I liked garage rock before I even knew what garage rock was. Before I even know what rock really was.

I was about 8 years old and my favorite tv show was 'Tour of Duty' and I just loved a lot of the music from that show.

My parents and grandparents picked up on that and I got several compilation records.

The first I got was by the Rolling Stones featuring 'Paint It Black'

Tour of Duty was very popular in Holland & Belgium. Paint It Black actually became a number #1 hit record again in 1990 because of it. 

I also got the offical Tour of Duty compilation albums as wel as other "Vietnam" themed compilations. These featured the more well known garage rock hits like Psychotic Reaction, Wooly Bully, etc

I liked those songs the most, although I just thought of it als rock 'n roll. I cared less about the 'softer' songs on those records.

I seriously got into music years later during the punk revival of the nineties. I got into punk rock, especially Bad Religion. I started checking out more from Epitaph Records. Back than they had a lot of garage punk bands on their roster like New Bomb Turks & The Humpers.

Ditto

Hank Cockpit said:

Mummies - Never Been Caught

Dirty Water was a complete family favorite!  But I love the Flamin Groovies as well......

I was born in 1967 and I know how you feel.  I hate that I missed out on the garage rock and British Invasion era (but my luck , I would have been drafted).  But you started off with some good items.  EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FUDGE (plus anything related like She's Just 15 and Paperback Life) and HEADCOATS DOWN are my two favorites by those groups.  The other Headcoats albums are great but they really just follow the formula set by that first album (which is kind of just following in the footsteps of other Childish items) but Thee Headcoats were my first purchases of Billy Childish records and I had to work my way backwards as well as keep up on anything else that followed . 

Zentralheizung of Death said:

Born in 1987 i was always pissed i couldnt catch some of the so called grunge movement - but anyways i liked it - and i always got specially hooked by MUDHONEY (i prefere EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FUDGE & MARCH TO FUZZ b sides) - they had something in their sound that made them different to the other "grunge" bands - but i couldn´t say what it was - something more rough and "we don´t give a shit" kind of feeling.

Another point was they where using the word FUZZ quite a lot - and the songs which included that word happened to be my favourites - so i started researching - and it all started for me -

they also did a supercool cover of just 15 by the headcoats, their HEADCOATS DOWN lp actually was my next step into the garagewonderland...

I gotta say i really miss that feeling of following a hidden track into the deep swamps of music-history - and feeling like the first to discover hidden treasures, even to discover whole new genres just by reading those little informations on the LP covers .......KICKS JUST GOT EASIER TO FIND!

Sonics have love will travel got me when I heard it on a late night rock show in Belgium called Stercock ,  I was 11 and was not aware this kind of cool even existed.  life changing tune.

Born in 1987 i was always pissed i couldnt catch some of the so called grunge movement - but anyways i liked it - and i always got specially hooked by MUDHONEY (i prefere EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FUDGE & MARCH TO FUZZ b sides) - they had something in their sound that made them different to the other "grunge" bands - but i couldn´t say what it was - something more rough and "we don´t give a shit" kind of feeling.

Another point was they where using the word FUZZ quite a lot - and the songs which included that word happened to be my favourites - so i started researching - and it all started for me -

they also did a supercool cover of just 15 by the headcoats, their HEADCOATS DOWN lp actually was my next step into the garagewonderland...

I gotta say i really miss that feeling of following a hidden track into the deep swamps of music-history - and feeling like the first to discover hidden treasures, even to discover whole new genres just by reading those little informations on the LP covers .......KICKS JUST GOT EASIER TO FIND!

the LP I had around since I was a kid was Cheap Thrills by Big Brother so I was into acid rock and then metal but I was working with an older guy one summer when I was about 13 who argued that garage was better. I was successfully converted but not all at once - first he turned me on to higher quality rock than I was used to on the radio, cassettes of Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Motorhead, Deep Purple, Procol Harum, ZZ Top and obscure bands like Stray, Pink Fairies, Bloodrock, Bob Seger System. Then when I trusted his judgment some, he gave me cassettes containing:

Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Easybeats, Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels, bubble gum, Mummies, MC5

That was that.

Eventually I got in bands and discovered WFMU, Norton Records, and got into music history, etc.

One tune that always jars me into astral time travel is "Uptight Tonight" by Flash + The Memphis Casuals [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS38FDJffsk] but the haunting, plodding sincerity in "Truth Gotta Stand" by The Luv'd Ones makes me feel like every song I ever wrote is crass, hokey and a waste of everyone's time.

Show #335: "The 100th Eggman Collection Special: The Top 100 Of The First 100, Part 1" playlist:

The Beatles - "A Day In The Life"
J.K. & Co. - "Break Of Dawn/Fly"
The Electric Light Orchestra - "10538 Overture"
Genesis - "Harold The Barrel"
The Pandamonium - "The Sun Shines From His Eyes"
The Savage Rose - "Dear Little Mother"
Bob Dylan - "Positively 4th Street"
Bachdenkel - "An Appointment With The Master/The Settlement Song"
The Chocolate Watchband - "In The Past"
Masters Apprentices - "Because I Love You"
Your Mother - "Cryptic Subterfuge"
Ash Ra Tempel - "Light: Look At Your Sun"
Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke And Sassafras"
The Kinks - "Days"
Sands - "Listen To The Sky"
Trapeze - "Another Day"
The Knickerbockers - "I Must Be Doing Something Right"
The Byrds - "What's Happening?!?!"
Faust - "Why Don't You Eat Carrots"
Silver Apples - "Ruby"
Supersister - "No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A Mountain)"
My Solid Ground - "The Executioner"
Amon Duul II - "Dem Guten, Schonen, Wahren"
The Move - "Kilroy Was Here"
The Turtles - "The Last Thing I Remember (The First Thing I Knew) [demo version]"
Tim Buckley - "Once I Was"
Bee Gees - "Please Read Me"
Hearts And Flowers - "Ode To A Tin Angel"
The Tidal Wave - "Spider Spider"
Gong - "A PHP's Advice/Magick Mother Invocation/Master Builder"

