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 TWO THOUSAND Pacific Northwest bands that existed between 1954 and 1979. There are also NW bands from 1980 to present that had or have as its members, musicians and vocalists who had their early music roots thoroughly entrenched in the early days of Pacific Northwest music from 1954 to 1979.

This site was created through the collective efforts of the Northwest musicians, their friends 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

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Recurring GIGS around
Puget Sound

Mondays

Accoustic Open Mic.
Dawson's, South Tacoma Way - Tacoma

Tim Hall Jam
Oaktree in Lakewood
8:00 PM

Tuesdays

Tuesday Bluesday Jam
The Oxford in Snohomish

Wednesdays

Bud's Tavern in Milton
7:30 - 10

Thursdays

Billy Shew's Jam
Dawson's, South Tacoma Way - Tacoma

Sundays

Tim Hall Jam
Dawson's, South Tacoma Way - Tacoma

7:30 to ??

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, about two 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), and would like to have that band represented here, please contact Sam, our Web Slave

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Billy McPherson

Multi-talented Billy McPherson (The Regents, The Air Force Band, Buddy Miles Express, Ballin' Jack, High Voltage, Bruce Hampton, The League of Decency, The Albert Collins Blues Band, Dick Powell Blues Band, Hughes Blues Band and many, many more), as you may recall, was in the hospital in a coma in December and recovered... or so we all thought. Billy was recently back in the hospital with more serious problems. Your good thoughts, prayers and wishes for Billy will be greatly appreciated.
Update: BIlly was back in the hospital in April. He's having a rough time of it but is a fighter. (11 April 08)
Sammy, the Web Slave & The Regents

Craig Kelly
Craig Kelly will soon be going in for some heavy-duty surgery soon. Your prayers and good wishes for a speedy and complete recovery will be appreciated. Craig, is a former member of Chinook, and has been working on a documentary about the early years of NW rock, among many other projects.
Sammy, the Web Slave, February 2008

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The CANADIAN MUSIC ARCHIVES is looking for new bands to add to our archives.

Vancouver/Seattle Bands of the 70's

I received several outstanding photos of bands that are probably 1970's bands from Vanvoucver BC or Seattle. I don't have any information on these bands. Please help The Web Slave with any information you might have on these bands:

Arrol Flyn
Baby Strange
Best Friends
Blacksmith
Rory Mac
Happy Days
Harper
Darryl Kromm & Slan
Sequoia
True Blue
Willow

COMING EVENTS

**Band and Club Gig Schedules**

THE SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN and MARINES in AFGHANISTAN
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFTS & SUPPORT!!

Several of you have collected and sent "CARE" packages to the Web Slave for distribution to the troops in Bagram, Afghanistan. I do not know the names of all the persons involved in the collection and shipment, but want to thank them as a whole as well as the below individuals and organizations.
The Web Slave, March 2008
Bagram, Afghanistan

Kenoki - Line-Noise.com
Neil Rush - The Neil Rush Band
Neil Rush Band fans Carol and Fran from Lynnwood, WA
Sergeant Major C.R. Carlson of Sultan, WA
Ron Foos, Nevada
Connie Hausdorf of Idaho
Cathy Dent of Wahington
Frank Vaughan of California
Elizabeth Carlson of Georgia
Security & Emergency Services - Lockheed Martin, Marietta, GA
Krys Lilly - Seattle, WA.
The Rossi's - Summerfield, NC
Bobby Van Rooy - Mesa, AZ
Jan Foos - Edmonds, WA
Melissa and Paul Walchli - Monterey, CA
Joe Cox - Kirkland, WA
Mike & Teri Jackson - Hunington Beach, CA
Steve and Lucette Pearson - WA
Steve & Wendy Liberko - Eugene, OR
PieceMakerS - Kuna, ID
Kathy Childers, Seattle, WA
City Zu - Seattle, WA
Wes Correll & Teri Melvin - Laguna Beach, CA
Maia Santell - Lakewood, WA