I use a '67 KAPA Minstrel (see below).  American body, neck by Hofner, electronics and pickups by Harmony.  The Minstrel has a thin trebly tone, very much like an old Rick.  Clean, with all three pickups engaged, it has a pleasingly lush vintage tone, very reminiscent of the Mercy sound;  overdriven, it screams, squeals, and often throws an uncontrollable fit. I suspect this is due to the dicey pickups.  It's an unpredictable beast, but that's part of the charm. 

I use the Minstrel for all my solos in THEE DIRTYBEATS, as it contrasts so well (and cuts through) Jamie's thick fuzzed-out Mosrite -- another guitar with especially good tone for garage.

The following track has examples of both tones. The opening riff is the Minstrel with overdrive, while the backing guitar during the verses is the Minstrel played clean.  The terrific solo is Jamie's Mosrite -- he totally has that fuzz thang down:

http://theedirtybeats.bandcamp.com/track/you-turned-your-back-on-me

THEE DIRTYBEATS - maximum vintage garage

Yes THey reformed! and did a  Montreal show  heres some footage:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDAJDI6x7Jc

kopper said:

Did Les Sexareenos reform?

Light Bulb Alley ( New LP out!) said:

Bloodshot Bill, Demons Claws, Les Sexerinos, Skip Jensen, a lot more coming and going, Im at work now so ill stop b4 i get fired

I bet it started as a Twitter thing.

Of course it was. Who comes up with these hoaxes? Silly.

A day later it was announced asa hoax...

What a cool thing to find! 

Story here.

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I don't. It's not gonna happen. There's no way we could get publishing rights on covers or get the original artists to waive their mechanical royalties.

The Blue Squares said:

I like this idea.  

Ernesto Garcia Marques said:

A Garage Punk copilation of cover versions would be really cool. Don't know about Kenny Rogers covers but that would be interesting....

I like this idea.  

Ernesto Garcia Marques said:

A Garage Punk copilation of cover versions would be really cool. Don't know about Kenny Rogers covers but that would be interesting....

Listen to this week's show here!  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20120226-0030-t1330216200.mp3

The setlist!

Tonight!!  

Oh, you're very welcome brother!

Now, that's some good news!! Bring back the WILD WILD SOUND! No matter how!

I have to say though, part of the fun for me, next to the great playlists, was hearing you yap and shout. Maybe just reduce it to the shouting then? ;)

GRINGO: Haha, I wasn't around for the very first SN, but that sound slike some serious fun there, have to check back on #1. Yeah, you loons always know how to throw a podcast party!

Wipeout! said:

Big thanx to IDON MINE fer the praise of my old 'cast & can't agree enuf that those first few years were a golden age fer the GPPR...I still listen to old Hot Slops, Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll, Radioblivion, the GP Surfcasts...just halcyon daze, baby...

But KOPPER has given me an idea--maybe I oughta bring back Wild Wild Sound but just with little-to-no talk-overs...I mean, postin' the playlists should be enuf to play along at home right? ...thoughts?

IDON MINE said:

[...]

Then there was Radioblivion, Savage Kick, Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll, Sonic Nightmares, Get Drunk Play Records, Hangin on for mercy, Wild Wild Sound, Desperate Hour, + so many more... THE CLASSICS. One long trail of EVERYTHING. My fuses got busted! I thought: "WHAT?? There is even more??" Every show great, with lots of discoveries. Couldn't and wouldn't wanna live without it.

Said it before and I'll say it again: Thanks for it all!

Big thanx to IDON MINE fer the praise of my old 'cast & can't agree enuf that those first few years were a golden age fer the GPPR...I still listen to old Hot Slops, Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll, Radioblivion, the GP Surfcasts...just halcyon daze, baby...

But KOPPER has given me an idea--maybe I oughta bring back Wild Wild Sound but just with little-to-no talk-overs...I mean, postin' the playlists should be enuf to play along at home right? ...thoughts?

IDON MINE said:

[...]

Then there was Radioblivion, Savage Kick, Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll, Sonic Nightmares, Get Drunk Play Records, Hangin on for mercy, Wild Wild Sound, Desperate Hour, + so many more... THE CLASSICS. One long trail of EVERYTHING. My fuses got busted! I thought: "WHAT?? There is even more??" Every show great, with lots of discoveries. Couldn't and wouldn't wanna live without it.

Said it before and I'll say it again: Thanks for it all!

I'm also a bit embarrassed about the first episodes of Sonic Nightmares. But you have to start somewhere. It was just Beat-Man and I (which sounds like a movie title) and I don't even think I played any background music or used any vocal effects. The early episodes are a bit dry but the music kicks ass. Sonic Nightmares #2 (Chris-Mess special) is particularly weird. Inviting the rest of the gang really boosted the energy level and of course the variety of records we have to choose from really expanded. The first episode with the whole gang is pretty insane (Sonic Nightmares #18 - Sonic Nightmares Anonymous).

Heart full of soul

IT COULD HAVE BEEN "FAT BASTARDS !!" , TOO , BUT THE MACC LADDS DID THAT TO "BLOCKBUSTER" BY SWEET.  
 
melissa scott said:

The film Ghostbusters was released in the UK after the song was already a hit in the US. My friends working in a record shop thought they were singing, "Those Bastards."

:D

Wow. So , it's officially a musical genre ,now? Cool....I forgot about " I Wanna Piece of Bacon" (I Wanna Be Sedated).
  and "Only The Lonely Get Laid".....THANKS.
 kopper said:

I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY CLOSER TO ACCURATE , kopper.
 
kopper said:

Growing up listening to K-SHE 95 in St. Louis, this song was on the radio constantly:

I always thought the first verse of that song went:

Heartbreak the salt shaker
I've been told about you
Steamroll the midnight soda
When they been seein' mustard, too

Heh...

Review

And yet, amid the skyscrapers…down on the streets, artists were breaking music apart and rebuilding it for a new era. Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataaa, and Grandmaster Flash hot-wired street parties with collaged shards of vinyl LPs. The New York Dolls stripped rock ‘n’ roll to its frame and wrapped it in gender-fuck drag, taking a cue from Warhol’s transvestite glamour queens. Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, both bussed in from Jersey, took a cue from the elusive Dylan, combining rock and poetry into new shapes.

That reminds me of when I saw the "Misfits" last year I can't remember the names of the current lineup but one of the guys would it have been Danzig? His hairline has receeded so much that the devil lock is now impossible so he grew a ponytail and dies it black, then just before the show tapes it to his head and puts a cap over the tape.

John Carlucci said:

Nothing looks worse than a middle aged dude trying to squeeze into pants that are way too thin & tight or trying to hide a receding hair line with a weird comb over. LOL. (I still have my hair at 55 btw I wear hats when my gray roots start showing- and let me warn you how fucked up my feet are now because of years of wearing Beatle Boots!)

I will never have a matching outfit setup as great as the Hamburglars and I am ridiculously jealous right now, that rules!

So this thread got me to searchin' & a-surfin' some of these labels' online shops, and realized, wowzers is ESTRUS still even in business??