The best night of my life came back in 2008 when I went to Arlington, VA to see the Fleshtones play at the Iota Club.  Being that I have loved these guys since I was a teen, it was a no-brainer that I along with my co-host of "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds" at the time, would make it a road trip!  At the club, I hung out with Ken Fox beforehand and talked music, then I was able to speak briefly with Bill Milhizer and Keith Streng!  I thought that was awesome enough!  When they took the stage, it of course was amazing, especially since I had never gotten to see them live before!  What was even more amazing, was Peter Zaremba and Keith Streng pulled me onstage to pluck away on Keith's guitar during an instrumental!  I don't play guitar, but Peter convinced me that all I had to do was strum during this instrumental they were performing....I nearly fainted!  After the show, I got to hang out with Peter Zaremba and talk casually like we were old friends, plus get a cd autographed, get my pic taken with the guys (except Keith, he vanished), and walk away with their Sharpie scrawled set list that Peter used!  Second, I would have to go with the only time I had gotten to see Southern Culture On the Skids at a bar and grill here in town...Both Mary Huff and Dave Hartman are from here (Roanoke, VA), and you would think they would play here more, but they don't...Before the show, I was able to talk briefly with Dave, and afterwards, he autographed (along with Rick Miller) a cd I bought at the show.  Then I went to get Mary's autograph, and the sweetheart she is, invited me to sit with her in the booth she was lounging in...I had e-mailed them previously about remembering when Mary was in a local punk band and they did a commercial for a local indie record shop called "Penguin Tracks", and we had a good laugh, plus talked a little about the punk scene, got her autograph, and a kiss on the cheek (!)...  Lastly would have to be hanging out with Jeff Clayton of ANTiSEEN.  When I was still on "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds", we landed an interview with him, and got in his good graces when the local music reporter from the newspaper did a shitty job with his Q & A...I brought him some moonshine, got his autograph (along with the band on a cd), and his address (so I could send him some burned cd's of some stuff he was interested in hearing)...Not long after, took on a roadtrip to Charlotte, NC to the Milestone Club to see a show, and he happened to be there.  Well, I had brought along some Grade A apple pie moonshine, so me, my former co-host, Jeff, and Jeff Williams of Charlotte based hardcore band "The Dead Kings" went out to the car and drank that whole jar of 'shine together!  Nice memories, indeed!  So what's yours?

your a whak job!!!!

Lenny Helsing said:

Alright teenfink doncha fink lots of us here know that already, I've thought that was a bit too much like statin the obvious a swe've already covered Seeds Elevators CWB Count V Sonics etc...but if ya wanna be really clever or even a little bit finnicky or pedantic bout it (;-?) let's say the orig punk era begins in and around the late 40s to mid 50s with Hooker and Wolf and
Muddy and the mighty Bo and Chuck and Rosco and Sonny Boy and all them early raw r'n'b rockabilly blues and rock'n'roll cats...happy listenin Lenny

thats my point actually. In a nutshell. Its my up growing to punk music. Covering huge stuff outside punk defenition fence. I was sort of greaser, a pre-punk if you please. This is my soundtrack from that period and beyond. I really loved teddy boy rock and roll, rolling stones, yardbirds n all the brit blues pub rock glam whatever. Forefathers for the 77 punksters. Think Richard Penniman. Being the punkiest of them all. 77 was kind of in the middle of all this. Thats just my own way of punkin'

ratoonie said:

well.Black sabath, alicce cooper,misfits, and half of the other bands you Listed are not pUnK
bowie,...glitter! not a bad collection of music ...but most r not pUnk!!!!!!
Rami LTX said:

to make it more logical to find out reasons why punk, and how this form eventually defines then ...etc arent dominates rock genres, for myself i need to draw spesific timeline. Starting from age 14 to now: elvis presley - chuck berry - black sabbath - dr.feelgood - hurriganes - david bowie - ELO - alice cooper - uriah heep - new york dolls - sex pistols - ramones - tenpole tudor - crazy cavan & the rhythm rockers - polecats - stray cats - dead kennedys - cramps - meteors - stingrays - screaming lord sutch - pirates - terveet kädet - fall - go go's - blondie - gun club - heartbreakers - corpse grinders - misfits - plasmatics - ac dc - poison idea - husker du - butthole surfers - eugene chadbourne & shockabilly - marine girls - violent femmes - beat happening, and so on - the beat goes on.

Alright teenfink doncha fink lots of us here know that already, I've thought that was a bit too much like statin the obvious a swe've already covered Seeds Elevators CWB Count V Sonics etc...but if ya wanna be really clever or even a little bit finnicky or pedantic bout it (;-?) let's say the orig punk era begins in and around the late 40s to mid 50s with Hooker and Wolf and
Muddy and the mighty Bo and Chuck and Rosco and Sonny Boy and all them early raw r'n'b rockabilly blues and rock'n'roll cats...happy listenin Lenny

TeenFink said:

the FIRST punk era was from '65-'67, not '76-'80. 65-67  was the begining of psychedelic!!!......Duh!!!!

well.Black sabath, alicce cooper,misfits, and half of the other bands you Listed are not pUnK
bowie,...glitter! not a bad collection of music ...but most r not pUnk!!!!!!
Rami LTX said:

to make it more logical to find out reasons why punk, and how this form eventually defines then ...etc arent dominates rock genres, for myself i need to draw spesific timeline. Starting from age 14 to now: elvis presley - chuck berry - black sabbath - dr.feelgood - hurriganes - david bowie - ELO - alice cooper - uriah heep - new york dolls - sex pistols - ramones - tenpole tudor - crazy cavan & the rhythm rockers - polecats - stray cats - dead kennedys - cramps - meteors - stingrays - screaming lord sutch - pirates - terveet kädet - fall - go go's - blondie - gun club - heartbreakers - corpse grinders - misfits - plasmatics - ac dc - poison idea - husker du - butthole surfers - eugene chadbourne & shockabilly - marine girls - violent femmes - beat happening, and so on - the beat goes on.

