◇ image via WikipediaKim Fowley
Kim Fowley is a Garage rock act. Their sound grew out of Gene Vincent, Cherie Currie, Phil Spector, Berry Gordy and Paul Revere and the Raiders. Those roots explain a lot about how Kim Fowley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Sonics, The Amboy Dukes, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Flamin' Groovies and Kaleidoscope, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Seekers, Yegor Letov, The Renegades, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Them, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Kim Fowley, reaching back through Gene Vincent and forward to The Seekers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kim Fowley connections
Kim Fowley grew out of Gene Vincent, Cherie Currie, Phil Spector and Berry Gordy, shares an orbit with The Sonics, The Amboy Dukes, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and Flamin' Groovies, went on to shape The Seekers, Yegor Letov, The Renegades and Paul Revere and the Raiders. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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