Hi K K,

 Thanks so much for the lowdown on the Detroit area and Bookies. In the 80's the company I worked for in Pittsburgh had me working in our offices on John R Road ( I think that's the name of the road??) and I stayed at a motel in Sterling Heights for a really long time!! I love Detroit but have only been there since to see bands and take the occasional jaunt into Canada.

  I used to live/hang out in El Aye in the 70's and 80's K.K. and Trudi were part of the crowd that made up a really cool scene then. By the time the 90's came along it was kinda hard to find anything worthwhile to really bother with so I stopped going to El Aye. I'm glad I was there when it was not just "happenin" but actully FUN.

 So tell me more about the bands you play in?

Luv,

Zane

I know the comic that made that video. We all thought it was super funny. Truth is though, there is so much to do here and so much going on.. in the music and art scenes here... there are not enough days in the week. Not to mention the cost of living and how accessible everything is. It's awesome here. All the touring bands who play here love it too. I can't stand when people bag on Cleveland. It's so completely underrated. I hope it stays that way .. I also love how real and unpretentious our music scene is.

Cleveland is great. For many reasons.

Whatever, trashman. :-P

oh thanks for adding that link Recordgrooves. 

Oops Kooper,I figured everyone knew about it. (Plus you know I'm very low-tech..! lol)

Get it here:

Bruise Cruise 2012

Um, where is it? Who's playing? You might wanna include a little more info... links and whatnot.

Anyone going? Just reserved cabins with a few of my girlfriends ..from Cleveland. Great line up of bands and activities. Super excited for this trip. This will definitely give me something to look forward to over the winter.

Here are a few pics to help you visualize this Garage Punk "mystery" :

-First, here's the tracklisting for volume 3 as written on the back cover :

Great, isn't it ?

-Now, enjoy the cool tracklisting as listed on the back of volume 4 :

(Sorry, I was pretty drunk when I snapped those pictures...)

Cool uh ?

Now enjoy the labels...

-Volume 3 :

Man, I love this comp !!!

- And now (roll of drums), here's the joke : look out for volume 4 !!!

How groovy, isn't it ?!?

Same tracklisting as volume 3 !!!

Once again, the actual tunes you hear when you play this volume 4 are the ones listed on the label (same as volume 3), not the ones listed on the back sleeve !!!

Any erudite lights on this, punks ???

I'm waiting... ;)

Cheers !!!

looking for a ride from south east tenn to  memphis and back will give gas money

Oh, hell no. I hadn't heard of Pokey Lafarge before either, but damn is he good. So is the side band Rm Drum Ramblers.

Great vidoes - I just saw Pokey Lafarge and Ramblin Jack Elliott. I don't get out nearly as much I probably should

3 great bands, a great dj and loads of beer. people told me i had a lot of fun...

cool vids :)

http://www.vera-groningen.nl/agenda/mainstage/kiss-n-run-rock-n-roll-party-nite-met-wheels-fire-anomalys-urban-junior-dj-tim-warr

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!

 

here is the vox phantom i picked up yesterday 

Yep, spot on. There are a lot of great guitars coming out of Korea these days. Most of them up to spec with the more expensive Japanese models available. Check them out and remember you can always modify them to suit your personal taste.

The Raw Cuts said:

not true. I have 2 'cheap' korean build guitars and they play great. even the local luthier said they are really well made guitars. overcome your prejudices and give them a try ;-)

dying slowly said:

good plan but i dont like todays cheap stuff they so poorly made compared to old ones

Schecters are Korean made, and have a fit and finish which certainly surpasses some of the stock Gibsons I've seen... have also heard favorable things about certain Chinese Esquire models, which shame US Fenders.  Heard about "lawsuit" guitars from Japan?.. the Japanese certainly put out ther share of low-quality crap through the sixties, but in the late Seventies and early Eighties they really got their shit together, and concerning Korean/Chinese stuff I think history is in the process of repeating itself.

The Raw Cuts said:

not true. I have 2 'cheap' korean build guitars and they play great. even the local luthier said they are really well made guitars. overcome your prejudices and give them a try ;-)

dying slowly said:

good plan but i dont like todays cheap stuff they so poorly made compared to old ones

not true. I have 2 'cheap' korean-built guitars and they play great. even the local luthier said they are really well-made guitars. overcome your prejudices and give them a try ;-)

dying slowly said:

good plan but i dont like todays cheap stuff they so poorly made compared to old ones

You guys are probably right about all the timing of who met/saw who when, and yes of course McLaren managed the Dolls for a while and saw all the early NY scene and was inspired by it, and of course the Pistols sound evolved as they gelled as a band, taking in newer influences etc, but I still think that as an original influence, Glam was a major one, as was 60's garage (which was also one of the Ramones influences...). But the English scene developed distinct from the US/NY one, even though some of the same factors led to both... the English 'Winter(s) of Discontent' et al gave the UK a very political edge... it's hard to describe quite how bleak England had become by the mid-70s, the whole class system/dole/poverty issues which made punk such a liberating thing for so many of us, both as being musicians and just being young and poor/bored/restless/etc etc. And for a few years it changed everything for us... but then the old order reasserted itself, and despite a few other breakouts, is more consolidated today than ever... hello 'reality'/Xfactor/Idol-World (sigh!)

I just assumed Dee Dee was right about meeting the Sex Pistols at the Roundhouse (in Please Kill Me).  I probably wouldn't be wrong that he did have the worst memory.

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thanks i red silvertone some where else

When I seen them in Hoboken Larry was using a Vox AC30. 

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

I've also seen some vids where he was using a Marshall & an old amp that looked like a Silvertone or Univox.

Hope this is of use,

Billy

I also played a couple of these songs on the latest Big Enchilada (Joey Allcorn and Whitey Morgan) and, of course been playing all kinds of tracks from this and Vol. 1 on my local radio show. Cool tunes.