Michael & The Messengers

Michael & the Messengers are best remembered for their frenetic garage-rock reading of the Reflections' "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet." The band's history is so convoluted it required a book, Gary Myers' Wisconsin rock history tome, Do You Hear That Beat, just to make some sense of it: Originally dubbed simply the Messengers -- there was never a "Michael" -- the group was founded in Winona, Minnesota in 1962 by Greg Jeresek (aka Greg Jennings), also featuring guitarists Greg Bambenek and Roy Berger, keyboardist Chip Andrews, and drummer Jim Murray. Winona's very first rock & r...