Whidbey Island director needed eight years to pay tribute to his favorite band. #k5evening
TACOMA, Wash. — In his documentary “Boom: A film about The Sonics,” Whidbey Island’s Jordan Albertsen describes how his dad left a copy of The Sonics’ second album at his door.
“The first song on the album is Cinderella,” says Albertsen. “And I’ll never forget the opening of the song. Just the tone and the sound and it was like the coolest thing I ever heard.”
And that is how a lifelong obsession with the Tacoma band began. The Sonics only recorded three albums, all just regional hits, before breaking up.
“To me, they didn’t seem like
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