For me it would be the Gun Club back in '85. Met Patricia Morrison in the bar at the back of the venue and proceed to attempt to impress her with our (that would myself and The Boss from MOTH) knowledge of the late 70's LA punk scene, which she'd been a part of whilst in the Bags. Anyway she very kindly offered to put us on the guest list for a gig that weekend in Sheffield (not far from where we were based in Leeds). I still feel somewhat embarrassed looking back at how much we must have overstayed our welcome in the dressing room at that show. After barging in at the end of their set, they were clearly in no mood hob-nobbing with us (and several other hangers-on we'd brought with us) specially after we'd helped ourselves to their beer and sandwiches. However, Patricia was very tolerent and The late, great Jeffrey Lee Pierce managed a few grunts as I recall..and that's about it really. Not a very interesting story I'm afraid!

Oh! did meet the Ramones after a gig in '79 whilst I was still at school and got them to sign a record sleeeve, that I still have.

i have pajama parties with bands all the time. favorite moments: tabman from holy shit! wearing one of my dresses and jumping on my bed, marcus from uv race playing pinball in his underwear (pulled up to his chest), have a rootbeer float party with the daily void and dots from italy, making scott from the blowtops do fart situps with a self-inflating whoopee cushion, benji from the creteens appearing in my bedroom doorway at 5am screaming, "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!?!" and on and on...

Wow!  No, can't say I had a garage band play at my wedding!  Great memories indeed!  Another "brush with fame" moment I had was when I was in Norfolk, VA at the Taphouse for a show...Thee Apostles, the Rats, the Needles, and a couple of others were there, and I was there to do a "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds" show there..Well, my co-host was waaay to fucked up, some equipment got stolen (including my fucking 80 gig ipod), but I was able to hang out with the Needles for beers...but I also hung out, drank with, and did shots with none other than Steve Baise formerly of the Devil Dogs!  He was at the time in the band the Villains, and he had contacted us about meeting up and maybe getting in on the interviews...I was like, "THE STEVE BAISE"?!?!?!?!  Well, since the taping of the show got flushed down the shitter, it was still cool to hang out with a legend like Steve, talk music, and drink like we were old college buddies (along with the Needles)...the guy was a class act!

grant fisher said:

For me having a long drink & chat with Graham Day backstage after a gig in Dublin. I had met him a couple of years before this but was starstruck and didn't know what to say to him so I just got a photo. So glad that when I did finally get the courage to chat to him,  he turned out to be really nice and interesting as well.

Also met and hung out with The Revellions in Spain when they were recording their first album. Really nice guys.

But the biggest stars in my eyes are The Keepers from Belfast, who became friends after I had booked them to play here on the Isle of Man and they even returned to play my wedding a couple of years later free of charge!

Anyone else on here had a garage band for their wedding? It certainly clears the place of all the old folks but gives you truely a day you never forget.

 

I know someone who saw the Batusis a couple of months ago.  He thought it was great fun and got their EP autographed for me.

Johnny Bean said:

The Batusis

Hanoi Rocks - missed them a couple of times in the old days

Sonics - missed them a couple of months back hope it was not the last chance :(

...and actually the Wasps' flipside 'She Made Magic' is no slouch either, a real driving piece of cool!!!

Just wanted to share how cool The Wasps single 'Teenage Treats' is. If you don't already know it, it's a teenage punk pop killer from back in the day...but one that sadly not many folks seem to talk about, or even know about, despite its appearance on one of the early Raw and rare Punk Rock comp. LPs that appeared in the late 90s or so. I remember when it first came out John Peel played used to play it a fair bit. Listening to the single again right now it is still truly a mesmerising slice of '77 greatness!

I might be tempted to leave it stock just to keep it original. I think the price on those amps have gone up quite a bit due to the Jack White connection. You would have to change the baffle I'm assuming. A speaker change probably would give you a lot more bass. Look up wiring diagrams online. If you know how many ohms each speaker is and how many ohms the amp needs then just google "series" or "parallel" speaker wiring find out which one you need in order to match up the ohms and you're good to go.

