Dave Vanian always makes me smile, along with Chuck Wagon, and another vote for Kid Congo Powers way past cool!

Billy Idol
Andy Blade-Eater
Dee Generate-Eater
Jimmy Crashe-Radiators From Space
Cherry Vanilla

Revolting. Watching this thing made me want to punch a wall. Corporate co-opting of a culture in order to market to a new demographic. Vice and Scion are what's wrong with the scene. They're not injecting anything into it or helping it at all. Shit like this is poisonous to the development and maturation of a scene. A good chunk of the music is just garbage (Hunx & His Punx, Vivian Girls, Smith Westerns, blah blah blah) while real garage bands (and I hesitate to use that term) are being ignored as they don't sound like the pablum people are being spoon fed that they've been told is garage. I was dj-ing the other night and it had been billed as a night of garage, punk, and r and b. Hipster assholes kept coming up to me all night asking when I was going to play some garage - after I had just played a 30 minute set of 60s garage and 60s influenced garage (they wanted to hear "REAL" garage - White Stripes, Strange Boys...fuckin' losers). At a Cynics show earlier in the month, I heard more than one conversation along the lines of "I thought they played garage". Fuck all this Scion and Vice bullshit - it's a dance with the devil. Luckily, this will all die out, the corporate vultures will circle the next victim to pick clean, and things will shake out and get back to normal.

There goes my night.

Ah, those guys are ...okaaaaay... but they're no George Thorogood! (ducks) This is a nice little write up of Howlin Wolf (definatley one of my faves).

Noriyuki Morita

electrocute your cock said:

Ralph Macchio

Ralph Macchio

Abso-freakin'-lutely. He is amazing. But if you're looking for a really DIRTY album, I'd recommend Snatch & the Poontangs, which was an x-rated blues album done by Johnny Otis. Hilarious and utterly filthy!

Gonzo said:

RL Burnside

yeeeess Burnside is my electric best.

the people who dig Howlin' could suggest me a record?

RL Burnside

some of my favs, the first 999, radiators from space-tv tube heart, the first willie alexander and the boom boom band, lurkers-fullham fallout, vibrators first one, dead boys-young, loud and snotty, eaters first one

A surf version of "Depression" may be cool.

play the black flag stuff you know in surf style

Hallo everybody,

I play in a band called 'I said god damn,GOD DAMN!'(pulp fiction scene,after link wray's rumble).

We used to play black flag,ramones,some clash,black flag and of course stooges.

We decided to stop playing this stuff and become a surf band.The problem is we can't make a good playlist.We have a lot of ventures,couple of man or astro-man,marketts,and some songs from the garagepunk surfcast, i don't know the names.(garagepunk surfcast 07 19.41 min is onte of them,check it out it's a kick ass!)

We also decided to play some cramps,and remakes,like louie louie,eddie cochran ,green onions,stuff like that,but with our own style.

Anyway i just wanted some suggestions for surf tracks to add to tha playlist.Note that we are a trio,now,no exclusive vocals(just me and the bassist),and we can have a piano player as a guest,and propably a saxophonist.

So  come on,tell me some songs.

Jack White actually uses power chords in most of his songs, not just Blue Orchid.

ThePostOps said:

Go for full barre chords, or even regular chords, like A and E, which you learn when first playing guitar. Those have the fullest sound. Power chords have their place, too, though. Isn't Link Wray credited with being the first to use power chords in a popular song? And, of course, Jack White, who's in your profile pic, uses them on songs like White Orchid.

Go for full barre chords, or even regular chords, like A and E, which you learn when first playing guitar. Those have the fullest sound. Power chords have their place, too, though. Isn't Link Wray credited with being the first to use power chords in a popular song? And, of course, Jack White, who's in your profile pic, uses them on songs like White Orchid.

You have asked a very good question! I think it depends on the song you are playing. If as has been said, you want a garage sound, play triads predominately. You can change very quickly between the inversions ie. *top 3 strings* 232=Dmajor...ok? 432= Bminor..433=Gmajor.. 453=Eminor..all in the key of D (orG). But can you see you're only making a slight change every time- one or two fingers moving a fret or two. Imagine having to do that with barre chords...5th fret, 7th fret...3rd fret..7th fret! Besides that the sound of a power chord, is..well..powerful, maybe The Ramones yeah, but it can make yer average band sound like AM sludge....when I do it it does anyway..

I agree with Alex. Jack can sell his limited edition records for whatever he can. Something is worth the amount when the buyer and seller agree to exchange the goods/services for money. Jack and Co can do whatever they want with the money. Charity is a very good use although he’s giving out of his abundance (if you’ll pardon the biblical reference) and he gets to feel good about himself along with free publicity.
Why are “the fans” angry; because they can’t get the music? No, it’s available in other formats. They want these limited editions because they’ll “be worth something someday.” It’s a potential money-making investment to the vast majority of the people who want one. The minority probably think it will bring them closer to the rock god, somehow. I don’t know which is more pathetic.
The only reason fans would have to be angry at him would be for making shit music.

Meh, they are giving 15 grand to charity. But the business of folks like the White Stripes earning royalties on a record that someone thinks is worth $300 is stupid. If it is a limited edition and Mr White is set to earn, what, $100 off each one? But they are limited so that's a few thousand dollars. The guy must be a multimillionaire and gets revenue every time he sneezes. Why does he have to bicker over relatively small change?

I won't ruin their fun so long as they don't make me buy their shitty new record.

I'm kidding Sonics, I'm kidding! Jeez, these old guys are so touchy.

Hideout Admin said:

Yeah, didn't they attempt this at some point in the '70s or early '80s, too? I remember hearing something like that back around 15 years ago and thinking it was pretty bad (compared to their early stuff).

BTW, Bonzo, the Sonics have played some festivals in the past couple years, both in the US and Europe. But I think they're done...

electrocute your cock said:

Sounds a lot like hard rock to me. Not bad or anything, just not The Sonics at all.

Well thanks for that.
It's the Sonics, so I'm not complaining. Let them have their fun.

Looks like there is a tasty disc out to go with the exhibition called Virginia Rocks http://www.amazon.com/Virginia-Rocks-History-Rockabilly-Commonwealth/dp/B002IB3UFQ

Hey Chicks!!! Dulcinea (Ex-Loudmouths) and I (Lateenos) play in Midnite Snaxxx with Tina Lucchesi (Trashwomen). Check us out at www.myspace.com/midnitesnaxxx. We are also doing a little radio thing tonite at 8:30PM on Radio Valencia http://radiovalencia.fm/