? mark has been rockin since 1960.they
should be inducted just cause they made it as
rockin Hispanics. ? mark still puts on a good honest entertaing performance. their music
still sounds well being from the early 60's.

Posted by " mark me on Friday, 05/17/2013 @ 01:10am

I do not give a flying-flip about Question being gay. I am not interested in what he does in the bedroom. I like the people who keep the old music alive. More power to him. If he believes he is from outer space, that makes him all the more interesting.

Posted by Dan on Sunday, 08/11/2013 @ 18:05pm

To quote John Lennon, 96 Tears is about the best rocknroll song ever.

Posted by June I on Wednesday, 08/14/2013 @ 21:53pm

While ? And the Mysterians had only one #1 hit, 96 Tears, they actually charted FIVE singles on the Billboard/Cashbox charts. Q is NOT dead (at least not unless he passed in the last hour) and in fact has been consistantly performing all these years and the old Mysterians reformed a few years back. He lost EVERYTHING including his gold record, his dogs and everything related to the band and has been repeated ripped off for royalties...? And The Mysterians hit #1 as the kids of Mexican migrant farm workers while still high school kids, in a time when they couldnt even play some places because of their heritage. I cant think of another band who kicked open as many doors as they did ... Yes the DO deserve to be there...

Posted by Susie Martin on Monday, 04/28/2014 @ 22:06pm

I'm 25 yrs old. I watched one of Q's videos with my father. I asked him who is that old man from the 60's. He said it is Q. I said he must be gay-but that is ok. I could not figure out why he was bending down showing his "buns" to the audience after he performed on stage. It wasn't a very nice thing to do, you expect that from a young man not an old man-it was naughty. The organ music was very good-that's what made 96 tears. I like both Franks and Bobby B-they are very good.

Posted by Karen Lee on Saturday, 02/7/2015 @ 10:08am

I forgot to say Robert is also very good. Because of my father I do love the music of the 60's, 70's and 80's. I also like Bobby's smooth jazz band.

Posted by Karen L on Saturday, 02/7/2015 @ 10:18am

The group is very good but Q is unstable. Where do I get a headband and a CD for my father? Q doesn't reply. What website do you use to order things-Tshirts and everything he has to offer. For a gay man he is very unorganized. All the gay men I know are organized.

Posted by Karen Lee on Saturday, 02/14/2015 @ 09:56am

Question Mark, for a very gay man, he sings 96 tears good. Why is he talking about a woman-he should be talking about a man. He is a weird old man-why is he always begging for money that is disgusting. Stop getting plastic surgery in your face and teeth. The other guys in the band don't. Q you are out. They got a life. The rest of your music stinks-why is all that yelling in the background. Your voice isn't that good. I guess 96 tears is the only hit you had. and that's the truth. So hang it up Q. so stop begging for money.

Posted by Candy Sacco on Friday, 03/13/2015 @ 12:43pm

I read Meatloaf's book. I saw one of Mr Q's concerts a long time ago. He is not that good of a singer-he puts all the other rock groups down. Who the hell does he think he is. He is nothing but an old gay man who has nothing better than to put other people down. He has to have a baby sitter all the time. He is mentally unstable. That is weird he has to have his manager live with him. Why don't he just have his boyfriend live with him? He is a real creep and he makes me sick. The Mysterians are all good musicians thank God they got rid of that creep. You are right he is always begging for money-I advise people to stay away from him and that gang he has got there.

Posted by Beverly Farina on Saturday, 03/14/2015 @ 11:57am

I saw ZZ Top in the 70's in Philadelphia. Boy they were great. It was hard to enjoy them because people behind us were throwing firecrackers and one went right near my girlfriend's foot. She wanted to leave but I said let's stay.what a powerful group. I wish i could get a chance to see them again-they are real showstoppers. God they were great.

Posted by Ronald Richie on Wednesday, 03/25/2015 @ 18:40pm

I saw ZZ top in the 1970's too in Philadelphia. Someone was throwing firecrackers right near me. I was so scared I couldn't even enjoy the show. There was a buzzard on the T stick right next to ZZ Top. You must have been there the same night I was there with all those firecrackers.

Posted by Yvonne on Tuesday, 04/21/2015 @ 22:31pm

I think it is a disgrace that Question Mark (not the Mysterians) is always begging for money. Susie Martin has done a lot of work for him but why is he asking for the public to donate to her? Why doesn't he pay her? He doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame. He spent his money on getting himself fixed up with plastic surgery and dental work. He mispent his money.He didn't earn the right to go in the hall of fame. Susie and Q stop whining.

Posted by Carol Long on Monday, 05/18/2015 @ 19:42pm

it does not matter if he is gay or not. at least when we go to one of his show we can all forget the bullshit wars and prejudice that's tearing up the world today for at least 1 or 2 hours. look at little Richard, he is a preacher now and still gets love and respect. I seen him on a talk show years back just before he became a preacher and the talk was about being saved and one guy said he don't know if he could be saved or not and little Richard said " brother, if the good lord can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody."

