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

try "Acid baby Jesus" or maby go back a few years to "Jacques Dutronc".

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.

Pam and the Passions - Summertime

Eastern Dark - Johnny and dee Dee

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden

Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop

Plunderers - Didnt see them

Dillinger - Chinese Soul Train

Doom Town - Walking through walls

Modern Pets - Plastic Mind

A10 - Badly Burned

Hellacopters - City Slang

Goodbye Johnnys - Night will fall

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 :)

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?

I think this is the same documentary all in one view:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kf360

My kitchen and my BOG (We don't say that in the states , but , I think it's hilarious.)are both tiled , but the BOG is too small to record anything but acoustic  which I generally don't do. But , it does have a great echo .
 
The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies said:

Ha ha! Yeah!

The bog is a great place....(to record!)......I think it's all the tiles.....gives a good reverb sound.....we use a glasshouse......has the same hard flat walls.....

John Battles said:

Yeah , that's the one. I once told Don Craine from The Downliners Sect that I record in my kitchen , as Joe Meek did. He said , Joe Meek actually did most of his recording in THE BOG. He was right , of course.

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies said:

Yeah.....I think I know the bit you mean.....Joe is questioning (in a very polite and restrained way.......hmmmm....) The Lord about the level for his vocal mic.(?)....they do use it in the ARENA doc.

John Battles said:

I have a documentary on VHS , BUT IT'S A STRAIGHT UP SCREAMING LORD SUTCH Bio . Joe Meek figures into the proceedings , of course , and there's some great home footage of Meek RECORDING THE SAVAGES (Probably also in this Meek/SutchBio.), but it's all about our Lord , which art in Heaven.

One of my songs, "Bird of North America," uses the stomp ending. But I have this big track of bird screams that starts up a little bit before the stomp, and continues after it. http://undercoverbonobos.bandcamp.com/

Most songs just hit the key chord and fade, I guess. Then there's the double-time fade, the big scream, instrumental coda fade...er... there must be more...

i don't really know how fun this will be, but let's try it....

there are several ways to end a song, and how you end it might affect how people remember it... so give the ending's style a good name, and then describe it too. and if you have a song (or several) that use that style name them, and a link to it if you want to really get into it.

one of my favorites is the " stomp" ending. i named it that because it makes me feel like you put your foot down. the song is over. done. next. applaud.

the "stomp" ending is usually at end of a chorus. where the last chord, symbol, (and word) of the song are all at the same time, then muted immediately.

the example i have stuck in my head is "fell in love with a girl" by the white stripes. the funny part is i had a hard time finding an example of them doing the this way live, so here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27BfBkRHbs

It actually worries me that I can remember this kind of stuff, but I have a feeling that the short-lived band you're thinking of was called Shooting Gallery. Think it was Andy McCoy, Tregunna, the singer was a guy called Billy Bang (? okay, I might have made that bit up), and Jo Dog from Dogs D'Amour was in them for a bit, too. Never heard them or saw them live, so quite why I remember this trivia is beyond me. Probably because I was a big Hanoi Rocks fan, saw them a couple of times in their prime, once at the Electric Ballroom in Camden with a band called Ligotage supporting, whose singer was Beki Bondage from Vice Squad, who were pursuing a similar punk/glam sound.

I guess glam is at the root of it all for me, growing up in Seventies Britain. 'Blockbuster' and 'Hellraiser' by the Sweet were my first two 45s, and seeing Bowie in Top Of The Pops doing 'Starman' left an indelible impression. Funny, though, how bands like Sweet and Slade get referred to as 'bricklayers in eyeshadow' by the early punks (I'm thinking of people like Siouxsie, here), unlike the artier Bowie and Roxy Music.  

John Battles said:

PROBABLY. tHE ONLY PEOPLE i'VE HEARD TALK ABOUT THEM HAD LIVED IN FINLAND. Andy had , or has , a dysfunctional Rock 'n'Roll "Reality TV' show , liek the Osbournes and The $immon$  family.     I saw Andy twice in '88 WITH iGGY pOP , BUT , i THINK THAT'S THE ONLY U.S TOUR HE'S DONE SINCE THE ABORTIVE AND POORLY PROMOTED US TOUR WHICH ENDED , AS I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW , IN DRUMMER , RAZZLE'S DEATH WITH VINCE NEAL AT THE WHEEL (HE COULD'NT HAVE SENT OUT FOR BEER?). NO , WAIT , THERE WAS ANOTHER BAND. I FORGET THEIR NAME. HIM , DAVE TREGUNNA OR Kenny Laguna, THE GUY FROM lORDS AND sHAM 69. MAYBE NASTY SUICIDE , TOO? They were at China Club , and I refused to go there.
 
Duke Of Earl said:

I heard 2 pelle albums but never the one with Andy Mccoy. Apparently they were finnish only releases. 
 
The Fnords said:

Pelle Miljoona was Andy McCoy's best-known pre-Hanoi Rocks band; I've none of their records though. D.

I just listened to that the other day.  Thx 4 including.

Old School Hero said:

I played an obscure Glam track on my latest podcast. Good Time Coming by Mustard.

I played an obscure Glam track on my latest podcast. Good Time Coming by Mustard.

I fucked up the embed of the Sharon Jones video when I originally posted. Just fixed it.

Just heard they covered this song on it with Quintron and Miss P.  What I'm imagining is the best song I've heard in years.

How does that thing sit in a guitar stand?

Looks a bit top-heavy.

......What about this baby?.....I can't decide.....it SHOULD be cool......and it's a FretKing...and they usually play and sound dead nice.......but somehow....it's just WRONG....what do you think?

Tough call on this one.  The Tonikas look kind of cool compared to the Cort "Axe" guitar above.  But standing on their own, I think I would take a pass if someone offered it to me for free; especially if it was a bad sounding guitar on top of it.  

G. Wood said:

I think those Russian guitars are pretty cool, if somewhat weird, but I've read that they sound and play terrible.

I think those Russian guitars are pretty cool, if somewhat weird, but I've read that they sound and play terrible.

Mardy Pune said:

From Russia: Tonika Model EGS-650 electric guitar

From Russia: Tonika Model EGS-650 electric guitar

I have a soft spot for The Cosmic Vampires....

Slipknot!
Nah, I kid. I'm going to have to go with the Mummies, GWAR, and Thee Cormans.

 Yeah , as I recall , his exact words were , "Did we stuff? Johnny was Italian , and I'm Jewish , OF COURSE , we did'nt stuff !". In other Schlong Rock NEWS , ALL ARE INVITED TO READ MY REVIEW OF BLACK OAK ARKANSAS' SHOW, IN BEVERLY , ILL. , LAST SUMMER , at www.roctober.com . You'll have to scroll back a ways to find it in the reviews.......