GONN
| GONN | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Keokuk, Iowa, United States |
| Genres | Garage rock, psychedelic rock |
| Years active | 1966–1968 1990 to present |
| Labels | Emir Records MCCM Records Bomp/Voxx Records Sundazed Rhino |
| Associated acts | The Pagans Ilmo Smokehouse Smokehouse Eyes Ready Steady Go Craig Moore's Russian Spies |
| Members | Craig Moore Rex Garrett Dave Johnson Larry LaMaster Jeff Gregory |
| Past members | Gerry Gabel Gary Stepp Brent Colvin Nick Bloom (The Pagans) Billy Harper (The Pagans) Gary Cooper (The Pagans) Jerry Ison Alfred Boyer Dana Georges Slink Rand Jerry Heath Jules Pattenaude Rod Williams |
GONN is a 1960s American garage rock band from Keokuk, Iowa whose signature song is "Blackout of Gretely". Although releasing only two singles in 1966-67, the band also recorded numerous other tracks that have been collected on three retrospective albums. Following a 1989 solo album released by bandleader Craig Moore, GONN reunited in 1990 and released a 30th-year reunion album in 1996. In 2004, GONN was inducted into the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Music Association Hall of Fame. They have mounted European tours in 1997, 2001, and 2009, and recorded & released an all-new, all-original album called GONN '45 Fully Loaded in 2012.
Bandleader Craig Moore (born April 15, 1947 in Fort Madison, Iowa) grew up in Keokuk, along the Mississippi River. Before he learned to play an instrument he hung around other high school rock bands, particularly The Gallows and The Outcasts. Together with Gerry Gabel (the younger brother of a classmate), Moore organized a band called The Pagans in 1965 with Larry LaMaster and a schoolmate on drums. Moore was taught how to play bass guitar by Roger Dougherty, bassist of The Outcasts, who gave him three basic lessons and sent him back to The Pagans with "Last Night" by The Mar-Keys and "Steppin' Out" by Paul Revere and The Raiders his only repertoire on the instrument. Moore says he played the three-note bass riff on "Gloria" backwards for six months and nobody knew the difference. By the summer of 1966, The Pagans consisted of founding members Craig Moore (bass guitar) and Gerry Gabel (organ), plus Gary Stepp (rhythm guitar), also from Keokuk. Rex Garrett (lead guitar) and Brent Colvin (drums) from Fort Madison were in a band together called The Rogues and were added to the band after an impromptu meeting at a Rogues practice during which Rex and Brent simply walked out with Craig, Gerry and Gary and never went back. Garrett's mother did not like the band name, so after some discussion, the bandmembers finally settled on "gone" but with a "psychedelicized" spelling, in tribute to a band from Ottumwa that the band admired called MADD, which had a similar all-caps, double-letter spelling (and predates the anti-drunk driving organization MADD). Craig Moore put it: We were throwing words and names around; we were almost the Trees, after The Leaves.
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