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    • December 29, 2009 3:03 PM CST
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    • Saw these guys once or twice in St. Louis and they were utterly fantastic. One of the best live bands ever! Bill Streeter used some photos from one of their shows here for this video he made for their song "Fist": http://lofistl.com/2005/02/15/bleed/

    • December 29, 2009 10:09 AM CST
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    • I get a great overdriven bass sound just plugged into a Fender Super Reverb. The Hartke "BASS ATTACK" pedal I use too... you can dial in and switch in and out of effect. It also helps to raise the pickup very close to the strings and pick or pluck around the 10th fret where the harmonic interval rings about a 3rd over the root note. It sounds like technical nonsense, but just try it with a new set of strings and dial in the tone on the bass just a bit.
      RBT

    • December 28, 2009 5:31 PM CST
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    • I'm getting fat fuzz out of my Ampeg Scrambler. Sounds best with my '75 Fender P-bass, treble boosted on my Sunn Sonaro head. Been using a single 15'' ElectroVoice cabinet but would love to go back to 10'' speakers.

    • December 28, 2009 12:02 PM CST
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    • the Nackers said:

      Another option can be the UNIVOX superfuzz (60's blue grey) which i like on my rick'. There a good sound apporximation on you tube.
      If you can't find it there are severals clones out there.
      I am buying one now. I'll tell you I it sound
      Please do! ...I'm no longer the bassist in my band but that's fine cuz I got replaced by a killer bass-basher who has been usin' a Tube Screamer (fer guitar mind ya) on my trashy bass to purty good results! ...Still interested in all this noise about bass fuzz tho so keep it comin'...

    • December 28, 2009 6:21 AM CST
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    • Another option can be the UNIVOX superfuzz (60's blue grey) which i like on my rick'. There a good sound apporximation on you tube.
      If you can't find it there are severals clones out there.
      I am buying one now. I'll tell you I it sound

    • December 29, 2009 9:28 AM CST
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    • Ever seen their low-budget "movie," Where Is the Chesterfield King? Pretty funny stuff... too bad that's not available on DVD (or is it?). And agreed on the band. Great live. Saw them open for the New York Dolls a few years ago and I still say the Kings stole the show that night.

    • December 29, 2009 4:01 AM CST
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    • tom blumenfeld said:

      Screw the idea of sellouts unless the music changes. then it's a sellout. Otherwise, it's just business.

      The Kings are royalty.

      Seen them live several times. Where can I get their early stuff?
      meager 'ATTEMPTS' to SAVE my Duckettes...& Secure this title, err hopefully by my birthday.. which'll be sometime in March... would *love* to have these Blokes PLAY at My BIRTHDAY Party!! anybody GOT ANY 'inside tracks' On Getting some "Live!" (besides this release) KINGS?? GOT a Live show, earlier in the year, from a tape trader in The U.K. .. man, NOW that was really:"INCREDIBLE!"!! in the meantime, i "managed" to snag myself a 'Surprising moderately priced copy Of:"Surfin' Rampage"!! WOOHOO!! http://www.amazon.com/Surfin-Rampage-Chesterfield-Kings/dp/B00000JN... amazon marketplace also has some Older KINGS titles 'Offered 'Up... http://www.amazon.com/Chesterfield-Kings/e/B000APMJT0/ref=ntt_mus_d... YOU may have to do some hunting & pecking.. Grabbed afew Of them recently myself!! THE GREAT: "DON'T OPEN 'TIL DOOMSDAY" seems to be m.i.a. ...*hope* that this 'helps' some...

    • December 28, 2009 9:28 PM CST
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    • Screw the idea of sellouts unless the music changes. then it's a sellout. Otherwise, it's just business.

      The Kings are royalty.

      Seen them live several times. Where can I get their early stuff?

    • December 28, 2009 8:26 PM CST
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    • Agreed. I've been fortunate enough to have seen this band evolve over 30 years (!) and they still sound great. The new disc includes a DVD and audio CD of their performance on the 'On Stage' show recorded at the PBS station here in Rochester. I just saw them live a few weeks ago and these cats have still got it. Greg's as crazy as ever, and Mike reminds me of Jerry Nolan the way he wails away on the skins...and that's a comparison I don't use lightly. Andy's as solid as ever, and Paul was wailing away all night. Plus Jeff O's back in the band as second guitar. I'm glad they're finally getting the attention they media attention the deserve.

    • December 29, 2009 2:30 AM CST
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    • Aw honey, YOU just 'don't know'..
      I'm here to Give ya my heart..& ya WANT some fuckin' fashion show!!!

    • December 27, 2009 9:21 PM CST
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    • maybe eddie has saved him a seat.

    • December 28, 2009 10:29 PM CST
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    • one of those solid state standel amps

    • December 28, 2009 6:35 AM CST
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    • Let's discuss about badget alterntive to 60's bass amp like the Ampeg SVT, Fender Bassman, Vox etc...
      Is there any acceptable cheap bass amp within the new productions (clone included)?
      Which 60's badget amp do you suggest?

    • December 28, 2009 1:14 AM CST
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    • hahaha!!!
      i 'know' i already Wanna hear:"King Khan & His Shrines"!!
      BOY HOWDY! ~just by readin'it.. HOOBOY!!

    • December 26, 2009 2:15 AM CST
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    • A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican December 25, 2009 Political satirist Andy Borowitz recently wrote, "As the decade draws to a close, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans are holding out hope that the 10 years just past turn out to be a dream sequence from which they will soon awake." That pretty much sums it up. But here are 10 albums that made this lousy decade a little more bearable. A few are out of print, but you can find them around.

