![]() ![]() While tiny Autumn Records could never fully capitalize on their success, the Beau Brummels did achieve enough notoriety to appear in films and television shows. They held their own against Southern California groups like the Byrds, the Standells, and the Electric Prunes (who were marrying their garage rock to liturgical music in one of the most esoteric experiments of the era). ![]() In 1965, they recorded their breakout hit, “Laugh Laugh,” with a kid named Sly Stewart, later known as Sly Stone. Long before the San Francisco rock explosion in the late ’60s shot the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane to national prominence, they were gigging around the Bay Area as one of the first American bands to respond to the British Invasion. The Beau Brummels didn’t invent country-rock in the 1960s, although they did help bring it into being. Similarly, its sub-genres and sub-sub-genres in the late 1960s weren’t inventions, more like waves swelling and cresting through pop culture. ![]() Rock wasn’t an invention, not like television or the telephone or the automobile or the atomic bomb. Rather, it is the product of all those people and more - all conduits for larger cultural ideas and desires. It’s not the product of Elvis Presley or Sam Phillips, nor of Jackie Brenston or Louis Jordan. Instead, it germinated and mutated and mushroomed and erupted. Rock ‘n’ roll, like most complex sounds and genres and world-conquering forces, wasn’t actually invented. Don’t answer that: It’s a trick question. ![]()
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