Playlist June 1st

Death Token live - March 23th at LADES

Amdi Petersens Arme : Ik Igen
Brats : OY905
Paragraf 119 : Fingrene Væk
Ballroom Bozos : Politiske Korrekte Spassere
Guddommelig Galskab : Ungeren Blir

Peawees : I'm Depending On You (Otis Redding)
Demon's Claws : Fucked On Ketamine
November : Sekunder
Daily Void : You've Been Erased
Danko Jones : Take Me Home
Human Instinct : Midnight Sun
WE : Cosmic Biker R'n'R
Die Kreuzen : Fuckups
Monno : Torboyau
Whiskey Daredevils : Love Me Like A Reptile (Motorhead) + Step On It (Slapshot)
The Hospitals : Airplanes There
Silver Apples : Oscillations
Ocean Thief : Tor

May 25th :

Haunted George Special:

Interview +

Haunted George : Panther Howl
Haunted George : Song For World Peace
Necessary Evils : Love Handles
Haunted George : Road Ghoul
Haunted George : Bone Hauler
The Beguiled : I Walk Alone
Haunted George : Graves In The Desert
Haunted George : Broken Hearted Gypsy
Haunted George : Howlin'
Haunted George : Swamp Witch
The Beguiled : Kitten With A Whip
Necessary Evils : Glory Hole
Haunted George : Pile 'O Meat
Haunted George : The Hangman

+

Eyehategod : Depress
Cute Lepers : Cool City
The Gories : There But For The Grace Of God
Terrible Twos : No New Thing
Detroit Cobras : Funnel Of Love
Black Radio : Time's Up
Jack Of Heart : My Love In Vain
Shindiggers : Baby Let Go
The City Kill : Love's Lonely Children
Brant Bjork : Punk Rock Guilt
The Fatals : Get Out Of My Life
CAPS : Six Finger Shake
Fe Fi Fo Fums : You Might Get Me
Alex Gomez : Devil Candy
Eddy Current Suppression Ring : Memory Lane
The Hangmen : Dark Eyes
Kill-A-Watts : Cheap Medicine
Lord High Fixers : Poppa Hoodoo
Jay Reatard : It's So Easy
Sun Ra : Sea Of Sound

In case nobody else posted this, surf pioneer Jerry Cole died last week.

at the moment: Los Plantronics - Birddogging

Cheap Time LP

Bobbie Gentry 'Billy the kid'
Keith Kessler 'Don't crowd me'
Rita Mitsouko 'Don't forget the nite'
Donays 'Devil in his heart'
Shangri Las 'Wishing well'
Mary Weiss 'My heart is beating'
Voila!

Maybe it's where you cite your references to your discussions?

I think it's some kinda official garagepunk.ning news page...

You could like...print it out and write yourself a letter...or um something.

I don't know either, I gave up looking at it.

It's driving me crazy, I tells ya!

Shit. Another episode of shit you dont hear on the radio. Imagine that. Join me in my driveway to some ass kicking rock n roll and bring a cheap lawn chair just in case things get carried away. http://mottey63.podOmatic.com

I think I might get a Taye kit. Not 100% sure as of yet. It's been a big help having all of these replies.

Hey if it sounds good, don't fuck with it! Most of what I posted previously is just stuff that most "Newbie Drummers" should learn. It all depends on where you wanna go. I can make low-buget drums sing with a little work (and some minor repair) and I am not even a drummer, just a studio geek. I know how to remove annoying squeeks, head rattles and other Mystery Noises. Nothing is hard and fast, if it works, then don't fuck with it.

Not guilty with the weed thing but lock me up for the rest, Yeah I've switched heads but then I generally switch em and replace the bottom with a top head anyway (just tune it differently can't remember anyone ever noticing) Pitted skins - Guilty - the snares had a pit in it for years but it ain't near the centre and doesn't appear to effect anything (sounds the same recorded now that it did years back) Dirty heads - Guilty - the only clean bit is the bit in the middle which gets hit. Does it thud or thunk. Well if it had clean bright and new skins you may notice that it doesn't sound as clean or zingy as it could be, however, I did all this once and got them tuned by a shop and the kit lost all it's pounding oomph. Never done it since and now I only tune to the pitch I like (and not that often either). Finally, lack of tuning - Guilty. Strange thing is everyone always comments on how great the kit sounds at gigs or in recording! All respect to you though, you are giving the right advise and I know you'd probably set fire to my kit if you got hold of it, but for some reason I can't bring myself to change it.

:-)

Yamaha with Evans heads, big and deep! Blue jelleys help the overtones...

