The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high school soul-bands are still rare. A ballad or two on therandom Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless Legend’s mesmerizing entry on Columbus’s 1972 1st Annual Inner City Talent Expo not withstanding, high school bands rarely struck into the realm of “grown folks” music. Enter The Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!! If this is categorized as a “funk,” it holds its own. But it was as a soul band, one as inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as the psychedelicpop of the self-proclaimed “Black Moses,” Issac Hayes – that the Equatics shone. These young souls offered world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par with any of the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a group of teenagers could offer such an angst-ridden plea as that of Leo Davis’s “Merry Go Round” not only transcends the limitations that came from the band’s average age (seventeen, at the time of the album’s recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls This official reissue was licensed by the Equatics’ bandleader, bass player Benjamin Crawford. Tracklisting A1. What They Doin?A2. Walk On ByA3. Merry Go RoundA4. Santana Pt. IA5. The Touch Of YouB1. Santana Pt. IIB2. Ain’t No SunshineB3. Cisco FareB4. Where Is Love? Format: limited edition blue vinyl LP.Label: Now-AgainCatalogue Number: NA5062CLPGenre: FunkCondition: NewBarcode: 0659457506254 If unsealed, we ship records with the LP outside the sleeve to avoid seam splits.
