It's about ten years that I don't play with a band anymore,but lately I'm going to record something
by my own.So I bought some necessary engine machines to add at the old equipment: .
-Gibson Les Paul custom black '78
-Fender Telecaster USA (recently bought for that dry Kinks-like sound that I love)
-Fender Jazzmaster Japan crafted (good sounds especially clean)
-Fender junior pro 15 (Ideal if you need to play at home)
-Fender sidekick 25 solid state
-Sovtek Big Muff-Boss DS1-MXR distorsion (If you?re looking for fuzz sound, one of these 3 it's good enough for me,using a wah pedal to set the tone,instead of looking for rare and expensive vintage stomps)
-Dunlop Cry Baby
-EHX-Holy Grail reverb (expensive but excellent if you don't have a real sprig one)
-EHX-Wiggler-A kind of vibrato-tremolo-rotary with a two 12AX7 valves;if you put it at the end of the chain(with no need to be switched on),will improve your sound in general.
-EHX DeLuxe MemoryMan-It's a good delay with very weird options to experiment,but if you need to set it for a classic slapback,try something less expensive.
-A Beyer Dynamic and a Shure mics
Recently I took a Fostex 16 Track digital recorder,and a DR880 Boss drum machine... maybe not the ideal for the LO-FI style and attitude..but you spare a drummer and lot of time sometimes.
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The trick is to use reverb so it's not sounding like it's bouncing off walls and it's sounding like words are colliding into each other. Kopper's podcasts are really well balanced and are easilly understandable.
Kopper hit it straight on the head, yet again. Real Rock N Roll Djs scream frantically and use reverb and echo to give you the feeling they are golden gods on the microphone, not some some myopic record collector in their spare bedroom. The Purple Knif Show is for the young DJ what The Cramps records are for the young songwriter; a blueprint guide to the true insanity of Rock N Roll. The Sonic Nightmares set list is posted for listeners who are looking for the track information, not entertainment. Our next show is drenched in reverb, I hope you'll drown in the sound in our voices...Mhuahahahaha!
Please yourself first and then maybe, if you're lucky, you can please the people....
I like Elvis' Christmas album and The Etiquette Records Christmas album by the Sonics, Wailers and Galaxies. I also like Sock it To Me Santa by Bob Seger and the Last Herd.
Hey everybody! Soon it's christmas time again. Love it or hate it, there's no time for bad tunes on christmas. Anybody thinking back about past christmas partys is cringing whent it comes to the music. But besides "Last Christmas" and highly polished radio crap there's also good stuff. Especially in the Garage/R'n'R/Insrumental genres. Most vinyl-lovers will know the legendary Norton Records holiday 45 series, a true delight in sound and image. If you like classic punk rock and unholy jokes then the "Christmas Album" by THE YOBS (aka THE BOYS) should offer you high class entertainment during snowy winter nights.
"Countdown On Christmas!" is a vinyl only compilation which was released in 2004 by (now defunct) german label Three Kings Records. My favorite on this one are the HIGHER ELEVATIONS, their powerpop sound with indie rock edge is incredible and made me buy their 2 full length albums. Here's the tracklist:
Darlington - Merry Christmas
The Peacocks - Why not wait 'til Christmas
The Neanderthals - Christmas Dance
Highschool Dropouts - I don't like Christmas
The Higher Elevations - One Christmas Catalogue
The Supersuckers - Call it Christmas Time
Lulabelles - Rocking around a Christmas tree
Colt 45 - Merry Christmas (I don't wanna fight tonight)
Adam West - Christmas with the Devil
Speedball Jr. - Rudolph's Secret
Groovie Ghoulies - Christmas on Mars
Cave 4 - Mexican Christmas
Sutfin' Lungs - Frosty, the Snowman
The Hi *Tops - Mitch and Donna
Ray Collins' Hot Club - Feels like Santa
I guess my favorite christmas album is "In the Christmas Spirit" by BOOKER T & THE MG'S. Released in 1966 you get 12 christmas classic instrumentals, some of them played relaxed and slowly, some of them upbeat and funky, but all organ driven. This piece of vinyl will definitely get you in the mood for hanging out in front of the open fire or dance around the christmas tree.
Watcha Weirdos
I'm Mr A the Barber and your listening to volume 15 of the YOU GOT GOOD TASTE podcast.
click here to listen http://yougotgoodtaste.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-17T15_23_53-08_00
For this show I'm offering you something a bit special,
a chance to 'Get Your Hair Cut' with Mr A the Barber
So take a seat in Mr A's chair, relax and leave it all to me.
