Hope Iggy pukes blood on Jann Wenner's tux.

Yabba dabba ABBA too!

http://freep.com/article/20100315/ENT04/3150370/1371/Stooges-set-to-take-their-place-in-rock-hall-of-fame-tonight

This has become a a dubious accolade now since so many shitless acts have been inducted but I like the fact that the Stooges are getting inducted. 

Nice, glad to get some classics in there! The more well rounded the better! Go go go!

I'm a bit of a bass snob (lol)... I grew up in the 70's and while I loved the energy of the Punk Rock Music, I feel that it nearly killed the art of melodic bass playing. Post punk bass playing is heavy on the root note played as fast as possible. Prior to that, bass lines actually had melody. I'm not talking about any of that Prog Rock stuff either. But plain old good Rock N Roll bass playing. In my opinion, bass really came into it's own in the late 60's, early 70's. That's when bass amps finally started to be real bass amps. Early 60's bass amps were a joke. They did not have enough power, so for the most part bass was distorted. Even though this is a Garage Punk forum, & I've played in a million garage bands, my favorite bass players are not really within this genre. These have influenced my playing a lot more, especially since I saw them all live.

Entwhistle is my all time fave. Obviously My Generation, but just about anything on the Live at Leeds lp is amazing. "Tattoo" from the newly remastered version is a fine example. The tone is unbelievable.

I also really like "Lost Woman" by The Yardbirds. Paul Samuel Smith is highly under rated as a bassist.

Jack Cassady's Bass lines on "Crown Of Creation" (Jefferson Airplane) is another favorite of mine

Slade's Get Down & Get With it from Slayed Alive.

Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper) Gutter Cats versus The Jets from School's Out is mind blowing bass.

Winter & My Soul from the first Grand Funk Railroad lp. Has there ever been a tighter rhythm section than Don & Mel?? This album paired with my first concert experience (Grand Funk at The Fillmore East) is what inspired me to pick up a bass in the first place.

Ha-haa! Well put. power chord hack said:

OI!
That's the best, worst cover of Hey Joe I've ever heard! Craptastic!!

OI!
That's the best, worst cover of Hey Joe I've ever heard! Craptastic!!

the bass on "Hey Joe" - by the japanese Band "The Golden Cups"

Numero Frickin Uno has to be the ferocious, unrestrained stank of Ian Fraser Kilmister's opening riff of "The Ace Of Spades". All else pales.

Norman Watt-Roy's epic bass on "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" gets honorable mention.

The Lifetime Bass Achievement Award has to go to John Entwistle.

the Who: my generation
the Stranglers: nice & sleazy
the Jam: start
the Lollipop Shoppe: underground railroad
the Clash: police & thieves
the Church: tear it all away
the Undertones: true confessions
Joi Division: she's lost control
Elias Hulk: we can fly
the Music Mashine: everything is everything
the Pop Rivets: lamberetta vespascoota
the Pretenders: mistery achievement
the Nazz: magic me
and so many more

Oh nice list.... and I am so glad you picked MY favorite bass line! I love the Clash's Rock the Casbah bass line... it's so damn good! Haven't done the show YET.... figured I would hold out until I get myself a nice solid list! Count Von Tuthrie said:

I got a few worth listening to...

Circle Jerks - "15 minutes" - used to blast this in my room at 15 and just went ape shit over it, still do.

The Minutemen/fIREHOSE - Mike Watt in just about anything. Take your own pick to your own tastes, but checkout songs like "King of the Hill"

The Pixies - "Hey" - Ya I know you heard it a thousand times, so have I, and I can a thousand more. Spooky bass with intense lyrics and chunky strumming.

The Clash - Rock the Casbah - Guilty Pleasure. Just a fun bass line to listen to and play.

Black Flag - No More - Fuckin amazing intro!

(list to be ammended at any given moment Ha-Ha)

These kinds of lists can be cool and obscure, but imo, to list the greats, you gotta list "The Greats"!

I got a few worth listening to...

Circle Jerks - "15 minutes" - used to blast this in my room at 15 and just went ape shit over it, still do.