to make it more logical to find out reasons why punk, and how this form eventually defines then dominates rock genres, for myself i need to draw spesific timeline. Starting from age 14 to now: elvis presley - chuck berry - black sabbath - dr.feelgood - hurriganes - david bowie - ELO - alice cooper - uriah heep - new york dolls - sex pistols - ramones - tenpole tudor - crazy cavan & the rhythm rockers - polecats - stray cats - dead kennedys - cramps - meteors - stingrays - screaming lord sutch - pirates - terveet kädet - fall - go go's - blondie - gun club - heartbreakers - corpse grinders - misfits - plasmatics - ac dc - poison idea - husker du - butthole surfers - eugene chadbourne & shockabilly - marine girls - violent femmes - beat happening, and so on - the beat goes on.

By the way, have you heard about that :

http://thehoodoobag.podomatic.com/

???

Yep, pretty addictive indeed !

I'm taking a sonic trip through the podcasts these days and it suits my present state of mind quite well (whatever that means !).

It's amazing what the Cramps brought us, ya know?  Link Wray, Hasil Adkins, a lot of necessities in real music to say the least!
Wayne Talbott said:

yeah makes total sense.Looking at it now, without link wray,I wounder what The Cramps would have sounded like?
It wasn't until I picked up a album by wray that I relised poison ivy's stlye of playing comes from the man himself and she used it wisely I must say.


joey fuckup said:

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

That Bay City Rollers tune is a good one, my favorite by them is "Yesterday's Hero"!  And once it gets in my head, I can't get it out!  Like now... :)
Johnny Bean said:

Blitzkreig Bop without a doubt. I bought it in 1976, I think the single I bought before that was Rock N Roll Love Letter by the Bay City Rollers so maybe that was the one :)

yeah makes total sense.Looking at it now, without link wray,I wounder what The Cramps would have sounded like? It wasn't until I picked up a album by wray that I relised poison ivy's stlye of playing comes from the man himself and she used it wisely I must say.

joey fuckup said:

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

Blitzkreig Bop without a doubt. I bought it in 1976, I think the single I bought before that was Rock N Roll Love Letter by the Bay City Rollers so maybe that was the one :)

That's one hell of a playlist!

NoHitWonder said:

well, here we go...

THE DEVIL DOGS - Big Beef Bonanza

THE CRAMPS - Smell Of Female

THE STOOGES - I'm Sick Of You

RAMONES...needless to say

well, here we go...

THE DEVIL DOGS - Big Beef Bonanza

THE CRAMPS - Smell Of Female

THE STOOGES - I'm Sick Of You

RAMONES...needless to say

My garage must be a bigger garage cause there's a ton of British Invasion groups in it.  Even some are a bit poppy like the Hollies up to like 1967.  Early Animals for sure.  There is a ton of early Kinks that fits the bill for me as well.
Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

Psycho - The Sonics
My friends and I were fresh outta High School way into cars by the mid 90's but, we were just discovering music other than the "oldies" our parents showed us. Local record stores were the big chain type with no category for what we wanted so, we would look for any album cover that said or looked like anything Rockabilly or Surf. One of the guys got into buying music on E-vil-Bay and we would trade music with each other. He bought a Record called "Psychobilly sickness" or something like that. anyways long story short he hated it I loved it, Especially Psycho which of course wasn't Psychobilly so, I just had to find out what this music was and were I could find more of this amazing raucous Shit.

I know what you're saying Wayne, just like you can't really classify the Animals as "garage"...To most music historians, garage started with surf music and Link Wray, then when the British Invasion hit, you had all these bands trying to emulate these groups, yet (to me anyway), sounding not as good, but better because it was so "punk" (hope that makes sense)...1966 is "Ground Zero" for what we know as the beginning of "garage rock", but if you go back and listen to Link Wray, you wonder, it's like it was garage before it was garage, like garage was punk before there was punk...I hope I'm makin' sense...And still to this day, I'll take '60's Stones over any decade they have been in existence...

Wayne Talbott said:

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

For me It was hearing louie louie by the kingsmen when I first watched quadrophenia when I was 15, but it took a good five years to get realise that the records that were popping up was this creature called garage,but where does garage start?

Some say ? and the Mysterians, but could you call the kinks, the Who the Rolling Stones garage, they got classed as mod I know but they influenced a lot of garage bands, infact every garage band 

joe let me know if you sell that Silvertone!

joe said:

i'd like to get a fury fireball guitar, also a johnson celestion or monarch amp

also a honeytone pyschedelic machine

have a duo sonic, its ok. have a farfisa compact , its crap a yamaha yc-20 0r 30 is more reliable. have a silvertone twin twelve which i might sell at some point. an old 50's standell amp would be cool too

i'd like to get a fury fireball guitar, also a johnson celestion or monarch amp

also a honeytone pyschedelic machine

have a duo sonic, its ok. have a farfisa compact , its crap a yamaha yc-20 0r 30 is more reliable. have a silvertone twin twelve which i might sell at some point. an old 50's standell amp would be cool too

gories...

atomic 7-

the young cools-

slacktone

ravi shankar

The Batusis

Hanoi Rocks - missed them a couple of times in the old days

Sonics - missed them a couple of months back hope it was not the last chance :(