See! There is always more stuff!

I just bought a mint sunburst Vox Bossman instead. Should be a loads better not having the trem that instantly throws you completely outta tune. Looking forward to the built in FX too!

Im going......its not the real complete band,,,same as Hugh's set...but shit, a few beers, hearing songs I love...sounds like a great night out....Im sure I will make my way to chat with them afterwards also. We have the cd's for the past...enjoy what we have in the here and now also.

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.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm getting this as soon as it drops!

Yes, Bam-Caruso did released the Rubble comps. The Headsounds CD was kind of like a best of but it wasn't all 60s as it included some more modern day stuff like Paul Roland. Talking of the Rubble comps I see that the 2nd boxset is getting reissued in a couple of weeks - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubble-Collection-Vol-11-20-Various-Artists/dp/B0000EWQ12/

Didn't Bam-Caruso release a load of psych compilations like the Rubble series? A lot of it is OOP. Did you try eBay?

A few years ago I picked up a great CD comp called 'Head Sounds From the Bam-Caruso Waxworks'. On the CD it says that it's volume 1. But I've never been able to find any other volumes in this collection. Did anymore ever get released?

Hey!
Send us some info about your titles to info@deadbymono.com and we will see if we can work out on something.

Cheers,
Fuzz'Up
Dead by Mono Records

Hey thanks Earl, I wasn't sure if anyone listened.

Love your show, nice mix of everything!

If you were going to make a mix to try and get someone interested in sixties garage bands what would it be? I did one for someone a while back it went something like this (the order means nothing):

Blackout of Gretely - Gonn
Louie Louie - The Swamp Rats
Psycho - The Sonics
The Girl Can't Dance - Bunker Hill
Project Blue - The Banshees
Going All The Way - The Squires
Bad Girl - The Zakary Thaks
You're Too Much - The Eyes
Social End Product - The Bluestars
Crawdaddy Simone - The Syndicats
Filthy Rich - The Outsiders
Come See Me - The Pretty Things
Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
It's A Cry'n Shame - The Gentlemen
Demolicion - Los Saicos

That's all I can remember right now. It was enough to fill up CDR though. Some of these might not be strictly "garage", but you get the idea. Mid-sixties mod, freakbeat, r&b, etc. The guy I did it for was into that emo/hardcore and generic indie type stuff. So what do y'all think?

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!

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