Crawdaddys

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In the early 1980s, when a large portion of the underground youth in San Diego were obsessed with the Psychedelic music and fashion of swinging '60s London, a band who went by the name of Crawdaddys were already doing something a little different. They got a head start in the late 1970s when Ron Silva and Steve Potterf disbanded the Hitmakers to embark on a musical adventure that was less fuzz-box and more R&B saturated. The Crawdaddies played rock 'n' roll in the spirit of the Beatles imitating Chuck Berry, Otis Redding, and Little Richard. Because the band's passion for the music was so collectively real, their own honest sound soon developed. They blended gritty California Garage Rock with a Yardbirds-like appreciation for anything with blues and soul. Their Crawdaddy Express album was their finest hour. Although the majority of the songs are covers of blues standards and British Invasion R&B songs, the playing and singing on this album was one of those magic recorded moments in time that could never be duplicated. Having released the record in 1979 (before the second wave of mod hit America), the Crawdaddys are easily one of the most underrated and influential bands of their genre.