Love the first Jabbers album. GG Plays drums a lot of those tracks. He was a great drummer and a cool punk singer in the beginning.
He was nuts, but of course he was a legend. We wouldn't be discussing otherwise if he wasn't

ON THE LEVEL FULL ALBUM : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOXYR78pgU

No prob!
Yeah it's great stuff.

For one album, I would recommend "On the Level". There's songs on that one that border both Roy Loney era grooves as well as the Chris Wilson Power Pop era too. "Over and Done" and "Most of the Time" are both Power Pop songs to these ears.
Plus, it's like a 5 dollar album at most. Totally worth it.

Their live album from 1977 is killer too. Most people would probalby recommend that for one single great Status Quo collection. I wouldn't disagree at all.

Thank you for the tip on Status Quo.....was only familiar with Pictures Of Matchstick Men....

Paper Plane blew me away!!!! Sorta power poppy but with Tons of energy!! Adding that to my want list for sure!! Shades of Bram Tchaikovsky and The Motors, both somewhat similar sounding combos with those chugging guitars and heartfelt vocals!

But the Bye Bye Johnny was the one that did it for me! Yep, definite Flamin' Grooves comparisions there ala when Chris Wilson just joined the band and they were hammering out Slow Death!!!

All I can says is Thanx!!!

NEW 'STIR THE POT' CLAIM: Supercharger "Goes Way Out" is just Status Quo songs recorded in a garbage can by 3 people who've only been playing their instruments for 2 weeks. (Not a knack by the way....Goes Way Out is one of my favourite records ever)

Yeah, I guess I'm not really thinking about how much more diverse the Flamin Groovies were. I'm thinking mainly of the one aspect of the Flamin Groovies that was heavy the Boogie Rock side of things.....I've been listening to Status Quo a lot lately and the energy and rawness of  a lot of those songs (from '72 to '76) rival the intensity of punk.

 I guess a better comparison would be to those pub rock bands like Eddie and the Hot Rods and Dr. Feelgood. THOSE bands don't even come close to matching the greatness of Status Quo in their prime, yet those bands are considered pre-cursors to punk, while Status Quo isn't.

I assume it has a lot to do with the huge amount of garbage Status Quo released immediately after "Blue For You", and their image.

I find that insane that it's easier to find Groovies records in America than Status Quo. Status Quo records here in the maritimes are in with the cheapos.

ANOTHER NOTE: I remember Johnny Rotten being asked what he thought of the Ramones, and he said "they just reminded me of Status Quo". Obviously he was just being Johnny Rotten and that's pretty far offf, but at the same time, a song like "Paper Plane" is all downstrokes and 8th note 4/4 drumming.

Wow. That's one helluva argument......It breaks down like this. I don't know where you're finding Status Quo records for a Dollar , but , will you please refer me to the ones you already have.........Being as how Status Quo is like Soccer , huge everywhere but in America , their albums do turn up , but , even less frequently than The Flamin' Groovies' first three records , barring "Sneakers", which I've seen a total of twice in my life . I DIG THE QUO , DON'T GET ME WRONG . I even saw them , live , once , on an extremely rare and brief US tour 10 or 12 years ago....I'm one of the rare few who even likes their Psych/Pop early days , but , as much as I like 'em , I find a lot of Quo's better - known 70's material just what they call it , BOOGIE , but played better than a lot of their peers ,without losing it's rough edges . They got into a more melodic Blues - Rock hybrid in the early to mid 70's. Are they more Proto - Punk than Humble Pie , Savoy Brown or Canned Heat ? I'd say so.......But , the Loney - era Groovies veered from Rockabilly  to Yardbirds speedfreak boogie to non - Suck Blues Rock (One trait I see them sharing with Status Quo.). By the time Chris Wilson had joined The Groovies , Status Quo was finding a style of their own.

I don't disagree with what you're saying , here , but , I would have to listen to each song you've posted to figure out if , for the first time ever , I could put either of these two bands up against the other.

Yeah, I'm going there!

The Status Quo albums from Pile Driver to Blue For You are killer records, and at this point can all be found in the dollar bin.

Lately the more I listen to them, I hear a lot of similarities between them and the Flamin Groovies.

