KILLER FUZZ GARAGE 45-Fifth Generation on IGL MINT

$ 100

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Jan 21, 2008 Sold Date

Jan 14, 2008 Start Date

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Fifth Generation
"Purple Haze/Carolyn"
IGL 155

Fifth Generation was a Carroll, Ia., band that was started by two lifetime friends in 1964. "They started out as The Dynamics and later became The Fifth Generation. Practice was usually from one to four times per week and their first song list included those great favorites like, "Louie, Louie", "Gloria" and "Hang On Sloopy." As time went on and the music got better they branched out into things like psychedelic, fuzz tone, echo and wah wah entered the picture. The core of the band from 1964 to 1967 was Gronstal on drums, Brenny on bass, Steve Volk on guitar and Daryl Stalzer on lead vocals. This lineup stayed intact until Charlie Ferguson was added as a keyboard player and vocalist in 1967. In late 1968 the group traveled to Milford, Ia., to record a 45 rpm with an original song written by members of the band called "Caroline". As the band had not given a whole lot of thought to the flip side, they decided on a little known tune by Jimi Hendrix called "Purple Haze". As Tom Tourville stated in his article on the band in ‘Twist and Shout’ magazine, "Little did these high schoolers realize they were about to record what is now considered worldwide as the finest garage cover treatments ever given to this classic Hendrix hit."