Welcome to Pacific Northwest Bands!

Your Guide to Musicians of the Great Pacific Northwest
from 1954 to 1979 and their bands from 1980 to Present

Welcome to Pacific Northwest Bands

Here you will find a collection of over THREE THOUSAND Pacific Northwest bands that existed between 1954 and 1979 and their extended NW music family tree up to the present. Included are over FIVE HUNRED dance venues where these bands performed..

This site was created through the collective efforts of the Northwest musicians, their friends, family and fans.

What Some Said About PNW Bands

This site is one of the best things to have happened to Northwest musicians; it salutes them all for helping to create the unique NW spin on Rock and Roll, Country, Blues, and jazz that we have enjoyed for the last 50 years. Thank you!!

Phil Mitchell, The CherChers & Red Thelin's Country Starlighters

WOW!! What a place! PNW Bands is like a book you can’t put down, especially for those of us fortunate to have been part of the “Garage Band” phenomenon of the early 60s.
Rob Selzler, The Crystals

I love pnwbands.com! I've been there a few times, and I always spend at least an hour looking up old friends and/or bands I used to go see back in the day.

Steve Sharp, Ozone, Bullfrog and Vortex

WOW! I don't know how long your website has been up but I just found it and went crazy seeing and listening to it. I was born and raised in Aberdeen and attended every dance I could.

The memories are flooding my brain with all the good times I had with a bunch of good friends. Thank you very much.

Richard Rossavik

I saw John Kennedy at our 40th high school reunion this summer. I told him about the website. I also saw Randy Johnson who was one our guitarist for a short time. He is making a living as a musician. I also got together with Rowland Brasch and Brian Williamson and we had a good visit over brunch. Again I want to thank you for providing the venue that allowed us all to get back in touch. It is a great thing you have done.

George Bryant, Brutus & the Bullies

Yes, because of PNWBands.com, there have been hundreds and hundreds of buddies reconnecting and feeling the friendships stored forever in the deepest chambers of our hearts...otherwise known as "old tickers". You were so supportive of "The Burnaby Bands and Friends Reunion" in 2007. This event was most successful, leading to a great 2008 event as well. You are VERY much appreciated.

Barry Walker, Northwest Company 1967-69.

Thanks to PNW Bands, Lightyears was picked up and signed to a small record company, Retrospect Records, that reissusses albums from the "80's. They remastered our original tapes and are now selling the CDs worldwide. Who would have thought?

Thanks again, this would have probably never happened without you.

Dennis Coile, Lightyears 1980 - 1985

I don't know what it is with us old guys, but we are all having so much fun, and it is so nice to see a great band from the 60's like the "Accents" get back in the fold. PNW Bands has a lot to do with it, and we can't thank you enough.

Gerry Berg, Roger Jerome & The Casuals, Yeoman, RusHHour, Young & The Restless,

Thank you for everything. Long lost friends have contacted me through your site and it's been wonderful.

Dave Nelson, Applejack 1970 - 1976

Tim from Sundazed here. You have a a really cool site!

Tim Livingston, Sundazed Music

Let me echo my friend Tim Livingston of Sundazed Music. You have a REALLY REALLY cool site. Every time I visit, it hits home deeply to me. So many memories, friends. Most grateful you take the time and energy to memorialize the music of the Northwest. And you do it so very well. Thank you.

Jerry Dennon, SoundWorks International President & CEO, Nov 2010

I'm sure you hear this all the time, but it's amazing the number of people who've found members of our group through the PNB site. I hear from them fairly regularly. So thanks a million for that."

Denis Thievin, The Downbeats

What a legacy you have created in this site and You are doing a great service for all the musicians and bands that came out of this Pacific Northwest.

Pat Fultz, City Zu, Body Talk, BadBoy and many more

Thanks for all that you do for the musicians in the Northwest. It really does mean something to us (definitely does to me).

Ginny Lee Howell, The Mystics, Dectption Pass, Born Free, Bums Rush - November 2010

Thanks for your outstanding website.. It really is great to be able to reference bands of the day, especially with one's fading memory. It's also a wonderful tool for contacting old friends.

