Seriously, that drummer... killin' it. I mean, they're all killin' it, but that drummer... reeeeaaallly killin it.

@supermamamaxi

7 жыл бұрын

My friend, he is the world's finest! A wood chopping festival! John Bonham who?

@skylarsummers2577

7 жыл бұрын

Josh G I saw The Sonics in March when they headlined for Robert Plant. They were pure energy! My husband walked out of the concert wanting to resurrect his old high school garage band! Seriously, young musicians and bands could learn so much from them. And yeah, the drummer never quits!

@slint69

7 жыл бұрын

He has to. One can not simply take the place of Bob (Boom, Boom) Bennett, without working for it.

@daevidharvey7113

6 жыл бұрын

How cool is that of Robert to have The Kings of Rock open his show !?!? Very cool indeed

@ghostdog7575

6 жыл бұрын

Dude... he is Dusty Watson of Slacktone! Of course he is killin it... he is one of the best drummer in surf/garage/punk of all times... search for him... i really meant it...

You hit middle-age and begin to think "I'm getting too old to be a rock musician...maybe I should hang it up" and then you see The Sonics.

@sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574

4 жыл бұрын

Hell noooo...you're NEVER too "old" to rock...you get "old" when you STOP rockin.

@deanfairman9374

4 жыл бұрын

Super Awesome 😉👏👍

@hippojuice23

3 жыл бұрын

Or Guided by Voices!

@jayrock99

3 жыл бұрын

Music is timeless. My 19 year old son keeps telling me I'm too old for music.

@Captain_Aardvark

3 жыл бұрын

Most musicians never rock hard at any age though

The secret of staying young forever, just a Kick ass drummer and steady basslines.

@AudioFileZ

2 ай бұрын

As good a formula for the elixir of youth I've heard. Amen.

0:00 cinderella 3:52 money 6:42 he's waiting 10:21 boss hoss 12:39 keep a knockin' 15:18 you get your head on backwards 19:29 have love will travel 22:22 leaving here 25:51 the hard way 28:29 psycho 31:18 sugaree 33:58 be a woman 36:33 the witch 39:34 i don't need your doctor

@jaceyp.8457

7 жыл бұрын

+LostTrack01 but not the times.

@israelduchementmachin4107

7 жыл бұрын

such a BAND!!

@antoinemorelguitar3553

7 жыл бұрын

giorgio parenti thank you

@merlincawagasmendoza615

7 жыл бұрын

Thx. Giorgio...practical information.

@daveinindy

6 жыл бұрын

No "Strychnine"?!?!

I love that people are discovering the Sonics here.

@GoldTopSlinger

7 жыл бұрын

Me too. Kinda brings a happy tear.

@sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574

4 жыл бұрын

I know right! I play them on our FM (and live streaming) radio show, The Church of Rock. We play ALL genres. Check it out sometime @ www.kskq.org or if you're in s.OR/n.CA, 89.5/94.1 on FM radio. We play all the awesome stuff you never hear on the radio.

I still remember very well, it was in 1972 in Paris (France), I was a kid and I asked my older brother: Elvis, The Stones, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, but tell me, what is Rock N Roll?. He came back with a vinyl 45 rpm, put it on the record player and... "Have Love will travel" changed my life, my vision of Rock. I never got over it. Thanks to all of you guys for this incredible performance. You are amazing. Cheers. Zep.

To see these old timers knock seven shades of shite out of these songs is a joy to behold. A visceral life-affirming rock n roll feast - god bless em.

This is the sound a lot of bands from the past 20 years have been trying to duplicate. The originals here crushing those bands over 60 years later

@marshallemmet1366

3 жыл бұрын

They had a couple tricks up their sleeve, one of them was having more than just guitars, bass, and drums.

@mattyo71

Жыл бұрын

Other tricks include no autotune, no quantization, or corporate record labels that know nothing about music.

best drummer ive ever seen bar none . never heard of him till today and im 65 years old!great stuff Dusty so nice meeting you!...kingarthur

I saw them about 10 years ago in Melbourne, OZ. I was in the punk scene the right though the 80s and still go to see lots of gigs of all sorts of different stuff. Anyway we went to see the Sonics not sure what to expect, as we're thinking these guys are getting on a bit. Well it was one of the best gigs weve ever seen. They rock hard. Hang your ageism at the door and be prepared for a lesson in garage rock .

This combination of special guests, original members and (comparatively) youthful replacements totally rock the joint at Easy Street Records. If watching/listening to these Sonics fails to raise your blood pressure or get you fired up, see your Doctor (or maybe undertaker) immediately---'cause there's something terribly wrong with you. This is what actual Rock And Roll played with passion by a bunch of sweaty guys who don't give a damn about the year on their birth certificates is all about. If just the audio/video of this event rocks this hard, imagine what it was like to be in the room!

