yeah i think is possible and could be the most original thing to do. you like black flag. you like surf music. great! put the things togheter and do something new! there are 10000 surf bands that just sound the same around. do something creative! anyway, to learn how to play surf guitar i suggest you to check teh picking of dick dale

Giannis KRI said:

I don't get it man.I mean how can you change songs like wasted and nervous breakdown into surf?I just can't imagine it.



Mike Humsgreen said:

That sounds like the most interesting idea. I think most Black Flag is perfect for surf, you just need to put a bit more emphasis on the bass than on the guitar.


Giannis KRI said:

You really believe we can do that?No,wait.Do you believe this is possible?



wasted pido said:

play the black flag stuff you know in surf style

OK these guys slipped my mind.Thanks.

Alex said:

The Phantom Surfers!

I don't get it man.I mean how can you change songs like wasted and nervous breakdown into surf?I just can't imagine it.

Mike Humsgreen said:

That sounds like the most interesting idea. I think most Black Flag is perfect for surf, you just need to put a bit more emphasis on the bass than on the guitar.


Giannis KRI said:

You really believe we can do that?No,wait.Do you believe this is possible?



wasted pido said:

play the black flag stuff you know in surf style

That sounds like the most interesting idea. I think most Black Flag is perfect for surf, you just need to put a bit more emphasis on the bass than on the guitar.

Giannis KRI said:

You really believe we can do that?No,wait.Do you believe this is possible?



wasted pido said:

play the black flag stuff you know in surf style

The Phantom Surfers!

Thank you Hot doggin is really awesome.I think we got a new song on the playlist.

Dead Boy said:

A surf version of "Depression" may be cool.

You really believe we can do that?No,wait.Do you believe this is possible?

wasted pido said:

play the black flag stuff you know in surf style

A surf version of "Depression" may be cool.

Hezekiah Early & Elmo Williams, Cubby Barnes, Cedell Davis, RL, T-Model, shit, man there's way too many!!! But my all time favorite is Mr. Charlie Patton

Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Don't Play No Rock n Roll.

Ah, those guys are ...okaaaaay... but they're no George Thorogood! (ducks) This is a nice little write up of Howlin Wolf (definatley one of my faves).

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
December 3, 2010

From the days of Motown, through the proto-punk era of the MC5, going into the garage-rock ’90s with The Gories and The Detroit Cobras, and culminating commercially with The White Stripes, the city of Detroit has been a dependable breeding ground for rock ’n’ roll.

A band called The Ruiners does nothing to ruin the reputation of the Motor City. In fact, the group’s new album, Happy Birthday Bitch, fits into the city’s proud tradition.

Fronted by Rick Ruiner, aka Rick Lappin (a recent feature in the Detroit Press referred to him as the group’s “singer/stuntman”) and Russian-born singer Nina Friday (that’s her on the cover), the band has a reputation for “setting things on fire, stripping down onstage, and occasionally winding up behind bars” (That’s from Chicago music critic Jim DeRogatis.)

This record just explodes with powerful rockers. “Fix That Broken Halo,” which starts off with a roaring “yeee haw!” from Friday, features crazy locomotive drumming over some wild slide guitar. “Charlie Laine Ate My Brain” is an ode to a real-live porn star. (Reportedly, there have been talks about the actress doing a video for the song.)

“Sugar Buzz” is a sweet crunching ode to a young lady enjoying treats at Dairy Queen, while “Suburban Cop” is a high-charged, hopped-up insult to law enforcement (“Hey, cop, congratulations, you just found my crotch!”).

If The Ruiners were better known, politicians across the country would be calling for their heads.

And while it’s a fine little rock ’n’ roll tune, do yourself a favor, guys, and don’t play the title song for your wife or sweetheart on her birthday.

