I'm 52...and, believe it or not, my grandma was a HUGE Elvis fan since the very beginning.  She saw him play in Tampa, Florida every time he came to town.  No, she wasn't an active rocker, but four years ago I was playing a Wanda Jackson disc and she instantly loved it.  No, you can't be too old to rock, but some folks just get boring as they age!

I think the "energy and passion" are keys.  Rock n' Roll is youth culture so we are all a bit juvenile here.  It's bands that become "mature" with age and start playing all mid tempo and clean that feel "old."  You have to stay dirty and unhinged.  The Fleshtones are still doing push-ups at their shows!  And if you are a fan, avoid the temptation to grouse about how much better the scene was in your day because rejecting the new kids makes you a geezer.....and an ass!

Tom McLoughlin said:

Here's a bizarre but true story regarding this subject.  We just reformed THE SLOTHS at the end of this summer. All of us Sloth members we apart of the Hollywood Sunset Strip era of 1964 to 1966. No one knew that 'Makin' Love' the 45 the original group made in 1965 but was never released, had somehow been discovered and on the 'Back From The Grave 4' album. Nor did we know The Gories and other bands had covered it, or that an original single with sleeve had been sold for as high as $6550.00 on eBay.  We were all amazed. Ugly Things magazine just did a cover story on the group.  But the point is..all this led to us getting together again (in a garage, of course) and starting playing the songs exactly as we had 45 years ago. Some of us had not played, nor have I sang, in over 4 decades. But it was as if no time had passed. Now we're being booked in clubs and venues. The most surreal thing is we were all around 16yrs old back in the day. Now we're in our 60s playing the music of the 60s with more energy and passion than when we were teens. Too Old To Rock? Not yet, thank God.

I am 51 and have always and still am listening to 60's garage (Sonics, Standells, 13th Floor Elevators etc), garage revival (Lyres, Miracle Workers, Lime Spiders, Stems, Shoutless, Nomads, etc) and rockabilly (too many to name) as a regular diet. I constantly search for new stuff as well and have to say that Shapes With Fangs are a new favorite.

It's not your age it's your attitude, everyone keep on rockin'

Jacuzzi Boys- Glazin

Black Lips- Arabia Mountain

Mark Sultan- both the Whenever & the Wherever lp's

The Booze- At Maximum Volume

There are more that I can't think of right now... The Black Lips probably has the most commercial appeal, but it really is a great album.

A lot of those tunes were originals, though, and credited as such (Mystery Train, Zombie Dance, The Mad Daddy, I'm Cramped, Voodoo Idol, Caveman, etc.). "TV Set" is an original, with a nod to Don & the Galaxies' "Sundown" as is "The Natives Are Restless," influenced by Jerry Warren's "Rompin" and Kai Ray's "I Want Some of That"... but you're pretty much covered on the rest.

OK I know there are tons of compilations including Songs the Cramps Taught Us, Born Bad or even Lux and Ivy's Favorites (internet only) but here's something I'm trying to do: find out the originals behind each Cramps song in the order they appeared on their first 3 or 4 albums (the ones that matter). Can you help me out on this?

Songs the Lord Taught Us (1980)

TV Set: ?

Rock on the Moon: Jimmy Stewart

Garbageman: The Rumblers, Boss + The Mosquitoes, Big Ace

I Was a Teenage Werewolf: The Shades, Strolling after Dark

Sunglasses After Dark: Link Wray, Ace of Spades + Dwight Pullen

The Mad Daddy: ?

Mystery Plane: ?

Zombie Dance: ?

What's Behind the Mask: Dale Hawkins, Tornado

Strychnine: The Sonics

I'm Cramped: ?

Tear It Up: Johnny Burnette

Fever: Little Willie John, Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee...

Psychedelic Jungle (1981)

Greenfuz: Randy Alvey

Goo Goo Muck: Ronnie Cook & the Gaylads

Rockin' Bones: Elroy Dietzel & the Rhythm Bandits (Johnny Dollar, Ronnie Dawson...)

