Mel,

   I use one of the Boss/Fender FRV-1 pedals as well and can not recommend them more. They aren't 100% accurate to the old 63 outboard units but are damn close and substantially cheaper. Even more, they are a lot less fragile.

Mel Bergman said:

All,

Having tried many reverbs through the years, I think the new Boss/Fender pedal is the best at recreating an old outboard Fender. And as a bonus, it runs on a 9v battery, which is great for traveling overseas. Danelectro- JUnk. Holy grail, okay, but not lacks that certain something. I remember building a small box with the guts of a 64 reverb and a tiny accutronix pan, just to get something I could take on a Plane. Imagine trying that now, post 9/11.

Mel
Phantom Surfers


Mel
Phantom Surfers

re Europe, we've used vinylfactory for our first two releases. 

a top quality final product; not the cheapest in the UK but would rather push out something which people will want to keep. 

high predigree - it's the old EMI factory at Hayes.

In some strange way this one is although less truthful (and probably because of being so) more faithful to punk spirit than The Filth & The Fury. It´s not an account of the facts, it´s a portrait of the attitude.

Total farce but a brilliant movie.  I don’t think we were ever supposed to believe Malcolm was truthful.   

The main redeeming thing about the movie was the Sid Vicious "My Way" segment. And "Good Ship Venus." Both these are at the end.

Snagged this from the Dangerous Minds blog:

Julian Temple’s 1980 mockumentary The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle attempts to drain the last bit of blood from the corpse of The Sex Pistols. With Pistols’ Svengali Malcolm McClaren as his accessory in this crime against historical fact, Temple depicts the Pistols as a sham act with little or no bona fide talent foisted on an easily manipulated youth culture. Of course, he was wrong and would later do penance by directing the far more accurate documentary The Filth and The Fury 20 years later.

McClaren may have constructed The Sex Pistols but once his monster was out of the lab it was a genuine force to be reckoned with. The Pistols influence is as potent now as it was the day they were born. McClaren had a genius for promotion and anticipating/creating trends, but he was mad for thinking that the Pistols were solely a product of his own ego-driven machinations. The raw material was already there.

The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle may have been intended as a joke, but the joke ended up being on its creators, not the band or its fans. Temple may have been trying to make a satirical film about a rock band as pop culture product along the lines of Bob Rafaelson’s Monkees’ flick Head, but he did so without any of Rafaelson’s imagination, wit or charm. While Head was a surreal and entertaining romp, Swindle has the stench of something gone sour.

Chaotic, tiresome, but not without moments of brilliance (Temple is no hack) and great live music, here’s TGR&RS in its entirety. Very nice quality.

This looks amazing!!! The late 70's Boston scene was always one of my faves as a lot of the bands took the best from the 60's punk era and melded it with the 70's punk energy....hence creating garagepunk!!!

Thanx to Monoman and DMZ, The Real Kids, Classic Ruins, Mighty Ions, Sass, Third Rail,Thundertrain and sooooo many more cool Boston combos!!

This is gonna be KILLER!!!

YES!!!

This looks similar in theme to the "Bflo Pnk 1.0" I've been trying to find this summer. I look forward to seeing this as well. Let's hope these are just the beginning...

Check this out:

http://www.boysfromnowhere.org/

Boys From Nowhere

The Story of Boston's Garage Punk Uprising

"Boys From Nowhere" is a documentary currently in production that centers on a handful of Boston area bands who came together in the mid-to-late 1970s and went against the grain of weak, irritating Top 40 radio with raw, catchy rock'n'roll. Feature coming in 2012!

got to agree with teen fink, the fuzztones ruined pretty much every song they covered, turning great punk classics into boring-goth-rock plodders! Its like they really didnt get it! Should've been a heavy metal band probably.

....then theres van halens version of 'you really got me' that one really gets me! (maybe van halen and the fuzztones are the same band hmmmm)

Gerne geschehen ;)

Can't talk for my band, as this is our band's profile, but me, being German, my fave NDW band is without a doubt...

Extrabreit!

Their debut album is great from start to finish!

