X-TERMINATORS, The

Homebase: Oakridge, OR
Stats: 1963-1965
Misc Notes: Doug Bates (rhythm guitar); Craig Sorseth (lead guitar); Frank North (bass); Jerry Westlng (drums). In 2015, Bates posted this info on the garagehangover website: "Craig Sorseth and I founded the group in late 1963, adding bassist Frank Worth and drummer Jerry Westling. We recorded the “X-Termination” and “Wild Hare” 45rpm record in the early summer of 1964 (only 100 copies were made), distributing some to Oregon radio stations but selling most of them at dances that summer at the Union Hall where we performed weekly in little Oakridge, Oregon ... We had to replace Jerry Westling in 1965 when he went off to serve our country in the Vietnam War ... Three of us — Craig, Frank and myself — managed to keep the band going for four more years on the University of Oregon campus. (We changed our name to The Apollos in 1965.) Never recorded another record but did manage to get pretty good before breaking up in 1968 upon the graduation of Frank and me from the U of O."

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