I'm really enjoying Manipulator too. I reviewed it for this Friday's music column. I'll post that when it's published.

This was a great interview.  Ty is super humble, and very genuine.  Also, I think I own pretty much all the records he recommended, so I feel like a music genius.

a *fanboy* can dream...

Love Marc Maron and Ty Segall, and this episode was great. My favorite episodes are the ones where Marc talks rock n' roll, and Ty seems like a solid dude. The Iggy ep was my other favorite. Marc should totally make an album...I bet it would either be Tom Waitsy or super power pop-ish...or both...I duno..collabo between Marc and tons of his legendary/amazing musical guests?? A guy can dream...

Boy , I fronted some "Arrors" , too. Sorry. Merrill's band , briefly popular in England and Western Europe , was called Arrows. And ,there's no "e" in outfit.

New Monster Attack Team magazine - Monsters , giant robots , and Rock 'n'Roll - out soon !

Working on getting a link , but , until then , you can check out the website and the Face Book page , both accessible on Google under "Monster Attack Team''.

THE NEW ISSUE , #11 , IS SLATED TO FEATURE VARIOUS ULTRAMEN FROM OVER THE YEARS , THE NEW KAMEN RIDER (AKA Masked Rider.)TV SHOW , AND A SUPER - SPECIAL EVENT ORGANIZED BY EDDIE HOLLAND , MY FRIEND OF NEARLY 3O YEARS AND U.S. NAVAL MAN , THE FIRST ACTUAL SCREENING OF THE NEW "GODZILLA " MOVIE IN JAPAN , FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN STATIONED IN JAPAN ,WITH HONORED GUEST , HARUO NAKAJIMA , FIRST MAN TO PLAY GODZILLA , A POSITION HE HELD FOR 30 YEARS.

It will also feature a revised version of my article on Japanese Group Sound music that originally appeared in Roctober magazine. The article covers an extremely rare American appearance by three surviving members of The Golden Cups (One of Japan's top mid - late 60's groups.) and Allan Merrill , American Musician based in Japan in the late 60's - mid 70's. He played in the well , dynamite , Group Sound outfite , The Dynamites , Japan's first Glam Rock band , Vodka Collins , before relocating to England , where he fronted Arrors , with whom you bet your ass he wrote and recorded the original "I Love Rock'n'Roll" in 1975. Holland assures readers that mine was the only in - depth overview of the Group Sound Scene since Riolling Stone covered the waning days of the movement in '69 , though , to be fair , there was an article in "Freakbeat , U.S.A." ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO. 

Well , if you dig this stuff , please check out the Face Book Page and the website. Great stuff awaits your perusal.              John Battles.

The Trip! Greg Howls at the Moon! Sept. 7th 2014

This week Greg gets lycanthropic!  Listen here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140907-0000-t1410044400.mp3

The setlist: 

the ventures- moon child
the ames brothers- destination moon
pine tarts- green moon
bell peppers- doin' the moon freak
first crew to the moon- the sun lights up the shadows of your mind
moon mulican- rocket to the moon
j.d wilkes and the dirt daubers- wild moon
elvis presley and the blue moon boys- blue moon of kentucky
chuck berry- havana moon
the jimi hendrix experience- moon, turn the tides...gently gently away
blondie- the tide is high
101 strings (astro sounds)- trippin' on lunar 07
fugi- red moon
william shatner- walking on the moon
le apollo & la danse cosmique- cosmonautic blues
yma sumac- choladas (dance of the moon festival)
bebe and louis barron (forbidden planet)- graveyard- a night with two moons
bebe and louis barron - the landing
bebe and louis barron- flurry of dust- a robot approaches
laika & the cosmonauts- psyko
moon voyage- apollo 11 blastoff...
bobby womack- everyone's gone to the moon
sultan bathery- purple moon
johnny harris & his orchestra- footprints on the moon
puttin' on the ritz- fly me to the moon
dead kennedys- moon over marin

Years ago, there were some Billy Childish podcasts here on the GPPN.  Radioblivion #41 comes to mind, although I know there were a couple others.

