I have a video , somewhere , of a Japanese girl group , all dressed like Cherie Curie , blonde wigs , stack heels , bustierre and all , doing a Disco version of "Cherry Bomb". I could'nt tell you who it was , because it was just on a compilation of Japanese Pop and MOR bands , and most of them are not identified. 

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

I DJ in Japan with a bunch of locals cats and a very nice one called MEG THE EYEBALL played THE GIRLS at a recent gig! It was a note for note version of "Cherry Bomb" but with Japanese lyrics... lo and behold I found it on Youtube!

Suzanne Walter said:

Killer fucking thread, and maybe you can help me. There's a great Japanese girl-garage-band called The Girls. I can't find them anywhere except to stumble on them occassionally, cross-referenced in Japanese, which is understandable I just don't read Japanese and am never sure if I'm looking at the right band. I would like to buy the vinyl straight from the label, if I could find them. Shonen Knife, Pinky Piglets, Buffalo Daughter and Pizzacato Five are all bands I enjoy.

KING BROS. , THOSE GUYS WERE BATSHIT CRAZY !!!!   I was'nt into their music , heavily ,but they put on one wildass show.

My lady friend , who's Amerasian ( Her Mom's Taiwanese.)  , her band opened for them. One of them said "THIS SONG...IS ..CALLED ...CHINESE MEETS JAPANESE IN THE USA !!!". My friend said ,  "Oh , my God ! That's exactly what happened , too !".

DammitDave said:

King Brothers!

Sturnin' Bread ? That's pretty funny. Maybe they had difficulty saying "Shortnin' Bread" , phonetically. Or maybe they only had it on a tape....It's possible. I'm not making fun. This is the old standard "Shortnin' Bread" (I might be misspelling the misspelling of "Shortening" , here..Sorry.) , rocked up by The Readymen and others...I think Hugh Barrett and The Victors ("There Was a Fungus Among Us")  did it , too....The Cramps based their cover version on The Readymen's version.
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Caveman said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKxm08id13s&feature=related

Well. this WAS the Back from the Grave HALLOWEEN Ball, but I've seen 'em enough times to know you speak the truth!

Atomic Suplex said:

I give the Go Devils points just for their outfits.

I give the Go Devils points just for their outfits.

Can't believe I neglected THE GO-DEVILS! Hadda sift thru my own blog fer shame!

Just stumbled across the follow-up thread to this:

http://garagepunk.ning.com/forum/topics/more-halloween-podcasts

You know , There's always been people who've come and gone with this stuff , and they'll skip really good shows because their hearts are'nt in it , or  they're going thru personal changes.... Maybe "Garage" is too broad a term , and , maybe , it's not broad enough. But , I don't think it should be about fashion. We went thru that in the 80's .Though , unless you lived on the East or West Coasts , you could be forgiven for not knowing there was a "Garage Scene" at the time.

IDON MINE said:

I know that feeling... just for quicks, I saw someone with a Cute Lepers bag at a garage punk un-related show and felt like I had to jump them out of joy.

It's weird though... Local monthly clubs like Voodoo Hop or any other "event" put up half way regularly by DJ's draws quite the crowd here. Places are always packed, but I can't seem to see any faces I know - except for the 3 same weirdos I always meet around.

John Battles said:

Liking Garage Rock has always been a pretty lonely existence...  'Maybe in Barcelona , you could walk down the street and see a Cynics , Electric Prunes or Los Saicos T-shirt on a regular basis. Not here. Maybe not even in a year's time. That does'nt mean people whose tastes you might disagree with should'nt be allowed into "The Club" if they're interested in this kind of music.

DEPRAVOS DE LA MOUR said:

WHAT WAS A JOKE? THAT YOU PLAY SURF MUSIC? we must be too stupid for this discussion. very little here makes any sense. what will everybody do if they decide that garage is trendy? send angry tweets to the twats who would dare to enjoy "our" music for all the wrong reasons? tried very hard not to judge the sheer ridiculousness of the entire "discussion" but this is really about as pointless as it gets. not to mention the use of a word like "trendy". if you only want "pure" listeners then you better shut it down because it will get pretty lonely pretty quick. even if somebody likes this stuff for a short time and then moves on to post post post electro fucko it will still be good for the scene because they will bring someone else here who may become a lasting fan. don't ever make fun of other people for attempting to share your interests.

