Ken , I've got that Marvel  Alice Cooper comic book. It's great ! It's done in an EC Horror / Mad comics style , with similar attention to detail. Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon from "Car 54 , Where are You" even appear in one panel...   I happen to know the guy who created the "Howlin' Wolf" character you mention , BUT , I scarcely see him , anymore , and I think he'd be glad that someone even knew where he got the name !  Another company did an Alice Cooper comic book tie - in with his low - key return to form CD "The Last Temptation" . OK, "lOST IN aMERICA " WAS'NT SO LOW KEY , WITH THE INCLUSION ON " BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD" , whom Alice said he wrote the song for , anyway.

Ken said:

Alice Cooper had a one shot deal with marvel in the late 70s.

 

There was a great Spider-Man comic in the 80s where he was singing an Elvis Costello song.  I can't remember which one, but I remember as a kid it was the first time I had heard of him.  (Not long afterwards, Mad did a parody of him where they called him Elfish Costello.)

 

Marvel did a REALLY bad character in the 90s who was named after Howlin' Wolf. He... uh... turned into a wolf.

 

It was either the Statics or the 145s that did a song about the Human Torch in the 90s that was really funny.

Well, and to toot my own horn... Lots of music stuff in my own comic.  Here's  page from my first issue drawn by Michael Neno.  The main character for these stories is a monster hunting "priest" who plays in a rock band and scours seedy bars for creatures of the night.  (I told Michael to borrow from Joey Ramone and Question Mark for the character's general appearance.)

Alice Cooper had a one shot deal with marvel in the late 70s.

There was a great Spider-Man comic in the 80s where he was singing an Elvis Costello song.  I can't remember which one, but I remember as a kid it was the first time I had heard of him.  (Not long afterwards, Mad did a parody of him where they called him Elfish Costello.)

Marvel did a REALLY bad character in the 90s who was named after Howlin' Wolf. He... uh... turned into a wolf.

It was either the Statics or the 145s that did a song about the Human Torch in the 90s that was really funny.

It's such a great record, but , hard to find in decent shape , since kids used to leave their records lying around to get stepped on , or whatever...Now that records are "Coming back" , maybe the tradition will continue. I recently found a rpretty good copy ,not perfect....It was reissued under Sun - Ra's name (Even though he did'nt have much to do onit.) ca. 1999 or 2000 , w/o the great DC comic art cover....
"Superman" was on "Low Budget" ....I think. I have more Kinks records than I have time to play. In the 90's ,I 'd find 'em  for a dollar all the time...But , I like their Late 70's "Comeback" material. I have a boot , on tape , somewhere , they're very drunk (Say it ain't so !!! ) ,doing "Superman " and the "Batman" theme , which, of course , they'd done since The Year of Our Lord , The Batman , 1966
DammitDave said:

"The Sensational Guitars of DAN AND DALE - BATMAN AND ROBIN" album come highly recommended. Both were rumored to feature Lou Reed on guitar  . The latter LP , MORE RECENTLY , WAS REVEALED TO FEATURE SUN RA (On organ) , with The Blues Project."

 

I used to have that lp as a kid!  Loved it!

 

In the 70’s, the Kinks did a song called Superman.  It was on Low Budget, I think.

Do my spider-senses detect the makings of a comic book themed podcast in this thread?

Someone really should get working on it…

The Frankenstein Five , from Canada , eh? I booked , or co - booked , you guys in Chicago , with Lava Sutra , many years ago... Yeah , The New Fugitives got away with murder , but I think they figured that not many people were going to hear it. "When the rumors start around that I did it to my girl last night.  When all we did , that time , was watch the movies and go home and fight ! THAT'S QUEER !". iT'S LIKE THAT SONG "LISTEN GIRL" , " I'll shoot YOU in the head !!".
"I Found a Peanut " by the mighty ,mighty Thee Midniters, ranks up there with "Spazz" , tho' it's not really offensive to any particular group...... JOHN.
The Frankenstein Five said:

"That's Queer" by The NEw Fugitives (Back From the Grave) : "My father calls me black boy, but really I'm as white as a ghost". Jeesh!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ59NVuZ3p0

"That's Queer" by The NEw Fugitives (Back From the Grave) : "My father calls me black boy, but really I'm as white as a ghost". Jeesh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ59NVuZ3p0

I haven't seen them mentioned yet, but I'll have to say pretty much the entire Mentors catalog.

