They Came to Play

`Finally, here is a reference source of images by people who lived it and had the audacity to remember. So get to it. No more wasting time on make-believe digitized, pasteurized, or homogenized visual izations of how it probably was. Here is the good news. Check it out and feel good.` From the foreword by `Cousin Bruce` Morrow. Garret Mathews contacted more than 75 pop singers and musicians who gave us the music of the 1950`s and 60`s. `You were in millions of our basements for dance parties,`he told them, `and in millions of our transistor radios. Tell me a story from those days.` And they did. They Came To Play: Stories from the Early Days of Rock is the result. Stories about a unique time and place in all our personal memories abound. What they saw, heard, and thought as they blazed a trail into our memory banks... Dick Peterson of the Kingsmen remembers that the band was making $20. per week playing at grocery-store openings when they recorded `Louie, Louie.` Barry Melton, guitarist for Country Joe and The Fish tells that he is still asked to do the `Fish Cheer` Contributors include Johny Rivers, Peter Noone, Dick Dale, Ray Coniff, Fabian, Mason Williams, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Little Anthony and dozens more. This is the music, and the people, which the baby-boomers grew up with.