Sean , You're right about the others , and I think you're right about Panther Burns.

You reminded me , The Nomads also did Jungle Fever. Crazy Cavan's "Tongue - Tied Jill" is pretty killer....Funny , I was just talking to someone about them , last night. You have to remember , when Crazy Cavan's name is mentioned in the states , a pin drops.

IDON MINE said:

I'm a bit late with thanks, but both Panther Burns and Guana Batz sound like perfect matches. that Crazy Cavan version also sounds cool! It's been a while since I listened to that band - so thanks for that ;)

Sean Law said:

I seem to recall Panther Burns covering 'Jungle Fever'. (I think ?)
The Guana Batz covered Orbison's 'You're My Baby' on their first LP ('Held Down To Vinyl.. At Last', ID Records 1985).
The Cramps covered 'Problem Child', though it never went beyond the demo stage. It's available on various bootlegs.
Crazy Cavan 'n' The Rhythm Rockers covered 'Tongue-Tied Jill'.
All the above mentioned are from the Neo-Rockabilly side of things, no surprise there.

Axel , I wanted to hear them do the growl in Finnish ! Oh , yeah. It's the same in any language. Carry on.

The Raw Cuts said:

some awesome Orbison cover from Finland...

IDON MINE , You have to understand (Well , know , you don't HAVE to , ha ha...) , my idea of "Current" means , in the last 30 years or so....I told someone today , I only see a few current movies a year , mainly cos so few of them look like they're worth it !

But , The Cramps were heavily influenced by Charlie Feathers , arguably moreso than Orbison.

They covered "I Can't Hardly Stand It" , "It's Just That Song" , and their version of "Tear It Up" was based of Feathers' arrangement , so that's sort of a Feathers cover....They probably did some others that were never released , or that they only did once or twice , live.

Hmmm...who else , The Stray Cats (No , I don't like 'em no more.) did "One Hand Loose".

Bloodshot Bill did some of Charlie Feathers' songs. I forget , now , because practiaclly all his stuff sounds like Charlie Feathers. I think '68 Comeback did "Uh - Huh Honey" and maybe "Tongue - Tied Jill" , but , I'd have to double check...

The Gibson Bros. did "Chicken Hearted" , Creedence Clearwater Revival did "Ooby Dooby" , The Blasters did "Go! Go! Go!" , Rev. Horton Heat and Los Straitjackets did "Move on Down The Line " (Jerry Lee's version of the same song.)......There are others , I'm justdrawing a blank. I'll think about it , though.

I agree. Of course , "Loretta" is an early Punk Rock classic. I'm told their second album is'nt bad. Their first , with Andy Paley ( Then still remebered as one half of the Pop - Rock pretty boys , The Paley Bros. , though he went on to produce what is probably Jerry Lee Lewis' best all - around album , "Young Blood" in 1996.), is ....OK.    THERE MUST BE ENOUGH UNRELEASED EARLY MATERIAL FOR A CD COMPILATION !!! The reformed Nervous Eaters played here , recently , but , I was'nt going to stand for 8 hours waiting for them to come on. There's some great footage on You Tube .

Miguel Virkkunen Carvalho said:

"Just Head" by Nervous Eaters is in my opinion one of the greastest songs done in the era of the 70s raw punk/rock n roll. In fact both of the songs on this 7" are a good example of it. Even though they released later on some material not as striking as this, i tought it should be mentioned here ;)

 Phillip , Yeah , I sort of happened by The Feederz later in life , tho' I knew who they were.

 I was'nt really crazy about a lot of Jello Biafra's "Discoveries"  (The Butthole Surfers being an exception , though the first time I saw 'em , they were pretty bad.  Paul Leary even volunteered that much , when I spoke with him , later.) . But I talked to a friend who happend to be Frank Discussion's ex - Roommate , and it kind of piqued my interest ....I bought the CD (Could have had the LP about 20 years ago for $5. Big mistake.) This was not a Hardcore band , nor a "Hi , we play our instruments with our ass and feet , and sing like a colonoscopy , minus anaesthesia !"  group. But , it IS plenty twisted.

"Gacy's Place" by The Mentally Ill was also on a UK bootleg comp called "Death Dealers" with Johnny Legend , The Bugs , Eddie Noack , Red River Dave , and The Uncalled 4 (Donna Reeves , R.I.P.). Plus recorded testimonies by Dahmer , Manson , Lucas and other celebrated sick fucks (Plus , a cover painting , by Gacy , of Elvis. I guess no pictures of him with The Kinks could be procured.).

The Mentally Ill staged an extremely low key comeback ,by appearing on "Chic - A - Go-Go"  (Chicago Public Access. It's probably up on You Boob.) . They were in the process of recording a new CD , with Steve Albini. The CD , "Spank The Bottom Red" , never officially came out (Which is a shame , as they basically picked up where they left off.) , though copies (With a 3-D cover) have turned up , in small numbers , around Chicagoland ....

When Joe Losurdo's Chicago Punk documentary "You Were'nt There" had it's debut at The Portage Theatre , The reformed (As opposed to Orthodox) Mentally Ill played their first gig , EVER (Depending on who's telling the story , the band did a couple of , or no , gigs , around the Late 70's - Early 80's.)at the after party . Lead singer , Larry/Sado Marquis , turned up at the screening  , with his wife and kids , in a Limo. The band has done a total of three shows , to my knowledge. I saw two of them , they were great !

Phillip Jaggar said:

The Feederz kill. I just got the "Ever Feel like killing you boss?" LP and I can't put it down. Super snotty and offensive. 

 

The Mentally Ill are amazing too. Gacy's place is on KBD 2 and Alt Tentacles put out a collection of their songs in 04'. It's great all around cept for the reworked vocals they put on a few songs. wicked fuzz and SUPER offensive.

 

Angry Samoans- nuff said.

 

"Just Head" by Nervous Eaters is in my opinion one of the greastest songs done in the era of the 70s raw punk/rock n roll. In fact both of the songs on this 7" are a good example of it. Even though they released later on some material not as striking as this, i tought it should be mentioned here ;)

The Feederz kill. I just got the "Ever Feel like killing you boss?" LP and I can't put it down. Super snotty and offensive. 

The Mentally Ill are amazing too. Gacy's place is on KBD 2 and Alt Tentacles put out a collection of their songs in 04'. It's great all around cept for the reworked vocals they put on a few songs. wicked fuzz and SUPER offensive.

Angry Samoans- nuff said.

Wow. That was Johnny's thing , then,being the "Folk Singer", and having someone in the audience loan him their hat , and somebody giving him a joint. Snorting disco drugs on stage ? Wow! How Devil May Care. Rickey Rat ? You mean , from the Trash Brats? I have a very funny tape of Johnny from '89 in Detroit. The comedy is better than the music !

"This is Sally . Sally Butthole . She's one of The Butthole Surfers."    "Le'me tell yuh bowt thuh first time ah got FUCKED. AH WUZ WITH THIS BLEACHED BLONDE AFTUH UH VAGRANTS CAHHNCERT.".        "Ah went tuh  the John Mayall University oh British Blooze Guitah -rists...Eric Clapton , Peter Green , Mick Taylor..."

Brian T. Kirchner said:

Yeah, I should have mentioned that Teenage Head were backing up Thunders. At the conclusion of the Viletones set Steve announced that he was going to smash a Gibson Les Paul onstage.He destroyed the guitar but it wasn't a Gibson--just a cheap knock-off. The Thunders set was amazing. Johnny had joints in his mouth through the whole set and would occasionally crouch down to do lines of coke off his amp. The next night we got to see The Forgotten Rebels at Larry's Hideaway. It was my first trip to Toronto, accompanied by Ricky Rat & his girlfriend. It was a weekend that I'll never forget.

Melbourne band The Sick Things fit the bill 

By the way Chris Bailey drunk on cheap port is a very scary sight

Playlist for 10/21/11

New 7”’s this week from the likes of Wheels on Fire (Milk n’ Herpes), Organs (Chickpea), the Super Vacations (Sweaters & Pearls), the latest album from the Monsters and a Chuck Berry 85th birthday salute!

Download or stream the entire Oct. 21 show right here.

The Witch – Stud Cole
Found Dead – Radio Birdman
Burn in Hell – Rocket Science
I’ve Got the Devil Inside – Delaney Davidson
Demonic Possession – Drive By Truckers

When I’m a Grownup – The Monsters
Mexican Leather – Bantam Rooster
All the Way to Denver – The Candy Snatchers
Get Up & Move – The Live Ones
Whizz Kid – The Hickoids

Green Fuz – Thee Gravemen
Extrano – The Moonstones
I’m Cramped – Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds
For the Love of Ivy – Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds
Primitiv – Southern Culture on the Skids
Back Beat No. 1 – The Fleshtones

Local Lunchbox
Too Late – Beach Patrol
Maybe I’m Wrong – Bleed
Pushin’ My Luck – The Hussy
Girls Like U – Boris the Sprinkler

T.V. Screen – Thee Spivs
Boss Hoss – Los Explosivos
Bourbon Hop– Bee Dee Kay & the Roller Coaster
Black Hearse Cadillac – The Staggers
Jaguar & Thunderbird – Thee Headcoats

Thirty Days – Chuck Berry
Hey Pedro – Chuck Berry
13 Question Method – Chuck Berry
Go Bobby Soxer Go – Chuck Berry
Nadine – Chuck Berry
I Got To Find My Baby – Chuck Berry
Sweet Little Sixteen – Chuck Berry
Oh Yeah – Chuck Berry
Promised Land – Chuck Berry

