I didn't get into punk....It got into me and has bin there ever since 'Vive le Difference!'

Dave wrote:
"the breakthrough for me was hearing the Nuggets collection that Fall at a friend's house (which was ultimately the more powerful argument for non-commercial sounds)."

Kinda ironic you'd say those sounds were non-commercial, since several of the songs on that album were AM radio hits.

I was twelve years old. For me, it was a combination of (a) reading Creem magazine, (b) listening to Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show, and (c) some of the more accessible "new wave" bands were starting to make minor inroads that year (1979).

I should also add that I was a fan of 50s and 60s rock, thanks to oldies radio. Punk and new wave, to me, sounded like a return to those bygone eras. Looked like those bygone eras, too. At a time when the typical rock star looked like THIS:


...the typical punk rocker looked like a throwback to the Monkees:

^^^This may appear to be standard rock star attire now, but for the mid-late 70s, hair this short looked almost stark.

I was 15 big into Mudhoney and the Screaming Tree's when I was in a record store and seen the cover to Social D's heaven and hell album was blown away and haven't looked back since!

By accident. In the early 70s I ran a wire from my radio to the roof with a homemade metal clothes hanger antenna and picked up some Houston stations 60-70 miles away. Fortunately before I discovered punk and hard rock it was blues, rock n roll, and garage my parents had on vinyl playing around the house constantly.

Check these guys out. Not new but just got sent this. Amazing stuff

just found this, and that's pretty good !

lugnoro - oga for oga

Thank you Dave.

Yeeeeeeaaaaah !!! Of course I love "good ol' Northwest-style breaks" !

Give me as  many ear-tearin' breaks, ass-kickin' riffs and mind-blowin' licks as you want !

But pleeeeeeeeeaaase, no endless crappy solo. I know you're the best musician around but I don't care about your great ability and fabulous velocity !

Keep your finger tricks and give us kicks !

dave said:

Yep 100% agree !

Andy Climax said:

Anyone mentioned 'the soul' yet? Lets face it we all know when a song is bullshitting us. When the soul and the gnarl are in perfect harmony then we gotta groove!

I think our guitarist/spiritual guide may have it on order. I'll ask him tomorrow!

Looks cool.

Howdy hodads!

Any weirdos here have this recently released box set yet? Worth trackin' down?

One more post-Christmas Christmas song:

Power Pop Santa:

Which outlets in Seattle happen to get it?

@Rod, it gets into Seattle & Olympia & Vancouver. Vincent, what other kind of magazines are there?

DAMN!!! Got alot of catching up to do.

Looks like a great read. Glad someone is still doing print magazines.

I'm just outside of Seattle, WA.

Hey Rod, where are you at? PORK is in a lot of cities & towns you might not expect!

This is definitely why I miss a place like Fallout Records in Seattle.  It would carry mags like this and every type of fanzine available.

thanks sean - dropping you an email now from tim at indiebandsblog.com

I guess when we think about the Dylan-Donovan comparisons, we tend to forget that Donovan only did folk type material for a year.  We also forget that during that year, Dylan went rock and roll which boarders on a sixties punk type of sound.  A lot of good outtakes from 1965 and 1966 have been released from time to time in his bootleg series.

Yeah, I was wondering when someone was going to present the clip from that Dylan movie. 

Even though either musician may not really "fit" in this garagepunk community, I would think that Dylan totally blows Donovan away. 

The lukewarm response towards Dylan surprises me on this website, but contrariness abounds in the world of punk and garage.  Well, Dylan is a master contrarian.

I see the ad on TV all the time but I live in a single screen theater town and it's really not on the priority list.  I'm probably gonna wait until it come out on On-Demand.

It hasn't come to Pittsburgh yet, but I will see it when it does. I'd like to know what you think of it, John.

John Battles said:

I have'nt seen it , but plan to , ASAP....it got three stars , and a favorable , front page , writeup , in The Chicago Tribune , and the Chicago Reader gave it a pretty good review , noting it's "Not as fun as "That Thing You Do"". I'd be pretty disappointed if there were nothing dark about it.....Like how young bands got bullied and pimped out by Gangsters  , and harrassed by The Police , at the same time , here in Chicago , and , I'm sure , other major cities. And , God forbid your hair was one strand past the acceptable ,if anachronistic , length. Lots of bands got stomped on for that , or the obvious fact that chicks dug 'em.