Death are great! I watched a bit of the documentary and the story is amazing, as well as the music. Hard to believe most of those recordings (not counting the 7'')  sat in an attic for that long. Very cool and very ahead of their time.
BUT!

 (and I gotta warn you that I'm about to go  about on a rant here....)

Something kind of irks me about the hype surrounding this band...and it has nothing to do with the band itself.
 It all started when i watched the trailer of the doc....and in big letters, it said "BEFORE THE RAMONES" in some attempt to convince people that they were doing "Death" before the Ramones even existed. This, combined with endless amounts of "before punk, there was death" articles is really annoying.

  It's as if people find out that the brothers were playing together in '71, and immediately want people to believe that these recordings are from '71 and the band got  fucked over...completely glossing over the fact that they were a Funk group in '71 to '73, the bandname and concept was developed in '74, after the Ramones; the songs on For the Whole World to See were written between Oct-Dec 74 (the Ramones were already playing at CBGB's by that point); and they were recorded on Feb 18 '75, over a week after the Ramones recorded their 14 song demo.
  Don't get me wrong...I love these recordings...and obviously there was really no FIRST punk band. But I don't think that's an excuse for people to bend the facts in some attempt to romanticize a bands history....especially when the true history of the band is already an incredible story.
In closing, as a Ramones fan, that kind of shit annoys me. End rant. GREAT BAND! (one of many great proto punk bands!) :)

I stumbled across a documentary by this title yesterday, and...holy shit. How had I never heard this? Pure gold.

Looking for yet another bass. Thoughts/opinions on reissue Vox Phantoms, Danelectro Longhorns, Burns Marquee, Eastwood Airline? I am looking for a good solid body model. And most likely a reissue/new-ish. I'm pretty harsh on my basses so spending $3,000 for a vintage would probably be big ol' waste. Any other suggestions welcome. 

thaaaanks.

How about 'Apple Candy' by the Skeptics?

Gino and the Gonns- Play Loud. 8 song 12'' at 45rpm.......best thing of 2013. If you like Supercharger, Mummies, and that whole Budget Rock thing....they're the best band I've heard doing that in a while.

Anything by Swedish Daniel Norgren... AWESOME oneman blues trash gospel.

Cheers / Tobba

THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE - S/T (IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT , ALREADY.)

note to self, don't read these types of threads.  I promised myself no more buying new LP's for a couple of months but after reading this thread I had to order the Creation, Swamp Rats and Hypstrz albums.

The Rats LP 'Intermittent Signals' is great too, you can certainly see that this is where they formed the sound which we associate with Dead Moon.

Good advice!  I've made a comment on their facebook page and plan to do so every week until they finally cave in and visit London just to stop a lunatic from continuing to post 'come to London!' on their facebook group :)

Lutz Vipinderwoman said:

I just checked out The Rats (YouBuBe).  I never heard them before. Yeah, good sound. Comment that on their Facebook page (that's what I do).... Hey when are going you coming to play in London;-) All the members are fairly approachable.  They obviously still like to play out.  Fred was standing next to me in the crowd at The Sonics show and I turned around and said hi to him and told the person I was there with that he probably has tinnitus or something.  Then, he looked straight at me and said Hi, very friendly.. hahaha OOOPs!  Their new drummer is a younger guy and probably would love to do a mini-tour. Just assuming. I don't know.

.....I FIRST GOT TURNED ON TO FRED'S WORK IN THE 80'S ,  BY WAY OF THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE. I DON'T KNOW WHY THEIR NAME TURNS UP SO INFREQUENTLY . IF THEY WERE'NT A GREAT BAND , I GUESS , THEN , I'D UNDERSTAND. I LIKE EVERYTHING BY COLE THAT I'VE HEARD - RATS , ZIPPER , RANGE RATS , KINGBEE....WHEN I LEARNED IN THE EARLY 90'S THAT HE HAD A NEW BAND CALLED DEAD MOON , I FLIPPED OUT , ESPECIALLY WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW STRONG ALL THEIR STUFF WAS/IS.