Posted by paul on Saturday, 06/27/2015 @ 01:25am

If the impact of greatness in rock music was divided up into a System of Tiers, the greatest artists such as The Beatles, Elvis and Dylan would be in the First Tier. ? Mark & The Mysterians would then be in the 96th Tier.

Posted by DIAMOND on Sunday, 03/25/2018 @ 23:08pm

Way back in 1987-89 I was air talent at WTAC radio in Flint. "Wee-Tac, The Big 6" was first to play "96 Tears@ back in 1966. Question Mark and The Mysterians appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and Where The Action is - a live beach party show on the ABC Network. The group might have gone far, but they never had another song that even came close to 96 Tears. Couple that with bad management by rip-off gonif Neil Bogart who took everything and gave them nothing and that pretty much killed any chances of stardom.

I met "Q" in 88 when he appeared on my show to promote a 4 song cassette he was promoting. He showed up with his manager Laverne Thompson. Talk about the odd couple. Laverne's a tough looking dude and "Q" was a slightly effeminate man. But, when I sat down and actually talked with him he lost the effeminate facade and I realized he used that as part of his aurora of "mystique. I likened him to one of the glam rock stars of the 80s.
To me he was an artist who really was serious about reviving his career. We played his cover of the Stones "Time is on my Side." There were three other tunes we played followed by interviews. I really thought he had a chance for a comeback. He had a new band "Pegasus" that recorded the tunes. I met Riley Mooney his lead guitarist. A very talented musician who reminded me of guitarists Brian Jones And Ronnie Wood. His backup singer Vangie Ateaga's vocals had so much soul. I thought "Q" was going to make a comeback. But, I found out there were people at our station who looked at him as a one-hit-wonder. People in Flint who believed he was a has been. That he had his place in the sun, 15 minutes of fame. The effeminate bit didn't help. I think if Q had just been himself, not put on the bullshit facade "I'm from Mars" etc, I think he might have made a comeback. Sadly that's all gone and he's relegated to the oldies circuit.

Yeah, he's pretty much retired now. However that song he created over 50 years ago: 96 Tears is still receiving airplay all over the world. When I was in Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines I heard it on classic rock and oldies stations. I'm sure that long after "Q" and The Mysterians have travelled back to Mars "96 Tears" will still be haunting the airwaves.

So, should "Q & The Mysterians" be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall
Of Fame? I leave that answer for you to decide.

Posted by Tom Crown on Wednesday, 05/13/2020 @ 19:38pm

Kinda feel bad for voting no, because 96 tears is one of the all-time great 60's songs.

Maybe they could be used for that mess of a singles category.

Posted by Katherine Mathers, Princess of Generica on Thursday, 12/24/2020 @ 05:34am

I personally think Q is or was one of the best entertainers out there. He is definitely got the moves on for dancing and I find him to be quite sexy when he dances. He can really get the crowd moving with all his energy and I also love his voice. It is a dam shame they did not make it financially like Greta Van Fleet did, that is being from Michigan and all. Probably a little racism going on because after all it was in the 60,s. One my first 45 records I bought was of course
"96 Tears". I was just in Dayton Ohio and had no idea they were just the next state up in Michigan.
I just recently listened to some of their other recordings. They are rockin!!! Don't know if they tour anymore but I would certainly go to see them, and yes, they should have been inducted to the "Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a long time ago!

Posted by Karen Orr on Saturday, 08/19/2023 @ 20:21pm

I am 70 years old !
It seems like only yesterday in the Fall of 1966 when I was only 13 years old, I walked into a Teen Rec Center in Wichita, Kansas where I grew up ...
And was Looking at the songs they had in a Jukebox!
I Remember seeing for the 1st Time a song on the Jukebox
Called ... 96 TEARS !
I wondered what 96 TEARS was ?
The song just seemed to jump out of the Jukebox at me !
So, I played it for the 1st Time
And fell In Love with the Song
As well as The Guy who sang it !
The most Gorgeous, Sexy, Mexican guy I ever saw !

Posted by Sandy on Friday, 11/17/2023 @ 01:18am

As For Question Mark and The Mysterians ...
I Love Those Guys !
They should have been in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Years Ago !

Posted by Sandy on Friday, 11/17/2023 @ 01:58am

I was in bands in the 1960s and know how hard it is to capture an audience. Rudy was a masterful pro at all of that. Watching his YouTube video from 1997 with the Saginaw Orchestra is one of the all-time great performances I have ever seen in terms of energy, exhuberence, excitement, just plain sexiness. The audience is in a constant state of euphoria. And he does several SPLITS at the end. I shall always love Rudy and especially his quirkiness...that's what makes him special. I still imagine Q and Jagger onstage together. I only wish it could have happened like it did when Rudy and Ronnie Spector wowed them years back. Q and The Mysterians are special and SHOULD be in the Hall....and I only wish Rudy had the money he deserves. I will always treasure his high school yearbooks I found on eBay recently. Can't say enough about this exciting and fun man. And if he is gay, who cares. It's just a fact...he was HOT! A pro!

Posted by Jim Lekas on Saturday, 04/6/2024 @ 09:45am