From The Little Orange Book  , "The Wit and Wisdom of "?"".

"When we started out , people were calling us "Punks". I said , "Don't call us Punks !" , because to be a Punk , back then , meant to be a hoodlum. It does'nt mean that , today , but we were never "Punk" like The Sex Pistols. We're not violent".

"On "Girl , You Captivate Me ", where I say "Girl , You Masturbate Me". Love songs are fine , but , life is a little more REAL than that.

"Now , I don't cuss. But , when I did "Loose" by The Stooges , and Iggy sang "I'm burning to you straight from Hell." . Well , Iggy ain't got no ATTITUDE , you see , so I had to give it some attitude , by saying , "I'm FUCKING to you , straight from Hell !".

Incidentally , The Mentally Ill are playing a pre-show / art opening , Thursday at The Bottom Lounge, which is a straight shot West on Lake Street from State and Lake. If you are'nt driving , take a cab from Downtown , or the green line elevated train(To Diversey). Don't have the address handy , sorry.

It's still kind of a dicey neighborhood (It's a cpippled industrial area, not a "Neighborhood"as such. ) , not too bad , just be alert. The show is at 7 ,  so , it won't even be dark , then , anyway.

The whole of Chicago disagrees with me , but , The Mentally Ill was/is the best Punk band Chicago produced. Except , they're from Deerfield .

Always quotable. Johnny straddles the line , here , between intimidating and genuinely hilarious. OH, YEAH. He still does that. "Freedom . Something the Hippies spoke of...when I was selling LSD at Hawkwind shows....OH , SHIT. Edit that part out.
 
antonio said:

John...

When people say that punk ended in the late '70s/early '80s, I always assume that they only find their music from mainstream sources...

If we're to decide , for ourselves , whether Punk is a style of music or an attitude (I know , I'm tired of that word , too....), or if it is/was a cultural movement , or , all of the above ,then we also need to consider, has  Punk taken itself too seriously , or not seriously enough? Or , I'd wager , both.....I was talking with a younger guy about The MOJO and Uncut special "Punk"issues , released concurrently. He asked me how far the features went , time wise. I said , you know , around '79 , '80 . when it started to go away."WHEN IT STARTED TO GO AWAY?!!!!" , he said , "THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE !!!!". Of course , he was too young to have heard the word on everybody's lips , "PUNK IS DEAD". Not that we cared , in the 80's . If it's good music , which is one of two kinds , you can enjoy it before and after the revival starts.   That said who's to say Leadbelly , John Cage , Screamin' Jay Hawkins , and other , more blatantly obvious examples , like Link Wray , are'nt also Punk?

