The Dagenites were an American garage rock a band from Oxon Hill, Maryland near Washington, DC, who were active in the 1960s.

In recent years their work has become highly regarded amongst garage rock enthusiasts and collectors and has been included on several compilations.

[1] In early spring 1965, the group travelled to Dayton and taped their first single, "I Don’t Want to Try It Again", a raucous number written by bassist Geoff Robinson.

[1][3][4][5] The lead vocal and lyrics are hard to make out, but the song is apparently about not wanting to be lure back into a bad relationship.

[1] After band bassist and lead vocalist Geoff Robinson and rhythm guitarist Bruce Kennett graduated from high school in the spring of 1965, they departed and were replaced by new personnel.

[1] In the summer of 1965 the band auditioned in a talent search for Heigh Ho Records, a label run by Ron Barnett.

[1] Bardi and his brother applied on behalf of the band and, flowing a successful audition, they landed a contract with Heigh Ho.

[1] According to John Bardi, the number, whose lyrics read, "Once I was a respected man, but then they said I killed with my hands…" would very likely have been the first song recorded by a rock group for such a series.

[1] In 2008, the Dagenites briefly re-united with members from both lineups at a party thrown by singer Jimmy Musgrove for former Oxen Hill classmates and friends.

In Mike Markesich's book, Teenbeat Mayhem, in the section that ranks the top 1000 garage rock songs of all time, voted on by a panel of noted garage writers and experts (out of the more than 16,000 songs mentioned in the book), "I Don't Want to Try it Again" ranks #149 and "I'm Gone Slide" #352, respectively.