Yes , it was around that time , I was beginning to wish I lived in England , so I could see my countrymen , The Cramps.   By the time I COULD see them , I'd been a fan for almost 10 years.   IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS THIS WHOLE NEW SCENE GOING ON , BUT , I KNEW THAT , BY THE TIME I'D FOUND OUT ABOUT IT , IT WAS COMING TO AN END......

I did'nt hear The Cramps' influence in the Psychobilly bands , which is fine , I just kept reading and hearing about "Cramps copyists" . I think The Cramps' frequent sojourns to Blighty motivated some of the changes taking place in The UK music scene , even if  Paul Fenech and others still deny it..      BUT ,  WHAT ABOUT KING KURT?  I HEARD THEY WERE HILARIOUS , LIVE.
 
Johnny Bean said:

I was around the London scene at that time, Hoodoo Gurus were the kings for me !!! Always loved the Cramps, Stems and The Prisoners, Long Ryders also played some great shows in that period. Always felt Milkshakes, Cannibals, Turkey Bones, Guana Batz et al were not very good, no memorable songs but the gigs were always a drunken laugh :)

I think it just depends....Most domestic LPs are still about 8 to 11 dollars , which , of course , is NOTHING in English Pounds. 45s CAN RUN YOU ANYWHERE FROM 4 TO 8 dollars , which is LESS than nothing in English Pounds.  A lot of independent labels and stores did try hard to keep the prices down , but , now , it's a crapshoot.  Also , regionally , a lot of new releases may be more expensive , still.

Yeah , I also have the original Blood on The Cats comp - Everything from Screaming Lord Sutch to America's own Shockabilly (Who had no discernible Rockabilly influence , but , then again , neither does most latter - day "Psychobilly" .). I have The Wigs EP , too. I knew it existed , because it was listed in a Media Burn (?) ad , and I'm a Yank , fer chrissake.
 
Mark George Harrison said:

Forgot the Escalators JB, another Meteors offshoot although I remember reading that Nigel Lewis was on a lot of high dosage meds for a back complaint and when he was more compus mentus disowned their entire output!

The blood on the cats, all four of them, were a weird combination of rockabilly, psychobilly, garage and goth! With a bit of punk on there for good measure with the Belfasts finest the Outcasts wrongly credited as the Outcats! Worth buying for the Wigs 'thirteen lines' took me until about ten years ago to find a copy of the Wigs ep, was told it didnt exist by a respected collector!

Albums today are probably cheaper than they were then, its singles that are bloody dear! is that the case in the States? An average 45 here is about £4.50 but an album is usually between £10 and £13.50 or there abouts. sorry to get off track but as an 'old timer' its my perogative!;)
John Battles said:

 Mark George ,        Well , The British stuff did'nt come cheap , here , either. There was this whole new "Scene" that did'nt get much coverage in the states. I did play a lot of it on my old radio show in Dallas in '86. I may have been one of the first DJs to play that stuff in The U.S.

I played The Meteors , Guana Batz , etc. , too , alonside The Stingrays, who were mistaken for a Psychobilly band , because of the quiffs and  the standup bass. Bal said "Garage , Trash , Psychobilly , it's all the same thing. It's American music , and Americans don't understand it".   I COULD'NT find a lot of that stuff , yet , I loved the "Rockabilly Psychosis and The Garage Disease" and "Revenge of The Killer Pussies " albums . The Psychobilly thing seemed fresh at the time. I found The Washington Dead Cats' EARLY CASSETTE . They're still going , still terribly silly. But , this tape combined Psychedelia , Psychobilly , and a bit of Pere Ubu ,and , it worked .I still like it , and still have the psychedelic pattern shirt it came with !     Some of those other  bands , Prisoners, Vibes , Escalators , X-Men....Took a few years to find them , but , their records were much cheaper , by then.
 
Mark George Harrison said:

As a 16 year old rockabilly/psychobilly in 1980 on £28 a week after giving my mum £10 a week board, there wasn't much money left for records, especially as beer was 50p a pint! I wasn't aware of a garage revival as such until much later, bands like the Stingrays and the X-men all had quiffs and crossed in to the rocking scene without ever using the 'g' word. The Vibes, later the Purple Things, also were be-quiffed! Im not sure when garage came to be used to differentiate between the scenes, it's a question Ive had with several people of similar ages who were there as well.  

You young whippersnappers don't know how lucky you are with the internet, everything now is accesible. Press coverage was sparse to say the least and apart from a few 'bigger' bands American garage was pretty hard to get hold of and bloody expensive if you could find it, a collecion took years to build up and not a couple of hours downloading from the web.

Anyway, for me, the best garage bands available to me at the time were the Vibes/Purple things, Stingrays, Tall Boys, Prisoners, Turkey Bones and the wild dogs(check out goldfish and helicopter man). Always found the Milkshakes a bit too 'beat' for me but like later Childish bands. The garage goodies vol 1 album was probably the best British comp at the time as well. Hope this answers the question?

From NC check out "Last Years Men" out of Durham and just signed to In the Red Records,

http://lastyearsmen.bandcamp.com/

"Paint Fumes" out of Charlotte and just signed to Slovenly Records, 

http://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/paint-fumes-egyptian-rats-ep

Deadly Lo-Fi out of Wilmington, NC on my label Doctor Gone Records

http://deadlylofi.bandcamp.com/

lol. I checked this shit out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBH3UF1fOI

bass drum of death is awesome stuff. but I dont get this Get Bent. Sounds like Offspring or something...

I used to write for get bent but they fired me :( I saw Bass Drum not long ago they are gonna be huge someday, some seriously hard rocking shit.

Cath said:

Great thread! I've been listening to "GB City" by Bass Drum of Death a lot lately. And I agree with Alison, Get Bent is awesome, you definitely have to check it out.

Hi Tim,

I'm seeing Ty Segall in Tufnell Park next Thursday, is that where you are going? 

Cheers, Coop

Tim said:

Came across a band called Boneyards recently who are from Brighton, England, and they sound REALLY good. I think they sound sort of garagey punk, trashy, lofish with a pleasant hint of surf.

Check them out!

http://boneyaards.tumblr.com/

I'd be interested to hear what people think.

Think they are pretty new and I only came across them because they are listed as support for Ty Segal who i'm seeing next week.

By the way this is exactly the sort of thread that I love this site for. Mmmmmm new bands!

Although some peoples definition of new is a bit.... well.... old... but I'll stop myself there so I don't become a meany.

Came across a band called Boneyards recently who are from Brighton, England, and they sound REALLY good. I think they sound sort of garagey punk, trashy, lofish with a pleasant hint of surf.

Check them out!

http://boneyaards.tumblr.com/

I'd be interested to hear what people think.

Think they are pretty new and I only came across them because they are listed as support for Ty Segal who i'm seeing next week.

By the way this is exactly the sort of thread that I love this site for. Mmmmmm new bands!

Although some peoples definition of new is a bit.... well.... old... but I'll stop myself there so I don't become a meany.

haha fuck. im diggin the AXE guitar of hell!!!!!

Damn those metalheads they have no taste..

Wow so many cool ways to end a song.

We always loved the shimmering fade-to-reverb ending of The Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday" -- so much so, that we used it on our version of "See My Friends", an extended psychedelic workout of the Kinks classic with which THEE DIRTYBEATS traditionally closes its sets. 

This track eventually became the hidden bonus track of THEE DIRTYBEATS' debut ep.

THEE DIRTYBEATS 100% pure maximum garage
FREE EP DOWNLOAD http://theedirtybeats.bandcamp.com

@FUZZDRENCH

Some people can't find us on Twitter because name had to be cut short (ultimatemosthi)

Here ya go:

http://twitter.com/ultimatemosthi

https://twitter.com/strandedinoz

https://twitter.com/digsfletcher

Los Straightjackets

Hey all, I am excited to join this lovely community. I'm Kirby and I am here on behalf of The Whistle Tips. We are a Surf Punk band hailing from Brooklyn, NY with a strong emphasis on 60s garage sound. We are a relatively new band but have been hitting the Brooklyn circuit hard as of late.

Something we've noticed in the recent months is a strong grunge revival in NYC, and no offense to any grunge bands or lovers but we want to bring back the dirty garage shows that were so common the last few years. Maybe its because the novelty of budget rock wore off and all the cool kids want to revisit 90s nihilism, but we wanna rocknroll!

Our big aim is to connect with as many locals and touring bands in the states as possible and flood the scene with unforgiving fuzz and I figured this was a perfect place to connect and keep things moving.

Our big influences range from Man or Astro-Man to The Reatards, not necessary to list all of em but we live it fast, dirty, and surfy. Don't be shy, reach out to us! We are constantly booking shows and looking for acts to headline or open, we also want to keep house shows alive so I am hoping that anyone interested with join us in our conquest of Brooklyn and NYC.

