789 The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction” 1965

The band was formed by Pioneer High School students in San Jose and became noted for their hit, “Psychotic Reaction.” “What would such a song as ‘Psychotic Reaction’—or the thousands like it in the garage repertoire—have to do with the idea of an avant garde?...Garage bands discovered the potentially endless variety in their minimal technique. And ironically, their dogged devotion to the fundamentals fostered the more ‘sophisticated’ rock that would follow” (Michael Hicks, Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions, 1999). 

The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction”