Tidal Waves

The Tidal Waves were a quintet through the Detroit area composed of Bob Slap, Costs Long, Tag Karpinski, and Tom and Jon Wearing. The group was section of a captivating southern Michigan music group picture that also included works just like the Pleasure Seekers, the Underdogs, the Unrelated Sections, as well as the Rationals, and a young and punkier Bob Seger, playing night clubs just like the Hideout, the Crows Nest, the Hullabaloos (in fact a string of night clubs), the Fifth Sizing, as well as the Pumpkin dispersed across the southern area of the condition. The Tidal Waves had been in fact one of the better of these, despite their youngsters (three of these had been in junior high if they began in 1965). That they had a hard, intense attack on the instruments (which, amazingly for a music group as punk sounding as that one, included a saxophone, ? la the Kingsmen), three solid (if definitely not “great”) performers, and an excellent feeling of melody and how to proceed with it. Their debut one, “Farmer John” b/w “She Still left Me ALONE,” was documented in January of 1966 and produced number 1 on the neighborhood graphs in Detroit afterwards that season. The group, with some lineup adjustments (Dennis Mills arrived in on acoustic guitar, and also published their third solitary “Actions! (Speaks Louder Than Terms)”), released two even more singles before phoning it quits in 1967. Six of their tunes had been reissued by Collectables in 1998 combined off using the music from the Unrelated Sections on the CD known as Where You Gonna Proceed?. As amazingly, great as the Sections’ stuff is usually (which is), the Tidal Waves are better still, with a audio vaguely like the early Who (browse the acoustic guitar break on “She’s My Female” and find out if it generally does not remind you of “The Good’s Eliminated”). The just pity is usually that they by no means charted nationally — SVR’s limited regional distribution produced that impossible to perform — and didn’t keep behind plenty of for a complete album.