Anyone interested in doing short runs might consider Peter King out of New Zealand. He will do minimum runs of 20. His prices are pretty damned cheap as long as you do a small run (like 100 or less). Most people wouldn't want to do that, but I think it's great. Aside from the normal stuff he also does 5"s, 8"s, square records, triangles and custom shaped stuff. Everything he does is on clear vinyl.

He doesn't have a website, you have to call him or write him a letter for a quote. If anyone is interested I can email you his contact info. There are a few videos of him making records up on youtube, do a search for "peter king vinyl".

I was pretty happy with the records he did for me. They look great. I'd say the sound quality is a little lower than a regular record, but still really good in my opinion. He's a good option for smaller bands, and people interested in weird/novelty vinyl. Also he's just a really friendly and helpful guy.

that DOD classic fuzz is a total sleeper pedal. Johnny Danger said:

I'm digging the BYOC Leeds fuzz -- a Superfuzz clone in a kit. I reckon it's the beesknees and the cheapest way to get a superfuzz - if yer confidant with a soldering iron.

It was hard to find a good fuzz for my casio organ and found that the Dod Classic Fuzz FX52 is awesome on a variety of keyboards.

I'm digging the BYOC Leeds fuzz -- a Superfuzz clone in a kit. I reckon it's the beesknees and the cheapest way to get a superfuzz - if yer confidant with a soldering iron.

It was hard to find a good fuzz for my casio organ and found that the Dod Classic Fuzz FX52 is awesome on a variety of keyboards.

That is a great list. Basically, look for the original versions of all the songs the Detroit Cobras cover, and you're off to a good start. Also, one of my favorite albums of modern soul would have to be the Now Time Delegation's LP (featuring the vocals of Lisa Kekaula of the BellRays). Black Joe Lewis is good, too (and he's playing in St. Louis next week). The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Great great list Chessman !
Chessman said:

Well, some of these may be more 'proto-soul' then what you're after, but I still think they rate pretty high on the 'danceability' scale...

Lonnie Youngblood - African Twist pt.2
Smokey Johnson - Whip It Pts 1 & 2
Don Gardner - My Baby Likes To Boogaloo
Gino Washington - Come Monkey With Me
The Ideals - Go Go Gorilla
Eddie Kirk - The Hawg
James Brown - And I Do Just What I Want
Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler
Otis Redding & The Pinetoppers - Shout Bama Lama
Dottie Campbell - He's About A Mover
Joe Tex - Ain't I A Mess
Jimmy Stokely & The Exiles - It's Alligator Time
Billy Lamont - Sweet Thing (w/h Hendrix on guit.)
Nathaniel Mayer - I Want Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction)
J.C. Davis - The Chicken Scratch
Bo Diddley - Jo-Ann

Cheers,

Chessman

Great great list Chessman ! Chessman said:

Well, some of these may be more 'proto-soul' then what you're after, but I still think they rate pretty high on the 'danceability' scale...

Lonnie Youngblood - African Twist pt.2
Smokey Johnson - Whip It Pts 1 & 2
Don Gardner - My Baby Likes To Boogaloo
Gino Washington - Come Monkey With Me
The Ideals - Go Go Gorilla
Eddie Kirk - The Hawg
James Brown - And I Do Just What I Want
Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler
Otis Redding & The Pinetoppers - Shout Bama Lama
Dottie Campbell - He's About A Mover
Joe Tex - Ain't I A Mess
Jimmy Stokely & The Exiles - It's Alligator Time
Billy Lamont - Sweet Thing (w/h Hendrix on guit.)
Nathaniel Mayer - I Want Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction)
J.C. Davis - The Chicken Scratch
Bo Diddley - Jo-Ann

Cheers,

Chessman

I love it, too. I especially love blasting it REALLY LOUD for my wife. Heh. liz DH said:

It's pretty much:
G, Bb, C, D for the intro, then: G, Bb repeated for ' you gotta treat a woman rough...' then G, Bb, D for the oh-oh-ohhh bit, then F, G for 'you gotta show a woman who wears the pants'... etc
I frickin' love this tune! we do it in my band the No-Brainers.

It's pretty much:
G, Bb, C, D for the intro, then: G, Bb repeated for ' you gotta treat a woman rough...' then G, Bb, D for the oh-oh-ohhh bit, then F, G for 'you gotta show a woman who wears the pants'... etc
I frickin' love this tune! we do it in my band the No-Brainers.

im really sorry and i realise how annoying it is asking sumbody to show you how to play a tune ,,,, but does anybody know the chords to this tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qA04Y3iywQ  ,,  really want to play it and i am dum with the guitar and can never work how to play any songs,, but i deffo wanna do a cover of this so if anybody could help us out would be much appriciated xxx

why should somebody smash a guitar?

or the pre-faded "concert tees" some mall conglomerate was selling for a while.

and it was always journey or foreigner or some other radio crap. I guess so 22 year old slack jawed himbo dudes into seether can feel like "i wuz there".

"know your audience"

Lame. This reminds me of fashion jean companies selling jeans with holes in the knees. What's next? Buying a wig of messed up hair? Just mess up your own damn hair!

Mike Humsgreen said:

If you pay $60 for a guitar won't it sound like shit before you smash it?

If you pay $60 for a guitar won't it sound like shit before you smash it?

Well, considering amount of guitars I've fixed from people that have "lost it" and smashed their guitars to bits it could save me a lot of time and hassle.

