The Sonics

Yeah.

But, you know, you have the Sonics, right? Question Mark and the Mysterians.

A lot of bands

before.

That's a great one.

And then the Sonics from 1966, The Witch, if you like the garage rock.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Which I haven't listened to, but there we go.

The other two I'll note is the MC5 had 53 years between high time and heavy lifting, and the Sonics had 48 years between introducing the Sonics and This Is The Sonics.

So I had a great time sort of investigating that.

Good research there.

Ah, there you go.

That's the Sonics and the classic Strychnine, as he says.

I call it Strychnine in England because I'm English.

But yeah, Strychnine, that's a track off their album, The Sonics.

It's just called The Sonics.

And it's, oh no, it's Here Are The Sonics.

Ah, there you go.

See, I'm incorrect.

My next one.

The Sonics.

One of our favorite bands ever.

I don't know if that's true.

So Dusty Watson is the one.

Now, he did a little, he did a stint, like a decade stint in the Sonics.

Yeah, Dusty was a Sonic for a long time.

So Sonics go back, what, to early 60s, right? 64 is maybe the first release for the Sonics.

Is there

a version of that band still around? They

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

And, uh, we have done this band before.

We've done The Sonics before, but the song we haven't done is the one you're about to hear, and it's Psycho.

[drum roll] Oh, baby, you're driving me crazy.

I said, baby, you're driving me crazy.

... with the, the, the reason for the screaming, for sure.

This has gotta be one of the best vocal performances of, uh, of a rock and roll song.

Well, okay, so we've done a bio of The Sonics, but you, you probably did a little research on... 'Cause I never knew, there's actually quite, uh, like a relatively interesting story behind this, this song that I never knew.

Oh, what- whatever it is, I don't know what it is.

There's this old, uh, blues song and I think it's maybe based off of, uh, another idea, but the idea-- the song is called Have Love, Will Travel.

Uh, it's been covered by The Sonics, by The Black Keys, by a lot of people.

Uh, I've been thinking about that with my jokes, like have jokes, will travel, because it's become really fun to see where my jokes work or s- to see how my jokes work to completely different audiences and also to challenge myself to, hey, if this isn't working, what can I do to try to reach these different audiences? Because when I look back at even just my month of September, the difference in the audiences that I performed for, for was so vast, and I had success with a lot of them, and then with some not, not as much.

But trying to see what can I do for the audiences that, that weren't as easy.

We needed the loose and raw garage rock of the 1960s.

You know, The Troggs and The Sonics and The Kingsmen.

We had to have bands like The Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5 with their non-conformist and confrontational stuff.

We needed The Who and their aggression, their volume, their destruction.

I mean, obviously, they've called the song Nitroglycerine.

It's not too far away from the Sonics, right? Yeah.

yeah straight nines right i'm assuming it's a reference to that so but um it's that's great stuff some great choices alistair enjoyed this kind of trek through we might do more of these uh like laid

back it's the reason why i didn't listen to blurring aversus very