Very cool. I am a total gear-head. I build primitive instruments out of cigar boxes such as guitars, amps, lap-steels, kalimbas, etc. and I modify electric guitars. I have several custom-made amps and guitars, so I have interest but no huge experience. I do, though, build small amplifiers out of cigar box guitars and cigarette boxes (they are only a few watts, run on batteries, and the speakers don't get much larger than 2.5 or 5 inches. 

So, regardless, I'd like to follow this thread. 

I know of amp builders that you could probably contact if you have further needs.

Anyone of you is building his own amp(s)? I'm working on my 2nd one so experience is still limited and questions pop up here and there. I know there are tons of amp-forums around to join but I thought I see if there are any builders among the Garage community. So anyone?

My current build is going to be a head with a simple pre-amp with added bright-switch and mid-boost, 50w pp, 2 kt88s(as I'm a sucker for clean sound - don't need or want amp distortion) and an impedance selector. My first was a Marshall kit, just to see if I like soldering. It turned out okay but I just can't bear that Marshall sound...

Axel

Barbecue Bob

The Zombies are on my rip off list, too.

Unknown Song.mp3 If you can, please let know the artist and/or song. Thanks.

It's stolen the inner sleeve from High time by the MC5 and from The shadow knows by Link Wray

Hi All

I am trying to work out the lyrics to "Where The Wolfbane Blooms" by the Nomads. I have virtually all of it but there are just TWO words I can't work out. The first two words on line 5.

I have, of course, looked all over the net, when you Google there do appear to be some matches but when you go to the sites in question they don't have the lyrics after all. 

Here's what I've got so far:

I know a place, seems real strange
Some things will never change
Thunder, lightning
Blindin' my eyes

??????? ?????? bats
Fillin' the skies

Well in the pale night of the moon
Ah you may see the wolf bane bloom

Ancient horses will appear
Cause it's haunted don't you hear
You may be pure of heart and pure of soul
But you'll become a wolf when the moon is full

Well in the pale night of the moon
Ah you're gonna see the wolf bane bloom

Thanks in advance!

A few years back there was a band from my town ( Portsmouth NH ) called THEE MONKEY BUTLERS. They played great garage RnR. The only link that I can find that still works is the myspace address. Check them out!! http://www.myspace.com/theemonkeybutlers

The Mobsmen from Norway. Great band that looks like a combination of Satan's Pilgrims and The Phantom Surfers.

Excellent choice!

Pat said:

Hewhocannotbenamed

 

YOU CAN TRUST NO ONE ! hehe

just ask Norton.

Robdaswamp said:

damn, sound's like I'm too late. I was really thinking about coming to the USA for this one. a question for you; can you trust facebook on this one?

we've booked

La Quinta Inn & Suites Brooklyn‎

damn, sound's like I'm too late. I was really thinking about coming to the USA for this one. a question for you; can you trust facebook on this one?

I got mine !!!

there's already 630 people attending the event "according" to facebook...

got my tickets! now to arrange lodging...

Cope's Japrocksampler is great. I've been listening to and following all sorts of Japanese underground rock for years so didn't feel a need to pick it up immediately.. but when I finally did I couldn't put it down. Great stories and as Dom said above mad music to discover. Book is definitely deeper than the title suggests.

I think songs like "Wild Man" and "Born Loser" have a haunting minimalisitc quality of the primitive garage style.  Garage Punk in my opinion, was never a genre to display techincal mastery, that was left to the Progressive Rock (Led Zeppelin, Rush, Black Sabbath, Cream, Hendrix). To me, it's about a primitive inarticulate emotion.  A form of musical expression unrefined, experimental, raw, channeled within the confines of it's own limitations.  I do agree reluctantly, that the guitar was a little bit thin.  It could have been produced and engineered better (maybe some backround rhythm gtr).  I think though, if you put those early songs within the context of their times they were revolutionary as far as the dark theatrical "psychotic" impression they produced.  I guess I would just hate to see some bands butcher great songs by running them through a Grunge processor.

Hi, I'm a fan of wild rock'n'roll too. Here's my top ten of the wildest songs ever:

10. Tony Conn - Like Wow

Hard to choose really. There are myriads of wild rockabilly songs. This one has interesting orchestration, like Tyrone Schmidling.

9. Jesse James - South's Gonna Rise Again

Love the voice.

8. Project Blue - The Banshees

Timeless classic.

7. The Ranger Sounds - Ricordami

Incredible Italian band!

6. The Pinetoppers - Shout Bamalama

Otis Redding when he he tried to sound like Little Richard.

5. The Valiants - Good Golly Miss Molly

This one was released before Little Richard's and is much faster and wilder!

4. Adrian Lloyd - Lorna

Real punk gem.

3. The Phantom - Love Me

Opening scream is unbeatable.

2. Bunker Hill - The Girl Can't Dance

Link Wray played on that one.

1. Ralph Nielsen & the Chancellors - Scream

I don't know if this is surf, rockabilly or 60s punk but it is truly the wildest!

Hope you like it.

I've always had a fascination with 50's and 60's Punk (Hasil Adkins, Gene Maltais, Joe Clay, Jerry "The Phantom" Lott, The Benders, The Sonics, etc.) Does anyone know of any bands/songs that really get the blood pumping? Let me know. Thanks.