This is for Luke, who wanted to see some Phantom's...............Though not stock, this "Phantomcaster" is a historical piece of LA Rock N Roll history, for it belongs to Mike Palm, legendary guitar player in Socal Punk band, "Agent Orange". I took this photo backstage at their show Saturday night at The Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana Ca

yeah cool would love to see it, my phantom has a hank marvin trem on it that i have only ever seen in these vox adds + i need an original bridge and bridge pickup put back into it 

John Carlucci said:

Nope. I never owned a Phantom. I had a Rickenbacker endorsement deal when I was in The Fuzztones so that's basically what I played. Before that I used my 67 Gibson EB2, the one in my profile picture. I was going for that Yardbirds sound. They used the Epiphone Rivoli, which was basically the same instrument. The Phantom's look cool, but I never liked the feel of the neck. My buddy Ryan who plays in a local SoCal band called Thee Spectors has the coolest Phantom ever. I'll try and get him to join & post some photos.

 

Luke Greenwood said:

you use to be in the fuzztones yeah? do you have any cool phantoms you can post pics of in here?

John Carlucci said:

Hey, you look familiar to me!

 

Nice Yamaha! Very unique body style.

Mardy Pune said:

This is yesterdays score; A 1987 Yamaha SS 300.

Here's a crazy late 60's/early 70's Japanese multi-effect made by Companion. By turning the selector knob on the side you can access; a hurricane sound, a surf sound, a wah or you can switch it to make it a volume pedal. In addition to these the switch on the top front of the housing turns on a siren sound that sounds very similar to the sound from 50's police movies. The Hurricane and Surf sounds are just basically made by pink and white noise generators in the circuit. I've never found a practical use for this pedal, but it sure is a lot of fun to goof off with!

That is hot John!

I used to have an Ibanez lawsuit copy of the Les Paul Recording Guitar. I love the electronics in those things, Gibson were really trying to push the envelope with those things.

John Carlucci said:

This is my 75 Gibson Les Paul Triumph Recording bass. One of only 200 made in white. (which has faded to yellow) It's one of the best sounding basses I ever heard.

This is yesterdays score; A 1987 Yamaha SS 300. I walked into the local guitar repair shop to grab some parts for a job I'm doing and walked out with it! They're getting out of the retail side of their business and everything was half price. For $200 Kiwi, I couldn't turn it down!

Ah well, it's all in fun anyway: Keep rockin', y'all.

I get paid with beer when I'm lucky.. Mostly only 2 beers each member of the group.. But sometimes 3-5 each member YEAH!

I'm not sure what the first Garagepunk podcast was that I listened to, I got here following a trail of Rock and Roll podcasts from elsewhere and ended up here several years ago, and have been coming back ever since. It may well have been a Flying Saucer show at first, but the hunt for rock and roll changed with an additional interest in the trashy side of punk and garage music, and this seemed to be the ideal place to listen.

I guess a lot of the meat of this discussion depends on what you consider garage and what you don't.

In my humble opinion, there is more to garage than just influences and all garage did not descend from the 60s British Invasion (which I think (Rock History Blasphemy Warning) we could have lived without in America) as many would have us believe. Buddy Holly was recording his songs (played in a garage) in the fifties using Lo-fi equipment and his drummer thumping a cardboard box on Not Fade Away.

For my part, if it's too clean,polished and processed, it ain't garage.

I call my music "Garage" cause that's where I write it, play it and often record it. I realize too, that the conventional definition of the "G" word probably means something different to most people.   

Oh my god this is so truuuue. Which is why I try to play as many of the more obscure 60's Garage Bands on my show as I can. Also..thanks to the previous folks who agreed with my post.

Jon said:

yes. trendy as fck.. i have a DJ night where I play tons of BFTG tunes, stuff from all those awesome comps from Teenage Shutdown to the Quagmire series, but people don't seem intrested in really knowing the genre. as well as more current garagepunk band... instead tons of people go out to this other night where they play nothing outside the Nuggets comp and even then its usually only the Sonics, sometimes 13th floor elevators and a bunch of other top 40 tracks from the 60's and people are always at shows trying to brag about how much they know about "garage" and how good it is but can never talk any further than the sonics, mummies, gories, white stripes, and the black lips.