Adding Takeshi Terauchi to my list...totally fits my love for the East meets West thing.

Thought of a few more: Voxx, Scooch Pooch, Hillsdale, Super Electro and Lookout!

I don't think Gearhead or Alien Snatch have released anything lately, either.

All those, but Estrus the most, pretty much?? AND FUCK YEAH, SYMPATHY FTRI! Gosh, if this thread adds up with more posts, it could get depressing, haha.

Sympathy for the Record Industry

Amphetamine Reptile

eMpTy Records

Bag of Hammers

Au-go-go

Telstar

I'm sure there are more... but that's all i can think of right now.

so.... today i was digging through some of my cherished '90s garage crud when i came across a stack of Zodiac Killers records. man, what a great band. got me to thinking... what old (thinking '80s/'90s/early '00s here mainly) "garage" labels do you miss thee most??? i gotta say the top two I can think of would be ESTRUS and RIP OFF. yessir, they both released some duds, but who fuckin' doesn't?!! i also miss the mighty garagepunk skronk of CRYPT RECORDS.

which ones do you miss the most..... or want to come "back from the grave"???

TF

I know there were boot LP's of peel sessions and demos back in the 80s-90s.

But I don't own any...and haven't heard them either.

i think everyone's missing the obvious question here for mr. kabong, and that is...... WHERE CAN WE GET OUR HANDS ON MORE OF THESE "ROUGH DEMOS" BY QUEEN????!!!!!!!!

Beatles, but I'm a Stones fan, too. I heard an interview with Mark Hertsgaard, the author of A Day in the Life several years ago--one of the best books about the Beatles. He was one of the people who got access to the EMI tape library when they were putting together the Anthology and his book came out around that time. Someone asked him if would write a book about the Stones now that he had written a book about the Beatles. His answer was something to the effect that the Stones were a great band but the Beatles transformed the culture. I thought that pretty much summed it up. The Stones released some great albums and they had a great influence on music, but the Beatles were operating as much on a different level.

Beatles or Stones??? that's easy! BEACH BOYS!!

I would have to say the stones hands down

Thee Tee Pees
Paint Fumes

King Blood, Spacin', Eidetic Seeing.  All are very psych.

Me either....I received an email from Underground Garage with the message that is on the website posted below.The email had a link to take me to this website, which i thought would have more info....it doesn't.

Is it a joke?? I dunno, but it sure PISSED me off when i read the $ amounts!!

kopper said:

What the fuck? Is that a joke? If so, I don't get it...

whatwave dave said:

Check this out.....

http://www.rockandrollforever.org/tickets

Apparently, he is trying to raise money for music programs in struggling schools, according to the same website:

http://www.rockandrollforever.org/

What the fuck? Is that a joke? If so, I don't get it...

whatwave dave said:

Check this out.....

http://www.rockandrollforever.org/tickets

Check this out.....

http://www.rockandrollforever.org/tickets

I'm sure there's tons of folks on this board that'll be jumping on this and purchasing tickets......NOT!

Actually, I think money (read: GREED) trumps testosterone.

Mike Humsgreen said:

Men are generally short on that when they have a goal in sight. Check out what men will do for women and it becomes understandable. I'm sure women too, but all the best examples of loss of self respect I can think of are testosterone ones.

Mardy Pune said:

Man, that is some serious bullshit. Scary to think that some bands will buy into it so they can play. Whatever happened to self-respect?

Men are generally short on that when they have a goal in sight. Check out what men will do for women and it becomes understandable. I'm sure women too, but all the best examples of loss of self respect I can think of are testosterone ones.

Mardy Pune said:

Man, that is some serious bullshit. Scary to think that some bands will buy into it so they can play. Whatever happened to self-respect?

Man, that is some serious bullshit. Scary to think that some bands will buy into it so they can play. Whatever happened to self-respect?

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide was a fav.

You may be right. In fact, you probably are. I never actually said The Beatles weren't great. Honestly, I think they did some great stuff. I just get really tired of people trying to give them credit for creating sounds that they didn't create. Did they help open some doors? Sure. There were hundreds of bands already beating on those doors that would have gotten them open one way or another. Let's give rock and roll itself a little credit here.

G. Wood said:

Those were different times, before the industry learned how to shove shit down people's throats.
 
RJFait said:

I want to believe that, but... rap music, Lady Ga-Ga, The boys and girls coming out of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, almost every #1 hit before and after The Beatles, all make me think talent is the one thing 'musicians' don't need to be considered great. I'm in no way saying The Beatles weren't talented, but that's never been enough for any other band ever.

Dana V. Hatch said:

if they hadn't been great songwriters with an exciting new sound it wouldn't have worked.

Those were different times, before the industry learned how to shove shit down people's throats.
 
RJFait said:

I want to believe that, but... rap music, Lady Ga-Ga, The boys and girls coming out of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, almost every #1 hit before and after The Beatles, all make me think talent is the one thing 'musicians' don't need to be considered great. I'm in no way saying The Beatles weren't talented, but that's never been enough for any other band ever.

Dana V. Hatch said:

if they hadn't been great songwriters with an exciting new sound it wouldn't have worked.

I want to believe that, but... rap music, Lady Ga-Ga, The boys and girls coming out of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, almost every #1 hit before and after The Beatles, all make me think talent is the one thing 'musicians' don't need to be considered great. I'm in no way saying The Beatles weren't talented, but that's never been enough for any other band ever.

Dana V. Hatch said:

if they hadn't been great songwriters with an exciting new sound it wouldn't have worked.

And that's the thing.  While the Beatles weren't the first to bring fancy chord progressions into rock music,  I think they certainly played a big part into bringing into the forefront.  I think a lot of sixties bands would have been happy just continuing with 1-4-5 (or 1-3-4) progressions but how long would that have lasted?  Sophisticated music would have happened but I don't think it would have been rock.
 
Dana V. Hatch said:

The Beatles were the spark that launched the golden age of garage rock like Elvis sparked the rockabilly explosion. I don't buy the money/hype argument, if they hadn't been great songwriters with an exciting new sound it wouldn't have worked.

Yeah...I don't know.  Hopefully,  a lot of the early guys would have been buying r and b singles without having to hear black music in churches and that influence but it seems the style of church music that these guys were singing was imitated from the black churches that were nearby and not church music like that of old world Europe.  The work songs were evolving into spirituals but you're right....who's to say that works songs wouldn't have evolved into something else.
 
G. Wood said:

I'm going to take exception to that one statement. Certainly Gospel did have a big impact on the development of blues, folk, soul and rock, but if Gospel never existed, if people never incorporated music into their church services and praise rituals, or if African slaves had never accepted the white man's faith, there was already enough indigenous Black music to evolve and branch into other forms. Work songs probably predate Gospel in America, and African songs and rhythms certainly do.
 
Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

 ...none of those original rock and rollers would exist either if not for Gospel.