Dead of Night – Wheels on Fire

LGBT Film Festival interview

Thirteen Women – The Renegades
Outta My Hands – People’s Temple
Shot Down – Apache Dropout
Hexing – Super Vacations
Rocket Science – Organs

Hermitage – Waxing Poetics
Gorilla – Fat History Month
Ontario – Steve Adamyk Band
We Got the Beat – Eddy Current Suppression Ring
He’s Sweet I Know – Yvonne & Yvette

King Krusher – King Krusher & the Turkeynecks
Jokes – Trent Fox & the Tenants 
Joanie – Personal & The Pizzas
Never Had a Chance – Duchess & the Duke
You Belong to Me – Paul Collins Beat
Surrender Road – Wheels on Fire

My favorite grunge band is, without any doubt, Mudhoney.

For the underrated/obscure I'd say Die Kreuzen, a grunge band before the grunge era...

swt said:

 

Angel Baby is missing in action.

Angel Baby is still in action at:

http://lostinparadise.podomatic.com/

Just maybe not very active on this forum anymore. I'm reasonably sure she mentioned there will be a Halloween episode. 

Hi!

The Halloween episode of Murder City Nights is hot off the press:

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/murder-city-nights-11

Cheers,

Divaluxe

Yeah, kind a is trendy with the hipster crowd, but speaking from experience, in Minneapolis when bands like Black Lips or King Khan and BBQ come through town 500 people show up, but when bands like Bare Wires or Personal and the Pizzas come through there's only like 50 people that show up, the same 50 peoples that were around when the Fevers were playing, so....Fuck the hipsters, garage will never really be "cool" and that is fine with me. None of those assholes jocking black lips have no idea who the Spaceshits or Billy Childish were! Stupids.

thanks lad!

I've seen Niagara's work on her website and it's really horrorshow. Very Cartoonish, but in a noirish manner. She should do a cartoon strip.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Nightmare...the song that started this discussion is pretty great.

Ben Simon said:

What would you say are his best songs other than "Fire?"

I would say , "The Great Spontaneous Apple Creation" , "Spirit of Joy" (Kingdom Come), and Arthur also did a great version of "The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)on the Peter Green tribute (2) CD, "Rattlesnake Shake". But , it's hard for me to narrow it down to one song , because most of his albums are built around a central theme , and go from one point to another , almost seamlessly. The unreleased second Crazy World album , "Strange Worlds", recorded in '68 or '69 , finally saw the light of day on Reckless Records (UK) in 1988  , if I'm not mistaken...I have'nt listened to it in a long time , but I remember it being scarier and more Psychedelic than the first.

Brown also had a great song on the late Rob Calvert(From Hawkwind)'s "Concept" album "Captain Lockheed" which is a fine Psych/Space Rock effort all around , with pretty much all of Hawkwind (Including Lemmy !) and several of The Pink Fairies.

Destroy All Monsters covered "The Right Stuff" from this LP.

Hey folks,

I just posted a special Halloween episode of Murder City Nights. Enjoy!

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profiles/blogs/murder-city-nights-11

MURDER CITY NIGHTS EPISODE 11

Set List: 

• Werewolves on Wheels - The Born Losers
• See You In The Boneyard - The Flesh Eaters
• Psychosis Safari - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
• Gothic Party Time - Action Pact
• Astro Zombies - The Misfits
• The House on the Hill - The Mummies
• Richard Hung Himself - D.I.
• Spiritual Cramp - Christian Death
• Dark Entries - Bauhaus
• Thrill Kill - The Damned
• Werewolves of London - Paul Roland
• Somebody Super Like You (Beef Construction Song) - The Undead
• A Fistful of Terror - The Bomboras
• Piss On Them Lightly - The Phantom Limbs
• Black Cross - 45 Grave
• Suicide Drive - The Deep Eynde
• Haulin' Hearse - The Ghastly Ones
• Volts - Inca Babies
• Beasts - Sex Gang Children
• Carcass - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Spooky - Lydia Lunch

Whoa, those are cool.

This Cornfed dame is for you Lux!!!

Happy Birthday, stay sick.

I haven't seen these mentioned and I don't know if these are too obvious, but I'd recommend the following:

Omar Khorshid


The Orient Express


The Devil's Anvil



John Berberian

CHECK OUT THE PILLBUGS:):):)

I saw Digger and the Pussycats last night.

Is there a better 2 piece?

One hour+ of stripped down,tight garage punk. Great banter between songs and real high energy levels, even playing to 70 people in an empty venue.

Great to see the look one the face of some unsuspecting punters when they played "Drive Like a Cunt".

The Higher State (playing with the Fuzztones this Friday at the Dome) and the Black Lips. Check em out now!