So I've got this Silvertone 1485.I like it a lot (especially the fact that it sounds like an electrified cardboard box) but recently I considered reconfiguring it. As of now the 1485 has 6 x 10" speakers. I was thinking about taking these out and connecting a bunch of 15" Jensens to it, main reason being to get more bass. Anybody have any ideas about what I should do? I know how to solder and I know to match ohlms and that is about it. I am figuring it is not rocket science?

mine was a shit kicking  instrumental version of liar liar, heard at a northern soul club, my search for this record led me to the castaways version.

there was a thriving mod and northern soul scene in the late seventies in the north of England, the odd garage tune would turn up on the dance floor with surprising regularity.

the human beinz nobody but me, tommy james and the shondells mony mony, and a bizarre funky surf guitar hybrid record called scratchy by travis wammack.

the scooter scene in England embraces many genres of music, punk, ska, rockabilly, soul, garage, it served me well.

i never did find out who did the cover of liar liar, maybe someone out there in garage land can give me a clue ?

A few years ago I got totally bored with guitar music and started to discover Dubstep and related electro-stuff, and I thought "Well, that was that with me as a guitar guy", when I discovered "In Blood" by Billy Childish and Holly Golighty, and I'm lost to primitive garage rock ever since.

But I like to believe that what started my love for music was a The Who tape my father recorded for me when I was five or six years old. Don't know if I remember this correctly, but I like the story.

I don't know if it's the best video of all time, but I get a huge kick out of this:

Mexican masked surf rock.

I'm a newbie here, but I've been maintaining a blog called "Middleclass Haunt" for about a year and a half now. It's pretty much everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, centered on alternative music and more recently on garage rock. I just uploaded the best live recording I own, a Clash concert from '79:

Middleclass Haunt - The Clash: Manhattan Calling! (Live 1979)

I'd love some comments, and I'd be happy to trade links with you freaks.

Hey man you don't have to tell me it was rebel, I already know it, and yeah I also know about rat fink...a boo boo, but next you'll be telling me Link Wray wasn't punk ha ha...the thing is although we here all decide that The Sonics and the Seeds and all the 'rebel' mid-60s gangs are punk, it wasn't know as such at the time...and only when Lenny Kaye put the original 'Nuggets' together in the early 70s did anyone start using the term punk to mean raw and alive beat music...and of course it was only then that it was picked up by all the then new rebels, ie Ramones...Pistols, Damned, Clash, Adverts, Zeros, Saints, Eater, Boys, Rezillos, Valves, Scars, Prats, Dead Ks, Crime, Misfits, Exploited et cetera. I'm sure there will be many here who will agree...and me, well I ain't out to ruin it that's for sure...

ratoonie said:

it was rebel!!!!!...... not pUnk!!........get out of your deniel!!!... rat fink was a super cool  thing* back in the 60,s....... dont ruin it!!!!!!!!

Lenny Helsing said:

au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think

No, Ive never seen the DVD, but the albums sooo punk rock it hurts. If only the punk bands now could grasp this.

It doesn't have to be intelligent, doesn't need a manifesto of worldly causes, deep or even meaningful stuff. Just a bit of style&attitude+raw emotion was the recipe(wait, did I forget any ingredients?), I'll leave out practice since everybody knows punkrock bands don't practice,hehehe.

The 70s was the end of 3 generations of killer tunes. I look at 70s punk as the rocknroll apocalypse. None of that year zero BS spoke of in the Joe Strummer documentary(which was still pretty good except for that rubbish year zero theory) makes any sense to me.

Lenny Helsing said:

Zeros yeah tremendous teen punk...have u seen the dvd that came out by them its full of scorchin stuff!

it was rebel!!!!!...... not pUnk!!........get out of your deniel!!!... rat fink was a super cool  thing* back in the 60,s....... dont ruin it!!!!!!!!

