I blame it on the economy. If I'm not taking care of the family (all 24 of them) or out rockin' somewhere (there is a lot of awesome shit to see & hear down here), then I'm out working my ass off somewhere. Seems like there's precious little time to sit and discuss or read interesting stuff . . . sucks, but it could be worse I s'pose.

Or are forums not as active as they once were?

david j and kevin haskins of love and rockets and bauhaus

By My Side is such a great song. One that inspires many covers. It's always funny to me how people who were actually in the bands are completely shocked to find out there's interest in their music after all these years. Usually, they don't even have their own singles anymore. Fuzzmeister said:

Met Lobby Loyde - in fact he produced my band Arctic Circles first proper recording session in 1985. We walked into Richmond Recorders after work at about 5 in the afternoon and walked out at about 5 the next morning - 4 tracks recorded and mixed all in that timespan. Lobby was a fun guy who had a lot of funny stories. He liked to listen to everything up full blast.

The Arctic Circles first demo session was done by Greg Heenan, the bass player in The Elois. He had a little demo studio called Fitzroy Sound. Nice easygoing guy. He played us the Elois single while we were at the studio. He was kind of bemused when we told him about the whole 60s garage revival scene.

Met the Damned when they played Canberra in '97. My wife and I had a long chat with Patricia Morrison, nice lady.

Met Chris Bailey of The Saints, circa the "Monkey Puzzle" days. He noticed I had a Lurkers badge on, we had a talk about the Lurkers who he seemed to know well from The Saints' early days in London.

We have a blip.fm acount for our band: http://blip.fm/TheMieters We just start using it, so no idea if it'll take off.

I blip when I have the time (not very often, in other words): http://blip.fm/kopper

I used it for a day or two, then forgot about it. It's allright but, Rex was right about the time consuming part. I prefer to listen other peoples playlist rather then my own. http://blip.fm/Weekminded

kopper said:

Satch don't come around here no mo'. His loss!

Grrtch said:

not weird enough for me! good lord whatever happened to the days when a thread like this woulda scored at least two dozen snarky posts in the same 11 hours?

not weird enough for me! good lord whatever happened to the days when a thread like this woulda scored at least two dozen snarky posts in the same 11 hours?

..ooooo..... hahaha! I've turned into one of those, "remember them good old days, Johnny?" geezers... sheesh! and whatta short memory, too! just got back from SXSW and inhaled bands for like six days straight. no, wait.. I never inhaled... naw.. no way...

wierd people yeh

and weird people!

we just joined up - theres so much good punk rock and roll here!

Click here to read! Press is good, no?

Oh yeah, some staples there. Have you heard any Sharon Jones with the Dap Kings? Just a little kick. Ivan Andreini said:

Irma Thomas, Etta James, Julie London, Boobie Gentry and Patsy Cline, to begin with...
Great big kiss
Ivan (boy)

Heck yeah it is. You know how some of the legends sort of can't carry on that torch many years after their prime? Despite not getting completely gaga over her 80's and 90's material, she still keeps a strong pace going head to head with the more mainstream sounding stuff at the time. Stuff like "We Don't Need Another Hero" or "What's Love Got To Do With It" is pretty listenable and doesn't really make me cringe like some of the output of the veterans. Lieutenant Cheeseliver said:

'Puppy Love' is such a killer tune. That's probably my favourite of hers. Her early-mid 60s stuff is top notch!!

Hi Sara! Wow! Great stuff here! That's a great video of the FIL/WOF medley. It's hard to sit still and listen. LOL Nice memory of your parent's first date. You're like a Turner Tot lovechild. Sara said:

THANKS MMM, cool footage! Tina is so fantastic. Check out "Fool in Love" into "Work out fine"..

I love "Can't Believe What You Say" too, this is just a bit of old footage....
My mom and pop's first date was at an Ike and Tina show, I guess you could say I owe it all to them!

That site isn't at all affiliated with the KBD series, just an awesome assortment of tunes from the KBD era.

So, it's finally my turn to make a mixtape fer our "Poor Punkrocker Poker Nite" and I want to blow some minds...any ideas fer killer tunes, preferably with some kinda (however loose) gamblin' theme, I would appreciate!

Well...I got myself a BBE free fuzz, which is great for the vintage sound....I just got a T-Rex mudhoney, not a fuzz per se but in Boost mode, rips your fucking face off..like a Big Muff but better...and I got a 'You Dirty rat' but swapped the stock rubbish chip about for an LM308N.....sleazy

i play an ashbass fuzzbrite.. the most incredible AND affordable fuzz their is!!

believe it!

Cheers Jason. Jason Edge said:

"Life After Doomsday" by Clayton. I was wrong about the date. It was published in 1980 but falls back on a lot of Civil Defense knowledge from the '60s. It's has a '60s read to it, if that makes sense. It was the best of that genre that I've ever read. It's weird but plain fact unlike the paranoid extremist books.

High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That last part is sound advice for young people! Whats the name of the '60s apocalypse manual? sounds great!

Jason Edge said:

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.
No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

Ron's pic reminds me of The Dregs of Humanity. I watched too much shit TV in the 80's

"Life After Doomsday" by Clayton. I was wrong about the date. It was published in 1980 but falls back on a lot of Civil Defense knowledge from the '60s. It's has a '60s read to it, if that makes sense. It was the best of that genre that I've ever read. It's weird but plain fact unlike the paranoid extremist books. High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That last part is sound advice for young people! Whats the name of the '60s apocalypse manual? sounds great!

Jason Edge said:

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.
No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

when did the spacemen leave? you don't bother to fuse chromosomes and walk away from the experiment. i read the other day that the root/origin of the word eden means walled garden. talk about escape from the planet of the apes. The Cats Eye said:

Maybe the spacemen will come before 2012.