Well sadly, most of them are no longer with us. In body anyways. Hmmm...If any of these groups could play with core lineups here are some of my choices. Im not including bands whose main members are buried(as far as I know). Hrd to always keep up with whos still breathing. If these are impossible, I'd be curious to here why.
-flamin groovies(Roy Loney is playing this month, anybody have the dates)
-hanoi rocks
-berlin brats
-boys
-generationx

Can't really think of them all on the fly. Anybody know which original 50s cats are still playin, I'd hate to miss a limited opportunity to catch any of the originators? I missed Wanda Jackson again a few months ago. I know Chuck Berry did a show in Chicago recently. I have to see him soon at any given opportunity. There are a few that I saw at the tail end, that I'm eternally happy about and some that I kick my self in the pants for missing my last ever chance. R.I.P.

That Death record was pretty impressive. Yeah rare stuff, V.G. You are on the right track. -Victims-real wild child LP EPs are always of interest too. I just thought it would be more useful to talk LPs first since you get more bang for you buck usually with a longplayer.

The Von Ghouls said:

you mean unreleased stuff like Death (detroit) was recently uncovered - I have a test press that's a pre-punk band in studio dated '74 but have no idea who it is...everything good I know is on EP or 7" or comps...the reactors, V2, radiators from space

 

I don't know if punk bands from those days could hold it together enough to complete an album...

 

 

you mean unreleased stuff like Death (detroit) was recently uncovered - I have a test press that's a pre-punk band in studio dated '74 but have no idea who it is...everything good I know is on EP or 7" or comps...the reactors, V2, radiators from space

I don't know if punk bands from those days could hold it together enough to complete an album...

The Kids from belgium. They had a cd box set called Kids-anthology come out, it had all there material and a dvd. I didn't get it because it wasn't cheap enough after I spent all my money on beer. I've only ever heard there 1st two LPs. How's the later albums?

So far these are all classic first wave punk LPs. I especially like that Lurkers LP, but I was starting this chat with the intention of hearing about lesser known albums, meaning rare ones that might have flew under the radar of even those who listen to the stuff. C'mon dig deep! I wanna hear about some mystery punk-rock groups here. I wasn't born yesterday. There was another talk goin on here about favorite 76-80 punk bands and I found it was getting redundant so this was meant to be for Rare-stuff.    

Stiff Little Fingers- Inflammable Material

The Lurkers - Fulham Fallout

The Ruts - The Crack

What do ya think are the best lesser known 70s punk LPs?
I figure later albums of unreleased recordings from that time are worth a mention here as well.

Wow Dave!  That's awesome!  Can't imagine meeting Link!  And he probably still put on one hell of a show!  Very cool!

DammitDave said:

I got to meet Link Wray in 1996 (97?) when he played in Champaign, Il.  I was friends with the opening band (The Bottletones) and got to meet him before the show.  He was the nicest guy ever and had some great stories about "The Killer" and writing Run Chicken Run (too naughty to tell here).  He also told about being on a tour with some teen heartthrob in the 50s that went through Kentucky.  There were tons of teenage girls there with their fathers and the fathers were there with their shotguns to protect the daughters' virtue!

I got to meet Link Wray in 1996 (97?) when he played in Champaign, Il.  I was friends with the opening band (The Bottletones) and got to meet him before the show.  He was the nicest guy ever and had some great stories about "The Killer" and writing Run Chicken Run (too naughty to tell here).  He also told about being on a tour with some teen heartthrob in the 50s that went through Kentucky.  There were tons of teenage girls there with their fathers and the fathers were there with their shotguns to protect the daughters' virtue!

That's great that it was a pleasant experience!  My fear has always been to meet a band/musician that I really liked, but they turned out to be major douchebags...I have met some that were arrogant or just asses (I won't name them), but that's just life, I guess...Back when I was on "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds", I came away from a couple of experiences where I was like "Fuck this"!  I keep in mind "Love the art, not the person"...

