January 10, 2011 3:52 PM CST
i have pajama parties with bands all the time. favorite moments: tabman from holy shit! wearing one of my dresses and jumping on my bed, marcus from uv race playing pinball in his underwear (pulled up to his chest), have a rootbeer float party with the daily void and dots from italy, making scott from the blowtops do fart situps with a self-inflating whoopee cushion, benji from the creteens appearing in my bedroom doorway at 5am screaming, "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!?!" and on and on...
January 9, 2011 6:33 PM CST
Wow! No, can't say I had a garage band play at my wedding! Great memories indeed! Another "brush with fame" moment I had was when I was in Norfolk, VA at the Taphouse for a show...Thee Apostles, the Rats, the Needles, and a couple of others were there, and I was there to do a "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds" show there..Well, my co-host was waaay to fucked up, some equipment got stolen (including my fucking 80 gig ipod), but I was able to hang out with the Needles for beers...but I also hung out, drank with, and did shots with none other than Steve Baise formerly of the Devil Dogs! He was at the time in the band the Villains, and he had contacted us about meeting up and maybe getting in on the interviews...I was like, "THE STEVE BAISE"?!?!?!?! Well, since the taping of the show got flushed down the shitter, it was still cool to hang out with a legend like Steve, talk music, and drink like we were old college buddies (along with the Needles)...the guy was a class act!
grant fisher said:
For me having a long drink & chat with Graham Day backstage after a gig in Dublin. I had met him a couple of years before this but was starstruck and didn't know what to say to him so I just got a photo. So glad that when I did finally get the courage to chat to him, he turned out to be really nice and interesting as well.
Also met and hung out with The Revellions in Spain when they were recording their first album. Really nice guys.
But the biggest stars in my eyes are The Keepers from Belfast, who became friends after I had booked them to play here on the Isle of Man and they even returned to play my wedding a couple of years later free of charge!
Anyone else on here had a garage band for their wedding? It certainly clears the place of all the old folks but gives you truely a day you never forget.
January 9, 2011 2:34 PM CST
No, they didn't, but when I did a podcast that night, I did! Anyways, they did do "Theme From Vindicators" and Keith and Ken walked around on top of the bars, playing in unison, even walking around in the audience, while Bill played drums...It was so surreal! I love that tune, and for them to just jump off the stage with their guitars and walk around and play...?!?!?! THAT was SO amazing!!!
sleazy said:
Did the Fleshtones play Blowjob???!
January 9, 2011 2:24 PM CST
Did the Fleshtones play Blowjob???!
January 9, 2011 1:25 PM CST
The best night of my life came back in 2008 when I went to Arlington, VA to see the Fleshtones play at the Iota Club. Being that I have loved these guys since I was a teen, it was a no-brainer that I along with my co-host of "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds" at the time, would make it a road trip! At the club, I hung out with Ken Fox beforehand and talked music, then I was able to speak briefly with Bill Milhizer and Keith Streng! I thought that was awesome enough! When they took the stage, it of course was amazing, especially since I had never gotten to see them live before! What was even more amazing, was Peter Zaremba and Keith Streng pulled me onstage to pluck away on Keith's guitar during an instrumental! I don't play guitar, but Peter convinced me that all I had to do was strum during this instrumental they were performing....I nearly fainted! After the show, I got to hang out with Peter Zaremba and talk casually like we were old friends, plus get a cd autographed, get my pic taken with the guys (except Keith, he vanished), and walk away with their Sharpie scrawled set list that Peter used! Second, I would have to go with the only time I had gotten to see Southern Culture On the Skids at a bar and grill here in town...Both Mary Huff and Dave Hartman are from here (Roanoke, VA), and you would think they would play here more, but they don't...Before the show, I was able to talk briefly with Dave, and afterwards, he autographed (along with Rick Miller) a cd I bought at the show. Then I went to get Mary's autograph, and the sweetheart she is, invited me to sit with her in the booth she was lounging in...I had e-mailed them previously about remembering when Mary was in a local punk band and they did a commercial for a local indie record shop called "Penguin Tracks", and we had a good laugh, plus talked a little about the punk scene, got her autograph, and a kiss on the cheek (!)... Lastly would have to be hanging out with Jeff Clayton of ANTiSEEN. When I was still on "Whiskey 'N' Waterbeds", we landed an interview with him, and got in his good graces when the local music reporter from the newspaper did a shitty job with his Q & A...I brought him some moonshine, got his autograph (along with the band on a cd), and his address (so I could send him some burned cd's of some stuff he was interested in hearing)...Not long after, took on a roadtrip to Charlotte, NC to the Milestone Club to see a show, and he happened to be there. Well, I had brought along some Grade A apple pie moonshine, so me, my former co-host, Jeff, and Jeff Williams of Charlotte based hardcore band "The Dead Kings" went out to the car and drank that whole jar of 'shine together! Nice memories, indeed! So what's yours?
