Bonniwell was originally involved in the folk rock scene, but he wanted to create a harder sound or as he stated "something completely unique".

Bassist, Keith Olsen, utilized a fuzz box to produce the song's signature bassline, which was backed by Mark Landon's wiry guitar playing.

The track was subsequently released on December 31, 1966 as the opening to the group's debut album, (Turn On) The Music Machine.

He declared the band "created a breathlessly compact garage rock: hog-snort guitar distortion, machine gun drumming and paranoid growling despair, shaved and hardened by geometric precision.

And although he was in his mid-twenties, Bonniwell nailed in his lyrics the hapless rage of white high school males with similar rigor".

[17] Classic Rock writer Peter Thomas Webb praised the cover as "a bristling nugget of an opener."

[15] Daily Record writer Jim Bohen described the cover as "a ferocious version, with snarling vocals and slashing guitars.