Hey we are a Dutch surf band called the Phantom Four (old members of Treble Spankers) and we just did release a surf punk album with vocals. Just let us know what you guys think. Record gets great reviews in Holland but we would like to know what people outside Holland think. You can check out the songs on our profile. Btw we love Agent Orange and played with them in the past!

The Blackbirds were a Belgian band & somehow managed to get an Lp out on a dodgy label in the UK called SAGA records , (to save money the vinyl was mixed with coal dust)! The album is called No Destination & has a bored looking girl sitting on a battered suitcase with a smashed windows passenger train behind ! Space is the best track on the Lp & was also put out as the B side to No Destination 7"

Hope this helps, cat no; FID2113

Not to forget the 5 Gravel CDs...not as great as the a teenage shutdowns, but far better than any pebbles!

OK, I'm confused. You posted this topic in the '50s/'60s group, but are you looking for '60s bands or are you looking for more modern bands that play in that style? If you're looking for modern bands, there are thousands like that (what you're describing is simply the garage style of rock'n'roll with lotsa fuzz guitar/distortion, Vox or Farfisa organs, and primitive production). Try listening to our podcasts... that'd be a good place to start.

Maybe 1313 Mockingbird Lane , The Worst , Fortune and Maltese , Royal Nonesuch , The Brood , Gruesomes , Tell - Tale Hearts , Cynics , (Early) Pandoras , Ugly Beats , Untamed Youth , as far as Reagan Administration and after goes . But , I've heard virtually NO ONE that sounded remotely like Link Wray , The Sonics , The Cramps , nor even The Count V.

You can't buy that sound. Bands should listen to past masters for inspiration , then go out and find their own thing. 

Here's another from a band that we loved in the 90's. It might scratch your itch.

Ultra 5 "She's the Girl"

Start with Pebbles Vol. 5 for the old school comps that match what you're seeking.  If you are looking for current bands we suggest the Chesterfield Kings, the Woggles or Mondo Topless (their song "Panty Sniffer" meets all 3 of your criteria). 

Mondo Topless "Panty Sniffer" live

Try Early Zombina and The Skeletines, or the Love-Me-Nots for present day kicks like this.

there will be more... but I'm all Eastered out...

As far as that 60's go you gotta dive deeper into the depths of 60's Garage. Start with some comps like Pebbles, Back From The Grave, and Teenage Shutdown.

I have been searching for this sound that i cant find i think that it's got that fuzztones type organ and the fuzz guitar like Link Wray and the wierd themes like The Cramps, I'm sure there are other bands that have this, any suggestions?

Check out "Peter Nelson & The Castaways-Down in The Mine" it's on Diggin Up Down Under comp....proper Aussie garage rocker

Or it's not exactly about mining "It's A Hard Life-The Seeds" kind of blue collar thing ?

I'm cutting this to vinyl tonite. Thought it was the perfect share for the hideout.

http://www.reverbnation.com/thenotomorrowboys#

I also recommend The Coconut Coolouts on Dirtnap records for this kind of sound. 

Here is also a cool radio show I like.  Shake the Shack.

http://kexp.org/programming/progpage.asp?showID=6&1413=41005.75-1&96=41005.75-1&20=41005.75-1&256=41005.75-2

Excellent call with Atomic Suplax. We played with them in London last year and it was a spectacle to remember. Not heard the new record yet, but will rectify that right now. Manchester's The Black Knights specialised in pure trash garage sleeze a while back. They've since morphed into The Calimocho Club. More muscular, less sleeze, but still great trash.

 

I am just curious as to why no one has undertaken the task of archiving and documenting this grossly overlooked and significant part of Rock n' Roll history.  I have been collecting music from this scene from all kinds of compilations (Pebbles,BFTG, Teenage Shutdown, Highs in the mid-sixties, Quagmire, Gravel, etc.), and even though there is a sizable amount of mediocrity due to the compiler's need to use substandard filler material to extend these series for monetary gain, a significant amount of the material within these collections are surprisingly fresh in their originality despite the only availability of crude audio sources and recording technologies of the time. I also have been surprised to see video of some of these obscure bands on You Tube which I think could be used in such a project. I think they could also hunt down some of the members of these bands for interviews and give them the opportunity for exposure and royalties from the project.

The only reasons that I can think of why this has not happened, is royalties, legalities, public domain issues, civil agreement among all contributors, niche market due to non exposure, and just the amount of money, time, research etc....  But I do think it's a shame that the general public only know "one side" of sixties rock, and the other hundreds of regional rock bands have no exposure, due to the fact they had to compete with the HUGE successes of the Beatles, Stones, Who, Doors, Kinks, Hendrix etc... and had to undergo maybe some marketing censorship in some cases. One can only imagine how interesting and enlightening a comprehensive documentary paying tribute to those regional garage bands that had a unique talent, but didn't have the right managers, promoters, record deals or timing to make it big at that time, could be.

