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    • March 14, 2011 6:50 AM CDT
    • Whats up guys. This is Tito from 4808 records and mail-order. I sell mostly instrumental but I'm thinking of expanding. Are you interested in working on consignment?

    • March 13, 2011 11:15 AM CDT
    • Mordam, Get Hip Distribution, Midheaven, Subterranean, Revolver USA, Caroline, Carrot Top, Touch and Go, Cargo USA, Goner Records Mailorder, etc.

    • March 13, 2011 9:21 PM CDT
    • Aint 1200's more of a DJs turntable? I'd get something with automatic return, so when you are laying a turd, or pass out the needle doesn't stay in the groove. My suggestion though is don't buy new, because almost everything new is cheap and costs more.

    • March 13, 2011 11:57 AM CDT
    • Bon Von Wheelie of the Tacoma, Washington garage-rock band Girl Trouble has been maintaining a great website over the years where she calls out certain promoters or production companies on their pay-to-play scams. While the design of the site doesn't make it easy on the eyes to peruse, it does contain tons of valuable information warning bands of these shysters. Check it out:

      www.neverpaytoplay.com

      One particular shyster, Gorilla Productions, even went so far as to sue the band over what the site says about their operation. It's a lawsuit filed to bully her into taking it down. So she's fighting it. You can see the details of that here:

      http://neverpaytoplay.com/&Lawsuit.htm

      And here is Never Pay to Play's page on Gorilla Productions pay-to-play scam:

      http://neverpaytoplay.com/Gorilla/&GorillaBOTB.htm

      Bon told me that they still haven't gotten a ruling on this lawsuit. They still might be able to haul them into Ohio court. In Wash state this ruling takes about 30 days. In Ohio, it's almost been a year. Nobody can figure it out. She has spent thousands of dollars of her own money in lawyers and pretty much has nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, Gorilla is operating freely all over the US, including Seattle, and she can't even send an email to somebody in Ohio for fear it will further connect them. So they just wait.

      Hopefully she will win (she should), but it sucks that she's had to spend over $13k in lawyers feeds in order to fight these greedy bastards. Her website is very beneficial to bands everywhere in warning them of the dangers of this kind of crap, and I've used it myself in the past when warning local bands of a similar scam that popped up here in St. Louis several years ago.

    • March 13, 2011 3:14 AM CDT
    • Plus more American than Irish.

      Alex said:

      I'd say the Dropkick Murphys, but they're more punk than garage.  Still good though.

    • March 12, 2011 7:40 PM CST
    • night on the tiles!!!

      The Big Bad Bollocks from Massachusetts

    • March 12, 2011 6:59 PM CST
    • From a Good Vibrations (Belfast label/record shop) compilation...and this is in order.....Rudi, Victim, The Outcasts, The Undertones, X Dreamysts, Protex, The Idiots, Spider, Ruefrex, The Tearjerkers, The Moondogs, The Shapes, The Bankrobbers, The Bears, The Jets, Shock Treatment, The Lids, The Androids, Terri & the Terrors.

       

      Also "Little Monkeys With Lots of Money" CD single/EP (tracks - Daria/Jackie Chan/Feminist). I'd heard Daria (I think) on John Peel's radio show and found myself in Belfast with a bit of time to kill after the 24hr race, so went to Good Vibrations and bought it. More pop than garage punk, but I like it.

       

      D.

    • March 12, 2011 5:39 PM CST
    • Victim&Outcasts spring to mind because I listened to them lately. There was actually a book that came out exclusively about irish punk a few years back so its obvious to me that there was probably quite a few good-uns. No I never read it. I should have though. Im not a very fast reader. Maybe I can find it some day with the luck of me irish luckyyyy charmssss.

    • March 12, 2011 4:17 PM CST
    • I'd say the Dropkick Murphys, but they're more punk than garage.  Still good though.

    • March 12, 2011 1:47 PM CST
    • And thanx for all of the other help too...completely forgot about The Urges LP that i bought a coupla years back.

       

      And Bonnevilles, remember checking them out awhile back and dug them!!

       

      Thanx everyone!!!

    • March 12, 2011 1:46 PM CST
    • The Wheels.....that was the band i was trying to think of.......Road Block, killer garage stomp from 66 on Pebbles 6. Thanx for your help Bob!

      Plus they have a bunch of other songs on the English Freakbeat and Sugar Cube comps...including Bad Little Woman which is another killer!



      Bob said:

      Hi. More modern bands like Cheap Freaks / The Things / The Urges / The Revellions / The Bonnevilles / The Mighty Atomics 

      60's ireland wasn't the best place for garage punk but the singer from the Count 5 Sean Byrne was from Dublin. Eire Apparent were another psych rock. Dr Strangely Strange were a Cork band. The Wheels from nuggets II comp are from Ireland, songs called bad little woman. If you are scrapping the barrel guitarist from Beau Brummels is Irish! plays the harp on Laugh Laugh! :)

       

       

       

       

       

    • March 12, 2011 12:12 PM CST
    • Might be tenuous in terms of garage (it's really Brit Pop) but Ash have a few decent songs on 1977.

    • March 12, 2011 12:02 PM CST
    • You could try the Golden Horde, 80s band from Dublin with some garagepunk/psych/billy isms.

    • March 12, 2011 11:54 AM CST
    • What Javier said.

