Hey Jeff, I am listening Man! Representing Rochester!

I will be on the air and the web on Saturday August 10th from 1:00-3:00 PM EST.  You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu.

some songs i hear a lot when i am on the move:

the headless horsemen - can't help but shake

the sonics - psycho

the hives - take back the toys

the briefs - tear it in two

fun things - savage

the cavemen five - be my cavegirl

the incredible staggers - out of my mind

the gaggers - cheap thrills kill

the exploding hearts - thorns in roses

the cute lepers - it's summertime, baby

the booze - there goes my girl

the scrid hunters - leave me alone

rancid - salvation

nervous eaters - you smell like fish

cyanide pills - cheap 'n' nasty

johnny throttle - ann

wild evel and the trashbones - i wanna be your caveman

thee vicars - they lied to you

the shocks - r'n'r stalinist

The lyrics that the FBI thought were the lyrics are pretty funny.

Unbelievable? Read for yourselves:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/05/the-fbi-investigated-the-song-louie-louie-for-two-years/

San Diego band, only know them from the reissues. Did meet one of them at a Rezillos gig in San Diego this past year, but have yet to catch their reunion thing. Sorry not much to add I guess.

Paul Bearer and the Hearsmen....anyone mention this one yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9c7PppIwjk

and Adrian Llyods "lorna" was pretty damn trashy too

Bob Reuter, a member of the Hideout and a long-time friend of mine from the St. Louis music scene died yesterday when he fell into an open elevator shaft as he was moving into a new apartment in a downtown loft. Here's a story on it in the Riverfront Times.

Bob's excellent personal memoir, Tales of at Talking Dog, is available from Saint Louis Projects.

In addition to being a great writer with the ability to recall amazing stories from his life, Bob was also an amazing local photographer who still used REAL FILM to document the gritty underbelly of Bob's South St. Louis home, rock'n'roll scene, and all the amazing and interesting characters in his life.

He had a radio show called Bob's Scratchy Records on KDHX and was a big fan of my old show on that same station, The Wayback Machine. Bob was still doing his show when he died, and you can listen to the last two episodes on KDHX's website here.

Bob was a long-time musician on the St. Louis scene, and one of his first bands was the great Dinosaurs, who put out a fantastic 7" single in the late '70s with "Rock and Roll Moron" and "It Might Be Rose." You can hear "Rock and Roll Moron" on this episode of my old podcast, Savage Kick. They also released a posthumous LP, also recorded in the late '70s, that was released about a year about by Big Muddy Records and that you can download for free here. More of his music can be downloaded here. His latest band, Alley Ghost, has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alleyghost

Watch this: Bob in action with Alley Ghost!

http://youtu.be/Go1rd_IKlv0

This is a sad and tragic loss for the local music and arts scene. He will be missed by many, inside and outside St. Louis. Rest in peace, Bob.

 iNTERESTING. I COULD'NT READ IT ALL. IT'S VERY LATE , HERE....MY EYES ARE SHOT.

IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING , BUT , DEMORALIZING  ,TO READ ABOUT OTHER ARTISTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL DOING WHAT THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE. BUT ,HE'S VERY DEDICATED , SO MORE POWER TO HIM...... i SAW JACKIE AND THE CEDRICS ONCE, ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO. THEY WERE FRICKIN' NUTS ! GOOD SHOW. IT WAS AT  A CLUB THAT DID'NT EVEN HAVE A LICENSE TO CHARGE MONEY FOR LIVE MUSIC ( IN CHICAGO , CLUBS NEED LICENSES TO HAVE RUNNING WATER AND FIRE EXITS !  IT'S SO CORRUPT. ) , SO THEY HAD A MASON JAR WHEN YOU WALKED IN , AND YOU "MADE A DONATION".

MEXICAN WRESTLING IS REALLY BIG IN JAPAN . THEIR WRESTLING STYLE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE JAPANESE , SO EACH COUNTRY SENDS WRESTLERS TO THE

OTHER COUNTRY , AND VICE - VERSA , ON AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM. THERE WAS A SUPERHERO ON TV IN THE 90'S , IN JAPAN , HE WORE A MEXICAN WRESTLING MASK , AND WRESTLED WHEN HE WAS'NT FIGHTING CRIME , JUST LIKE SANTO, BLUE DEMON , MIL MASCARAS , ETC. 

 Chicago. I'm sure there were a lot of Skid Marx , like there were a lot of Johnny Vomits (OR , in Dallas , Mikey/Mitey Vomit.). You think of someone calling himself Skid Marx , you expect a GG ALLIN , BOBBY sOXX OR BLOODY MESS TYPE . nOT THIS GUY.....

John,

Where was the "here" that Skid Marx was from? We had a Skid Marx in Detroit.

