Thought I'd start this thread as I hardly know anyone on here and it would be a good way to get to know some of the 1000+ members on the Garage Punk Hideout.

Anyway, I'll start.

I'm Bazza 37 years old from the North East of England and play the bass in the garage/psych band Thee Strawberry Mynde. I've been playing the bass now since I was 15 way back in 1985. I've played in a number of bands over the years and this is my second spell in Thee Strawberry Mynde as the band only reformed at the end of last year after originally splitting up in 1998.

As well as playing in bands I also DJ. Not so much in clubs these days but I do a monthly show for the internet station Mod Radio UK - http://www.modradiouk.net

I've been into garage music now since the mid 80s. The first garage band I really liked were The Prisoners and I still love the music that Graham Day is releasing. After The Prisoners I got into bands like The Creeps from Sweden and The Mourning After from Shefield before checking out 60s garage bands and became a big fan of bands such as Love, ? & The Mysterians, The Standells, Count Five, Music Machine, etc.

Another interest of mine is riding scooters. I've had 6 scooters since 1987 5 of them were Vespa's - V100, Sportique, 2 PX125's and a PX200. These days I ride a Bajaj Chetak which looks a lot like a 1960s Vespa but acts more like a Lambretta at it is always beaking down!

I have a MySpace page if anyone wants to add me - http://www.myspace.com/redstar_recordings

Massive over-consumer of content from this site but haven't posted much.  Now, of course, I do when I'm pushing a sales pitch to raise funds for my band's first full-length effort.  We're The Tanked, from Portland, OR, pioneers of "drunk rock."  That's about the best bio I can write, really.  Anyway, if you have any interest, check us out and our funding campaign at http://igg.me/at/TheTanked.  Cheers!

hey guys! I love everything skateboarding/horror/comicbooks/music/videogames and I happen to do Punk Rock (Garage, Psych, Surf, Pop Punk influences) in my bedroom, I do artworks and logos and shit by myself, it's free if you wanna check it out! If you like it, head over to my facebook page. Each time I get a like or a download I'll give surfboards to kitties and make 'em fight cyber robots with lazers

http://surfinmutantspizzaparty.bandcamp.com/

be excellent to each other

Hello, I'm a musician and audio engineer originally from Colombia but now in the DC area

I play guitar in The Gloom Merchants, we have played only a couple of times but written and recorded our albums in one day each. We started at Omega Studios in Rockville, MD.I recorded and mixed a Psychedelic Blues/Surf band called Dem' Foresters, they're rad. Here's the link to the recordings (and free download!!)

https://soundcloud.com/empty-home-recordings/how-does-it-feel

https://soundcloud.com/empty-home-recordings/just-another-desert-1

My classmate offered studio time for my own project and so I invited their drummer, Drew, to play drums in my songs. We understood each other musically and personally so well that we knew it was a band. We invited our good friend Rob to play drums since Drew is the front man of the band. Here are some links to our songs

These were recorded in studio

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/sets/omega-sesh

These are lo fi and recorded at home

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/selfish-needs

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/she-dont-know-anything-at-all

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/beach-party

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/didnt-you-with-fortune-look-at

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/feeling-happy

https://soundcloud.com/gloom-merchants/hall-of-bones

We also have a Facebook page. 

I hope you enjoy! 

NickR

We never recorded anything , except one show got taped. Think we played to two people , Brian's Wife and Kevin , Jr. (Chamber Strings , Mystery Girls.) who broke the record ,by seeing 2 of the 3 total shows I played on. Brian kept the band going a little while , with our Bass player , the handsome and talented Henry (WHO WAS FRIENDS WITH ARTHUR LEE , AND BRIEFLY PLAYED WITH SKY SAXON.) , and some other people, but , I don't think they recorded anything...... In fact , I ran into Brian , downtown , recently.  We're still friends , but , I only see him once  every few years. That's Chicago.

