For some insight into this period check out this amazing doc "DEMON ANGEL" FREE on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZywctlIBLs&feature=PlayList&p=63C0FB3955A69EFB&playnext=1&index=28 Here's another 13th floor elevators doc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWyqIDV9yY There is some good info in it but its not very visually interesting and big chunks are just songs and trippy effects. You can skip to the meat in that one. Also "You're gonna miss me" 2005 you can watch streaming on Netflix, if you're in that exclusive club like me. It's really a mind blower. Roky trades the rights to "you're gonna miss me" the song for a milkshake! These poor kids were so taken advantage of, and their story is truly a tragic and important one. Thee Wild Wraith said:

I'm with Max. Roky and The Explosives Halloween! is a big favorite of mine.

I'd love to read about the 13th Floor Elevators period and I'm gonna pick this up for sure. But I hope somebody will write something about his later career at some point. I'm most interested in The Evil One era stuff.

I wish I could have afforded that box set that came out last year, and now I hear there are no new copies available. Love to get my hands on a copy of this book. Still haven't seen the documentary either.

I saw a documentary about Roky Erickson few years ago (directed by Keven McAlester). Paul Drummond appears in this film. Title is "You're Gonna Miss Me" (2005) and I think it's also highly recommended for Roky fans. Here is IMDB link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791268/

great book! i learned so much about one of my favorite bands. and i agree about hearing more about Roky's early solo material.

I'm with Max. Roky and The Explosives Halloween! is a big favorite of mine.

I'd love to read about the 13th Floor Elevators period and I'm gonna pick this up for sure. But I hope somebody will write something about his later career at some point. I'm most interested in The Evil One era stuff.

+1 for Noise Annoys. I think Bad Vibes is pretty awesome as well.

Those are all good, but I think I prefer Noise Annoys & Kill City best, too. Here's a couple more to consider: Bad Vibes Trick Bag

Nope, not gonna pick any name with my name in it. It's bad enough I call my blog Kopper's Korner. LoveStruck said:

I like "The Kopp Out" a lot, or "Yard Sale!" - That's brilliant.

I like "The Kopp Out" a lot, or "Yard Sale!" - That's brilliant.

So far I think my favorite is Noise Annoys, but I still like Kill City, too. Thanks for the suggestions so far and keep 'em coming.

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Back in the 90's we were playing in Auckland. I hate that town, it sucks the big one big time. Anyway every time I go there shit happens. We were playing at the kings arms, at the time the only small venue available in the whole city. First thing the bar owner gives me their door list, about 30 names; which apparently was friends of the owner, staff and some press. Okay, I don't have an issue with staff (hell they might sell me booze) or press or even regulars but friends of the owner can pay. If you wanna see us play then pay; five bucks or fuck off was the mantra. Just before we're due to go on the guitarist breaks his output socket on his guitar. bugger. I find a screwdriver in my gig bag, have a look at it and decide to try to drunkenly fix it with gaffer (duct) tape... except I forgot to pack it. bugger. The drummer suggests we try to peel some of the old gaff off his drum kit and use that. Which we did. So some used old gaffer and a 10 gauge string later and his lead is hardwired into his guitar and works perfectly. We played the show no problems. The bar staff liked us and one of them started giving me cheap jugs of beer. Not a bad night in the end and we even made enough money to get back home, bonus!

This one luckily turned out as not so much being a nightmare gig, but it really started off as one.

One day, we were to support Los Peyotes here in my home town. Since I had a bad aching in my shoulder muscles, I was on heavy pain killers. When it was up to us doing our soundcheck, I plugged in my effects and guitar just to find nothing was working. So I checked this and checked that for a while and came to the conclusion that my cheap overdrive pedal was broken. I put it aside only to find my tremolo was also not working. I checked all cables again and again, and in the meantime the first people came in. I changed all cables, plugged in my guitar straight into the amp - it worked. So I asked the Peyotes if they'd borrow me their overdrive, what they did. I plugged it in - it didn't work. I thought, "Fuck, this can't be, why do I break everything I touch today?" I was sweating like hell, trembling from nervosity and the pain killers and was feeling more and more dizzy and embarrassed, close to fainting. I thought that that was that and we couldn't play for everything seemed to be broken.
Then, after half an hour of making shit and nearly giving it all up, I took a final look at the setting of my effects and stuff, only to find that I had mixed up "in" and "out" of my effects circuit the whole time, and had plugged my guitar into "out" and my amp into "in". I changed that, and everything worked. Needless to say everybody had a jolly good laugh about my stupidity, including myself.
In the end, it turned out to be one of the best evenings ever - with a delay of half an hour...