Euthanasia Gumby from The Creeping Terror, THAT''s funny. I like good movie names that make the transition to good band names. I wanted to start a band called The Weird Lovemakers , but , someone beat me to it. (NON - Actor) Troy McClure , what band is he in?

I still love, Kid Congo Powers, Rat Scabies, Troy McLure, and Euthanasia Gumby (Creeping Terror)

i MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED bLITZ AND zzERO , EARLIER....oOR someone else probably did. Not to mention Jeff Magnum. Christine...I thought "Exene " was an Eastern European name she got  lucky by being born with . Oh , well. Even their little known first Drummer had a "Punk Rock name" , Mick Basher. Those are all good names , they don't have to all be "Punk Rock' people.

There was a Skid Marx , here , but , his music could hardly be called Punk.

"Dark Part of My Mind" is a great track , but, do you not also like "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" ? I know the album was mostly recorded by studio hacks , NOT The Crazy Elephant. That album seems to be a bit of a rarity. I've only seen it once.

I like the other songs on "Inna Gadda Da Vida" , though , admittedly , the lyrics often sound dated."Termination" , I think, is a great song. It sounds liek a drug song , but , it's about the legend of The Lorelies (sic). "Are You Happy' has phenomenal drumming on it , with guitar and keyboards in overdrive. "My Mirage" is actually about the death of a friend. It makes more sense , knowing that , Doug Ingle said he wrote it while trying to paint a picture of his late friend on his wall......But , of course , none of this is for everyone. "mOST aNYTHING tHAT yOU wANT , gIRL" INCORPORATES THE SAME INFLUENCE OF tHE cATHOLIC cHURCH  AS "iNNA gADDA dA VIDA" , WITHSIMILAR HEAVY RIFFAGE. SURE "VIDA" IS THE BEST , BUT I STILL LIKE THE OTHE R, SHORTER , NUMBERS , TOO. When I saw them, in '96 , they did a few of them , and they sounded great.
 
Axel Björnsson said:

dark part of my mind is the only good song with crazy elephant

also inna gadda devita with iron butterfly

I ALMOST FORGOT , X's VERSION OF THE BLASTERS' "LITTLE HONEY" (CO-WRITTEN BY JOHN DOE , AS I RECALL) IS PRETTY ROCKIN' , COMPARED TO THE BLASTERS'
 VERSION , WHICH RECALLS THE LOUVIN BROS.....NOT A DAMN THING WRONG WITH THAT....BUT I WAS JUST WARMING UP TO COUNTRY WHEN THAT CAME OUT , AND I LIKED IT ,BUT IT WAS JUST A TAD ON THE SLOW SIDE FOR ME......THE BEST PART WAS THE LYRIC CHANGE .  PHIL ALVIN : "LITTLE HONEY , WILL YOU PLEASE COME OVER HERE? LITTLE HONEY , WE'VE GOT TO GET SOMETHING CLEAR......"

JOHN DOE: LITTLE HONEY , WILL YOU PLEASE COME OVER HERE.....LITTLE HONEY ,WILL YOU PLEASE BRING ME A BEER?''........Does'nt save "Ain't Love Grand from being an embarrassment.
 John Battles said:

I thought the only really good song on "Rant'n'Rave With The Stray Cats" was "How Long Do You Wanna Live , Anyway?", with it's uncharacteristically raw rock riffage , which sounded more like Cochran than when they were really trying to sound like him. But , that was 30 years ago , I'D PROBABLY THINK IT WAS A PIECE OF SHIT , TOO , IF i HEARD IT , TODAY.

LITTLE RICHARD - "LIFETIME FRIEND" . THE BEAUTY ON DUTY TRIES TO SING ABOUT SUBTLE , AND OBVIOUS , XIAN THEMES TO A ROCK BACKDROP , WHICH ONLY OCCASIONALLY WORKS.  "Great Gosh a'Mighty" , the lone standout track , succeeds on both counts by rockin' like fuck , without pushing the religious envelope too hard. The version in the movie "Down and Out in Beverley Hills" is different. You should be able to buy the 45 from the movie , and the "Lifetime Friend" album and have change from your  Dollar.

iT'S NOT THE ONLY GOOD SONG , BUT IF ALL OF "SANDINISTA!" ROCKED LIKE THE CLASH'S COVER OF THE EQUALS' "POLICE ON MY BACK" , IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE OTHER ALBUM(S).

I LOVE X , I'VE LOVED ALMOST EVEYTHING THEY'VE DONE , OR , AT LEAST , LIKED IT....BUT , "AIN'T LOVE GRAND", THAT'S TOUGH....I LIKED "LOVE SHACK" ALL RIGHT. THEIR VERSION OF "ALL OR NOTHING" BY THE SMALL FACES WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE , IF , LIKE THE REST OF THE ALBUM , IT WERE'NT SO DAMNED OVERPRODUCED.

