Thank you.  It seems like it MIGHT have been legally reissued , recently , tho' I doubt it. I asked Don Craine if he thought the two F.U.2 records would be re- released , and he said , it's doubtful. In true exploitation fashion , they were paid a flat fee to record the albums , and did 'nt own the rights. Of course , a few songs turned up on Sect releases.

John Battles said:

 

 

 F.U.2 (First LP) - The second greatest hoax in Punk Rock History. Members of The Downliners Sect and mates pose as a Punk band , and make a better show of it than most of the competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great choice!

oh , I almost forgot , Captain Led and The Letdowns from St. Louis. Great THEATRICAL jOKE - pUNK. tHEY EVEN HAD A SONG ABOUT BEEFALO.

"Songs The Lord Taught us" is definitely high up there with me , too. The Cramps were , as Lux said , one thing separate from this universe. It was Punk , but , it was something not of this world , too. They GOT it , that Rockabilly was the original Punk Rock music , and the wildness most Rockabilly bands lack today , they had , in spades.  Lux said that Spin magazine did a big feature on CBGB's , and name checked every band nown to have played in the early days , but conveniently snubbed The Cramps. He said he phoned them to ask , WTF ? They said "Oh , we had a meeting , and decided you were'nt really Punk , you were just WEIRD ! ", and he said , we did all these shows at CBGS' ( I forget , 150 or something.) and played once a month at Max's (When a lot of bands could not play both venues.) , we supported The Ramones , The Dead Boys , and , now someone's saying we're not Punk ? 

My favorite Saints' album is "Eternally Yours". I LIKE THAT IT GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN.....But I like the first three albums , and the last two (that I KNOW OF.) , a return to the Punk sound.

I GUESS THE BIG THREE , TO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE "THE CLASH" , "BOLLOCKS", and "Damned Damned Damned" . ALSO "IN THE CITY " BY THE JAM. You can say it was'nt Punk , but , it was very influential. sO WERE tHE sTRANGLERS' FIRST TWO ALBUMS , x- rAY sPEX'S lone album (Discounting the reunion CS.) . Then , there's Eater , The Lurkers , The Boys , SLF , EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS , Buzzcocks , Rezillos , Undertones , vIBRATORS, sLAUGHTER AND tHE doGS, etc.

 SOME OF MY (AMERICAN) FAVORITES ARE - DICTATORS (GO GIRL CRAZY ) , FIRST FOUR RAMONES LPs , plus "It's Alive" , Heartbreakers (lamf , dtk.) , Suicide (1ST lp) , Dead Boys (Young , LOUD AND sNOTTY) , The Real Kids  FIRST TWO, and dammit , "DMZ" is better than you've been told , X - fIRST TWO (tHO' i'D ONLY CALL "aIN'T lOVE gRAND " BAD.) , pERE uBU (tHE mODERN dANCE) - yOU CAN SAY IT'S NOT pUNK , BUT , LIKE THE cRAMPS , THEY WERE WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE PUNK SCENE....

FAVORITE JOKE BANDS - THE DICKIES , THE REZILLOS (THO' NEITHER BAND IS JOKING WHEN IT COMES TIME TO PLAY.) , LOS PUNK ROCKERS ,

THE CICHLIDS (FROM FLORIDA. IRRESISTABLE BUBBLE GUM /PUNK HOOKS AND GREAT TASTE IN COVERS.)  

The Cramps' Songs the Lord Taught Us, The Clash's debut and I'm Stranded by The Saints.

Tyler , Now , THAT one I've never heard of. Johnny was a great fan of Sci-Fi , but, I got the feeling , after "Rock'n'Roll High School" , he'd given up on acting or appearing in movies , at all......I'm sure this "Stranded " would have been seen by even fewer people than the "Car 54" movie , at the time.

D'yer ever see "Mosquito" ? It's a movie about , yep, giant mosquitos descending upon a camping community. It stars Gunnar Hansen and Ron Asheton , with a cameo by Margaret Dollrod. The only other thing about it I can recommend is that the animation/SFX for the giant mosquitos is actually pretty good.

