When I was in the band, we were a good live band. I don't think the recordings ever caught us as good as we were as a live band. Which is a shame, because the recordings are what live on.We had a certain chemistry. Oddly enough, I always felt Rudi was the weakest link in that chemistry. Had he let us be, to create at the best of our own ability, I think the recordings would have been far superior.  Had he let us contribute more to the songwriting, he would have had better songs.  I just hope that some people understand, despite the image of the band, we were not all egotistical 60's Garage rock Purists.

Wow must have been tough ;-)

I dont mind the 'originals' so much and they had a few good tunes, but the covers perhaps should have been left alone.

Though I cant really talk I've butchered a few classics myself!

 Lol! I said it before & I'll say it again. I never played a Vox Phantom. I hated the necks. When I was in the Fuzztones & we signed to RCA, Jordan & I Approached Rickenbacker & we signed an endorsement deal. That was the only way I was able to get Rudi to stop bugging me about playing a Phantom. To be perfectly honest, I always have favored the Fender Precision. I have two gorgeous vintage P Basses that Rudi always gave me a hard time about using in the band. One day we were soundchecking at Scream & the opening band was onstage checking the bass gear. I do not recall which band it was, but the bassist had a 70's P Bass & an SVT.  He sounded awesome. Rudi turned to me and said how come your bass doesn't sound that good?? My answer... It would if you let me play a P Bass! lol!!  To him, it's all image. BTW, he barely has any original gear left, he had to sell a lot of it off. He's playing re-issues now.
Axel Björnsson said:

fuck the fuzztones.. oooooo we only use vox we're so 66' fuck off.... (Really I got 2 or 3 records with them. fuck'em)

 

 The main problem with the Fuzztones is that they never really were or are a band. Having been a part of the band that went the furthest, I can tell you that Rudi tries so hard to control everything that he kills any creativity from his band mates & they end up leaving. He's probably had like 50 people in the band by now & he thinks by dressing them up in the same clothes that no one will notice.  Because our line-up resided in Los Angeles during the 80's & 90's when all of those Hair Bands were happening, a lot of people assumed we must be Metal heads. This is a phallacy. Jordan (the guitar player) was a founding member of the Outta Place. I came originally out of the NYC CBGB's/Max's Kansas City scene as the bassist for The Speedies, Mad Mike was from the Stratford Survivors & The Tones were Jason's first band.

Mr Tea said:

got to agree with teen fink, the fuzztones ruined pretty much every song they covered, turning great punk classics into boring-goth-rock plodders! Its like they really didnt get it! Should've been a heavy metal band probably.

 

....then theres van halens version of 'you really got me' that one really gets me! (maybe van halen and the fuzztones are the same band hmmmm)

I agree, and I was in the band! lol!!  I so tried to get Rudi to do originals. The problem is, his songwriting is not too good either.  You'll notice when listening to his originals, that they all have pieces nicked from other songs so they may as well be covers...

• Bad News Travels Fast:  Chord progression lifted from Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath", Played faster
• Nine Months Later- Intro lifted from the Markette's "Out Of Limits"/ Chrous lifted from the Mc Coy's "Hang On Sloopy"
• In Heat: Main Riff  (  & concept Heat/Fire)lifted from Jimi Hendrix "Fire', Riff is inverted
• She's Wicked:  Partial lyrics lifted from Howlin Wolf ( "asked My Baby for water & she gave me gasoline)

TeenFink said:

one cover band really grates on my nerves, and i realize they probably have a lot of fans here, but who cares? i'm talking about the FUZZTONES. i can stomach maybe Bad News Travels Fast (their best moment), but the covers they recorded are pretty consistently lame.

now, the DIRTBOMBS, on the other hand, know how to cover songs and do it well. see Ultraglide in Black and If You Don't Already Have a Look as perfect examples. some outstanding covers there.

fuck the fuzztones.. oooooo we only use vox we're so 66' fuck off.... (Really I got 2 or 3 records with them. fuck'em)

First of all Zakk Wylde Fuck the fuck off. ( Think of all the great Sabbath songs he have fucking killed) I got throwed out of a heavymetal store couple weeks ago when I started to talk bad about Zakk when someone told me I looked like him but that's another story.

