My earliest memory of experiencing music performed live (in a non-church setting) is probably sitting with my older sister, and maybe occasionally friends ,on a curb diagonally from the block where we were living at the time and watching a rock and roll band comprised of teenage--I'm guessing--guys play in the garage attached to a brick, ranch-style house. I recall, from the few occasions we watched the group, what we heard being more raucous than what I heard from the Archies, the Beatles, and the Osmonds in the cartoons of theirs I watched on Saturdays; sadly, I don't recall any of specific songs I heard this garage band play. Have you ever watched a band play in a garage?

What I like to call 1960's punk rock is called garage rock by others, as it's the music of U.S. teens and young adults responding to the music of the British bands who were said to have invaded America in the middle of that decade--such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, Them, et al--and those Yanks practiced in their (parents') garages. Current bands playing in that style, some of which are regularly heard on the syndicated Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show--hosted by Steven Van Zant of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band--are said to play garage rock, too. Even if it was in a previous poll of mine wherein I mentioned it, were you previously familiar with garage rock?

In the U.K. in the late '90's , what Britons call garage music derived from electronic dance music styles such as house, dancehall reggae, jungle/drum & bass and techno/rave. Most examples of what little U.K. garage became hits in the U.S. (and Canada?) were somewhat smoothed over from the rawer takes on it that made it big in Great Britain. But, to your mind, which genre is more appropriately called garage?

GarageBand is a music-making program for Apple products, so I don't use it, as my desktop computer isn't of that brand. But if the examples from YouTube I've heard of music made with GarageBand are typical, it'd capable of a great deal, and I'd probably enjoy at least futzing around with it. Have you ever made music with GarageBand?