It is a live radio show.  My next show will be on Saturday September 27th from 1:00-3:00PM EST.  Sorry, but the shows are not yet archived.

Hey, found this googling the name of the band, haha. Is that a podcast or a radio show? Is it available online?

The correct name of the Evil Idols track is Last Call. "Missed it All" was actually a "provisory" name and that's a bit weird, hehe.

Playlist 09/13/14

Flight Reaction Falling Through Color
Satelliters It's Gotta Be You
Norvins Sinner Sinner
Mystic Brew Don't You Want To Stay
Buzzcocks In The Back
Stiff Little Fingers I Just Care About Me
Electric Frankenstein That's All I Need
Mobbs Get Your Hair Cut
Bass Drum Of Death Burns My Eye
Tijuana Bulfight Too Fast
Honduras Ace
Safes Ace for A Face
Gang of Four I Found That Essence Rare
Eater Thinking of the USA
UK Subs Party In Paris
Damned Stretcher Case
GTVs Cry If You Want To
Grip Weeds You're Not Walking Away
Graham Day and the Gaolers Disown Me
Cynics The Ring
Cheats Sinners & Saints
A Brood of Vipers Social Beast
Grandma's Boyfriend No Tyme
Real Tears Turn Around
Ty Segall The Crawler
Dirty Lungs I Suck In Bed
Eastlink Gina
Evil Idols Missed It All
Miriam So You Say You Lost Your Baby
Mysteios Cold Fusion
Snails Gypsy Woman
Ugly Beats Take A Stand
Dead Kennedys Kill the Poor
Zeros Wild Weekend
Bad Religion Along The Way
All Don Quixote
Harmonica Lewinski Har Har Bizarre
Stupidity King Midas
Motobunny Red Rover
Divine Horsemen Mother's Worry
Miracle Workers One Step Closer To You
Godfathers Gone To Texas

The Jeff of the Future Radio Show will be on the air and the web on Saturday September 13th from 1:00-3:00PM EST. Listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu.

Heck yes! Awesome idea for the comp. Inspired me to just gona write a nuts/psycho song just for kicks. Gona try to record it this week.

Lookin forward to that comp!

køpper said:

Just edited the original post (see above) with the track list for this volume!

 

That looks like an absolute KILLER lineup of bands and tunes for this release Kopper!!!!

twentyshots said:

working on a cover submission now. plan to send it by friday. since i am new around here i have a stupid question: do these compilations get physical releases or completely digital?

thanks.

No physical copies. Just download comps. Thanks!

working on a cover submission now. plan to send it by friday. since i am new around here i have a stupid question: do these compilations get physical releases or completely digital?

thanks.

Just edited the original post (see above) with the track list for this volume!

Alex, deadline for cover art is... as soon as you can get it done (this goes for anyone who wants to take a stab at it)! Just sent the tracks off to get mastered, so the sooner, the better. Thanks.

I have a chance to see Peter Case live in the next week or so.  I'm a big Plimsouls and Nerves (Peter was in both) fan but realize Peter has been doing the solo thing for many years.

Has anybody seen Peter live recently to give me some kind of idea as what to expect? From what i can figure out, it's just him and his guitar, and i'm not really a big fan of the singer/songwriter thing. Unless of course he tossed in a coupla Plimsouls tunes or something like that, which would probably make it all right.

thanx

dave

Post about UK Cramps cover band All Cramped Up at 'Trash, Garage Garbage and Other Delights'.

Woah, so excited about the upcoming new volume releases of Back From The Grave

This is so god damn cool you guys!! For those of us born a little too late. its a dream come true! Can't wait to see what Tim found for these volumes...they are always well researched and filled with info about the bands.

Oh, and a re-issue of Garage Punk Unknowns?? I will definitely be buying that as well...

ALSO thank you EVE OMEN for posting that interview (thats a sweet blog, too!).

A live studio interview about it with founder/owner Tim Warren of Crypt records and some tracks here:

http://the-vinyl-avenger.blogspot.nl/2013/11/live-in-studio-interview-with.html

That's awesome. I saw it's three new records, even better!