No , they can't , but , that's Johnny humor. It's hard to imagine anyone taking it seriously.

I heard "Midnight Rambler" earlier today. For years , I thought the line was "I'm gonna hit and run rape her in anger...." But , now , I think he was saying "Hit and Run Rapier" , since he's reading off a list of weapons....I realize all this info is available elsewhere , but I only posess the sufficient lack of laziness to keep up with THIS.     ALSO , tHE STONES WERE JUST REGARDED , BY MANY , AS A "yin/yang" opposite to The Beatles' more vulnerable love song repertoirre ....even though "Run For Your Life " or "You Can't Do That" , to cite only two examples , COULD have been regular staples in Johnny Thunders' act  , except there's nothing funny about either of them. John Lennon and Johnny Thunders both had woman issues , and for similar reasons.

MikeL said:

How about "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones?  The singer is bragging about his girlfriend's submissiveness, and the line that really gets me is when he sings, "I can still look at someone else."  Yeah, I know it's a mild example, but it's the one that stands out in my mind.

 

Oh, wait, I just thought of a far more horrible example..."Little Bit of Whore" by Johnny Thunders when he briefly worked with Wayne Kramer.  It's a great rock'n'roll song, but the lyrics can NEVER be heard in mixed company.

no she is not this super popular. but one of her song was in the film Coffee and Cicarets. But I agree she dosent fit to modern "pop" music..

and Mina this adolf hitler song kicks ass lol

kopper said:

Of course! Holly Golightly can do no wrong, in my opinion (she was in Thee Headcoatees, after all!), but is she really "popular"? Has any of her stuff ever reached the charts? We are talking about POP music here, right?

Axel Björnsson said:

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5h-LAvQDCQ

I kinda like this, or maybe I just like the girl.

Of course! Holly Golightly can do no wrong, in my opinion (she was in Thee Headcoatees, after all!), but is she really "popular"? Has any of her stuff ever reached the charts? We are talking about POP music here, right?

Axel Björnsson said:

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

I think MTV had a lot to do with the decline of popular music. I also think a lot of it has to do with style and what is fashionable.

since the discussion have changed (to better) than I'm gonna post some modern pop that I like.

This chick Holly Golightly is pretty wicked.. Some of her song are nice "garage". She have defenitly influenced this popular english chicks with this retro sound like Amy Winehouse and the other I forgot the name....

But when we go even more "pop" I can still find few songs who are listenable.. 

common this is smooth :P

and this brand new .. lol

and this Jamie dude has a attitute..

Only on occasion do the masses get it right. Not sure if these qualify but Nikka Costa, Amy Winehouse, Gorilla's, Outkast, MGMT, Flaming Lips, The New Pornographers are all pretty good in my book, but I have a very wide range of music that I like. I think Christina Aguilera is quite talented.  Also, there was a lot of really horrible horrible pop in the 50's 60's and 70's, what you hear now from those eras are the songs that made the cut.