Doc Sanchez said:

With my former band Filthy Cowboy Sunset we once opened for DM Bob and Jem Finer (of Pogues fame - a band that meant pretty much to me back then) with Bob's girlfriend Silke from the Watzloves, and hanging out with them was one of the least rock'n'roll things ever - but pretty great! We played on a weekday, and my band was tired from work, and they were tired from travelling, so we hung out in the backstage room and must have been a sight to see: Bob and Jem were playing chess, Silke was reading copied texts about Dadaism, our violinist was reading something else, our pianist and our drummer were sleeping, and me and our singer were just sitting there eating, amused about the scenery.

The three of them were really nice people, polite, cool, nice, funny and modest - and so much fun on stage (which you wouldn't have thought seeing them playing chess like some elderly gentlemen on the porch)!

 

So - hanging out with fave musicians for me was like watching TV with friends: a relaxing, funny thing, somehow without much rock'n'roll, but still a fine experience.

With my former band Filthy Cowboy Sunset we once opened for DM Bob and Jem Finer (of Pogues fame - a band that meant pretty much to me back then) with Bob's girlfriend Silke from the Watzloves, and hanging out with them was one of the least rock'n'roll things ever - but pretty great! We played on a weekday, and my band was tired from work, and they were tired from travelling, so we hung out in the backstage room and must have been a sight to see: Bob and Jem were playing chess, Silke was reading copied texts about Dadaism, our violinist was reading something else, our pianist and our drummer were sleeping, and me and our singer were just sitting there eating, amused about the scenery.

The three of them were really nice people, polite, cool, nice, funny and modest - and so much fun on stage (which you wouldn't have thought seeing them playing chess like some elderly gentlemen on the porch)!

So - hanging out with fave musicians for me was like watching TV with friends: a relaxing, funny thing, somehow without much rock'n'roll, but still a fine experience.

I recently have been provided with the opportunity to co-host a 2 hour radio show at my local community station.  I’m debating the merits of this over a podcast.  I know radio is supposed to be as dead as a can of Spam and you’ll get more listeners with a podcast but there’s just something about a live radio broadcast.  Are podcasts just preaching to the choir?  Is a radio show a waste of time and energy that could be better spent elsewhere?  What do you guys think? 

Cool. Yeah, Jason mentioned something about Greg having one, I think. I can't wait to get it. I've always been a fan of shortwave radio and just listening to weird radio broadcasts from all over the world, pirate radio, etc. But now with "Internet radio" it's gone beyond just owning a good SW radio receiver. This seems like the perfect culmination of all of that.

Michael Kaiser said:

Hideout Admin said:

Just curious... have any of you ever listened via a wifi radio? I'm thinking of getting one (click the link).

I have no personal experience with one, but my buddy Greg Lonesome (Rock N' Roll Manifesto, Mojo Workout) has one and says its the bee's knees! I'd love to have one.

I don't think there were any voice messages "collected" (as if I get that many to "collect" them, haha!) for Savage Kick that were not used... but hell, I could be wrong. That was a year and a half ago, so one or two may have slipped through the cracks. But it's not like I can't start collecting new ones, so CALL!

314-266-8472

And don't forget to listen to the new episode here!

IDON MINE said:

Hey man, great to see you keeping the rolling, uhm, rolling.

Cool to see the voice mail line up! Also, is there a chance we get to hear some old voice messages collected for the now long gone savage kick 70? Where there even any? It would just be fun to listen in.

Questions over questions...



Hideout Admin said:

Call and make a request, leave a comment, tell me a joke, whatever! I might use it on an upcoming episode: 314-266-8472

And don't forget to check my blahg for the latest episodes!

aha thanx for the explanation


sleazy said:

The revolution in music and costume that was brought about by the advent of psychedelia :)

Pim Scheelings said:

Hey what's a psychedelic rev? 

sleazy said:

YAAAAAAY UP THE PSYCHEDELIC REV:)

The revolution in music and costume that was brought about by the advent of psychedelia :)

Pim Scheelings said:

Hey what's a psychedelic rev? 

sleazy said:

YAAAAAAY UP THE PSYCHEDELIC REV:)

Also, the double LP re-release of the Harvey Milk singles collection was damn good!