Also recommended:

* The Scrams. One day last year, I was listening to a show by a fellow GaragePunk podcaster (RadiOblivion’s Michael Kaiser, who lives in Tennessee), and he announced a fun, rocking, heavy-on-the-Farfisa band called The Scrams from “Steve Terrell’s backyard in New Mexico.”

I went out and checked — they weren’t there. He was lying.

But later I found out that The Scrams were only some 60 miles away, in Albuquerque. Just recently The Scrams released a full-length, self titled album that fulfills the promise of the songs on the first 7-inch EP they released last year.

They’ve only been around for less than two years, and they call their sound “warehouse rock.” Started by guitarist Juan Carlos Rodriguez and drummer Nate Daly, other Scrams include singer Joseph Cardillo, Farfisa-nut Daniel Eiland, and bassist Matthew Vanek.

All tracks, from the opening shout of “1,2,3,4,” on “Exiles” to the weird sonic blast that follows “Cry, Cry Cry (In the U.S.A.)” — it sounds like backward masking — is raw garage joy. The first tune that grabbed me was “La Llorona,” a song about a local girl. She murdered her children and is now doomed to eternally wandering the arroyos as a wailing ghost. The Scrams pay her spooky justice.

There’s a song called “Chimp Necropsy,” which may or may not be about those poor medical-experiment chimps in Alamogordo. I can’t make out the lyrics here to save my life. I’m not sure what “Goat Throat” is about, either. Maybe The Scrams are trying to warn the world about some sort of human-animal hybrid.

Whatever, it’s an irresistible little tune with just a hint of ’60s-style soul. “Space Jeeps” is a science-fiction adventure, while “Cry, Cry Cry” almost sounds like The Fleshtones mangling Dion & The Belmonts’ “Teenager in Love.”

I’d be proud to have The Scrams in my backyard. If you want a hard copy of the CD, you’ll have to buy it from The Scrams. You can download the MP3 version for free at www.thescrams.com.


* Curry Up: It’s The Tandoori Knights by The Tandoori Knights Canadian rockabilly Bloodshot Bill might be the logical person to step in and heal the rift between King Khan and BBQ (Mark Sultan), who split up earlier this year after a disastrous Asian/Australian tour.


After all, just this year Bloodshot Bill has released records with both — recording as The Ding-Dongs with Sultan and as The Tandoori Knights with Khan. Maybe he can instigate the melding of the two — a trio to be known as “The Tandoori Dongs.”


If I had to choose between the two, Tandoori Knights would get my nod. It’s got the same spirit of lo-fi rockabilly zaniness as The Ding-Dongs, but there’s also a flavor of East Indian exotica. (Both Knights are Indian. Arish Khan is of East Indian heritage, while Bloodshot Bill is Native American. And both were born in an exotic foreign country called Canada.)

“Pretty Please,” which opens the album, kicks off with a slow, slinky slide guitar. It sounds like a crude ditty beginning for what could, but never quite does, blossom into a huge Bollywood ballad. Other diamonds here include the rocking “Dress On,” a takeoff on Mitch Ryder’s “Devil in a Blue Dress” and “Big Belly Giant,” which features a dangerous sax and a chicken-lickin’ guitar while the Tandooris sing “eeny meenie miney moe.”

But my favorite is the sour-grapes dismissal of America’s oldest teenager on the song “Bandstand.” The boys protest in the refrain, “They won’t let Tandooris play on the Bandstand!” Come on, Dick, let ’em on the show! I don’t care if American Band did go off the air more than 20 years ago.

Consumer warning! I notice that a new copy of this CD is available for $23 and change from Amazon. But you can get it for $10 on the Norton Records site.

yeahhhhhhh... pretty lame overall...

