Equatics – Doin’ It!!!! [LP]

Doin It!!!! Is Back In Effect In Blue Colored Vinyl PressingThe 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 ontherandom Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless Legends mesmerizingentry on Columbuss 1972 1st Annual Inner City Talent Expo not withstanding, high schoolbands rarely struck into the realm of grown folks music. Enter The Equatics and theirbrooding masterpiece Doin It!!!! If this is categorized as a funk, it holds its own. But it wasas a soul band, one as inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as thepsychedelic-pop of the self-proclaimed Black Moses, Issac Hayes that the Equaticsshone. These young souls offered world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par withany of the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a group of teenagerscould offer such an angst-ridden plea as that of Leo Daviss Merry Go Round not onlytranscends the limitations that came from the bands average age (seventeen, at the time ofthe albums recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-cityhopefuls This official reissue was licensed by the Equatics bandleader, bass playerBenjamin Crawford.