The only other movie appearance I can think of , by one of The Ramones , was Dee Dee in "What About Me"(With Johnny Thunders , Jerry Nolan , Judy Carne and Jeanette Neapolitano - is that her name?- from Concrete Blonde , also the director. Excepting the latter , they all have pretty small parts.).

Dee Dee's song "What About Me " does'nt appear in the film , just like his song "Love Kills" was deep - sixed for an unrelated , inferior song by the same name , by Joe Strummer , in "Sid and Nancy".

Perhaps I should look into becoming a premium member is the new year. haha.

John Battles, I did not know that about car54! cool! For some reason I thought you were going to say that science fiction movie Johnny had an acting spot in called "Stranded".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTVIMkab-vM

Looks like a real winner! haha!

Sorry if this comes up twice. The Cramps were great fans of Bubblegum , too , when much of their audience would have been too old to remember it....

The first song they ever recorded , and , apparently , figured out at all , was "Quick Joey Small" by The Kasenetz- Katz Singing Orchestral Circus".

Lux Interior once said that he liked the early Talking Heads "When they sounded more like The 1910 Fruitgum Co.".

I agree. This is my favourite Dirtbombs album ever. Top 10 of the year for sure.

So, this is pretty cool!

http://truckstopstruckstop.tumblr.com/post/67418625771/note-found-inside-used-copy-of-rocket-to-russia

Someone posted this note on a blog after finding it inside a used copy of Rocket To Russia.

It originally appears to be simply a funny letter that went along with a birthday gift.

But a few things I notice:
 It makes two mentions of "Superteem" in the letter....Darin Raffellis label in the mid 90's that also put out the first Donnas album and early 7'' singles.

At the bottom, it's signed "Allison R, July 26th, 1995". Could it be a birthday gift from Darin Raffelli to Donna A on her 16th birthday?

PRETTY FUCKING COOL! Although Donna A has some explaining to do!

Chris....in terms of "indie pop"...i gotta go with Helen Love

This week's podcast/show featured new music from The Mobbs, The Modests, Ty Segall's newest project FUZZ and a live session with Chris Crossroads. 

The Play List:

1.  The Testors – Together

2.  The Mobs – White Collar Worker

3.  The Modests – Dylan Was A Punk

4.  The Courtneys – 90210

5.  The Thrashers - I Won The Dance Contest

6.  The Dirty Nil - Zombie Eyed

7.  The Dirtbombs – Sugar On Top

8.  Chris Crossroads - Shot It Babe (Live CJAM Session)

9.  Chris Crossroads - Rock and Roll Monster (Live CJAM Session)

10. Night Beats – Outta Mind

12. The Mongols – Sleepwalk

13. The Bell Peppers – Soda Pop

14. Jimmy Hunt - Rever Souvent

15. The Jam - A Bomb In Wardour Street

16. Big Star – You Get What You Deserve (Alternate Mix)

17. The Replacements – Everything’s Coming Up Roses

18. Hot Nasties - I Am A Confused Teenager

16. The D4 – Savage

17. Wreckless Eric - Waxworks

18. Cosmic Psychos - She's A Cat

19. Fuzz – What’s In My Head?

20. Fuzz – One

Download/listen to the podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20131119-1030-t1384857000.mp3

Check out my blog post on FUZZ here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2013/11/fuzz-show-482.html

After persuading my parents to buy me a drumset as a present for my 13th b-day (a very difficult task to undertake, btw) i wanted to have a band of course and so my boyfriend, a good friend of mine and i, started to meet in my garage to make some music.. I can´t recall much about the names each of us proposed, i can just remember that one of my suggestions was to call us The Stillborn or Born Dead or something like this...  (which pretty good reflected my gaiety at that time) ;D  Anyway, making some covers did work pretty well first but than in the attempt to create some songs we were NEVER AGREED!! So i started to call ourself "The LITIGIOUS"!! and well....no need to say that this band didn´t last long! :D

