hey all. Apparently I'm the only person I know going to the FIRST night of cavestomp, friday november 2nd. I hate going to shows alone. if anyone's in a similar situation and wants to meet up, drop me a line!

Maybe I am a bit slow on the uptake, but it took over 20 years and an article in the very un-garage punk mag, The Wire to finally start listening to The Melvins.
Since playing their Senile Animal release I've wrapped my ears round Bullhead, Ozma, Stoner Witch and today will be spent listening to Houdini.
I've even turned a couple of the Nu Metal fans at work on to them.

It was the same for Husker Du. I bought Land Speed Record when it came out, but didn't pay any attention to any of their releases after that because they weren't "punk" enough.
Years after they break up I hear a best of album and wonder what they fuck was I thinking? These guys rock! My Cd of Candy Apple Grey is always on high rotation at Yates Manor.

Let me know what bands you took some time to discover and how.

Anyway I've gotta go now and read a blog about some guy called Neil Young.

Hi!
I saw them in february and I had a good time :D

and boy was it fun.

Next month marks the 5 year anniversary of www.GarageRockRadio.com. We have some MP3s and podcasts for your listening pleasure. It's all 1960s garage Rock, drop by and have a listen!

www.surfguitar101.com Check it out!

I must say, when I was much younger I thought this guy was hillarious. But then I started to think that a guy as old as he was still eating his own shit was kind of rediculous. I mean I grew out of the "eating my own shit" phase once I turned 16 or something.

Yep, legend for bein' a dumbass. I like a few of his early songs, but overall I was always unimpressed with his music, and even less impressed with his antics. Whatever...

Legendary entertainer. He made simple and catchy songs, almost primal rockabilly like "cock on the loose, hard candy cock and bite it you scum." To me they are pure rock and roll anthems. Love his work, not so much as person. Merle is cool though.

GG Allin is a legendary dumbass...love him always and forever.

Is GG Allin a legend or a dumbass?

Rainbo in Santa Monica does very good work. www.rainborecords.com If you're using United, I'd recommend getting your records mastered elsewhere and having the masters sent to United - their mastering department was very shoddy when I was using them some years ago. Shipping will be a significant factor in the cost, so united may wind up being much cheaper for the Midwest and East. Also, 10"s generally cost more than 12"s, so unless you plan on shipping a lot of them overseas, you may want to just do it on 12". You can do like Sven-Erik Geddes did with the Shatners' record and use the extra space for something nutty.

Here are some more links to pressingplants, I don't know if they are good or bad as we haven't tried them. All European companys. http://www.duophonic.de/ http://www.eldorado-media.com/ http://www.pallas-group.de/ http://www.optimal-online.de

We mostly use United, but we did go through recordpressing.com for one of our releases. Both of them do 10" records, i think.

http://www.musicolrecording.com/ that is where we pressed our last two 7"s. They don't do 10" though.

Cool PJ, I will check them out. Do they have their own pressingplant or do they press the records somewhere else?

We have used GZ Digital Media in the Czech Republic for all our releases. We are satisfied with the work they have done for us so far. We did get a 7" production in 1 week and 2 days when we were in a rush and that was very good service. They also press 10".

A friend of ours is using Handle With Care in Germany and he is recommending them.

Does anyone know which is the cheapest pressplant right now?

We have been thinking of turning to some US pressingplant as the US Dollar is so low against our swedish krona right now but we don't know which pressingplants that are good, any ideas?

No, it's not new, but I thought this 4th episode of the Wild Wild Sound podcast would make some of you girlies happy... CLICK HERE and play it!

An MP3 would be excellent. I'd give my left nut to own the original 45 but I'd be pleased as punch with just a copy. Hopefully someone here has it.

I don't think that song has ever been comped. But I'm sure someone here has the original 45... maybe whoever has it can rip an MP3 of it and upload it to their page here for ya.

Hi,
I'm looking for a song and I thought someone here might be able to help me out. I'm trying to find the flipside to Red Beard & The Pirates "Go On Leave / Don't Be A Loser" 45. I've got "Go On Leave" on three or four different comps but I can't find "Don't Be A Loser" anywhere. An mp3, a cdr, a cassette, anything will do. I just need a copy of the song. I'd appreciate it if anyone could help out or point me in the right direction.
Thanks

where's the link to the blog?

So I FINALLY got my blog, Raunchy Noise, kickin' & screamin' ...this is my first go at an actual "music" blog so any advice would be appreciated but won't necessarily be taken... check it out here

Latest edition of Caught in The Red, up now! I think the show has been kinda crap lately, but this episode is actually pretty good... Go to: http://www.citr.ca/podcast.php and tap on 'Caught in The Red' for Tuesday September 4th. Great stuff from The Ramones, The Sonics, The Surfaris, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Blank-Its, Dax Riggs, Haunted George and much more! Rock On S3AN

My day job makes me travel relentlessly. The occasional week at home in San Francisco is a rare blessing. I'm leaving on Sunday for another 2 weeks in the Quad Cities, followed by a weekend in Chicago Sept 7th & 8th. Any decent shows going on? After I'm done with Illinois I'm going to be back and forth to Alabama through October and November. Mostly just Monday through Thursday with occasional week at home. Should any Alabama-ites know of good shows, or just want a beer sometime, hook me up. Oh, I'm also a moderately well-known semi-professional photographer in California. I can bring my Nikon if anyone needs good photographs. Finally, Cavestomp is over my go-live weekend in Alabama, so I guess I'll run up to NY for two of the nights instead of flying back to SF. Be good to see some old friends again.