Aside from obviously looking much cooler than Status Quo (possiby the worst dress rock band in history),

I never understood why a group like the Groovies are considered Punk Forerunners while Status Quo are

considered a joke.

Listen to the following songs are tell me that these don't rival anything from the classic early 70's era Groovies. This is total Proto Punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhwCqAmggnM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEXpv_RnUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzPNJwa5FRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATv0L3WRlI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7ovu-ffa8

THE TRIP! MARCH 30TH SHOW!!!

Listen to this week's show here!  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140330-0030-t1396135800.mp3

The setlist: 

joe meek and the tornadoes- jungle fever
denims- i'm your man
vectors- what in the world
the blue boys- you got what i want
tuff darts- all for the love of rock and roll
new bomb turks- sammer'd
astro sounds from beyond the year 2000- orbit fantasy
goober & the peas- cordially invited
lee hazelwood- run boy run
the red crayola- hurricane fighter plane
gibby haynes- dream machine
butthole surfers- strangers die everyday
butthole surfers- perry
lord buckley- the train
sons of champlin- black and blue rainbows
los straightjackets- twistin' gorilla
super furry animals- god! show me magic
satan and adam- i'm a girl watcher
zechs marquise- guajra
joe meek and the tornadoes- red roses and a sky of blue

Great show Dave!  Here's some Repo Man wav files! 

http://www.lukefisher.com/blame.wav

http://www.lukefisher.com/repocode.wav

http://www.lukefisher.com/tense.wav

http://www.lukefisher.com/thetrunk.wav

This week's podcast featured several tracks form the 1984 soundtrack to the film Repo Man.  There is music by Iggy Pop, Circle Jerks, The Plugz, Young Canadians, Dum Dum Girls, Ketamines, Radio Birdman, Generation X, The False Poets and more.  

The Play List:

1. The False Poets - A Girl I Know
2. Your 33 Black Angels - Patient Love
3. Dum Dum Girls - Under These Hands
4. Old And Weird - Lamps
5. Os Tartaros - Tartaria
6. The Plugz - Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)
7. The Circle Jerks - When The Shit Hits The Fan
8. The Folk - In Silence
9. The Mods - Coming In And Out Of The Rain
10. The Young Canadians - Don’t Bother Me
11. Teenage Head - Some Kinda Fun
12. BA Johnston & The Moby Dicks - McDonald's Coupon Day
13. Korean Gut - Your Misery, Our Benefit
14. Topless Mongos - Hey My My
15. The Ketamines - You Can't Serve Two Masters
16. Frustrations - Damaged Goods Make History
17. Silicone Injection - At War With Peace
18. Radio Birdman - Do The Pop
19. Generation X - 100 Punks
20. The Libertines - The Good Old Days
21. The Modern Lovers - Old World
22. The Teardrops - Teardrops And Heartaches
23. Iggy Pop - Repo Man Theme
24. The D4 - Mysterex
25. The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl

Download/listen to the podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140401-1030-t1396344600.mp3

Check out my blog post on Repo Man and the recording of Iggy Pop's Repo Man song here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/04/repo-man-soundtrack-revisited-show-502.html

This week's podcast featured a selection from the bands that Scott Asheton has been in such as The Stooges, Sonic's Rendezvous Band and Scott Morgan band also ther was music from The Spys, Thee Mighty Caesars, Dead Drugs, The Skids, The Diodes, Richard Hell and more.  

This play list:

1.  The Spys - Welcome To The Cruel World My Friend
2. The Poles - CN Tower
3. Blam Blam Blam - Battleship Grey
4. Thee Mighty Caesars - I’ve Got Everything Indeed
5. Dead Drugs - Get Weird
6. The Revelions - Sighs
7. Scott Morgan - 16 With A Bullet
8. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band - You’re So Great
9. The Stooges - TV Eye (Takes 7 & 8)
10. The New Values - Straight Line
11. Damaged Bug - Photograph
12. Papermaps - Poor City
13. Public Image Limited - Memories
14. Johnny West - You Make Me Feel Like An Impotent Squadger
15. Novels - Mr. Foster’s Teenage Daughter
16. Indian Wars - Won't Do A Thing
17. Neil Young, Bob Dylan & The Band - Looking For A Love (Live San Francisco, CA Kezar Stadium 1975)
18. The Polymorphines - Mainstreet Jimmy
19. The Stomach Mouths - Waiting
20. The Pagans - I Don’t Understand
21. The Diodes -We’re Ripped
22. The Skids - Masquerade
23. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Going Gong Gone

Listen/download the podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140325-1030-t1395739800.mp3

Blog post on Scott Asheton here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/03/the-stooges-drummer-scott-asheton-1949.html

Apparently Scott Morgan is seriously ill. 

