Back before YouTube or Xbox or Instagram, if you were bored, you went into the garage with three or four of your closest friends and wailed on instruments until you maybe got a gig playing at the high school talent show. The 60s and 70s were the age of the garage band, and honestly nothing has been as rock-and-roll since.
There’s something so cool about being able to discover these bygone bands who never really made it, but still poured their heart and soul into their work. You may not be able to hear their music on Spotify, but you can still feel their determination and just-plain-coolness radiating off of these photos from the 1960s and 70s. Check out these pictures from when even wasting time was productive.
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1970s high school garage band
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The Modern Lovers performing in a garage, 1972
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“1975 High School Dance band, Tremor.”
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Rock band from 1970 called The Cryptic Candle
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“My dad is sitting in the van seat. Part of a punk band in the 70's - Gino and the Sharks”
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“The Cyrkle of Suonds”, a garage band from San Antonio, 1966. Before spell check was invented.
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American garage band The Measles performing in Kent, Ohio, 1965
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Early garage band, The Night Riders, performing at a high school in Mississippi, 1961
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Youth garage band named “The Dark Ages”, circa 1966
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Another photo of the Pleasure Seekers, 1960s
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Garage band in Huntington Beach, CA with an upside down drum player, 1974
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High school garage band in mid-1960s Detroit
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“My Aunt's garage band from the 1960's”
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1970s high school garage band
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“The Trolls” band practice, 1967
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“Dad’s garage band 1970. Still has that same guitar!”
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“My mom's all girl rock band in the 60's.”
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“My dad's band, circa 1960's” – The Zircons
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“My dad and his band in the late 60's at their practice/jam house in the country”
