No worries. I'm fortunate enough to have a decent relationship with The Monks and felt that, if anyone should pay a tribute to Dave, then it should be the band as opposed to my ramblings.

Mof
ElectricRoulette

That was a beautiful tribute. Anybody would be proud to be honored with such a heartfelt remembrance by a true friend...thanks for sharing it with us, Mof.

~jeffrey

http://www.electricroulette.com/2008/01/tribute-to-dave.html

Just received a wonderful tribute to Dave Day from fellow bandmate, Monk and friend, Gary Burger.

Cheers.

Mof

Does anybody have any idea who's playing at SXSW this year? Any record company showcases? Anything happening outside, on the patio, at Casino El Camino, etc? C'mon Texas people! Get posting! Let me know what's going on, at one of the highlights of my year.

I used to use GEMM.com a lot, too... back when I had expendable income. :(

yeah that was the one - Midnight Records!

They always shipped my garage comps and vinyl reissues right way, never screwed up - great to deal with...

I presume they're gone?

Hey, I'll try to find a 21st century Record Vault catalog, a priceless connection... as of 2000, Zari and the Vault were light years away from ever going online.

Just good old fashioned hand-scrawled 16 page catalogs, packed into the margins with the Cool and the Rare!

yeah, I used to order a lot of new garage albums in the late '80s, early '90s from that New York dealer... what was the name of it? Midnight?

Goner, Norton, Crypt, Bomp, Soundflat, etc... c'mon, it's not like it's hard!

Bistro Distro is pretty good and cheap. Still use Bomp and Norton. Deadbeat is good. Used to do stuff myself, but had trouble shifting punk rock n roll and garage hear in Australia.

It was underground medicine and know crap but they havent updated in decades it seems. Zaxxon mailorder updates once in a while.

www.boomchickrecords.com

I used to use The Freak Emporium - http://www.freakemporium.com/ But sadly it shut last year :-(

yeah, I used to order a lot of new garage albums in the late '80s, early '90s from that New York dealer... what was the name of it?

They used to advertise in Goldmine (so did I once or twice back in '78)...

Of course, for the really rare records there was (and still is??) The Record Vault, headed by Zari... and he always had a few used bargains in the $10 or less range.

Haven't seen him in a while... does he still sell at the KUSF record swaps?

I have some old Record Vault catalogs, somewhere... and one (empty) Record Vault matchbook from their store (long gone) on Polk St. in San Francisco.

Leighton (lead singer of The Morlocks) "worked" there for a while!

does anyone know where to get great garage and punk records via mailorder? before purchasing via the internet i used to get a lot of great records through the Skull Duggery Label from massachusets and also from the back of the Estrus catalog. as soon as something is released now it goes straight to Ebay i dont know really where to find stuff anymore. i'm only looking for vinyl 45s and Lps of mostly garage punk stuff.

If you think that those prices are bad I had to pay £36 for 2 tickets + a £10.50 booking fee. £46.50 for 2 tickets!!! The tour that the band did in the UK during December the ticket prices were even higher. But if the band are charging £10,000 per gig the venue has to get their money for somewhere.

I'd always heard that Paul Weller was a right miserable git. However, I met him the other year at The Boss Sounds Ska & Reggae festival and have to say that he didn't come across that way. In between skanking to Prince Buster & Jimmy Cliff, Paul Weller had time to chat to his fans and to pose for photographs. He even asked me where I got my shoes from but I didn't tell him. He seemed in really good spirits but I don't know if this was due to all the stella he had drank :-/

Dem prices be caraaazy man!

At least it's the best 2 thirds. Paul Weller has aged into a pompous arse.

There playing down in Australia very soon. Jam without Weller, can't see it being to good. I missed them in the day when i was a nipper in London. Don't think I'm gonna worry about that. Gonna watch the complete Jam DVDs instead,
Grazza / Outback RNR

I saw From the Jam last year. They are ok for a tribute band I suppose. But at the gig I was at at The Crypt in Middlesbrough Bruce Foxton's bass was far too loud and over powered the guitar. The gig was packed out though unlike when the band played there a few months before without Foxton under the name The Gift. That night only 74 people turned up to see the band in a venue that holds around 600.

One of my mates tried to book From The Jam for a gig but was quoted £10,000! Which for a tribute band is taking the piss a bit.

