook," and more sophisticated works like Aftermath ("Empty Harem" is complete with a "Paint It Black"-like guitar).
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