and the Dead Kennedys? I know it's not exactly garage rock, but last night I saw Jello Biafra playn' with Guantanamo School of Medecine, and I'd remember that great San Fran Band...Dead Kennedys uber alles!

O yeah Andy the Scotsmen's 'Beer Bust Blues' fueled many a party night at some of our old Edinburgh garage punk club nights after it first appeared on ye olde GaRagE PuNk UnKnowNs LPs: "well it's friday night an that's mah night to howl...' Andy Climax said:

yeah. Nice one Lenny. I always tend to forget about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Part 2 is a great wee pop gem of wierdness and idiosyncracy. 'Scuse Me Miss Rose is in my top 20 altime garage tunes. gettin goosebumps even thinkin of it. Has anyone heard The Scotsmen, Beer Bust Blues. If not check it out. A finer garage there has yet to be made.

I can't say,I change opinion every five,ten seconds..
at this moment I'd say...The GASOLINES!!

I'm sure you forgot MEN AT WORK..I'm with you at all! dan melchior said:

black lace, the toy dolls, joboxers, spandau ballet, kajagoogoo, the monks, chicago, haircut 100, the cynics, the swingin' neckbreakers,trad gras och stenar, the androids of mu, alternative television, the fall, franki valli and the four seasons, abba, chants r and b, the troggs, jim shepard, the upsetters (jamaica), can, five star, men without hats, midnight oil, matthew wilder, the outsiders, bob dylan, fleetwood mac, louie and the lovers, jacques dutronc, duran duran, the ighty sparrow, i roy, lone ranger, captain sinbad, mikey dread, everything on bullwackies, yabby you, suicide, the better beatles, ooga boogas, led zep, black sab, nazareth, the byrds, sir douglas quintet, jj cale, abc, human league, roxy music, survivor, - etc
(I don't really like some of these bands)

Question Mark and the Mysterians, Standells, the Monks, the Sonics, The fabulous Waylers, the Sparkles, Shadows of Knight, Gonn, We the People, Kinks, Yardbirds, Troggs, Count Five, Kingsmen, 13th Floor Elevators, Moving Sidewalks, Seeds, the Music machine, the Fuzztones...but, over all: THE CRAMPS.

I can't get enough of Gogol Bordello right now!!!

yeah. Nice one Lenny. I always tend to forget about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Part 2 is a great wee pop gem of wierdness and idiosyncracy. 'Scuse Me Miss Rose is in my top 20 altime garage tunes. gettin goosebumps even thinkin of it. Has anyone heard The Scotsmen, Beer Bust Blues. If not check it out. A finer garage there has yet to be made.

The Missing Links, Outsiders, The Seeds, The Beatstalkers, The Fairies, The Tornados & Heinz & The Wild Boys & The Outlaws, The Golden Dawn, The Sorrows, Sam Gopal, The Monks, Donovan, Mouse and the Traps, Manfred Mann, The Alarm Clocks, The Open Mind, Masters Apprentices, The Dovers, Pussy, Groep 1850, The Chocolate Watch Band, 1-2-6, The Misunderstood,The Boots, The Talismen, Incredible String Band, The Electric Prunes,The Poets, Peter and The Blizzards, The KInks, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Motions, Neighb'rhood Chidr'n, Our Generation, The Kingsmen, The Marmalade, The New Age, The Koobas... Lenny Helsing said:

The Pretty Things, Love, 13th Floor Elevators, Syd's The Pink Floyd, The Byrds, The Music Machine, The Rolling Stones...

kopper said:

The Sonics, The Mummies, the Oblivians, the Ramones, the Cramps, the Saints, the Wipers, the Real Kids, and on and on and on...

anything Mick Collins was/is involved with,the Horrors,Regan Youth,anything Link Wray was involved in, anything Johnny Thunders touched, King Khan & BBQ Show, Paul Westerberg, the Kinks- this topic is torture. i could go on forever.

Tam White - legendary singer / founder of Edinburgh, Scotland's 1960s R&beatsters THE BOSTON DEXTERS and THE BUZZ has died yesterday of a suspected heart attack. He would've been 68 next month. Tam was a phenomenal singer, and in the garage punk world his voice will surely always resonate due to leaving behind the audacious and terrifying 1966 Joe Meek-produced freakbeat-punker 'You're Holding Me Down' recorded as by THE BUZZ, and written by the 'Dexters / Buzz guitarist Johnny Turnbull...Tam also made his mark with a couple of earlier garage/R&B stompers, especially the rarefied stomp of 'Nothing's Gonna Change Me' waxed up for the the Contemporary label circa 1964. The 'Dexters were whisked off to London, where they would record a couple of 45s for Columbia, before a split happened, two leaving and two staying with THE BUZZ being the result. Once the beat boom died Tam stayed in London, and would go on to carve out a singing career on the Middle Earth (including the great psych-etched 'Future Thoughts' b/w 'Lewis Carroll' 45) and Decca labels that took him well into the 70s. He then briefly had his own Scottish TV show...before the blues came howling back into his heart, and he pursued that, and his jazz leanings right up until his death. RIP Tam

I'm using a clone of a roland bee baa fuzz. it's a goodin.

