Sonics - The Witch / Like No Other Man - Red Vinyl

Artist: The Sonics  |  Label: Sundazed 259 |  Format: 45  |  Genre: rock | Vinyl condition: Mint | Jacket condition: New NERVE-CRUSHING 1966 SINGLE BY GARAGE-PUNK LEGENDS! ON COLORED VINYL - NOW OUT-OF-PRINT The song that originally put the Sonics on the map is the immortal underground anthem "The Witch". Recorded in July 1964 and driven by a bulldozing volley of drums, a brutally insistent guitar/sax riff and a possessed Gerry Roslie vocal, the song offered a darker, nastier alternative to the relatively well-groomed sounds of the British Invasion. It's prime, primal Sonics mayhem, with a sublimely swaggering B-side in "Like No Other Man". In their mid-60s heyday, the Sonics pioneered a wildly aggressive, distortion-laden style that set a widely emulated standard for propulsive punk raunch. Driven by the commanding, blood-curdling howl of Gerry Roslie and the raucous, screaming guitar of Larry Parypa, the Tacoma, Washington quintet pioneered a pummeling, primitive and supremely infe