FRED HAS HAD A HEARING AID SINCE THE LATE '90s. HE LOOKS LIKE MY FATHER , SOMETIMES , WHEN TOODY TRIES TO TELL HIM SOMETHING , FROM A DISTANCE. "WHAAA?!!". THEIR DRUMMER'S NAME IS KELLI HALLIBURTON. HE'S A VERY FUNNY GUY. ONCE I WAS TALKING TO HIM , AND A FRIEND SAT DOWN AND JOINED US , TELLING HIM "YOU REALLY REMIND ME OF ANDREW FROM DEAD MOON!" , NOT KNOWING WHO HE WAS. FRED AND TOODY HAVE ALWAYS MADE MORE OF AN EFFORT TO SEE THE OPENING BANDS AND HANG OUT WITH THEIR FANS THAN MOST BANDS  WOULD.....

PIERCED ARROWS PLAYED HERE IN CHICAGO FOUR TIMES , I THINK , SINCE FORMING , BUT , THEY HAVE'NT BEEN HERE IN A FEW YEARS.

Lutz Vipinderwoman said:

I just checked out The Rats (YouBuBe).  I never heard them before. Yeah, good sound. Comment that on their Facebook page (that's what I do).... Hey when are going you coming to play in London;-) All the members are fairly approachable.  They obviously still like to play out.  Fred was standing next to me in the crowd at The Sonics show and I turned around and said hi to him and told the person I was there with that he probably has tinnitus or something.  Then, he looked straight at me and said Hi, very friendly.. hahaha OOOPs!  Their new drummer is a younger guy and probably would love to do a mini-tour. Just assuming. I don't know.

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ORDER IT ON DVD DIRECTLY FROM FRED AND TOODY VIA TOMBSTONE RECORDS MAILORDER.

Danny said:

I keep meaning to see  Unknown Passage, I don't believe its on UK netflix and there is no uploads on youtube :(

 

 

Danny said:

I keep meaning to see  Unknown Passage, I don't believe its on UK netflix and there is no uploads on youtube :(

 

 

I just checked out The Rats (YouBuBe).  I never heard them before. Yeah, good sound. Comment that on their Facebook page (that's what I do).... Hey when are going you coming to play in London;-) All the members are fairly approachable.  They obviously still like to play out.  Fred was standing next to me in the crowd at The Sonics show and I turned around and said hi to him and told the person I was there with that he probably has tinnitus or something.  Then, he looked straight at me and said Hi, very friendly.. hahaha OOOPs!  Their new drummer is a younger guy and probably would love to do a mini-tour. Just assuming. I don't know.

I would love to see the Pierced Arrows but they never stop over at lil' ol' England when they visit Europe. I haven't listened to their albums before, its on the list.

I did like the band Fred and Toody did pre Dead Moon; the Rats.  They have a bit more of a punk vibe than Dead Moon.

The Pierced Arrows still play out pretty often here in Portland, OR... they open'd for The Sonics when they played.

http://youtu.be/tLNSbVTUCFM

thats what I love about a good best/worst list, there is always something to debate. 

They have a 20 worst hipster bands there too: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php

Which was decent despite the inclusion of the Black Keys which I have a soft spot for :)

I sure don't agree with all those choices -- Sex Pistols especially. I also have to confess that I've also enjoyed TV on the Radio and Animal Collective.

And The Eagles are some of the greatest musicians in modern history.

( Not really. I just wanted to see if Kopper spit beer on his computer screen. Eagles should be on top of the Suck List)

Yeah, this should be under Psychotic Reactions.. Mick definitely deserves a good-bye; however, it fits under the proto-punk cat. o well I work too hard and need one of these: 

This happened while garagepunk.com was on sabbatical: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jul/29/charles-shaar-murray-tribute-mick-farren

Better still...

This would be better placed elsewhere perhaps...can't undo! Oops.

He will be missed... so sorry to hear of it.

I mentioned this in the other thead, but the first Undertones album. the new wave version of "true confessions" throws that album off pretty badly. the rest of it I love though.

Mc5- Back in the Usa would be the perfect album if not for "let me try".