Hollow body's are great with distortion, but you have to manage the feedback. the easiest way is to buy synthetic (no Moisture) foam squares from the make up aisle. It must be synthetic, cotton holds moisture and will mess with the guitar. Stuff the squares into the f-holes carefully till the guitar is half full, several bags. What this does is cut down on the sound waves bouncing around inside the guitar but still maintaining the killer vintage tone. We have an early 70's era Silvertone hollow body and this worked great. Some vintage guitars have microphonic pickups (they work like a mike) which cause feed back. A good guitar repair guy will know how to dip them in wax to stop this.

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'Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets', ripping comp!

I just finally started listening to it but Songs the Hideout taught us is pretty awesome!! Kicks off with the legendary Cynics. One of my favorite garage singers Greg from The Fiends once tole me their "Blue Train Station" record was one the the ultimate garage records of all time.

almost all the good ones are already listed...

The Fort Worth Teen Scene(s)!

Garage Punk Unknowns

Northwest Battle Of The Bands!

...

Just been listening to Teenage Treats volume 4, comp of late 70's/early 80's rare punk singles, gonna look for the other volumes now.

I would say that this stuff you're calling "later" is actually early. Those guys have been making albums for a long time! OK, so I guess it's 'later early.' Maybe you could say those albums were the 'Golden Age.' Their last album, A Bigger Bang, is really good, much better that what they did since the good ol' days.

I had Keith's autobiography in my hands on Friday but bought a book on the making of Night of the Living Dead instead (which I love by the way).  I do want to go back and pick up the autobio because I am sure if would spark a stones fest for me.  I love Exile, and Tumbling Dice is probably my Stones anthem.  And I still love Tatoo You.  I would say I grew up with later Stones and maybe I burned myself out on it just a little bit.  So if I catch a stones tune on the radio I am more apt to flip off newer stones but rarely leave older stones behind, except blues standards like Route 66 which bore me.  Wow, MikeL, I realize you have my head spinning with indecision.  Theres no doubt - its is all so frickin good. 

i was very disappointed in "Exile" - maybe because by the time i finally got to hear it i had been bombarded with just what a masterpiece it was!  it wasn't - at least not to me. much prefer sticky fingers... but hell i like the stones even in the 80s... that early 70s seems to resonate most with me but then again...

the early covers are the shit.  but thats also in the context of what they would go on to do later.  beggars banquet was the first album to hook me.  let it bleed is the masterpiece. 

Most definitely! I think that format needs to truly come back. At least in our corner of the music world it sort of has.

Catfish Jones said:

Exactly. The album rock era really reigned in an age of rock and roll bloat, I.E. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blah Blah Blah. It seems like once bands could slap together a full length they didn't have to do shit again for a while; where in the singles days they were constantly working in order to not be entirely forgotten. Which I happen to appreciate. 

Old School Hero said:

That's why 45rpms were a staple in the 50's up until the mid 60's I think. When the late 60's came songs got longer and there was really no better way to do it than to go with full albums.

Catfish Jones said:

Singles were the bread and butter for those 60's bands, so when they'd throw an album together a shit load of the stuff WAS actually filler. I think the earlier singles are my favorites, but of course the full lengths hit their peak in the early/mid 70's.

Yeah, most "Northern Soul" is mediocre, IMHO.

Check out this snoozer:

Not sure if it's the same band you're talking about, though...

I contribute over at drumforum.org frequently.  One of the guys on there posted this recently:

"Back in high school 1967 - 1968 I cut a record. Many teenage bands made records that go nowhere and they forgot about them. Just for the hell of it I looked up the record on Google: Hurry On Back To Me / Up On the Roof by the Casino Royales. I discovered it is being sold (and has been played in clubs) in the UK and Germany, for up to $175.00 US dollars for a mint copy. This is pretty cool but I guess there are no royalties after 40+ years. I think it's a mediocre record at best but maybe in Europe it's considered a classic of Northern Soul. Pretty funny for a group of teenage white guys. We never played the Apollo that's for sure."

Anyone ever heard of them? 

Reverbnation has a digital media app, that sends the songs to I tunes, napster, amazon, last FM plus a bunch more. You have to sign up on an annual basis i thinks its about $150. But you get paid every time someone streams a song. for the price they have web hosting, electronic press kits, lots of widgets. Its worth giving it a look.

I'm the drummer for a 60's fuzz garage band called 45 Spider from Cleveland, OH.  2 girls (vox & me, on drums) and 2 guys (bass & guitar).  Looking to possibly add organ as well! Recordings are rough basement versions......in final phases of our 1st album.  Check us out http://www.myspace.com/45spider. 

dead moon were a grunge band from portland.  you can find their 7" in jukeboxes there.

Hi,

  It comes down how was it recorded with the  Beatles and or early  Rolling Stones LP they were all record in mono  so that the way I like listen and on vinyl but I hate the Beatles, but early Stones mono LP's kick ass.The mono recording that were change to stereo just don't sound right good mono recording sounded great!

The guitar & bass player in my band play Eastwood.  Both of them have upgraded electronics,bridge etc......Overall I know they both love the versions they have.  Guitar has the Map, & The the 59 custom 3P, Bass has The Airline. 

I think ya outta try & find a new drummer.  Us drummers are too imprtant to go without:)

I have heard many young people thnk the only danceable music is crappy "disco music" (crappy, esp the late 70s disco duck, YMCA-oriented wimpy stuff........as if dancing started oin the late 70s and early 80s, hahahahhahahahahhahahah...what creeps:):)!!!! What does the word "disco music" even mean??! Beats me :):)!!!! Young people have been dancing since the dawn of ages....."discos" or discoteques were created in the late 50s and the chix and teens really went wild unlike the plastic, sterile dancing to the Lady Gagas of today :):):)!!!

GOOO..GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GO GO CHIX ;););)

Excellent band! My band opened for them at The Beachland Tavern in Cleveland.  During their set our bass player & guitar player played on stage with the band, while the members went into the audience for "Audience Participation".  One of our most memorable gigs! Great guys! Great music!

The Korg PS 60 has lots of vintage keyboard sounds and is half the price of a Nord.

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On the organ tab, it has lots of hammond settings, a "vox classic" setting and "60's registars" which sounds like Johnny and the Hurricanes. You can add vibrato to any setting and change rotary speeds. There are 52 organ presets available, so there's a good bit of variety.

The Electric Piano has a "Old E. Piano" setting that nails the dark Wurlitzer tone. 

In the string section, there are some decent mellotron like settings.

Plus you can layer and split the settings. I use some left hand piano/right hand organ on a few songs. Most Nord models cannot have piano and organ at the same time.