Phil & the Frantics · (Active: 1960's)

Styles:
Garage Rock
Formed:
1963
Disbanded:
1968
Active:
1960's
Biography by Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
One of the highlights of the early Pebbles volumes was Phil & the Frantics' "I Must Run," an obscure single which captured the early Zombies' sound with uncanny accuracy. The close resemblance, in fact, was no coincidence: so much of the melody and arrangement was lifted from the obscure Zombies' B-side "I Must Move" that the Frantics would have surely lost a plagiarism suit. The Phoenix-based band began as a much more frat-rock based act, adapting to the British Invasion sound after 1964. They recorded a few singles in the mid-'60s and scored a few local hits, "I Must Run" (which was produced by Waylon Jennings) being the biggest. Nothing else they recorded, however, was as memorable as that one Zombies ripoff.
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Bill Powell
Don Snider
Joe Martinez
John Lambert
Phil Kelsey
Rick Rose
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