Shadows of Knight have had a reputation for being terrible , or , at best , mediocre , for decades , in Chicagoland. They just did a rare (And free) show in Chicago proper a few months ago , About 3 blocks from my place. Thank God I had a family function to go to ! Jimy Sohns owns the name , so it's always been him and whoever is backing him. Joe Kelly sits in on occasion , or he used to. They're in that documentary on Garage Rock with Sky Saxon , which has it's moments , they're at least doing some of the right songs .  Did Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels do a reunion show ? Mitch may have just been using the name. In more recent live footage I've seen of him , he was killin' it , but , I have'nt seen him do a full set in nearly 20 years , usually with Johnny "B' Badanjek , from The Detroit Wheels on drums and Rob Gillespie (Powertrane , Rob Tyner Band.) on guitar. I've seen Mitch at least a half - dozen times , he was always great , even , and especially , when he was playing to 15 or 30 people.   But , I've heard he's done some bad , or just fair , shows , too.....       If you meant the Greenfuz show at The Ponderosa Stomp , MY GOD! THAT WAS PUTRID !! We all love that record for the cruddy sound , but , those guys sounded like they had'nt even practiced. Plus , the Southern Boogie Rock covers did'nt help. I wanted to love it..........
 
Howie Pyro said:

the worst reunion of a 60's band was The Shadows of Knight oh my god...the worst! Very similar were Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (who i didn't go see but they were in a festival i was at...seriously everyone, even normal people were running to get outta there! Right up there with those 2 were The Green Fuz, woah, so bad the promoter "punished" them & forced them to come back & play Green Fuz all the way through without introducing the band all the way through it to get to their "important" blues ramblings...i do have a tape of it and it has a running commentary from my friend Todd Abramson that is fucking hysterical...I also saw the Shaggs & thought it was mind blowingly great...

the worst reunion of a 60's band was The Shadows of Knight oh my god...the worst! Very similar were Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (who i didn't go see but they were in a festival i was at...seriously everyone, even normal people were running to get outta there! Right up there with those 2 were The Green Fuz, woah, so bad the promoter "punished" them & forced them to come back & play Green Fuz all the way through without introducing the band all the way through it to get to their "important" blues ramblings...i do have a tape of it and it has a running commentary from my friend Todd Abramson that is fucking hysterical...I also saw the Shaggs & thought it was mind blowingly great...

Never liked Guns'n'Roses. People from LA swear they were good , live , before they got signed. I dunno......I liked Queen , OK , when I was in Junior High . I saw Kiss when I was 11 , before it was common to be a preteen , going to see Kiss ,  and , sure , I loved 'em , THEN. I got over it. I can see anyone not liking those groups , ever. As for The Clash , I got off 'em for years , but , I like them again , now. But , I WON'T CONDEMN ANYONE WHO DOES'NT.

But , I never got it with AC/DC. They'd play their live LP , a bit , on the radio , around '78 ,before they broke in the states ,  AND I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF I LIKED THEM OR NOT (THEY WERE ALSO ON "TED NUGENT'S EXTRAVAGONZO " on The Midnight Special with another still -little known band
, Cheap TRICK . i'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THEM out!).....i DECIDED , i'D GIVEN THEM A CHANCE , BUT , NO , i DID'NT LIKE 'EM. Especially when they became the band Jocks and Stoners agreed on at my High School . I was getting into Punk by then , and could'nt be bothered with it. If they made a special White male ID card , I set mine on fire they day I decided I did'nt like AC/DC.  I'll take Rose Tattoo over them , any day.......
Tersicore said:

Ok, I confess: 

I never liked bands like AC/DC, Queen, Kiss, Guns n´Roses et al, even if they had some great songs, for the fact that I HATE high Voices coming from Guys!  

and, confession nr. 2 

except for a short time at the beginning and a few songs, I don´t like The Clash that much!  There, said it!

