I will be on the air and the web on Saturday June 14th playing the usual garage-punk trash. You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu from 1:00-3:00PM EST.
June 14, 2014 7:26 AM CDT
I will be on the air and the web on Saturday June 14th playing the usual garage-punk trash. You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu from 1:00-3:00PM EST.
June 13, 2014 11:37 AM CDT
This week on The Trip! Things really do go better with Coke! Listen here: http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140608-0000-t1402182000.mp3
The setlist!
THE CREEPS - DOWN AT THE NIGHTCLUB
THE ARGONS - DO THE DOG
TONY RANDALL - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE
JERRY DALLMAN & THE KNIGHTCAPS- THE BUG
THE MODS - I GIVE YOU AN INCH
PETULA CLARK - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE
THE PAGANS - BABA YAGA
THE TROGGS - COKE SPOT
SALTY HOLMES - THE GHOST SONG
GROTESQUE MOMMIES - ONE NIGHT STAND
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - ABBA ZABBA
EASY BEATS - COKE SPOT
3 ACES AND A JOKER- BOOZE PARTY
THE RUNABOUTS - WHEN I GET THE BLUES
THE WHO - COKE AFTER COKE
DUKES OF HAMBURG - ROSALYN
JACK WEBB- THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE
THE EARTHBOYS - SPACE GIRL
THE PREMIERS - FARMER JOHN
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MITCH & TICH- COKE SPOT
THE BIKINIS - BOOGIE ROCK AND ROLL
BILLY THORPE & THE AZTECS - THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE
THE DEL-MONAS - PETER GUNN LOCOMOTION
THE SUPREMES - COKE AD
JAN & DEAN - COKE AD
POLKA DOT SLIM - A THING YOU GOTTA FACE
PURPLE HAZE - ALT TAKE
MARK & THE ESCORTS - GET YOUR BABY
THE SEEKERS - COKE SPOT
TAKESHI TERUACHI & THE BLUE JEANS - YAGI BUSHI
DAVEY DAY - MOTORCYCLE MIKE
FABULOUS MCLEVERTYS - BLAME IT ON ELVIS
June 6, 2014 11:05 AM CDT
Chris Spedding, Nash The Slash & Hawkwind - nice mix.
June 6, 2014 8:56 AM CDT
This week on The Trip! Greg pays tribute to Bunny Yeager and Nash the Slash! Listen here: http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20140601-0000-t1401577200.mp3
The Setlist!
ronnie self- pretty bad blues
the scarlets- stampede
warren smith- ubangi stomp
ronnie hawkins- down the line
wanda jackson- rock your baby
the waitresses- the comb
rubber city rebels- rubber city rebels
jerry lee lewis- you win again
robin & the 3 hoods- that's tuff
live wires- love
gretchen hefner- betty page is back
chris spedding- hey miss betty
blue devils- betty page
nash the slash- dead man's curve
hawkwind- motorhead
william shatner- silver machine
j.d. wilkes & the dirt daubers- drive
the buzzcocks- fast cars
the buzzcocks- i don't mind
sons of adam- feathered fish
girl trouble- hurt your heart
girl trouble- old time religion
throttle elevator music- throttle rocket
June 13, 2014 7:42 AM CDT
Radio What Wave Playlist June 12/2014. Shortened show and all London Ontario bands tonite!
1. Vintage Experience....You Really Got Me...recent demo from Ryan In The Red, host of Rock City Madness over on the Garagepunk Hideout. They are playing Sat June 21 at Norma Jeans.
2. Heart Attack Kids....Cold Hands...from the Hooligans download.
3. Don't Touch The Dancers....Acid Drops....they will be playing June 20th at APK as part of the CHRW CD release party.
4. The Icons...End Note....from a download.
5. Astoria....So Far Gone....from a download, part of their soon to be released CD and the radio debut of this song!!
6. Red Arms....Quiet Resolution....from a download.
7. Foam....Silver Spoons....from a download.
8. Fireball Grant....Jean Genie....from a live to air on Radio What Wave, Oct 31/2013. Not really from London Ontario, but from the thriving metropolis of Watford, between London and Sarnia Ontario.
9.Pink Cadillac Scat Cats....Jolena....from their Rip It Up CD from 2006. We had these guys as one of our very first live to airs!!
10. Larry Lee and The Leesures....Odd Man Out...from the Number 1 LP from the early 60's. One of the best songs to come out of sleepy London and few remember or have heard it. The Cramps shoulda covered this one, but The Black Holes did instead.
11. Matadors...Pink Lincoln...from the Devil's Music CD. They are at CTO tonite.This seems be the band people from outside London know of....and The Demics of course!