Y'know like guitars and strings, sometimes you gotta change your drum heads and tune them up once every few years. They build up crap on the heads and get pitted and dammaged with use too.

The thing I hate most in the studio is when a band comes in and says, "Oh I just flipped my heads over from bottom to top." Make sure you DON'T do that. Top heads have extra re-enforcement and are designed to be hit. Bottom head arent' always designed for that kind of abuse. Bottom Heads are designed to resonate with the top head and give that extra sympathetic ring/sound depending on the brand/style of head and drum you prefer. Just taking the bottom head off isn't always an option either, sometimes it can make a good drum sound like shit because it no longer has the sustain. It just goes THUD or THUNK (and sometime BWOMM) It is worth going to a Drum Shop and learning how to install and tune your drum heads on your drums. You can take a mediocre drum set and make it sing. I have seen/heard the proof.

One last pet peave of mine; I also really hate it when I see drummers use their Floor Tom and/or Snare Drum as a sorting table for their Pot! The residue from that ruins the sound of the drum and when they hit them the stems and leaves go all over the floor of my studio! Find some other place to do that stuff. Seriously!

I hope this helps.

Think you made a very good point here Jerk_Alert, new skins and a bit of tuning could make all the difference for Robin. That said I'd agree more with the comment that they sound better with age. I got my kit about '92 / '93 and have only ever tuned it properly twice. The toms just seem to have bedded in and stay in tune. And trust me they get hit pretty hard. Go figure.
In additon modern kits (or I should say expensive modern kits) are very well made and will last a life time but they sound to clinical to me. I feel they have to much technology behind them and sound like there made in labs - just not garag punk enough for me - sorry

I was thinking about getting a new drum kit for a long time but the ones that I think are awesome are also awesomly expensive. I played around with the idea of buying just a new base drum and floor tom but it is still pretty pricey. I finally decided on just cleaning up my old set, getting new skins and actually tunning them. I've been playing drums for about 14 years and just learned how to tune them(kinda)! My set sounds totally different and the way I wanted them to sound. I would recommend trying this before throwing down a bunch of money. Also, I've read that drums are supposed to sound better with age. Maybe that's all it takes to get our shit drums to sound decent. Who knows?

OK I was off by year on the first performance of Igor Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" it was 1913 instead of 1914 (so my memory ain't as good as it used to be!) Here is a quote I found on-line about the opening night; "Backstage at the premiere, Nijinsky shouted at the dancers while Diaghilev tried to suppress a possible riot by flashing the house lights. Stravinsky himself fumed at the audience's response to his music. If nothing else, the ballet's premiere managed to instill in the audience the true spirit of the music. As Thomas Kelly states, "The pagans on-stage made pagans of the audience." Despite its inauspicious debut, Stravinsky's score for “The Rite of Spring” today stands as a magnificent musical masterpiece of the twentieth century." and from the same (yeah I know) NPR site; http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88490677 and here is the Wikipedia version; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring Like Jazz and later Rock 'n' Roll, folks just weren't ready for stuff like this and they just freaked out about it. It may be tame by our viewpoint, but it was shocking and scandalous at the time. The horror of WWI made all that stuff kinda pase. As far as writing influences go, try to find stuff you like within the stuff you like and incorporate those things you like into what you are already writing. It takes some time, but the end result can be really cool. You won't know until you try.

"Even chaos has some (anti-)order to it" - that's genius! You know your stuff man.

I throw on a Rites of Spring LP every now and then. I wish I knew what made them riot over it?

I like a lot of stuff, but sometimes I wish I could just narrow it down to a few things. I might be able to make something within a set style. I'm not pretentious enough to think I can take bits of everything and make something great. Maybe if I was pretentious I could actually do it? Haha who knows.
What do you think about the difference between being inspired by the huge amount of past music and just being weighted down by it all?

OK it's hard to discuss DJing. You pick ya track you que it up and press play. However there must be more we can talk about here. For example I am personally proud of finding a decent playable copy of "Night Of The Phanton" on Tiris which I bought for less than £100. What's your favaourite acheivement?
Lets talk about the things we love.

Here's a quick review of The Len Price 3 and Graham Day & The Gaolers at The Dirty Water club (23/05/08). It's intended more as an introduction to these bands, hence the background info.

We were talking about the Shin-ei earlier in this thread (a piece of Jap crap that is sublime in the way a dentist's root canal is sublime)... you can hear a great example of it on the song "Unlucky In Love" here: www.myspace.com/miketheravens2007 Tell me that doesn't set your teeth on edge...