With my band, Apache Chief we're either on or we're not. When we're not on we're most likely to clear the room. A couple weeks ago we played this really last minute show at this dive bar in Tacoma called Bob's Java Jive. I hate playing shows when I'm not using my own equipment and I had to play this one with a crate solid state amp rather than my fender deluxe. We didn't really give a fuck since we'd done zero work for this show and all hadnt slept in 2 days so our set pretty much just fell apart but that was fine by us. At first we had a few people watching us, just a few of the regulars of the bar but pretty quickly they all left and we just started laughing. I guess it was a nightmare show but we're pretty used to this nightmare.

Thanks, good to see larry being heard in the press. Silky was the best

Yeah, it's weird. Tried adding the link again a couple of times but nothing showed up. Thanks for fixing it!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/15/label-love-in-the-red-r... I think there was just an extra "http://" in your link. Thanks!

your link still not working. I'd like to read about In the Red. Love that label

While digging through some record boxes, I found a few garage nuggets that I haven't been able to find too much info on:

The Nite Owls   "Nite Owl"/"Act Your Age" (Top Dog 2316)

The Scavengers   "I Don't Need Her Now"/"It's Only So Long" (Top Dog 2317)

The New Lime   "It's Your Turn to Cry"/"Only You" (Boss 9915)

Does anyone in the Hideout know anything about these?

The Accused are awesome!  I have that 12" they put out a bunch of good records.  Awesomely wretched vocals and lightning fast guitar. Very understood band for sure. They have a fairly new record but I haven't heard it yet.

FREDDI said:

Yes,lot of memories,and it's gonna turn Garagepunk.com in another kind of network :D :D Yes those years give birth to a lot of cool things..Who was a teenager at times surely had share them. I loved all that HC/Thrash/crossover stuff; Gang Green-Another wasted night DRI-Dealing with it Agnostic Front-Victims in pain Minor Threat-Out of step Dag Nasty-Can I say Discharge-Hear nothing see nothing.. Accused-More fun than an open casket funeral Attitude adjustment,Die Kreuzen,Dead Kennedys,Adrenakin OD.,Alice Donut,Tragic Mulatto, Corrosion of Conformity,No means No,Circle jerks,Offenders.. and we can go on with such good bands.It sounded like a revolution and so it was. Eighties were so boring,a young boy could'nt have good alternatives lookin in that contemporary.

Yes,lot of memories,and it's gonna turn Garagepunk.com in another kind of network :D :D
Yes those years give birth to a lot of cool things..Who was a teenager at times surely had share them.
I loved all that HC/Thrash/crossover stuff;

Gang Green-Another wasted night
DRI-Dealing with it
Agnostic Front-Victims in pain
Minor Threat-Out of step
Dag Nasty-Can I say
Discharge-Hear nothing see nothing..
Accused-More fun than an open casket funeral
Attitude adjustment,Die Kreuzen,Dead Kennedys,Adrenakin OD.,Alice Donut,Tragic Mulatto,
Corrosion of Conformity,No means No,Circle jerks,Offenders..

and we can go on with such good bands.It sounded like a revolution and so it was.
Eighties were so boring,a young boy could'nt have good alternatives lookin in that contemporary.

I would never be able to sell my old metal stuff, even though I don't listen to most of it anymore (and some stuff is pretty embarrassing - the first five Manowar records or some Sodom or King Diamond stuff, for example...). But there's some real treasures in my old collection (even though most of it on CD, such as Carcass or Napalm Death). I also really love Gang Green, they started off as a punk band but had some metal moments, too. And the first two Metallica albums, of course.

I also think that "World Downfall" by Terrorizer is a cool Hard/Grindcore record, and "Stress Related" by the Righteous Pigs, one of my all time favourites.

And Freddi, you can download the first Cro-Mags legally on their HP, since it's pretty hard to get. It's totally worth it! And me, I gotta check out Crumbsucker.

Does anyone here like D.R.I.? I loved them when I was a kid, but now think they're pretty boring (except for some songs), because all their tracks are too long.

Man, this thread brings back memories...

We're often running the mics through an old peavey guitar amp for distorted vocals, which is a rather good solution for bigger stages, but a feedback hell on smaller ones. You just have to mic that amp for the PA and hide it far enough anywhere in the back. Good idea with the old cheap mics, we'll try that for smaller venues, thanks