Ramones live were great, I have yet to see concert footage that captures the loud, speed and excitement of the shows, i was lucky to see them a few times and meet joey outside the hoilday inn one night.

the Ramones "Ramones" 1976 album added to the National Recording Registry in the U.S. Library of Congress.  Joins this years inductees of Dark Side of the Moon and Saturday Night Fever among others

http://business.time.com/2013/03/21/dark-side-of-the-moon-saturday-...

Cheers ChazDaddy! Good call, Bob Log III is brilliant, and Doo Rag too! I haven't heard much Guided by Voices but will check out more of their early stuff for sure.

ChazDaddy said:

Awesome list Ben E! Actually many great lists here as usual. I would have listed almost everyone you did, I could add Bob Log III or early GBV.


Ben E said:

The Gories, The 5678s, Pussy Galore, early Blues Explosion, Guitar Wolf (their first album, Wolf Rock, was recorded on a walkman!), Ty Segall (especially his first couple of albums), Bloodshot Bill, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Mark Sultan, Dirty Beaches..

Budget Rock = The Mummies and Jonny Manak & The Depressives are a great team.

Lo - Fi = The Gories/early Dirtbombs are the best, period.

Awesome list Ben E! Actually many great lists here as usual. I would have listed almost everyone you did, I could add Bob Log III or early GBV.

Ben E said:

The Gories, The 5678s, Pussy Galore, early Blues Explosion, Guitar Wolf (their first album, Wolf Rock, was recorded on a walkman!), Ty Segall (especially his first couple of albums), Bloodshot Bill, The King Khan and BBQ Show, Mark Sultan, Dirty Beaches..

Here are Witchfinder General plus topless extra starring on the cover of their rather good Death Penalty album:

Even worse, however, is the cover of a great album by D.I.

I love Swamp Dogg's music, but some of his album covers ...

Horny Bell Ends. From Utah ? Wow.

dave said:

Maybe not ugly, but scary.

here is the album cover for Utah reggae band Wasnatch's Front to Back. Their music, sadly, does not live up to the promise of the artwork. What could, really? But I bet Wasnatch tear it up on the Utah reggae circuit.

Heino would be proud.

Tersicore said:

I´m at a loss for words! :D

Maybe not ugly, but scary.

here is the album cover for Utah reggae band Wasnatch's Front to Back. Their music, sadly, does not live up to the promise of the artwork. What could, really? But I bet Wasnatch tear it up on the Utah reggae circuit.

This week's show had music from Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, Buzzcocks, UK Subs, Undertones, The Sonics, The Scenics and music form Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin's Reverse Shark Attack album. 

Listen/download to the show here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20130319-1030-t1363685400.mp3

Blog post about Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin's Reverse Shark Attack here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2013/03/reverse-shark-attack-show-447.html

The Play List:

1. Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs – Have A 100
2. The Coastliners – I’ll Be Gone
3. Jan & Dean – Horace The Swinging School Bus Driver
4. The Reply – Better You
5. The Waldos – Busted
6. Alex Chilton – Just To See You
7. Steak House Mints – Don’t Mess With Me
8. Shotgun Jimmie – Growing Like A Garden
9. Wire – Love Bends
10. Boats – O Telescope
11. Papermaps – You Are My Gallows
12. The Evens – Sooner Or Later
13. Vice Creems – Won’t You Be My Girl
14. The Sonics – Maintaining My Cool
15. The Scenics – No Sleep
16. Travel Check – Tripping Waves
17. Carbonas – Butcher
18. The Adverts – Back From The Dead (BBC Session)
19. UK Subs – Tomorrow’s Girls (Single Version)
20. Undertones – Get Over You
21. Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind
22. Paul Jacobs – Being Yourself
23. Paul Jacobs – Wrong Medication
24. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – High School
25. Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin – I Wear Black

The first show i went to watch was 20/20 performing at the Whisky a-Go-Go, Los Angeles back in 1979. They had just released their first album entitled 20/20 and the single from it was "Yellow Pills" which received a lot of airplay on KROQ at the time. They were a new wave/power pop band and they never had a hit song.

I saw Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs at Springlake amusement park in Oklahoma City in the summer of 1965 when their current hit was "Ju Ju Hand."

When I was in junior high in OKC a couple of years later, there was a local band called The Inmates who had an intense Yardbirds fixation and did a vicious version of "The Hanky Panky." They were pretty punk.

I saw The Fall in Santa Fe in 1981 play in Santa Fe in an old movie theater. Before the show I got to interview Mark E. Smith, who told me The Fall wasn't punk rock. He was right but he was wrong.

The first proper gig I went to was a grungy pop punk band called Ratcat at a small bar in Kings Cross, Sydney. I was only 15 and got in with somebody's paper driving license. It was packed and a great gig.

First punk show was The Ramones in 1991 at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion. They were great but the support band was even better - local band the Hard Ons, who concluded their set with bass player Ray Ahn doing an amazing fire breathing routine..

Best show (or one of the best) was Einsturzende Neubauten, Beasts of Bourbon and Sydney punk band Nunbait at the Phoenician Club, Sydney in 1992. Amazing line-up, cool venue, and I used the same fake ID to get in that I used at the Ratcat gig..