So much talent on here and I can't wait to dig deeper.

All our love,

The Whistle Tips

thewhistletips.bandcamp.com

Not all flower punk, but all worth checking out: Bare Wires, Mikal Cronin, Jack of Heart and Regal (from France), Dead Ghosts, Harlem, Indian Wars, Sic Alps, Fresh and Onlys, The Hussy, White Fence, The UV Race (from Australia, Wobbly Lamps, Wounded Lion, Submarine Races, Eddy Current Suppression Ring (from Australia), Tyvek, Nobunny, Hunx and his Punx, Shannon and the Clams, Unnatural Helpers, Useless Eaters, King Lollipop, The Pharmacy, The Mantles, The Beets, OBN IIIs......

Jacuzzi Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Davila 666...

Hi kaki,

Check out our shows, we play a lot of that kind of stuff, both here in our Church of Thee PVC shows http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=3pibt13f4nx6d and in our weekly Polyvinyl Craftsmen shows http://polyvinylcraftsmen.blogspot.co.uk/

Cheers, Coop

The Trip! July 22nd Show!

Hey kids, give this week's show a listen! http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20120722-0030-t1342913400.mp3

The setlist:

Gorilla is one of the worst, and they are RELENTLESS!They organize events here at least 2 times a year and still manage to fill their roster with bands. I am especially disappointed in the clubs that support these scams, just to make their own buck. They are what's wrong with our local music scene.

EVEN RINGO STARR STOPPED BRIEFLY , BEFORE EMBARKING ON A QUEST TO BE A MAJOR TOOL TO TO HIS FANS , TO SIGN AN OLD BEATLES BUBBLEGUM CARD FOR BON. THAT'S HOW MUCH THE WORLD LOVES HER.

Thank you sir, you're too kind! Can't wait to rock all over Hinckley again soon!!!x

Trash Freak said:

THE MOBBS! http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/TheMobbs

Fellow East-Midlanders (England), raucous, retro, rocketfuelled Britishness, like the Kinks on Crack! Great live.

oo!oo!      "RIP OFF" IS KINDA HARSH , BUT , I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT , AS FAR AS GILLAN LEARNING HIS SHRILL SCREAMS , IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM ARTHUR BROWN. sCREAMING IN TUNE!!!!  Arthur is out playing , again , with a new version of The Crazy World. When i SAW HIM IN '86 , HE HAD SOME YOUNGER GUYS THAT DID THE EARLY STUFF JUSTICE. (THE OPENING BAND WAS MOST OF MOUSE AND THE TRAPS , BUT , DOING R'N'B STANDARDS. NOT TOO EXCITING.).  IN FACT , THEY DID ALMOST ALL OF THE FIRST ALBUM , PLUS "THE TELL - TALE HEART" , "EYESIGHT TO TEH BLIND", "SPEAKNOTECH" AND OTHERS.  hE DID A STUPENDOUS "GREEN MANALISHI (WITH THE TWO PRONGED CROWN) " ON A PETER GREEN TRIBUTE , SEVERAL YARS AGO. MAKES AN ASS OF PRIEST'S VERSION.

DO YIU MIND ? DO YOU MIIIIIIIIIIND?!".
 
Gunther Toody said:

I can't tell you how much Arthur Brown and that first album mean to me...THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN was one of the first 10 albums I ever bought as a kid. There was an article with great color pics of Arthur live in EYE magazine and the cool colorful cover of the LP and that was all my adolescent mind needed to invest my saved lunch money in what has to be the most psychedelic 60's rock record with no guitar on it. Vincent Crane was amazing and the weird strings and horns that pop in occasionally are really cool. Anybody else hear the rumor that Pete Townsend played the bass in a last minute time crunch? And does anybody else think that Deep Purple's Ian Gillian kinda ripped off Arthur's distintive screamin' technique? Which is rarer...the Atlantic issues or the Track issues?

I've been under the impression for the last 33 years or so that the best 45 of all time is "Surrender" b/w "Auf Weidersehen" by CHEAP TRICK. 

I can't think of the BRIDES without thinking of the time they played a matinee show up here in Green Bay and Ross and the boys got busted for drinking in the parking lot...by a BIKE COP. They were just sitting there, sheepishly, while a man in bicycle shorts dutifully wrote them a ticket in broad daylight. That took a little of the edge off their swagger that show, that's fo' sho'. I always thought their best song was their cover of "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" by SOLOMON BURKE.