 

I have a sneakin' suspicion that he is having trouble as you well know, kopper trying to get everything and everyone on the same page.  Even though a lot of music now is going back to independent labels, they are trying to territorialize everything and not allow certain whoevers to be on other sites where money might be made without them.  Or, at least that is my opinion.  The cake is carved up way to small for this type of endeavor at this point of the record industry, no matter what type of genre you are talking about.  

MikeL said:

Kopper, I'm not trying to start a fight with you, but I met Little Steven a couple of weeks ago in NYC when I went up there to see the Cocktail Slippers.  I asked him about Fuzztopia, and he said it will be launched next year.  My guess is that maybe he's going to do this in conjunction with the ten year anniversary of the launch of the Underground Garage, which will be this April.  Yes, I know you think he's lying to me, or he's just saying that in the hope that it will happen, but I still wanted to say this anyway.

 

Now, I will say this...it sure has taken a ridiculously long time to get this thing up and running.  It reminds me of a documentary about the making of "Heaven's Gate," an epic western that went way over schedule and budget when it was being filmed.  I have no idea why this is the case with fuzztopia, and now I'm starting to think that if fuzztopia ever does get launched, it's going to feel kind of anti-climatic at this point.

 

BTW, the site has been down for quite some time.  This really isn't news to me.

kopper said:

Not sure what happened, but Little Steven's Fuzztopia site has apparently VANISHED!

www.fuzztopia.com

I guess they realized they couldn't compete with the Hideout after all, nyuck nyuck nyuck...

Kopper, I'm not trying to start a fight with you, but I met Little Steven a couple of weeks ago in NYC when I went up there to see the Cocktail Slippers.  I asked him about Fuzztopia, and he said it will be launched next year.  My guess is that maybe he's going to do this in conjunction with the ten year anniversary of the launch of the Underground Garage, which will be this April.  Yes, I know you think he's lying to me, or he's just saying that in the hope that it will happen, but I still wanted to say this anyway.

Now, I will say this...it sure has taken a ridiculously long time to get this thing up and running.  It reminds me of a documentary about the making of "Heaven's Gate," an epic western that went way over schedule and budget when it was being filmed.  I have no idea why this is the case with fuzztopia, and now I'm starting to think that if fuzztopia ever does get launched, it's going to feel kind of anti-climatic at this point.

BTW, the site has been down for quite some time.  This really isn't news to me.

kopper said:

Not sure what happened, but Little Steven's Fuzztopia site has apparently VANISHED!

www.fuzztopia.com

I guess they realized they couldn't compete with the Hideout after all, nyuck nyuck nyuck...

how ridiculous is this!  I mean, do you think many of us give a shit about the freakin' boss, how lame.  I guess you could sell the autograph on ebay, if you can fathom sitting there for the boring of a show for that long.  I would rather give myself a tattoo with a silversmith tool.  They seem to have lost their mission of what the hell they were trying to accomplish with The Underground Garage, I just hope that the show on Sirius doesn't suffer with this bs.

Not sure what happened, but Little Steven's Fuzztopia site has apparently VANISHED!

www.fuzztopia.com

I guess they realized they couldn't compete with the Hideout after all, nyuck nyuck nyuck...

Hi - just asked Russel Quan and he said that was one of Thilo's (guitar player) - it's a GREAT track too!

hey brotha',  if you dig this, check out my show on baconrock.com  called, Kustom City Sounds on friday nights at 7 p.m. (central)  it has a lot of tunes from a lot of different tribes, you dig.  Oh yeah and it repeats at midnight (central)  on sat. morning.  Just thought I'd shamelessly promote my show fer ya.  later doornail

whatwave dave said:

Basement 5???? Simply Saucer??? Swell Maps?????   You gots good taste doornail!!!  Haven't heard anyone else mention Basement 5 in years!

 

Finally got to see Simply Saucer about 3 years ago and they are still absolute KILLER live!!!!

doornail said:

Basement 5,  Suicide,  Simply Saucers,   Destroy All Monsters,  Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, The Pop Group,  Swell Maps, P.I.L.,  The Residents, Swans.