Das Volt were NOTHING like The Electric Eels. Marginally Garage - ish and , at times ,  discordant , but , overall, very Pop - oriented , as that's what McMahon is into . We did "Jaguar Ride", that was the only Eels song we ever did.
Glenn Peart said:

hey, i'm glenn and i'm just getting started on this site. i first got into rock n roll in 1967, right after the 'garage band era' of the mid 60's. i saw rock and roll die out (commercially at least by 1970) and started getting into other types of music at the time. i was happy when i first heard punk on kroq back in 1977 and it was like a breath of fresh air, or whatever it was ;) i started my radio show in 1995 and have been on once a week doing a rock n roll/punk show ever since then. it's been really fun, but i'd like to change to an an all-garage format, which would exclude all the hardcore and classic punk that i've been playing all these years. i'll miss it when i get my new show soon, but we can all probably agree on this site that 60's and retro garage punk is the best of all ;) hope to chat with some garage rockers on here soon and thanks for this site. 

Wow. You've almost got more notches on your belt than Jesse Hector. Makes no difference , as long as it's good music. i understand , tho' , at the time, one was expected to take sides , musically , in The UK. Not that it does'nt happen , here. You a fan of Sid , Baz and the boys , then?

Hi, I surfed in off someones blog and I'm so glad I did, since I've been waiting to be validated I've read loads and the amount of new sounds I've discovered has virtually overwhelmed me. 50 years old Geordie living in the Scottish Borders.

I started my musical journey as a young lad listening to Glam Rock and Rock 'n' Roll around 1976 after seeing Carl Perkins and Bo Diddley in Newcastle, I started going to a monthly Rock N Roll Club in Durham and loved it. The atmosphere was exciting and scary. Then Punk came along and swept through my school. I started going to Punk Concerts and a group I really liked The Jam wore suits, so 'Jam Fans copied' I got a Jam Suit, Jam Shoes and though still a Punk, I suppose I was becoming a fledgling Mod. A couple of years later the Mod revival came along, and I got swept along. This opened up a whole new musical world to me. R&B, Northern Soul, Beat Groups, Ska, Bluebeat, Garage, Psych...

So here I am, a Punky Mod at heart, though you'd be hard pressed to pigeon hole me now, who doesn't have any narrow musical disabilities. If I like it I don't care if I'm not supposed to.

Here's to this site and the next link to a band I've never heard before. Cheers.

where can I hear Das Volt mister? just discovered Electric Eels. what a violence!!!!!!!!

John Battles said:

i MAY HAVE ALREADY SAID SOMETHING HERE.....Younger men , take comfort in knowing the MEMORY is first thing to go.... I'm a writer , "Musician" and sometimes visual artist , based in Chicago. Before that , I lived in Dallas and Arlington (Or Dullass and Arlingfun as we used to say....), Texas. Lived in parts of Illinois prior to that , too. I write and illustrate for Roctober magazine - www.roctober.com   , and worked with Bad Trip , Black To Comm , Psychotronic Video , and others. I've got a piece in the recent Roctober retrospective "Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll" , and in the Roctober - released or related "A Friendly Game of Poker", "T.V. a Go - Go" , and a book of interviews with Dan Clowes ("Ghost World" , "Eightball" , etc.) . I'VE BEEN PLAYING MUSIC , OFF AND ON , FOR 30 years. BUT , i'VE REMAINED A SOLO ACT WITH JUST A FEW SIDE PROJECTS (Inc. DAS VOLT , FRONTED BY BRYAN McMAHON OF THE ELECTRIC EELS. ) .   You can see my one You Tube video , my version of "Six Days on The Road", at totallybmx (That's not my page , so , show some respect.)......It'll explain why my report card says "Does'nt Play Well With Others".

Oh ! Music .....Rockabilly , Garage , Psych , Country , Blues , Early Hard Rock , R'n'B , Punk , Instrumental Rock , other stuff.

 

hey, i'm glenn and i'm just getting started on this site. i first got into rock n roll in 1967, right after the 'garage band era' of the mid 60's. i saw rock and roll die out (commercially at least by 1970) and started getting into other types of music at the time. i was happy when i first heard punk on kroq back in 1977 and it was like a breath of fresh air, or whatever it was ;) i started my radio show in 1995 and have been on once a week doing a rock n roll/punk show ever since then. it's been really fun, but i'd like to change to an an all-garage format, which would exclude all the hardcore and classic punk that i've been playing all these years. i'll miss it when i get my new show soon, but we can all probably agree on this site that 60's and retro garage punk is the best of all ;) hope to chat with some garage rockers on here soon and thanks for this site. 