Played the Stooges and The Sonics Rendezvous Band all day in memoriam when I saw Iggy's notice about Scott. But play the Stooges pretty everyday anyway. Just not all day.

Always liked Hoboken's finest, The Bongos ... the Db's .... Salem 66 ... Pylon .... Soft Boys .... Hoodoo Gurus .... for that matter, Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen... 

Here's the Bongos.
The Bongos - In The Congo

Voix de Garage #21 – My My Kinda Tracks III (special nothing special) (02/04/2014)

(Jingle) Know Your Product / The Saints / Eternally Yours / 1978 / Australie (Brisbane)

*Focus: Ladies and Gentlemen, Manu gives you Radio Birdman!*:

- New Race / Radio Birdman / Radio Appears / 07/1977 / Australia (Sydney)
- Murder City Nights / Radio Birdman / Radio Appears / 07/1977 / Australia (Sydney)
- What Gives / Radio Birdman / Radio Appears / 07/1977 / Australia (Sydney)

Good Golly Miss Molly / Backbeat Band / Backbeat Soundtrack / 1994 / US

*5' French talk* - today: F*** Dave Grohl

*The quiet moment*: Funnel of Love / Wanda Jackson / B-Side single « Right or Wrong » / 04/1961 / US (Oklahoma)

This Little Woman / Tripmakers / Compilation “Wipe Out! Presents 12 Raw Greeks Groups” / 1987 / Greece (Athens)

*The DOUBLE 60's Chapel*:

- A Question of Temp(er)ature / The Balloon Farm / single / 10/1967 / US (New Jersey)
- Send me a Postcard / Shocking Blue / Single / 1968 / Netherlands (Den Haag)

*Diégo tries to convince you*:Russian Roulette / The Lords of the New Church / The Lords of the New Ch / 82 / USUK

*The Norway lesson*: Death From Above / Turbonegro / Party Animals / 27/04/2005 / Norway (Oslo suburbs)

*Greasy Glitter*:What Ruthy Said / Steve Harley & Cockney Rebels / The Human Menagerie / 11/1973 / UK (London)

Dog Food / Mondo Generator / Dog Food (EP) / US (Van Nuys, CA)

*Maximum Volume*:3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds / The Lords of Altamont / Lords Take Altamont / 14/04/2014 / US (LA)

- Enjoy the show at: http://www.trensmissions.ens.fr/voix-de-garage-21/#sthash.Y62UjcaF.dpuf

Voix de Garage #20 – My My Kinda Tracks II (special ain’t heard yet) (26/03/2014)

(Jingle)  Know Your Product / The Saints / Eternally Yours / 1978 / Australie (Brisbane)

Twist 2000 / Dum Dum Boys / Electronic Pop Music Created By / 1998 / NISSA (France)

Bubblegum / Dum Dum Boys / Soul Bondage Deluxe / 2001 / NISSA (France)

She’s Sweet / Vue / Down for Whatever / 2004 / US (Cisco, California)

Zit / Happy Birthday / Happy Birthday / 2010 / US (Vermont)

*The gorgeous 60's Chapell* : Satisfaction Guaranteed / The Mourning Reign / single / 1966 / US (San José, California)

Carper Seller’s Blues / LP « No Tyme for Tears » / The Norvins / 2014 / France (Paris)

Electric / The Men / New Moon / 2013 / US (NYC)

I want you / Danko Jones / We Sweat Blood / 21/10/2003 /Canada (Toronto)

*Listen to that Greasy Glitter*: Do the Strand / Roxy Music / For your Pleasure / 23/03/1973 / UK (London)

Brazil / LP « Behind the Magnolia Curtain » / Tav Falco’s Panther Burns ‎/ 1981 / US (Memphis)