Count Brockula said:

Revolting. Watching this thing made me want to punch a wall. Corporate co-opting of a culture in order to market to a new demographic. Vice and Scion are what's wrong with the scene. They're not injecting anything into it or helping it at all. Shit like this is poisonous to the development and maturation of a scene. A good chunk of the music is just garbage (Hunx & His Punx, Vivian Girls, Smith Westerns, blah blah blah) while real garage bands (and I hesitate to use that term) are being ignored as they don't sound like the pablum people are being spoon fed that they've been told is garage. I was dj-ing the other night and it had been billed as a night of garage, punk, and r and b. Hipster assholes kept coming up to me all night asking when I was going to play some garage - after I had just played a 30 minute set of 60s garage and 60s influenced garage (they wanted to hear "REAL" garage - White Stripes, Strange Boys...fuckin' losers). At a Cynics show earlier in the month, I heard more than one conversation along the lines of "I thought they played garage". Fuck all this Scion and Vice bullshit - it's a dance with the devil. Luckily, this will all die out, the corporate vultures will circle the next victim to pick clean, and things will shake out and get back to normal.

Revolting. Watching this thing made me want to punch a wall. Corporate co-opting of a culture in order to market to a new demographic. Vice and Scion are what's wrong with the scene. They're not injecting anything into it or helping it at all. Shit like this is poisonous to the development and maturation of a scene. A good chunk of the music is just garbage (Hunx & His Punx, Vivian Girls, Smith Westerns, blah blah blah) while real garage bands (and I hesitate to use that term) are being ignored as they don't sound like the pablum people are being spoon fed that they've been told is garage. I was dj-ing the other night and it had been billed as a night of garage, punk, and r and b. Hipster assholes kept coming up to me all night asking when I was going to play some garage - after I had just played a 30 minute set of 60s garage and 60s influenced garage (they wanted to hear "REAL" garage - White Stripes, Strange Boys...fuckin' losers). At a Cynics show earlier in the month, I heard more than one conversation along the lines of "I thought they played garage". Fuck all this Scion and Vice bullshit - it's a dance with the devil. Luckily, this will all die out, the corporate vultures will circle the next victim to pick clean, and things will shake out and get back to normal.

What year is that Tele?

The Mimicos said:

Two crusty old boxes like me and one that's not so old but still crusty.

kelly this sounds deadly! wanna gig together when we come through california march/april ish?? http://www.myspace.com/mandthespanks

kelly alvarez said:

hi! i know this topic is older, but i was looking around and found this discusion so i thought i would say hello! i'm in a 3-piece band called Junglefever. 2 girls (guitar/vocals and bass/vocals) and a guy on drums myspace.com/junglefeverxo i also write a blog, mainly about girl bands and female singers kellyfever.blogspot.com !

heya, im in a two piece garage/rocknroll/something band called miesha & the spanks in calgary. i sing and play guitar. we're touring the us in march/april/may and could use some insight of cool places to hit? check er out - http://www.myspace.com/mandthespanks and as always, would love love love to play with some other rad rocker girls. xomiesha

Actually there are no power chords in Blue Orchid..
He's using an POG octave generator, and he used his whammy live

Sickie Wifebater...

Dave Vanian always makes me smile, along with Chuck Wagon, and another vote for Kid Congo Powers way past cool!

Billy Idol
Andy Blade-Eater
Dee Generate-Eater
Jimmy Crashe-Radiators From Space
Cherry Vanilla

Feederz "Jesus" EP
Gun Club "Fire of Love" (1981)
Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" / "Baby You're So Repulsive" 7"

Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers.
Can't Stand The Rezillos - The Rezillos.
Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers.
The Ramones (obviously!)
Damned, Damned, Damned -The Damned (Ditto!!)
Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps.
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts - The Adverts.
LAMF - The Heartbreakers.
The Crack - The Ruts.
Another Kind of Blues - UK Subs.
Pure Mania - The Vibrators...
All on heavy rotation to this day and every one a classic.

some of my favs, the first 999, radiators from space-tv tube heart, the first willie alexander and the boom boom band, lurkers-fullham fallout, vibrators first one, dead boys-young, loud and snotty, eaters first one