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    • September 12, 2011 9:06 PM CDT
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    • I don't know of any stations that play nothing but garage rock... no terrestrial broadcast stations, anyway. Lots of stations have specific shows that feature garage and trashy punk/rock'n'roll, though.

      My favorite Internet station, though, is WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban. I have a wifi radio (which I HIGHLY recommend if you have wireless Internet at your home) and have that station on almost all the time. I can seriously listen to it 24/7. Of course, you can also program it to stream podcast feeds, too, and I have the GaragePunk Podcasts on it, too.

    • September 12, 2011 8:10 PM CDT
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    • Hello boys and girls! I was wondering if anyone knew about any sweet radio stations coming out of the san fransisco bay area to find some cool new music. Also for everyone else, why not talk about your favorite station in your town?

    • September 12, 2011 7:38 PM CDT
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    •  You should definitely bring it back as a podcast. The podcast jukebox is the easiest way to check for new shows or find past ones when another listen is called for!

    • September 12, 2011 4:32 PM CDT
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    • Back as a podcast would be great.

       

    • September 12, 2011 3:41 PM CDT
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    • Who wants this show back? Mike stopped doing it when the show got the axe from Real Punk Radio earlier this year. I, for one, would love to see Mike continue on with what he was doing and just make it a podcast. Who's with me in trying to lure Mike back???

    • September 12, 2011 6:49 PM CDT
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    •  

      Playlist Sept 8/2011

      On this week's show, we had Jeff Mittelholtz of The Stuntdoubles and CEO of Splattered Frog Records as a special guest. Splattered Frog Records are celebrating their 25th year with a big bash at Brennan's Beer Bistro on Sat Sept 10th with a ton of bands including The Stuntdoubles, Giggleswitch, Carnies and literally tons more. Jeff was also in the legendary Positively Stompin...', a cool combo that was way ahead of it's time, playing country influenced rock when people couldn't give a shit. Timing is everything. But shit is always on time, or whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Enough yammering...

      1. Dave Edmunds...Back To School Days...from the Get It LP from 1977. Local combo Uranus did their thesis on this LP and made a career out of it. This goes out to everyone going back to school.

      2. The Carnies....Lo and Behold...local combo who mixed horns and rock'n'roll and are reuniting on Sat night.

      3. Boozehounds...She Says....another local combo reuniting on saturday night.

      4. The Stunt Doubles...Dough Head...another local combo who are playing Sat night, but are not reuniting cause they still play around town.

      5. Giggleswitch...How Good You Look...from their VII CD and they are reuniting this saturday night. Sounds like a broken record, but all of these bands will be at the big Splattered Frog Records show on Saturday night at Brennan's Beer Bistro.

      6. Positively Stompin'...Nashville Dreamin'...from their Junk Drawer CD from 1993. Nope, no reunion on Saturday night. Astute listeners will remember UIC did this song back in the 80's and even more astute listeners/trivia freaks will know that some of Positively Stompin' were in UIC...Ted and Murray.

      7. 63 Monroe...Bad Bad Rawk'n'Roll...from their brand new 7" and they will be playing at Call The Office on Saturday night, which just happens to be next door to Brennan's Beer Bistro.

      8. Bradleyboy...2:15...from his The Farm CD. One man blues band who will be playing tonight (friday Sept 9) at The Brass in London Ontario.

      9. Bradleyboy...If You Left Me...from the Rock/Wood CD.

      10. Dead Beat....Whet Beat....from the Warning CD. Hamilton surf combo.

      11. MC5...High School...from the Back In The USA LP from 1970 and goes out to those lucky kids going back to highschool.

      12. Electric Prunes...Too Much To Dream Last Night...a request and a really cool one. Saw these guys at Wooly Weekend in Montreal in 2009 and they are REALLY FUCKING LOUD!! And the guitar player has more effects pedals than i have brain cells. Somewhere in the Radio WW facebook page there's a picture that proves this.

      13. Blue Cheer...Summertime Blues....from the Vincebus Eruptum LP and another request.

      14. The Hook Up...Today and Tomorrow...from the Tomorrow and Today CD. They were at Grooves Records last saturday and put on a hot and sweaty show. They'll be back in town on Nov 5th at Brennan's Beer Bistro.

      15. Light Bulb Alley...Who Do You Love...from The Sound Of Things CD.

      16. Bon...Static Electricity...from the CD of the same name.

      17. The Polymorphines...Poor Sicko...from The Slip CD. They will be our special guests next week and promise to play some acoustic tunes live over the airwaves just for you listeners. Then The Polymorphines play at The Black Shire Pub later in the evening with The Wormwood Scrubs and The Oily Birds.

