The Wailers

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This article is about the Seattle-based garage rock band. For the group consisting of Bunny Livingston, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley, see Bob Marley & the Wailers.

The Wailers were an American rock band, often considered the first garage rock group. Their 1961 regional cover of "Louie Louie" inspired other groups from the Seattle-area, most influentially The Kingsmen, to record the same song, and the band's influence established Seattle (as well as cities like Tacoma and Olympia) as a center for musical innovation and the home of a long string of regional favorites playing a kind of raunchy, amateur, yet passionate, form of rock and roll.

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