The Gories
Called "the best garage band in America since the 1960s" by Jack White, The
Gories drew on Detroit's rich musical history and provided a rough and primitive
soundtrack to the city's decaying façade during the 1980s and 1990s. Inspired by
rare 1960s guitar groups The Sonics and The Seeds, blues legends Howlin' Wolf
and John Lee Hooker and hometown heroes MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, Mick
Collins (vocals, guitar), Dan Koha (vocals, guitar) and Peggy O'Neill (drums)
could barely play their instruments when they first started gigging to handfuls
of people in local bars in 1986; but ...
