I've read it, and it's quite good. The writer Richards enlisted clearly captured Richards' "voice" throughout the text, sometimes even including a few repetitious verbal tics. Like many biographies of this type, the least well-known details of the subject's life - childhood - are among the most fascinating. Richards also presents himself as more of a serial monogamist than a womanizer, unlike Bill Wyman, whose book "Stone Alone" consists largely of a full accounting of every groupie he ever encountered and every dollar he made (or was cheated out of). For a book of this length, I came away from it thinking it could have been at least twice as long because the most interesting parts to me were Keith's comments on the Stones' own music and recording sessions, and many of these were just treated in passing or ignored completely. As I would have expected, he gives the recording of "Exile on Main Street" a lot of attention because of the major influence he had on that album, but I would have like to read more about many of the other songs. But maybe leaving you wanting more is the sign of a good book, and for the most part "Life" is top-notch.

I just started on it, and I really like it.  I just finished the chapter on when the Rolling Stones toured England with the Ronnettes, and Keith writes about how he was in love with Ronnie Spector.  She liked him too, but nothing happened because she was with Phil Spector at the time (Enough said).  Keith wrote about how Ronnie was practically held prisoner by Phil, and how he would take her down into the basement of his LA home and show her a coffin, and he told her that she would end up in that coffin if she ever left him.  I'm glad Keith wrote about that, because it reminds me not to feel sorry for Spector now that he's in prison.  I don't care how much great music that man made, he is an asshole.

oh yeah !!!!

NUMBER 71 monobanda

this guy is really crazy, and i love him

tommominollo said:

NUMBER 71 MONOBANDA

is the fkng craziest one man band!

NUMBER 71 MONOBANDA

is the fkng craziest one man band!

Yes of course, and Hasil Adkins!!!!

Rev Beatman

King Automatic

The Mysterious Asthmatic Avenger

Hasil Adkins

Sheriff Perkins !

modern day, right now.. loving BBQ

http://www.last.fm/music/BBQ

FELA BORBONE FROM MONGOLIA!!!

Bob Log III fer sure!

Scion paid for them to record the album. Mick's influences are all over the place. This might get them some additional exposure that they deserve for the albums we all love. People like us will talk about it until the cows come home. Back in the mid 90s there was a tribute album to the Smith's performed by a bunch of knucklehead Hardcore bands. That got me to look at the Smith's a little differently. Hopefully if some Techno purists check this out they will like the Dirtbomb's a little more and who knows maybe the Dirtbomb's can convert a skinny jean wearing kid on this site to hit the dance clubs (god forbid!).

Ko mentioned this album on her Underground Garage show on Sirius/XM.  She's really excited about it, but she also admits that a lot of people probably aren't going to like it.  Unfortunately, that's the price you pay for doing something new or different.

Sounds cool to me:)

electrocute your cock said:

Sounds like the score for some cheesy straight to dvd burnt-out maverick-cop-on-the-edge action film.

PLUS: The others are right :)

It's just like with mother nature's givings: The goodness never stops on the GARAGEPUNK HIDEOUT.

Seriously, here's a discussion where people can spotlight their personal faves from time to time, including what they loved about the content and the programming of a show, so others can pick up on it easy:

Thanks Mal. The admiration is mutual.

Mal Thursday said:

THE BIG ENCHILADA rules, by the way. WAY PAST COOL, KICKS FROM THE BOOT, and Kopper's new show are other good ones of more recent vintage. And the beer-themed one as well. There are so many. Michael Kaiser's are great as well. RADIOBLIVION, R.I.P.

THE BIG ENCHILADA rules, by the way. WAY PAST COOL, KICKS FROM THE BOOT, and Kopper's new show are other good ones of more recent vintage. And the beer-themed one as well. There are so many. Michael Kaiser's are great as well. RADIOBLIVION, R.I.P.

You have a good point, Chaz. Anyone who listens to ALL the shows has a lot more free time than I do.

Maybe tagging is a good idea (if that's possible. Is it?)