And as a treat whilst your barnet's being cut I thought I'd play you some of the best 50's and 60's hair related rock 'n' roll tunes to make this an appointment you won't ever forget. And I guarantee after this visit your gonna be telling all your friends that Mr A the Barber knows how best to CRAMP your style.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Good, now where's my razor?................
Razorback - The Savoys
Shorty the Barber - Lou Millet
Lend Me Your Comb - Carl Perkins
You Gotta Have a Ducktail - Billy Adams and the Rock-A-Teers
He's a Square - The Belvederes
Long Sideburns - Bolean Barry
Ducktail - Joe Clay
I Accidently messed Up His Hair - Jeanne hayes
Somebody Elses Dandruff - MAD Magazine
He's My Baby - Jean Shepard
Blue Black Hair - The Jades
My Girl - Huelyn Dyvall
Long Blonde Hair - Johnny Powers
Blonde Headed Women - Harold Lee
Let Your Hair Down Baby - Everett Carpenter
Livin' Doll - Lafayette Yarborough
Party Doll - Luke Simmons and his Blue Mountain Boys
Pigtail - Don Schraler
Long Long Ponytail - The Fireballs
Red Blue Jeans and a Ponytail - Gene Vincent
Pony-Tail - Nervous Norvus
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hi! i know this topic is older, but i was looking around and found this discusion so i thought i would say hello! i'm in a 3-piece band called Junglefever. 2 girls (guitar/vocals and bass/vocals) and a guy on drums myspace.com/junglefeverxo i also write a blog, mainly about girl bands and female singers kellyfever.blogspot.com !
Sweet! Thanks for the linkz. Diggin the blog as well.
hi! i know this topic is older, but i was looking around and found this discusion so i thought i would say hello! i'm in a 3-piece band called Junglefever. 2 girls (guitar/vocals and bass/vocals) and a guy on drums myspace.com/junglefeverxo i also write a blog, mainly about girl bands and female singers kellyfever.blogspot.com !
Ah, right, and how could I forget the yodelling Bezos' Hawaiian Orchestra?! This guy was a rembetiko artist (sort of greek blues from the 30s) and this was his side project. Pardon the silly image, I thought it was the only fitting thing to put there :)
Cheeky Greeky said:
Like luscevious drummer said, what about greek 60s garage? Here's a good example, there's more on my page and even more in this playlist: .................
On the next Sonic Nightmares our resident DJ El Tiki and I will play these songs on the show. We discovered these tracks from this thread, so all this dirt digging finally makes sense!
Them - I Want To Be Rich Again (Cazumbi) - No Smoke
Docteur Nico & African Fiesta - Save Me (Cazumbi) - No Smoke
Group Inerane - Nadan Al Kazawnin (Guitars From Agadez) - Sublime Frequencies
Witch - Lazy Bones - Unknown
Keep this thread alive, and I'll be sure to keep playing this rare rockin stuff that we all discover together!!
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I just posted my review of the Defenders (and the new Heavy Trash). Basically I like the record more than you, but I do agree with the mathematics in your subject line.
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
November 6, 2009
It supposedly started out as a band that played rockabilly — though admittedly a bizarre, mutated strain of rockabilly. Heavy Trash— made up of Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray — does to rockabilly what Spencer’s previous band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, did to the blues.
And on their third album, Midnight Soul Serenade, Spencer and Verta-Ray expand their trashy palette. Even more than on the group’s previous efforts, Going Way Out With Heavy Trash (2007) and its self-titled debut (2005), Spencer and Verta-Ray sift through the rubble of all sorts of rock ’n’ roll and funky soul styles and make them part of their unique joyful noise.
While Heavy Trash doesn’t really sound much like any other group (except maybe The Blues Explosion), several songs on Midnight Soul Serenade sound as if they could be adapted by other bands.
For instance, the opening blast, “Gee I Really Love” sounds like Spencer and Verta-Ray spent a little time dumpster diving at the Brill Building. It has a Shangri-Las feel and would be perfect for the next Mary Weiss solo record. It comes far closer to the New York Dolls spirit than almost anything on the last New York Dolls album.
That song is followed by the dark, bluesy “Good Man,” which sounds as if it could be a long-lost Los Lobos tune. Take a listen and imagine César Rosas on lead vocals. And wouldn’t it be cool if Al Green took a crack at “Isolation,” a slinky little soul-influenced tune with that slinky organ sound found on Green’s early records?
