
Eddie Baranek founded The Sights as a freshmen in high school, playing with high school classmates and friends who shared his rare infatuation with ’60s pop, Motown and garage records. Their first gig as the Sights happened in July of 1998 and the band was quickly taken under the wing of the local scene, performing with more seasoned vets of the Detroit garage resurgence such as the Detroit Cobras, The Paybacks, The Dirtbombs and The Hentchmen. The Sights debut, Are You Green? was initially released by Detroit’s short-lived Spectator Records in 1999 (when Baranek was only 18) and re-released in 2000 by Los Angeles-based independent Fall of Rome Records. After recording two singles for Fall of Rome in the summer of 2001, Dave Shettler started playing drums with the group. Shettler was the last of a rotating cast of drummers and joined in on recording and songwriting duties for the band’s sophomore full-length, Got What We Want, which was recorded in December 2001 at the illustrious Ghetto Recorders in the heart of downtown Detroit. Every note of Got What We Want displays the band’s catholic attention to the last 40 years classic pop and rock, reminiscent of The Zombies and Big Star, The Band and The Rolling Stones to mention only a few. Nate Cavalieri joined the band on organ and piano in the early part of 2002. Matt Hatch, a veteran of notorous Detroit locals The Go and The Witches started playing bass in the band that same year. Got What We Want is out now on Fall of Rome Records.
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