Garage Rock

A raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the 1970s, some critics referred to the style as punk rock, the first form of music to bear this description; although it is sometimes called garage punk, protopunk, or 1960s punk, the style has predominantly been referred to as garage rock. The term garage rock comes from the perception that many such performers were young and amateurish, and often rehearsed in a family garage. The performances were often amateurish or naïve, with typical themes revolving around the traumas of high school life and songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. Instrumentation was often characterised by the use of guitars distorted through a fuzzbox.

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