My gear I have at the moment.

- Gretsch Electromatic Corvette: This was just inside my price range at the time. It's a good guitar and I felt like I could get decent single coil and humbucker sounds out of it. The Gretsch style pickups are a bit brighter and twangier than Gibson style humbuckers.

-Epiphone Blues Custom 30: I got a really good deal on this on craigslist. It's a pretty nice amp. My only issues with it would be that the clean channel is a little darker than I like (still really good but I would like a little more chime and twang for the cleans.) and also the reverb isn't Fendery enough for me. It can do the Marshally Ramones thing well though.

-Silvertone 1484 head: I waited for months to find a decent price for this. They've really gone up in the past few years. I don't have a cab for it yet but it sounded great the times I have gotten to plug it up.

-Proco Rat 2 : I won this in an online giveaway. It doesn't quite give me the fuzz tones I'm after but it's fun to play with. It works well for a good boost or to induce some feedback.

-Harmony Bobkat: Got it really cheap from a friend. It's exactly what you need for a "garage" sound. It needs new tuners and a new output jack though.

-1964 Univox 335 copy: It's actually completely hollow more like a Casino. It has the coolest greenburst color. This was also really cheap but I had to rewire it and the neck has a bit of a warp.

I'm hoping to get something to fill my fuzz desires. I haven't decided what that's gonna be yet. I'll also need to something to fill my lack of good reverb at some point.

ok... i'm a gear hoarder from way back

Guitars:
94 Fender Stratocaster Japanese
2 x broken Hofner f-hole jazz guitars (i will fix them one day...)
65 - 66ish Hofner Verithin
Teisco solid body electric (converted to a lap steel cause the neck is fucked)
cheap SG copy
Fender Jazz Bass (I made this and got a mate to paint it)
Various old acoustic guitars in various conditions (mostly fucked)

Amps:
96 Fender Blues De-Ville 2 x 12
Epiphone valve Junior head with a cab made out of the bottom of a little broken Hammond
Laney Rb-9 300w with 4 x 10" cab and a 1x 15" cab
Laney 10 watt practice amp (nice clean channel, I use it for testing repairs)
Fender Super 60 (fucked)

Effects:
a fuckin butt load of pedals. I'm not going to list them, a mix of vintage and newer shit.

Various Mic's and a 300w powered pa speaker.

The Stoics

How about:
The Groupies (Primitive)
Electric Prunes (I had too much to dream last night)
Standells (dirty water, sometimes good guys wear white)
Rare Breed (aka Ohio Express) Beg, Borrow and Steal (no - not the Ohio Express Bubble gum express)
Demotrons - a nice alternate version of Beg, Borrow and Steal

In Los Angeles we had KRLA as Sectmaniac pointed out. It was an oldies station but nothing like what you'd consider oldies radio now days, at least in the 70's & 80's. All of the DJs had knowledge of the music and were there when these bands were playing and putting out records and they seemed to have a say in what they played, especially in the evenings when they'd take requests and dedications. Art Laboe used to do a lunch time thing in the early 80's where he'd take one act and go through the history of the artist and play tracks etc. Does the mainstream "oldies stations' even play songs like '60 Minute Man' 'Pledging My love' 'Hully Gully' 'Big Boy Pete' 'Corrido Rock' or 'Slow Down' anymore.
But growing up I think Rodney Bingenheimer on KROQ had the biggest influence on my musical tastes. When I was 14 his show was on for 4 hours each Saturday and Sunday night 8-12. Cutting his teeth in the 60's, Rodney would play stuff like Love, the Leaves, Standells, Seeds, Chocolate Watch Band, etc etc, but he'd also play the latest Black Flag demo, then the Crawdaddys, followed by the Exploited and then maybe a Crowd song right after. He'd have the Ventures or Surfaries in studio and then Frankie & Anette, then the next week X, or Blondie, or Stiv Bators. His show is just a shadow of its former self hidden away on Monday morning from 12-1am or something. Back then, even outside of Rodney's show, you'd never know what they would play next during the day. You may hear some Missing Persons song follwed by a Fear track.
Another good station here in the late 70's early 80's was KNAC before they went metal (although they did set the standard for 80's metal radio), lot's of Punk and "new music" as they called it. They'd interview bands from the Cheifs, to Rhino 39, to the Adolescents etc etc.
Then there was listener supported KPFK that had Bo Clifford on late Saturday nights playing lots of underground stuff followed by 12 O'Clock Rock with Andrea Enthal. She even had Chris D. of the Flesheaters sit in for her sometimes. He would play an amazing selection of music too.

