I always thought it had more of a garage band punk rock feel to it and Butch missed the opportunity to invent the D-beat! It'd be 10 years later before the Buzzcocks did it. If only he would have given it a little more swing...
Yep the drummer did well and also kit sounds masive. That snare fill after the “freakout” part were always so turning on for me. You can hear how he really layed hard into that kit.
Those of us who grew up in this era of rock music were truly blessed. The number of quality bands was unbelievable. Back then nothing to hide behind. You either had it or you didn’t
I’m a boomer trapped in a millennials body. I recommend the Seeds ( rip sky Saxon ) electric prunes , Love , The turtles, the 13th floor elevators Classic 1960s garage rock /psychedelia
I used to watch Count Five practice two blocks from my house in San Jose. 1966, I was 6. I actually watched them since 64 when I was 4 and they were an instrumental surf band, I think called The Esquires
Great guys from South San Francisco bay area 1965, San Jose Ca. The drummer and the singer have since past away but there is a memorial in San Jose for the whole band and their accomplishments for their time.
Loved this song 🎵 when it first came out...and it's still a BANGER❗ As I was cruising RU-vid to find this...there is a COVER of it, done by TOM PETTY ( Live) What ❓❗ Check it out.
@@LyThC00p38sc No NOT Every=One, Your being Over Dramatic! Every-One means Not any One In the Whole World With Held!!! & Even Only 1 That Doesnt makes the Every-One Word a Lie , capiche"? & Visual theatrics again are the bands that Have Huge amplifier Stacks Behind then that Are Dummy Stacks = Empty for appearance
Brief history on how this song got its name: the lead singer, and soon to be, other band mate, were in psychology class in college, and their professor, said "psychotic reaction" and the lead and other band mate, both whispered, "thatd be a great name for a song we could do!" And soon enough it hit the top 100 charts by about fall of 1966, of course this becomes their only hit and all other songs they did, never got higher than psychotic reaction...
This is one of the first Psychedelic/Hard Rock songs. The Yardbirds were doing a lot of great stuff also, before the word "psychedelic" was used, like For Your Love, Heartful of Soul, etc. Awesome
One of the things I’ve found interesting about this song is how the rhythm feel changes with the addition of each instrument in the beginning. The opening guitar sets a feel. The bass comes in and the feel changes. When the drums come in the feel changes again. It almost seems like a mistake in playing yet, it works! Great song. Great memories!
@@nickames3808 I've played it before in a band, long time ago..relatively easy song. Harmonica added would be nice..Two chords: Emajor, F#major, then the rave-up bridge job. Excellent song!!
One of the things I most like about the comments are insights like these. I was in high school when I first heard this. Blew me away. And after all this time I'll be hearing it in a new way
JAPAN EXECUTIVES CONTROL THE CURRENT STYLE OF AMERICAN TOP 40 MUSIC WHICH IS THE JAPAN WAY, AFTER THEY TRASHED OUR AMERICAN STYLE. THAT'S WHY THERE IS NO INDIVIDUALITY TODAY. FAN IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
One of the best rock songs from the great year of 1966. The harmonica sound like a freight train. The drummer is amazing. A one hit wonder. A hollow body electric guitar with a fuzz pedal. Outstanding!
Perfect description Robert of the HARMONICA sounding like a Freight Train ❗ Well Put❗ Loved this song back in the day and hearing it again was a real treat. Check out TOM PETTY'S cover of it LIVE. I had no idea... stumbled on it the other day on RU-vid.
One more quick story...My parents divorced and we moved to South Lake Tahoe. The Count Five and 2 members of the Syndicate of Sound stayed at our house while performing at a small venue in Tahoe. Then we got to go to the concert for free.
My cousin talked me into buying the single at the record store. I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't the original but a copy by the Jalopy 5... a cover band.😢 I never forgot.
Have not heard this in so long. These songs take me back growing up in the 60's. Out of school for summer, riding my Sears Stingray. Swimming, little league. What a great time and childhood. Music was great.
IKR....kids today. The music is just awful, playing video games online is considered socializing. But kids around my city don't go out so much to play cuz of all the gunshots, stray bullets. It sucks. I grew up in late 60's-70's and it was as you described except I'm not familiar with tiger baby stop. What was that?
@lucy bond I still had fears. I used to be scared when planes flew over, I thought we'd be bombed. I still had a great childhood, but we were assigned to go downtown and go into the underground basement of a department store, civil defense drills and the yellow sirens are still there. I guess I was about 7 during The Bay of Pigs with Soviets moving nuclear weapons to Cuba and the standoff. You can see the mass anxiety of the country watching the movies of the era, mutant creatures like The Blob. I had dreams about Germany and WWII as a very young child. I didn't know the boogeyman in the long black coat and boots looked like the SS officers. Blown out buildings and stormtroopers armed with rifles and bayonets with us pressed up against the wall hiding. I didn't recognize the architecture and war until I was in middle school and they showed movies. These nightmares terrified me before I could talk. They went away but dad always had to look under my bed and in the closet for the boogeyman. And I can still remember the one dream, the road curved and a tank would be coming. I've no idea how I had nightmares about something I'd never seen. I did. Pure distilled terror.
I was at a local fast food restaurant the other day and they were playing this song while I was ordering. I couldn't help but say "Hey, that's the Count Five!". Great to hear these classics being played in public.
Funny how times change....when they go into that psyched middle section, there is no flying hair, no crazy movements around the stage, none of the wild efforts to gain attention that came as rock and roll progressed. And yet that part of the song is rather ahead of its time. Thanks for posting.
suze9088 yes but..all those things you mentioned just naturally went with the raw energy of the music..non conforming, wild and free. I respect your view though. We all percieve differently.
What a GREAT song! I think these guys were just ahead of their time.... had they released this amazing tune in the early- mid 80's they would have been heralded as pop/funk/new-age wonderkinds and maybe had a career as big as Flock of Seagulls, Violent Femms or even the Clash!
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I had the 45 vinyl and I was 12 when this came out. I wasn't sure what mom's reaction would be from me playing it at home. That's how "far out" we (or at least I) thought this kind of music was. Another one I was excited to buy was Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away.'
Wow! Can't figure out how this is the first time I hear this great tune. The opening instrument by instrument, and persuasions make it a great sound. Makes you want to dance. Thanks for posting.
One of the earliest psychedelic hits! (Questionmark And The Mysterians' "96 Tears" and Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" both came out at around the same time).
It was released in June of 1966 and peaked in the U.S on October 22, 1966 at #5. But they first came up with the idea for the song at the end of 1964 when two of the band members heard the term "psychotic reaction" in a college class they were taking. They worked on the song and kept improving it throughout 1965... but they could not get signed by any record company until finally the record label "Double Shot" signed them in the summer of 1966.
I had not heard this song in ages. Loved it then and love it now. The music of my generation and I get nostalgic for those careless, happy days of my youth. If there was a time machine . . .
Count Five psychotic reaction Garage Rock. Year 1966 I was 16 years old and the song, Psychotic Reaction, blew my mind. It was the first time I heard a harmonica riff in a Rock piece. (Later on, I would also listen to Dylan and Jagger) I knew when I grew up, that the crazed critic of Rock, Lester Bangs, (of Rolling Stone magazine and the CBGB club). He also loved this song and had even written a book with that name, in honor of the band "Count Five". (Claaaaroo I looked for that book and read it)
This song is an essential classic from mid 60's, it encapsulated all the elements if all the music from the 60's A little bit if Bob Dylan a little bit of British rock and a little bit if that californian surf guitar sound! And then there is that change in rhythm that knocks it out of the Park! They nailed it!!!!! 2020 and im still hooked!!!!
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This song made such a big splash because of the way it was recorded...LOUD. It could cut through even on the crappiest AM station on an even crappier transistor radio! Caught my 8-year-old attention, (and my 8-year-old ears) immediately!
Who would have ever guessed that these 5 guys and by the way there's dressed,would be playing some mind blowing music...And on "AMERICAN BANDSTAND to say the least...Good job 🎶🎵🎤🎸🥁🎹...
I was in a garage band when this came out. Whenever I think of those days, I remember someone in the 70's saying "John Lennon made us all want a guitar: Jimi Hendrix made us all want to learn to play it."
I first heard this song as a little-kid. Too this very day, ten-thousand years later, nothing kicks my ass like this damn song. Crazy. I'm still in love.
On this day in 1966 {October 4th*} the Count Five performed "Psychotic Reaction" on the week-day afternoon ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'... At the time the song was at #9 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; five days later on October 9th it would peak at #5 {for 2 weeks} and it stayed on the chart for 12 weeks... Lead singer John 'Sean' Byrne passed away on December 15th, 2008 at the age of 62... May he R.I.P. * A little over five weeks later on November 12th the quintet would perform the song on Dick Clark's other ABC-TV produced program, 'American Bandstand'...
Flashback! I remember lunch-break I'd head down to the liquor store and get a quart of bud and sit in the parking lot, drinking my Bud, and listening to the radio. This song came on every day, around 12:15... I was 21 yrs old! LEGAL
What's interesting is that this was a bigger hit than any Yardbirds US release on the charts. When they were asked about The Yardbirds, they brought that up. To be fair, Yardbirds had a huge impact on actual US garage bands back then, at least, that's what a lot of bands bring up like Alice Cooper and Aerosmith.
1966 is an unforgettable year in music. I began a collection of pop 45's then -- some of which I still give spin. Somehow my musical tastes cannot move beyond the mid-Sixties
Wonderful music like this that we could enjoy at night from the 50 thousand-watt powerhouse AM stations helped me and many others survive brutal high school in those days. Indie is good now, but these classics still rule!
***** There were at least two: WLS and WCFL. The first featured shtick between Clark Weber and (maybe) Ron Riley; the latter was "The Voice of Labor", with Barney Pipp yelling, "Turn 'em all into peanut butter!" Sadly, both are now talk stations. Hope this helps.
I heard this song for the first time in my cousin's basement,in 1966.I was sixteen and this song was playing on the local am top forty station W.I.B.G.,,I almost came out of the chair when I heard it.It was great then,and was not recognized by anyone I knew.I t was hard in those days to get kids to listen to new music.Some of my friends were even sure they liked the beatles.But I found it here and that's a vindication of sorts.
i remember my older cousin turning me on to this tune ... what a rush that was .....great music .. unfortunatly will never emerge again ..music nowadays sucks!!!!!!
72 and still rockin. Grew up on 50s and 60s new music called Rock and Roll. Still have all my albums and 45s. Used to tape them onto cassettes to play in my car.
