The Bold — “Gotta Get Some”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — September 15, 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,719) The Bold — “Gotta Get Some”

This “[k]iller garage rock mover” (Glendoras//DJ Mean Mojo Mathias, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtFxtzVgns) is a”[n]oisy, gritty good old mid-60s garage-punk little gem!” (drrayman1435, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhHhwnPId4), “VERY MUCH like Paul Revere & the Raiders at their toughest, yet lewder than Mark Lindsay and company ever quite got”! (mikekadas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atP-f6ALMkI) “As pure, unadulterated garage punk [it] comes off like an UR document of sorts, short, heavy, packed with fuzzed out guitars, snotty vocals and a wailing chorus.” (Larry, https://ironleg.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/the-bold-gotta-get-some/)

The Bold was a “garage psychedelic band from [Springfield] Massachusetts formed in the mid 60’s from the ashes of The Esquires. Also known as Steve Walker & The Bold. They were the house band at the Playboy Club in New York City in 1968 where they played 7 nights a week.” (Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/artist/392019-The-Bold?srsltid=AfmBOoq6roG7qyIaPbNqIOVpEhB8_HKpW5oWzb6HJuQZfkRdGiQquFqq) “It’s the same band that later released ‘Train kept-a-rollin’ on Dynavoice in ’67 as Steve Walker and The Bold.” (Glendoras//DJ Mean Mojo Mathias, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtFxtzVgns)

Here are the Fuzztones (’85):

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