Slash--ok he was in Gun's N.... No I have never been a Gun's fan. Everybody wanted me to dig it( including my mom) Fuck off.

don't need to find another. this guys are the worst sort of filth

got to agree with teen fink, the fuzztones ruined pretty much every song they covered, turning great punk classics into boring-goth-rock plodders! Its like they really didnt get it! Should've been a heavy metal band probably.

....then theres van halens version of 'you really got me' that one really gets me! (maybe van halen and the fuzztones are the same band hmmmm)

Who wants this show back? Mike stopped doing it when the show got the axe from Real Punk Radio earlier this year. I, for one, would love to see Mike continue on with what he was doing and just make it a podcast. Who's with me in trying to lure Mike back???

Going to be a BLAST!!

BUDGET ROCK 10 "The Final Insult"
tickets on sale NOW!
Complete details:

October 20 - 23
... San Francisco, CA
@ Thee Parkside + Bottom Of The Hill

Weekend passes + individual tickets to Bottom Of The Hill Shows available here: http://www.bottomofthehill.com/calendar.html

Individual tickets to Thee Parkside shows available here: http://www.theeparkside.com/

KICK-OFF SHOW: Thursday October 20 @ Thee Parkside
9pm, $10
Hank IV
http://www.hankiv.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JztLzQqzp3Y
Dead Farmers (Australia)
http://www.myspace.com/deadfarmers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeMgrEhCvBk
Outdoorsmen
http://www.myspace.com/theoutdoorsmenmusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUANv4MA4ek
Swiftumz
http://twitter.com/swiftumz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFqXwB14mIM
Lenz
http://www.facebook.com/LENZsound
+ MCs Vinnie Martini & Brace Belden
+ DJs Ryan Wells and Scott Soriano

NIGHT 1: Friday October 21 @ Bottom of the Hill
7:30pm, $20
The Rip Offs
(1st SF show in 16 years)
http://www.myspace.com/therealripoffs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=691ufUvv2Ts
Nobunny’s Budget Rock Hits of the 90s
http://www.facebook.com/pages/NOBUNNY/67340059424
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CuYgTFncM
The Statics
(original line-up of Zack, Diane and Zippy)
http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/bands/s/statics.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7u1J6BHCxM
Personal and the Pizzas
http://www.facebook.com/personalandthepizzas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXcApEa6h8
The Shrouds
http://www.myspace.com/theeshrouds
+ MC Nobunny
http://www.facebook.com/pages/NOBUNNY/67340059424
+ DJ Carolyn Keddy
http://carolynkeddy.com/

DAY 2: Saturday, October 22 Day Show @ Thee Parkside
2pm, $5
The Rantouls
www.myspace.com/therantouls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXaRwFrJcc
The Lone Surfer and His Highlander 2s
(Mash-up set featuring two of Mike Lucas' most painful shtick bands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMdoOVXSgw
The Tee N Dee Explosion
(Tina and Dannielle of TRASHWOMEN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjk1Y_j8QE
The Teutonics
http://www.myspace.com/theteutonics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kKACDmfn1k
Thee Tee Pees (Featuring members of The Jinxes)
The Hondettes
http://www.myspace.com/555529333
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIJPVoWi_k
The S’Lobsters
http://www.facebook.com/theeslobsters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJLlQw_PO10
+ MC The Lone Surfer
+ Bargain Rock DJs (Sharky, Sectmaniac, Ben & mo')
+ Hot Dog Eating Contest

NIGHT 2: Saturday October 22 @ Bottom of the Hill
7:30pm, $15 door
Lyres
(1st SF show in 10 years)
http://www.myspace.com/lyresofficial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppygBFszNE
Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers
http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=roy_loney_and_the_phantom_movers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl_lmYgsaWg
Subsonics
(1st SF show in approx 10 years)
http://www.slovenly.com/subsonics.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-MTDNIs-VE
The Dukes of Hamburg
http://www.gearheadrecords.com/site/bands/dukes.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8TyLj7jHPA
SLA
http://www.dollarrecord.com/html/bands/sla.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikgKZjvidk
+ MC John O’Neill
+ Hitforce DJs