Leif Anderson: Skybridge, Spangle, Bandana, Nov 2010

Thanks to the Web Slave and this website, my old band, the Velvet Illusions are on a Grammy - nominated 4-cd Rhino release, PLUS... a cd of 10 of our songs is coming out world-wide in 2011 on Cherry Red Records and In Tune Records. Thank you Sam!

Randy Bowles, Velvet Illusions, Felix, December 2010

I thank you for Bands of the Pacific Northwest website. Making the public aware of the past existence of these bands is an important part of North American music history. Even though the majority of bands eventually faded quietly into the past, in their "hay day "they were a vibrant and important part of a thriving musical culture that molded music into what it is today. The 60's was a great time to be in a rock band, as you well know, and to have been part of such a unique era of music history makes me thankful that I ever picked up a guitar in the first place. My 60's band days have forever been written in "stone" inside this aging head of mine, yet those memories are as alive and spirited now as they were back then when I walked out on stage for the first time. Those were wild and crazy times, and I loved every rockin'
minute of it.

Ron Sullivan, The Self-Portrait, January 2011

Most of the members are still playing but the old days are still very memorable. Thank you for your support on this. It has allowed some of us to reconnect with other musicians that we haven't seen for many years.

Brian K. McDonald... Patch, Rasuptin, Sweeney Todd and others), November 2011

What a great gift you've given us

Chuck Burbank... The Beard, Blizzard, and more, January 2012

Hats off to PNW Bands! You've done a great job of keeping the local bands' memories alive! We really appreciate what you've created!"

Steve Teasley... The Plugs, Pepper Porter Band, January 2012

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COMING EVENTS

26 May 2012
Saturday

Enjoy the 10th Annual
Tacoma Jazz & Blues Festival

This festival is FREE and requires no ticket to attend any events

http://www.tacomajazzandblues.org/

FREE parking is available at the Tacoma Dome Station parking garage. Park free in the garage and check out the Big Band Stage at the Freighthouse Square. Then hop on the FREE Tacoma Link light rail to get to downtown. Get off the light rail at the Union Station/S. 19th/UW Tacoma location for the Harmon Brewery. Double check the Tacoma Link schedule and be sure to allow extra time to arrive for a particular performance. Parking is also available behind the Harmon Brewery.

The Nitemates

Friday, 1 June 2012
Starts at 8 PM

Celebrating 50 years of rock and roll kicking off their summer schedule with this annual event

The Bridge
4439 35th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98126

Phone: (206) 402-4606

http://thebridgeseattle.com/

Jam-O-Rama 2012

15 September 2012
White Eagle Saloon, Portland

Jam-O-Rama 2012, the musical reunion and jam celebrating the great rock bands of the Pacific Northwest is scheduled for Saturday, September 15th, 2012 from 1:00pm until closing, at the Portland’s live music icon, The White Eagle Saloon! Go to http://jamo2012.hrsdev.com/ for more information

Don't forget the TIM HALL BAND LEGENDARY BLUES JAMS:

Every Sunday 8-12PM
Dawson's
5443 So. Tacoma Way, Tacoma
(253-476 -1421)

Every Thursday 7-11PM
O'Callahans
Key Center, 5610 92nd Street Lakebay, WA
(252-884-9766)

For more info:
www.TimHallBand.com

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The creation of this website was an accident. What was originally intended to be about one or two dozen band tribute pages added to The Regents of Tacoma website to pay tribute to the bands playing in the Pacific Northwest with the Regents in the early to mid-1960's got a little out of hand. No sooner would our webmaster (Sam) finish one page, then one or more of the musicians in that band would ask Sam if he would make a page for their other band. Well, almost three thousand band pages later, Sam is still at it making new or updated pages almost daily. If your band is not represented in this collection, it is because you haven't submitted the information, not because Sam "missed" you.
If you had or have a NW band that had members from the early days of Pacific Northwest music (1954 - 1979), or if you have a current or post-1979 NW band, have a member who is listed in one of the bands already on this site, and would like to have that band represented here, please contact Sam, our Web Slave