Artist
The Sonics
The Sonics is a garage rock artist from Tacoma, WA formed in 1960. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Garage Rock · Tacoma, WA · Best garage rock albums
- 20
- Releases
- 1965–2022
- Active years
- 1960
- Formed
Artist
The Sonics is a garage rock artist from Tacoma, WA formed in 1960. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Garage Rock · Tacoma, WA · Best garage rock albums
Most popular
Here Are The Sonics
1965
Introducing the Sonics
1967
Fire and Ice II - the 'Lost' Tapes
1996
Night Beats play The Sonics' 'Boom'
2019
Live At Easy Street
2016
This Is the Sonics
2015
The Sonics Boom
2013
Unreleased
2012
The Sonics Meet Charlie & The Tunas
2010
Busy Body!!! Live In Tacoma 1964
2007
The Savage Young Sonics
2006
Maintaining My Cool
1991
Boom
1966
The Sonics are a garage rock band formed 1960 in Tacoma, Washington, United States, the band’s original members were Gerry Roslie (vocals, piano, organ), Larry Parypa (guitar), Andy Parypa (bass), Rob Lind (saxophone) and Bob Bennett (drums). The band’s loud, powerful sound is often considered to be extremely influential on the later psychedelic and punk genres. Forming in the wake of the early-’60s success of local favorites The Kingsmen and The Wailers (whose Etiquette label they recorded for), the Sonics combined classic Northwest-area teen band raunch with early English band grit (particularly influenced by The Kinks), relentless rhythmic drive, and unabashed ’50s-style blues shouting for a combination that still makes their brand of rock & roll perhaps the raunchiest ever captured on wax. Lead singer Gerry Roslie was no less than a white Little Richard, whose harrowing soul-screams were startling even to the Northwest teen audience, who liked their music powerful and driving with little regard to commercial subtleties. With hit after hit on the local charts (and influencing every local band that ever took the stage), the band inexplicably was never able to break out nation…
