Well you've named the big American cities, but what about a bit further east? London's an obvious one, Liverpool of course ;-) see other thread. Hamburg and 80s Matchbox B Line Disaster alone is enough to put Brighton on the garage map.

And although in the grand scheme of things the Ruhrgebiet could be flattened and no one would notice the cultural void left. I would still put Essen and co as garage cities for that reason. Because although little gets made here someone needs to listen to this shit. And well there must be like 5 million people in a region that seems like one big disabled car park!  You don't get more primitive than that.

The problem with these things, if you ask me, is once you start including bands, then you start including their influences and pretty much any band or artist that somehow falls under wild rock'n'roll gets lumped in with "garage punk." There's too much crossover between good ol' rock'n'roll and garage rock and garage punk and whatever else you wanna call this noise we all dig. Now, if you ask me (again, ha!), the title of this thread says it all: Garage-Punk Hall of Infamy. Which bands were "from the garage" (or had that "sound") and then combined that with punk attitude? While I think punk has obvious roots in the '60s (and even '50s), ya gotta remember that it wasn't called that back then, and it wasn't until the '70s that bands started being called (or calling themselves) "punk" and then "garage punk" came even later than that (thanks to Tim Warren, I think). Retrospectively, you can look back at the recorded output of lots of bands and say, yeah, ya know, the Sonics, Monks, Link Wray, Seeds, all of that stuff is essentially punk rock... even though at the time it was just called rock'n'roll or teen music. Bands of the '80s garage revival... the rowdier ones, anyway, were the first to really combine garage AND punk and make it into its own distinct style or subgenre of rock'n'roll, which is where the Mummies, Oblivians, Cynics, Guitar Wolf, Stomachmouths, New Bomb Turks, Teengenerate, the Devil Dogs, Thee Mighty Caesars/Headcoats and so on fit into this. And notice, too, that he used the word "Infamy" and not "Fame"... what's infamy? Having a reputation for something that's viewed as evil or bad. Not for being "famous" (which has always been my problem with the "Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame"... a lot of the greatest rock'n'roll acts were never all that famous, sad but true).

Not sure where I'm going with this, but it's interesting nonetheless. I guess some of those acts that you recommended, John, while I agree are all fantastic, I just don't think all of them fall under this sort of category unless you really start opening the floodgates, ya know?

I'd be hard pressed to nominate too many newer acts. The  Jeffrey Evans honorary mention was was real class. But , if The Oblivions , Gories , and other contemporaries of his would eventually all be nominated , then Jeff shouldget full honors.

Since they should have been in the so -called Rock Hall 25 years ago , I'd have to  nominate Paul Revere and The Raiders , and , as longas I'm thinkin' Northwest (Which is probably where such a Hall might well reside. We used to call stuff like The Sonics "Grunge Rock" before the movement using that name sprang up.) , Tha Wailers is where I'd begin , then move on to tHE KINGSMEN , Don and The Goodtimes , and many lesser knowns.

Other nominees for location might include Chicago (Hey , we had a HUGE scene for this stuff , even if virtually no one cares , anymore.) , Dallas/Ft.Worth (Ditto. Tho' the "Teen A Go Go  FILM MUST NOT ESCAPE YOUR RADAR.), AND , i DUNNO , A BUNCH OF OTHERS.

I would induct , if it were only in my power , Fred Cole , Roky Erickson , Sky Saxon , Question Mark , Kenny Daniel ,  Sean Bonniwell , James Lowe , Arthur Lee , Dave Aguilar , their bands , their friends' bands, and many more that none of 'em ever met.....

Link Wray , OF COURSE , takes top honors. As does Davie Allan and Travis Wammack.

Far lesser knowns like Milan/The Leather Boy , Dean Carter , Jack Starr , Donny B. Waugh , Stud Cole , Swamp Rats , Nobody's Children , Third Bardo and a zillion others deserve some kind of placement , too.

As far as more recent stuff , I'd say Fortune and Maltese , The Brood , The Woggles , Royal Pendletons , Cynics , Sons of Hercules , Sirens , Waste Kings , Loons , and even the original Shitty Beatles (Dallas , mid - 80's.).

For the 90's I'll add Supercharger and Teengenerate.

Before the discussion list explodes with everybody throwing in their two cents...  What about using google docs or something to set up an actual nomination form?  That way we could easily count up entries/noms and maybe set up a few categories

I would be willing to host it on my website.

Dang, kopper beat me...

I vote for the Oblivians, and everyone connected to them.  And Jay Reatard.

And Billy Childish gets the "Lifetime Achievement Award".

Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Evans 

Yes, the Mummies, of course, but wouldn't you also want some "forefathers" in there as well? For example: Link Wray, Dick Dale, Bo Diddley, Wanda Jackson, Hasil Adkins, just to name a few. Maybe start there, then move into the garage rock explosion of the mid-'60's, and on from there...Or were you just considering the garage underground of the '90's through today? Lots of good choices there as well! You'd have to include the Cramps and the Fleshtones as torch bearers, as well as others that formed in the '70's...The Stooges should also be in there, but hell, there's so many we could list! As far as the city it should be based in? Hmmm...

