Playlist August 3rd

Los Kikes : Explo
Motörhead : Rock Out
Syndicats : Crawdaddy Simone
Thomas Function : Can't Say No
Los Kikes : Paint Away
The City Kill : Your Fucking Memory Goes Out The Window
D.I. : Johnny's Got A Problem
Montrose : Rock The Nation
Violent Femmes : Add It Up
Florida's Dying : Dub Devoid
Simply Saucer : Instant Pleasure
Incontrollados : Det Er OK At Være Grim
The Dils : I Hate The Rich
Baby Woodrose : I Feel High
The Dust Bugs : No Bassplayer (Came Out Of Memphis)
Monarch : Swan Song

Jyly 27th 2008 :

Exodus : A Lesson In Violence
Destruction Unit : I Dare You
Digital Leather : White
The Intelligence : Our Solar System
Factums : Roman Soldier
Lost Sounds : There's Nothing
Psychedelic Horseshit : New Wave Hippies
Tubeway Army : Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)
Wire : Two People In A Room
White Hills : Potter's Field (w/Dan McGuire)
Mammatus : Sire (w/Dan McGuire)
Dust Bugs : Drunk As A Dane
Functional Blackouts : Living Like Jesus Christ
Juanita Y Los Feos : Dame Un Cuchillo
Bills Bondsmen : Something's Died
Motorama : Tell Me I What?!?
Kim & The Cinders : Hippie Hippie Hourra

I've got a Guyatone TZ-2 The Fuzz and an Fuzzbrite by Ashbass (Mosrite Fuzzrite® clone). Both can get down right nasty but I kind of dig the Guyatone a little better for all around fuzzed out frenzies.

I have found that the Fuzzbrite has a pretty short decay when played with my set-up for surf Jazzmaster w/13 flatwounds through a '68 Bassman. I think some people desire that, but I dig my fuzz with a little more sustain and the Guyatone dials that in nicely. I've also got a Russian Pi Big Muff which offers up a real nice buzz saw sound as well, albeit a little more on the distortion side of the coin. After reading the replies on here, I really want to try a Rat but you know how the pedal thing goes...they seem to be quite addictive and I already have more than I can use right now!! I did see Davie Allan live last year absolutely killing it and he was using an old Rat and a modded out Jazzmaster.

Two in the USA:

THE BLOW OUT in Los Angeles & BUDGET ROCK SHOWCASE in Oakland/San Francisco!

Gutter Island! Vordingborg, Denmark, every other summer in the end of august. This year 22-23 aug. Can´t beat it... THE best one Hosted in an old fort, excellent lineup every time and the best of crowds. The funniest thing to attend since Rotterdam Rumble closed down

don't forget the vulcan days in rimini in september!!!! www.mods.it

anything in the states? what about GonerFest? always a cool lineup of bands you didn't know you needed to hear...

does anyone know if Cavestomp happening again this year?

.....And we cant forget the fabulous Festival Beat in Italy! This Festival has been going strong for 15 years or so around the Piacenza and Parma area. For the last few years the festival has been held in a small town called Salsomaggiore in Emilia Romagna, Parma. Nearly every touring European garage-type band has eventually played there as well as many American bands new and old (or should I say legendary). The Festival Beat is 4 days (Thursday-Sunday) of non-stop stimulation with a pool party in the afternoon with DJ's and drinking then at six o'clock or so it's off to the pub for a few live bands and DJ's and more drinking. The main acts play on Friday and Saturday nights (4 or 5 bands a night with only 10 Euro entrance charge!!!) at a large open air park with food, drinks, and record and vintage clothing stalls. After the bands there is of course dancing until the pool party starts up again. I have been to the Festival Beat three times. Twice playing in a band and once as a party-goer and unlike a lot of 'scene' oriented festivals people are totally open and mixed and extremely sociable and up for having a great party and not criticizing you for not wearing the right kind of Beatle boots. The organization is flawless (for Italy that is really saying something) and the festival crew is partying right along with all the rest of the bands and the public. If you haven't been there start making your arrangements for next year. FESTIVAL BEAT http://www.myspace.com/festivalbeat

Dude,
For me this year absolutely Sjock festival in Gierle. With 2 of mine all time favorites The Monsters and The Sonics. I did not know what to expect from a bunch of granddadios, but The Sonics where absolutely fantastic. It 's not about age or trendy outfits or fucking hyped by todays music industries, it's all about a bunch of good songs well preformed by their makers.

Hey Fuzzheads,
I want to hear your opinion on what/where/when the BEST garage music festivals are, both in the US and Europe. I want to give some FREE Knights of Fuzz DVDs and other garage goodies away at a a couple of the best ones -- so I want to hear what ya'll think.

(New Marshmallow Overcoat video up at the myspace page soon, btw.)