Get It – The Silvertones

Save It – Mel Robbins

Heartattack – Don & Dewey

Hound Dog – Little Esther

Georgia Slop – Big Al Downing

Wizard of Ah’s – Count Ferrell

Thunderbird – Hal Paige

Square Record – Bruce Culver

So What – Lyrics

So Hard – The Cliques

(Sock it to Me Baby) In the House of Shock – Animated Sounds

Get it On – Night Beats

Workin’ For My Baby – Lenis Guess

I Walk the Line – The Hot Dogs

Honey, I’m Too Old – Jack Oblivian

Shake ‘Em Up – Slim Green

Du De Squat – Lord Luther

Local Lunchbox

Taking the City by Storm – The Haskels

Helvetica – Couch Flambeau

Kids All Sing – The Nice Outfit

Invaders are Coming – The Young Savages

Members Only – Bobby “Blue” Bland

Let it Ring – Rubin Russell

Mama Ubangi Bangi – Four Sounds

Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow – The Rivingtons

For What You Lack – Liberty Bell

The Crunch – The Challenge

Say Mama – Chy Guys

Fouke Monster – Billy Cole & the Fouke Monsters

Plastic Surgeon – Dr. Yogami

Horizontal Action – Psycho Surgeons

Born to Lose – Heartbreakers

Anything That’s Out There – The Last

This is Aire Beat – The Squires

Hey Little Girl – The Kids

Give Her Up (Baby) – Jessica James & the Outlaws

Shout Bamalama – Pinetoppers

Do the Dive – Ronnie Fuller

I’m a Devil – Satan & Satan’s Roses

Shout Mama Linda – Fred Hughes

Fight Fire – Fantastic Dee-Jays

Revenge – Kookie Cook

Rockin’ & A Boppin – Carl Newman & His Nighthawks

One’s All the Law Will Allow – Luke Royer & the Rounders

Arabian Jerk – The Merits

Chicken Grabber – The Nighthawks

Morgus the Magnificent – Morgus & the Ghouls

Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight – Earl Vince & the Valiants 

Simon Stokes' last few albums are great too. His last one Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels is fantastic though my favorite still is Honky, which came out about 10 years ago.

The Angry Breed said:

joey fuckup said:

This band, the Angry Breed, are here on the Hideout, and they're into the biker image as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefUUrerCc0

Yeah, we're going for a biker image although we're not into "real" biker culture. Our thing are the movies and soundtracks of the biker exploitation film genre, mainly during the years 1966-68, although everything we do are our own originals. We're currently working on two songs for a split 45 EP with Italian fuzz masters The Hangee V (due to be released early next year) that will come loaded with... yes, you guessed it - FUZZ!

Check out this video of the song "Sickle Girl" from the upcoming EP to get an idea of what I was talking about. The record should be out this summer.

@ The Wardens. I found these straps at the Guitar center that have a locking mechanism built in so you don't need to pull out the starp buttons and add straplocks.  They're made by planet waves.

Ya, it was recorded at CHRW and they released a cassette with about a dozen songs on it, almost all covers. A couple of the songs, including the one you played, appeared on WW cassette comps. They were also on a CHRW CD comp....and got a very short listing in Tim Gassen's The Knights Of Fuzz book (which is now available as a DVD in case you don't have it).

You probably met James Bond, keyboardist from The Reply who used to be in that band.

Cool.  I found it on CHRW's site and it also says they recorded it there, very cool.  I wonder what was the last time they were on the radio?
 
whatwave dave said:

Frankenstein 5  !!!!!!!!!!!!    Only total 60's garage punk band to come outta sleepy London Ontario in the late 80's!!!!

Had great success with Morphius out of Baltimore. http://www.morphius.com/manufacturing/

Very personable and ended up getting an extra 20 or so records with overages.

We use Bandcamp for most every Big Bullet Records release, and if it's a release we really want on iTunes, Amazon, etc, we go through CD Baby, which is like a one time fee of $40 or $50 and it distributes to all of those online sites (you can even pick and choose which ones).

Bandcamp is great though because they can handle your physical orders and even do physical pre-orders with an instant digital download, which was a huge incentive with our last vinyl release. Folks could secure a vinyl copy, and enjoy the digital download instantly, and Bandcamp takes care of all of that...all you have to do is mail the records out once you're ready. I just really love the versatility of Bandcamp. You can also attach extra things with each download, like .pdf liner notes, bonus hidden songs, videos, etc.

I am interested to see how Limited Pressing works out as well. We recently started a distro site there for strictly vinyl releases. I like its integration with SoundCloud.

The Stooges - Funhouse

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

Ty Segall - Melted

Mean Jeans - Are You Serious

lots of newer stuff outside of The Stooges...these are the records that I never get tired of listening to.

Thank you if you voted. We made it and will be inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in June. YaHoo.

I really miss Rock'n'Roll Suicide too, one of my very favorite podcasts here.

R. Fink has a great weekly radio show too, check THIS if you're in deep need for lo-fi R'n'R !

Hopefully he will come back here with a tear-ass episode someday !!!

Show #373: "The Eggman Collection #113"

Every 3 weeks I do a series of shows called The Eggman Collection which is a big potpourri of every song I've ever liked in my life...EVER! It's literally a huge mixing bowl full of songs written onto tiny pieces of paper. Over 15,000 songs that I've been compiling for the past 20-plus years of my life. Every song I've ever liked has gone into this bowl, and every three weeks I draw them out one-by-one and play them for you in no particular order. A mix of everything and anything I like, no matter what genre, era, style or year of release...if I like it, then I'll play it! No repeats of the same song ever! Tune in tonight (Friday) at 10pm EST for the 113th installment of The Eggman Collection and hear bands and artists like: Ekseption, Hapshash & The Coloured Coat, Gun, Traffic Sound, Blonde On Blonde, The Tubes, Lighthouse, The Association, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Beatles, Montage, It's A Beautiful Day, Serge Gainsbourg, Quintessence, Erkin Koray, Norman Greenbaum, Episode Six, Lord Sutch, Miller, The Who, and many others!!!

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Live every Friday night at 10pm to 1am EST on WSCA-LP 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio!

Watch my playlist unravel before your eyes LIVE here: http://wscafm.radioactivity.fm/

Egg

Boy , there's almost never been bad casting FOR Renfield , Dwight Frye , Klaus Kinski , and now , Tom Waits......Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) is on the cover of his "Small Change " (OR IS IT "LOOSE cHANGE"...And , I got the good wordie that Alice Cooper has a cameo in "Dark Shadows , doing "The Ballad of Dwight Frye"...
 
The Pulsebeats said:

Another one of ol' Tom

Here's the Radio What Wave playlist for The Cedar Lounge radio special aired 5/10/12 on CHRW 94.9 FM....links at the bottom for the podcast which is up for 1 week only.

You walk in the door, pay your $2 cover and you're home!!!

Playlist May 10/2012....our special on The Cedar Lounge as it closed down May 1/1982, being London's only exclusive punk/new wave/whatever club since late 1977 when Uranus chased out the bluegrass mafia and took it over. Big thanx to Jack and Frank of Uranus for getting us this venue which was a home for many of us outsiders/non conformists/outcasts of society.

Here's a link to our Cedar Lounge page on facebook which has lots of pics and comments....

https://www.facebook.com/groups/68282891225/

This is was the outside of The Cedar Lounge...decorated with our fave bands!!

This show was almost all live recordings from The Cedar Lounge, the few that weren't are noted as such and fit into the time frame that The Cedar existed.

1. The Demics....New York City....from the first cassette of London based bands called Domestic Animals and recorded 12/21/79 at The Cedar.

2. Uranus...Shake Some Action...live recording at a car show in Toronto and was aired over CFNY approx May 1980. I don't have any live recordings of Uranus at The Cedar.

3. Teenage Head...Picture My Face...recorded off the airwaves of CHRW fall 1980 as this was a live to air from The Spoke And Rim (often this bootleg is referred to as the Spoke And Rimjob). I wasn't allowed into the event as i wasn't a student at Western so i stayed home and recorded it on my cassette deck. Opening for Teenage Head that evening were The Pointed Sticks (they also did a week gig at The Cedar) who were not overly happy about being given a very small part of the stage for their show and retaliated later that evening by flattening all of the tires on Teenage Head's truck.

4. The Stoves...Roller Coaster...from the cassette Domestic Animals and live at The Cedar 10/16/79. The first of many of the local bands that formed once the punk thing started happening here in London. This cassette was compiled by Peter Moore, who has since gone onto big things, producing Cowboy Junkies, remastering many re-issues for major bands and even doing movie and documentary soundtracks. He was a regular at The Cedar back then and recorded many bands with his styrofoam head with a microphone in each ear.
And getting back to the Domestic Animals cassette, that was released without any of the bands prior knowledge....suddenly a cassette appeared and bands were hearing themselves on CHRW and some were not happy!! Hence a little later, a cassette compilation appeared called Animals Fight Back! in which all of the bands involved contributed the songs that they wanted to appear on the cassette. September 1984 was the date of issue and we'll be hearing a song from this cassette a little later on...

5. NFG...Cowboy Rock...recorded somewhere, sometime. Pretty vague, but this and the next song were provided by bass player Bob Gliddon. This features original guitar player (and songwriter) Simon.

6. NFG...Weekend Punx....as above.

7. NFG....Johnny B Goode...recorded live at The Cedar Easter 1981 and recorded off the CHRW airwaves. I remember being at this show and singer Scott tossing out fistfulls of NFG buttons as it was supposedly the end of the band. This was probably played on Simon Less's (subtle nickname of Peter Moore who was removed from the airwaves a couple of times for something or other) CHRW show as he would play live material on his show back in the late 70's/early 80's and i'd have the tape deck ready.

8. First Date....Good In Bed...recorded live at The Cedar 10/15/81. NFG evolved into 63 Monroe, who evolved into First Date for a few shows and then went back to 63 Monroe. Does that make sense? Thought not. This was their first show under this name and ironically Rena and i were on one of our first dates at this show. This might have been recorded by Kerry Piper.

9. Certain General...Party In My Brain....recorded live at the Cedar 8/21/81. Certain General were from NYC and featured Londoner (and former B Girl) Marcy Saddy on the tubs. They drove all day from NYC, got out of their vehicle and hopped on stage at The Cedar and this show was for Doug and Roze's Stag And Doe!! It was a great party that night with lots of other bands that night. It was also the night that someone took up Marky Burnaway (63 Monroe guitarist) on his dare to be the first guy in London to cut their hair in a pink mohawk. Can't remember how much money Marky was going to put up, but i think it came down to a vial of hash oil that may have been consumed in the men's washroom at The Cedar. Oh ya, and the pink mohawk belonged to Rob Leclaire! Shoulda had a camera with me that night!! There was lots of other crazy action going on that night and i remember getting home after the sun came up, changing into my work clothes and going right into work hungover as a dog. Oh to be young again!

10. The Zellots....Soldiers....from the same night as above.

11. Forgotten Rebels....White Trash....from the CD The Forgotten Rebels and recorded by Paul Kobak in the fall/winter of 1980 at The Cedar. The Forgotten Rebels made their first of many appearances at The Cedar in the summer of 1980. After their first show there, someone (not me) went a bit crazy with spray bombs and decorated the local disco with swastikas on the windows beside the doors, left some impolite messages on the UIC (Unemployment Insurance office...where you went when you were looking for a job) wall and probably other locations. I didn't bother to go to bed that night and happened to be riding my bike around the next day, saw some of the lettering and captured it on film. Some of those pics appear on facebook....

Above...local disco hole with decorated windows...at one time these testosterone fused assholes would beat up on us punks.

12. Forgotten Rebels...I Think Of Her...as above. I remember Mickey giving me shit one show, and it was well justified. We were talking and Mickey was asking why there were so few people at the Cedar Lounge show and i told him that Carl Perkins was playing at Fryfogles that evening. Mickey proceeded to give me shit for missing this show and said that even he would have been there if he had known....hahaha...and i never did get to see Carl Perkins live.

13. Spiral Scratch...No Familiar Faces....recorded live at The Cedar 10/9/81. Spiral Scratch evolved from The Sinners (released 1 excellent 7") and singer Paul mentions the influx of metalheads into the scene at the beginning of this song....very true at the time.

14. Dead Rabbits...Watch Out...recorded live at The Cedar 10/9/81. Probably recorded on Kerry Piper's walkman as he was busy drumming in this combo.

15. Radio 4...Daytime/Night Time....recorded live at The Cedar 8/21/81. They started as The VD Teens, then Raw Dogs, then Radio 4 and eventually Sheep Look Up. A great local band that coulda and shoulda but didn't.

16. Radio 4...The Remedy....from the cassette compilation Animals Fight Back! An all London punk/new wave/whatever compilation mentioned above.

