Equatics: Doin' It!!!! (blue vinyl) LP

Back in print on blue vinyl. The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. 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 psychedelic-pop of 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' "Merry Go Round" not only transcends the limitations that came from the band's average age (17 at the time of the album's recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls.