The Dimensions were a garage band from Park Ridge, near Chicago, Illinois.
Members:
Barre 'Emil' Probst (guitar, vocals), Steve 'Chrlie Tuna' Purnell (guitar, keyboards), Jim 'Sieb' Sebastian (vocals), Tom 'Happy Tooth' Parnell (bass guitar) and Jack 'Cheta' Brunsfield (drums).
There were many obscure garage bands in the mid-'60s who released limited editions of all-cover albums to be given away at gigs and school. Most of these albums were virtually worthless except as time capsules, but there were a few scattered exceptions that proved the rule — LPs of this kind by T.C. Atlantic and the Litter became valued collector's items. The Dimensions were another example. Nothing is known about this Chicago collegegroup, whose derivative, but exciting, album achieved a much greater audience when it was reissued for the '60s collector audience in the '80s.
Not an original bone in their body on this 1966 album of 12 covers, but The Dimensionsdid a good job as aspiring Rolling Stones. Killer versions of "Carol" and "Do You Love Me" highlight this timepiece, with the kind of crudely amplified raw guitars and frenetic drums that could not be reproduced by the most exacting current scientific methods.
By Richie Unterberger
Álbum gentilmente cedido por Luís Futre.