Just got this press release from Slovenly Records

Slovenly Recordings & Sticker Guy! present
DEBAUCH-A-RENO #2 
CELEBRATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF STICKER GUY! (Since 1993)
Reno, Nevada, USA. 22-23 March 2013

CONFIRMED SO FAR:

THE SONICS (Tacoma)

THE GORIES (Detroit)

DEMON'S CLAWS (Canada)
THE SLOTHS (Los Angeles)

ACID BABY JESUS (Greece)

HELLSHOVEL (Canada)

SHANNON & THE CLAMS (Oakland)
PAINT FUMES (Charlotte)

LAS ARDILLAS (Puerto Rico)

LOS VIGILANTES (Puerto Rico)

KING AUTOMATIC (France)

TROUBLEMAKERS (Sacramento)

THE ANOMALYS (Amsterdam)

THE PSYCHED (Brooklyn)

SCURVY BASTARDS (Reno)

+ SURPRISE SPECIAL GUEST (Canada)

DJs

The Thing With Two Heads (PA)

Pete Slovenly (Nowhere)

Dahbeeb Brustafa (Reno)

Vinyl Avenger (Amsterdam)

MORE TO COME, STAY TUNED...

www.slovenly.com/debauch-a-reno

I like the site that says "Uh wella wella wella , uh baybuh baybuhbaybuh!".  KIDDIN' !  
 
Last Night said:

For rockabilly lyrics, this site is great :

http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics/

Are you still looking for 'em? I could give you an approximation.
 
Mal Thursday said:

I'm looking for the real lyrics to the Unrelated Segments' "Where You Gonna Go."

I sang some gobbledegook on the Malarians' 1986 recording of the song, and want to get 'em right on the reunion tour.

i'm looking the lyrics for "Haven't got the time" by The Pagans .

Can find it on the internet... i'll try to find out by myself but i'm not US so ...

if somebody have a idea ? thanks !

I think I've seen Wilco's book out, scanned through it and it seems quite good.

Like the man says....gutted..... Wilko Johnson is an icon......His music will live on....

Cool, good to hear!

And... the bespoke radio-show? Is it a private thing, maybe? (if so, I totally understand).

Cheers.

If you like kbd style punk, then you'll like a majority of Towers of London. 

@dumfuk. 

Hey. This thread was so drawing that it actually, finally got me to join the Hideout. Kinda.

And now that I'm here, I'd like to know if there's any chance of getting a hold of/hearing your said punk radio-show from the '80s?

Thanks!

-Korsy

Ps. I've also - without knowing even one of the bands or their music - mail-ordered the Towers of New London vol. 1-compilation. It just looks special and great. 

My fave cartoon as a kid was The Impossibles who were a cool Mop Top garage band of secret superheroes who had a show or did a song or part of one in every episode...super cool...every episode seems to be on YouTube...

ONE OF MY FAVORITES , AND ONE OF THE FIRST , WAS IN A FOGHORN LEGHORN CARTOON. OK , I MENTIONED THIS , ELSEWHERE , BUT THERE WAS A ROCK'N'ROLL ROOSTER WITH A GUITAR , SINGIN' "GEE WHIZ WHILLIKERS , GOLLY GEE! SHE'S  THE PURDIEST THING YA SEE. GEE WHIZ WHILLIKERS , GOLLY GEE. I LOVE THE GIRRRRRR - IIIRRRRRR -IRL !!!!! AND SHE LOVES MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.".  I have a LOT of Foghorn Leghorn cartoons , but , not that one (I think he was in TWO.). Yes, I looked it up on You Tube. All I found was that Frankie Avalon released a version of the song. I FELL ASLEEP IN FRONT OF THE TV once , and  that song bolted me awake !  Warner Bros also had a short gag about the "Elvis" dog , a dog with a guitar , saying "I'm nuthin' but a Hound Dawg !" .

Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has been using Eastwood guitars on tour for years, and likes them fine. (He even has an Eastwood signature model, based around the Starway guitar he used at the Buzzcocks' earliest shows!) I also know Mike Magrann of CH3 tours with an Eastwood Stormbird (their version of a Firebird). He likes his just fine.

Fuck people who can't take a joke

Paul Messis said:

Don't ya hate when bands sell out as stupidly as this???