Lenny Helsing said:

au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think

au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think

yesssssss!!...pUnk rock i s Punk rock!!!!   not the ol dude blues...not anything else!! pUnk rock was deemed Punk...when the ramones fired up in New york city..sex pistOls in EngLand!!!!!  1977;;;;;;; not 1940!!!!!!

ratoonie said:

your a whak job!!!!

Lenny Helsing said:

Alright teenfink doncha fink lots of us here know that already, I've thought that was a bit too much like statin the obvious a swe've already covered Seeds Elevators CWB Count V Sonics etc...but if ya wanna be really clever or even a little bit finnicky or pedantic bout it (;-?) let's say the orig punk era begins in and around the late 40s to mid 50s with Hooker and Wolf and
Muddy and the mighty Bo and Chuck and Rosco and Sonny Boy and all them early raw r'n'b rockabilly blues and rock'n'roll cats...happy listenin Lenny

Zeros yeah tremendous teen punk...have u seen the dvd that came out by them its full of scorchin stuff!

Zeros-Don't Push Me Around, is one of my favorites.

Do any of you own a wifi Internet radio? I've been looking at a few of them on Amazon.com lately and I have decided to save up for one. The one I think I'll get is the Grace GDI-IR2000. I just want to get it to keep in the kitchen at home so we can listen to whatever we want when we're fixing dinner, eating, etc. As much time as we spend in our kitchen, it'd be nice to have a radio like this instead of the crappy one we have there now that can barely pick up NPR (too much static). With this, you can program into it whatever Internet radio stations you want, including streaming Internet stations like Real Punk Radio, Beyond the Beat Generation, Pirate Cat Radio, etc. Plus terrestrial radio stations that also stream online like WFMU, KDHX, KEXP, and so on... even podcasts!

This particular radio uses Reciva.com (some of the others I've looked at do as well). You set up an account there, then register your radio there once you get it with the serial number & radio ID number and then you can start programming in all of these stations, and as long as your Internet connection and wifi signal are strong enough, then you can "tune" into them anytime you want. Perfect!

Anyone here own one of these suckers? If so, how well does it work for you? And which one do you have? Do you ever experience any problems?

Thanks!

http://garagepunk.ning.com/forum/topics/top-records-of-2010

Hey, so what are everyone's favorite lps of 2010? To make things easier only list new lps released for the first time last year, and no reissues or singles comps.

Mine are.

1. Rantouls-In the Village of Rantoul (Chocolate Covered Records)

2. Nobunny-Love Visions (Goner Records)

3. Real Numbers-S/T (Three Dimensional Records)

4. Ding Dongs- S/T (Norton Records)

5. Headache City-We Can't Have Anything Nice (P Trash Records)

6. Sugar Stems-Sweet Sounds of...(Dusty Medical Records/Bachelor Records)

7. Beat Beat-S/T (Bachelor Records)

8. Tyler Jon Tyler-S/T (Slow Fizz Records)

9. Bare Wires-Seeking Love (Castle Face Records)

10. Brutal Knights-Blown 2 Completion (P Trash Records)

Thanks!

Not in any particular order. I'd take these with to the desert island for sure!

Oblivians-Soul Food

Sonics-Here are the sonics

Hasil Adkins-Out to Hunch

Nobunny-Love Visions

Reatards-Teenage Hate

Boys Club-S/T

Dillinger Four-Midwestern Songs of the Americans

Persuaders- S/T

Gories-House Rockin

BBQ-Tie Your Noose

The Runaways 1st album

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

The Dirtbombs - If You Don't Already Have A Look

Everclear - Sparkle & Fade

Supersuckers - Live At The Magic Bag

Black Flag - Damaged

The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us

The BellRays - Grand Fury

Misfits - Collection 1 & 2

Ramones - It's Alive

Motorhead - Rock 'n' Roll

Whoops, that's 11. Probably could have gone for 20!