Voodoo Idol: ?

Primitive: The Groupies

Caveman: ?

The Crusher: The Novas

Don't Eat Stuff of the Sidewalk: The Frantics, Werewolf

Can't Find My Mind: ?

Jungle Hop: Kip Tyler & his Flips, Jungle Rock

The Natives are Restless: ?

Under the Wires: ?

Beautiful Gardens: ?

The Green Door: Jim Lowe

(I'll do Off the Bone and Smell of Female later...)

Playlist for 12-30-11

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Sweet Dirty Love – The Happy Thoughts
Rachel – The Booze
Step Right Up (Baby, I’m Your Man) – DM Bob & the Deficits
Anyone Can Do It – John Paul Keith
Kidnapper – Jack Oblivian

Bite the Bed – Glambilly
Something for Your Ass – Mighty Fine
Lost My Mind – Left Lane Cruiser
Our Other World – Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds
Home Alone – Lover!

Do What’s Right By You – The Routes
Pretty Boy – The Gaye Blades
Feet – The Barreracudas
Head Over Heels – The Cute Lepers
I Don’t Need a Reason – Muck & the Mires
Maximum Bumble – The Ugly Beats

Local Lunchbox
Mess Around – Trent Fox & the Tenants
Feel My Frustration – Beach Patrol
She’s the Kind of Girl – Trolley
All Nite Long – Midwest Beat
I-94 – Trapper Schoepp & The Shades
Still Cleaning That Same Old Grease Trap – Aluminum Knot Eye

Puppet on a String – The Night Beats
Sexi Ladi – The Hussy
Nothing to do with the ‘60s – Wax Museums
Sweet Sweet Mandi – The Bad Sports
Another Time – Cheap Time
Toxic Revenge – Shannon & the Clams
Primitiv – Jack of Heart

The Hunt – Bloodshot Bill 
Calloused Hands – Mark Sultan
Surfer Hag – Thee Cormans
Tower Block – Spartan Dreggs
Pepper Spray – Light Bulb Alley

I Wanna – Stupidity
Zombie Walk – The Cynics
Eat My Dustaphonics – The Dustaphonics
A Ella – Los Vigilantes
In Another Life – Occult Detective Club

She’s Nothing Like Me – The Love Me Nots
Love by the Die – Shotglass Killers
She Brings – The Insomniacs
Dead Meat – Personal & the Pizzas
Out of My Head, Into My Bed – The Reatards
Girl of the Nite – King Louie & the Missing Monuments
Watching My Baby – Reigning Sound
Dead of Night – Wheels on Fire

When I’m a Grown Up – The Monsters
Another Man’s Eyes – Delaney Davidson
Do How You Wanna – James Leg
Steve Earle – Lydia Loveless
Too Much Information – Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin’ Team

WHAT'S THE PRICE ?  7 TWICE !!!

Happy New Year, Davelle , hee hee hee. John.

I've got that Derek and Clive LP with the sick ass cover (As seen below.) . It's shameful that my countrymen will never know how funny Dudley Moore once was.

"OH , GAWD ! WHEN I SAW DUDLEY MOORE , LYING IN STATE. IT GAVE ME THE HORN !!"

"Gave me the 'orn. Worrabout Peter Cook , then ?"

"OH , GAWD ! ROGER FUCKIN' NELLIE , VOICED BY PETER COOK , GAVE ME THE FUCKIN'

 ' ORN !!!". 

 I REMEMBER ASKING PEOPLE AT SCHOOL WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT ONE OF THE BEST DARK COMEDIES OF THE 80's , "NEIGHBORS" . WITHOUT FAIL , THEY'D SAY , "THAT WAS STOOPID ! "ARTHUR" WAS GREAT !!!".

BRY , I KEEP FORGETTING HIS NAME , OLD HEDGEHOG - FACE , WHO CALLED THE DOLLS "mock rock" on ogwt.
 