The Minutemen/fIREHOSE - Mike Watt in just about anything. Take your own pick to your own tastes, but checkout songs like "King of the Hill"

The Pixies - "Hey" - Ya I know you heard it a thousand times, so have I, and I can a thousand more. Spooky bass with intense lyrics and chunky strumming.

The Clash - Rock the Casbah - Guilty Pleasure. Just a fun bass line to listen to and play.

Black Flag - No More - Fuckin amazing intro!

(list to be ammended at any given moment Ha-Ha)

These kinds of lists can be cool and obscure, but imo, to list the greats, you gotta list "The Greats"!

+1 on FatDawg's customer service flaws. Really the only way to guarantee getting one of his gitboxes into your hands is to go to the store and haggle with him while he hems and haws over whether he really wants to sell it or not. You can certainly find some gems, but it can be a struggle.

I like their stuff, but I've heard really mixed reviews on the customer service at Subway Guitars. As in, people have ordered guitars and never received them. Pity, I'd love to have a Dano "Jimmy Page" model, they bought up the original factory parts.

The Canoepaddles look exactly the same like the beautiful VOX PHANTOM; i have seen two on ebay about 1000 Euros!

They seemed to be a great deal; but too expensive!

whoa... these are for sale? (waitingforpaydaywaitingforpaydaywaitingforpayday)

It's a Roland VGA-5 that I found at Mars Music (remember them?) when they were going out of business. It had been dropped off the truck and wouldn't turn on. I gave them fifty bucks, took it home (with the plan of cannibalizing the speaker), and found out the on/off switch was the broken part.
So. . . it's either not at all garage rock or extremely garage rock. It's a modeling amp, but I tend to just turn it to a basic "Tweed" setting and play. Any day now I'm going to get an amp with some glass in it, probably a Blues Jr.

"Reviews Just Got Easier to Find.." nice haha

A friend sent me a link to an article on TechCrunch this morning that was talking about this company (Lunch.com) that's setting up a new feature for communities that lets users build their own review sites around any niche topic.

Here, read it for yourself:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/12/lunch-communities-reviews/

So, I thought, what the hell... I'll set one up for GaragePunk, and here it is:

http://www.lunch.com/garagepunk/

I just thought that might be a cool place for people to write record reviews, show reviews, etc. that is specifically targeted to our niche audience.

Let me know what you think!
kopper

Ok, got to track 6 in that stream, and it's the Frankie Laine version from 1951.

The Mummies' version is #5.

And #7 is Thee Milkshakes!

gigiriva has twelve versions of "Jezebel" on his 8tracks page...http://8tracks.com/gigiriva/garage-standards-jezebel You have to play the stream to find out who the bands are, though... The first one is by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps in 1956...may be the oldest in the stream. From Wikipedia: "'Jezebel' is a 1951 popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. It was recorded by Frankie Laine with the Norman Luboff Choir and Mitch Miller and his orchestra on April 4, 1951 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39367."

When I heard that comp I thought so, but after that, I found that it was played by Gene Vincent, too, so it's more old tune. I haven't checked out who played the original version though. kopper said:

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

I don't know kopper but I'm gonna look it up! kopper said:

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

Wasn't "Jezebel" originally done by the Teddy Boys on the Garage Punk Unknowns (Crypt) comps?

Here's my eMusic downloads from the past month ...

* Animal God Of The Streets by Kim Fowley. I met Kim Fowley -- producer, songwriter, Rock 'n' Roll Svengali, Sultan of Sunset Strip -- at one of the first South by Southwest festivals I attended back in the mid 90s. He was in the Austin Convention Center wearing a fairly psychedelic coat of many colors and was in the company of a sexy young singer he claimed to be "The Next Janis Joplin." (I listened to her cassette tape when I got back home. She was not the next Janis Joplin.) I don't even remember how our conversation started, but he was pitching this singer to me so intently you'd have thought I was some major producer. A film crew approached us and Fowley focused his pitch on the camera. Fowley ranted, the Next Janis Joplin slinked around looking sexy. I decided, what the hell, I held up the tape with a stern expression, nodding my head, as if I were the muscle in the entourage. I don't know where that camera crew was from, but I'd give to have that footage!

