I'll hit them up! Thanks

I would contact the DJs and ask if they have heard from anyone else having a problem. If they say no, I'd get to googling about it.

Kevin Schneider said:

I found this tidbit of trivia: the 1963 Grammy for best rock and roll recording went to Bent Fabric for "Alley Cat".

"February 8, 1964, there was not one single rock 'n' roll band in the country. February 9, the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show. February 10, everyone had one....My life began on February 9, 1964." - Little Steven (quoted in Esquire, Dec 2008) What do you think? I think in general he might be right, but I can think of lots of bands that existed prior to '64... the Wailers, the Sonics, the Pyramids, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc." Not only that but the Kingsmen and the Trahsmen were in the U.S. top 10 on February 8, 1964. The Rivieras would follow just a week or so later.

One of the old "Pebbles" vinyl LPs had a great set of liner notes that kinda summed up a good reaction to the notion that the "Beatles saved rock and roll". Who ever wrote those notes did a great job to note how before the Beatles, Britain had Lonnie Donegal singing "My Father is a Dustman" type of crap. I watched that show on Feb 9th 1964 and I can remember there was a lot of U.S. rock music back then too. And anyway, Beatles, Stones, Who etc. did not bring us recycled Lonnie Donegan...now did they???

I stopped listening to the radio when John Peel died. I also used to listen to Andy Kershaw back in the day, before he went all freakaziod, lost his mind and started stalking his ex-wife [something like that, anyway]. I can't remember them ever playing much garage stuff but i really used to dig their constant curve-balling of Cumbian music, alternative hip-hop, industrial noise, weird shit and dub reggae. Although i'm sure it was John Peel who got me into Man... Or Astro-Man?

Joe's Garage said:

Growing up in Miami Florida in the '60s we had two great AM stations: WQAM / Tiger Radio and WFUN. They had a bunch of jocks like Rick Shaw and a slew of others I can't recall at the moment.

Cousin Brucie was pretty iconic on WCBS-FM in the 80's. We're about 5 years apart, so he might not have been so prominent when you were growing up. By the late 90's, I think U2 was considered "oldies" and the station wasn't so hot anymore. By the time I hit my mid teens I had found WFMU and being situated upstate in Orange County also listened to Vasser College's WVKR. Two local radio stations were the craptastic WRRV, the Rock Revolution, out of Middletown, and Poughkeepsie's WPDH, The home of Rock n Roll, an equally craptastic station geared towards the parents of the kids who listened to WRRV (or vice versa). I guess Woodstock's WDST has the most integrity for being a "mainstream" station that plays some folky, indie, hispter stuff, but nothing that would be considered garage punk. And it was outta range so I never really listened to it growing up. I think I'm really glad I grew up with WCBS-FM. Along with all the vintage 50's classics, they played a lot of garage staples like Hang on Sloopy and Louie Louie mixed in with the British invasion and more obscure Nuggets stuff. Definitely instilled an appreciation for the sounds of real rock n roll. Ed Post-Mortem said:

I remember listening to WCBS-FM in New York, but by that time the station was just like any other mediocre Oldies station, and no one ever really stood out to me on air.
WFMU's "Music to Spazz By" and "Teenage Wasteland" are both great shows, "Three Chord Monty" is good too. I didn't really hear about that station till I was packing shit up and moving to Colorado 5 years ago, but it's the oldest freeform station in the country and 100% listener supported.
There's a show out here that broadcasts on the University of Colorado station (1190 AM Boulder) "The Lunch Hour With Jonny Trash". The show features mainly classic punk rock stuff, and most of it people are very familiar with, but it's still really cool to turn the radio on and hear the Buzzcocks or Television...
"Route 78 West" is a great show that specializes in rare country/honky tonk. One of the hosts has a large collection of rare 78s and records alot of good shows that come through town. "Honky Tonk Heroes" on KGNU (88.5 FM & 1390 AM Boulder/Denver) is another good show that plays alot of obscure and popular country/honky tonk/hillbilly music.

I think it's gotta be an independent station nowadays.

In Los Angeles we had KRLA as Sectmaniac pointed out. It was an oldies station but nothing like what you'd consider oldies radio now days, at least in the 70's & 80's. All of the DJs had knowledge of the music and were there when these bands were playing and putting out records and they seemed to have a say in what they played, especially in the evenings when they'd take requests and dedications. Art Laboe used to do a lunch time thing in the early 80's where he'd take one act and go through the history of the artist and play tracks etc. Does the mainstream "oldies stations' even play songs like '60 Minute Man' 'Pledging My love' 'Hully Gully' 'Big Boy Pete' 'Corrido Rock' or 'Slow Down' anymore.
But growing up I think Rodney Bingenheimer on KROQ had the biggest influence on my musical tastes. When I was 14 his show was on for 4 hours each Saturday and Sunday night 8-12. Cutting his teeth in the 60's, Rodney would play stuff like Love, the Leaves, Standells, Seeds, Chocolate Watch Band, etc etc, but he'd also play the latest Black Flag demo, then the Crawdaddys, followed by the Exploited and then maybe a Crowd song right after. He'd have the Ventures or Surfaries in studio and then Frankie & Anette, then the next week X, or Blondie, or Stiv Bators. His show is just a shadow of its former self hidden away on Monday morning from 12-1am or something. Back then, even outside of Rodney's show, you'd never know what they would play next during the day. You may hear some Missing Persons song follwed by a Fear track.
Another good station here in the late 70's early 80's was KNAC before they went metal (although they did set the standard for 80's metal radio), lot's of Punk and "new music" as they called it. They'd interview bands from the Cheifs, to Rhino 39, to the Adolescents etc etc.
Then there was listener supported KPFK that had Bo Clifford on late Saturday nights playing lots of underground stuff followed by 12 O'Clock Rock with Andrea Enthal. She even had Chris D. of the Flesheaters sit in for her sometimes. He would play an amazing selection of music too.