The trouble with trying to organize is that a lot of our podcasts contain lots of those various genres -- R&B, garage old and new, rockabilly, often in the course of one show. I know mine, The Big Enchilada, does.  I also do hillbilly shows every few months and often do sets of various styles including gospel, jug band, Japanese punk, "world garage" etc.

Most of the current podcasts have playlists on our Hideout blogs or at least descriptions of each episode.

I agree: too much of a good thing. I'm not complaining, though.

I just think that your idea of organizing them, or at least tagging them so they are easily searchable, might be a good way to self-promote them a bit better. Maybe each episode could be tagged much in the way we can tag these forums/discussion topics.

PS: Try Radioblivian (my personal fav), I think you'll like that one, too.

Yeah I've listened to most of the older ones from years back, and I really like Mike Stax's show. I'm sad the Radioblivion is over. And I have listened to and enjoyed your show, sir. I'm going to check out the greasy RnB 'casts you mentioned as i don't *think* I've checked those two out before, despite having been listening here almost as long as GaragePunk has existed. Thanks!

Mal Thursday said:

I would say that most of the shows here meet your criteria. Of course, I gotta tell ya, you're missing out on some great shows. For instance, THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW, TEXAS TYME MACHINE, and FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN!

For greasy R&B, a couple of no longer active 'casts, HOT SLOP and SHOUT BAMALAMA! Had some good stuff.

My favorite new show is UGLY THINGS ON THE RADIO.

I would write him. I'll take his address. Jacksn45@gmail.com     also what kind of price was he charging?

Thee Wild Wraith said:

Anyone interested in doing short runs might consider Peter King out of New Zealand. He will do minimum runs of 20. His prices are pretty damned cheap as long as you do a small run (like 100 or less). Most people wouldn't want to do that, but I think it's great. Aside from the normal stuff he also does 5"s, 8"s, square records, triangles and custom shaped stuff. Everything he does is on clear vinyl.

He doesn't have a website, you have to call him or write him a letter for a quote. If anyone is interested I can email you his contact info. There are a few videos of him making records up on youtube, do a search for "peter king vinyl".

I was pretty happy with the records he did for me. They look great. I'd say the sound quality is a little lower than a regular record, but still really good in my opinion. He's a good option for smaller bands, and people interested in weird/novelty vinyl. Also he's just a really friendly and helpful guy.

wow, what a story.  Love Otto's.  It's a total time warp.  Usually has great music.  And one of the last of the real LES bars left.

The Black Saxons said:

Kind of a different experience than hanging out with your favorite band but we played Otto's Shrunken Head on Fri. and we were the last of three bands so we did an extended set.  Near the end this guy comes up and asks if he can play something with us, so we just made up a bluesy type of song on the spot and freestyled some lyrics, people were dancing, it was a real cool time.  Anyway after the gig the drummer comes up and tells me, "Hey that was Frank Infante".  So, I thought that was pretty gnarly.  We talked with him out on the street for awhile and he was really cool.  The End.

I haven't looked at it in ages, but isn't this what Book Your Own Fuckin' Life set out to achieve? It was started originally by the folks behind MRR. Have you checked that out? Just a thought...

I got my Grace radio (pictured above) and got it all set up over the weekend and I fuckin' LOVE this thing. I've got a bunch of great college & indie public radio stations all over the country programmed into it, so any time I want I can just flip the dial and select a station in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, locally here in St. Louis... you name it. I also have several online-only streaming audio stations and podcasts programmed into it. I keep it in our kitchen and it's great to listen to whatever the hell I want when I'm in there fixing dinner or doing the dishes. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

I would draw the line at "Sgt. Pepper."  Anything before that could be considered early, and anything after that could be considered later.

Yes, I know some of those "early" albums were also very experimental, i.e. "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver," but they were still pop albums for the most part, albeit ones with more adventurous sounds and lyrics.

BTW, I'm just generalizing.  I know some of you are going to split hairs over this and disagree vehemently, and that's fine.  This is just my viewpoint. 

Sander Smeenk said:

I think I'll go for the early beatles. Just simple rock n roll songs instead of strange sitar plucking. But that doesn't mean that every later beatles song. Some are even better than the early ones in my opinion (Julia, Taxman, Magical Mystery Tour). And also, when is something early and when is something later?