* 1950s Gospel Classics by Various Artists. Here's another happy find. This 25-song collection is a treasure chest of some great, if very obscure, gospel belters and guitar pickers.
There's Professor Johnson, who's got a Henry Green, Rev, Robert Ballinger, Deacon Leroy Shinault and the Rev. Anderson Johnson, who does a tune called "Death in the Morning," which either is a precursor to or a crazy bastard son of "O Death."

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's fans will immediately recognize a couple of her tunes here. Green does a version of "Strange Things" (though he does it as a dirge, not upbeat like Tharpe) and "God Don't Like It," which is done twice here by Anderson Johnson. If anything, his version, featuring his slide guitar, is even more jaunty than Sister Rosetta's. On one take, Johnson ends it with a disclaimer: "Now I wasn't talking about anyone, I was just singing my song." So despite the hell-fire lyrics, he's letting us know he's not really judging anyone. He sings it with a smile on his face and love in his heart.

* Bankers and Gangsters by Black 47. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, a new Black 47 album. Sometimes Larry Kirwin gets a little heavy-handed when he gets going on the politics. The title track here for instance isn't all that inspired. And nothing here matches my favorite 47 song, "Forty Deuce" -- the story of real gangsters.

But there are a few standouts here. "Izzy's Irish Rose" is a fun look at a Hebrew/Celtic romance (and has a tasty little Irishfied blast of "Hava Nagila.") "Celtic Rocker" is a light-hearted look at the subculture that has grown around bands like The Dropkick Murphys, Flogging , The Young Dubliners, and, yes, Black 47.

And then there's "Long Lost Tapes of Hendrix." Check my Terrell's Tune-up column this Friday for more on that.

* Descending Shadows by Pierced Arrows Even though Dead Moon is gone, two-thirds of the band — Fred Cole and his bass player and wife of 40-plus years, Toody Cole — are back with another fine group, Pierced Arrows. The Arrows released an album called Straight to the Heart a couple of years ago on Tombstone.

And now comes their sophomore effort — and it's no slump,

The good news for Dead Moon fans is that the new trio sounds like a continuation of Moon's basic guitar/bass/drums sound. I suppose hard-core followers could argue over which drummer is better, Loomis or new guy Kelly Halliburton (no relation to Dick Cheney), but I don't see a major difference. The important thing is there was no cheesy attempt to update or "modernize" the sound. And Fred is still writing some memorable songs.

See my full review in Terrell's Tune-up a couple of weeks ago.


* The Second Stop Is Jupiter by Sun Ra. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount, better known in this solar system as Sun Ra (1914-1993), not only played cosmic jazz but also dabbled in doo-wop and R & B in the 1950s and a little funky soul in the '60s and '70s. And danged if Ra didn't make that sound cosmic too!

Norton Records recently released three CDs of his material. Interplanetary Melodies and The Second Stop Is Jupiter feature recordings from the mid-1950s, while Rocket Ship Rock spans the late '50s through early '70s. I picked up the two of the three a couple of months ago, but just got my hands on Jupiter lately. I reviewed the whole shebang a few weeks ago in my Tuneup column. Read it HERE.

Plus

* "New Mexico" by Johnny Cash. A few weeks back Leslie Lithicum of The Albuquerque Journal had a fun column about songs about New Mexico. I was ashamed to realized that I had never heard this one. Luckily, eMusic had it on a Sun Records collection. It's a classic chunka chunka Cash tune about a young cowboy who is recruited for a job here, has a miserable time and gets ripped off.

No, this is one the Tourism Department never will use in ads: "Go back to your friends and loved ones, tell others not to go/To the God-forsaken country they call New Mexico."

* The tracks from The Sheik Said Shake by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers that I didn't get last month. It's just good British psychobilly blues from the Dark Dimension.

My favorite in this batch is "Buried Next to You," a slow-grooving meditation on eternal love. I don't know whether this is an original or otherwise, but I can easily imagine Charlie Feathers singing this one. And there's "One-Legged Rock," which takes up where Terry Allen's "Peggy Leg" left off.

Now I've got to get my hands on the new one by Hipbone -- The Kneeanderthal Sound of…