From what I seem to be hearing... NY ain't to much of a happenin' place these days. Wich is a shame and kinda perculiar. Guess the lame asses have taken over the city?

It is the same here in Paris... well, the Fleshtones can fill a 500person venue here.

If i were in NYC , i surely have bought my tickets on the first day, but i didn't know since 2 weeks ago , i could have had a chance to go there... I' ve just went to NYC in june ! and i've just seen 1 show ! which was the punk 77 copycat night at Otto's (great show).

I wish i could go back in time and took my holiday during the fest !! life's unfair !

Rinjo Njori said:

This is NYC and Garage Rock shows for the big boys (Dirtbombs, Gories, Black LIps, etc. ) fill places like the Bowery, but bands like The Woggles, Fleshtones,etc. can barely fill a 100 person venue. Reigning Sound played at the Bell House but I missed the show.
The Bellhouse is great, not too big and not too small. It's rectangluar, but the stage is on the long side so no matter where you stand your pretty close to the stage. I would guess there will be more out of towners than actual New Yorkers.

Pat said:

Does anyone knows how many tickets are available ?? is the venue big enough ??

 

i 'll try to figure how to get there, i've just come back from NY two weeks ago !!!!

I was a student at Moravian College when I saw for the first time the Creatures and Mark Smith at the Funhouse. Most of the people there remember me as "Thanos", friend of Blythe Evans and Yanni Kakoulas. Mark Smith's music and style was my first experience with garage rock and psychedelic rock in general. His music and persona will remain an influence for the rest of my life as a music composer. Thank you Mark, I will always remember you!

Hi, Zane - 

I live near Detroit in a city called Ypsilanti (which is a small college town attached to Ann Arbor). Detroit is about a 30 minute drive away, but our "region" is always called the "greater Detroit area" because we are all lumped together in the same "scenes". 

I am not sure how healthy or how musically active Niagara is, but she still has a presence, mostly in the visual arts scene. Like I said, it shouldn't be too difficult to find out more about her current status on the web. 

Bookies is still around, but not the way you remember it (and it isn't the same version: it is a new construction that is pretty nice, but not the same old club; people still speak fondly of the "legendary" Bookie's; here is a link to the new one: http://www.bookiesbar.com/, it is more of a sports bar and pretty douche-y. This is the one you are thinking of: http://www.bookiesclub870.com/)

I play in bands and stuff but I am not the KK of Trudi and KK. Would you mind explaining the story there?

thanks, great chatting with you, 

KK

Zane Arillotta said:

Thanks for responding to my question about Destroy All Monsters! I'm so glad to hear Niagara is doing well and is still active on the scene. She was SO thin back then we were always waiting for her to just fall over... I haven't been to Detroit in years but I always loved it. I know it's kinda farfetched but the club "Bookies" wouldn't happen to still be there would it? Also, do you live in Detroit or somewhere else? I only ask because of your name KK. Just thought you might be the K.K. of Trudi and K.K......

Niagara remains kick ass :):):)

"Warning" by The Humans on Back From the Grave V...

more punk than garage but ,the adverts one hit wonders "i wonder what well play for you to night/somthing heavy or somthing light/somthing to set your soul alight/and i what well do when you say/we dont like you go away" beast of a song.

Wow! Kopper really hit the nail on the head with all those bands!!! I've never heard of Magazine so I'll have to check them out.

I totally still enjoy some of that old goth-y stuff. I booked a show with Peter Murphy a few months ago and he was awesome. It was so great to see some of the old Bauhaus classics live.

love bahaus tbut the damned blow me away daily

uhh Rip Offs!

a garage rock hall of fame is brilliantly perverse id nominate the mummies the gories the sonics the outsiders (of summertime blues fame) the stadells etc

the gories version is killer

well the sonics used power chords but stuff like gloria is proper chord

on th subject real chords sound more garage it depend ie A7 sounds garagy the way i play it but other voicings less so ,also g open is very un garagy

i like to use a mix

il say the danelectro spring king a proper spring reverb but small

now that is comedy.

well excluding all pop ,an ill get some stick for it but the seeds-cant seem to make you mine ,sounds like a bady beetles

the organ in the standells some times good guys dont wear white blows me away

im exatly the same as this its wy i have no strat ,but i do have a cheapo strat copy ,its about 20 years old and my diy refin is awsome

check out the horrors sheenas a parasite and go from there (make sure to hear death at the chaple ,count in fives ,gloves ,she is the new thing and there versions of jack the ripper and crawdaddy simone

thw cramps where a band.

they where pretty rockin'.

i was a teenage wherewolf is a beast of a song

on the subgect of out board reverbs i suggest the danelectro spring king ,its a proper spring rverb in the form of a (albiet reletivly wide )pedal ,AND it has a kick pad to get that cool explosive sound

Looking forward to that, Mr. A. 

Last night I discovered this cool site for Spotify users Sharemyplaylists.com I added all of mine there (17 now!)

http://sharemyplaylists.com/members/steveterrell

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:

Watcha Steve

I've got Spotify at work so its on all day, but I have to keep deleting some of the BAD TASTE selections chosen by my staff!!

Now i've got some quick and easy playlists  a la Mr T, thanks.

I've got to read the help thingy you've posted cos i really havent given the spotify thing much time and didn't realise you could share lists, D'Oh.

I'll concentrate a bit more and send over my playlist when i've added a few, keep in mind that it will be customer friendly!!!

ps been away a week so I'm gonna catch up with the podunk show soon.

swt said:

Just posted this on my music blog.

I was just getting used to the Amazon and Google music clouds when along comes Spotify. For the past couple of weeks or so, this is where I've been listening to most of my music.

And creating playlists has become one of the most addictive internet time-wasters I've ever  indulged in.

Basically Spotify allows you to stream about 15 million (!) songs. The whole song, not just 30-second clips. And not just well known groups -- lots of bitchen obscurities.

If you're on the free plan, which I am at this point,you have to endure an occasional audio ad. (Most of these currently are house ads telling you about various features of Spotify and urging you to upgrade to a pay plan. A few spots by record companies turn up

Other people have written better beginners' guides to Spotify than I could do. (Here's one).

I just wanted to post links to my playlists. Subscribe to your favorites. Most of them will be evolving as new stuff is added. Here they are:

* Big Enchilada Super Smashes:  A sampling of songs that have been played on The Big Enchilada podcast.

* Psychedelic '60s: An hour or so of late '60s psychedelia, mainly stuff they played on the radio in 67-68.

* Psychobilly Madness: Greasy punks with stand-up basses. Hotrods! Switchblades!  Zombies!

* Rock 'n' Soul: Everywhere I go from Kansas City up to Maine, Rock 'n' Soul Music's driving people insane!

* Frank Furter's Fave: A tribute to the American hotdog.

* The Great Country Albums: From Marty Robbins to The Waco Brothers, some of my favorite country albums of all time. (No "greatest hits" compilations here. These are all albums that were meant to be heard as such.) 11 hours of music here!

*  Country Underground : Call it underground country, call it XXX country, call it the music Nashville does NOT want you to hear (hey, that sounds familiar!) Here's an hour or so of the stuff

* '70s Country Jukebox: An hour's worth of country classics (and some shoulda-been classics) that they actually used to play on AM country stations.

* Alt Country, The First Generation: This is country rock from the mid '60s through the mid 70s.

* Gospel Glory: I went nuts with this one. Six hours of Lord-praising, soul-saving Black gospel, mostly from the 40s and 50s, though I've got some great Staples Singers tunes in here.

* Remember the Fabulous '90s: Grunge and more. Mostly early '90s stuff.

* Songs I Heard on My Transistor Radio: I almost called this my "Measles Mix" because when I caught the measles in the early '60s (I was in third grade) I found solace and discovered a whole new world of music in a little transistor radio my mom gave me. It wasn't much bigger than my iPod is now. At first it was just a way to escape the boredom of having to stay home from school but being too sick to hang out with friends. The music became an obsession. Come to think of it, it still is. Here are some of the songs from the pre-Beatles '60s that led me to become the rock 'n' roll maniac I am today.

Cool. Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it

Gotham City Mashers said:

SWT - I'm blasting Big Enchilada Super Smashes right now.  Nice!

swt said:

I'm loving Spotify. I gotta bunch of playlists up:

http://open.spotify.com/user/robotclaw

Watcha Steve

I've got Spotify at work so its on all day, but I have to keep deleting some of the BAD TASTE selections chosen by my staff!!

Now i've got some quick and easy playlists  a la Mr T, thanks.

I've got to read the help thingy you've posted cos i really havent given the spotify thing much time and didn't realise you could share lists, D'Oh.

I'll concentrate a bit more and send over my playlist when i've added a few, keep in mind that it will be customer friendly!!!

ps been away a week so I'm gonna catch up with the podunk show soon.

swt said:

Just posted this on my music blog.

I was just getting used to the Amazon and Google music clouds when along comes Spotify. For the past couple of weeks or so, this is where I've been listening to most of my music.

And creating playlists has become one of the most addictive internet time-wasters I've ever  indulged in.

Basically Spotify allows you to stream about 15 million (!) songs. The whole song, not just 30-second clips. And not just well known groups -- lots of bitchen obscurities.

If you're on the free plan, which I am at this point,you have to endure an occasional audio ad. (Most of these currently are house ads telling you about various features of Spotify and urging you to upgrade to a pay plan. A few spots by record companies turn up

Other people have written better beginners' guides to Spotify than I could do. (Here's one).

I just wanted to post links to my playlists. Subscribe to your favorites. Most of them will be evolving as new stuff is added. Here they are:

* Big Enchilada Super Smashes:  A sampling of songs that have been played on The Big Enchilada podcast.

* Psychedelic '60s: An hour or so of late '60s psychedelia, mainly stuff they played on the radio in 67-68.

* Psychobilly Madness: Greasy punks with stand-up basses. Hotrods! Switchblades!  Zombies!

* Rock 'n' Soul: Everywhere I go from Kansas City up to Maine, Rock 'n' Soul Music's driving people insane!

* Frank Furter's Fave: A tribute to the American hotdog.

* The Great Country Albums: From Marty Robbins to The Waco Brothers, some of my favorite country albums of all time. (No "greatest hits" compilations here. These are all albums that were meant to be heard as such.) 11 hours of music here!

*  Country Underground : Call it underground country, call it XXX country, call it the music Nashville does NOT want you to hear (hey, that sounds familiar!) Here's an hour or so of the stuff

* '70s Country Jukebox: An hour's worth of country classics (and some shoulda-been classics) that they actually used to play on AM country stations.

* Alt Country, The First Generation: This is country rock from the mid '60s through the mid 70s.

* Gospel Glory: I went nuts with this one. Six hours of Lord-praising, soul-saving Black gospel, mostly from the 40s and 50s, though I've got some great Staples Singers tunes in here.

* Remember the Fabulous '90s: Grunge and more. Mostly early '90s stuff.

* Songs I Heard on My Transistor Radio: I almost called this my "Measles Mix" because when I caught the measles in the early '60s (I was in third grade) I found solace and discovered a whole new world of music in a little transistor radio my mom gave me. It wasn't much bigger than my iPod is now. At first it was just a way to escape the boredom of having to stay home from school but being too sick to hang out with friends. The music became an obsession. Come to think of it, it still is. Here are some of the songs from the pre-Beatles '60s that led me to become the rock 'n' roll maniac I am today.

http://youtu.be/z6ZlcLXFKTI

Jim Jones Revue, Hell Yeah!!!! Album of the year, in my opinion.  hope for rock and roll again.