Radio What Wave Playlist Sept 11/2014  Part 1 of The Knights Of Fuzz As Heard on 7" Records

Well that title is a real mouthful and speaking of full, we've got the brand new The Knights Of Fuzz book by Timothy Gassen which is absolutely full of garage music info!!! A thick 500 pager, brick sized volume, that we're going to dedicate the next several Radio WW's to!! Starting with this show, we're only going to be playing 7" records of the garagepunk variety! And this show we'll play a few bands that were highly influential to the 80's garage movement and then a few of the earlier bands (from the late 70's and onwards) that were influenced by the sounds of 60's garagepunk. Almost all of these bands are either mentioned or profiled in The Knights Of Fuzz. And we'll also have author Timothy Gassen in a phone interview to talk about the book and all things garage! But first a couple of things we didn't play last week and then we'll launch into the special

1. Great Dismal Swamis.....Phantom Tollbooth....from the 7" of the same name and we met these guys on the garagepunk hideout.  From Norfolk Virginia and they rock!

2. Frankie And Jimmy....Just Like A Woman....from the just released Scream The Blues LP. We've been waiting for this duo from Hamilton Ontario to finally release this LP and here it is!! Record release show is happening next month.

3. Marshmallow Overcoat....The Knights Of Fuzz...from the recently released double LP, The Very Best Of. And it's the name of the brand new book!

4. The Flamin' Groovies...Shake Some Action...this particular version was released in 1980 on Line Records from Germany. Line Records released many, many fine 80's garage records as well as many 60's re-issues back in the late 70's and early 80's. The Flamin' Groovies were one of the few, if not only combo that were full on 60's sounds in the mid 70's. Outcast from the mainstream sounds in the US and treated with only a little more respect from the beginnings of the punk scene in the UK, they were always a band out of step with the times! But that sure didn't stop them from remaining true to their sounds and to us diehard fans!! They 've been around since the late 60's and as recently as a few months ago, were touring the world once again. I finally got to see them in Toronto last fall and they did NOT disappoint!!! One of my fave shows of all time!!!

5. The Flamin' Groovies....You Tore Me Down....from Bomp Records (1975) and the very first record on this label!! Head Bomper Greg Shaw was managing The Flamin' Groovies at the time and was predicting big things for them! The big thing was the start of a new record label that would spawn tons of garage, powerpop, punk and new wave records and become a highly influential label in the North American punk/new wave scene! Greg would go on to form the VOXX label that would release literally tons of garage and psychedelic records in the 80's and into the 90's. Greg Shaw was also the guy behind the highly influential zine, Who Put The Bomp (try and grab some original copies from the late 70's/early 80's and be prepared to be amazed! Or grab either of the 2 books on Bomp that came out in the last couple of years). Greg was also the guy behind the Pebbles series of re-issue LP's of 60's garage and psych that started coming out in the late 70's. The Knights Of Fuzz is dedicated to Greg who passed away in 2004.

6. The Flamin' Groovies...Him Or Me...the flip side of the above 7".

7. Ramones....I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend....Norton Records and from a 1975 Marty Thau produced demo. Another combo that was influential to many many bands and this demo has that cool 60's sound to it as the Ramones were huge fans of 60's bubble gum and girl group sounds! Norton is another excellent record label that has released some 60's compilations and TONS of other cool and essential sounds!! Never a dud on this record label!

8. The Cramps....Surfin' Bird....1978 Vengeance. The Cramps were another hugely influential band to many, not just the garage and psych combos that came after! Spin their second LP, Psychedelic Jungle (from 1981) and you'll hear fuzz oozing out all over your floor!! One of my all time fave LP's.
9. DMZ....You're Gonna Miss Me...Crypt Records from 1986 but recorded live in 1978. One of the first combos to tie 60's and 70's punk together to come up with their unique for the time sound!! An adreneline rush each spin! DMZ made it onto a major label, but the sound was tamed down a notch or so! Vocalist/keyboardist Monoman surfaced in the highly rated Lyres whom you'll be hearing on a later edition of this special. From Boston. And Crypt Records is the home of my alltime fave 60's compilation series, Back From The Grave!! New volumes coming out this fall!!

