? and the Mysterians do the most bad ass version of 96 tears you’ll ever see.
96 TEARS—- ? and The MYSTERIANS ! (via ratfink43)
Check out @RichardMetzger for their take on Sally Go Round the Roses http://bit.ly/bdiaP5
UPDATE: ? and the Mysterians had to rerecord their own hit after losing rights to the original. I guess that’s where the new video comes from. Wikipedia says they “may be” the first Latin rock group to have a general audience hit (I would of thought Richie Valens but what do I know). It’s a great read of their history and includes gems like this:
The band’s frontman and primary songwriter was ?. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez. His eccentric behavior helped to briefly establish the group in the national consciousness. He claimed (and still claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses. He talks about traveling into the future and visiting other planets, asserting that he has done so. No other witnesses are known to have shared his questionable claims.