I hope the audience fully appreciates how bloody lucky they are to be there with these guys playing their asses off!

Imagine a show featuring original garage rock bands like The Sonics and The Kinks as well as the new age garage bands like Oh Sees, Ty Segall and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. What a show that would be!

Is it normal that this video made me cry? Jesus, the power of rock is a mighty thing.

@UberLummox

4 жыл бұрын

You're not alone in that first sentiment my friend!

@nic-ci_66-77

4 жыл бұрын

@@UberLummox sure it is..

@nic-ci_66-77

3 жыл бұрын

Sure rock'n'roll is somehow the most spiritual thing in this society we live

@cristianmorattivolodka8857

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@shaunbanksmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Dudeeee, I'm crying tooo!

More than 70 years old, absolutely fabulous! Glory to the Sonics!

Yep, they still fucking rock.

This was such a great show to be at. I don't think people realize how out of control this kind of music would be in 1966 when they started.

@idontcareanymore7988

3 жыл бұрын

They started in 63 Even crazier

@hobochurch3496

29 күн бұрын

@@idontcareanymore7988

Holeee Shit! I'm 59 and I just found The Sonics thanks to a used record store in Salem, MA. Good God.

It is May 28, 2024. A gammer budy and good friend told me to check out The Sonics. So i did. I have a music studio with 1200 cd's. Not alot, but I bought my first album at 13, Badfinger Straight Up. It was 1972. At 1, I bought my first stereo system. Wasn't the greatest, but good quality for what i payed. I never hear of this band, though I do recognize a couple of songs. I did it, totally. These guy a burnin' it awesome. A new group to check out, and I'm diggin it.

My God! I'd dare any band to try & follow this performance up today!!!

I am thankful to have seen & heard the sonics live at least 3 times, once in 65 & twice in 66. They opened the show at Green Lake AQA THEATRE with you got your head on backwards & the guy on harmonica playing down on one knee. They were GREAT !

I've watched this on repeat all day long. Tomorrow, it shall happen again.

@HungryH1951

5 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to it. I kick myself for missing them at the Neptune theater in Seattle about a year ago. Who knows when they will be back around again.

UnFREAKINGbeleivable. Early 2000s our lead singer Nick Curran sounded like both Sonics' singers. *Thank you* *Sonics* and KEXP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Love from the 1st. Portland; Portland Maine ~ ...wow...

This is el primo example of how incredibly important it is to have a kick ass drummer. The songs and singing is great, but if the drummer isn't on THAT level, it would never work. Rock and roll has always always been a drummers medium

@HungryH1951

5 жыл бұрын

It all ties in. Great drummer, a guitar player that knows how to rock, singer who belts it out, all of it. A combination of which no one part can be left out. Put them all together and you got a rock n roll band that kicks ass.

@UberLummox

4 жыл бұрын

@@HungryH1951 Yes. It's all about the 'attack', no matter what instrument. Drums do seem particularly important...perhaps I'm a bit biased. ;-)

@HungryH1951

4 жыл бұрын

@@UberLummox The heavy emphasis on the drums, particularly the hard pounding bass drum,were (are) a key part of the Sonics sound. But all of their instruments hit it hard. The first time I heard the Sonics version of Louie Louie back in about 1966 I was blown away. Much harder edge and completely different sound than the Kingsmen or PR&R. I was really proud that the Sonics were a NW band.

@leemark63

2 жыл бұрын

The hardest working people in music. Drummers.

@TheUnwritersOfficialChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@leemark63 So true, thanks for that!!

never heard of this band,just came across them surfing, EFFING BRILLIANT,

@HungryH1951

2 жыл бұрын

Seattle, Tacoma, Portland 1965-67 everybody had heard of them there and then. NW rock n roll.

I've been an indie rock lover for decades. How could I live so long without knowing them? This is clearly one of the best rock'n roll bands ever.

Can’t believe how good they are after so long.

I'm 32, born in 1984, way past the time when these guys started. I just discovered them today and they are freaking AWESOME!!!

@PatrickBaele

Жыл бұрын

You bet they are and I’m from ‘61 !

My favorite to play on the drums is the Witch, it rocks off the charts. The Sonics are simply EPIC.

KEXP sound engineer going above and beyond as usual!

Tacoma/Seattle's first punk band still got it 50 years later!

@callousphysicaltheatre8244

6 жыл бұрын

Tacoma's band...not Seattle.