      * Honky by Simon Stokes. Rough, crunching, blues-infected biker rock and outlaw country from a tough old leather-faced geezer with a scratchy voice and a dirty mind. Stokes laughs at himself and his romantic follies in the hilarious rocker "No Confidence." Even better is a blazing crime tale, "Johnny Gillette," concerning bald cops and a serial killer. Stokes did a duet album with Timothy Leary and produced Russell Means' album The Radical. He co-wrote "Miniskirt Blues," which was recorded by The Cramps with Iggy Pop. But he's never sounded stronger than he does on Honky.
      * Three Hairs and You're Mine by King Khan & His Shrines. The mighty Khan — a foulmouthed Canadian guitar picker of East Indian heritage who lives in Germany — seemed to be everywhere this year, with his partner Mark "BBQ" Sultan and the garage supergroup The Almighty Defenders. But my favorite aspect of Khan's career is when he plays with The Shrines, a full-fledged psychedelic soul band, complete with horn section. There's punk and garage-rock influences in the grooves, even a flicker of speed metal. But make no mistake, this band has soul! And this 2001 Voodoo Rhythm release is the best of his Shrines albums.
      * Barbecue Babylon by Drywall. The world of this album is apocalyptic, and Stan Ridgway makes a great carnival barker at the gates of Armageddon. A desperate spirit has settled over the land. Thievery and murder abound, and the government has gone even more insane than the populace. Life is cheap. Love is tawdry. Paranoia thrives. And Drywall makes it sound like fun.
      * Goodbye Guitar by Tony Gilkyson. Most solo albums by sidemen only prove that sidemen belong on the side. But this proves there are major exceptions to that rule. Gilkyson — a former Santa Fe resident who served time in the Los Angeles bands X and Lone Justice — made an album of solid roots rock and a magnificent dirge of self-loathing called "My Eyes."
      * We Have You Surrounded by The Dirtbombs. I guess I like a dose of apocalyptic paranoia in my music. It reigns supreme in The Dirtbombs' 2008 offering. On nearly every song, singer/guitarist Mick Collins seems to be looking over his shoulder and not liking what he sees. The end is near, and everyone's out to wreck his flow. With a lineup that includes two bassists and two drummers, The Dirtbombs are one of the many Detroit bands of the 1990s that didn't become famous when The White Stripes rose to glory.
      * Cow Fish Fowl or Pig by The Gourds. Pure exuberant hillbilly funk with vocals that sound as if the town drunk had hopped on a honky-tonk stage and led the band into bold new dimensions. The stomping jugless-jug-band (well, Kev Russell sings about jugs) sound of "Ants on the Melon (With Due Regards to Virginia Adair)" remains my favorite Gourds song.
      * Escape From the Dragon House by Dengue Fever. Dengue is an Orange County garage/psychedelic/surf rock band (with sax and Farfisa organ!) fronted by Cambodia-born Ch'hom Nimol and dedicated to reviving the wild, wonderful, lost Cambodian pop that was virtually destroyed by the Khmer Rouge. They mix in a little Ethiopian soul music, which was also suppressed by evil Commies in the '70s.
      * All the Fame of Lofty Deeds by Jon Langford. This is the best Waco Brothers album that wasn't really by The Waco Brothers. It does, however, feature Langford, the evil genius behind The Wacos (and charter member of The Mekons.) Here he tackles a favorite Langford theme — the travails and temptations of country singers in post-war America. The story is a bittersweet distillation of everything that makes America attractive and everything that makes it repulsive.
      * Miracle of Five by Eleni Mandell. Mandell has just about the sexiest voice in showbiz today, and her 2007 album drives home this point. This is contemporary torch music with subtle touches of film noir. It makes great background music for reading Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, or even James Ellroy.
      * Kids in Philly by Marah. These Philly kids were roots conscious without a trace of retro, and so spirited — even when they sang of winos in the alley and murder in the streets, Marah had a jarring aura of optimism. And though they were much too young to have experienced the Vietnam War, their jaw-dropping "Round Eye Blues," a veteran's grim memories of the war, mixed up with images from rock 'n' soul lyrics, cut to the marrow. Marah never again matched this album from 2000.

    • December 25, 2009 3:57 PM CST
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    • Could some of the podcasters on here point me to some of the best places for me to go so I can get started producing podcasts of my own?

      Thanks in advance!

    • December 24, 2009 4:00 PM CST
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    • Eric Debris, Clode Panik, Hermann Schwartz, Zip-Zinc, all from Metal Urbain, a '77 french band !

    • December 24, 2009 10:35 AM CST
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    • Gerry Atric

    • December 23, 2009 6:03 AM CST
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    • Ele Vega said:

      have you ever heard the original greek version of pulp fiction's misirlou???? very trippy, enjoy :-) :
      Thinking Cap is 'ON' Brother... I WILL 'COME-Up' withe SOMETHING!! I have Korla Pandit doing AN INCREDIBLE version Of: MISERLOU!! ON this "COLLECTION Of ORGAN MUSIC" RECORD!! could that 'count' for SOMETHING??

    • December 23, 2009 5:45 AM CST
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    • Timothy Gassen said:

      Greg Johnson and I were working on an ED COBB TRIBUTE album for the past couple years, and I've posted some of the songs, my liner notes and my tribute to Greg as well at my Knights of Fuzz myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/knightsoffuzz . It's the only way I can deal with Greg's loss, and I think he'd enjoy it. Best to all, and to Greg a good night.
      I have been looking for YEARS .. TO ADD to my meager library Of THE WORST'S Stuff!! GOT any 'Suggestions' how i might go about this.. and further my cause??

    • December 22, 2009 5:35 PM CST
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    • I'd say start with volume 10 which features Paul Bearer and the Hearsemen on the cover and then volume 1.