Dave re-The Damned/Naz Nomad & The Nightmares. Around the time Give Daddy the Knife came out I was working as a hack on my local newspaper and was lucky enough to interview Rat Scabies as the Damned were gigging in town later that week. In great trepidation I asked him what the deal was with Naz Nomad as I had heard the album and the strong rumours. His response: "Never 'eard of the geezer!" Call me naive but since then, even though Naz's vocals are a ringer for Dave Vanian's I have always had my doubts that both bands are one and the same...Of course there a million contractural and showbiz reasons why the Rat might not let the cat out of the bag to some local newspaper guy but...Anyone out there with a definitive answer?

Dave Improbable said:

That's a tough one, but I think I have to credit The Damned as Naz Nomad and The Nighmares, who put out a fake 60's psych film soundtrack called "Give Daddy The Knife , Cindy" of great garage covers: "Action Woman,"" She Lied,"" I Can Only Give You Everything" to name a few. I soon sought out the originals. Hearing The Shadows of Knight's "Dark Side,"  B-side of Gloria, on the quarter juke-box at the diner near my school was also pretty magical (yeah, I don't care if that sounds corny.)

 

Hi - i'm new to The Hideout... very much enjoying all of your responses... For me it was listening to 'London Calling' by The Clash that first got me interested in all things punk/garage/r'n'r related!

Mine would be Thee Mighty Caesars "Lie Dectector". Changed my life.

I'll have to try and get my hands on that Damned LP, now that you mention it!
Dave Improbable said:

That's a tough one, but I think I have to credit The Damned as Naz Nomad and The Nighmares, who put out a fake 60's psych film soundtrack called "Give Daddy The Knife , Cindy" of great garage covers: "Action Woman,"" She Lied,"" I Can Only Give You Everything" to name a few. I soon sought out the originals. Hearing The Shadows of Knight's "Dark Side,"  B-side of Gloria, on the quarter juke-box at the diner near my school was also pretty magical (yeah, I don't care if that sounds corny.)

 

"Last Train To Clarksville" was definately my fave Monkees tune!  Would love to have had their car...
Joseph M Kirk said:

"Bird Dance Beat" was preferreed over "Surfin' Bird" but hey I was only 3 or 4 years old.  After the Trashmen, it was "Last Train To Clarksville" by the Monkees, and The Standells "Dirty Water" Lp was given to me when I was six.  It was a pure joy to stumble upon the Ramones and Blondie when I was 17.  I never really felt the need to listen to the radio, so I never really have.  That's a good thing since living in Philadelphia, radio station's are really lame.  And they remain that way even now except for some college stations.  And, yes I still listen to the Trashmen and the Monkees et al.

I do have a local vintage store that deals in vinyl as well, but it's usually hit and miss with what they carry, although I did score a cool Turtles 45 the other day...

Eargasm said:

you can still get many major label garage 45's reasonably cheap, Joey..most record shows should have a dealer who has a selection of this stuff for $5 and under..
Great thing is that with some diligence and perserverance you can still find many rare gems in the wild..

That's a tough one, but I think I have to credit The Damned as Naz Nomad and The Nighmares, who put out a fake 60's psych film soundtrack called "Give Daddy The Knife , Cindy" of great garage covers: "Action Woman,"" She Lied,"" I Can Only Give You Everything" to name a few. I soon sought out the originals. Hearing The Shadows of Knight's "Dark Side,"  B-side of Gloria, on the quarter juke-box at the diner near my school was also pretty magical (yeah, I don't care if that sounds corny.)

"Bird Dance Beat" was preferreed over "Surfin' Bird" but hey I was only 3 or 4 years old.  After the Trashmen, it was "Last Train To Clarksville" by the Monkees, and The Standells "Dirty Water" Lp was given to me when I was six.  It was a pure joy to stumble upon the Ramones and Blondie when I was 17.  I never really felt the need to listen to the radio, so I never really have.  That's a good thing since living in Philadelphia, radio station's are really lame.  And they remain that way even now except for some college stations.  And, yes I still listen to the Trashmen and the Monkees et al.

you can still get many major label garage 45's reasonably cheap, Joey..most record shows should have a dealer who has a selection of this stuff for $5 and under..
Great thing is that with some diligence and perserverance you can still find many rare gems in the wild..

Yes, I too dig the Animals!  They were one of the reasons I would listen to oldies radio, because it was a given they would be played!  Oldies stations now only seem to want to play tons of disco and contemporary '70's tunes...The one we had here in Roanoke, VA basically forgot about the '50's-mid '60's stuff, and then only played the Top 40 hits of the late '60's, and all of the '70's....
km said:

There was a Foundation skate video called "Art Bars: Subtitles and Seagulls" that came out in like, 2001 and the soundtrack was awesome.  My favorite song on there was from some old  band I had never heard of called the Outsiders doing Filthy Rich, and I really loved their style, but never dug too deep to find more cause I didn't realize there was a whole genre out there.

 

I always craved more of what I called "raw, heavy oldies" but didn't make the connection that there would be more where that came from.  I was a big fan of the Animals and Link Wray too, that was the closest I really got to it before I discovered this website and really cracked it open.

 

There was a Foundation skate video called "Art Bars: Subtitles and Seagulls" that came out in like, 2001 and the soundtrack was awesome.  My favorite song on there was from some old  band I had never heard of called the Outsiders doing Filthy Rich, and I really loved their style, but never dug too deep to find more cause I didn't realize there was a whole genre out there.

I always craved more of what I called "raw, heavy oldies" but didn't make the connection that there would be more where that came from.  I was a big fan of the Animals and Link Wray too, that was the closest I really got to it before I discovered this website and really cracked it open.

It's amazing what the Cramps have done for us!  Isn't "Wild Zero" that really wild exploitation/grindhouse-type flick that came out a few years back that had zombies, maybe?  I thought I had seen it advertised in the pages of "Videoscope" and "Rue Morgue"...

electrocute your cock said:

Off The Bone/Songs the Lord Taught Us. That's where I'm pinning the blame for all this. Before that I'd only heard MC5, The Stooges and a few songs here and there so I knew I'd like this stuff if I knew who the hell anyone was, but it's The Cramps who showed me the way. Guitar Wolf get an honourable mention for their appearance in Wild Zero.

"Action Woman", for me, hands down, is probably one of my all time fave garage rockin' tunes...the Litter version, that is...
Dan said:

I think it was Pebbles Vol 1, sometime around 1990 - that skip in 'Action Woman' won me over straight away. Beaver Patrol, Potato Chip, 1-2-5, Going All The Way, etc...

It's amazing how much the Cramps have turned us onto so much great music, that otherwise, some of us had no idea existed!
BonzoB said:

I was a punk, and followed the line back. Clash, Pistols to Stooges, MC5, and then connections from there.THE one that truly hooked me had to Off the Bone by The Cramps. It took me a long time to track down the originals of their covers, but when I did Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease Vol 1 made another leap. For those who don't know it the record combined classics by The Trashmen, Sonics, Novas, Hazil Adkins, Legendary Stardust Cowboy etc, with tracks by The Cramps, Panther Burns, Jimmy Dickinson, Gun Club, and UK psychobilly pioneers Meteors, Guana Batz, Sting Rays and Milkshakes...The sleeve was a brilliant cartoon comic book cover, with the whole thing allegedly recorded in "Monstereo". The total package just rocked...After that my world exploded and like the Universe it continues to expand...I feel an honourable mention must also go the The Fuzztones Lysergic Emanations. First hearing for a load more garage covers that need tracked down.

Yeah, tunes with that organ really turned me on!  Plus that punky sneer you hear in the vocals of other tunes...Sadly, most oldies stations nowadays only play Motown and the top hits from back in the day, which does include some great gems, but overlooks way too many...

Jeremy Hall said:

That's easy. Surfin' Bird. When I first heard it as a kid in the 70's, I thought it was the best thing ever. It took a while to attach the sound to other records and find those records as a teen (oh to have had the internet). I'll also say 96 tears, because even as a kid I recognized that there were "oldies", and then there was strange shit on the radio that sounded like 96 tears.

That's easy. Surfin' Bird. When I first heard it as a kid in the 70's, I thought it was the best thing ever. It took a while to attach the sound to other records and find those records as a teen (oh to have had the internet). I'll also say 96 tears, because even as a kid I recognized that there were "oldies", and then there was strange shit on the radio that sounded like 96 tears.

Yer welcome....a fave song of mine! If you ever record it, feel free to send me an MP3 for radio airplay!

SIR DOMINICK said:

great DAVE, fantastic!

Many thanks ! This night we'll play it with the band !

great DAVE, fantastic!

Many thanks ! This night we'll play it with the band !

Try this link...

http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2009/08/song-of-week-born-loser-murphy-and-mob.html

I always felt that punk got boring when it became more of a fashion than music..It was exciting at the beginning and eventually it just became another music to me..i remember when a Boston band called Third Rail released a 45 called "It's Over Now' somewhere around 1979..it pretty much summed things up....

Yep, if it wasn't for Greg Shaw i woulda lost interest in music completely after the first punk wave in the late 70's/eaerly 80's...Pebbles sure opened some doors for me!

And ya, Sinderella is definitely my least favourite Sonics LP.

Eargasm said:

Yeah, that Bomp album was pretty bad, but it was more than an attempt to cash in on The Sonics name..I'll get the facts together in my head, and come back to it...As far as Greg Shaw, I think a pretty good case could be made that none of us would be talking about this stuff if it wasn't for him...Nuggets may have been the first big wheel to get 60's punk rolling, but no one championed the burgeoning 70's punk, 60's punk and whatever the hell else was going on back then than Greg...Bomp magazine was an essential ingrediant in an era was information wasn't at your fingertips. It was being spread out by an ever growing fraternity of rock and roll zealots mostly word of mouth..
That being said, lightning rarely strikes twice, and it's difficult for 60 year old men to resurrect the impulses that created the phenomenom that is The Sonics...

Yeah, that Bomp album was pretty bad, but it was more than an attempt to cash in on The Sonics name..I'll get the facts together in my head, and come back to it...As far as Greg Shaw, I think a pretty good case could be made that none of us would be talking about this stuff if it wasn't for him...Nuggets may have been the first big wheel to get 60's punk rolling, but no one championed the burgeoning 70's punk, 60's punk and whatever the hell else was going on back then than Greg...Bomp magazine was an essential ingrediant in an era was information wasn't at your fingertips. It was being spread out by an ever growing fraternity of rock and roll zealots mostly word of mouth..
That being said, lightning rarely strikes twice, and it's difficult for 60 year old men to resurrect the impulses that created the phenomenom that is The Sonics...

At least the Pogues are still in fashion. At least that song during the holidays.

Hideout Admin said:

Damn, it dropped to #21 this past week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles

I like where you are going with this one.

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:

Justin Bieber for no.1

Now on the GaragePunk podcast, it's MAL THURSDAY'S TEXAS TYME MACHINE #1. The all-Texan garage/punk/psychedelic podcast is now officially spun off from THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW as its own 'cast.

Here's the pilot episode: MAL THURSDAY'S TEXAS TYME MACHINE #1: A Journey to Tyme