VARIOUS ARTISTS
Friday At The Hideout (Norton)
Reviewed by John Sekerka

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The Beatles may have been storming North America but the kids in suburban Detroit were eating up the rough and raw garage sounds coming out of a sweaty hall on Friday nights. The primal sounds of The Rolling Stones, Pretty Things, and Kingsmen ruled. Local bands sprang up and took up the cause. The highschoolers finally had a place to hang out, and a scene was born. Bands like Doug Brown and the Omen, Pleasure Seekers and Mushrooms are more famous for spawning rock legends Bob Seger, Suzie Quatro and Glenn Frey, but back in the mid sixties they were just some of the local bands that graced the sweaty stage of the Hideout. In fact the cream band of the scene was the Underdogs, whose killer single names this superb comp. Another in the long line of regional obscurities brought back to life lovingly by the crack staff at Norton records.

© 2002 - John Sekerka