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King Louie Bankston formed the critically-acclaimed and highly influential garage rock band the Persuaders in 1996, along with Jason Panzer on guitar, and Shaggy on drums. In the Persuaders, Louie and Jason Panzer both sang and played Gibson Flying V guitars. The Reatards, featuring Jay Reatard opened for the Persuaders on the very first Reatards tour. Not to be confused with The Persuaders, a vocal quartet formed in New York City. .

Vocal quartet formed in New York City in 1969, this soulful group is best known for their hit record "thin line between love and hate" a gold record on Atlantic Records which reached the top of the R&B charts in 1971. From Atlantic they moved to the ATCO subsidiary where "some guys have all the luck" reached number 7 in the R&B charts. They kept recording until the late 70's doing more sessions for Calla. Sole remaining original member Willie Holland has kept the band name alive with a group that is based out of Fort Lauderdale FL, and active...

When Paul Buff came up with a Mexican-sounding instrumental entitled "Tijuana Surf" at his Pal Studios in Cucamonga, California, he asked fellow Pal musician Frank Zappa to write a B-side. Zappa turned in the brilliant, fuzz-toned instrumental "Grunion Run," and Buff sold the recordings to Art Laboe's Original Sound label. The Hollywood Persuaders became Buff's performing name, but they were not a band! With very few exceptions, Paul Buff would play all the instruments. When Original Sound released "Tijuana" in the summer of 1963, the record became a big regional success. In fact, the record was released twice: as "Tijuana...