What's happening in my scene? Not enough! If any cool bands are passing through NE Iowa & want a cool lo-fi venue to play then they should look up Space Jams 109 on Facebook & learn more about the scene here in Cedar Falls. It's a small venue but it puts on great shows. Look them up if you or a band you know is passing through.

Love the Biters

Some good points there Mel. I have to wonder sometimes if the hate isn't purely based around the success the band has enjoyed.

melissa scott said:

Hey Mardy Pune: love your turn of phrase here; "... some of their chord structures are beautiful nightmares to try to play." Kewl.

"Hate stuff for the sake of hating stuff"? I think some people who are saying "I hate x" do have their reasons -- but maybe aren't providing enough of them to those of us reading their posts?

Or, it may be fun to just hate the old stuff to piss other people off. The Beatles and the other 'biggies,' perhaps what you might call 'foundational' groups are Big Targets?

Or some people just like to stiiiiiir. :-) I can relate to the last one when I think back a bit...

Mel

Mardy Pune said:

Let's clear this up now:

Elvis isn't God, Elvis is the King baby!

I don't like The Beatles and I don't hate The Beatles. I won't argue that they weren't an important or influential band, cause they were. They were incredibly crafty song writers, some of their chord structures are beautiful nightmares to try to play. I don't understand why people hate stuff for the sake of hating stuff, morons.

awww damn, never saw there discography... you might be right.

hicksville hogwash said:

Leiber & Stoller are in fact the best song writing pair ever.  http://www.leiberstoller.com/Discography.html as one can see even The "black bad boy" Beatles, Mr. "Pass me the pills Doc" Presley...  most of the gods on this thread did versions of their songs.

True the Beatles are easy targets i don't hate them, the older I get the more easy I am on them. .....

 

they wrote helter skelter. its a sin to dislike.

HELTER SKELTER

Byrds are still better tho.

Leiber & Stoller are in fact the best song writing pair ever.  http://www.leiberstoller.com/Discography.html as one can see even The "black bad boy" Beatles, Mr. "Pass me the pills Doc" Presley...  most of the gods on this thread did versions of their songs.

True the Beatles are easy targets i don't hate them, the older I get the more easy I am on them. .....

 

It helps if a crowd having a birthday party is there.

# 1 thing you must do is play to the common people. Do not bother trying to impress other Js with how obscure you can be. A DJ or 2 does not pay you. The crowd pays you.I usually do a solid hour of well-known hits in whatever genre it is that night, around midnight.

You may have no control over this but the place must be a "destination."

ha, this happened to me... flyered so much. had sick flyers too, photoshop/illustrator, design guy here. But its different for my city (philadelphia), living here for almost 6 years now, very few people care about garage/punk or for that matter the music the dj plays. all about who promotes it and whos there and whether or not they are going to get their picture taken and show up on some dumb Facebook page... so lame... 

all the best fest are never on the East Coast... well i guess cavestomp used to be here and the norton 25 year thing just happen... but still the regular garage punk fest never anywhere near me :(

Baaaaah I want to! It's a 10 hour drive for me and that's about 5 hours too much. I saw Acid Baby Jesus once and they were great. Los Vigilantes are coming here in March and I hope to catch them then. Awesome line up for sure.

That was last year's lineup (it was awesome). Here is 2012.  I am most excited about Acid Baby Jesus and Los Vigilantes:

Zero Boys
New Bomb Turks
Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Gentleman Jesse
Persuaders
Timmy's Organism
OBN IIIs
TV Ghost
Wax Museums
Video
Acid Baby Jesus
Los Vigilantes
Paint Fumes
Useless Eaters
Peach Kelli Pop
GG King
Barreracudas
COPS
Wymyns Prysyn
Black Lodge
Fletcher C Johnson
Dino Boys

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

April 15-17

http://www.facebook.com/events/263892243681115/

TESTORS: featuring Sonny Vincent
Oblivians
Subsonics
Hunx & His Punx
Mind Spiders
GG King
Personal & The Pizzas
Shannon & The Clams
Ex Humans
K Holes
White Mystery
Predator
Half Rats
Die Rotzz
Bad Sports
Midnite Snaxxx
COPS
The Clap
Dunch w/ Gentleman Jesse
More TBA

When I search for them in the itunes store nearly all of them are grayed out and can't be subscribed to.  

Any idea why?  I figure it's something simple like it thinks I'm underage or something.

Thanks!

MC5's "Gold" is more jazzy than "LA Blues".

The James Taylor Quartet - One Way Street 

at 0.53

The James Taylor Quartet - The Cat (It's a cover version of, maybe, Jimmy Smith Quartet.)

Crud, I just remembered this:

The King Sound Quartet (Mick Collins, Tim Kerr, Alex Cuervo & Stephanie Paige Friedman) did a great cover of Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place" on The Get-Down Imperative LP.

Most of the best examples of garage-y jazz would probably come from B-flicks, mostly 60s spy movies like Fantastic Argoman, Mission Stardust, Diabolik, and the like. Another good example would be in Teenage Tupelo, the song "One More Hit" during D'lana's dream sequence. Aside from stuff like that, I can't really think of any actual bands that try to make that kind of music. Methinks there's a void to fill.

sure, as a full-blown genre the term is a bit of a stretch (aren't they all, really?), but here's what I'm thinking about:

John Zorn (ie, Spy vs Spy, the Masada stuff)

The Lounge Lizards

some of James Chance & the Contortions material

a lot of the projects Skerik is associated with: Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois, Crack Sabbath, the Dead KennyG's, etc.)

Any others? Would love some help in compiling a larger list...

Some vids:

Born Bad Records

XVIII records

Teenage Menopause records

all from Paris !

Am Rep... what a fearless label they were!!! Another label in the same vein was Trance Syndicate.

Robert Bell said:

Touch and Go

Fat Possum

Amphetamine Reptile

 

Double crown records

This little label from Memphis, Sun Records, put out some records I enjoy listening to. And I'm not just talking bout Orion ;-)

Axel

YESSSSS

Alison said:

All of the above and more currently,

• Trouble in Mind
• HoZac
• Dirtnap
• Slovenly
• Hardly Art
• Goner
• 1234 Go!
• Douchemaster
• Tic Tac Totally
• Castle Face

Touch and Go

Fat Possum

Amphetamine Reptile

BOMP!