No two songs sound the same. “Sweet Little Bird” sounds like one of Tom Waits’ graveyard blues monsters (think “Big Black Mariah” or even “Jesus Gonna Be Here”). “Pimento” is a Latin-tinged surfy instrumental that starts out with a nylon-string guitar riff. And “(Sometimes You Gotta Be) Gentle” is probably the roughest rocker on the record. “In My Heart” is a greasy ballad featuring a guitar right out of Santos & Johnny’s “Sleep Walk.” There’s even a “sermon” during the instrumental break: “Don’t you see, the soul of a man is a terrible thing. ... Cracks in the wall, spiders in the basement/Without love, you got nothin’ but torment.”
All the songs here are original, with the exception of one of my favorite LaVern Baker songs, “Bumble Bee.” Still, my favorite non-LaVern version of that R & B classic — known for its refrain, “Ooo wee, you hurt me like a bee/A bumble bee, an evil bumble bee!” — was by The Searchers, an underrated British Invasion band.
The one tune that doesn’t really do much for me is “The Pill.” No, it’s not a Loretta Lynn cover. It’s a spoken-word shaggy-dog story about a girl named Betty (“She wore black jeans and a feather in her hair like an Indian.”) over a slow-burning music backdrop featuring a droning guitar and occasional notes from a piano. Maybe I’m not following it closely enough, but I never figured out whether the pill here is LSD or Viagra.
Speaking of The Blues Explosion: Here’s good news for those of you who might have missed them the first time around. Late next spring, according to last week’s Billboard, the Shout! Factory label will begin reissuing that band’s catalog, beginning with 1995’s Now I Got Worry and a new best-of collection. Some of the reissues will include bonus tracks.
Also recommended:
* The Almighty Defenders. Goodness Gussie, it’s a dadgum garage/punk, trash/blues, lo-fi supergroup, a Marvel Team-Up of Black Lips and The King Khan & BBQ Show. And it’s (falsely) advertised as gospel music.
The back story behind this album is that the Atlanta-based Black Lips fled the great nation of India during their world tour earlier this year. (They’ve said in interviews that they were afraid they were going to be arrested for “homosexual acts” onstage.) The group landed in Berlin at the home of Eric “King” Khan, and the jams that ensued resulted in this album.
The album has a relaxed, informal feel — the recordings sound like spontaneous musical outbursts. You could argue that the sum is less than the parts since the “regular” albums of both groups are superior to this collaboration.
But there’s lots of fun stuff here. On the first song, “All My Loving” (not the Beatles’ song of the same title), Khan leads the band in a simple but exhilarating singalong. Mark Sultan, aka BBQ, a Canadian who’s in love with doo-wop, really shines on several cuts, especially “Cone of Light.” It’s a sweet soul shuffle — and the most gospel-sounding track on this unholy record. With Sultan on lead vocals, it sounds like Sam Cooke live at CBGB’s.
Another favorite is “Bow Down and Die,” which sounds like a punk reworking of the country gospel chestnut “Glory Glory.”
There’s one cover, albeit an obscure one — The Mighty Hannibal’s “I’m Coming Home,” a soul song about a soldier going off to war.
I even like the two less-than-two minute instrumentals — “30 Second Air Blast” and “Death Cult Soup ’n’ Salad.” I just want to know who’s doing the Moe Howard imitation at the beginning of the latter.
Too bad these guys aren’t famous enough to be on the right-wing radio radar. “Jihad Blues,” with the line “just gimme a box cutter and a one-way ticket,” would be enough to set off a great fake controversy.
All and all, The Almighty Defenders is keeping me satisfied until I get my hands on the just released new one by King Khan & BBQ, Invisible Girl. (Watch this space.)
Wanna scare the wits out of the kiddies when they come to your door tonight? Wanna make any Halloween party more swingin'? The check out any or all of these podcasts.
* Meanwhile, back at Spahn Ranch, there's lots of Halloween fun at Radio Free Bakersfield. On Episode 154 Whore Hay is joined by Baron Shivers & Necrobella of The Ghastly Ones for an extra spooky episode.
* And the lovely Angel Baby has not one but two Halloween shows: "Monsters Have ProblemsToo" (on her Between the Sheets program) and "Boogie Woogie Machine" (from her Lost in Paradise podcast.)
* It's always Halloween at Uncle Yah-Yah's Haunted Shack Theater. But he's got a brand new Halloween episode that'll make you want to X-ray your candy.
* The new Mystery Action show is sprinkled it with Halloween-ish songs host Charles Gaskins says.
* And Mal Thursday has updated and expanded his Halloween podcast from a couple of years ago. You'll find that HERE.