But the true essence, if you will, of smashing a guitar is the fact that the smasher has lost it in the heat of moment and in a fit of creative passion they've trashed their guitar. Buying a guitar just to smash kinda makes the whole a little manufactured.

The recycled part is pretty easy cause guitars have heaps of parts that can be reused.

Google "K's Japan smash guitar" It's a guitar that's made to be destroyed. It sells for $60.00 and can be broken on stage with one swing. When your done with it you send it back to be recycled. What do you think about that?

For mediocre albums, they were much better than what would follow each year by any of these bands. I thought they were OK for what they were. Not counting Judas Priest, almost all follow ups (albums 2 or 3) were downright abysmal. This isn't a metal forum so I'm not even gonna defend these groups but for 1982-84 and not having a clue, I thought they were pretty fun. I'm just glad that I was able to wise up. Of course, I had to make new friends. ; ) MikeL said:

Well, I did buy some of that stuff, and I can attest that you didn't miss very much. Quiet Riot's "Metal Health" and Ratt's "Out of the Cellar" were incredibly mediocre albums. Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" was only slightly better. However, I still have fond memories of Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry" and Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance." Judas Priest had an old school sensibility that I liked, and Twisted Sister was a fun band if you took them for the joke they were meant to be. Back then, I was a real metal fan, and I still like to hear those songs on occasion; I just have no desire nowadays to buy CDs, or download mp3s, or go to see those bands during one of those package tours they do every summer. Right now, I'm waiting for next month to see Devo here in Pittsburgh, and I'm going to NYC to see Prima Donna (a true glam rock band along the lines of the New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople). I may also go to Cleveland next month to see the Cynics. Oh, and I just remembered something else; Teenage Fanclub is coming to Pittsburgh this October.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yeah, I'm not proud of it, but I was listening to Cum On Feel The Noize, We're Not Gonna Take It, Shout At The Devil, Rock You Like A Hurricane, You Got Another Thing Comin', Round And Round and other stuff like that mostly because I still hadn't found out about punk or garage revival and I wanted to hear stuff with guitars. At least I didn't buy the stuff (not that I'm putting down others who did, I just never had any money).
MikeL said:

I still like that song, although nowadays it's more of a guilty pleasure. Back then, I seriously thought it was the greatest song ever.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I have nothing to add to this but I just thought that Quiet Riot comment was classic. Statements like that just send me to the floor. (Because it's so true)

Well, I did buy some of that stuff, and I can attest that you didn't miss very much. Quiet Riot's "Metal Health" and Ratt's "Out of the Cellar" were incredibly mediocre albums. Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" was only slightly better. However, I still have fond memories of Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry" and Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance." Judas Priest had an old school sensibility that I liked, and Twisted Sister was a fun band if you took them for the joke they were meant to be. Back then, I was a real metal fan, and I still like to hear those songs on occasion; I just have no desire nowadays to buy CDs, or download mp3s, or go to see those bands during one of those package tours they do every summer. Right now, I'm waiting for next month to see Devo here in Pittsburgh, and I'm going to NYC to see Prima Donna (a true glam rock band along the lines of the New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople). I may also go to Cleveland next month to see the Cynics. Oh, and I just remembered something else; Teenage Fanclub is coming to Pittsburgh this October. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yeah, I'm not proud of it, but I was listening to Cum On Feel The Noize, We're Not Gonna Take It, Shout At The Devil, Rock You Like A Hurricane, You Got Another Thing Comin', Round And Round and other stuff like that mostly because I still hadn't found out about punk or garage revival and I wanted to hear stuff with guitars. At least I didn't buy the stuff (not that I'm putting down others who did, I just never had any money).
MikeL said:

I still like that song, although nowadays it's more of a guilty pleasure. Back then, I seriously thought it was the greatest song ever.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I have nothing to add to this but I just thought that Quiet Riot comment was classic. Statements like that just send me to the floor. (Because it's so true)

Yeah, I'm not proud of it, but I was listening to Cum On Feel The Noize, We're Not Gonna Take It, Shout At The Devil, Rock You Like A Hurricane, You Got Another Thing Comin', Round And Round and other stuff like that mostly because I still hadn't found out about punk or garage revival and I wanted to hear stuff with guitars. At least I didn't buy the stuff (not that I'm putting down others who did, I just never had any money). MikeL said:

I still like that song, although nowadays it's more of a guilty pleasure. Back then, I seriously thought it was the greatest song ever.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I have nothing to add to this but I just thought that Quiet Riot comment was classic. Statements like that just send me to the floor. (Because it's so true)

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Rest in Peace. Long live the Kinks!

The exact cause of death is unknown, but he had been undergoing kidney dialysis for over a decade. Quaife played on all of the early Kinks classics, including "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" and "Waterloo Sunset," which also features his background vocals.

No not at all.. the versioni am lookingh for sounds actually almost like s& g did an alternate take..almost the same..till the fuzz comes in..very cool original 60ties flavour!! HELPPP!!!

Was it this?

In an odd way, their manager was probably more punk than the Kingsmen themselves as they wanted to record it AGAIN (apperently they thought they were just doing a run through for levels and getting ready) but the manager thought it was fine. Now let's record the flip side.

Rad!!! Thanks Kopper! Obviously you youtube search skill are a bit better than mine, unless this was just recently posted.