Hi everybody, my name is Alvaro, I'm from Chile and I've known this website for about 3 years now, but just recently I took the courage to become a member.

I do a lot of reading (sometimes play videogames too although I suck at them), listen to music and one of my favourite bands is by far the Cramps, I'm currently broke and looking of a job.

To be honest I didn't know much about garage rock and garage punk but it was the Sonics who got my attention with their "strychnine" but the more I got into these genres of music the more I liked it, and hopefully I will meet here good people who will point me in the right direction.

Stay sick!

Hi Bazza...do you still have a program on ModRadio?

Marv Gellman, Beachnuts drummer/singer--Iconoclastic Life, Nature's Company

Hi. My name is Axel. I'm 22 male from Reykjavík Iceland. I've played with now with 4 bands and lots of sideprojects. My recent band was the retro/psych/rock/pop band The Dandelion Seeds. We're not active now but we still got one record we haven't released :S. My new project is more trashier garage-ish psych rock n roll. We call ourselves Pink Street Boys. Stay tuned!

I like lots of music. but nothing beats tough,loud,violent,trippy rock n roll.

I got a guitar wolf tattoo.

J, are the 7 Shot Screamers still milling around? Thanks.

Jason Ross said:

Heya-

Jason Rerun from St. Louis here. I don't know that I ever posted on this thread. Um, I'm 38 and currently reside in St. Louis, MO. I collect records, mainly '70s-'80s Punk, DIY, Garage, Indie stuff, but lotso' '60s garage, psych, glam, proto-punk, soul, etc too. Early Punk Rock is my main focus, though.

I run two record labels that mostly reissue '70s-'80s Punk and lowbrow Rock records. I also sell/buy/trade used records, cassettes, zines, posters and other music related stuff. You can check out the labels and part of the used stock at: www.RerunRecordsSTL.com

Send me a friend request!

Thanks

Jason

From Los Angeles, Ca. Was forced to join a band with my friends in 2000 and play an instrument I had never played (guitar). I taught myself how to play a crappy version of guitar by listening to Angus Young, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Ramone, Poision Ivy, Billy Zoom and Billy Childish. I have been in to garage/punk/rock'n'roll ever since. The podcast's here rule. Razorcake's rule too. 

If you are going to do something wrong, do it right.

Hi im Rapley, im 28 and im from Auckland, New Zealand. My favorite band is the DIY legends Dead Moon, I play in garage punk bands, I work as a live sound engineer in the underground rock n roll/punk/metal etc scenes mainly in Auckland but also sometimes round other parts of NZ. I host a specialist show on Aucklands 95BFM playing all our favorite types of music called Dirtbag Radio and i have a battle cat named Foldy

New to this site and really enjoying it, keen to shoot the shit with you cool like minded people

Hey Guys & Gals---I just dropped in-I am not familiar with how this all works yet since I'd never been involved with a network-anyway--rather than me telling you some long-winded intro-go to my website at : www.gregstackhouseprevost.com I used to be in the Chesterfield Kings, which I started in 1976...

Heya-

Jason Rerun from St. Louis here. I don't know that I ever posted on this thread. Um, I'm 38 and currently reside in St. Louis, MO. I collect records, mainly '70s-'80s Punk, DIY, Garage, Indie stuff, but lotso' '60s garage, psych, glam, proto-punk, soul, etc too. Early Punk Rock is my main focus, though.

I run two record labels that mostly reissue '70s-'80s Punk and lowbrow Rock records. I also sell/buy/trade used records, cassettes, zines, posters and other music related stuff. You can check out the labels and part of the used stock at: www.RerunRecordsSTL.com

Send me a friend request!