Bry Nylon said:

when we were kids we were diggin  & scuzzy 45's from jumble sales...later on learning of by heart all the rude bits from derek & clive LP's ...apals uncle worked at the DEcca pressing plant and we got given tons of promo 45's - mainly boring 'hit' crud like the stones and stuff... most of which we hung on a nail on an old willow tree and shot with a high power .22  air rifle ... other neighbours used to go see the who and stuff at the Bull & Bush in richmond [way before i was aware of it all ] andso later on...  they lent me a dansette and piles of obscuro LP & 45 crud for me to bop to in my bedroom ...Troggs and stuff like that ...  also got hand me down 60's trash reel to reels and LP's from my pals elder brothers when they all f'ked of to tibet in f'ked  old flower power painted bread van in '68 / 69 - Zappa / Iron Butterfly / Weird shit like that  [...he was youngest of 7 ] - when I was nine in 1972 I saw NY Dolls on late night TV [old grey whistle test] - an earth shattering experience [and mohicans layin' railway local tracks the same year... ]  but I still had to wait another whole 6 excrutiatingly boring years for the Wayne County & Electric Chairs, Stranglers, ME. Smith & The Fall to arrive on 45's...  

 

I think there was a time that more people saw all this stuff as being part of a greater whole....I think , in the states , where Glam barely happened , most people called it "Glitter" instead. I NEVER HEARD IT CALLED ANYTHING ELSE IN THE 70'.....But , that meant , and still means , everyone from Elton John to Kiss and even Queen gets lumped in with it.

I guess more people called The Dolls "Glam", but it seems like anyone who wore glitter got called "Glitter" , well after the movement was over. It's interesting that The Dictators looked like regular guys , but , were (Deservedly) accepted as harbingers of Punk in New York. It does'nt seem like New York was nearly as hung up on fashion , at the time , as London ....
 I have a video of two Dead Boys shows at CBGB's. With the exception of the band , themselves , almost nobody looks like they got the memo about The Sex Pistols. It's wall to wall long hair , perms , beards , denim....It was about the music , that's all.

If you've ever seen Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" (DON'T  , if you have'nt.), they shot some scenes at and around CBGB's. You'll see guys with big green GBH mohawks . In '77?       I asked my Sister - in - Law , who went to CB's , Max's , etc. , at the time , if she EVER saw as much as one mohawk by 77-78. She said it was possible that Richie Stotts had his first one going by then , but , it would have been a flat "Travis Bickle" job , and no one else would've been following suit , yet...

I used to promote Sylvain Sylvain's solo gigs in Chicago , before The Dolls reformed. He spoke very highly of you , John , and he also spoke of the division betwween CBGB's and Max's after The Manitoba/County incident. Maybe it was already brewing , I always heard you were a CBGB's band or you were a Max's band , though some bands got away with playing both venues.
 John Carlucci said:

  I  grew up in NYC & witnessed the C.B.G.B's/ Max's Kansas City scene first hand. My band, (The Speedies) was on the circuit, though we did not start up till 79. We were a Max's band. After the Wayne County/Manitoba incident there was a division in the scene. The NY Punk scene morphed out of the dying "Glitter Rock" scene, as it was called then. (now people refer to it as Glam Rock, but that's not what we called it when it was happening)

 Saw the Stooges in 73, NY Dolls & The Dictators in 73, Ramones & Heartbreakers in 74. Somewhere around late 75, they started calling it "Punk Rock". The first place I saw the term was in the New York Daily News. They had a  color photo of HDM & Top Ten From the Dictators on the cover of the Sunday Entertainment section with the words "Punk Rock" on the photo in large letters.  We were all so excited to see our little scene starting to get noticed.This was nearly 2 years before any English Punk bands existed. Back then, things were not so compartmentalized into seperate genre's. Most of the  CBGB's/ Max's bands were into the 60's Garage bands like The Music Machine/Standells/Seeds/Sonics etc. Some of them covered 60's Garage songs (Dead Boys/ Hey Little Girl for example) At first the term around town was Sixties Punk. This was a way of describing it so it was not confused with the 70's scene which was now called Punk.