Bands these days are so quick to get known and famous, sometimes to the detriment of keeping their integrity intact.

Fuck these groups.

Well said!

John Battles said:

For that , alone , he should be written in , First President of Australia.

dave said:

Chris Bailey (Saints)

[laughs] I don't mean this in any bad sense, but I always found the Ramones very cartoon-like. When I first heard them, they were like the Archies, an American comic-book kind of band. The Ramones in fact go back to the Shirelles and the Ronettes and that Phil Spector kind of music. For me punk was the wrong kind of tag for the Ramones. I always had a lot of time for them- invigorating pop music.

For that , alone , he should be written in , First President of Australia.

dave said:

Chris Bailey (Saints)

[laughs] I don't mean this in any bad sense, but I always found the Ramones very cartoon-like. When I first heard them, they were like the Archies, an American comic-book kind of band. The Ramones in fact go back to the Shirelles and the Ronettes and that Phil Spector kind of music. For me punk was the wrong kind of tag for the Ramones. I always had a lot of time for them- invigorating pop music.

Chris Bailey (Saints)

[laughs] I don't mean this in any bad sense, but I always found the Ramones very cartoon-like. When I first heard them, they were like the Archies, an American comic-book kind of band. The Ramones in fact go back to the Shirelles and the Ronettes and that Phil Spector kind of music. For me punk was the wrong kind of tag for the Ramones. I always had a lot of time for them- invigorating pop music.

I HAD SOME NEW ADD-ONS , HERE , BUT , THEY GOT DELETED . wILL GET BACK TO YOU , LATER.  

you know , it may be social suicide , saying so , but , I thought "I Want Candy" sounded pretty damn good on the radio , even if it was about a year old at the time. I actually had to buy an Oldies 45 to hear The Strangeloves'
original (A great Rock'n'Roll hoax , pretending to be Sheep breeders from Australia.).... 
Mitchhz said:

Yeah well perhaps I souldn't have used the word 'originals'. There are no originals, there's always something that's come before! See for example this page about Misirlou: http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/297. There was even a better one with videos embedded that I found some months ago but I can't find it any longer.

The legacy of the Rivingtons is huge. Papa-Oo-Mow-Mow (or Mama-Oo-Mow-Mow which is even better) and The Bird's the Word have inspired hundreds of fantastic songs, some of them little known like Surfin' Bird by Wade Curtiss or Papa-Oo-Mao-Mao by the Deviants.

But what I like is suddenly discovering that a song I was so familiar with had in fact an 'oroginal'. For example, I was so delighted when I finally got to hear the 'original' version of Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) or I Want Candy by the Strangeloves and not Bow-Wow-Wow...

THE PRIMARY RIFF IS SIMILAR , BUT , "I'M CRAMPED " IS REALLY BASED , DIRECTLY , ON "BUST OUT " BY THE BUSTERS , WHICH CAME OUT SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE "PSYCHOTIC REACTION".
 
Chris Skoczen said:

I'm sure someone must have mentioned it, but I'm Cramped is just Psychotic Reaction by the Count Five with different lyrics.

Well put. I was just asked , the other day , about bands that sound like The Cramps.  
 I WAS HARD -PRESSED TO THINK OF MORE THAN ONE OR TWO , AND  i'VE HAD PEOPLE TELLING ME THIS BAND OR THAT SOUNDED LIKE THE CRAMPS FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.

Of course , there was Deja Voodoo , and , mor erecently , The Dyes , from Chicago .
Sam Sinister said:

"The Crusher" from Off The Bone was originally by The Novas.

I don't really know why you're counting a lot of these as originals of the Cramps' songs. Borrowing a riff or a beat or the "feel" of a song doesn't really count for much in this type of music (punk, garage, rockabilly, etc.), in my opinion. Everyone is derivative of everyone else, it's part of the appeal. ;)

I'm sure someone must have mentioned it, but I'm Cramped is just Psychotic Reaction by the Count Five with different lyrics.

This is just fuckin brutal. Amazing shit (again) from Pissed Jeans! Enjoyz!