Rare album by Electras featuring John Kerry as bass player is hot seller!

NEW YORK (www.electrasrockandrollband.com) - Garage rock veterans supports Kerry? Presidential candidate John Kerry's one-album stint with a '60s rock band called The Electras has been reissued! Kerry helped form the band as bass player in high school. The master tapes were unearthed recently by former members, all of whom swear the Chinned One earned his finger blisters during jam sessions.

The rock-n-roll album presidential candidate John Kerry recorded in 1961 with six of his schoolmates at St. Paul School in New Hampshire. The music is a standard Chuck Berry-Fats Domino combination, one that talented musicians of the time turned into bands like The Beach Boys, The Ventures and The Rolling Stones. You can tell immediately from The Electras' music, however, that its members were destined for stiffer professions.

Kerry's bass is actually one of the least awkward elements. The piano has some soul and the drumming is proficient. They should have ditched the maracas player, though, who is bad enough to sound more like some random person shuffling papers in the background. And the lead guitar player might be the biggest flip-flopper of the election year, slipping uncontrollably as he does between surf rock and plunky banjo tones.
After languishing for decades in obscurity, The Electras are now an official sidenote in music history. Let's just hope a sordid list of Electras groupies doesn't follow.