Excellent band! My band opened for them at The Beachland Tavern in Cleveland.  During their set our bass player & guitar player played on stage with the band, while the members went into the audience for "Audience Participation".  One of our most memorable gigs! Great guys! Great music!

My wife is a big fan of The Fleshtones ...they are playing here in LA next week , busy week for us ...Kid Congo is playing too !

Most definitely! I think that format needs to truly come back. At least in our corner of the music world it sort of has.

Catfish Jones said:

Exactly. The album rock era really reigned in an age of rock and roll bloat, I.E. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blah Blah Blah. It seems like once bands could slap together a full length they didn't have to do shit again for a while; where in the singles days they were constantly working in order to not be entirely forgotten. Which I happen to appreciate. 

Old School Hero said:

That's why 45rpms were a staple in the 50's up until the mid 60's I think. When the late 60's came songs got longer and there was really no better way to do it than to go with full albums.

Catfish Jones said:

Singles were the bread and butter for those 60's bands, so when they'd throw an album together a shit load of the stuff WAS actually filler. I think the earlier singles are my favorites, but of course the full lengths hit their peak in the early/mid 70's.

early 70s stones were the best.  not only the albums but the live show.  they were never a live powerhouse until this point...

Exactly. The album rock era really reigned in an age of rock and roll bloat, I.E. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blah Blah Blah. It seems like once bands could slap together a full length they didn't have to do shit again for a while; where in the singles days they were constantly working in order to not be entirely forgotten. Which I happen to appreciate. 

Old School Hero said:

That's why 45rpms were a staple in the 50's up until the mid 60's I think. When the late 60's came songs got longer and there was really no better way to do it than to go with full albums.

Catfish Jones said:

Singles were the bread and butter for those 60's bands, so when they'd throw an album together a shit load of the stuff WAS actually filler. I think the earlier singles are my favorites, but of course the full lengths hit their peak in the early/mid 70's.

As a total fanatic I would say everything between the first album and Goats Head Soup is classic. My real favourites though are the first 2 albums, plus early bootlegs like the Chess Sessions and Camden 1964. If you have those recording the first Ramones album, I`m Stranded, Louie Louie and the Best of Bo Diddley you have everything you need to know about rock n roll :)

The Korg PS 60 has lots of vintage keyboard sounds and is half the price of a Nord.

http://www.korg.com/ps60

On the organ tab, it has lots of hammond settings, a "vox classic" setting and "60's registars" which sounds like Johnny and the Hurricanes. You can add vibrato to any setting and change rotary speeds. There are 52 organ presets available, so there's a good bit of variety.

The Electric Piano has a "Old E. Piano" setting that nails the dark Wurlitzer tone. 

In the string section, there are some decent mellotron like settings.

Plus you can layer and split the settings. I use some left hand piano/right hand organ on a few songs. Most Nord models cannot have piano and organ at the same time.

http://twitter.com/horrordeluxe

I like Twitter, it's a good way of finding out what is going on in the world (depending who you're following) : ) and making contacnt with people you otherwise wouldn't. I've got one @diycouture and my band has one @baaneex : ) xx

we gotcher twits right here

http://twitter.com/becca__bomb

and

http://twitter.com/creeping_ivies

I'm fond of go go dancers too:)

Ha ha, Actually we're both correct.

dublÉ said:

Actually it's the wood that shrinks/expands due to (usually rapid/excessive) changes in temperature and/or humidity, causing the laquer to crack...

Personally I wouldn't go the superglue route... as I understand, superglue is mainly used to fix hairline cracks in the wood itself, and not to repair the varnish.

Mardy Pune said:

The checking or crazing (depends on what part of the world yer from) is caused by shrinkage of the lacquer. Don't kick yerself to hard cause it happened to yer baby.

Personally never meet a collector that wanted the finish to look like that. Any that do would want them real cheap so they could get them re-finished.

Find a luthier that specializes in respraying, not the guy who works outta the back of the local guitar shop, although he might be able to point you on the right direction.

Biggest question is do you want it as a piece to hang on the wall or as an instrument to play? You might really pissed off with yerself if you re-finished it and then scratched it on its first outing.

I wouldn't bother with re-finishing it if I was playing it live, but I am really hard on my instruments.

Actually it's the wood that shrinks/expands due to (usually rapid/excessive) changes in temperature and/or humidity, causing the laquer to crack...

Personally I wouldn't go the superglue route... as I understand, superglue is mainly used to fix hairline cracks in the wood itself, and not to repair the varnish.

Mardy Pune said:

The checking or crazing (depends on what part of the world yer from) is caused by shrinkage of the lacquer. Don't kick yerself to hard cause it happened to yer baby.

Personally never meet a collector that wanted the finish to look like that. Any that do would want them real cheap so they could get them re-finished.

Find a luthier that specializes in respraying, not the guy who works outta the back of the local guitar shop, although he might be able to point you on the right direction.

Biggest question is do you want it as a piece to hang on the wall or as an instrument to play? You might really pissed off with yerself if you re-finished it and then scratched it on its first outing.

I wouldn't bother with re-finishing it if I was playing it live, but I am really hard on my instruments.

It's probably worth trying the superglue in a  out of sight place, but I think once you've scaled up the effect of how that looks over the whole body, it'll probably detract overall.

So, in short, guess I'll live with it.

Yeah, I've heard of people using super glue to fill those sort of cracks before; but it only fills the cracks and doesn't make the finish look original again and depending on how much of the finish is affected by the 'crazing' you could be sitting there, sniffing glue, for a long time!

The other thing is that sometimes, in very rare cases' Nitrocellulose lacquer can react with whatever your applying to it. The finish might start clouding or the cracks could open up even more. I've seen both of these things after repair shop assholes didn't bother to see how the finish would react.

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if it's stereo that is.

Phillip Jaggar said:

glad to be of assistance. Though I do play alot of stereo records for DJing, most early to mid 60's stuff has odd mixing to it.

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

I put this question in the DJ group forum and this is the kind of input I was looking for, much thanks!

Phillip Jaggar said:

Mono for DJing, Stereo for home listening. Having to hear a shitty 60's stereo recording in a club sucks, especially bands like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and a few Beatles songs are horrid when played in a club. But I do agree stereo did do wonders for some psychedelia.

glad to be of assistance. Though I do play alot of stereo records for DJing, most early to mid 60's stuff has odd mixing to it.

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

I put this question in the DJ group forum and this is the kind of input I was looking for, much thanks!

Phillip Jaggar said:

Mono for DJing, Stereo for home listening. Having to hear a shitty 60's stereo recording in a club sucks, especially bands like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and a few Beatles songs are horrid when played in a club. But I do agree stereo did do wonders for some psychedelia.

Don't care either way as long as it sounds good.

There's good and bad mono records and there's good and bad stereo records so the issue is really all about whether the producer/engineer knew what they were doing.

You mean your GREAT 45 !

I remember that "contest". I should have participated coz years have passed and I still haven't that 45 in my collection !

The Jinxes said:

We like Matt because he gave out our 45 as a prize!

We like Matt because he gave out our 45 as a prize!

That website requires Microsoft Silverlight to work. If yer using Windoze then its a simple install and run scenario if yer using a Mac then I would think yer probably screwed. Maybe a Mac user could answer that, I only dance with the devil that is Windoze...