I would also recommend the "Children of Nuggets" box on Rhino. Obviously most of that is garage/psych revival from the late '70s through the early '90s, but it's still a pretty great comp set and would appeal to anyone into the post-punk stuff as well as a lot of '80s alternative/art rock.

I guess the Comateens might fit into this thread... I really love their Munsters theme, being close to Halloween and all!

yeah, love Basement 5 and I bet Simply Saucer was freakin' incredible, what a great band.  Thanks for the compliment my brotha'.  doornail

Cool, thanks for the info. 

My friends run No Fun Records, which is an Ann Arbor/Buenos Aires label (distributed by Get Hip Records). The couple that owns/runs it are originally from Argentina but relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

They put on some of the "cooler" shows in my area (unfortunately, Ann Arbor isn't teaming with as much of a cool music scene as one would expect; but No Fun does some cool stuff).

You should check out some of their catalog here: http://www.nofunrecords.com/index.php

There might be some good bands there for you to discover.

la bicicleta said:

one of the best podcast of GPN...el tocadisco salvaje...full of south america garage bands!!!!...my fav are Los explosivos from mexico...wyld teenage fever!!!!  & horror de luxe from brasil (raw swamp duo)

one of the best podcast of GPN...el tocadisco salvaje...full of south america garage bands!!!!...my fav are Los explosivos from mexico...wyld teenage fever!!!!  & horror de luxe from brasil (raw swamp duo)

I am sure there are a great number of good bands coming out of that hemisphere. On a related note, I gotta say that Davilla 666 is a really cool group from Puerto Rico (I believe) with all lyrics sung in Spanish. This band seems to be doing a decent job of crossing international borders and breaking into the American market, and their kick-ass album on In The Red Records probably really helps.

It appears that we Americans don't hear much from South of the border. It is not surprising to hear European bands playing "American music", but I don't seem to notice too many bands from the South. It is like an odd "iron curtain" that keeps those bands out of our cultural loop. It probably boils down to some form of strange/tacet racism in light of Americans' Euro-centricism. 

I am not going to get all sociological about it here, but I just have a feeling that Americans may be missing out on a lot of great bands from that part of the world. Does anybody have any good and easily accessible sources for finding out about this kind of music? Maybe La Bicicleta can give us some links to podcasts, etc...

you must create another one! this is awsome!

Mina said:

I had a one woman band group on facebook, but then some asshole from the one man band group accused me of stupid BS. so I deleted the group.

John,

it is the poster. there is a sticker on the front too that ID's the poster inside.

yeah, i like girls and stuff too :)

John Battles said:

Robert , Did yours come with a poster , or a color photo booklet ? If you answered "Poster" , I THINK YOU'VE GOT A REAL RARITY , THERE..... Just wondering. I still go out with girls and stuff. 

robert mendoza said:

how funny! i just found a copy of P. Revere and the Raiders "Greatest Hits" in mono, on Columbia, with the poster inside...in near mint condition: it cost me all of $3.00!

John Battles said:

..I recently found Paul Revere and The Raiders' first single "Orbit - The Spy" , a killer surf instrumental that had taken me years to find a copy of , even on a compilation. The "A" side was "Beatnik Sticks" , similar to the Hit follow - up , "Like , Long Hair" , but , arguably the better of the two. This was at an antique store that had'nt got anything "New" in for years. I also just found a Joe Maphis 78 in a thrift store , both sides rockin' Instrumentals. Have'nt found any "Garage" 45s , lately.They turn up , sometimes , if you're patient enough to watch paint peel. 

No matter how much I like Reatards I tend to listen more to the solo stuff.

 "I get Nervous" might be his best song though.

The reatards! I think some of the solo stuff got really lame. RIP JAY REATARD

I did a little searching a few years ago, but didn;t find anything out.  I live 10 hours form Montreal which I imagine would be the closest that I would get to see Kid.  I'll ask if ever I see him, in a very kindly way.

~T 

John Battles said:

I don't know...If you ever see Kid Congo (And , you should , if you can.), you could ask him. I don't think he'd mind , if , of course , you're respectful about it. There's probably a Gun Club /Pierce website or two that could help you , too.

Tommy Careless said:

I've always wanted to know where Jeffrey Lee Pierce was buried too. Anyone know ?

~T