It was not until the 80's revival that it started to be known as Garage Punk.  I moved to LA after The Speedies broke up & the first band I played with out West was Rik L Rik's band. His band F-Word put out the first Los Angeles "Punk" record. I joined the Fuzztones in 86. They had been already going for a few years. They started as a side project/cover band of Rudi & Deb who had a Power Pop Band called Tina Peel which used to open for The Speedies a lot at Max's & Hurrah's. Rudi looked me up when he moved to LA & asked me to join The Fuzztones. I obliged, mostly because he had a tour of Europe set up. From the start, I had my apprehension. I tried to steer him away from cover songs & 60's "costumes" in favor of  the less contrived approach of some of our peer groups that I admired, like The Miracle Workers, or The Lyres (who had the songs & the look, without appearing like they were wearing uniforms) We constantly butted heads. We signed to RCA in 87. That's when the shit really hit the fan & the resulting megalomania tore the band apart. The experience left me with a sour taste in my mouth for "Garage Rock" & I drifted into the LA Blues & Rockabilly scene, until The Hexxers found me in the mid 2000's and coaxed me back into Garage.  (photo below: SpeedieJohn Carlucci onstage @ C.B.G.B.'s in 1977

Love hearing everyone's stories of what got them into this "other' realm of music that was pretty much invisible to so many others.

@ Kopper - Radio! That's what was instrumental for me too. Now I guess it's Youtube & things like Pandora for the kids. Love the tape you digitized. I've only scanned through it, but it reminds me how much I miss good radio, and how important it was. Made me sad when the DJ referred to John Mayall as being old, mid forties (my age) to early fifties. I have several of my old tapes of stuff off the radio that I've slowly been digitizing too.

Most of my friends from back then got into punk through skating and people they met at the skate spots and parks. I was never a skater. I owe my "awakening" as you can call it to two people. Rodney Bingenheimer and Lisa Guerrero. Lisa was my girlfriend for a few key months there in 1980. She was 18 and I was jailbait, 14. (I now understand why my mom hated her) She was into "new" music I guess you could say, not really punk, but not full on "New Wave" as we would have probably called others. She turned me onto alot of stuff like the Clash, 999, Go-Go's, Selector, Specials, Modettes, others I forget. She didn't get to much into the current stuff I was finding on my own, Black Flag, Germs, DOA etc etc. She would go see the likes of the Ramones and Holly and the Italians and go to the dance clubs here in LA like the Odessy, Casa Blanca etc. as opposed to the small clubs. Rodney Bingenheimer as most know, was and still is a DJ here in Los Angeles. His show on KROQ ran from 8pm to midnight Saturday and Sunday back then. As the Angry Samoans said "4 hours of Phil Spectre rock". But in reality it was much more than that. Rodney was playing everything from the Ronettes to the latest Black Flag demo. In fact much of the music he was playing was unreleased. Bands would send him stuff or hand deliver it to him at the station and he would play it. And of course he would have most anybody who was anybody come through and do an interview with him. The Surfaries and Ventures, would drop in, as would Wendy O, Keith Morris of the Circle jerks or Levi Dexter.

I should also mention fanzines too. They were instrumental in finding out about bands and records (and often cassete releases) that were out there. Flipside was the bible for me. The last issue of Slash was still on the stands when I started discovering punk, but it was Flipside that seemed more immediate for my era of punk. You could find out about the latest Fullerton or Huntington Beach bands that hadn't recorded anything yet, or learn where to send away for the Heart Attack 7" in New York or the Fix 7" in Michigan. It was also through Flipside that I started trading tapes and records with people from across the country and overseas too, who opened my ears to many bands I had missed up to that point like the Eater and the Rezillos to name a few. Although it should also be noted that Zed records was an hour's bicycle ride away, and me and my friends discovered many new bands by perusing the inventory there.