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Egg

Show #335: "The 100th Eggman Collection Special: The Top 100 Of The First 100, Part 1"

Every 3 weeks I leave an open slot to do random themes and whatnot. This week I am celebrating the 100th Eggman Collection show on The Metaphysical Circus. If you've heard my show before, you probably already know that every three weeks I do a special series called The Eggman Collection, which is a big potpourri of every song I've ever liked for the past 20 years of my life. 15,000 songs in a big mixing bowl that I randomly draw out one by one and play in no particular order. If I like it, I play it, with no repeats of the same song ever. Last show was the 100th Eggman Collection, and this week I'm celebrating with the top 100 of the first 100 shows. I'll be playing all my VERY favorites of the first 100 shows in no particular order for the next three weeks. A three part show, so keep tuning in! Tune in tonight to hear the first 30 songs of the top 100 by bands & artists like: The Beatles, J.K. & Co, The Electric Light Orchestra, The Savage Rose, Bob Dylan, Bachdenkel, Masters Apprentices, Ash Ra Tempel, Bubble Puppy, The Kinks, Trapeze, The Knickerbockers, The Byrds, Faust, Amon Duul II, The Move, The Turtles, Tim Buckley, Gong, and many many more!!!

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Watch my playlist unravel before your eyes LIVE here: http://wscafm.radioactivity.fm/

Egg

Is the calendar with who-plays-when out yet?
I can't go all the four days, so I'd like to plan my Memphis trip a little bit. I've never been to Memphis nor to the goner fest of course. I'm excited about both.

You should check the Southern US group for that.
http://garagepunk.ning.com/group/southern-us

The Rich Hands said:

I know Memphis inst Nashville, but were from San Antonio trying to book a show Nov 5th in Nashville and exit/in is already booked any other great venues I should be aware of?

thanks

-s

I know Memphis inst Nashville, but were from San Antonio trying to book a show Nov 5th in Nashville and exit/in is already booked any other great venues I should be aware of?

thanks

-s

@ Barry, lol! good one. He's a tour manager from Glasgow & he's currently working for the Undertones. @ Dave, you made that??? WOW! How do you bend the wood?

I have a copy,  I got it via ebay (  which I no longer use ).  Back 10 or so years ago I picked up a ton of great Cramps stuff for very little money.  Book's kinda cool, but wow, sure as shit aint  $299.99 "buy it now" cool ? !

 http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=wild+world+of+the+cramps&_sacat=See-All-Categories

~T

I've looked at that Burns closely a few different times and I still have trouble knowing for sure if John uses all 12 strings while he plays it.

Anthony Beemer said:

John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees plays that model. He makes it sound easy.

 

Indeed awesome! Thanks!

DAD HORSE EXPERIENCE - 'gates of heaven' currently on repeat!!!!!!

Thanks for the info.  I can do more reaserch now that I have his name spelled correctly!

Andrew Malcolm said:

Eugene Chadbourne. I haven't thought about him in a while. He IS great. Crazy guitar, piano, banjo, and rake player. He has put out a LOT of stuff. Besides solo work, he was in a band called Shockabilly, and has collaborated with Camper Van Beethoven, Sun City Girls, Jello Biafra, John Zorn, and many more... I have a bunch of cassettes (he used to sell tapes almost exclusively). Wow! Thanks for jogging my memory. 

Ray Klein said:

Bob Log III is my favorite.

Does anyone know anything about Eugene Chapburn?  I heard him once, along time ago.  He played an electric rake, and I need to hear it again.

Reverend Beatman, Hasil Adkins, O Lendarion Chucrobillyman and Pete Moser.

die you zombie bastards ruuuuules ; )

Max Reverb said:

HAZE goes without saying for sure

if your a big fa n of hasils def should check out a troma flick some of my buddies made
die you zombie bastards
which has HAZE in it shortly before his death

my buddy willy from jumpin beans and the moustaches put out hazes last 7" on his ball records
guy has hours of cassette tapes of him talking to hasil on the phone from doing the record
pretty cool

as far as the new guys
i really dig on JOE BUCK YOURSELF and HAUNTED GEORGE

anyone mention KING LOUIE???  'chinese crawfish' is a simply awesome LP

I recently finished this book, and I really enjoyed it.  Tommy James writes at length about Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records who was heavily connected to the mob and was an inspiration for the character of Hesh Rabkin on "The Sopranos."  I just wanted to recommend it to everyone else.

That is the title to a book about the rise and fall of Casablanca Records, written by Larry Harris.  It's a very entertaining look at the music business during the 70s, and I would highly recommend it.  Yes, I know Casablanca was mainly a disco label, but it's still a good read.

Hi,

He's one of those guys who gave me the kick to go one-man by myslef. I know he'll play this week-end in Lille, France. Unfortunately I can not be there (cajun & zydeco fest...). But I really want to see him live. Next time i go to the US, perhaps.

(BTW sorry if my possibly approximate english hurts you...)

Actually, I revere them more for the participation of Ron Asheton [THE STOOGES] & Michael Davis [MC5] as well as Jim Shaw [R.I.P. 2010, from cancer.]   Niagara was a beautiful, slender groupie who lived thru all the drugs, made it to lead singer status, and now creates some cool lowbrow art as well [check it out at http://www.niagaradetroit.com/]  One time in the 80's I went to see them at the Pretzel Bowl in downtown Detroit...I think I lost 20% of my hearing that night just from the freakin' soundcheck.  That band could certainly fill any room with glorious noise!