best british pop artist in years Jamie T

I honestly stopped listening to "pop" music (Top 40-type stuff) when I discovered punk in the early '80s, so it's hard for me to comment on what's currently popular. At least in the early '80s we had a lot of new wave stuff that was in the charts, so it wasn't completely bad. The '70s had its moments, too. But these days, it's hard for me to comment (but I will!)... I hear a lot of shit when I'm out amongst the zombies in the general public, in retail stores and public places (like getting my hair cut at Great Clips, for example), that is really awful, and I can only assume it's modern-day pop music. It always amazes me just how bad it is and I'm floored that I often see people actually singing along to it. This is why I can't stomach shows like American Idol—it's exactly the same way. Take modern country music, for example. It's downright terrible. I mean really, really bad pop music that just so happens to be about a guy and his truck or some stupid shit. Aside from the goofy lyrics and singer's down-home good ol' boy (or gal) accent, it sounds just like the rest of the pop music shit. And don't get me started on "modern rock," modern R&B or hip hop. Try comparing modern R&B to the stuff of the '60s & '70s... completely different animals. All that stuff appears to be very popular and in the mainstream, so while Mike makes a good point that some music being produced today isn't terrible, you just don't hear it as often as you hear the completely awful shit.

I stumbled across this tune (below) on Blip.fm not too long ago. I don't know if it was popular in the UK a couple of years ago or not, but it's a great song and definitely should've been if it wasn't...

New (well, 2009 new):

I know this is a garage website and the fashions of those decades are more relevant to this site but pop music is as it has generally been.

Melodic songs will always be around though and every so often a bigwig will back a band that's able to make one and it will hit the charts. It's important to remember that every decade produces a lot of shit, and I really can't get much of today's pop music but it'd be a bit ignorant to just assume there's nothing good out there.

Come on my dear Barber, is the swill really the right place for LOVE declarations and sentimental confessions ???

Now, swipe that mud from your cheeks and feel reassured my friend, as Joey said, the feeling's mutual !

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:

I got my face in the swill !

Oh and Joey, Kopper and Soul Preacher, Mr A LOVES YOU and all YOU DO.

I've learnt to live with self criticism!

Still have to listen to this but I swear it won't be long now !!!

By the way, it's probably none of my business but I couldn't help wondering : Why, o why this episode is not part of the GaragePunk Podcast Network ?

South Bay PORK Podcast said:

New episode posted!

 

I had a live365 show called Consolidated Fuzz for about 4 years. The plan I was on cost about $15 a month and for that I think I got 300 MB which I was happy with because I only ever did shows that were a maximum of 4 hours long, so at 64kbps bitrate I never used up my allotted space anyhow. I was limited to 25 concurrent listeners on that plan. My total listening hours per month got as high as 1400, but average about 1000 I guess. I don't know if that qualifies as "succeeded" but I felt I did OK considering I did virtually no promotion for it.

The best thing is that people can search by genre and that's how I think most of my listeners found me.

My live365 show was basically an extension of my "real" radio show and what I used to do was compile a "best of" what I had played on radio every 3 weeks or so and leave that show up for that time. I don't think I would've wanted to get into programming hugely long shows because it is just too time consuming.

Incidentally yes 64kbps mp3s normally do sound horrible but on live365 they seemed to come across OK.  If you want to upload higher quality you can, it just costs more.  

mp3s at 64kbps sound absolutely horrible too, even to the thickest of ears

How is this different from the podcasts that you are already hosting?

YAY, another fan of english early 80s Garage !!!!  My formative years , one of the best gigs ever for me was The Stingrays & Vibes at Retford Porterhouse ....great days !

Bloodshot Bill is great ....a worthy successor to Charlie Feathers !

SarahJayne said:

It's for this reason that I don't limit my tastes to just a few genres. I can find at least one song I'll dig from ANY genre - even mainstream pop music, lol.

As far as 60s style tunes, I'm big on the whole trash revival that evolved from the early psychobilly scene, and consider those bands underrated. THE VIBES (!!!!!), Russian Roulette (pick up the 'fuckin' car 7" if you're into the Cramps), Stingrays, etc. etc. Garage covers with an upright bass, fuck yeah!

I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them : ).

PS, new G&R blows. Amen.

I guess it all depends on the promoter/organizer putting it on .....i do the annual VLV rockabilly weekend for instance & i get sent a cheque for my DJ services a month BEFORE the event takes place !  

 Any promoter who expects you to bring your own 'equipment' to an overseas gig is SERIOUSLY DELUSIONAL !