      18. The Fleshtones...Hitsburg USA...from The Solid Gold Sound LP. The Fleshtones will be playing at This Ain't Hollywood in Hamilton Ontario on Sept 26th. This is your chance to see the Greatest Rock'n'Roll show on the planet! I'll be the guy at the front of the stage jumping up and down...check out this video of their last appearance in Hamilton:

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

      19. Mother's Children...Anything To Calm Me Down...from their Tough Enough 12".

      20. The Standstills...Black Betty...from their The Human Element CD and they play The Spoke at The University Of Western Ontario Sept 16.

      21. The monks...monk Time...from their 1966 LP Black monk Time. The inventors of punk rock. The greatest band to ever come out of Germany. The best dressed band of the 60's. The greatest band to ever feature a banjo as the rhythm instrument. The accolades could go on and on but i played this track as i finally read Black Monk Time by Eddie Shaw and found out the real story behind this wacky outfit. And The Fleshtones are HUGE fans of The monks.

      22. The Persian Claws...Clever Way To Crawl...from the latest garagepunk.com download called Hidden Tracks.

      That's it for this week. Big thanx to Jeff for coming in to mumble about Splattered Frog Records.

      Next week The Polymorphines live onair prior to the evening's festivities at The Black Shire Pub.

      Here's the link to listen to the noise:

      http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWThu1900.mp3

    • September 12, 2011 6:25 PM CDT
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    • Sorry I was flipping around. I don't hate The Fuzztones that much haha..

      But I hate Zakk Wylde forsure.. ;P

    • September 12, 2011 4:12 PM CDT
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    •  When I was in the band, we were a good live band. I don't think the recordings ever caught us as good as we were as a live band. Which is a shame, because the recordings are what live on.We had a certain chemistry. Oddly enough, I always felt Rudi was the weakest link in that chemistry. Had he let us be, to create at the best of our own ability, I think the recordings would have been far superior.  Had he let us contribute more to the songwriting, he would have had better songs.  I just hope that some people understand, despite the image of the band, we were not all egotistical 60's Garage rock Purists.

       

    • September 12, 2011 2:54 PM CDT
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    • Wow must have been tough ;-)

       

      I dont mind the 'originals' so much and they had a few good tunes, but the covers perhaps should have been left alone.

       

      Though I cant really talk I've butchered a few classics myself!

       

       

    • September 12, 2011 2:41 PM CDT
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    •  Lol! I said it before & I'll say it again. I never played a Vox Phantom. I hated the necks. When I was in the Fuzztones & we signed to RCA, Jordan & I Approached Rickenbacker & we signed an endorsement deal. That was the only way I was able to get Rudi to stop bugging me about playing a Phantom. To be perfectly honest, I always have favored the Fender Precision. I have two gorgeous vintage P Basses that Rudi always gave me a hard time about using in the band. One day we were soundchecking at Scream & the opening band was onstage checking the bass gear. I do not recall which band it was, but the bassist had a 70's P Bass & an SVT.  He sounded awesome. Rudi turned to me and said how come your bass doesn't sound that good?? My answer... It would if you let me play a P Bass! lol!!  To him, it's all image. BTW, he barely has any original gear left, he had to sell a lot of it off. He's playing re-issues now.
      Axel Björnsson said:

      fuck the fuzztones.. oooooo we only use vox we're so 66' fuck off.... (Really I got 2 or 3 records with them. fuck'em)

       

    • September 12, 2011 2:33 PM CDT
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    •  The main problem with the Fuzztones is that they never really were or are a band. Having been a part of the band that went the furthest, I can tell you that Rudi tries so hard to control everything that he kills any creativity from his band mates & they end up leaving. He's probably had like 50 people in the band by now & he thinks by dressing them up in the same clothes that no one will notice.  Because our line-up resided in Los Angeles during the 80's & 90's when all of those Hair Bands were happening, a lot of people assumed we must be Metal heads. This is a phallacy. Jordan (the guitar player) was a founding member of the Outta Place. I came originally out of the NYC CBGB's/Max's Kansas City scene as the bassist for The Speedies, Mad Mike was from the Stratford Survivors & The Tones were Jason's first band.



      Mr Tea said:

      got to agree with teen fink, the fuzztones ruined pretty much every song they covered, turning great punk classics into boring-goth-rock plodders! Its like they really didnt get it! Should've been a heavy metal band probably.

       

      ....then theres van halens version of 'you really got me' that one really gets me! (maybe van halen and the fuzztones are the same band hmmmm)

    • September 12, 2011 2:26 PM CDT
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    • I agree, and I was in the band! lol!!  I so tried to get Rudi to do originals. The problem is, his songwriting is not too good either.  You'll notice when listening to his originals, that they all have pieces nicked from other songs so they may as well be covers...