@KilluaZoldyck-lv9mj

5 жыл бұрын

first was The Wailers

@HungryH1951

5 жыл бұрын

Tacoma is right although in the 60's The Sonics played plenty of gigs in Seattle and all over the state of WA and Oregon. Tacoma had something about it that brought out the best in NW rock musicians. Rockin Robin Roberts and also the Wailers (had to change their name to The Fabulous Wailers due to competing bands with similar name) were from Tacoma. Rockin Robin recorded Louis Louis with the Wailers and I think it is the best version out there. Tacoma was the $hit when it came to NW rock n roll.

@ajgree6

4 жыл бұрын

@@callousphysicaltheatre8244 Fuckin' A

The drummer is having such a great time!

I just wanted to listen to 'the witch', but couldnt help myself watching the whole show. Hats off to the sonics

This may well be the best performance I've seen

The Black Keys and The White Strips have both saluted this Legendary Band.

@ismaelmerk7042

2 жыл бұрын

nirvana

That`s music ! One of my favorite live performances.

For some reason I fell over the song Shot Down. Couldn't stop smiling when those drums hit. Now I found this, so raw, so tight. And the drummer is out of this world.

Man, rocking it, not kicking ass as you get older is a wasted life. Love these guys.

Wow! Why aren't these guys more famous?

@albertgt3007

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's the biggest injustice in music history!

@1BRTGong

3 ай бұрын

Para mí son famosos.

@AudioFileZ

2 ай бұрын

They're getting famous here. This smokes just about the whole current music scene.

Oh how I remember them! I was friends with Jerry Roslie and Bob Bennett back then. Saw them all the time playing all the dance venues and community halls all over the Northwest WA ...they were kick ass then, no other band sounded like them. When this was filmed 2015 they could still lay it down although Jerry could not scream like he could back in 63, 64, 65 got to give him his due cuz he was 71 when this was filmed.

All the ho hum artists in the rock and roll HOF -- and then there's these guys!!!!! Sonics for HOF!!

What a gig... If these guys can rock at that age, I can rock too. If these guys can rock at that level, I still have many years to come banging my head while I scream "Have Love, Will Travel" or "Psycho". The Sonics are definitely one of the greatest bands ever. I love this concert.

Everybody who dislikes this video doesn't know the meaning of real authentic music

@tuffsheddweller

11 ай бұрын

The dislikes are Lil Nas fans

@AudioFileZ

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, if you don't like this I don't want to be your friend. Lol.

LONG LIVE THE SONICS !!!!!

pure garage band !

@PatrickBaele

8 жыл бұрын

+Eric Parisot originators of both garage & punk

this great and very important band in history of music are from Tacoma, south from Seattle and are over 55 years old... and still rocks heavier then back in 1965 !!

These guys need more credit, they're one of the foundations of rock and roll

Rock n Roll rebels and heroes forever !

Drummer is bringing the heat! Love it.

@ziggyramon2618

Жыл бұрын

I love Tne Sonic! In love with the first sound! The drummer is very very good. Gorgeous!

04:00 in the morning...always good time to listen Sonics!

Everything is melting in my existence

@chelseapoet3664

2 жыл бұрын

Put it in the fridge man

This makes me want to go out right now and get some Sonics records ! What an ass kickin' performance ! ✌ what a prenominal singer !!!

their music has this below the waist feel and simplicity that true rock n roll requires

Ooh how sacred was that hour,,,when my heros stood before me, in the old city of Vienna...and played the soundtrack of my life...

SUGAREE!! Charles Edward "Rusty" York (May 24, 1935 - January 26, 2014) was an American musician and singer, and member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He is mostly known for his rockabilly song "Sugaree".

Oh _SHIT_ do these guys rock. Proper, good old rock and roll. Awesome, awesome stuff.

The Sex Pistols went soft, but The Sonics are still living in '66

@neilus

8 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, with the reunion stuff?

@benwhackley

8 жыл бұрын

+Monkey Man that, and with the news that Johnny Rotten bought hundreds of dollars of in app purchases on an iPad game...

@foljs5858

8 жыл бұрын

That's a very punk thing to do!

@redshaftedflicker

7 жыл бұрын

you're comparing a joke band to a real band but yeah you're on point there no doubt.

@Itelkner

6 жыл бұрын

redshaftedflicker Neither the Sonics NOR the Pistols are a joke musically.

Garage rock from the US west coast in the purest style. Glory to the Sonics¡¡¡ I met this band when I was 24, and right now I'm 50. Last time I saw them was in 2016 in Gijón (Spain)... It was AWESOME¡¡¡

best rock n roll band ever , man, i can't enough of these guys ,just out of this world

I cannot believe I missed these guys in the 60's! The opening bars of "You Really Got Me' changed my life, and I would have LOVED them then. The Downliner Sect & The Pretty Things became my favourite's the, and to see the Sonics playing like this now ..oh Fuck it is just wonderful!!