Right around this time, we had Timothy Gassen on to talk and talk and talk about the brand new The Knights Of Fuzz Book. Thanx for taking time out of your busy day to talk to us Timothy!!

10. The Slickee Boys....Gotta Tell Me Why....1979 on Limp Records. These guys (and gal) started with the 60's sounds in the mid 70's and released many, many fine records over the years. Based in Washington DC, they toured very rarely but did really well on home turf! One of the earliest to play these sounds and this particular song blows me away every time i hear it!

11. The Diodes...Red Rubber Ball...CBS Records 1977. This was the first of the so called punk/new wave records to come out of Canada and it sounds way more like 60's garage to these ears!! The Diodes were from Toronto and definitely had a 60's influence to their powerpop/new wave sounds!

12. The B Girls...Fun At The Beach....1979 Bomp Records. Toronto all girl combo that were grouped in with the punk/new wave combos of the time, but listening now, they sure do sound like a 60's combo to me. There was supposed to be an LP released on Bomp, but that never happened and in the late 90's, there was a CD released on OPM Records called Who Says Girls Can't Rock? that collected some unreleased, live and the 2 songs from this single.  Drummer Marcy Saddy was from right here in sleepy London Ontario!

13. Hi-Fis....I Don't Know Why....Show Time Records late 70's/early 80's...Only 7" this combo released and it sure sounds like a certain British combo from the early to mid 60's! This Toronto band broke up and a couple of the members formed the long running Blue Rodeo that is still around.

14. Segarini....People Are Strange....1979 Bomb Records....Bob Segarini had previously been in The Wackers and then moved to Toronto to start a solo career with a powerpop sound. This is a live track and many of his recordings have some 60's sounds to them. His first solo LP, Gotta Have Pop is the one to start with.

15. Count Bishops....Route 66...from the Speedball EP from 1975 on Chiswick Records.....The Count Bishops released several LP's, all of which have that 60's punk sounds and this is their very first release. Features vocalist Mike Spenser who later went on to form The Cannibals who will start our next show in this series!

Big Thanx to Timothy Gassen for phoning in to talk about The Knights Of Fuzz book! And thanx for all the crazy phone calls, emails, facebook messages and Heys!!!
I've been having a blast digging throught my 7" records to find stuff to play for this series, and there's a TON of stuff that i've just gotta play over the next few show!! So many cool records you gotta hear!!

Ryan In The Red will be filling in next week, and you can catch his regular show, Rock City Madness on the garagepunk hideout. Part 2 of this series will resume on Thursday Sept 25th at 6PM ET!!

And here's a link to the podcast which will only be up 2 weeks:

http://chrwradio.ca/programs/radio-what-wave

The music video for Manipulator:

And the link to the interactive version:

http://ty-segall.com/manipulator/

A friend of mine turned me on to an INSANE 1980's psuedo - "Road Warrior" type film from Mexico called "Intrepidos Punks" , and , much like "Quadrophenia" , it appears that they could'nt find Actors or Extras who rode motorcycles , and looked even remotely "Punk" ....Hideous facial hair (That would get them laid like crazy in all 50 states , today.) abounds , as do ridiculous wigs and costumes. The women don't fare any better. Does'nt matter , this movie is muy loco en la cabeza !!!! A "Punk" gang , with BAD ASS customized choppers , pull daring , if ridiculous , robberies (One disguised as Nuns.) and drink , do drugs , have sex parties , and worship Satan , between crimes in their desert hideout. Plus , legendary Mexican Hard Rock/Psych group , Three Souls in My Mind , put in an appearance , posing as a Punk outfit . Or , at least , their drumhead does. It's hard to tell if either of these guys is Alex Llora , Three Souls/El Tri frontman , and basically the kingpin of Mexican Rock and Roll , today.  Either way , this movie is wild and beyong hilarious. There is a copy on You Tube with English subtitles (Yep. I broke code to watch this.).