Now today's LA Radio is pretty much irrelevant in my opinion. The only salvation is college radio . KXLU has various decent programs, but I mainly listen to Stella's show "Stray Pop" which she has been doing for damn near 30 years I think and the Reverend Dan's "Music For Nimrods" show. that follows Stray Pop, but they are on Midnight to 6 am Sunday morning, so who really get's to listen? KCSN also has a decent oldies show where you'll hear some obscure early R&B. the only thing I listen to on KPFK anymore is Rhapsody In Black where you'll here some good blues and pre-RnR Rhythm & Blues.

With all that said, it's internet radio and the podcasts here that is where it's all at for me now, though I do find myself listening to WFMU a lot now via their iPhone application.

John Peel.

I used to sit there with a pen and make notes of what records to buy the next day.

Growing up in Miami Florida in the '60s we had two great AM stations: WQAM / Tiger Radio and WFUN. They had a bunch of jocks like Rick Shaw and a slew of others I can't recall at the moment. Played all the big nationwide hits and mixed in a lot of great local bands (Wayne Cochran, Birdwatchers, Steve Alaimo, Sam & Dave). Besides that, they would throw in Frank Sinatra right after a Rolling Stones tune, it was great! There was also a R&B station WAME "WAME in Miamee!!", which was all Soul and R&B. Listen to Florida Rocks again for a taste of what it was like..

Well, then, stop going to that site. whatwave dave said:

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is.

MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is. MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

You make it sound as though this is some kind of dark conspiracy. Would you mind elaborating on this? Mole said:

Dubious to say the least - almost certainly not to be trusted....

Dubious to say the least - almost certainly not to be trusted....

It appears that Little Steven is finally making some progress with fuzztopia. Why it's taken so long, I don't know, but it looks as though it will soon be out of its beta phase.

One of the old "Pebbles" vinyl LPs had a great set of liner notes that kinda summed up a good reaction to the notion that the "Beatles saved rock and roll". Who ever wrote those notes did a great job to note how before the Beatles, Britain had Lonnie Donegal singing "My Father is a Dustman" type of crap. I watched that show on Feb 9th 1964 and I can remember there was a lot of U.S. rock music back then too. And anyway, Beatles, Stones, Who etc. did not bring us recycled Lonnie Donegan...now did they???

Joy Division - Exercise One
Golden Cups - Hiwa Mata Noburu
MC5 - Borderline [single version]
TC Atlantic - Faces
Dearly Beloved - Flight Thirteen

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Stooges - I'm Sick Of You
Link Wray - The Swag (It just has that SWAG)
The Centurions - Bullwinkle Part II

I doon't know if this counts as they were more of a food band, or more correctly "snack rock". But the Go-Nuts 'Nut Wagon' ruled.

I would contact the DJs and ask if they have heard from anyone else having a problem. If they say no, I'd get to googling about it.

When subscribing to some of the Podcasts I get a error message from Feedburner. What's going on and is it something on my end that I can do to get these podcast to open up.

Thanks,

Black'n Bart

Check this out!

We Never Learn - The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001

Damn, I'm ordering one right fucking now... and you should, too!

I knew most of the words and I just checked the record to fill in the blanks. Cheers!

where did you find it ?

THANKS ! so much !!!!

Well I'm a madman baby when I see another man with you
Yes I'm a madman baby when you do like you do
And when another man says hey look at that baby
Well I get real mad and I turn red in the face
Cause I'm a jealous man baby when I'm out on a date with you

Well I been a bad man baby to try to turn your love to me
Yes I'm a sad man baby cause it don't seem to be
But if you ever say I love you boy
Well I'd die right then I wouldn't live anymore
I'd be a happy man baby so happy it would really hurt me

Well I'm a bad, sad, madman trying to win your love
Yes I'm a madman baby ayay yay
I'm a madman wooooo
Well I'm a madman
I'm a madman baby trying to win your love
yes I'm a madman baby, well alright

Well I'm a madman baby when it comes to makin' love to you
Yes I'm a madman baby when you do like you do
And when another man says hey look at that baby
Well I get real mad and I turn red in the face
Cause I'm a jealous man baby when I'm out on a date with you

Well I'm a madman baby ayay yay
I'm a madman wooooo
Yeah I'm a madman mmmmmhmmmm
I'm a madman
well I'm a madman baby
I'm a madman

So as a follow up to the recent thread re; The Reigning Sound song in a land Rover ad.  I was watching the newest episode of Nurse Jacky last night and lo and behold! Harlan T. Bobo's "Too Much Love" comes in at a tender moment in the show.  Very cool.  If you don't know Harlan, check 'em out here:  http://www.myspace.com/harlantbobo.  If you don't know Nurse Jacky....check that out too.