       

      I highly recommend some excellent garage/punk/blues by The Bonnevilles (http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/AndyMotorSounds). Check out The Things and The Revellions as well. Oh, and The Mighty Stef - not so much garage punk, but great for Paddy's Day. Or any day for that matter ;o)

       

      Can't think of any other bands at the moment, will get back if I do.

    • March 12, 2011 11:48 AM CST
    • Hi. More modern bands like Cheap Freaks / The Things / The Urges / The Revellions / The Bonnevilles / The Mighty Atomics 

      60's ireland wasn't the best place for garage punk but the singer from the Count 5 Sean Byrne was from Dublin. Eire Apparent were another psych rock. Dr Strangely Strange were a Cork band. The Wheels from nuggets II comp are from Ireland, songs called bad little woman. If you are scrapping the barrel guitarist from Beau Brummels is Irish! plays the harp on Laugh Laugh! :)

       

       

       

       

       

    • March 12, 2011 11:24 AM CST
    • Hi folks!

      I really like The Urges, from Dublin. I recently listened to The Mighty Atomics and they're not bad at all. Hope this helps.

       

      For music downloads, reviews and other stuff visithttp://papeldiscontinuo.blogspot.com/

       

      Cheers!

    • March 12, 2011 5:32 PM CST
    • I'm interested in 70s punk bands from france that sing in english. Or other foreign bands. I think the accents can put a unique twist on the sound but im far too lazy to translate languages. I like Briard from finland, I think. Recommended by me so you should all buy it, of course.

    • March 12, 2011 5:17 PM CST
    • I can burn dogs cd for stinky toys copy if interested.

      Duke Of Earl said:

      I found the Dogs cd used for like 8$. All the notes in the book are in french so maybe its hard to get over here. Id wanna get a StinkyToys cd too. Not easy to find though for a fair price. Im not interested in french hardcore just raw punk type stuff. 

      Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

      When I lived in France as a student about 10 years ago I was looking for 70's punk and found a live comp from '78 called "Rock D'ici A L'olympia: La Nuit Punk De L'olympia" with a few of the bands on that list.  I think a lot of French stuff from that period leans more towards new wave, but some of the artists like Stinky Toys, Diesel and Bijou I remember being pretty cool. And I still gotta check out the Dogs. Anyway, I think you can get "Rock D'ici A L'olympia" here:

       

      http://sonsofthedolls.blogspot.com/2008/01/le-rock-dici-lolympia.html

    • March 12, 2011 5:16 PM CST
    • I found the Dogs cd used for like 8$. All the notes in the book are in french so maybe its hard to get over here. Id wanna get a StinkyToys cd too. Not easy to find though for a fair price. Im not interested in french hardcore just raw punk type stuff. 

      Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

      When I lived in France as a student about 10 years ago I was looking for 70's punk and found a live comp from '78 called "Rock D'ici A L'olympia: La Nuit Punk De L'olympia" with a few of the bands on that list.  I think a lot of French stuff from that period leans more towards new wave, but some of the artists like Stinky Toys, Diesel and Bijou I remember being pretty cool. And I still gotta check out the Dogs. Anyway, I think you can get "Rock D'ici A L'olympia" here:

       

      http://sonsofthedolls.blogspot.com/2008/01/le-rock-dici-lolympia.html

    • March 12, 2011 4:16 PM CST
    • Still,  I would give Lydon more credit than McLaren who pretty much is justifiably documented as being a notorious cad.

      However I would give McLaren credit for smelling a trend before it blows up.

      I think what Lydon says in "the filth and the fury" documentary is basically close to the truth. 

      Ultimately we should judge a tree by the fruits. that fruit being the actual output of music. 

      nothing else. 

      "The real punk movement started in New York and Paris came before the UK because we were really connected to New York..."  Can we at least assume this statement, Unless we redefine "REAL PUNK",  is utter pretentious nonsense?? 

       

      Currently I myself am working on an article about how Motorhead would not have become a band without ABBA winning the 1974 Eurovision song contest.

       

       

       

    • March 12, 2011 11:07 AM CST
    • I was wondering whether someone would give that article a bit of criticism, I'm suprised it took so long. When I was reading it I thought some of the stuff was a bit dubious if not pretentious. Of course I still found it interesting because I knew nothing about French punk before that and now I know a little.

       

      The claim that British punk rock would just be growly men with guitars is pretty stupid. Neither the Sex Pistols or the Clash were really intelectually political, the Clash at the start were angry punks with more social concerns than wider philospising. Perhaps though there might be some truth for bands like Crass, and then stuff like TSOL? Although even there I can't imagine many anti-establishment punks reading anarchist philosophy in French.

       

      But I wouldn't listen to anything Lydon has said, he just talks crap before claiming to have invented anything from pogoing to Green Day.

    • March 12, 2011 3:20 PM CST
    • For everyone complaining about how crap the reverb is, and it is I won't argue, there is a wealth of freeware plugins available on the net. There is a vst plugin available for Audacity so you can run vst's. It just takes looking for them.

    • March 12, 2011 11:00 AM CST
    • Agreed.

      The Branded said:

      .....p.s with the knowledge of most people on here (i.e. recording on the cheap), we could probably write a book ten times more useful and which actually works in the real world! (building my own studio write now, on the cheap)