17. The Subhumans....Oh Canaduh!!! recorded live at the Cedar Lounge 6/12/81. Vancouver combo that was dearly loved in this town at the time as The Cedar was packed (or so i've been told) yet in Toronto, there were maybe 20 people out to see them at The Edge. I tried to talk to the band at The Edge show, but they were way pissed off about the situation. Oddly, The Edge closed its doors within days of this show.

18. Blue Peter....Same Old Place...recorded at Fryfogles 5/16/81. Blue Peter played many times at The Cedar but this is the only live recording i have of them. I remember being taken to Toronto to see Blue Peter open up for The Jam right around this time!

19. Simply Saucer...I Don't Care....me either, nor do i know where this was recorded, but it coulda been The Cedar Lounge as Simply Saucer played 5/16 to 5/19/79 at The Cedar. This recording was given to me by SS singer Edgar Breau when we had him on Radio WW a few years back.

20. 63 Monroe....Give 'Em Up...recorded on the last day of The Cedar Lounge, 5/1/82, recorded by sound guy Bob Klein and supplied to me by Danny Napalm.

21. Napalm Babys...Rock And Roll Part 3....as above. I didn't make it to the last day of The Cedar, i drank too much the night before and wasn't feeling well. And we really didn't think it would close it's doors for good, as it had closed for a short time prior to this. Oh well......

22. The Demics...The Grey and The Black...from the New York City CD on OPM..recorded live at The Cedar, but no date given. And that's a wrap as we end with the band we started this show with.
Hope you enjoyed this live at The Cedar Lounge special as it was a fun show to do, digging through loads of old tapes looking for the best sound quality.

And this is just a warm up for our big show coming up on Oct 26th....Underground Graphics London: 1977 to 1990. This will be a visual display of the posters/art/zines of the era and it will be housed at The Forest City Gallery. There will be an opening night party at APK where we get 4 bands from the era to reunite for one show only.....The Zellots, The Enemas, NFG and Uranus. It'll be a killer show, so don't miss this one.

Here's a link to the start of the web page for the event...big thanx to Compudata for setting this up for us:

http://graphicundergroundlondon.ca/

Lots more to come on that site....stay tuned and keep checking back.

Here's the links to listen to the podcasts which will be up for 1 week only:

http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu1800.mp3

http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu1830.mp3

http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu1900.mp3

One of these days Mell.....when you least expect it I'll sneak up on you!!! Just to get even for all those facebook pokes!!!

in person? never!

never

Well ,they , and others like them , are entitled to what they can get.They've worked their balls off. From what I can see , Iggy's not hurting for money , but his little toe works harder than most of these younger , supposedly cutting edge bands , and people like him should be celebrated for staying in it for the long haul. 
 I admit , I have'nt listed to "Loco" in quite some time , but he never went away and he's never looked back , yeh < "Don't Look BAAAAAACK !!!!" And , I'm not referring to the SHAME of Boston , but , the PRIDE OF BOSTON'S SONG BY THAT NAME.... 
MzAmar said:

I just saw Willie Loco Alexander play last night, he's 69 and he still looks and sounds great.  Decidedly rocking.  (I actually just looked up his age, I'm shocked!)  Iggy Pop is 65 now.  It's funny to think of he and Willie Loco trying to figure out Medicare Part D.  

I don't think anyone is too old to rock.  It's in your soul.  And I think rock keeps people young.  Rock is a wonderful thing.  

Y'all know I have a website devoted to this very topic, yes?  www.rockerzine.com.  I have spent a lot of time thinking about how rocking and age are not mutually exclusive.  

I have seen some people who are old and no longer rock (shall we name names?) and who should hang it up, but I salute those who keep on keeping on, despite how it gets harder to do as time goes by.  Nobody says about an old Blues or Jazz guy "aren't you a little old to do this?" but people feel free to say it to rock musicians who are just on the brink of middle age.  It's absurd.

Nice site, Mz A. I just read the Brokaw interview. I've seen him play a few times with Evan Dando. Great player.