First punks shows were probably some friends bands - can't even remember. Some of the best would be Zero Boys, Zeros, Testors, GIZMOS NYE show. D.O.A. private party show. 

Currently all the Toronto summer bridge shows are without a doubt a blast. This will be the 4th (?) season, most fun I've had at shows in recent memory - usually doesn't matter who is playing, but mostly good local bands anyway - School Jerks, Kremlin, Career Suicide,....etc.

Upcoming shows looking forward to. Red Cross and later Diamond Head. Both old, but hopefully they will still be good.

When I was a kid in Australia, there was (probably still is) an all-night music video show on ABC TV every weekend called Rage - for me and my mates around the same age it was an amazing source of eclectic music, and pretty much where we discovered punk rock. Because the show ran all night with no host (except the occasional guest programmer from a touring band), they had about 8 hours of air time to fill and would play anything and everything, seemingly at random!

I think I'd already heard the Sex Pistols and The Clash, but at about the age of 13, Rage was the first time I was exposed to The Saints, Radio Birdman, Birthday Party, The Ramones, Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, The Pogues, NYC noise bands like Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore, and Australian contemporary punk bands like the Hard Ons. It was definitely love at first sight and sound with all this stuff!

at the weekend, I was sitting listening to my 8 year old daughter and 5 year old son talking about music and singing their favourite songs. One Direction and all the usual kid stuff came out. Then to my total surprise they started singing a tune. I'm sitting saying...I know that tune, what is it? Turns out it was 'Viva La Revolution' The Addicts. both have mp3 players and I put stuff on every now and again to make sure 'its never too early', haha. brilliant. Really made my weekend. A great introduction to punk rock i'm sure you'll agree???

In a coffin!

swt said:

How do you get out?

How do you get out?

And Maximum Rock'n'roll !!! My friend imported it to sell it all over italy, and I don t think he ever made a cent on it , but I had my fresh copy every month. Another friend also from my city, wrote the Italian column very often. I visited the headquarters and met Tim the owner later.. a sweetie!!

Still Active all female or female-fronted: The Moaners, Black Belles, The Kills

Not active, but worth looking up: Pandoras, The Brood, Trashwomen, Bobbyteens

Female-fronted b-movie monster rock? The Horrorpops is all that comes to mind, but they're Dutch I think.

The Flytraps are all babes out of Los Angeles I've been keeping an eye and ear on

New Black Angels album out soon. Check'em out!

That Brazilian band is cool. Of course Venom are amazing, but I never really thought of them as stoner rock, though I'm sure a lot of people get stoned and listen to them, so whatever. Atomic Bitchwax, Monster Magnet, St. Vitus are all great never heard the rest—should look into them.

I recently acquired a long time want, Melvins - Ozma. Been rocking the heck out of that one recently.

Lora Logic was gone , by the time of X-Ray Spex's first album (She was in the band ca, 76 - 77 , but their first LP did'nt come out 'til 1978.).. She skronked up a storm , tho'.

Logic and Styrene both joined The Hare Krishnas
 , though , it seems Styrene was the more devoted of the two , though , eventually returning to Secular music , in the '90's , with "Conscious Consuner " , X- Ray Spex's  second and final official LP.  Lora Logic also appeared on that CD , and in the "ex - Ray Spex' lineup , which recieved top billing at the Holidays in The SUN FESTIVAL IN '96 , despite Poly Styrene having been ousted from her own band.
Katie Dubz said:

Lora Logic is great! I really enjoy the band she put together after being booted from Spex...Essential Logic!! I think there was a couple dudes that came after her to play sax in X-Ray Spex but neither could match that coltish self-taught sound she brought to their first album.

John Battles said:

 I can't think of that many , besides Mark Lindsay. When The Raiders were still more of a Frat Rock group , he was honkin' his horn a'plenty , and , later on the recited smoocher "Melody For an Unknown Girl.",  already out of date for it's time. I saw Mark in 2001 , and he was wailin' sax on numbers like "You Can't Sit Down" and "Night Train". Of course , The Raiders' "Louie" was more sax - driven , too. I'm not good on names . The Wailers had a couple of great sax players , inc. the guy who played with them in later years , when they stormed the Ponderosa Stomp. He killed !

 

Screamin' Jay played a pretty mean sax , himself , as did Ray Charles. Dave Hill from The Treniers , who's still alive and well , Dave "Bubba" Mitchell , from Milt Trenier's band , also still alive and CRAZY , as he nears his 90th Year , Earl Bostic , Louis Jordan ,  Lonnie Youngblood , The late , great , Sam Butera , Bobby Keyes , of course , Gordon from The Fleshtones , God Rest His Soul , Lora Logic from X- Ray Spex and Red Krayola , and her successor in the first band - Forgot his name - And ,who's the cat from The Pastel Six? I saw him sit in with Sky Saxon and The Seeds , it worked , too ! , Jesse Scinto , who's a younger guy , is keeping the honkin' sax tradition going , but , he does'nt seem to play much , these days....