Greenville teenagers Bobby Holliday, Lyn Cook, Mack Sanders, Roy Wood, and Edwin Bayne came together as the Knights in 1964. Bayne was the oldest at sixteen and the most experienced from his time in another local teen combo called the Shaggs. The Knights soon became the Bojax, a name they took from an illustrated garage on the box of a model car set. “I guess you could say we truly are a garage band,” Holliday joked in an interview.
The Bojax recorded two singles for Greenville’s Panther label in 1967 and another in 1968. The first two singles received significant airplay throughout the Southeast. But after Edwin Bayne was drafted and other members left for college, the Bojax disintegrated.
The Bojax enjoyed a resurgence when their song Go Ahead And Go was included on Back From The Grave Volume 8, a compilation series of obscure ’60’s garage rock singles. Their Panther singles became highly collectible and regularly sell for as much as $500.
recordings
- Hippie Times b/w Go Ahead and Go, 1967
- Don’t Look Back b/w Fast Life, 1967
- So Glad b/w I’ve Enjoyed As Much Of You As I Can Stand, 1968