Garage rock (revival)

The garage rock revival is a musical phenonemon largely influenced by the original garage rock of the 1960s. Its earliest roots can be traced to the early 1970s, following the release of

The garage rock revival is a musical phenonemon largely influenced by the original garage rock of the 1960s. Its earliest roots can be traced to the early 1970s, following the release of Nuggets in 1972 and continues to this day through the Western World as modern youngsters continue to pay tribute to a vanquished golden age of rock and roll that was 1960s garage rock.

The first garage rock revival occurred in the mid-1970s, when bands such as The Dictators, DMZ, The Hypstrz and The Fleshtones emulated the spirit, look, and sound of sixties garage rock. Several of the "punk" bands that emerged in the later seventies, notably The Ramones, were heavily influenced by the sixties garage acts, as were proto punk bands of the early '70s such as Detroit Iggy and The Stooges and The New York Dolls. Iggy had even been in a mid-sixties, Detroit garage band, The Iguanas, who released a version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" in 1966 and recorded many other songs that fit within the genre.