As I said I was young, so living in the suburbs of LA made it hard to get out to proper gigs. I'd maybe sneak out to a show once a month, (and then spend a few weeks in trouble from mom). I was halfway between the Vex in east LA and the Cuckoo's nest in southern Orange County. But there was also an active party circuit in the suburbs for the newer bands. We saw Social Distortion, TSOL, the Vandals, Adolescents, Channel 3 and many more in living rooms and backyards all across the suburbs.

As far as 60's punk, outside of what I'd heard on Rodney and KRLA like the Seeds, Music Machine etc, I was somewhat oblivious, until one of my older punk friends turned me onto a cassette of what was most likely the Nuggets comp. It was an eye opener, but outside of some of the Paisley Underground type bands, I didn't really dig a whole lot deeper till much later. I was still chasing the diminishing returns of punk leftovers in thelate 80's into the early 90's when an old friend who worked for Flipside and then later a new friend who had a lo-fi noisy garage band opened my eyes to what I was missing like everything on Estrus, Sympathy etc etc.. I found it exciting because for me, it was back to the clubs and one off venues as opposed to the more established bigger places that I seemed to be going to a lot of shows at. It was now all about the Mummies, Gories, Lazy Cowgirls, Devil Dogs etc etc.

  I  grew up in NYC & witnessed the C.B.G.B's/ Max's Kansas City scene first hand. My band, (The Speedies) was on the circuit, though we did not start up till 79. We were a Max's band. After the Wayne County/Manitoba incident there was a division in the scene. The NY Punk scene morphed out of the dying "Glitter Rock" scene, as it was called then. (now people refer to it as Glam Rock, but that's not what we called it when it was happening)

 Saw the Stooges in 73, NY Dolls & The Dictators in 73, Ramones & Heartbreakers in 74. Somewhere around late 75, they started calling it "Punk Rock". The first place I saw the term was in the New York Daily News. They had a  color photo of HDM & Top Ten From the Dictators on the cover of the Sunday Entertainment section with the words "Punk Rock" on the photo in large letters.  We were all so excited to see our little scene starting to get noticed.This was nearly 2 years before any English Punk bands existed. Back then, things were not so compartmentalized into seperate genre's. Most of the  CBGB's/ Max's bands were into the 60's Garage bands like The Music Machine/Standells/Seeds/Sonics etc. Some of them covered 60's Garage songs (Dead Boys/ Hey Little Girl for example) At first the term around town was Sixties Punk. This was a way of describing it so it was not confused with the 70's scene which was now called Punk.

It was not until the 80's revival that it started to be known as Garage Punk.  I moved to LA after The Speedies broke up & the first band I played with out West was Rik L Rik's band. His band F-Word put out the first Los Angeles "Punk" record. I joined the Fuzztones in 86. They had been already going for a few years. They started as a side project/cover band of Rudi & Deb who had a Power Pop Band called Tina Peel which used to open for The Speedies a lot at Max's & Hurrah's. Rudi looked me up when he moved to LA & asked me to join The Fuzztones. I obliged, mostly because he had a tour of Europe set up. From the start, I had my apprehension. I tried to steer him away from cover songs & 60's "costumes" in favor of  the less contrived approach of some of our peer groups that I admired, like The Miracle Workers, or The Lyres (who had the songs & the look, without appearing like they were wearing uniforms) We constantly butted heads. We signed to RCA in 87. That's when the shit really hit the fan & the resulting megalomania tore the band apart. The experience left me with a sour taste in my mouth for "Garage Rock" & I drifted into the LA Blues & Rockabilly scene, until The Hexxers found me in the mid 2000's and coaxed me back into Garage.  (photo below: SpeedieJohn Carlucci onstage @ C.B.G.B.'s in 1977

Well, I'd been a metal head for about a half year, and one of my friends had been trying to get me into punk, from the second the first Led Zeppelin CD graced my ears. I forgot about it until I realized how awesome Megadeth's cover of Anarchy in the U.K. was. I ended up seeking the original. It was pure audio pleasure. I texted my friend, and she gave me a bunch of recommendations. I was immediately hooked, I now like everything from pure hardcore, like Black Flag, to some Pop- Punk, like The Offspring.