January 10, 2011 3:31 PM CST
I don't know if it's the best video of all time, but I get a huge kick out of this:
Mexican masked surf rock.
January 10, 2011 2:22 PM CST
January 10, 2011 3:23 PM CST
I'm a newbie here, but I've been maintaining a blog called "Middleclass Haunt" for about a year and a half now. It's pretty much everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, centered on alternative music and more recently on garage rock. I just uploaded the best live recording I own, a Clash concert from '79:
Middleclass Haunt - The Clash: Manhattan Calling! (Live 1979)
I'd love some comments, and I'd be happy to trade links with you freaks.
January 10, 2011 12:25 PM CST
Hey man you don't have to tell me it was rebel, I already know it, and yeah I also know about rat fink...a boo boo, but next you'll be telling me Link Wray wasn't punk ha ha...the thing is although we here all decide that The Sonics and the Seeds and all the 'rebel' mid-60s gangs are punk, it wasn't know as such at the time...and only when Lenny Kaye put the original 'Nuggets' together in the early 70s did anyone start using the term punk to mean raw and alive beat music...and of course it was only then that it was picked up by all the then new rebels, ie Ramones...Pistols, Damned, Clash, Adverts, Zeros, Saints, Eater, Boys, Rezillos, Valves, Scars, Prats, Dead Ks, Crime, Misfits, Exploited et cetera. I'm sure there will be many here who will agree...and me, well I ain't out to ruin it that's for sure...
ratoonie said:
it was rebel!!!!!...... not pUnk!!........get out of your deniel!!!... rat fink was a super cool thing* back in the 60,s....... dont ruin it!!!!!!!!
Lenny Helsing said:au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think
January 10, 2011 11:19 AM CST
No, Ive never seen the DVD, but the albums sooo punk rock it hurts. If only the punk bands now could grasp this.
It doesn't have to be intelligent, doesn't need a manifesto of worldly causes, deep or even meaningful stuff. Just a bit of style&attitude+raw emotion was the recipe(wait, did I forget any ingredients?), I'll leave out practice since everybody knows punkrock bands don't practice,hehehe.
The 70s was the end of 3 generations of killer tunes. I look at 70s punk as the rocknroll apocalypse. None of that year zero BS spoke of in the Joe Strummer documentary(which was still pretty good except for that rubbish year zero theory) makes any sense to me.
Lenny Helsing said:
Zeros yeah tremendous teen punk...have u seen the dvd that came out by them its full of scorchin stuff!
January 10, 2011 11:07 AM CST
it was rebel!!!!!...... not pUnk!!........get out of your deniel!!!... rat fink was a super cool thing* back in the 60,s....... dont ruin it!!!!!!!!
Lenny Helsing said:
au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think
January 10, 2011 10:59 AM CST
au contraire mister teen fink ratoonie man punk was around long before you think
January 10, 2011 10:34 AM CST
yesssssss!!...pUnk rock i s Punk rock!!!! not the ol dude blues...not anything else!! pUnk rock was deemed Punk...when the ramones fired up in New york city..sex pistOls in EngLand!!!!! 1977;;;;;;; not 1940!!!!!!
ratoonie said:
your a whak job!!!!
Lenny Helsing said:Alright teenfink doncha fink lots of us here know that already, I've thought that was a bit too much like statin the obvious a swe've already covered Seeds Elevators CWB Count V Sonics etc...but if ya wanna be really clever or even a little bit finnicky or pedantic bout it (;-?) let's say the orig punk era begins in and around the late 40s to mid 50s with Hooker and Wolf and
Muddy and the mighty Bo and Chuck and Rosco and Sonny Boy and all them early raw r'n'b rockabilly blues and rock'n'roll cats...happy listenin Lenny
January 10, 2011 9:11 AM CST
Zeros yeah tremendous teen punk...have u seen the dvd that came out by them its full of scorchin stuff!