FUZZ IT!
--The Guru of Garage

Missed this show to to go Johnny Rad Fest! I regret it!

Thanks for the pix!!

This was real fun time in a pretty sweltering packed house! The Trashwomen were a little rusty as could be expected but nonetheless totally rockin'. They ended their set with a wild rendition of Surfin' Bird with Russell Quan taking over on vocals. It was a great line-up and all the bands really bashed it out. Thee Cormans ruled it with their insult surf trash fuzz fueled destructo rock...they are one of my favorite bands and it was cool to finally get to see them live.

Tonight, DJ Grrtch's podcast "Hanging On For Mercy," features a garage barrage from Mike & The Ravens! She lines up unreleased live Rollerland performances from 1962 as well as 1962 studio recordings and a slew of cuts from the upcoming Ravens album, 'Noisy Boys! The Saxony Sessions"... so tune into her podcast at http://www.myspace.com/grrtch or access the podcasts through this site...

Since we seem to be moving forward in time with this discussion, here is my list of best albums from the '80s garage revival. In no particular order: The Miracle Workers - Inside Out The Gravedigger V - All Black And Hairy The Untold Fables - Every Mothers Nightmare The Morlocks - Emerge The Fuzztones - Leave Your Mind At Home The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The Thee Milkshakes - We Came We Saw We Conqured The Tell-Tale Hearts - The Tell-Tale Hearts The Unclaimed - Primordial Ooze Flavored Unclaimed The Pandoras - It's About Time The Crawdaddys - Crawdaddy Express The Creeps - Enjoy The Creeps The Beguiled - Gone Away The Outta Place - We're Outta Place The Fleshtones - Roman Gods The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us Thee Fourgiven - It Aint Pretty Down There note: for further reference check out Sonic Nightmares Podcast #3 & #4 special '80s garage revival shows (http://www.garagepunk.com/2008/01/11/sonic-nightmares-3/)

Gravedigger V - All Black & Hairy.

No wait.... Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us

no no... Count V - Psychotic Reaction

Supercharger Goes Way Out... definitely.

um... can I change that... Sonics - Boom.

Waitaminnit... Thee Milkshakes - We Came We Saw We Conqured.

on second thought...
aw, fuckit.

The Cynics "Rock and Roll" is my favourite album, bar none....and the first 2 and a half Lyres albums are hard to beat.

I'll throw another one out for the hell of it: STAY SICK by The Cramps. I know most folks probably like their earlier stuff better, but this has always been my favorite due to "Shortin' Bread," (I've used that one for a radio promo) "All Women Are Bad," "Muleskinner Blues" and especially "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns."

How the hell is a Cavegurl supposed to choose just one? Okay, Okay...I'll spare ya the obvious...like those essential Nuggets, Pebbles, Bomp, Rubble, Back from the Graves, Trash Box Set comps etc.

I adore '60's garage AND the 80's revival neo-garage.
anything by:
The Attack
The Creation
GRAVEDIGGER V
Jason Crest
We The People
Jesse Hector/ Hammersmith Gorilla's (I beg to differ with some...It IS GARAGE!

oops gotta get back to work...but my moods change on a day to day...hour to hour basis!

Where are The Cynics, The thanes and The Morlocks.... Come on guys... '80s garage is not bad!

It's all these one off greats that led me to choose the "Songs We Taught The Fuzztones Comp - for those not familiar with this comp here's a few examples of whats on there:
The Blues Magoos - Dante's Inferno
The Sparkles - No Friend Of Mine
The Haunted - 125
The Sonics - Cinderella / Strychnine / The Witch
The Electras - Action Woman
The Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness
The Fabs - That's The Bag I'm In
The Bees - Voices Green & Purple
The Bold - Gotta get Some
The Reengades - 13 Woman
The Heard - Your Gonna Miss Me
And there's more but hey I'm hogging a bit
Still have to vote for The Sonics "Boom" as best "Garage Album"
I'll leave it there....for now

The first one 'Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps -Blue Gene Bop'; The second one is pretty good too (the one with 'Catman'); Gene Vincent has some great records up to the end of his life; 'Bird doggin', the song and album is the most garagey one;it has been reissued a couple of times through the years so you can find it a cheap price; Bop it up!

I only have volume 1; fun stuff, 'hurtin' kind' and 'melvin' being best songs fro mah muney, huney;

Ricky Nelson is god-like!
The Blues Magoos 'We ain't got nothing' is great too but
Ricky Nelson's 'Summertime' and almost any other of his songs :Wow!
Warm week end;

Haha yah I noticed that too a few weeks back playing it at a party. That game can get pretty intense after a few pops.

Unfortunately, no one wanted to do the Konks song with me... they wanted to do that Oasis tune. What the hell is that!?