Other band names I came up with included:

Urban Idiots (Good name for a festival, methinks)

Jesus Lenin

Ultimate Weapon

I'm making a lotof mistakes because I'm trying to wrap this up and go downstairs before a tornado arrives.....

tHE very EARLUY hEAVY mETAL , or Hard Rock , evolved out of teh kater Garage stuff , I believe. When it became all E cHORDS AND NO SENSE OF ROOTS IN THE 80'S , i DUNNO. Sme Garage bands in teh Us  made a natural progression to HARD rOCK OR hEAVY pSYCH IN THE LATE 60'S - EARLY 70'S. oBVIOUSLY BANDS LIKE THE SONICS , SWAMP RATS , NOBODY'S CHILDREN , ETC. WERE HEAVIER THAN METAL COULD DREAM OF BEING.

John Battles said:

OH , AND IF MY REPLY DID'NT TURN UP , CHRIS , NO , SHE WAS ONE OF MINE. THOUGHT SHE KNEW EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE SHE HAD A COPY OF "VELVET  TINMINE". BRAT .  Not knocking that stuff , it just never went over that great when I was Deejaying "Glam Night".

Is it me or it a lot of the early heavy metal influenced by garage, like glam was?

OH , AND IF MY REPLY DID'NT TURN UP , CHRIS , NO , SHE WAS ONE OF MINE. THOUGHT SHE KNEW EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE SHE HAD A COPY OF "VELVET  TINMINE". BRAT .  Not knocking that stuff , it just never went over that great when I was Deejaying "Glam Night".

Rumor had it that Bowie was going to follow up "Pin- Ups" with a collection of "Nuggets" covers from The US. It's possible.

I heard a later interview where he said "There were these great bands in America , that just did'nt GIVE a damn. Bands like The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators , and....THE JEFFERSON HANDKERCHIEF !!!!". HA HA. i WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN ROBERT PLANT IS SUCH A FAN OF THE WAILERS , ELEVATORS , MOBY GRAPE , LOVE , BLUE CHEER ,etc. Just because I don't like his music , does'nt mean I don't respect his taste.

Does anyone think GG Looks a lot like Lou Reed in this shot?

I think I've sorted the dups GJB... a glitchi in the sys... Hell yeah people wanna hear Shake Some Action! Wish I could have been at the 'secret' notsosecret Brooklyn Sunday show... and of course, the show with TFG and The Sonics. *sigh*

No shit ! It would have been in his best interests to just stand down , and say , I've got a problem , I'm going to get help.

BUT, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of contrition , I apologize for my last message appearing a half - dozen times. I tried to delete it , but , no luck. I'll try again , later.

Getting back to the subject at hand , it's cool that all the recent Groovies' shows have been so well - recieved. I'm more of a Loney - era Groovies man , but , I like the oft - bootlegged , finally compiled properly , post - Kama Suta , pre Sire stuff , with Chris Wilson , that came out as "Slow Death " on Norton.

I LIKE SOME OF THE SIRE MATERIAL , TOO , BUT , NOT AS MUCH AS MOST PEOPLE.... The Flamin' Groovies , as most of you know , have been working on a revolving door policy for about 30 years. When I first interviewed Roy Loney , he told me the original five - piece were planning to start playing out again , but , after practicing once , they decided , amicably , to put that project on the backburner. Cyril was already playing with The Magic Christian , and in an acoustic act with Mike Wilhelm. Roy was still occasionally doing solo shows. Eventually , Cyril and Roy started playing out , together , backed by The A-Bones. That may be as close to the original Groovies as we'll get. I saw them twice , and they DESTROYED.....

Roy's cool with the latter day band playing out under The Groovies' name. He even joined them on stage recently , in San Francisco. 

He even told me that if the original lineup did reform , he had no problem doing "Shake Some Action" , because people would want to hear it.

This album is perfect. 

Nobunny is awesome!!! 

Playlist 11/16/13