The Mean Mean Men said:

we joined and like the fact that it is pretty genre specific. Plus you can create your own items for merch. and that's pretty cool too.

we joined and like the fact that it is pretty genre specific. Plus you can create your own items for merch. and that's pretty cool too.

Thanks for the heads up. We're here... http://www.ebandagogo.com/Acid_Fascists/

We just set up a page for our band on eBandaGoGo. I was really impressed by the number of quality garage rock & punk bands that have already found it. Looks like they've been doing a lot to promote the site to the right people. It doesn't quite have all the bells & whistles that the Hideout does, but it's still pretty cool and a good place for bands to network with other bands.

Any other bands here use it? If so, post your links!

Love Canal - Flipper
Room for One - Eater
Cut-Out Man - The Thought Criminals
Shutdown - the Germs
how about those?///....

After a discussion in a bar last night, I put you all up in a challenge. I disagreed with the list of top 25 Bass lines that my friend Nick had compiled for his site, Friggin Fabulous Radio. So now we are going to see what you all come up with! Give me your top 5 Bass lines!

Excellent! That's exactly what I needed! I'll post some pictures when I get some work done on it. I've made a full scale body pattern and I'm hoping to cut it out in the next few days. Color-wise I'm leaning towards white with a black pickguard. We'll see...

Hey Jamie, this site might provide the answers to your painting questions: http://reranch.com/ i would probably go for white or maybe black or another dark colour with the headstock painted to match.

I'm way too poor to buy all the guitars I want so I'm gonna make a few and see how it goes. So far I have a these two in the works:

1. Vox Phantom with two lipstick pickups
2. Something jazzmaster/jaguar-ish with p90s

I've got some poplar for the bodies and a nice squier strat neck for the phantom. I can't decide on a color for the phantom. White would be cool. Some kind of reverse sunburst would be great. My painting skills are gonna be limited though I'm sure. Price will be a factor too. I don't know if nitrocellulose varies by color.

Pagans - Fever
Controllers -Jezebel

Lee Ving.
L. Ron Bacchus of the Hard Liquors.

BORN BAD in the Bastille district in Paris is super cool...lots of vinyl. But one of the guys that owned it died a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, great album. That was like the 4th or 5th album I ever bought and I've loved it ever since. Seems like someone should have sampled the opening bass riff for "Rest Cure"... El Diablo Americano said:

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the whole album. His cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" is the best I've heard.

FAUST
CAN
NEU

Yeah, if you already know basic chords...learning songs by ear (for garage rock anyway) is probably best. That website listed above looks great for learning the words, however. I had to painstakingly decypher bad sounding records to get lyrics to garage rock songs and it was tough. But it might be a good idea to compare the lyrics to the records still. I mean I just looked at Liar Liar by the Castaways recently and somewhere in the first verse it says "come kill me honey, see how I cry", Kill? I think it's really "Come to me honey, see how I cry". Kill is rather extream, don't you think?

I started with easy songs like Elvis and Jerry lee Lewis tunes, and things like Louie Louie, What I Like About You. I had a little bit of theory but really got into writing after learning stuff off of Young Fresh Fellows and Smithereens. I got back into covers after a couple of years of that, stuff like Action Woman and Try It. But that diagram above, I think I would have gotten lost and gave up.

Wild Guitar (1962)


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I used to hang out with Rowland back in the days, in the 80s I guess, friends and partners in crime. Yes, he was a great guitarist but I remember Rowland as one of the nicest guys around. Sure, there was some freaky shit happening, but he was modest, humble, intelligent and sharp as a razor. Rowland dying is pretty fuckin' sad, especially under the circumstances. I'm glad he is remembered on this forum...

I bought the single 'Release the bats'.

They were great...Tracy Pew (RIP) had a great bass guitar sound, especially on "Six Inch Gold Blade". The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

I still can't realize this...and I still haven't got the "strength" to get and listen to his last record, "Pop crimes"...
Has anyone did ?

Andy Seven says : "I remember seeing The Birthday Party live at The Roxy (Sunset Strip) right after "The Bad Seed" was released"
Wow !!! How I wish I could have seen them ! Must have been a great moment !

I still can't realize this...and I still haven't got the "strength" to get and listen to his last record, "Pop crimes"...
Has anyone did ?

Andy Seven says : "I remember seeing The Birthday Party live at The Roxy (Sunset Strip) right after "The Bad Seed" was released"
Wow !!! How I wish I could have seen them ! Must have been a great moment !

You can never really go back to where you came from Rod! You gotta keep moving forward. I think that is why the Sonics resisted reuniting for such a long time (that and some personal BS between them all) Still they are a heckuva band nonetheless. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I thought they sounded more like their 72 reunion show at the Paramount then they did their records, but that's OK because even in 72, they didn't sound contemporary, in fact they sounded more like what retro bands would sound like in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, even early 90s. I'm really just glad that they didn't feel the need to update like the Wailers and the Kingsmen have.

I thought they sounded more like their 72 reunion show at the Paramount then they did their records, but that's OK because even in 72, they didn't sound contemporary, in fact they sounded more like what retro bands would sound like in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, even early 90s. I'm really just glad that they didn't feel the need to update like the Wailers and the Kingsmen have.

I was at the Halloween Reunion show in Seattle in 2008! I had a friend give me a Front Row Center Seat. I was so close I got to see Larry Parypa's hands on the fretboard of his guitar! That night he was using a Fender amp, but the sound was still like the record. As I said before, they used different gear at different times. On the cover of "For Fanz Only!" they are using Vox Amps. Once they started playing larger venues they had to get amps that would do the job better. They used small amps in the studio. I have interviewed Kearney Barton several times about how and where he recorded the Sonics and other PacNW bands. It depends on the date that certain tracks were done too. Kearney Barton's studio was "Audio Recording Inc." and is still in operation today with almost all the same mic and console. Kearney used a different console and was in different location in 1964 when "The Witch" and "Psycho" as well as other tracks from "Here Are the Sonics" LP were recorded. He moved to 5th Ave (under the Monorail which is now the Chillhuly Glass Studio) in 1965. I know the date of this because I know the person who built his (still current) console Glenn D. White. There was an imperfection on some of the metal scribework on part of that console because it was on the engraving machine when the 1965 Seattle Quake hit. Kearney pointed this out to me as well. If you want to read more about that stuff go here; http://www.vagrantrecords.com/other/news/vgNews4.html It is another article I wrote about Glenn D. White for Tape Op Magazine and talks about Glenn's Career, but there are some cool photos I have posted there too. Lastly, nobody but the Sonics really knows how they got their sound in the studio and even they don't know why their fans still like them. They are just Happy that they all are still appreciated by a new generation of fans. They don't want to re-create the 60s in there shows, they just want to play good Music. Jamie said:

Here's an interesting quote from this website:
"Parypa's Lonnie Mack-after-40-cups-of-coffee sound came from playing his Jazzmaster (with the low E string turned down to D) through the keyboardist's Magnatone amp." and from the official myspace: "Roslie nails the take on the second try, once he gets his vintage Magnatone amp to work correctly. “That’s the secret to our sound,” Roslie jokes." Looks like this is the answer then! Thanks Joe.

Here's an interesting quote from this website: "Parypa's Lonnie Mack-after-40-cups-of-coffee sound came from playing his Jazzmaster (with the low E string turned down to D) through the keyboardist's Magnatone amp." and from the official myspace: "Roslie nails the take on the second try, once he gets his vintage Magnatone amp to work correctly. “That’s the secret to our sound,” Roslie jokes." Looks like this is the answer then! Thanks Joe.