Doc Sanchez said:

No list (that'd be too much work), but just one record: Harvey Milk, A Small Turn of Human Kindness.

No list (that'd be too much work), but just one record: Harvey Milk, A Small Turn of Human Kindness.

Hey, there's just way too much good stuff from last year.  Had to limit the list to just a few.

Hideout Admin said:

Surprised you didn't include the new Demon's Claws. I think it's their best yet. I don't have a complete list, but the Red Dons' Fake Meets Failure LP from 2010 is pretty incredible, too.

Surprised you didn't include the new Demon's Claws. I think it's their best yet. I don't have a complete list, but the Red Dons' Fake Meets Failure LP from 2010 is pretty incredible, too.

Yeah, you would still get speaker break up from some vintage 15" speakers but it still wouldn't sound the same as the 10's you've got in the cab. It's not really the quality of the speaker that causes the break up it's more the spec's.

Have you opened up the cab and and looked at the speakers to see how they are wired? And do they have little transformers mounted on each of them?

After looking at the schematic again there's a 500volt tap coming off the power transformer and connecting to the output transformer(s), I'd be careful, that's not something that I've seen in a guitar amps before. I don't wanna see you get fried!

I thought so, because I heard a story through the grapevine that one of the members got into a fight with one of the Chesterfield Kings, and that got them blacklisted.  I don't know if the blacklist applied to certain clubs, or just to CK gigs, or the whole city of Rochester.  

I saw them for the last time in late 2004, when they shared a bill with the Cynics at Rosebud, a now defunct club.  Their lead singer and I swapped some stories about the festival at Randall's Island, and he also told me how the band begged Gregg Kostelich to sign them to get them some airplay on the Underground Garage.  They did get their CD released on Get Hip a few months later, and one of their songs was named "Coolest Song in the World" at the time of the release...then Gregg and Little Steven had their falling out, and that was the end of the Priests getting any airplay on the UG.  I felt really bad for them.

Hideout Admin said:

I have "Tall Tales" on Get Hip. It's not bad. I played three or four of those songs on my old radio show, The Wayback Machine, a few times. And yeah, they were from Rochester.

Ken said:

I remember them...  I never saw them, but I really liked the two CDs on garage pop.  I remember wishing that those had come out on vinyl...

Cool story:)  Very "Spinal Tap."

Hideout Admin said:

Yeah, I remember reading about them on the Bomp list many moons ago. They'd won some battle of the bands competition and were invited to play one of the Cavestomp shows, and they were told that a backline would be provided, including drums. But their drummer assumed that meant he wouldn't need to bring sticks, either (whoops)! Here's how this tale unfolded, copied directly from the Bomp list archives:

The Waistcoats, who were also on the bill, lent him two pairs of sticks, of which he broke three IN THE FIRST TWO SONGS. And he wasn't even playing that hard -- I was offstage to his right and had a very good view.

None of the other bands were willing to lend them any sticks after that, and I don't blame 'em.  (Though the headliners, Electric Prunes, weren't in the building at the time and weren't asked.)

The Priests wandered helplessly around the stage for awhile while the drummer left to go beg for sticks.  HE DIDN'T EVEN TELL THE OTHER GUYS IN THE BAND WHAT HAD HAPPENED OR WHAT HE WAS DOING.  All they knew was that he had bolted. They must have thought he got sick or something.

There are no music stores in the immediate area, but there are a couple in that part of Brooklyn. Several people IN THE AUDIENCE started making phone calls looking for sticks. A few of them found sticks at rehearsal studios and such, and people were dispatched to get them.

Of course, this was all too late.  After a VERY painful ten minutes of Priestly Stage-Pacing, Van Zandt came out onstage and grabbed the mic and said "Oh well, whaddaya gonna do? DA PRIESTS!" and they were outta there.

But what happened next was hilarious. As the next two bands played, the sticks started arriving.  People wandered in with drumsticks, placed them on the stage, and walked away.  For a while I thought it was 1980 again and Pink Floyd was doing "The Wall," and eventually the band was going to be completely obscured from view by a wall of drumsticks...

Haha!