I think we could only hope that one entrepreneur with the right vision and financial backing, support, industry connections and attention to detail, could pull this off in our lifetime!

One last thing... I did buy one documentary on garage rock but it was sort of cheaply made, and had almost no performance footage and just glossed over the topic by focusing on a few bands.

HA HA HAAAAA!!! I remember someone trying to tell me that !

I thought "Ziggy Stardust" originally said "He could lick c*m by smiling , he could lead them to Hell. He came on so "Loaded" man , well - hung , snow White Trash."

AND - "JIVING US THAT WE WERE VOODOO , THE KIDS WERE JUST CRAP.". 

And that "Hang on To Yourself" went " If you like  f***ots and Vaseline".

Sometimes , the words were just too close together. There's a Romeo Void song that went "Get that jerk off your mind"   But , it sounded like "Get that JERKOFF , you're mine.". BUT THAT HAD TO BE INTENTIONAL.

But.....Two songs that would have been branded as Politically Incorrect for eternity , if everybody heard them the way I first did (And , trust me , I was shocked , at the time .)

"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" Standells   (The Bishops had a Politically Incorrect version.) .

"In The Middle of The Night " Madness .

 

Old School Hero said:

I agree with you. My only problem with the Beatles is how they rob attention from all the other great mainstream acts of the time. Young people looking into 60's music will unfortunately stop with The Beatles and forget about looking into The Animals or The Yardbirds for example.

Very True, unfortunately even the non mainstream acts! 60s Alternative/Garage Rock has had NO comprehensive representation or RECOGNITION for that matter. It's appallingly pathetic! The Rockn' Roll Hall of fame in Cleavland is big DISGRACE for not doing something about this injustice, just like the Grammy's, an infantile and idiotic popularity contest to boost sales of talentless acts!

Great introduction Bobby ;-)

Bobby said:

Bobby

35, Living in Pittsburgh, Pa (USA) 

listened to metal until I was @12 or 13 when a friend turned me on to the Misfits, Agnostic Front, 7 Seconds etc... It was all downhill from there... 

The Cramps really turned me to a life of sin at a young age... I have lived for booze, drugs (gave these up because of the junkies I had to spend time with), sin, & rock & roll ever since... 

Got married in Jamaica to a super hot punk girl, too much of living the life led to several minor arrests, her putting guns in my face on a regular basis, getting held hostage by a local crazy, etc...

After a nervous breakdown (I noticed somebody else mentioned this happening also) I'm back on the mend these days.  I lost a 20 year record collection, all my guitars & clothes... Recently got a new turntable, started my record collection over (it sucked losing it, but it really is fun starting a better one.)

Started school to become a machinist last week & it's great, been writing songs again & waiting to see what state/city I land in next to start a new rock & roll band.

As far as my music taste these days, anything on Voodoo Rhythm, everything I heard from Burger Records, everything I have heard from Douchemaster Records, Get Hip, Velocity of Sound... Big Nobunny fan, big Spits fan, really into punk, oi, old rock & roll, r&B, doowop, Mark Sultan, 60's garage & psyche (off the top of my head.)

Probably way too much info, but I blame that on the medication & the booze...

Cheers kiddies!

Hope this gets off the ground, meanwhile how about some garagepunk sponsored bills put together by members in various cities for general promotion/good times?

I'd be willing to help put something together in Boston.

Now Hear This! Garage and Beat from the vaults of legendary producer/engineer Norman Petty. On Big Beat. Loads of great bands from 65-67, many tracks UN-released. 25 tracks and nice booklet too.

pilin' on more comp platters here:

Gamma Knee Kappa

Land of 1000 Dances

Friday at the Hideout

Mondo Frat Dance Bash a Go Go

T-Bird Party!

dig it...

Hey good subject, wich comps float yer boat...I will say yes to all the above!

am currently into Twistin Rumble vols 1-8,real gone garbage (with great color sleazo covers)

also worth checkin out for UK stuf from BBC broadcasts is Shapes & Sounds vol1-3,Look at Sun & Radio Tymes ... all put out by Top Sounds ...

Got real lucky last nite, fellow GaragePunk Hideout member Warren of the Berries made it out to my band's show and it was wild gettin' to speak to another fiend in the flesh...we do exist!

Exactly!  We were in Macy's last Christmas and heard a weird Muzak-y version of Pixies "Gigantic".  We couldn't believe our ears, but no one else was paying any attention.  Zombie apocalypse now!

 

Joanie Lindstrom said:

I'm always shocked at how few people notice good background music.  Maybe it's the DJ in me but I'm always listening, me and other DJ friends try to name that tune before the other person, etc.  Others act like it's white noise.  Oh well.

Link Wray and the Cramps never get old and the Meteors, i can listen to them over and over

Len Price 3 are ace! We're currently hammering Jay Reatard'sBlood Visionsand there a few ace tunes on there that come in under the 2 minute mark, the title track being one perfect slice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Kt5pNPsDw

RIP