The show is actually called "When Giants Walked the Earth: A Musical Memoir." In it, Andy refers to himself as the Christopher Columbus of Punk Rock and tells true stories of being at the beginnings of punk rock in America and the UK. It's about a 2 hour affair, with classic Dictators songs played acoustically interspersed with tales of The Ramones, The Dictators and the early punk rock scene in NYC....it's hilarious, enchanting, scary and sad all at the same time...and a treat for the whole family as the younguns should hear these tales. Here's a link to The Andy Shernoff Appreciation Society on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Andy-Shernoff-Appreciation-Society/111480742209768?ref=mf#!/pages/Andy-Shernoff-Appreciation-Society/111480742209768?v=wall&ref=mf A couple of the dates are listed as facebook events there...I can't seem to find one site that lists all of the shows, but check out the facebook link as he may be coming to your area sometime soon. Below is a picture of Andy at Call The Office in London Ontario Canada....6/11/2010....We have the 'special honour' of being the smallest crowd that Andy has ever performed for....and we are ashamed.

What is "Andy's one man Christopher Columbus of Punk show"? Ya know, a link or something would be good here...

whatwave dave said:

Andy Shernoff told me about this the other day....if you get a chance, check out Andy's one man Christopher Columbus of Punk show. Highly entertaining and loads of fun!!
Acoustic versions of some Dictator's classics including 'Who Will Save Rock'n'Roll'....it sent shivers down my spine!!!!

What is "Andy's one man Christopher Columbus of Punk show"? Ya know, a link or something would be good here... whatwave dave said:

Andy Shernoff told me about this the other day....if you get a chance, check out Andy's one man Christopher Columbus of Punk show. Highly entertaining and loads of fun!!
Acoustic versions of some Dictator's classics including 'Who Will Save Rock'n'Roll'....it sent shivers down my spine!!!!

Andy Shernoff told me about this the other day....if you get a chance, check out Andy's one man Christopher Columbus of Punk show. Highly entertaining and loads of fun!!
Acoustic versions of some Dictator's classics including 'Who Will Save Rock'n'Roll'....it sent shivers down my spine!!!!

Yes, this is Handsome Dick Manitoba & the Dictators' cover of "California Sun" on the new 2010 MLB All-Star Game TV Commercial:




Fuck yeah!!

What's this 2 disc set you speak of Kopper??? I've got 3 volumes on LP, that the same thing??? kopper said:

It's weird, but the only other comp I can think of (other than WAVY GRAVY) that mixes trailers in with the music is SWING FOR A CRIME. That's the only one that's coming to my mind right now, anyway.

Did anyone mention MADNESS INVASION? That's a great one, too... esp. if you can find the rare 2-disc set.

It's weird, but the only other comp I can think of (other than WAVY GRAVY) that mixes trailers in with the music is SWING FOR A CRIME. That's the only one that's coming to my mind right now, anyway.

Did anyone mention MADNESS INVASION? That's a great one, too... esp. if you can find the rare 2-disc set.

The Swingin' Machine's "Do You Have To Ask"

Blackout of Gretely by the Gonns... Helluva song! Those poor old sods should be billionaire by now... I'd have been gutted writing this songs and no getting any money out of it!

I love it!!!!kinda reminds me of my night last night!!!!

I guess that's why they call them opinions. Damos Kalaitzidis said:

Little Richard and Gerry would come after Iggy in my opinion.

Damos Kalaitzidis said:

Yeah I was gonna say Iggy too. Especially on "TV Eye", god damn that song is wild. He does sound like a bobcat on that one. Funhouse in general is crazy (in a good way). Best fucking rock 'n' roll record of all time, wildest one too. Also on "Search and Destroy" towards the end "heeeey heeey heeeey heeey yea yea yea yea yaaayye yayeeee! yayee!.."

Also, (besides Iggy) within the protopunk, punk, and rock n roll, but not exactly garage rock, genre I want to include Richard Hell -- he's more of a "Wooow!" and "Yeoow!"screamer though, think "Down at the Rock & Roll Club" (when he says "Scotch and soda! Yeow!" and later on too, he says "Woooow!" and "Yeoow!" like 5 more times in the song), not as loud and crazy as the aforementioned rock n roll screamers, but Richard does a good job at keeping it original and individual -- and the other guy I want to include besides Hell, is David Johansen baby!
"Aaaaaaaowww! "Yeaaah yeaah yeaa!" "Talking 'bout perrsonnalitee!"

Little Richard and Gerry would come after Iggy in my opinion. Damos Kalaitzidis said:

Yeah I was gonna say Iggy too. Especially on "TV Eye", god damn that song is wild. He does sound like a bobcat on that one. Funhouse in general is crazy (in a good way). Best fucking rock 'n' roll record of all time, wildest one too. Also on "Search and Destroy" towards the end "heeeey heeey heeeey heeey yea yea yea yea yaaayye yayeeee! yayee!.."

Yeah I was gonna say Iggy too. Especially on "TV Eye", god damn that song is wild. He does sound like a bobcat on that one. Funhouse in general is crazy (in a good way). Best fucking rock 'n' roll record of all time, wildest one too. Also on "Search and Destroy" towards the end "heeeey heeey heeeey heeey yea yea yea yea yaaayye yayeeee! yayee!.."

Ian Svenonius fron the Make-Up has some nitrous powered pipes. just my two cents.