Tony & The Bandits - It's A Bit of Allright

Ohio garage band on Shindig

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sixties
• 60's
• garage
• tv
• punk
• beat
• freakbeat

[KoivuTheHab]

Nice tune. I'd leave 'punk' out of the tags tho, this has nothing to do with punk.

[kingvidiot66]

In your opinion maybe, but most 60's geeks consider this garage punk, look it up.

[KoivuTheHab]

It's not an opinion, it's a fact.

[kingvidiot66]

In my opinion it's garage punk.

[cuzindavewilson]

Wow, flashback, high school friend Bobby Dudak (grannie glasses) on bass

[7arsehle6]

Saw The Bandits play at the Gentry Den, mid 60s, Middletown Ohio. Could tell their talent was great, and could go far into the beyond. The breakup was unfortunate. Thanks for this video and a trip down memory lane. Can more of the band members names be noted?

[nwa2664]

Stepping stones...Drummer Bill Albaugh and guitarist Bill Bartlett went on to form Lemonpipers (Green Tambourine), then Bartlett played lead guitar and sang Black Betty with Ram Jam. Not bad!

[iiCanibal]

@KoivuTheHab In Everyones opinion thats someone in my family that i just found out lol :P So i think its fine whatever it is!

[nickjames46]

the singer is a lennon type

[peace2baby]

Sounds more Folk-Rock-y to me--fun! 

[harvey1954]

No matter what you do, Freddie, point directly to the camera every five seconds if you want to be a star.

[12347771]

I remember this Shindig. 9th grade 1965. I thought...hmmm...a Beatle Guy, a Spoonful guy and a McGuinn guy (on bass). With a hack throwaway cliche of britspeak for the invasion influence, Cinncinatti, corn belt garage had it all over the scrub where I lived. Didn't someone here end up in the Raspberries? or The Gentrys???? Time loses all............love to you all....

[9graff9]

i say we build a damn time machine and go crash all these shindigs!!! whos with me!!!???

[evancasto]

HOLY SHIT! I love this band, and I live in CINCINNATi!!!!

[Niksgrammie]

I can't believe how far things.. have changed.. good to see it, I come back and listen every now and then..

[kingvidiot66]

This kind of music was being called / labelled punk in the early 70's before the Ramones, Sex Pistols etc. Check out some old issues of Bomp magazine. When the 70's punk thing came along the name was hi-jacked for the new movement. Hence the later classifications of 60's punk and then garage punk.

[Glendoras]

@KoivuTheHab Of course, you're right. It has been labeled as 60's garage punk later. Call it what you want, but people still refer to it as 60's garage punk and everyone knows what they are refering to. At the time it was probably refered to as Pop. Who really cares.

[KoivuTheHab]

@Glendoras There was no punk in the 60's, the term itself only described a genre in the early 70's. Punk and sixties have nothing to do with each other, there is no such thing as 60's punk or punk rockers.

[Glendoras]

@KoivuTheHab Well, they aren't the ultimate examples of sixties punk rockers, but they do not look very Mod either, at least not as sharp dressed as the Brit Mods of the same era... I understand your point of view, but to almost every sixties garage punk rock 45 theres a moody ballad on the flip (or vice versa). Anyway, it's a great tune!

[KoivuTheHab]

@Glendoras They weren't punks... More like mods really look at them(and listen). This is Garage Beat at best and I wouldn't even put it in that category. Way too melodic to be put in any of these genres.

[Glendoras]

@KoivuTheHab Punks who played rock and pop in their parents garage, of course it's GARAGE PUNK! ;-) It doesn't have to sound like Sex Pistols to be punk.

[robost]

I was joking, but thanks for the info.

[ekatona10]

@robost  That is BILL BARTLETT of the LEMONPIPERS (GREEN TAMBOURINE) in the glasses

[robost]

Is that Al Franken in the glasses?

[westrokker]

cherry pie was hit when I was in high school, maybe 69,or 70?

[cuzindavewilson]

Hey RRD,thanks for the tip on Dude Dudak.