The Sights
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
ew wave acts like the Buzzcocks or early Jam, and certainly did not remember those bands influences: British mods like the early Who or the Creation. In late 1999, drummer Eugene Strobe came aboard, replacing a series of drummers, adding a raucously wild Keith Moon-like quality to their live performances. The youthful trio recorded songs for a debut album, Are You Green?, at Jim Diamonds Ghetto Recorders that same year. The album was issued in 2000 by Spectator Records, but the small Detroit-based indie folded not too long afterwards. Fall of Rome Records in Los Angeles re-issued Are You Green? in 2001, and the Sights 2002 follow-up Got What We Want. Three years later, the band released a self-titled album on New Line/Scratchie.
