The Ferraris - Lovin' Feelin' - Unreleased 60s Garage Rock from Lansing, Michigan - RARE

Описание: SUPER RARE, UNRELEASED! I've heard there are a few acetates floating around, that's about it ..... More info: The Ferraris were formed in 1965 in Lansing, Michigan by twin brothers Hector and Victor Juarez when they were 14 years old. “Before the Beatles influenced us, we were fond of the Beach Boys — that’s what started it for us,” Hector Juarez recalled. “We heard '409' and wanted to have a singing group. Then a year later the Beatles hit on Ed Sullivan, and that’s what got us into guitars and playing music.”

Like the Beatles, the Ferraris used Vox brand amplifiers, bought by the twins’ supportive father and manager, Mario Juarez, who booked the band’s shows and drove them to gigs. Juarez said even at their young age, the band worked hard and played shows every weekend.

“Being only 14, we had these high falsetto voices. It sounded pretty cool,” Juarez said. “We’d pick harder songs to play. We’d do ‘Along Comes Mary’ by the Association. We’d play the Young Rascals, all the hits of the day.”

Aside from winning a battle of the bands in 1968 and playing countless packed shows at “young adult” dances at the Jack Tar Hotel (hosted by Erik OFurseth, a popular WILS DJ), a high point in the Ferraris’ career was working with Stevie Wonder in 1967 at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, where young Stevie was attending classes.

“We were with Stevie for a week,” recalled Juarez. “It was a music clinic for the kids at the school. For the first two days we met with Stevie and talked with blind kids about music. At the end of the week all these musicians from Motown came and we played a big show on Friday night. “That Sunday Stevie came over to our house for a chicken dinner and we jammed in the living room.”

The Ferraris would play until early 1970 when the Juarez brothers were drafted into the Vietnam War. The two spent their time deployed in Europe.

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