12. Black Frame Spectacle....Bust Out The Boogie...from their Grady Sessions II CD. They will be at Black Shire PubJune 20th
13. Alcohollys....Girls Night....from their CD, EP. They are at APK on saturday night.
14. Marcellus Wallace...Dollar Bill....from their debut CD, one of the only soul bands that play out regularly.
15. The Demics...Talk Talk....recorded live in Toronto early 80's.
16. The Demics....7 and 7 Is....as above. Showing The Demics roots in 60's garagepunk with these 2 covers.
17. Second Thoughts....Wound Up....from their only 7" from 1980
18. Crash 80's....Thrills....from t heir only 7" from 1980.
An all London Ontario show and this was only the tip of the iceberg. Join us next week as we do a special on late 70's/early 80's Canpunk (with the emphasis on the artier side) as we pay tribute to Steven Davey who passed away the other day. Steven was one of the prime movers behind the beginings of the punk scene in Toronto which in turn influenced the rest of Southwestern Ontario. If you tune in, you might just hear some of Steven's early bands, The Dishes and Everglades as well as some of the songs he wrote for bands like The Demics, The Diodes, Keith Whittaker of The Demics and many others.
And thanx for all the phone calls, emails, facebook messages and Heys!!!! And thanx to all the crazies that tune in every week while they do the dishes!!
See ya next week!
And here's a link to the podcast:
June 13, 2014 2:56 AM CDT
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
June 13, 2014
Chances are, unless you live in New York or unless you religiously listen to my radio show, Terrell’s Sound World (which, by the way, you should), you haven’t heard of The Electric Mess. Actually, if not for the glory of the internet — and, specifically, my favorite musical community of recent years, The GaragePunk Hideout — I wouldn’t have heard of this Mess either.
But, by golly, if you like wild, frantic, high-energy rock ’n’ roll, you really need to acquaint yourself with this New York band. The group’s third album, House on Fire, is as good a place as any to start. All 13 tracks are full of fire and craziness. The sound is not drastically different from the band’s first two albums (its self-titled debut from 2009 and 2012’s Falling off the Face of the Earth). But that’s a good thing. If you like this one, you’ll want to seek out those first two.
Fronted by singer Chip Fontaine (real name Esther Crow), the group has a sound rooted in 1960s garage rock but not shackled in nostalgia. True, The Mess is a guitar-based band that features an electric organ (Oweinama Biu), but you won’t get the idea that the musicians are trying to sound like Question Mark & The Mysterians or The Standells (though, at least in their early days, they were known to cover “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”).
Fontaine/Crow’s voice reminds me a little of Joan Jett’s. (Here’s a fantasy: a Jett/Crow duet on The Replacements’ “Androgynous.”) House on Fire’s highlights include the opening song, a crazed little rouser called “Better to Be Lucky Than Good,” which could be a grandchild of The Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Heat.” (One recurring lyric: “They did it all for the white light.”) This is followed by the album’s title song, in which the speed is just as breakneck and intense.
“She Got Fangs,” which starts out with a throbbing bass line from Derek Davidson, is a hoodoo-heavy song about vampires: “Vampire woman, can’t you see/What your hunger does to me?” I’m not sure what Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone From the Sun” has to do with any of this, but it’s there, courtesy of guitarist Dan Crow (Esther’s husband), during one of the song’s instrumental breaks.
Then there’s “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave” (the title is from a classic John Belushi Saturday Night Live skit), which is about folks who always wear out their welcomes. And even fiercer is “Leavin’ Me Hangin’,” a song in which the singer expresses displeasure at being stood up. In the middle of the song is a weird spoken-word segment:
“Girl, you ain’t no Queen of Sheba, and I ain’t no piece of liver, but you never deliver. Man’s ego is like a fragile bird, but you step on that bird’s wings one too many times, and he turns into an evil hawk with red fiery eyes, on the hunt for you girl. ’Cause you’re my bird of prey, and this is what I have to say.”
This is followed by a 10-second (yeah, I timed it) scream as the band goes into overdrive.
The final track, “Every Girl Deserves a Song,” starts off fast but then, after a minute or so, slows down into a wah-wah-enhanced groove. (Am I crazy, or do I hear a faint echo of The Allman Brothers’ “Midnight Rider” in here?) “Why don’t you bring some Percocets just to help me cool my jets,” Crow sings. No, you can’t exactly call this song mellow, but after the pace of the first dozen songs, The Electric Mess deserve to cool their jets a little.
Now go get yourself a copy of this album. And tell at least five of your friends. Next time I review an Electric Mess album, I don’t want to talk about how undeservedly obscure this band is.