Thanks

Jason

Hello

My name is Lindsey and I am uncategorically a geekburger. I love my music but I could care less about original press mumbo-jumbo. I prefer me a good ol' cassette to anyother musical format. Though I greatly enjoy the ruckus of a good punk show, I am more likely to stay at home and biff about mi casa. I have a knack for locating peripheral chakras. . .like the elbow chakra, which is clearly responsible for the brass brilliance of one J.J. Johnson. I am also keen on buffaloes, cinnamon toothpicks, and bad haircuts. Just thinkin this may be a fun site to listen to casts, hunt for new tunes, and make friends of the same ilk (or not). Ifins you like the cut of me jib, then gimme a chat!

hi, fabio here, i'm form italy

student, worker, lazy student, lazy worker, guitar player, lazy guitar player. 

i play in a one man band called butt galore. sometimes it's a real band, sometimes it's a one man band. :)

i like punk rock, raw rock'n'roll, but i'm into all kinds of music really (well almost). gotta nazi gurlfriend who won't let me attend many concerts, but hey i'm in love and don't mind staying at home while my favourite bands play at 30 km from my home (ok actually we fight a lot)

hope to find some friends around here!

hi all!
been blasting the podcasts, mainly rat surf radio, bubblegum fuzz and 40oz nonsense for ages, thought its bout time to jump on the forum.
I play in a shitty garage band The Swamp Monsters, literally jamming in my suburban garage which is now come dive bar.7" coming soon.i Live in Milperra, Sydney. love records, zines, b grade movies, graffiti, pool skating blah blah. Having two kids doesn't afford much time though!
I sometimes mow my lawn listening to Suburban Lawns. Love you all xx

The dRIVIN bEATS say Lets Rock and Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The name's Justin.

Haven't been on here for a long time, mostly just lurked around and scoped the 'casts. I've never really been into forums until this past, but only on www.chopcult.com

I've been working/living at a lodge in Sequoia National Park, CA since March '12.

Spend most of my free time working on my bike, reading, hiking, camping and such. All while jamming to some of the older podcasts I have. Flying Saucer, Wild Wild Sound, Surfcast, Shout Bamalama!

Hi to everyone in garage land!

The Great Dismal Swamis, from Chesapeake, Virginia, USA, have recently setup and updated our page on the GP Hideout. The Swamis have been playing RNR garage music together for about a year, and are in the process of releasing a full length 12 track album.   The album is complete, available as a digital download via bandcamp, and will be available on ITunes within the next month.  Pressing a super limited amount of CDs to sell at shows, maybe make some available to sell or trade.  Really would love to press this album, or even selected tracks on vinyl, but right now the money and distribution is just not right to do so ourselves. I love pressing records, but it is not the most effective way to recoup the expense of recording and manufacturing a hard copy version of music.

The Swamis have all been in previous bands and outfits.  Doug Duncan has played with the Candy Snatchers, River City Rapists, Dirty Fingers, Phantom Creeps, and more.  Jeff and Jason both played together in the Hydeouts.  Steve Marsh has played with Big Bobby and the Nightcaps, as well as the lookers.  We've had a blast playing shows and recording since we started playing together.  Hope we can connect with some new faces and bands here on the Hideout.  We would love to try to bring your band, to the swamp to play your rock n roll.  Check out our page!

 

 

The Eruptors, a band from the UK and Ireland (I guess that means that 'on average' we are based on the Isle of Lunn!)

Looking forward to hearing from garage rockers (and mods and.....anything) from all over the world.

Please stop by our profile page and send us an 'add' if you like what you hear.

Hey guys,

  My name is Chris and I play guitar and sing in Glorious MoonRockets. I also write all the songs and do the artwork for the band. Wow, makes me sound like a real hard working, go getter type, but I'm really just another slacker.

   I've been playing music as long as I can remember, but this band has only been together for a couple years now. We've been playing around our home town, (Ottawa, Canada), and are planning on taking the show further out on the road over 2013. I'm heavily influenced by the The Dictators, Sonics, Motorhead, Dead Boys and more recently Ty Segall, White Denim, and J Reatard.

You can check out our tunes on our page here or on our bandcamp. http://gloriousmoonrockets.bandcamp.com/

If you like us, let us know! We're always looking for new places to play. And new places to stay...

 

-Chris