Hey check out my next DJ gig.  No mention of my name, radio show, website, or station...  AWESOME!

Everything you said about the Kingsmen's version is my sentiments exactly.  I just had the feeling that most everyone here would choose the Sonics just for its sure intensity and buzzsaw sound but it's nice to be proven wrong in this case.  I notice that some people said Swamp Rats as their favorite but that wasn't the question.  Anyway, as the guys from Delta also proved, the Kingsmen version is funner to get drunk to (although it WAS off by a year and a half).  Speaking of being off by a year, I also thought for a long time that the Richard Berry recording was 1956.

Dammit said:

     I'm with you on this one, Rod...(Love The Sonics, btw - i even met you finally (in person) at the Sonics' Olympia New Years Eve Show)...As Mole noted, the chords for the Sonics version are different. They're virtually different songs; Kingsmen version has the E minor chord, whereas the Sonics version is all majors -- Meaner, yes! The word "Menacing" comes to mind...Another great blueprint for Punk Rock, brought up by the mighty Sonics. (The Swamp Rats heard this (and Psycho) and fuzzed it up bigtime!). Speaking of 'blue prints" The Fabulous Wailers MUST be mentioned here. Because they were the first ones to do it with this wild/Northwest/balls out/ rhythm/style/arrangement as what the Kingsmen did a year or two later. LOVE the Wailers and their version was innovative, but The Kingsmen took what they did and SMASHED it out of the park.

     As great as all these versions are, there's just something magical about the Kingsmen version. The gaffs/mistakes, the sound quality (!) Great (((live))) room sound...The epitome of "Garage" sound...(even if it wasn't literally in a garage). First & foremost, Jack Ely's lackadaisical vocal is just so great. His delivery, the phrasing is top rate....Add to that a fantasticly succinct guitar solo (super well crafted & executed; pity/laconic in the best sense), wicked electric piano intro & all throughout (Don Gallucci, later of Don & The Goodtimes fame, & Stooges - Funhouse production), and Lynn Easton's lively drumming. It's relaxed/loose and intense all at the same time....like the best R&B ever made (usually black musicians). White kids usually sound nervous and hyper and that sound is great too, but they usually can't get the "relaxed/intensity" thing...I'm all for spazzy white punk rock, but The Kingsmen nailed this one with relaxed/intensity...Finally, i gotta bring it back full circle to Richard Berry, the creator/writer & original performer of the song, Louie Louie. His original 1956 recording of Louie Louie is thee KIng Shit! and is only equalled by The Kingsmen, in my opinion. Yes, rating songs in-order is stoopid anyway, but those are my two top faves that I always go back to (for Louie Louie) -- Richard Berry ('56) & The Kingsmen ('63)...(and the sonics!) heh heh... O_0

** What I meant was: "1957" for Richard Berry & The Pharaohs original (a B-side on Flip!!)

     I'm with you on this one, Rod...(Love The Sonics, btw - i even met you finally (in person) at the Sonics' Olympia New Years Eve Show)...As Mole noted, the chords for the Sonics version are different. They're virtually different songs; Kingsmen version has the E minor chord, whereas the Sonics version is all majors -- Meaner, yes! The word "Menacing" comes to mind...Another great blueprint for Punk Rock, brought up by the mighty Sonics. (The Swamp Rats heard this (and Psycho) and fuzzed it up bigtime!). Speaking of 'blue prints" The Fabulous Wailers MUST be mentioned here. Because they were the first ones to do it with this wild/Northwest/balls out/ rhythm/style/arrangement as what the Kingsmen did a year or two later. LOVE the Wailers and their version was innovative, but The Kingsmen took what they did and SMASHED it out of the park.

     As great as all these versions are, there's just something magical about the Kingsmen version. The gaffs/mistakes, the sound quality (!) Great (((live))) room sound...The epitome of "Garage" sound...(even if it wasn't literally in a garage). First & foremost, Jack Ely's lackadaisical vocal is just so great. His delivery, the phrasing is top rate....Add to that a fantasticly succinct guitar solo (super well crafted & executed; pity/laconic in the best sense), wicked electric piano intro & all throughout (Don Gallucci, later of Don & The Goodtimes fame, & Stooges - Funhouse production), and Lynn Easton's lively drumming. It's relaxed/loose and intense all at the same time....like the best R&B ever made (usually black musicians). White kids usually sound nervous and hyper and that sound is great too, but they usually can't get the "relaxed/intensity" thing...I'm all for spazzy white punk rock, but The Kingsmen nailed this one with relaxed/intensity...Finally, i gotta bring it back full circle to Richard Berry, the creator/writer & original performer of the song, Louie Louie. His original 1956 recording of Louie Louie is thee KIng Shit! and is only equalled by The Kingsmen, in my opinion. Yes, rating songs in-order is stoopid anyway, but those are my two top faves that I always go back to (for Louie Louie) -- Richard Berry ('56) & The Kingsmen ('63)...(and the sonics!) heh heh... O_0

You never considered them surf? They always had a heavy surf influence. If you see them these days they are TOTALLY a surf punk band and mostly play the surf circuit.

ratoonie said:

agent orange!!!!...... i never considerd those guys surf!! but i was Living in S.F. at the time ......83....?????
I think therye back togethr?!