I saw the Sonics on this particular tour. Absolute bone-crunching garage rock. Astonishingly loud for a bunch of old guys.
I think they're still touring (or were, up until the pandemic), but they've become another Tour Bus of Theseus, with only the sax player left from the original lineup.
That would have been an awesome double bill. I think there's only a couple of years when it could have happened, between 2007 when the Sonics finally got back together and, alas, 2009.Oh man, I would love to have seen that tour. They were on fire in that KEXP show. Just perfect garage rock.
A double-bill of The Cramps and The Sonics would have been a hell of show. I wonder did they ever play together? I assume they must have at some point.
Billy Strings' new album, Renewal.