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Friday, March 30, 2012

THE ZAKARY THAKS - BAD GIRL


This young band (singer Chris Gerniottis was 15 at the time of this release!) from coastal Corpus Christi, Texas whips up an incredible fury on their debut single, heard here. This track has been one of the most loved songs featured on the "Pebbles" series of garage/punk/psych records; a series which began in 1979.

Strongly influenced by the rougher edged UK bands, The Thaks even had the distinct pleasure of opening for their heroes The Yardbirds around the time of this release, which was originally pressed by a local label and picked up for national distribution by Chicago's Mercury label.

from 1966...

THE ZAKARY THAKS - BAD GIRL




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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the post. An all-time. balls out, garage punk fave.

Anonymous said...

the arrangement of this is brilliant: the little drum fill at the end of the solo and then the key change. It about gives me goosebumps.

Anonymous said...

The Zakary Thaks from Corpus Christi, Texas could have made it "big time" if they had been located in Houston and/or Dallas.
However, they were from Corpus Christi and never regretted it..

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