Damn, I would love to have made that Scion fest...

kopper said:

The Denver festival was TrebleFest ('96). I was there! It was fucking phenomenal.

We also went to Las Vegas Grind in 2000 and Cavestomp in New York in 2001 (just a month after 9/11). Great memories.

Then we started having kids, and I didn't go to another garage fest until last year's Scion thing in Lawrence.

 

Winthropf said:

I always wanted to go to a Garageshock ... and there was a Fest sometime in the mid90s in Denver, i think it was put on by 360Spin, but I remember it had thee Headcoats, The Hatebombs, The Makers and others...

The best fest I went to I think was the second Las Vegas Grind (2000)... if for nothing else but the set up. In that everything was right in the hotel. With sseveral stages for the bands to play, and it was in Vegas...
Black Diamonds played like 3 hours during the day...
Insomniacs, Neckbreakers, Hatebombs, Barry and the Remains, The Lyres, Crawdaddies, Freddy Fortune and the Four Gone Conclusions, Les Sexareenos, The Trouble Makers, Jackie and the Cedrics(!!!!).....

Great stuff.  Really liking the Captain Higgins track, I haven't heard this before, will have to check more out!

It's all Over Baby Blue has also been covered by:

13th Floor Elevators:

Them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPJo_UuF6M

Echo and the Bunnymen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhh1C6zJ1YI&feature=related

I think the question is, who hasn't covered that song?

Good call on the Remains and The Watchband!,

Errrr......tacky thing to do I know, to put your own cover into a thread like this....but here's our Maggies Farm cover......

Jack Bedient and the Chessman - Subterranean Homesick Blues

Myddle Class - Gates of Eden

the thanes version of it's all over now baby blue is a great one as well!!

I'll start start with a couple of my favorites:

The Chocolate Watchband - It's all over Now Baby Blue:

The Remains - Like a Rolling Stone:

Sounds interesting. Post a link - a website or something.

Started recording music about 15 years ago on my Tascam portastudio 4 track. Super primitive recordings with a cheap radio shack mixer and some yard sale microphones. Crazy loud in the red stuff that most speakers suffered to play. Nevertheless, the energy and simple songs made for an ok product. Since, these early recordings I have recorded music/records in all kinds of professional studios to basement dungeons. From Analog tape machines to DAT recordings, to strictly Digital recordings. Having some one else behind the board recording your music has many advantages and disadvantage. Less headaches of course, but certain aspects of the song may be lost in translation. Not every sound engineer will understand that you may actually want to sound like a scary mess of noise and chaos. I continued to record myself for song demos or riff ideas, and learned alot by watching others and asking a whole lot of annoying questions. I am by no means a sound engineer. I still consider myself a beginner that has a small grasp over spectrum of recording music. But, i sure have a lot of fun recording and saving my money to buy some better gear. And overall, the results are about the same from pro studios to my budget recordings---scary mess of noise....

I would really like some new ideas for recording trashy vocals. On many records I have used at 57, 58, or shure bullet direct into a guitar amp. Used all kinds of amps .... super high end tube amps to cheap pawn shop garbage. Super fuzz to moderate distortion. Typically I use this distorted track as a basis for additional vocal tracks and/or melodies. Clean vocals meshed with overdriven vocals. Most sound engineers producers frown upon this practice, but whatever. I love trashy vocals. And If the gain is not there on certain tracks, the vocal performance may sound dull and boring to my ear. Recently, i have used a universal audio LA610 to record vocals among other things. Sounds most excellent on bass. Highly recommend! Yet, I have a difficult time getting the gain---without digital clipping occurring. Have had very great results with the 610 on clean vocals using a Avantone CV-12 tube mic. Super rich. Anyways, what techniques do you use for vocals---trashy or clean? What kind of gear are you using? Thanks

Well, Johnny, if you'd like to give it a shot, I'm all ears. Shoot me a direct message and I'll give you some more info. Thanks!

I thought BACK FROM THE GRAVE, TEENAGE SHUTDOWN and PEBBLES were a given. Very very essential.

The Chosen Few Vol. 1 & 2 are really hot comps.

"Songs We Taught The Fuzztones". This one got me hooked on garage stuff back then.

Can't believe no one's mentioned BACK FROM THE GRAVE or TEENAGE SHUTDOWN yet!! Hell, PEBBLES, too, for that matter. All of those are essential.

I've always had a soft spot for the 'Streets' comp. on Beggars Banquet from the late 70's. Quality.

Hmmm...besides the standards here are a few of my faves.

Scum of The Earth Vol. 1 & 2,

Ugly Things

What A Way To Die

Hipsville 29 B.C.

Searching In The WIlderness

Open Up Your Door

Psychedelic Unknowns

Shutdown 66

that's a taste for now...

READ THIS:

http://disquiet.com/2011/04/11/if-youre-thinking-of-starting-a-netlabel/

Great article!

you could check out Yussuf Jerusalem from France, great band and their album A Heart Full Of Sorrow is awesome, they played Athens a week or so ago!

I bought Atomic Suplex's Rock & Roll Must Die album because of that message they sent round and it was really cool. I love I'm On. I also got the casette and that has the Atomic Suplex theme tune on, and it was only 2.50.

The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies said:

Errrr OK....'Grinderman 2' by Grinderman, 'Fishing For Zombliments' by Cyco Sanchez Supergroup (free on Bandcamp!!!) and currently loving Vol.1 of the Hideout Comp series 'It Came from The Hideout'........... 

The Demon & The Devotee - The Love-Me-Nots...

sounds like they discovered 1968 for this fourth album...

I'm usually the other way round. I write most of the lyric first and then starting feeling around for the changes on guitar. For me its all intuitive based on how the words make me feel and what I hear in my head (and there are compromises).

I do occasionally work right side up, or music first. My guitar player is a machine and will send me stuff that is almost whole, like a demo with rhythm guitar, bass and drums, and I will throw it up on garageband, plug in a mic and just babble, recording it as the brother above me described. After 3 or 5 takes I can usually hear a framework for the melody lines and -- because I write all the time -- I generally have a quick sense for syllables and timing, so -- I begin to chip away, picking around the edges of the lyric until I get a line completely worked out. Once I've got the lyrical DNA molecule (or maybe one for each "part" of the song) I quickly fill in the remaining lyrics, trimming and revealing, until the whole thing comes together. It doesn't always lead somewhere interesting; part of songwriting the lyrics is inspiration, but the rest is craft. I try to stay as prepared as possible. I keep a stack of handwritten stories, never-used lyrics and poems by my laptop when I'm writing lyrics, in case I need quick inspiration.

I read a ton. I pay attention to lyrics and tend to look at a song as a marriage between the different parts, including the lyrics, as well as the way they are delivered, in s song. I listen for sneers, smiles, eyeball rolls and other shit normal people probably aren't consciously aware of in a singers voice. I think about how an emotion will color or change a performance of a song and try to project that emotion -- like an actor -- when I am singing it. Again, there are compromises, but for me -- writing songs is almost a religious experience, and I treat the lyrics accordingly.

Hell yes, This is great news! So possibly no flying cymbals but seeing Ray and Dave together again would be absolutely killer!!

~Michael

I hope they go through with it, but there was talk before about doing the reunion and Dave got a stroke.  If the Davies brothers can work it out and do a tour together, I'd be more than satisfied.  Ray is good on his own playing Kink tunes, but Dave's spirit brings things back to REAL Kinks.  Feels like you're hearing the songs before they've gone in the studio to record the album.

It's a very funny book, and I highly recommend it.  I especially like the story about the prank Stiv and Cheetah pulled on the Witnesses of Jehovah when they knocked on their door.