       

      • Bad News Travels Fast:  Chord progression lifted from Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath", Played faster
      • Nine Months Later- Intro lifted from the Markette's "Out Of Limits"/ Chrous lifted from the Mc Coy's "Hang On Sloopy"
      • In Heat: Main Riff  (  & concept Heat/Fire)lifted from Jimi Hendrix "Fire', Riff is inverted
      • She's Wicked:  Partial lyrics lifted from Howlin Wolf ( "asked My Baby for water & she gave me gasoline)

       



      TeenFink said:

      one cover band really grates on my nerves, and i realize they probably have a lot of fans here, but who cares? i'm talking about the FUZZTONES. i can stomach maybe Bad News Travels Fast (their best moment), but the covers they recorded are pretty consistently lame.

      now, the DIRTBOMBS, on the other hand, know how to cover songs and do it well. see Ultraglide in Black and If You Don't Already Have a Look as perfect examples. some outstanding covers there.

    • September 12, 2011 12:43 PM CDT
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    • fuck the fuzztones.. oooooo we only use vox we're so 66' fuck off.... (Really I got 2 or 3 records with them. fuck'em)

       

      First of all Zakk Wylde Fuck the fuck off. ( Think of all the great Sabbath songs he have fucking killed) I got throwed out of a heavymetal store couple weeks ago when I started to talk bad about Zakk when someone told me I looked like him but that's another story.

       

      Slash--ok he was in Gun's N.... No I have never been a Gun's fan. Everybody wanted me to dig it( including my mom) Fuck off.

       

      don't need to find another. this guys are the worst sort of filth

    • September 12, 2011 4:17 PM CDT
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    • I love that band. I saw them at Cavestomp in 97, plus I saw them a few other times in LA around the same time.

    • September 12, 2011 3:41 PM CDT
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    • Going to be a BLAST!!

    • September 12, 2011 2:48 PM CDT
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    • The GGG are my cuppa a tea 2:):)

      Zane Arillotta said:

      Hey K K! I'll get back to you with more over the weekend as I'm short on time right now but the Gore Gore Girls...that's a name I haven't heard for a while....and I'm too tired/lazy to find out how I know it but...they weren't on Get Hip were they or associated with Gregg Kostelach of the Cynics or even the Fuzztones?? I'm pretty sure I've probably seen them! But as I started seeing live bands when I was 11 years old and I'm 53 now all these bands kind of all blur together after a while......

    • September 12, 2011 2:09 PM CDT
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    • I saw The Jim Jones Revue, Thursday night @ The Echo (LA) & I saw Agent Orange Saturday Night @ The Galaxy Theatre in OC.

    • September 12, 2011 2:03 PM CDT
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    • Awesome bands :)

    • September 12, 2011 11:42 AM CDT
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    • This looks amazing!!! The late 70's Boston scene was always one of my faves as a lot of the bands took the best from the 60's punk era and melded it with the 70's punk energy....hence creating garagepunk!!!

      Thanx to Monoman and DMZ, The Real Kids, Classic Ruins, Mighty Ions, Sass, Third Rail,Thundertrain and sooooo many more cool Boston combos!!

      This is gonna be KILLER!!!

    • September 12, 2011 1:58 PM CDT
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    • Nothing beats the Manili Vanilli swindle where, in that case, there was NO real band at all :):):):)!!!!!

    • September 12, 2011 11:47 AM CDT
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    • In some strange way this one is although less truthful (and probably because of being so) more faithful to punk spirit than The Filth & The Fury. It´s not an account of the facts, it´s a portrait of the attitude.

    • September 12, 2011 12:35 PM CDT
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    •  

      The s/s Gibson EBO is '64 and the l/s EB3 copy is '68

      The Selmer TrebleNBass with bluefront cab is 50W and supposedly '66

      The Vox Super Foundation is 100W and from '69, I believe. It features the 'Tone X' fuzz option

      These have been stored away for 10+ years now, so if anyone wants to buy them, send me a PM :D :D :D 

       

    • September 12, 2011 12:13 PM CDT
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    • Mel,

         I use one of the Boss/Fender FRV-1 pedals as well and can not recommend them more. They aren't 100% accurate to the old 63 outboard units but are damn close and substantially cheaper. Even more, they are a lot less fragile.

      Mel Bergman said:

      All,

      Having tried many reverbs through the years, I think the new Boss/Fender pedal is the best at recreating an old outboard Fender. And as a bonus, it runs on a 9v battery, which is great for traveling overseas. Danelectro- JUnk. Holy grail, okay, but not lacks that certain something. I remember building a small box with the guts of a 64 reverb and a tiny accutronix pan, just to get something I could take on a Plane. Imagine trying that now, post 9/11.

      Mel
      Phantom Surfers


      Mel
      Phantom Surfers

    • September 12, 2011 11:57 AM CDT
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    • re Europe, we've used vinylfactory for our first two releases. 

      a top quality final product; not the cheapest in the UK but would rather push out something which people will want to keep. 

      high predigree - it's the old EMI factory at Hayes.