MikeL pointed out , I was mistaken , there are extras on the "Ladies and Gentlemen" DVD.

By the way, I just commented on the story, shamelessly plugging the Hideout Comp Series. Be sure to login and click the "Recommend" link on the comment! ;)

Wha?! Now we need "converts"?

"If you want to start your own movement, fine, but this one is taken."

-attributed to Legs McNeil

I suppose we're already on board then, damn. Wake me when the NEXT next big thing comes around...

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/30/144452776/the-year-in-garage-rock-5-favorites-for-2011

"It's an exciting time to be a garage-rock fan — and an excellent time to convert, if you're not already on board."

"Punk was supposed to be about fun. Remember fun?" -John Lydon

Show #355: "The Eggman Collection #107" playlist:

Blops - "Allegro Ma Non Troppo"
Bel Kanto - "A Kind Of Breakdown"
The Bell Notes - "Dream Street"
Bee Gees - "Horizontal"
Irmin - "I'm Hiding My Nightingale"
Glass Harp - "Look In The Sky"
Zerfas - "Hope"
The Standells - "All Fall Down"
Boudewijn De Groot - "Waterdrager"
Aphrodite's Child - "It's Five O'Clock"
LSD - "Mystery Of The Mythical Invasion"
The Rascals - "Sattva"
Spirit - "Taurus"
The Bandits - "A Woman"
The Beau Brummels - "Gentle Wandering Ways"
6 Feet Under - "Fields"
Dick Wagner & The Frosts - "Sunshine"
Arrows - "What's Come Between Us"
Phluph - "Another Day"
Henry Cow - "Ruins"
Peter Sando - "Over This Table"
Forest - "Hawk The Hawker"
The Lemon Drops - "It Happens Everyday"
The Classics IV - "Book A Trip"
Carlos Fendeira - "Gimmi Moro"
Plastic Penny - "Nobody Knows It"
Cream - "Born Under A Bad Sign"
Kebnekaise - "Rattvikarnas Ganglat"
The Chariots - "Problem Girl"
The Kinks - "Don't Ever Change"
Deep Purple - "Prelude: a) Happiness, b) I'm So Glad"
All That The Name Implies - "So Am I"
Golden Earrings - "There Will Be A Tomorrow"
Christie - "For All Mankind"
Zoot - "The Freak"

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1) "Modern Ties" - Love Boat

2) "Puppet on a String" - Night Beats

3) "Teenage Girls" - Bad Sports

4) "Sleep Talk" - Shannon and the Clams

5) "Gold Sneakers" - Wax Idols

6) "Racehorse" - Wild Flag

7) "Detroit Music" - Chain and the Gang

8) "Telepathic Boys" - Alligator Indian

9) "Cheap Perfume" - Bare Wires

10) "He Gets Me High" - Dum Dum Girls

I'll be on the air and the web playing loads of punk and garage tunes from 1:00-3:00PM EST on Saturday December 31.  You can listen on 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu

sean, i need PORK #12345 in mexico city!!!

you might want to check out the circles, great band from the midlands, part of the music scene around 79/83 in the midlands where i grew up.

http://youtu.be/95MDr7NTbJc

the photo on the back of the seven inch single for angry voices features a picture of the band and the crowd taken at the legendary lafayette night club in wolverhampton, i am there in that photo.

also the chords, squire, makin time, and the scene all great mod bands from back in the day.

still a thriving mod scene here in the midlands, dc fontana, are worth checking out, j60, the coopers and a superb small faces tribute, the small fakers.