Too bad they aren't touring with a complete lineup for both bands. That would make some people really happy. Not a huge fan, but I'd like to see the Stranglers. Press release From The Jam: Bruce Foxton & Rick Buckler 2008 North American Tour Dates From The Jam: Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, two thirds of the original line-up of The Jam, embarked on a major 23-date UK tour in November and December 2007. The autumn tour followed hot on the heels of the band's sold-out 20-date UK tour during May of the same year. During 2007, the band played to over 60,000 people in the UK. The overall reaction from the fans has been phenomenal. The band recently announced a major North American tour which begins on 24th January 2008 at the House of Blues in San Diego, California. The 14-date tour takes in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Anaheim, Chicago, to name but a few. Special guest on all North American dates is Hugh Cornwell, formerly the original singer and guitarist of The Stranglers. January 2008 Thurs 24th San Diego –House of Blues 1055 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 Tickets: $25/$28.50 Box Office: (619) 299-2583 Doors: 7pm Online Booking: www.ticketmaster.com Venue Website: www.hob.com/tickets Fri 25th Anaheim- House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Drive Anaheim, CA 92802 Tickets: $25/$27.50 Box Office: 714.778.2583 Doors: 7:00PM Online booking: www.ticketmaster.com Venue Website: www.hob.com/tickets Sat 26th Los Angeles- El Rey 5515 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tickets:$27.50 Box Office: (323) 936-6400 Doors: 7pm Online booking: www.ticketmaster.com Tues 29th San Francisco- Music Hall 859 O' Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Tickets: $24/$25 Box Office: (415)855-0750 Doors: 8pm Online booking: www.tickets.com Venue Website: www.gamhtickets.com Wed 30th Portland- Alladin 3017 SE Milwaukee Avenue Portland, OR 97202 Tickets: $25 Box Office: (503) 233-1994 Doors: 7pm -show is not on sale yet. (soft on sale) 11/16 Online Booking: www.ticketmaster.com Venue Website: www.aladdin-theater.com February 2008 Fri 1st Seattle- Moore 1932 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98107 Tickets: $20.50/$27.50 Box Office: (206) 443-1744 Doors: 7pm Online Booking: www.ticketmaster.com Venue Website: www.themoore.com Sat 2nd Vancouver- Richards on Richards 1036 Richard St. Vancouver BC Tickets: $25/$30 Box Office: (604) 687-6794 Doors: 8:15pm Online Booking: Venue Website: (not announced yet/just confirmed) Mon 4th Chicago – The Abbey 3420 W. Grace at Elston Chicago, Il 60618 Tickets: $25 Box Office: (773)478-4408 Doors: 7pm Online Booking: www.ticketweb.com Venue Website: www.abbeypub.com Tickets on sale: Nov 17 @ Noon Tues 5th Pontiac - Crofoot 1 S. Saginaw Pontiac, MI 48342 Tickets:$25 Box Office: (248)858-9333 Doors: 8pm Online Booking: www.ticketweb.com Venue Website: www.thecrofoot.com Wed 6th Toronto – Lee's Palace 529 Bloor St. W. Toronto, Canada Tickets: $30/$35 Box Office: (416)532-1598 Doors: 8pm Online Booking: www.ticketmaster.ca Venue Website: www.leespalace.com Sat 9th New York – Blender Theater at Gramercy 127 East 23rd St. NY, NY 10010 Tickets: $28/$35 (day of show) Box Office: (212)777-6800 Doors: 7pm Online Booking: www.ticketmaster.com Venue Booking: www.livenation.com Mon 11th Alexandria - Birchmere 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA 22305 Tickets: $27.50 Box Office: (703)549-7500 Doors:7:30pm Online Booking: Venue Booking: (not announced yet/just confirmed) Wed 13th Atlanta – Roxy Theater 3110 Roswell RD Atlanta, GA 30305 Tickets: $25 Box Office: (404)233-7699 Doors: Online Booking: Venue Booking: (not announced yet/just confirmed) Fri 15th Dallas –The Palladium Ballroom 1135 South Lamar Dallas, TX 75215 Tickets: $25/$27.50 Doors: Box Office: Online Booking: Venue Booking: Tickets on Sale Dec. 7th

I couldn't find the original Ike Turner thread here so I'm starting a new one with this news.

Medical examiner rules Ike Turner died of cocaine overdose
By Chelsea J. Carter
ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/16/2008

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner's death last month at age 76 was caused by a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday.

"We are listing that he abused cocaine, and that's what resulted in the cocaine toxicity," said Paul Parker, chief investigator at the medical examiner's office.

The medical examiner's office also listed hypertensive cardiovascular disease and pulmonary emphysema as "significant and contributing factors" to Turner's death, Parker said.

A telephone call from The Associated Press seeking comment from the attorney of Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, was not immediately returned.

Turner, whose musical accomplishments were overshadowed by his image as the man who brutally abused former wife Tina Turner, died Dec. 12 after years of drug abuse. He was jailed in 1989 and served 17 months.

Turner once told the AP he originally began using drugs to stay awake and handle the rigors of nonstop touring during his glory years. Advertisement

"My experience, man, with drugs -- I can't say that I'm proud that I did drugs, but I'm glad I'm still alive to convey how I came through," he said. "I'm a good example that you can go to the bottom. ... I used to pray, `God, if you let me get three days clean, I will never look back.' But I never did get to three days. You know why? Because I would lie to myself. And then only when I went to jail, man, did I get those three days. And man, I haven't looked back since then."

But while he would readily admit to drug abuse, Turner always denied abusing his ex-wife. In her 1987 autobiography, "I, Tina," Tina Turner told of a brutal pattern of abuse.

After years out of the spotlight his career finally began to revive in 2001 when he released the album "Here and Now." The recording won rave reviews and a Grammy nomination and finally helped shift some of the public's attention away from his troubled past and onto his musical legacy.

Turner spent his later years making more music and touring, even while he battled emphysema.

Let's find out where the good places for "wrong side of the tracks" bands to play are in the U.S. shall we? Include venue name, city, state...........We can all learn a thing or two.

I'll start with:
The Mohawk Place in Buffalo,NY
AS220 in Providence,RI

I love radio as well and growing up I used to love to listen to the Huggy Boy Show on KRLA. This is where I discovered a lot of the Chicano rock n roll of the 60s (aside from my family parties). This is where I first heard "Huggies Bunnies."

RIP Huggy Boy!

Yep, that is the risk you take when you own old stuff! I got piles of old gear that some little thing (I can't find a replacement part for) has broken and I know what it is worth so I won't sell it. It really comes down to the "Time, Money and/or Effort" you want to sink into something to keep it working. (or how much do you wanna pay to store it until you can find that "Time, Money and/or Effort". Sometiem the best thing to do is to sell it to someone who want to do something with it and get what you can out of it.

There is always more stuff!