THE PAGANS
On the Pebbles, Volume 2 LP is a song by a band called the Satans – yes, it’s true – and the song is called “Makin’ Deals”, so the name carried over into their music as well. The song is quite remarkable in anticipating the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” by several years; one of the lyrics is even: “Can you guess my name?” They only released the one single (no big surprise there). The parents of the bandmembers in the legendary Iowa garage-rock band GONN were not keen on their original name the Pagans; I can only imagine what this band’s parents must have thought.
(July 2012)
