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    • June 24, 2011 8:18 AM CDT
    • Here in Europe people are talking about Ty Segall like he's the new Jay Reatard. I think he's an interesting guy, some Sic Alps stuff is really cool, Epsilons (Ty with Charlie Moonheart) is very nice, his solo-output has some highlights. I LOVE the split lp he did with Black Time, and his T-Rex album on Goner is just amazing. This week I listened to his new album "Goodbye Bread", out on Drag City. I think it's THEE disappointment of 2011. What a waste of vinyl this is. It's just boring and nagging. What do you think?

    • June 24, 2011 6:54 AM CDT
    • I love the first 2 albums and have a really soft spot for them since my Mum used to dance around the house to them when I was but a small boy. When I left home I took those albums with me and the poor lady has never had them back...

    • June 24, 2011 5:46 AM CDT
    • Not so sure about that...I remember albums were $3, less on sale. That was about an hour's pay for your average crappy job, just like the cost of a CD or album DL is about an hour's pay for the same crappy job today. More or less. Singles were something like 60 cents. So I don't really think that was it. The filler, yeah, maybe. But I think it was a holdover from 78s, which had been the standard for decades. Plus, radio was a strong factor, they played the hits, that's what the singles were.

      David Kitching said:

      The reason singles were so important in the sixties was that LP's were so expensive. Another reason was the already mentioed filler tracks, I'd hear people saying how they'd bought an LP and there was a load of boring crap on it. And they wouldn't buy anything else by them.

    • June 23, 2011 8:19 PM CDT
    • The reason singles were so important in the sixties was that LP's were so expensive. Another reason was the already mentioed filler tracks, I'd hear people saying how they'd bought an LP and there was a load of boring crap on it. And they wouldn't buy anything else by them.

    • June 24, 2011 12:02 AM CDT
    • Brian Auger for the Hammond groove.

      Alan Price when he was with The Animals.I could listen to the solo in House Of The Rising Sun over and over.

    • June 23, 2011 4:09 PM CDT
    • Nicky Hopkins played on everything.

    • June 23, 2011 1:59 PM CDT
    • Billy Preston has the most soul, Rick Wright the best voicings & progressions one could argue.

       

      JW

       

    • June 23, 2011 10:35 AM CDT
    • Depending on how you count the Doors (not Garage, but psychedelic?), Manzarek could make a case as well, but no question that Rod is amazing.

    • June 23, 2011 10:35 PM CDT
    • I just saw the Cynics play and that guy used an electric twelver on many songs.

    • June 23, 2011 10:16 PM CDT
    • Great Fookin' Geetar mate!   I have one of those on my wish list, last I heard was that Burns wasn't gonna ship them to the US or other countries anymore.  

       

      Congratulations!

    • June 23, 2011 5:44 PM CDT
    • Byrds, Byrds and more Byrds. The Dovers, Roosters, Guilloteens - basically tons of Californian folk rock/garage, '65-'67.

    • June 23, 2011 4:53 PM CDT
    • I just ordered a 12 string electric guitar (Burns Double Six).  What are some things I should listen to to rip off err.. I mean, for inspiration?  The Searchers are high on the list.  Maybe you know some cool things that I don't know or forgot about.

    • June 23, 2011 8:34 PM CDT
    • What about the other one: Electronically Processed Mono, which will give a stereo effect on stereo equipment! I.E. I heard a stereo import of "Introducing the Beatles" and there's all extra reverb and shit. whereas the stereo version of the UK "please Please me" was- instruments to the left, vocals to the right. Which i think was basically taken from a 2-track recording type tape machine, (all they had at Abbey Road at the time). I love split stereo mixes though

    • June 23, 2011 8:13 PM CDT
    • Well, if you like zombies and garage, I recommended to you the new Los Magnificos video. They are the best mexican garage band right now.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72o3KfsBpM&feature=related

       

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    • June 23, 2011 5:28 PM CDT
    • sept 22-26 and yeah I'm usually in the same boat, this is kinda my vacation away from all that every year.

    • June 23, 2011 10:23 AM CDT
    • As much as I would love to, I just don't see it happening. I love Memphis, too. But going to fests like this was a lot easier back when I had more disposable income (and no kids).

      What are the dates?

    • June 23, 2011 1:18 PM CDT
    • I am a huge Black Lips fan but their new album "Arabia Mountain" is probably my least favorite album since their debut self-titled album.  It does have a few good songs but as a whole the album lacks soul.  Every song was so generic and much more surfy then I had anticipated.  Apparently they ran all the songs through a human skull for reverb which while psychedelic as fuck doesn't sound as cool as i expected it to.  yes this album is better then alot of albums to come out in the last few years but it was a miss for me especially because the singles they have been putting out lately seemed so much heavier and more hectic. I expected every song on the album to be more like "The Best Napkin I Ever Had."

    • June 23, 2011 10:57 AM CDT
    • Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss !!!

      I've just received mine and it's gorgeous !!!

      I'm wearing it now and each and every girl around is after me begging for contact. So hot !!!

      Thanks Shawn and ixnaray for this woman trap ! I feel like a REAL man now !!!

    • June 23, 2011 10:08 AM CDT
    • Just wanted to update everyone that, in case you missed it, there are some new episodes of the Surfcast to get sloppy to! The latest is #25 and is hosted by Doc Detroit who used to do The Drowning Pool podcast back in the early days of the GPPN. Check it out:

      Click here for ALL of our episodes!