 *The quiet moment* : Psycho / Beasts of Bourbon / The Axeman’s Jazz / 07/1984 / Australia (Sydney)

The Beat Up (aka The Beatings) / Bad Feeling / Black Rays Defence / 31/01/2005 / UK (London)

 Flashing New Dance Steps / The Monkeywrench / Gabriel’s Horn / 2008 / US (Seattle)

*A teaching coming from Norway* :Rendezvous with Anus / Turbonegro / Apocalypse Dudes / 1998 / Norway (Oslo)

* To be played at maximum bearable volume* : Gotta Keep Movin’ / LP « The First and the Last » / New Race‎ / 1982 / Orstralia (Sydney)

- See more at: http://www.trensmissions.ens.fr/voix-de-garage-20/#sthash.EJaKAipr.dpuf

Just a reminder, always looking for bands for the shows. All you got to do is provide a link to a downloadable file or you can email them to me at: gershwingentile@gmail.com.

It'll be about a month before stuff is played (I do a load of show up front) but you will be informed when you are going to be played.

Cheers

I've NEVER heard that , Chris , but Tiny Tim was such a whackjob in his later years , who can say? Anyone who'd write a song called "Santa Claus Has Got THE AIDS this year" might"get it" with GG. SCREAMIN' JAY PROFESSED TO LIKING tInY tIM , TOO.....jOHN

I heard that GG Allin was a big fan of Tiny Tim, but is it true that he appeared on a GG Allin album as a narrator?

Danny ,I heard from Fred. He is expected to make a smooth recovery , but , we're looking at six months before he can get back to where he was. It would'nt surprise me at all if he makes London by next year , but , keep being patient, and think a good thought for him. There are VERY few men like Fred , and we just lost one with Gary Burger.     John.

Its a shame that this happened just as they were about to tour the UK.  I was excited to see them finally.  Heres hoping for a speedy recovery for Fred and I hope to see him back doing what he does best in London in 2015 :)

Hey sweeties and crazies,

Have you heard about these old stoooopid amateur shows of mine I'm reposting these days like groovy perverted colored Easter eggs in your face :

http://www.mixcloud.com/ThescreaminSoulPreacher/

Enjoy while you wait for the next episode of The House of Wild Delights.

Cheers !!!

Your devoted Preacher.

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
March 21, 2014

 
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that “Drive-By Buddy,” the first song on Underneath the Rainbow, the new album by The Black Lips, has a hint of country twang. After all, the Lips, garage-punks or “flower-punks” (their own label) that they are, covered Willie & Waylon’s “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” a few years ago.

No, this isn’t a country or “alt-country” album, by any means. In fact, on closer listen, the guitar riff of “Drive-By Buddy” sounds a lot like George Harrison playing “Honey Don’t” or other Carl Perkins songs in those early Beatles years. (I read another review that compared it with the guitar riff of The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville.” That works, too.)

But the Southern roots of the Georgia-based Lips are much more apparent here than on previous efforts. When they sing “we’re hanging on a broken T-Bird hood” in the refrain, it sounds like good redneck fun — probably more than it would be in real life.

You can hear these roots in the bouncy “Justice After All,” with its Neil Young guitar hook, and you can even hear it in the jittery mutated early rock ’n’ roll sound of “Dorner Party,” which is about spree-killer rogue cop Christopher Dorner.

You can especially hear the South in the slow, menacing “Boys in the Wood,” a song Lynyrd Skynyrd might have done had Ronnie Van Zandt survived that plane crash. The lyrics tell of moonshine, mayhem, vehicle theft, and a harrowing backwoods world that’s part Deliverance and part Thunder Road.

 “His ghost lives in the trailer/It was his foster home/Pall Malls and an inhaler/His girl’s nagging on the phone/The pain his body’s feeling/Will leave you accident prone/Cause the car he was stealing/Drove to the unknown.”

Another cool thing: The Black Lips’ official video, full of violence, sex, and debauchery, is actually worthy of the song. Check it out below.

