History of NW Rock "Just a whole bunch of fun"

Graham Reid of Elsewhere sez: Tom Dyer’s New Pagan Gods; History of Northwest Rock Vol 1 1959 – 1968: And more covers-cum-tribute. Anyone who has heard or read about the history of the rock, pop, soul and beyond out of the Pacific Northwest is impressed: the Sonics, the Kingsmen (Louie Louie), Paul Revere and the Raiders . . . Here Tom Dyer of Seattle’s prolific Green Monkey label (which we have mentioned often) hooks up with fellow travellers for often faithful, frequently enjoyable, always play-loud covers of the Sonics’ The Witch and You Got Your Head on Backwards, the Ventures’ Walk Don’t Run, the incredibly obscure Tiny Tony and the Statics (whose original I Wanna Hold Your Hand came out a year before the Beatles’ song with a similar title), Paul Revere’s classics Hungry and Just Like Me, the Fleetwoods’ Come Softly To Me and more. Louie Louie among them. With pointed liner notes (Dyer knew some of these characters or has a story to place them in context) this is just a whole bunch of fun. You still need to hear some of these originals of course, but these are delivered in the enthusiastic spirit of the Northwest garageband ethic.