Also recommended:
* Drop by Thee Oh Sees. I was just beginning to come to terms with last year’s announcement by Thee Oh Sees frontman and resident wizard John Dwyer that his prolific band was going on “indefinite hiatus.” The group’s album Floating Coffin, you might recall, was my pick for the best of 2013, and its Albuquerque show last fall was one of my favorite concerts of the year.
Now here comes a new album by Thee Oh Sees. And no, it’s not an odds ’n’ sods collection of old tapes, demos, and stuff from long-forgotten tribute albums. It’s actually a new album. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the band we came to know and love as Thee Oh Sees — vocalist and keyboardist Brigid Dawson, bassist Petey Dammit, and drummer Mike Shoun — seems to be, well, on indefinite hiatus. Dwyer moved from the group’s home base of San Francisco to Los Angeles. I think some of the other Oh Sees scattered as well.
But more good news. Even without the old lineup, Drop is a pretty decent album. Although not as overtly powerful as the magical Floating Coffin, it still has several mighty examples of Dwyer’s fuzzed-out, rubbery psychedelic excursions.
He saved his best for the first three tracks: “Penetrating Eye,” “Encrypted Bounce,” and “Savage Victory,” which make up nearly half the album. These could almost pass for outtakes from Coffin, or perhaps Carrion Crawler/The Dream (2011). One could make that argument for the garagey “Camera (Queer Sound)” as well.
While this is clearly Dwyer’s show, he’s aided on Drop by Chris Woodhouse — a longtime associate of the band — on bass, drums, and Mellotron and Mikal Cronin on alto sax. Cronin is best known as a guitarist (if you saw Ty Segall at High Mayhem a few weeks ago, you saw Cronin). There’s also someone called Casafis on sax.
Unfortunately, after such an auspicious beginning, the album ends with a three-song fizzle. “King’s Nose” sounds like an attempt to channel Electric Light Orchestra. “Transparent World” is plodding and over-synthy. And the closing number, “The Lens,” is uninspired wimp rock. Come on, Dwyer, lose the damned Mellotron!
Although Drop is a welcome addition, I’m not sure what the future of Thee Oh Sees is. Dwyer recently released an electronic album called Hubba Bubba under the name of Damaged Bug.
But he’s one prolific guy, so Oh Sees fans shouldn’t abandon hope.
Here's some videos from these bands
June 11, 2014 8:41 PM CDT
Hey John, thanks a lot. I will let him know.
June 6, 2014 12:44 AM CDT
Maybe , next year , Rudi can play at The Chicago Bluesfest.
They need new blood.
Not to say Rudi is a vampire. I did see him once , on Hallowe'en , wearing a Dracula cape.
He asked if any women in the audience would like to help him take his cape off , saying ,
"It's OK , I don't have AIDS. But , I do have Herpes."
"HERPES?!" , I said , "You're old school !!!".
June 5, 2014 6:14 PM CDT
RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED
NEW LP, RUDI PROTRUDI UNFUZZED - LIVE, OUT JUNE 26
VIA HOUND GAWD! RECORDS
Rudi Protrudi is known primarily for founding and fronting legendary Garage rockers, »The Fuzztones«. His career spans 44 years and has included performing and recording with various influential artists such as Sean Bonniwell (Music Machine), Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Esquirita, the Cult's Ian Astbury, The Dead Boys, Lydia Lunch, Billy Idol, Sylvain Sylvain (NY Dolls), Lenny Kaye (Nuggets compiler/Patti Smith guitarist), the Chocolate Watchband, the Pretty Things, Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & The Raiders) and 60' Garage icon Sky Saxon (The Seeds).
Rudi has instigated many other projects, including the first Link Wray inspired instro band, »Link Protrudi & The Jaymen«, and two solo albums in the (admittedly bent) Country vein.
His newest project, »Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed«, features the Garage guru in an acoustic setting, performing raw, gutbucket country delta blues and Chicago-style blues, backed by a five-piece band consisting of the best blues players in Berlin. For this recording he took the stage of Berlin‘s »Wild at Heart«, bringing a little piece of Mississippi to your turntables. Invoking the ghosts of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Skip James,»Rudi Protrudi Unfuzzed« transform Rock venues into crossroads Juke Joints.
