The Sonics Return!

Here's another report from SPB's occasional (and only!) correspondent, Andy Miracle.

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Arguably the greatest garage/punk/rawk/r&b band ever, Tacoma’s The Sonics played their first gigs in nearly four decades when they recently headlined the opening and closing nights of Cavestomp 2007 (The Garage Rock Festacular) in New York. By all accounts they gave amazing, scorching performances and Gerry Roslie still has his awesome blowtorch of a voice.

This video, though not the best of quality, gives a pretty good idea of how hard they rocked. As of yet there are apparently no plans for any further shows but wouldn’t it be great if they played somewhere in the Sea/Tac area?

The Iconics... how did I miss this?

How on earth did I miss this!! Holy crap! A local all-star tribute apparently just took place like two weeks ago. There was a piece in the Seattle PI about it, but I didn't see it until now.

From that article:

When Seattle all-star band the Iconics takes the stage for tonight's Pike Place Market Centennial Days concert, they'll be performing "the songs that made Seattle great," says band member Dave Dederer.

The band was made up of Dave Dederer and Andrew McKeag (PUSA), Mike Musburger (Posies, Fastbacks, Sgt Major and others), Jeff Fielder (Sera Cahoone) and Ty Bailie (Dept of Energy), and they were joined by random people throughout the set.

Here's some footage of them doing "The Witch" by the Sonics.



And here's their version of The Heat(er)s, "I don't like your face:"