 When AIP renewed the "Pebbles series" in 1983, the company was apparently more interested in documenting local music scenes than in scattershot groupings of American garage rock records, so the Highs in the Mid-Sixties series was begun concurrently, with a total of 23 volumes devoted to recordings from specific American cities, states and regions, as compared to the 18 volumes of AIP Pebbles LPs.What's more, 10 of the 18 LPs that AIP issued in the "Pebbles series" were compilations of recordings from continental Europe in the sub-series the Continent Lashes Back.According to the Bomp!