Never have guitars been played with the attitude and defiance of Brian Jones and Keith Richards . Just listen to “ It ’ s All Over Now ”. Mr . London School of Economics Mick Jagger could leer and sneer like no other with his baggy sweater and rubber legs . Charlie and Bill came at you like deadpan sharks . And these guys didn ’ t dress alike . We saw all we needed to on the Ed Sullivan Show . Yeah , we could do this too and American Garage Music stepped up . Those British boys had taken American music and handed it back to us with some very cool reworking and we were ready to go . American Garage brought us the “ onehit wonders ”, many of them just plain great , created when a group was hitting on all cylinders and had that one special song . A few groups like Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Young Rascals had a string of hits . American Garage was a bit rawer than British Invasion . Some of Elvis ’ swagger left over from the 1950 ’ s seemed to find its way to the American version of four or five guys with guitars , a bass , a drum kit and maybe a Vox or Farfisa . The music wasn ’ t that difficult unless you wanted to take it further than three chords . There was nothing like being in a band . Lou Reed mentions it in the Velvet Underground ’ s “ Sweet Jane .” Even the bass player was cool . John Cale and Paul McCartney made that a reality . Nancy Sinatra stepped out of her daddy ’ s four car garage in those boots and showed us girls could snarl with the best of the boys . We learned to play instruments , we talked music , we looked sharp and we found our friends . Some of us found a way of life .