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Garage Band

By Dave White, About.com

The Standells personified Garage Rock

(Courtesy Barry Wickham)
Definition: Garage bands played mainly to local audiences, recorded as cheaply as possible, and usually did most of their rehearsals in a band member’s garage. Its greatest success came when record labels produced compilations of singles recorded by various garage bands.
Also Known As: Garage Rock
Examples:
The Standells, The Sonics, Question Mark and the Mysterians

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