The Easybeats - Sorry

'Youngblood' by THEE HEADCOATS...
'Midnite Till Noon' THE DIRTYS...
'How Do You Know' LYRES...
'This Is Rock 'n' Roll' THE KIDS...
'Zombies' KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW...

I use the term "garage rock" because that's what I am interested in, I like melody in my music. Most punk bands tend to scream the lyrics and don't work very hard on the melody. It's just a style thing for me, I'm trying to limit the answers to that style. I'm sorry you despise the term, but garage is the first word in the name of your website. My band was thinking about learning a cover to open a show with, I just wanted to get some ideas for songs that I may have never thought about before. Hideout Admin said:

"Garage rock" song? I'm starting to really despise that term. It's just way too contrived and too limiting. After all, any band can take any song (any genre) and cover it, and turn it into something that's completely unique and their own, and open a set with that. Why does it have to be a "garage rock" song?

Feel Free - Cheater Slicks

Make You Mine - Shadows Of Knight

A cool medley that we always opened a show with was "Shes' Not There" (The Zoombies) transitioning into "Black Magic Woman" (Santana). it is up tempo and has alot of energy.

Dick Lee
The Brymers

ahhh...Northern Sky...wait, wait,....I, Spoiler.

"Garage rock" song? I'm starting to really despise that term. It's just way too contrived and too limiting. After all, any band can take any song (any genre) and cover it, and turn it into something that's completely unique and their own, and open a set with that. Why does it have to be a "garage rock" song?

my old band used to open with Pipeline.. great song to start with - but all downhill after that!!

The one I would END the set with, would be a ten minute jam medley of Louie Louie/Wild Thing. They just blend together perfectly, as they do have the same chord proggresion. Just imporvise and jam that thing like, pardon my french, a crazed motherfucker.

Even if your not in a band, I'm curious to know what you think would be the best garage rock song to open a show with. It can be from any era, just pick one that will really set the mood for a rocking show. I'm hoping to find some songs I haven't heard yet. My pick is, DEVIL DOGS - BIG FUCKING PARTY!

Eric davidson of the new bomb turks has some good ones.

Back From The Grave Vol. 2: NOVAS - The Crusher
...now close this one, hehe

The Flight Reaction
Thee Wylde Oscars
The Booze
The Frowning Clouds
The Moving Sounds
The Staggers

Rock 'N Roll Adventure Kids
The White Wires
The Rats
The Spits
DC Snipers
Strange Boys
The Pneumonias
The Wild Zeros
Thee Vicars
The Brimstones
The Guilty Pleasures
CoCoComa
Luis & The Wildfires
Johnny Throttle
Reigning Sound
Hot Machines
The Okmoniks
Hex Dispensers
Ghetto Ways
Atomic Suplex
still pretty cool...
The Black Lips
Demon's Claws
Heavy Trash
Golden Boys
Dixie Buzzards
The King Khan & BBQ Show

jack of heart
J.C satan
yussuf jerusalem
movie star junkies
ty segall

Been a few months or so since I bought any new stuff so I got a long list of records I need to buy, but I think Tyvek's Nothing Fits has just made its way to the top of that list. If anyone's heard this and says it sucks, I just won't believe you. Album of the year, gotta be. I won't be proven wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mon_oE1Htzw

Cheater Slicks been mentioned? I love that story in We Never Learn about everyone leaving the room as soon as they started playing. I think I'd love any band that had could do that.

The White Stripes

What would Billy Childish do?

He'd grow a moustache. An outstanding, lo-fi moustache.

This is a tough nut to crack, to be sure. No matter how you record it, if it sux it doesn't matter how many mics or inputs you use. Some bands sound great with minimalist techniques, others REALLY need the "studio magic" to sound anything but bad.

I think it was the Who with Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere as it wasn't just the feedback but the way Pete Townshend was flicking the switch on the head of his guitar and cutting out the sound. But i don't think it was the pressing plant so much as it was Brunswick the label that had concerns.

This is sort of on topic but not really since this is referring to a live show vs. recording. I went to a local bar for a show that doesn’t normally have punk/thrash/metal bands like those playing that night. It has more of a redneck/Hoosier type of crowd. The first band started their sound check. When they were warming up, were getting a lot of nasty, noisy distortion and feedback. There was a group of regulars at the bar making more and more pissed off comments: “God, make it stop! i’mlosingmymind, sweartogod I’m gonnaRIOT! Dude, STOP IT!!! A guitar is NOT supposed to SOUND like that!”
Countless bands were slagged off when they were first around because they “couldn’t play” and were “unlistenable noise” and years later are considered classic from fans and critics alike. I don’t mean just recently either. Sex Pistols, Ramones, Beatles, Elvis were all looked at as trash from serious music critics/fans and just normal people.
“The future of rock and roll...Bruce Springsteen...HE'S FUCKING IT ALL UP!”
Quick, name the actor that delivered that line and the movie!
Which band was it that recorded a song that had feedback or distortion or something on it and the pressing plant sent it back thinking that it was a mistake and no one in their right mind would do that on purpose? Was it The Yardbirds, The Who, The Beatles, Link Wray, all of them? I can’t remember.

There actually is a book of Fuzztones sheet music published by Cherry Lane, for the In Heat record, though it's for guitar.
Funny thing is I played on that LP & none of us could read music.

Just listen to records & play along. learn where the notes are on your bass, train your ear to recognize them and play along. If you have any natural talent it should come easy.

hahahahaha good stuff