Doin’ It!!!! Is Back In Effect In Blue Colored Vinyl Pressing
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
psychedelic-pop 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.
A1. What They Doin?
A2. Walk On By
A3. Merry Go Round
A4. Santana Pt. I
A5. The Touch Of You
B1. Santana Pt. II
B2. Ain’t No Sunshine
B3. Cisco Fare
B4. Where Is Love?
