Hy guys !

Do someone have the Headstones's song lyric: 24 hours everyday?

It' hard to find on google..ah!

thanks for the help!

What SWT said.

This is effed up, so much is for sure. Shuks, these idiots never learn. Say they are supporting bands and helping the community out, but sue anther one for shit. GRRRRRR.

Anyhow, I hope this resolves to a good end.

Been busy at work lately so I just saw this post. And just tonight I see an invite to a "battle of the bands" in my Facebook inbox. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138470119551925 Looks like Gorilla is operating in Albuquerque too.

all the above suggestions are excellent.

assuming you have a SM58 and a condenser microphones: it depends if you want a tougher bluesy sound or the natural sound of some one playing on the porch. seeing that you're here at Garage Punk you'd probably want something more raw and rough. i prefer to play the harmonica through a handheld microphone (SM58 or the suggestions above) that is plugged into a guitar amplifier, with reverb. adding some type of delay/tape echo effect pedal really spices up the sound to get a honking authentic 50's sound. i prefer using smaller amps as they don't tend to feedback quickly. use your condenser mic to record the amp. depending on where you set up the condenser mic you can find a sweet spot combing the raw ambient sound of the harmonica player mixed with the amplified sound. it can take a while to find the spot but it has a great effect for just two mics, an amp and a harp.

lemme know if that helps...

The Insomniacs

redd kross

Adding to the P list of bands: The Plimsouls.

And I agree with the above post with 20/20 and Holly and The Italians . Also agree with pretty much everybody!

It's such a classic.  The first time I heard it, I was floored.  I had never heard anything like that sound before, and I knew that it was the sound I'd always been looking for.  Ten years later, it's still one of my favorites.

joey fuckup said:

That's a great album! Got the whole thing on my ipod!

Alex said:

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

i was living in Seattle in the early 90's and for me wandering into shows by bands like The Fall-Outs, The Statics and The Primate 5 made me go out and buy their records - i had no idea what genre it was, i just liked the tunes.

Hi All, new to this site, but loving it. erm.. I think I'm probably going to be the only one here to flag up The Beatles as the band that got me into garage Rock & Roll. in the mid 70's (76/77?) I was 10 years old and bought Live at the hollywood Bowl which was an attempt at the time to capture a 64/65 show. I loved it and shortly afterwards stumbled across The Beatles Live at The Star Club, which for me blew the 64 recording away.

To this day one of the most thrilling LPs i own, and amongst the most intimate and lo-fi too. Think it was Halo of Flies - Music for Insect Minds that brought me back into wanting to be in a band again mid 90s. superficially very different i guess. HOF covered Human Fly though and the Beatles 'Wish I could Shimmy Like My sister Kate/Shimmy Shake' is as garage as it gets still to my cloth ears! so I guess i'm in there somehow!? :)

good to be here,

Trev

Yes, the Sonics! So, would you say they were the very first punk band?

Idol Lips (New Record Out) said:

THE SONICS - BOOM!

I know what you mean! I had gotten back in to garage when I was lookin' up the Nuggets boxed set on Amazon, and falling in love again with bands like the Standells and Paul Revere & the Raiders...And yes, I Google searched "garage punk" and here I landed some odd 3 years ago...It's a dream come true to be doing a podcast on here now!

trashman said:

The Mummies converted me.  I am sure you have heard that story before.  First time I heard "you must fight to live" I fell into the the trap door.  I thought to myself this is what has been missing in my life - I realized I liked all this fantastic music but never had a genre name attached to it; never knew it was consolidated into a living being.  The fact that something like the Mummies or Sonics can be interconnected to something like Whoa Dad, or space surf!  I knew I had found it but didn't know it had a home.  I knew no one else who listened to it and luckily I ran across the name garage punk on the internet.  We all know what that search term lands you.  Re-imagine that first time you listened to Back from the Grave all over again.  Or that very first podcast you clicked on here thinking "wtf is this?" (that is a great thread discussion in itself).  300gb of comps,podcasts,and out of prints later and my music life was completely changed...forever.     

That's a great album! Got the whole thing on my ipod!

Alex said:

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

My mother was a huge Elvis fan, so I was raised on his records...Very sad household when he died...

Shahrom Donald Bahi Hawley said:

Good question! I used to listen to a radio show on Rice University called "treasures of the 60's" and the one song that sent me to the point of no return was "talk talk" by the Music Machine.
Just three years earlier I was growing up rather sheltered by my 40- year old parents who listened to operas and marching bands, and I had never heard any rock and roll until Elvis died.
When I heard that cool Elvis Presley music I knew right away that I wanted to be just like him.

The Mummies converted me.  I am sure you have heard that story before.  First time I heard "you must fight to live" I fell into the the trap door.  I thought to myself this is what has been missing in my life - I realized I liked all this fantastic music but never had a genre name attached to it; never knew it was consolidated into a living being.  The fact that something like the Mummies or Sonics can be interconnected to something like Whoa Dad, or space surf!  I knew I had found it but didn't know it had a home.  I knew no one else who listened to it and luckily I ran across the name garage punk on the internet.  We all know what that search term lands you.  Re-imagine that first time you listened to Back from the Grave all over again.  Or that very first podcast you clicked on here thinking "wtf is this?" (that is a great thread discussion in itself).  300gb of comps,podcasts,and out of prints later and my music life was completely changed...forever.     

"Electric Sweat" by The Mooney Suzuki

jello b- afro

Frankie Venom

Lance Romance

Joe Strummer

Plastic Bertrand !

Did't know 'em till now......but I don't dig the Mary Walters much:(

Interesting...

trashman said:

They seem like such a mixed bag to me - the only time I hear them is on Sirius- but I typically say I like this sound before I take my eyes off the road to see who it is on the player screen.  But when I hear- Magic Bar - it really turns me off, or should I say, I turn it off.  They do sometimes seem like a breath of dreamy pop fresh air after fuzzing out on the mp3s for a long stint.

They seem like such a mixed bag to me - the only time I hear them is on Sirius- but I typically say I like this sound before I take my eyes off the road to see who it is on the player screen.  But when I hear- Magic Bar - it really turns me off, or should I say, I turn it off.  They do sometimes seem like a breath of dreamy pop fresh air after fuzzing out on the mp3s for a long stint.

Again, they're another band that I got into thanks to Little Steven.  Their "Less Sophistication" LP is a pop masterpiece.  Does anyone else here like them?

Man it sounds an awful like Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet or at maybe a studio band trying to sound like them...Try listening to "Big Baby," there's a similar sequence in the movie Comic Book Confidential. This is the song, but not from the movie: