GONN is a 1960s American garage rock band from Keokuk, Iowa whose signature song is “Blackout of Gretely”. Although releasing only two singles in 1966-67, the band also recorded numerous other tracks that have been collected on three retrospective albums. Following a 1989 solo album released by bandleader Craig Moore, GONN reunited in 1990 and released a 30th-year reunion album in 1996. In 2004, GONN was inducted into the Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Music Association Hall of Fame. (More from Wikipedia)
GONN is another legendary garage rock band; their amazing song “Blackout of Gretely” was slated to be included on the original Nuggets album but was omitted due to its length (4:29 – most garage rock tracks clock in at 3:00 or less). But Greg Shaw had included this song as a bonus track on the CD reissue on AIP Records of Pebbles, Volume 1 and also put their follow-up single “Doin’ Me In” on the Pebbles, Volume 10 CD. I had also acquired a retrospective album by GONN that was identified as Rough Diamonds, Volume 9; Rough Diamonds is a series of albums that Greg Shaw put out on Voxx Records by garage rock bands who had recorded more than just a few singles.
Even better was their 1995 reunion album – actually their first true album of any kind – GONN with the Wind that I have played over and over again. The Wikipedia article on GONN has had more additions and changes to it than most of these, but it is still largely my work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GONN .
For whatever reason, the article on GONN took much longer to put together than most of the others. I had also just had an extended fight with the powers that be at Wikipedia over whether Milan was “notable” enough to warrant an article.