The Cramps!!!

Billy Childish!

Oblivians!

And, naturally, the Sonics!

"that Hall of Fame is a piss stain"

-Sex Pistols letter to Cleveland Museum of Rock and Roll

http://stereogum.com/img/sexpistols_hof.jpg

HA HA HA HA ! "Cop Killer" ! THAT'S HILARIOUS ! "My name is Dee Dee King , I'm gonna dust off some cops...." Maybe not if I'd BEEN there, tho'.    I remember him doing great versions of "Dust My Broom" and "Ace of Spades"the second time I saw him , plus a ravin' "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" as per The Stones' version.
 
Rev. Norb said:

I mean...they were pretty out of it. They did covers of like "Cop Killer" and "Ace of Spades" and "Dust My Broom." It was just weird. 

John Battles said:

Rev. Norb , Now I get you. At first , I did'nt know who you meant . I did'nt know you were in Boris The Sprinkler , then , it dawned on me , you might have been.....

I DON'T DOUBT THEY DID SOME TERRIBLE SHOWS. IT MIGHT HAVE DEPENDED ON WHAT SUBSTANCES , AND HOW MUCH. BUT , BOTH SHOWS I SAW WERE GREAT. IT WAS BEFORE THE PUNK REVIVAL HAPPENED A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER. MOST PEOPLE COULD'NT HAVE CARED LESS ABOUT THE 70'S PUNK STUFF. THE DICTATORS HAD PLAYED THE SAME VENUE TO ABOUT 150 PEOPLE , MAYBE LESS. BUT DDRand The CDs kicked out The Ramones/Heartbreakers jams , with a hint of VERY early Stones when I saw 'em.

I met Dee Dee , briefly , he was very nice , and very funny.....A friend of mine saw him try to change a C-note at a Qwick- E -  Mart.

 
Rev. Norb said:

Dee Dee's band. We were ok i guess.

John Battles said:

Do you mean Boris The Sprinkler or Dee Dee's band?
 
Rev. Norb said:

Boris The Sprinkler's first-ever show was with Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons. They were godawful.

.....I'm too lazy to find it , but , I know , somewhere , I said Gary sang a total of two songs in America (R&R Pt.s 1 and 2 , of course , and I'm The Leader of The Gang ( I Am) at the "Soccer Rocks The Globe" show , when The World Cup was held in Chicago , in '92 , I believe.) , but , I just remembered he did the umpteenth "Quadrophenia'' tour with The Who , Billy Idol and Zak Starkey, in '96 (?), as "The Godfather". I'm sure a LOT of people in the audience did'nt know who he was.....

Yeah... Atomic Suplex.

Tyler said:

Atomic Suplex

Tv Freaks

Shirks

Midnite Snaxxx

Thee Oops

 

Atomic Suplex

Tv Freaks

Shirks

Midnite Snaxxx

Thee Oops

 ...edit. Forgot to mention the Fadeaways from Japan

Gangrena Surf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8ldrlSUkk

Cheers.

and litte lou by eddie cochran! typical girl trouble!

dead boys meat in yr mouth..

One more:

Radio X

I had no idea SFTRI was dead... didn't they do The Ettes album last year?

Long Gone John was certainly proud to be a jerk, but he had an eye for talent. 

You guys covered most of my favorite departed labels, but I also miss:

One Louder (UK)- sure, they put out that MOA? re-issue, but nothing new since the 90s

WorryBird Disk- they were small, but specialized in 7"s, which I'm addicted to

Iloki- surf label in the 80s, punk in the 90s, dead by 2000

Yes saw that cheers :-)

Just submitted a track, the Halloween volume is a great idea!

See message above, Mr. Tea.

Mr Tea said:

If we have already had songs on other comps can we still submit for the halloween volume? Or do you want all new bands?

Good question! This special volume will be open to ALL bands, even if yours has already had a song on a previous volume.

Thanks for asking!

Captain Higgins said:

Are bands that have already been on the compilation series being considered for this special edition, or still just bands which havent been on the comps?

Are bands that have already been on the compilation series being considered for this special edition, or still just bands which havent been on the comps?

I'm honored to announce that Stephen Blickenstaff, the iconic artist who did the cover art for the Cramps' Bad Music for Bad People LP (1983) will be designing the cover art for a special Halloween-themed volume of the comp series with a target release date of early October. I'm beyond thrilled! Oh, and Haunted George (aka Uncle Yah-Yah of the Haunted Shack Theater podcast) will be pulling together some b-movie/horror film soundbites to sandwich in between the songs. Muhahaha!! BANDS: Get your creepiest original songs in as soon as you can for this! Deadline will be September 16.

Are the Impediments still around? That band kicked ass. They put out an album in 2009, and i'm pretty sure there were members around 16 or 17.