GONN Interview and Live Performance of Blackout in Gretely and Doin Me In

If you own the Nuggets box set you may know this band from Keokuk Iowa and their contribution to the set Blackout of Gretely. If you don't know what Nuggets is, it was a collection of music recorded in the original "punk" era complied by Lenny Kaye, guitarist for the Patti Smith group. The first version was released in the early 70's and was released again with new material in the late 1908's. You can read more about it here.

Gonn (who was included on the second release of Nuggets) formed and recorded a few songs and played a few gigs in the mid 60's and they probably thought that was the end of their carreer as a band. Not an a-typical garage band story. Well several years later--nearly 20 in fact there was a resurgence of interest in mid 60's Garage Rock and collectors snapped up almost any recording they could find of a lot of these mostly unknown acts from the 60's. Blackout of Gretely was considered a gem of the era and soon Craig Moore began getting people showing up at his house looking for copies of it.

I got the chance to catch up with Gonn at a reunion show that they played here in St. Louis.

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• Gonn
• Off Broadway
• lofistl
• Garage Rock
• Blackout in Gretely

[mewrth]

geez! the drums still sound the same after 45 years! love that tagaduguduh! same amps, same organ, same people, gosh! talk about a reunion. They didn't take a single wrinkle (at least soundwise) absolutely awesome!

[5WE11]

cool  ☻

[PushinDad]

I need to make a correction - do not have a 45 of " Doin' Me in ", it is a 45 of " Come with Me

( To The Stars) ",

[PushinDad]

Still a fan after all these years! Followed these guys around the Tri State area, went to school with several of them. Have a 45 of " Blackout" autographed by Gabel - well played - and a 45 of

" Doin' Me In" plus there LP release. Keokuk was blessed with several good band in the 60s, but Gonn drew the crowds!

[Mike4830]

You guys are still awesome after all of these years!! Don't ever quit!!!

Your biggest fan

Mike Golliher

[judasretro]

AWESOME!!! Still got it, which is so good to hear. Most bands from that era reuniting don't sound this good. This was a treat, hope to catch these guys live some time. Any tours in Scandinavia some time soon?

[virmico]

WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Ya' doin' me in...PRIMITIVE!!!

[mbrand19971]

This is the best garage-grunge song I heard in a long time and this band although never officially released the song they did a acetape of the song which may had been the only copy that excisted and the Fuzztones recorded that song. This is the best rendition GONN has ever did and that song fucking rocks

[PeterCRissKISSgod]

do they have a website?

where can i find out where they're playing?