Gonn - Don't Need Your Lovin' / Death of an Angel

Formed in the summer of 1966, in Keokuk, Iowa, GONN played and practised and hung out together and tried their best to be a bunch of controversial, smart ass punks on a mission to be the next big thing. Opening for bands like The American Breed, The Trolls, and The Mauds, and getting into trouble for hanging a Nazi flag on stage behind the band. They performed many of the top songs of the day, as was required back then from teen bands playing local shows, taking songs they’d heard played by the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Standells, etc, as well as inserting a few original numbers that were far wilder than anything the above-mentioned could imagine.“We got Don’t Need Your Lovin’ from the Chocolate Watch Band,” says GONN bassist Craig Moore, “who got it from The Kinks, who got it from Ricky Nelson, who got it from Elvis Presley, who got it from Kokomo Arnold, so I’d say we are in good company on this track.” Gonn only had one solitary single released back in the mid-1960s - an amazing song called Blackout of Gretely, on the local Emir label. This was later re-issued on one of the long-running volumes in the Pebbles series, making the band more famous than they ever were whilst they were still together. Another selfpenned song, Doin’ Me In, was scheduled to be their second single. However, their performance was just too unhinged for their times and the release was shelved. The song later appeared on the Nuggets CD box set. Don’t Need Your Lovin’ was recorded during this same period, late 1966. Though most well known by the Chocolate Watch Band, through their live performance in the film Riot on Sunset Strip, this version could have been produced by no one else other than GONN – it’s teen garage punk with everything turned up to 10. One of the toughest garage bands of their time, with manic screams, raw, throat-shredding vocals, fuzzed-out guitar, out-of-control echo and crazed lyrics, no one else could come close to the intensity of these kids.

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