DAY 3: Sunday October 23 @ Thee Parkside
Record Swap @ 1pm, bands @ 3pm
$10 door...show/party goes all night!
The Phantom Surfers
(1st SF show in 5+ years?)
http://www.phantomsurfers.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MxBxdzD-I
Legendary Stardust Cowboy
http://www.stardustcowboy.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F152Gv0haE8
The LaTeenos
http://www.myspace.com/thelateenos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBP9U1uAMxc
Harold Ray's Budget Rock Revue
(featuring a revolving cast of singers/players doing a special set)
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=haroldrayliveinconcert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDyojF-GLE
Midnite Snaxxx
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midnite-Snaxxx/105627569476640
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsq4IsGAnq4
Okmoniks
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Okmoniks/246566496734
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Behz76orUns
The Mothballs
(1st show in 5 years? Something like that.)
http://www.myspace.com/themothballs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzSrICeaQc
Special Ed
(members of TRASHWOMEN, BANANAS, LENGUAS LARGAS and SWIFTUMZ)
The Red Barons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCwWDJ_yQw
City Deluxe
(members of TOUCH-ME-NOTS, EAST BAY GREASE, etc)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/City-Deluxe/126438777451612
+ MC Drunk Magic by the Great Salmagundi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icki/5122004987/
+ DJs Chris O + Mitch C
+ Record/Junk Swap, with Oldies DJ Paul K.

The GGG are my cuppa a tea 2:):)

Zane Arillotta said:

Hey K K! I'll get back to you with more over the weekend as I'm short on time right now but the Gore Gore Girls...that's a name I haven't heard for a while....and I'm too tired/lazy to find out how I know it but...they weren't on Get Hip were they or associated with Gregg Kostelach of the Cynics or even the Fuzztones?? I'm pretty sure I've probably seen them! But as I started seeing live bands when I was 11 years old and I'm 53 now all these bands kind of all blur together after a while......

I saw The Jim Jones Revue, Thursday night @ The Echo (LA) & I saw Agent Orange Saturday Night @ The Galaxy Theatre in OC.

Awesome bands :)

This looks amazing!!! The late 70's Boston scene was always one of my faves as a lot of the bands took the best from the 60's punk era and melded it with the 70's punk energy....hence creating garagepunk!!!

Thanx to Monoman and DMZ, The Real Kids, Classic Ruins, Mighty Ions, Sass, Third Rail,Thundertrain and sooooo many more cool Boston combos!!

This is gonna be KILLER!!!

YES!!!

This looks similar in theme to the "Bflo Pnk 1.0" I've been trying to find this summer. I look forward to seeing this as well. Let's hope these are just the beginning...

Nothing beats the Manili Vanilli swindle where, in that case, there was NO real band at all :):):):)!!!!!

In some strange way this one is although less truthful (and probably because of being so) more faithful to punk spirit than The Filth & The Fury. It´s not an account of the facts, it´s a portrait of the attitude.

Total farce but a brilliant movie.  I don’t think we were ever supposed to believe Malcolm was truthful.   

The main redeeming thing about the movie was the Sid Vicious "My Way" segment. And "Good Ship Venus." Both these are at the end.

The s/s Gibson EBO is '64 and the l/s EB3 copy is '68

The Selmer TrebleNBass with bluefront cab is 50W and supposedly '66

The Vox Super Foundation is 100W and from '69, I believe. It features the 'Tone X' fuzz option

These have been stored away for 10+ years now, so if anyone wants to buy them, send me a PM :D :D :D 

Mel,

   I use one of the Boss/Fender FRV-1 pedals as well and can not recommend them more. They aren't 100% accurate to the old 63 outboard units but are damn close and substantially cheaper. Even more, they are a lot less fragile.

Mel Bergman said:

All,

Having tried many reverbs through the years, I think the new Boss/Fender pedal is the best at recreating an old outboard Fender. And as a bonus, it runs on a 9v battery, which is great for traveling overseas. Danelectro- JUnk. Holy grail, okay, but not lacks that certain something. I remember building a small box with the guts of a 64 reverb and a tiny accutronix pan, just to get something I could take on a Plane. Imagine trying that now, post 9/11.

Mel
Phantom Surfers


Mel
Phantom Surfers

re Europe, we've used vinylfactory for our first two releases. 

a top quality final product; not the cheapest in the UK but would rather push out something which people will want to keep. 

high predigree - it's the old EMI factory at Hayes.

Gerne geschehen ;)

Can't talk for my band, as this is our band's profile, but me, being German, my fave NDW band is without a doubt...

Extrabreit!

Their debut album is great from start to finish!