i made this song up last year. just off the top of my head. no vocals yet, cause i'm not a singer, but i have fun listening to it on my iPod while i walk the sidewalks of Manhattan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwZMsqDKgc

The Aug. 21st Show!  Listen here: http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20120819-0030-t1345332601.mp3

The Setlist:

And here we go! I heard back from Greg, and here's a direct quote:

"The Oblivians record is finished and should be out by the end if the year. Reigning Sound album is on the way for next year as well as a new Parting Gifts record!"

IT WON'T BE LONG NOW!! And remember, you heard it first here on Hideout! ;)

GENIUS! We could collect collect a bunch of suggestions here and post a top 3 list or something to the ITR Facebook page! 

Or should we just propose The Great Uncles...? 

John Battles said:

 Maybe we could meddle and interfere by staging a contest to name the band. Actually , I think "The Great Uncles" is a great name !

i lived in Austin twice and still miss the scene. May move back there. 16 years in NYC may have been enough.

Stoned Again Productions said:

Hi, I live in Austin. I am here because the music is exactly what I was looking for.  I was a teen all through the 70s.  Bands were playing / practicing in garages all over the city . It was way to cool.  You could pick and choose. The garage old school punk sound was considered pretty heavy back in the day, compared to today's standards.  I am just gonna enjoy myself. I did read the Terms Of Service before I signed up.  All is well. Good day, Drew F

I feel like a damn fool for having completely lost touch with the NYC music scene. I used to be in bands and have a lot of fun back in the day. Then I got in a relationship for 9 years and cocooned may way into nowheresville. Now that I'm single, and geezer-ish, I want to get back to my rocking roots. Is there any hope for me?

I have guitars, amps, pedals, time and riffs.

I'm Simon, live in Toronto. Grew up on '80s hardcore and got heavily into earlier punk etc at the end of the '80s, as hardcore started to get stale and the first KBD-style comps started to appear. Been into all kinds of underground rock'n'roll ever since. I really dig learning about older scenes and collecting records, and I run a label that mostly does reissues nowadays. The first Real Kids LP is my all-time favourite record, if that tells you anything.

Set your tone with a good amount of mid, some gain, and play hard. HAVE FUN.

Cheap guitar, fuzz, 4 chords, a few wild notes and there you go, GRGPNK.

Download some drum samples or loops off the net and have fun building beats. For garagey stuff, it don't take much! I've wasted more time waiting for drummers to show up than I care to admit. Steve's surf drum samples worked perfect for my type of sour mash garage tunes.

Your pal,

Frank

jailbird said:

On a similar note(and completely serious - disregard my joke above) - what are the best things to drum on for a home recording/bedroom 4 track setup that sound good and lo-fi(ala Jay Reatards bedroom recordings, etc)when you dont actually have drums and/or a drummer? Ive tried boxes and buckets, but if anyone knows of a better solution besides getting a drummer, lemme know. Thanx.

Does anyone know anything about this band? They've got one song on Wanghead Records' 1987 comp "It Came from the Garage II" called "How Can I Miss You? (If You Won't Go Away)." Sounds like a dead ringer for The Cramps. I tried to Google and I can't find anything about them.

I'm attaching an MP3 of the song.

P.S. - You can download the comp (legally) here: http://archive.org/details/ItCameFromTheGarageIi

Agree again we must sing from the same song sheet

The Angry Breed said:

Another band that comes to mind is the Morlocks, who had a pretty authentic 60's garage punk sound on their Emerge album.

Another band that comes to mind is the Morlocks, who had a pretty authentic 60's garage punk sound on their Emerge album.

You Gotta Go does it for me and had the lp once yeah sound wise they are pretty close mate

The Angry Breed said:

The Wylde Mammoths had a great and really authentic mid 60's teen garage sound.

Yeah, that version of "Tough Lover" definitely sounds like it could have been recorded in the 50's. Here's another song in the same vein also sounding really authentic by Ray Collins Hot Club whom I got to see live just a month ago at the Hultsfreed Hayride weekender.

Actually I don't know, but it has this surface texture that makes it look like it isn't made of wood. It looks like it wants to be cool ("oooh, black") but in fact is totally square. But still, no bad words against John Darnielle!

[Two minutes later] I've checked, and it seems to be a graphite guitar: http://www.rainsong.com/models/ws1000.asp

What's the special thing about them?

A few that seem obvious to me that haven't been mentioned, although not necessarily always in the '60s vein, are The Stranglers, Murder City Devils, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy. Also, The Bomboras have a prominent organ, but about 99% of their stuff is instrumental surf rock.

Download or stream the entire Aug. 17 show right here.

The Shadow Knows – Link Wray & the Wraymen
Tombstone Shadow – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chase Your Shadow – Wax Museums
Shadow – The Lurkers
Shadows of the Prison Bars – Boots Till
Shadows – The Five Satins

Send Me a Picture, Baby – Mel Williams
The Continental Walk – The Five Satins
The Goose, Pt. 1 – Don Markham & the Marksmen
I Wanna Be Your Vicar – Thee Vicars
Walrus Eats Taxman – Die Zorros
Rainbow Stomp – The Mixtures

Who Needs Ya – Johnny Casino & the Secrets
Bitter – Black Box Revelation
Nature Boy Ric Flair – Molten Universe
Spoonful – The Kramers

Hey Valentine – Apache Dropout
Yellow Phone – The Ripe
Dandelion – Baby Woodrose

Local Lunchbox
I Hope Tomorrow Comes – Leg Hounds
Turn that TV Off – Boris the Sprinkler
Molly, Molly – The Hussy
Fuzzy – The Orbits

5 Miles – Catl
Our Lady Sittin’ in the Dining Room – Copper Gamins
I Keep My Eyes on You – Mack “Barracuda” Paramo Fuzzy Blues
Mornings Like These – Crystal Thomas
Bad She Gone Voodoo – Chief Fuzzer