January 10, 2011 9:01 AM CST
Zeros-Don't Push Me Around, is one of my favorites.
January 9, 2011 3:24 PM CST
Excuse me ratoonie was that directed this way?
January 9, 2011 12:04 PM CST
your a whak job!!!!
Lenny Helsing said:
Alright teenfink doncha fink lots of us here know that already, I've thought that was a bit too much like statin the obvious a swe've already covered Seeds Elevators CWB Count V Sonics etc...but if ya wanna be really clever or even a little bit finnicky or pedantic bout it (;-?) let's say the orig punk era begins in and around the late 40s to mid 50s with Hooker and Wolf and
Muddy and the mighty Bo and Chuck and Rosco and Sonny Boy and all them early raw r'n'b rockabilly blues and rock'n'roll cats...happy listenin Lenny
January 10, 2011 9:53 AM CST
Do any of you own a wifi Internet radio? I've been looking at a few of them on Amazon.com lately and I have decided to save up for one. The one I think I'll get is the Grace GDI-IR2000. I just want to get it to keep in the kitchen at home so we can listen to whatever we want when we're fixing dinner, eating, etc. As much time as we spend in our kitchen, it'd be nice to have a radio like this instead of the crappy one we have there now that can barely pick up NPR (too much static). With this, you can program into it whatever Internet radio stations you want, including streaming Internet stations like Real Punk Radio, Beyond the Beat Generation, Pirate Cat Radio, etc. Plus terrestrial radio stations that also stream online like WFMU, KDHX, KEXP, and so on... even podcasts!
This particular radio uses Reciva.com (some of the others I've looked at do as well). You set up an account there, then register your radio there once you get it with the serial number & radio ID number and then you can start programming in all of these stations, and as long as your Internet connection and wifi signal are strong enough, then you can "tune" into them anytime you want. Perfect!
Anyone here own one of these suckers? If so, how well does it work for you? And which one do you have? Do you ever experience any problems?
Thanks!
January 10, 2011 9:07 AM CST
A few years ago I got totally bored with guitar music and started to discover Dubstep and related electro-stuff, and I thought "Well, that was that with me as a guitar guy", when I discovered "In Blood" by Billy Childish and Holly Golighty, and I'm lost to primitive garage rock ever since.
But I like to believe that what started my love for music was a The Who tape my father recorded for me when I was five or six years old. Don't know if I remember this correctly, but I like the story.
January 10, 2011 5:53 AM CST
January 10, 2011 3:11 AM CST
Hey, so what are everyone's favorite lps of 2010? To make things easier only list new lps released for the first time last year, and no reissues or singles comps.
Mine are.
1. Rantouls-In the Village of Rantoul (Chocolate Covered Records)
2. Nobunny-Love Visions (Goner Records)
3. Real Numbers-S/T (Three Dimensional Records)
4. Ding Dongs- S/T (Norton Records)
5. Headache City-We Can't Have Anything Nice (P Trash Records)
6. Sugar Stems-Sweet Sounds of...(Dusty Medical Records/Bachelor Records)
7. Beat Beat-S/T (Bachelor Records)
8. Tyler Jon Tyler-S/T (Slow Fizz Records)
9. Bare Wires-Seeking Love (Castle Face Records)
10. Brutal Knights-Blown 2 Completion (P Trash Records)
Thanks!
January 10, 2011 2:10 AM CST
Not in any particular order. I'd take these with to the desert island for sure!
Oblivians-Soul Food
Sonics-Here are the sonics
Hasil Adkins-Out to Hunch
Nobunny-Love Visions
Reatards-Teenage Hate
Boys Club-S/T
Dillinger Four-Midwestern Songs of the Americans
Persuaders- S/T
Gories-House Rockin
BBQ-Tie Your Noose
January 9, 2011 5:33 PM CST
The Runaways 1st album
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
The Dirtbombs - If You Don't Already Have A Look
Everclear - Sparkle & Fade
Supersuckers - Live At The Magic Bag
Black Flag - Damaged
The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
The BellRays - Grand Fury
Misfits - Collection 1 & 2
Ramones - It's Alive
Motorhead - Rock 'n' Roll
Whoops, that's 11. Probably could have gone for 20!
January 9, 2011 4:16 PM CST
I had the pleasure of seeing them at a non festival show last year and they tore the place apart. More energy and passion than most bands I have seen recently.
I can only imagine how crazy their gigs used to be back in the day.
January 9, 2011 12:01 PM CST
