Battle Of The Boy Bands Part 2: The Bantams – “Beware The Bantams” LP (1966)
Yeah, you gotta love kids. They can’t act, they can’t lie very well, they smell funny, and, oh, yes, they can’t sing for shit. So here we have The Bantams, the 1960’s counterpart of Old Skull. So what’s the big difference? Well, notably, the fact that they can play their instruments—or allegedly play their instruments. I’ll admit I’m a little skeptical and will remain so until I actually see a video of them playing. However, they were on Warner Brothers, scored a minor hit, and supposedly did live gigs, so I have to give them the benefit of the doubt. But the singing? Ahem…yeah….not so great. And, unlike Old Skull, they didn’t write their own stuff and the entire LP is all cover songs. Probably a bad argument to support my case for sixties rock, but this is still a great novelty record or a great tool for clearing a room, depending on how you look at it!
THE BANTAMS
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Well, the oldest one was 12, placing him around 1972 when he turned 18! Too old to be a Hippie and a few years away from Disco!
Bongo Player Jeff Kirshner plays drums in our Band “Fluid Drive” in Banning Ca at Paddy O’Reillys each and every month. come out and see a STAR !
Dude, you need to ask him if there is any video footage of The Bantams–I need to see what they were like live!
Also, to the Bantams member who left a comment a while back: you wound up in the spam folder and I accidentally deleted you! Please comment again!
Jeff Kirshner still rockin’! Thats fantastic. I also remember seeing them in a couple of movies, I still have my old “Beware The Bantams” record too, I played the hell out of it in 1967. more power to the brothers.
Used to play with these kids on 18 th street in Milwaukee,
Whatever happened to Billy?
Hi to Mike, Jeff, and Fritxz…Larry bots
I want if these kids got into hallucinegenics and became burned out hippies?