The Creeper – Velvet Monkeys
Disco Light Booty Shine – Uncle Butcher & His One Man Band
Weekend – Peg Leg Love
Alpha Mule – The No Real Need
Scissor People – Ty Segall & White Fence

Leave Me Waiting – The Mess Around
She Sleeps Tonight – The Chimiks
Punk Confusion – Audacity
Down Your Street – Woolen Kits

Serves You Right – The Gruesomes
Runaway Daughter – The Electric Mess
Read Your Mind – The Go Wows
I Think She Digs Me – The Connection
You’re Bad For Me – The Meltdowns

Let’s Dance – The Attention
This Love is For Real – Stupidity
God Surf the Queen – MFC Chicken
Stay Away From Boys – Janey & the Ravemen
Paint Me – The Exciters
Where are the Freaks – Spanking Charlene

You Better Run – Wild Evel & the Trashbones
Jack the Ripper – Angus MacMannus
Lewinski Stomp – Harmonica Lewinski
Rockin’ in the Graveyard – Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers
On the Road Again – The Deadlys

Ghost Train – Shonen Knife
Boasting – The Chefs
Waste of Time – Paint Fumes
Cleo’s Gone – The Gay Sportscasters

Knockouts from UK. I have some of their tunes on my page: http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/ElliotSmoke.

I'm in the band; hope it's ok to self-promote.

Mind Spiders

James Marrow's Shambling Towards Hiroshima - A tribute to B-Movie actors and a giant mutated lizard.

My good buds in the band DUST FROM 1000 YRS. use a maracka as the beater on the kick. It gives it a great sound blend.
Great topic btw! Just this weekend I started my solo guitar vox and kick drum career. The whole time there was a bit of a rattle/vibration I felt would be cooler if a tambourine was in the mix somewhere.
Ask EDDY PRICE of Th'Empires

I'm not an expert or anything, and I'm not familiar with those guys you mentioned, but the first thing that comes to mind is the "tambourine in there somewhere." My drummer puts a tambo on top of his hi-hat sometimes. 

I think you're talking about a basic, stand-up rockabilly drum setup, no? Anyway, the basic recording technique is the same for any kind of kit. You put two mics on overhead boom stands, equidistant from the center of the kick, maybe a foot or so to either side of the kit, and about 6 or 7 feet high. Record these on separate tracks, and later, mix them with a spread, anywhere from 30/30 out, depending on what other instrumentation you have, and the sound you're after. The spread gives a sense of movement, or stereo.

Mic the snare and kick, and bring up these tracks in the mix to round out the drum sound. You can mic the top and bottom of the snare, and blend the two tracks for the sound you want. If you're just using one mic on the snare, mic the top. You'll get some bleed from the other drums in these mics, but it'll be mostly the drum you mic. Mic the kick from the front, not the back where the pedal is. My drummer's kick has a hole in the front head, about 6", I put the mic a few inches in front of that.

What kind of mics to use could fill up many pages of another thread, but use what you have, even stage mics can give a decent sound. Experiment with placement of the mics, it can make a big difference, as can the acoustics of the room you're in. In the mix, you'll probably want to EQ a lot of it, especially the kick. Keep the levels out of the red! You can always bring them up in the mix, but it's impossible to undo oversaturation. 

Of course, there are other ways of doing it, but this is a common technique, and I could go on a lot more about finer points. The are lots of how-to vids on Youtube.

I'm looking towards setting up a basic one man drum setup for recording at home, similar to Ty Seagal, Dead Elvis and His One Man Grave, Mark Sultan etc

I'm basically think a snare and bass drum, both with individual foot pedals but I'm wondering if anyone has any idea how BBQ gets his sound, because it sounds like he's got a tamborine in there somewhere, I've seen him once before but it was a few years back and I can't seem to find close up pictures on the internet. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for one band drumming or ideas on recording drums for someone who isn't a drummer I'm welcomed to hear anything.

Show #385: "The Eggman Collection #119" playlist:

Gryphon - "Opening Move"
Mason - "Golden Sails"
Bee Gees - "Holiday"
Kuni Kawachi & His Group - "Where Are You Walking Now"
The Donshires - "Sad And Blue"
The Kinks - "Apeman"
Tudor Lodge - "Two Steps Back"
Funkadelic - "I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing"
October Country - "She's Been Away"
The Tremeloes - "Norman Stanley James St. Clair"
Cher - "I Go To Sleep"
Cat Stevens - "Where Do The Children Play"
Mark Wirtz - "What's Good For The Goose"
The Dolphins - "I Don't Want To Go On Without You"
Plastic Ono Band - "Remember Love"
Rainbow Ffolly - "Sighing Game"
The Herd - "Sunshine Cottage"
Uncle Sound - "Beverly Hills"
Dirty Filthy Mud - "The Forest Of Black"
The Lollipop Shoppe - "You Must Be A Witch"
Deep Purple - "And The Address"
The Savage Rose - "The Shepherd & Sally"
Gandalf The Grey - "My Elven Home"
Kaleidoscope - "Lie To Me"
Wilson Pickett - "I'm In Love"
The Joint Effort - "Mary On A Go-Round"
The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble - "Asking Too Much"
The Rock Garden - "Perhaps The Joy Of Giving"
She - "Boy Little Boy"
The Sandpipers - "What Makes You Dream, Pretty Girl"
The Velvet Underground & Nico - "Sunday Morning"
The Moles - "We Are The Moles (Part 2)"
Guru Guru - "The Girl From Hirschhorn"
Spatz - "Ironica"
Matching Mole - "O Caroline/Instant Pussy/Signed Curtain/Part Of The Dance"

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