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

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.

Those Pebbles comps are great! I would love to get my hands on those! And yeah, I dig the Preachers, too!

Mutants of the Holocaust said:

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

 

Mate of mine lent me an early Pebbles comp and I was blown away with the Preachers version of 'Who do you love' . Funny coz I don't really like any other version of that song.

Frankie Venom

Lance Romance

Joe Strummer

Plastic Bertrand !

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?

Hey there, That is a killer tune...

I couldn't find an exact song credit, but I did find this:
http://www.discogs.com/Stephen-Romano-The-Maxx-Maxximum-Sound-A-Com...

I'm not sure its even the same "The Maxx", or really answers your question, but its interesting...

"An accomplished musician and studio producer by the time he was 23, Romano made his first significant mark on the world in 1993 when he adapted the million-selling comic series THE MAXX into an innovative “comic book soundtrack” album for Image Comics. A full dramatization designed meticulously to correspond with the comics as a post-modern “read-along” experience, MAXXIMUM SOUND deployed a full cast of voice actors, original music and sound effects, with Romano as composer, producer, director and even the voice of the psychedelic superhero The Maxx."

Cheers,
Cookie

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded Thanks for the help! -Sean.

Can't be arsed reading through 14 pages so someone else might have picked this but checkout

Firecracker/Hey Roxy by the Bobbyteens. Each track is less than a minute and a half. Both absolute gems!!

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for the help!
-Sean.

crystal element harp mic is definitely the best, but if yer strapped for cash, SM58 will work just fine.

There's a killer Surf tune that plays in a few episodes of the animated show The Maxx. I have a clip of a scene it plays in, it starts 12 seconds in. Does anyone know the song, or who it's by? I'd LOVE to find it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QT6aKsbmuc&feature=player_embedded Thanks for the help! -Sean.

If you like good, catchy pop tunes, you should check them out.  I'm sure you can find some used CDs on amazon, and maybe some tracks on itunes.

sleazy said:

Don't know 'em at all :)

Don't know 'em at all :)