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Visiting professors Bobby Beaton and John Davis of The Gruesomes are back to lecture young garageniks about the legacy, impact, and mechanics of what is, in Dr. Beaton's words, "the paramount garage experience"!! That is, of course, the song "City of People", originally heard in 1966 by The Illusions (2:15). A song all the Gruesomes hold in both scorn and esteem, which they laugh at and love in equal measure - listen to what they have to say about it! There's also a version by The Creeps from 1986 (1:27:16), and a totally up-to-date recontextualization of the song and its meaning by Sweden's Miriam Kaukosalo (1:54:33). This one's going in the textbooks!!
By Weldon Hunter & Erik Komarnicki5
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Visiting professors Bobby Beaton and John Davis of The Gruesomes are back to lecture young garageniks about the legacy, impact, and mechanics of what is, in Dr. Beaton's words, "the paramount garage experience"!! That is, of course, the song "City of People", originally heard in 1966 by The Illusions (2:15). A song all the Gruesomes hold in both scorn and esteem, which they laugh at and love in equal measure - listen to what they have to say about it! There's also a version by The Creeps from 1986 (1:27:16), and a totally up-to-date recontextualization of the song and its meaning by Sweden's Miriam Kaukosalo (1:54:33). This one's going in the textbooks!!

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