While this is not a concept album by any means, there does seem to be a common thread running through several tunes — jail and running from the police. “Waiting,” for instance, has a verse about getting paranoid about cops while driving on the interstate. “Smiling” deals directly with a night singer Jared Swilley spent in the slammer. If somebody ever makes a punk-rock version of The Dukes of Hazzard, they’ll have to get The Black Lips to do the soundtrack.

Some say that Underneath the Rainbow is the most polished Black Lips album to date. Actually, I think some people said the same thing about their previous album, the Mark Ronson-produced Arabia Mountain.

Truth is, you can detect some not-so-subtle touches by Patrick Carney, the drummer of The Black Keys, who produced most of the tracks here. For example, the electro bass sound on “Dandelion Dust,” a hard-edged boogie, is right out of The Black Keys playbook. Other tunes were produced by Tom Brenneck, the guitarist for Sharon Jones’ Dap-Kings and the New York Afrobeat group The Budos Band.

“Polished” is a relative thing. For the most part, The Black Lips, except for a few moments when they get sucked in too far into the Black Keys dimension, retain the slop, fury, and dumb jokes that made me love them in the first place.

They prove this with the scary-sounding “Do the Vibrate,” complete with wolf howls and an almost metallic “Rock Lobster” guitar riff. Beneath the threatening atmospherics, the song is actually about an alternative use for cellphones.

Also recommended:

* Buy Before You Die byFigures of Light. As an old rocker myself, it’s always enjoyable to see a band that faded away decades ago get a second breath and start rocking again. That’s definitely the story of Figures of Light, a pre-punk group that never came anywhere close to achieving the fame of The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, but they were right there in New York City in the early’ 70s, smashing TV sets onstage and cranking out raw, screeching, feedback-filled guitar rampage with sardonic, angsty lyrics.

The Figures hung up their rock ’n’ roll shoes before the end of the Me Decade. But they rose again in 2008, when they were rediscovered and reconstituted by Norton Records. Singer Wheeler Winston Dixon and guitarist Michael Downey made a couple of fine albums with Norton (Smash Hits and Drop Dead), keeping their basic rough-edged sound, but apparently that only whetted their appetites.

In the past year or so they’ve self-released several EPs of new material, including one of my favorite FOL follies, a “country” song (though actally they don't even sound as "country" as The Black Lips) called “Too Many Bills, Not Enough Thrills” as well as a compilation called Lost and Found, which included rarities, remixes, and even a screaming death-metal cover of their first “smash hit,” “It’s Lame,” by a band called Belladonna & The Decimators.

But Buy Before You Die is definitely the best thing Dixon and Downey have done since Drop Dead. It’s only seven songs long, but every one of them is a doozy.

All the selections are sandwiched between songs lampooning mindless consumerism: the title song (”You’re buying this, you’re buying that/You’re getting stupid, dumb, and fat.”) and “A Word from Our Sponsor,” a phony ad in which the band plays a Velvet-like musical backdrop as Dixon shills for some unspecified surreal, horrible-sounding food product (ingredients include rabid squirrel meat, dehydrated cow’s head, old coffee filters, toothpaste, and insect repellent).

Maybe that’s how the narrator of “Swollen Colon Lament,” another song here, ended up with his condition.

While the above-mentioned songs feature the basic up-tempo minimalist guitar rock the Figures do so well — as does the rockabilly-influenced “Pauline” — some of tracks here are, well, pretty. “Killers From Space” has breezy, jazzy chords. “The Winter of Our Discontent” is slow minor-key number with a spooky tremolo guitar. And “Streets of Rain” is a minor-key dirge with strong bass and lyrics about hopelessness.

I hope Dixon and Downey keep at it, because they’re only getting more interesting. .

Enjoy some videos

This performance on Letterman is bananas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRs5G5j0SEs&list=LLrqfoPzNIvucBNY_cx4grYw

It doesn't often surprise me when there's kids who are technically proficient on instruments, afterall they have smaller, more nimble fingers and don't have jobs and responsibilities taking up all their time - but this performace is beyond that.  Love the skronky solos especially.

I recently discovered Old Grey Mule. Not new not garage, but blues with a wild punk attitude. The best live show I saw last year was these guys playing with Chris Russell's Chicken Walk.

http://www.oldgraymule.com/

http://chrisrussellschickenwalk.com/video/