The Raik’s Progress

The Raik’s Improvement made just one single garage-psychedelic single, “Why Did You Rob Us, Tank?”/”Sewer Rat Like Chant,” in 1966. Although song game titles might cause you to believe the group dealt in weirdness such as early Moms of Invention or the Crimson Krayola, in fact the songs weren’t as unusual lyrically because the titles appeared to portend. The music, though, was pretty strange because of its period, with “Sewer Rat Like Chant” among the earlier types of raga-rock to filtration system into the garage area substratum. The much less distinctive, but nonetheless worthy, flip part, “Why Do You Rob Us, Container?,” had an identical strategy, but bore a far more audible folk-rock Byrds impact. Both sides had been reissued within the Sundazed Compact disc Sewer Rat Like Chant, which added ten previously unreleased live tunes from a 1966 concert, many of them bearing a far more standard English Invasion R&B impact from famous brands Them as well as the Pets. The Raik’s Improvement might be most widely known for including within their rates the teenaged Steve Krikorian, who in the past due ’70s and early ’80s would become better referred to as Tonio K. Back the 1960s, nevertheless, he was a vocalist and bassist because of this Fresno music group, which got a agreement with Liberty Information via a reference to Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville). Although they do some gigs in Hollywood and performed within the Fillmore Auditorium in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1966, they petered out in early 1967. Apart from Krikorian/Tonio K., the person in Raik’s Progress to be on to the best subsequent visibility within the music business was Duane Scott, who continued to are a saving engineer.