Now today's LA Radio is pretty much irrelevant in my opinion. The only salvation is college radio . KXLU has various decent programs, but I mainly listen to Stella's show "Stray Pop" which she has been doing for damn near 30 years I think and the Reverend Dan's "Music For Nimrods" show. that follows Stray Pop, but they are on Midnight to 6 am Sunday morning, so who really get's to listen? KCSN also has a decent oldies show where you'll hear some obscure early R&B. the only thing I listen to on KPFK anymore is Rhapsody In Black where you'll here some good blues and pre-RnR Rhythm & Blues.

With all that said, it's internet radio and the podcasts here that is where it's all at for me now, though I do find myself listening to WFMU a lot now via their iPhone application.

John Peel.

I used to sit there with a pen and make notes of what records to buy the next day.

Growing up in Miami Florida in the '60s we had two great AM stations: WQAM / Tiger Radio and WFUN. They had a bunch of jocks like Rick Shaw and a slew of others I can't recall at the moment. Played all the big nationwide hits and mixed in a lot of great local bands (Wayne Cochran, Birdwatchers, Steve Alaimo, Sam & Dave). Besides that, they would throw in Frank Sinatra right after a Rolling Stones tune, it was great! There was also a R&B station WAME "WAME in Miamee!!", which was all Soul and R&B. Listen to Florida Rocks again for a taste of what it was like..

Forgot the Scientists! Mr Yates said:

Inaugural Australian Nominees

Radio Birdman
The Hardons
The Birthday Party
The Beasts of Bourbon
The Eastern Dark

The Stoics

How about:
The Groupies (Primitive)
Electric Prunes (I had too much to dream last night)
Standells (dirty water, sometimes good guys wear white)
Rare Breed (aka Ohio Express) Beg, Borrow and Steal (no - not the Ohio Express Bubble gum express)
Demotrons - a nice alternate version of Beg, Borrow and Steal

YEAH, FUCKIN STRANGLERS "NICE AND SLEEZY"
MIRACLE WORKERS "5-35

Joy Division - Exercise One
Golden Cups - Hiwa Mata Noburu
MC5 - Borderline [single version]
TC Atlantic - Faces
Dearly Beloved - Flight Thirteen

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Stooges - I'm Sick Of You
Link Wray - The Swag (It just has that SWAG)
The Centurions - Bullwinkle Part II

My gear I have at the moment.

- Gretsch Electromatic Corvette: This was just inside my price range at the time. It's a good guitar and I felt like I could get decent single coil and humbucker sounds out of it. The Gretsch style pickups are a bit brighter and twangier than Gibson style humbuckers.

-Epiphone Blues Custom 30: I got a really good deal on this on craigslist. It's a pretty nice amp. My only issues with it would be that the clean channel is a little darker than I like (still really good but I would like a little more chime and twang for the cleans.) and also the reverb isn't Fendery enough for me. It can do the Marshally Ramones thing well though.

-Silvertone 1484 head: I waited for months to find a decent price for this. They've really gone up in the past few years. I don't have a cab for it yet but it sounded great the times I have gotten to plug it up.

-Proco Rat 2 : I won this in an online giveaway. It doesn't quite give me the fuzz tones I'm after but it's fun to play with. It works well for a good boost or to induce some feedback.

-Harmony Bobkat: Got it really cheap from a friend. It's exactly what you need for a "garage" sound. It needs new tuners and a new output jack though.

-1964 Univox 335 copy: It's actually completely hollow more like a Casino. It has the coolest greenburst color. This was also really cheap but I had to rewire it and the neck has a bit of a warp.

I'm hoping to get something to fill my fuzz desires. I haven't decided what that's gonna be yet. I'll also need to something to fill my lack of good reverb at some point.

Well, then, stop going to that site. whatwave dave said:

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is.

MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is. MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

You make it sound as though this is some kind of dark conspiracy. Would you mind elaborating on this? Mole said:

Dubious to say the least - almost certainly not to be trusted....

Dubious to say the least - almost certainly not to be trusted....

It appears that Little Steven is finally making some progress with fuzztopia. Why it's taken so long, I don't know, but it looks as though it will soon be out of its beta phase.

I doon't know if this counts as they were more of a food band, or more correctly "snack rock". But the Go-Nuts 'Nut Wagon' ruled.