and let me add Marty Thau of Red Star Records. Milissa Ross Greenberg said:

Lyres, DMZ, the real kids, Billy and Miriam/Norton Records to start

...well, did anyone mention GAUNT???
at least their "Sob Story" and "I Can See Your Mom From Here" albums are reason enough for me...

So at each induction there is a 'band' that gets together of inductees and plays a tribute. Clearly it would be a Bo Diddley song, but who would be in it? Guitar 1: Poison Ivy Vocals: Billy Childish / John Spencer

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yeah. But it should be once a month, not once a year. I don't think we'll be doing any of this in 25 years. Rinjo Njori said:

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

Yeah. But it should be once a month, not once a year. I don't think we'll be doing any of this in 25 years. Rinjo Njori said:

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

Not sure to have seen :
King Khan & His Shrines (and BBQ)
The Sexareenos
The Movie Star Junkies
Los Yorks
The Black Lips

How about the Leaves? Just for writing and performing the original and best version of "hey joe"!

Sonics
Greg Shaw
Link Wray

Deja Voodoo and Color Me Psycho, two much overlooked 80s Canadian bands.

Lyres, DMZ, the real kids, Billy and Miriam/Norton Records to start

Forgot the Scientists! Mr Yates said:

Inaugural Australian Nominees

Radio Birdman
The Hardons
The Birthday Party
The Beasts of Bourbon
The Eastern Dark

The Stoics

How about:
The Groupies (Primitive)
Electric Prunes (I had too much to dream last night)
Standells (dirty water, sometimes good guys wear white)
Rare Breed (aka Ohio Express) Beg, Borrow and Steal (no - not the Ohio Express Bubble gum express)
Demotrons - a nice alternate version of Beg, Borrow and Steal

I think we were picking people famous amongst ourselves. The White Stripes aren't going to have trouble getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 (if it's still around) like groups we've picked for the garage punk hall of fame.

The White Stripes

because unlike pretty much every other artist mentioned so far they're actually... ya know... famous.

I would nominate Iggy and The Stooges, Roky Erickson/13th Floor Elevators, The MC5, The Monks, Billy Childish and almost everyone here. Nobody has mentioned The Legendary Stardust Cowboy though....

Just wanna add some perfect french garage bands :
les Dogs (not the KBD's ones)
les Thugs
The Neurotic Swingers
The Hatepinks
Gasolheads
The splash 4,
Fatals,
Magnetix...

Maybe the Hideout hall of Fame is a better name just so there's no argument if Bo Diddley belongs or not or if a group is garage punk or garage revival or British beat or WHATEVER.

These bands were definetly the examples of garage punk from 1976 to the present:
Black Lips
Boss Hog
Cheater Slicks
Billy Childish
The Devil Dogs
The Dirtbombs
DMZ
The Drags
Gas Huffer
The Gories
Guitar Wolf
Thee Headcoats
The Hives
The Horrors
The Hunches
The Inhalents
The Intelligence
The Konks
The Lazy Cowgirls
Lost Sounds
The Makers
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Thee Mighty Caesars
The Mummies
New Bomb Turks
The Night Kings
Oblivians
Poison 13
Reatards
The Reigning Sound
The Rip Offs
Sinister Six
The Spits
The Statics
Supercharger
Supersnazz
The Supersuckers
Teengenerate
The Trashwomen
The Woggles
The Von Zippers

with these bands being the founding fathers: The Sonics, The Monks, The Stooges, MC5 and New York Dolls.

I think the best definition of garage PUNK was the original wikipedia entry that Kopper started and psted 3 years ago before it got toatally changed. This was revised by myself and others but it's based on his original entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garage_punk&oldid=148391773

Here is a list of groups and public figures I considered seminal and far and away head and shoulders above the pack in influence:
Cramps (who more than anyone else opened up the surge of interest in rockabilly and 60's garage to the hoi polloi)
Stooges (like George Washington 'nuff said)
Lester Bangs (as an early champion in the press)
Link Wray (what band worth listening to DOESN'T owe a debt to him?)
Ronnie Dawson (one of the top 5 concerts I ever saw)
Fuzztones (The Lysergic Emanations LP galvanized me as a late teenager.)
Standells
DMZ (punk pioneers who dredged up the old muck)
Sonics
Dave Allen and the Arrows (for that rattle of the Mosrite Fuzzrite pedal)

That being said, I agree with Jamie. Halls of Fame are for sports, and if we were all captains of our high school football teams or prom queen cheerleaders we wouldn't BE here!

Reatards

Sky Saxon
The Seeds
Marcus Tybalt
Jan Savage
Daryl Hooper

link wray
the cramps
the sonics
13th floor elevators

hello el tiki
i would consider the following Bands:
Dead Moon, thee Daggermen, the Miracle Workes, the Untold Fables, the Prisoniers, the Milkshakes, the Drones, the Bevis Frond, the Cynics, the Damned, Sex Museum, Demolition Dollrods, the Flaming Groovies, the Frumious Bandersnatch, the Lollopop Shope, the Nipple Erectors/the Nips, the Pop Rivets, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Wimple Winch,
the Music Mashine,
theres so much more that i could think of but thats a start
love
tobi joi