Is there any better way to start Wednesday than find a great band like this one?

@iloveMRKO

4 жыл бұрын

Vítězslav Kalábek you’re just finding the sonics?

Great Band, they build a important part of Rock'n'Rolll history...

Queen at Wembley, The Who at Shea... and The Sonics at Easy Street.

@chuckabbate5924

6 жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah...

@mistamuthafuka

5 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was Grand Funk at Shea, The Who Live at Leeds...

@shruggzdastr8-facedclown

5 жыл бұрын

sublaimer: ...and Prince at the Super Bowl halftime show!

@TimDarlingboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistamuthafuka yeah...and The Beatles at Laurel Canyon...

@hippojuice23

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimDarlingboy Sheenix Yargamond at Fat Wong's Chinese Buffet and Lounge

I'm back on this video almost 100 times.. that's strange, it seems to me a new thing ever

to this day one of the best bands I've ever heard, great job guys!

When looking at the these guys, becoming 50 is no longer an issue !

Holy Moly, they are still in top form! Hope to catch them in LA this summer 2021. Guests were great!

Я бы ставил Лайк каждый раз когда слушаю! Невероятно современно и мощно! А ведь это композиции 60-х годов!

I just found this and I'm floored. Finding pure gold concerts every now and then on YT is like fishing and catching a prize and this concert qualifies. Being 62 and growing up with some truly fantastic rock music I thought it was close to being done at this late date. The Sonics here have turned all that up-side down. This is exactly what rock and roll is about and should sound like at it's most primal inner-core. That this amazing example exists should be like a siren's call to the Youth of America: get back to the heart and soul of reall rock and roll. It doesn't get better than this.

The greatest Rock and Roll band of all time.

I'm on an annual trip up to Washington state, so I just HAD to blast me some Sonics!

drummer is off the charts

man iv'e searched for the sonics live performances a few times the past few years idk why this is showing up just now but i'll take it!

can't remember how i got to this one, but hot fucking shit i'm glad i did. hats off to these fellas, great band

@389383

8 жыл бұрын

+stryk187 That's the best thing about KZread!

@daevidharvey7113

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@daevidharvey7113

6 жыл бұрын

& exposing the lameness of the liberal left

Damn. Just...damn. Literally Freaking Amazing. Y'all were a bunch of lucky dogs to see them live. At any time.

even when they're old and the technology is modern, they do well at creating the raw sound. that certainly says some

F**cking AWESOME ! This proves you're NEVER too old to ROCK !!!

The sonics are so ridiculously underrated. They inspired so many and dont get there due.

That was Amazin! Gerry's vocals.Got to be one of the best of all times!!! And d'you know what's good. It's like the 70's thing where the songs and sounds came first and the names of the bands or musicians passed by but the songs were large. What a sound to come out of those guys!

You're never to old to be amazing.

This is Awesome!!!! Still sound like back in the day. Full of youthfull energy.

I love how the guitar player plays the same guitar every song. Some guitar players use 7 or 8 (or more) different guitars during a concert. Is that really Necessary? Evidently not when your playing kick ass rock n roll. AC/DC was just like the Sonics using same guitars for the whole concert.

I seriously can't get enough of these guys. Plus they make a kick-ass sountrack for me to run to.

These guys never stopped rocking!

I grew up in Mannette.2 and a half blocks away from Parypas.Heard the Sonic at 11 years old in their house.

That guitarist is a tone lord

Still the rage, still the flame. Wow ! and yes, drummer is sooo wild. Amazing.

I fucking love these dudes! The whole show made me smile.

wow what a blast,, check that guy sing... incredible,, great guitar,,tight band,,the drummer is wild. the whole band is kickin ass.. not many bands can do this. ENERGY Rockn Roll Madness

Love em!!!! These guys rock!!!! They can run rings around any of today’s bands. This is how it’s done!!!!🎼🎸🥁🎹🎷💜💜💜Yeah🤙🤙🤙

I want to be like them when I grow old lol, they still kick ass like nobody else

Drummer having the time of his life, guaranteed

Oh man! That sound they got. The Sonics can sure rock a house, Hooorah for The Sonics!!!!

One of my favorite band... AMAZING performance

Perhaps the most exciting version of Boss Hoss ever..

Wow! These guys still rock. Had to amp it all the way :)

cannot describe how glad I am that youtube algorithm came me here ignored this performance, these songs were my favorite when I was a student

Wow....! That blew out the cobwebs. Amazing stuff

Jeeeeeez, they're still murdering.

Shocked the hell out of me...The Sonics as great as back in 1964 at their peak.