1. Want Ad Blues
2. Down In The Bottom
3. Made Up My Mind
4. Big Legs, Tight Skirt
5. Bad Like Jesse James
6. Black Girl
7. Evil
8. Boom Boom
9. Rock Me Baby
10. Bloodstains On The Wall
11. Dirty Motherfucker
12. Hoochie Coochie Man
13. What'd I Say
Record Release Shows:
June 13, 2014 at Bassy Cowboy Club; Berlin
June 14, 2014 at Wild at Heart; Berlin
June 11, 2014 1:52 PM CDT
The second episode of Revolution Rock as a two hour program featured music from Link Wray, The Dream Dates, The Cramps, Wydle Rattz (a short lived band featuring members of The Stooges, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney), and The Velvet Underground.
The playlist:
1. Link Wray - Big City After Dark
2. Dream Dates - The Mess You’re In
3. Cousins - Other Ocean
4. Fuzz Kings -Republican Haircuts
5. Blitzen Trapper - Fletcher
6. Neil Young - My Hometown
7. Wanda Jackson - Tunnel Of Love
8. North By North - Break Some Bones
9. M.G & The Escorts - A Someday Fool
10. Cool Rays - Diary Of You
11. Wylde Rattz - Take LSD
12. She Wolf - Going Back Home
13. The Cramps - Lonesome Town
14. Cream - From Four Until Late
15. Nature Boys - No Subject
16. Mystics - Can’t Be Happy
17. Paul Jacobs - A Place To Stay
18. Tele Novella - Stephanie Says
19. The Carbonas - Count Me Out
20. The Modernettes - Confidential
21. The Spy’s - Machine Shop
22. Paul Westerberg - Got You Down
23. Paul Westerberg - Silent Film Star
24. Pow Wows - Plastic Factory
25. The Replacements - I’m In Trouble
26. Black Lips - Dog Years
27. The Almighty Defenders - Ghost With The Most
28. Dead Ghosts - I sleep alone
29. Plimsouls - Zero Hour
30. Nervus Rex - There She Goes
31. Velvet Underground - Heroin (Different Take) (1966 Scepter Session)
Download/listen to the podcast here: http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140607-1900-t1402164000.mp3
Check out my blog post on Velvet Underground's 1966 Scepter Studio Sessions here: http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-velvet-underground-scepter-studio.html
June 10, 2014 4:26 AM CDT
Nice stuff, too. Thanks!!
June 9, 2014 12:51 PM CDT
How about these bands?
June 8, 2014 11:57 AM CDT
After 6 weeks of shows with a limited staff... here is the return of Voix De Garage with the 4 of us!!! Stay tuned, it will be this Wednesday 11th June and any time after that on podcast! For more garage, glitter, punk sounds of yesterday and today... WE ARE BACK!!!
June 7, 2014 3:31 PM CDT
Been thinkin' about it. Don't know if I'll have enough cash... Fingers crossed!
Mark
fifty-fourfortyorfightradio.com
June 6, 2014 10:54 PM CDT
Yes. He claimed peanut butter and honey all over a woman's body set the mood.
June 6, 2014 1:07 AM CDT
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June 3, 2014 4:22 PM CDT
Steve , I just remember two different interviews , one when Tiny Tim was still in his commercial prime . He said "Young people are not following Christs's teachings. Even the wife and I only have S-E-X if we're trying to have children." No wonder she left him.
But , I saw another interview from the 80's where he calls out younger men for not knowing how to please their women . "I can go for four or five hours , why can't they?".
He added that peanut butter and honey was his secret ingredient.....Not before sex.
June 3, 2014 6:11 AM CDT
Unfortunately I can't remember that blog and where to find it.....in any case, if some of you up there don't know that TT's assistant and all-time friend was Erin and he evidently started the TT blog page postumously of course:), well, perhaps you don't know much about Tiny Tim:):)!!!!!
June 5, 2014 11:54 AM CDT
I've been on a massive Dead Kennedys kick lately. Plastic Sugery Disasters has been in heavy rotation it seems.
June 5, 2014 11:53 AM CDT
McVICKER said:
...and the rezzilos!
YES!!!! 'Can't stand the Rezillos' is one of my top three favorites from that era.
June 3, 2014 6:31 PM CDT
Sweet.
June 3, 2014 4:05 PM CDT
Tim Tam Bam , Cherry Ripe Overdrive , Vim Vegemite and The Brewer's Yeast Concoction , Radio Kookaburraman , Bruce Bogan and The Fosters ,
Nick Cave and Release The Bat Mizvah - New single " I Left My Mustache in Micronesia".
June 3, 2014 2:25 PM CDT
.....AND WHAT ABOUT sKYHOOKS??!!!!:):)
June 3, 2014 2:24 PM CDT
Since some of the bands up there are NOT garage......can I mention max Merritt and the Meteors and Jo Jo Zep & the FaLCONS (OF AGE??):):)
June 3, 2014 2:27 PM CDT
oH r.i.p.:(:(:(
