ELKIN
Back in the late 60's and early 70's a lot of garage bands came out of our local area. We did music like Midnite Hour, Knock On Wood, My Girl, and much more from that era. Today they call it beach music or oldies. We called it Soul Music because much of it came from black vocal groups of that time. We had a local Battle of the Bands in ELKIN. My brother's band won the year they entered, The 13th Floor, and my brother played in my band also, and we came in second the year we played. Some of the bands at that time were The Nomads from My Airy, The Turks from Elkin, Our Band The Caboose Show & Dance Band, The Soul Society, The Mixed Emotions who also had reunited lately with some of its original members, Brief Encounter from Wilkesboro, NC, and many others. We have been classfied now as Garage Bands. We would set up our band in our neighbors garage, which his sons were in our band, and do all of our practicing there. We also practiced in a tobacco packhouse, and an insurance office when it was closed. We would practice anywhere that people would let us that was undisturbing to the parents and neighbors. One night we were practicing at our friends parents weekend house and the police came over and said we could do one more song but had to quit because the neighbors called in and it was 4 in the morning. Must I say again a lot of good musicians came out of this area of about 3 or 4 counties.