Playlist Arpil 27th:

Pretty Whores Of Manhattan : Ferdinand
Hellacopters : Veronica Lake
Ennio Morricone : Notte Di Giorno (Lizard in a Woman's Skin soundtrack)
Factums : Oroboros
La Ira De Dios : Kaos
Statues : Lifting Fingers
Alex Chilton : My Rival
Boris : Dead Destination
Knivknep : Bøssepis
Digger & The Pussycats : Stab A Motherfucker
Jerry Teel and the Big City Stompers : Down to my Last Cigarette
Kill Devil Hills : Drugs
Sonny Vincent : Comes Around
Depressive State : Pressure
Len Price 3 : Christian in the Desert
Vicious Cycle : Hail the Bouncher
Only Ones : Another Girl
Hidden Charms : Cheat Liar Cheat
Lincoln St. Exit : Man Machine

Hey,

Thanks to great comps like Transworld Punk Rave Up or the Peace, Love & Poetry series, we now know there were great 60s garage bands all over the world but what about 50s R'n'R?

I know of 4 great songs composed by French writer, poet and jazz musician Boris Vian and performed by Henri Salvador around 1956-57 (he meant them as a joke but they were brilliant wild rock'n'roll songs).

I know there were lots of great bands in Mexico: los Locos del Ritmo, los Boppers, los Apson...

I know of the incredible Tielman Brothers (Indonesian band who had a career in the Netherlands) but they sang in English.

Any others?

I just found this album of theres that has some radio commericals they did on dating courtesy , well Mary was discussing that. pretty funny,

oh sorry if i caused any confusion i meant trash in the most positive sense of the word

ahh a teisco i believe

no i don't

it's got that kinda crazy, glitchy, trash-retro-futurist thing goig on

i hope you like it

how's it sound?

That's cool those are boss lookin! I got a hollowbody teardrop from phantom guitars.

A GaragePunk iron-on-patch t-shirt would be the cat's pajamas!!

Life is a Lousy Drag....cuz I gots me some of these stickers & I ain't got nothin' to stick 'em to!!!
Might make an iron-on from one...but damn that sounds like work...so fuck it I just stick the thing on a t-shirt & go!

....I though this was gonna be a thread screamin' at folks to decorate their HIdeout pages...hahaha

Have you gotten one (or more) of the GaragePunk stickers?! I have a few, and let me tell you they are bad ass! In fact they're so bad ass that I haven't stuck 'em to anything yet because I'm completely neurotic and want them to stay pristine forever! However, you should really shill out that fat cash ($1.00 ppd?! - cheap kids!) and stick 'em all over your car or bike or skateboard, or whatever you have!! *This ain't no advertisement. Just a challenge to you to let the world know about the obviously superior art-form formally known as Garage Punk!* Luv, Michael Kaiser, esq.

Actually, I need some help. Does anyone know a site that has a track list for these compilations? Because I'm seeing some conflicting information floating around and it's getting impossible to keep track of.

I don't know how I found them at all, but they rule! I need to get all of them.

Indeed! This is a REAL BOSS HOSS & THE EYE event!!

This show is going to be AMAZING!!

Oh yeah!!

We're playing this show!!

From: http://zuriz.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-trashwomen-reunite/ "Budget rock pioneers The Trashwomen are reuniting to play a show at Mr T’s Bowl in Los Angeles on July 12th. It’s their first gig since 1995...."

and now you can listen... You wanna hear Mike & The Ravens 45 years after they broke up? Expecting Grandpa Rock? Guess again... tune in and hear a pre-Beatles American band in all its glory, reclaiming rock 'n' roll in 2008... Mike & The Ravens NOW!

Well I'll keep an eye out on Japanese auctions, but USA is probably cheaper.
I'm no expert, but I think you'll probably be better of having an expert inlay another "O" and have the paint refinished. Every secondhand Vox guitar I have owned has needed a refret, except one. Restoring the original headstock, would be cheaper than a replacement neck, and whatever trouble it brings.

Yes it is the black headstock with the letters inlaid...no flowery stuff...the "O" sort of melted away...you can sort of see it in our picture...thats the guitar

This from Detroit News Online Nathaniel Mayer has strokes, cancels New Orleans gig Send all good wishes to Detroit R&B legend Nathaniel "Village of Love" Mayer , 64, who's recovering in Detroit Receiving Hospital from a series of strokes he suffered April 13. "Every day is a miracle," said Mayer's daughter Bonnie Thompson . "He's more alert now, and he's trying to speak, giving people eye contact. He can talk a little bit, but you have to get up real close. He's trying." Unfortunately, Mayer's illness means he won't make his now-customary gig at New Orleans' legendary roots music festival, the Ponderosa Stomp, where he was scheduled to perform April 29-30. Mayer has been on the comeback trail for the past 8 years, since a memorable show at Southfield's Millennium Theater in 2000 showed that the years had not dimmed his tenor shriek. He cut two new CDs, including "I Just Want to Be Held" on Fat Possum Records in 2004 and Why Don't You Give To Me" on Alive Records in 2007.

We put some on and got played, but none of our real garage stuff got played. I still look for new material on the PMN for my radio show and have found some great stuff. Load a few and see what happens (my advice)

For recording, try singing through a P.A. speaker (in the sudio) put a microphone on the speaker and record the vocal both from the speaker of the P.A. and dry though the board. Mix the two tracks together and then put a slap back echo on it

Heres the MP3 for ode' to Leroy

Here's a tune "Ode' to Leory" it's about our dog leroy when he was a puppy. We were messing around one night kinda laughing about how crazy he was when he was a puppy, one lyric went out then another and then the end result was this song

Check out a band called M.O.T.O. on myspace. Paul also has an extensive collection of his music on garageband. Everytime I hear (Masters of the obvious) I want to write!

My new stuff that I'm recording is catcher then anything I've ever written and the new stuff is a bit more polished then Earl Clifton and The Pin-Ups basic stuff. I read somewhere on the blog someone was telling you to just write down whatever comes to mind no matter how stupid it might seem and he is right on the money with that advice. I try to get a hook more so now then I ever did. Most of my older stuff is too slow and I want to play alittle faster tempo like M.O.T.O. or the ramones etc. I've also been working on the groove thing too. My songs (to me) don't have enough groove, and I think if the tempo is a little faster my new songs will be more exciting

I don't think skill is all to important as people may think. Just a good idea to know a little about song struture and how the dynamics in a song should relatively go

The greatist advice I can give to you, is to try and make your songs connect with people. If people feel a connection to your tune or your character in the song, you will have the keys to their heart. It's almost how movies are written

Dan electro French toast, I bought the thing for $15 The lead on our song "The wrong time" was the first time I used it and it's been on my pedal board since. A live version of "My Crazy Woman" was the second time we captured that fuzz to tape and it literally sounds like a plane comes in, love that little thing!

Blue Steel seems to work well for my Strat and Tele ( light gage) I also use them on my acoustic. My biggest problem is my wammy on my strat, If I break a string it's instantly out of tune "Big time" :( It always freaks me out if it happens on stage.

I don't know what kind of strings the old guitars had but I know some of the amps were lower in wattage (volume) and alot of bands thought distortion was cheap sounding. I remember reading somewhere that some guitar players would actually cut a little into their speakers so it would vibrate and make a distortion sound. The speakers seemed to be paper like more so then todays speakers.

P.S. I know a great string (New but broke in) seems to have more sustain than dull worn out strings. They may have rubbed something on them at the factory as to protect them from tarnishing etc. so that way the strings may have had a duller sound. One time I had a set of strings that had too much sustain and I rubbed wax on them and it seemed to dull their sound