MIND YOU , THOSE SONGS SOUNDED FINE , LIVE.

dark part of my mind is the only good song with crazy elephant

also inna gadda devita with iron butterfly

John, I don't know what the problem is, but I can't respond to your private message, and I can't even post a comment on your page. In response to your question, yes, I would like to remain friends with you after the transition.

John Battles said:

SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET "DAYDREAMING AT MIDNIGHT" - There are good SONGS on here , but Doug's Sons and their love for G'N'R permeated the affair ( Shawn Sahm , mind you , is doing an ace job with the reformed Texas Tornados , And Shandon Sahm, well , he joined The Meat Puppets about 15 years after I stoped caring , BUT , I CAN ACCEPT THAT MORE READILY THAN THE MYTH THAT THERE'S ANY G'N'R IN SDQ) ......DOUG CLIFFORD REPLACED THE MIGHTY , MIGHTY MIKE BUCK ON DRUMS , AND I KNOW , I'M WHITE , I REMEMBER NIXON , I SHOULD BE IMPERVIOUS TO HAVING CCR SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT 40+ YEARS. I LIKE SOME OF THEIR SONGS , OK , I GUESS , BUT , I WAS NEVER CRAZY ABOUT HIS DRUMMING.......The BIG problem was how overproduced the album was.You can tell many of these songs would be gems if they sounded RAW (Which G'n'R and friends pretended to be.).......I kept my copy for their version of The Elevators' "You Don't Know(How Young You Are)" , though it , too , could have been stripped down , considerably.

BTW: Doug Sahm rebounded rather quickly with "The Last Real Texas Blues Band , Live at Antones'.".

On the other hand , Doug's otherwise uncommercial ( Swamp Pop -styled songs , all good.), but the ONE radio - friendly song . "Money Over Love" had HIT WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.  Did'nt happen , though.

Out of interest has the disilusionment changed since then? Britain seemed tidier under Blair though it seems to have been all a debt party with the hangover now and a bunch of wars to show for it. 

naz nomad said:

And there's an Exploited song giving one of their typically insightful political views in a barely audiable vocal track. Maggie You Cunt. It's kinda funny because those guys are pretty right wing, Wattie was a squaddie and punk aside would have looked on paper like a typical Tory supporter in the 80s.

 

Wattie like the rest of us, was disillusioned with the whole thing, But he spoke his mind. His aggravation at the wars in the world & whatever else pished him off...he could really tell it like it was. Opening lyric to politicians was "left this country in a mess"... heavy stuff
naz nomad said:

Try Let The Country Feed You By The Anti Nowhere League. Ha Ha Ha Theres a bit that says "The education isn't needed, Just sign your name & you've succeeded. Thatcher reduced the country to that.....ha ha ha C^~£!

naz nomad said:

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies said:

by the way...UK based internet radio station Dandelion Radio are running a one hour 'Thatcher Special',  broadcasting daily until the end of the month, times vary but there is a schedule on their website:-

http://www.dandelionradio.com/index.htm

...a couple of the tunes people have posted here feature.....

Plus this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ

"Born to lose, out to lunch." Haha!

From: http://www.nuthousepunks.com/blog/2013/07/09/windian-records-head-travis-jackson-on-the-art-of-reissues/

Windian Records head Travis Jackson on the art of reissues

Windian Records, based out of Washington D.C., is a fascinating label. Not only do they put out a seemingly bottomless trove of obscure (yet assuredly worth hearing) reissues, but they’ve been on the cutting edge of garage rock ‘n’ roll lately, releasing singles and LPs from everyone from Heavy Times to the Shirks.

Label head Travis Jackson was fantastic enough to take time out from following a crawling infant and working to answer some questions via e-mail about the label’s releases.

The label puts out both new releases — upcoming stuff from Ar-Kaics, the Hussy, and others — and reissues of some pretty crucial Penetrators records. How do you decide what new bands you’ll release? Is it just a case of what appeals to you, or do some bands seek you out at this point?

It’s a little bit of both. The majority of releases I either knew from touring or really dug the band and asked if we could do a single. I think the only band I’ve released through the demo process was the White Faces LP. I plan releases early for the whole year, and sometimes more is added.

With the reissues, I’ve always just reached out to one of the members work from their. Getting to work with The Penetrators releasing their whole singles collection, Testors, Bizarros, and Crushed Butler has been amazing. Definitely learned a lot. I’m more than ever focused on the reissue side of the label, it’s a lot more work and research, but it pays off when you put your imprint on some classic sounds.

When and how did the Penetrators’ connection come about?

I contacted Spike a couple years ago about reissuing the “Gotta Have Her” 45 and the hopes of putting together a Fred Records retrospective LP. The single did really well and we decided to just reissue everything from the Fred catalog on 7″ just as they came out initially (printed paper sleeves, promo sticker) 30 years ago. We are still working on getting to the Basement Anthology Volume 2, doing a lot of digging.

Some labels choose to just say, “Hey, trust us,” when it comes to singles series, but yours listed all the acts out in advance. Why do the latter, instead of the former?

When I decided to start a subscription series, I wanted the restrictions that come along with most other series to be limited. One of the most important is not signing off on a series you have no idea what you’re expecting. Every year you get to choose if you want the next set. So far we’ve had nearly an 85% turn around for #2, and I’m beyond flattered. I’m glad people were happy with the inaugural set, and I’m working really hard to make sure this years set tops last years.

One thing that worked really well was the reserve. I never liked paying a large sum and waiting for it to arrive. Also, pre-selling 200 box sets and getting 200 emails every week asking “where’s my records” will drive a healthy man to the brink of blowing their head off. So we decided to take reserves for $1 and when the set was ready to ship, sent an invoice. Their were some that couldn’t pay right away, but we held their set for 2 months in some cases until they could. Once reserved, it’s yours.

What’s involved in setting up a subscription series?

Packaging and sound. It has to be presented very well for someone to pull the trigger on 5 singles if they are only interested in say one of the bands. The response we received from our subscribers from the art of the factory sleeves, to the booklet, the button, the stamped mailing box it was shipped in was huge. I’ve been cut, folding, and glueing our sleeves since we started, and I was very involved with the art book as I designed and manufactured by hand. Sound I think is vital with this series as I hired an old friend Eric Brady to do the mastering. He’s done everything since for Windian as I was just blown away with his work on the series.

Going back to the reissues: your next reissue is a compilation of DC “stompers” called Capitol Rock ‘n’ Roll Volume 1: Garage Unknowns. Where did you pull the twenty tracks from?

This project has taken a lot of time and research. I’ve been working with Mark Opasanek who wrote a book about DC Rock and Roll a few years ago. A lot of them are from a killer comp that was released in ’84 called “Signed DC”. Ever since I heard that LP, I wanted to reissue it. The others I found through research or by talking to friends who had some original 45′s. This first volume is mostly 60′s stuff while volume 2 will focus on the 70′s punk scene (not Dischord) and volume 3 going back further to the 50′s focusing on early Rock and Roll and Soul.

Did you have an idea of what you wanted to included going into Capitol Rock ‘n’ Roll?

Link Wray. In my opinion, he is the most important musician to make music here in Washington DC. He performed “Rumble” for the first time live at a dance in Fredericksburg, Va., the town I grew up in. It’s amazing I even have the opportunity to release anything he ever recorded. I named my kid after him!

What should people know about Windian if they’re not already familiar with the label?

Born to lose, out to lunch.

Yeah , Glitter only had one hit in the states , "Rock'n'Roll,Pt.2" , of course. He became a star in Britain and on the continent , and , I guess , Australia ,  too , because of his NON - star like qualities . He seemed like a real good - natured fellow , and , people said he was , but no one knew , yet , what he was all about. Do I still love his music ? Of course , but this is a thread that's been covered......

What about Gary Glitter - Hello Hello I'm Back. Bad man, good song

YEAH , IT'S ONE OF MY LEAST FAVORITE , TOO. I first heard the album when it was loaned to me by a couple who'd just had a baby  and were REALLY into Children's music and Kiddie Rock , LONG BEFORE IT WAS CONSIDERED COOL - Like JONATHAN Richman's post - classic Modern Lovers stuff.....They loved this album. I liked going to  sleep to it. As is frequently stated in the notes , it's very hit or miss, but, I'm anxious to hear what they did with it anyway (The remixes on the "Travel With Your Mind" CD were ACE. No pun intended....). Plus , I'm very anxious to hear the outtakes. Sky had often been accused of being over - anxious in the studio, like , dancing wildly , as though he were doing a concert.

  I do have a copy of the Melodyland show , but, until recently , I did'nt know they'd undergone any personnel changes. Sounds like classic Seeds to me. Plus , the new songs hold their own.....Anxious to hear the "Raw And Alive" revisited.....For years , that was the only Seeds reissue you could find.  iF THEY CAN CLEAN UP "MELODYLAND" A BIT (IT'S STILL GREAT FOR A HAND HELD MICROPHONE , 45 YEARS AGO.), and lose the overdubbed audience noise , and get the levels right on "Raw and Alive", Mr. Palao should get himself some awards.

I oversold the doom and gloom of the liners but not the second disc. Sky is too loud in the mix but the Seeds when playing a song in early takes live in the studio, it's all glorious. These rough takes are the same Seeds as the first album. I keep hearing different mixes that could have been or how the arrangement of some songs could have been honed into rock and roll instead of being Futurized. I even like "Entrance Way" here (one of my least favorite Seeds tracks)!