The chapter about the making of Funhouse in Open Up and Bleed should be a whole book, it's incredible. Mr. S by Frank Sinatra's longtime valet George Jacobs is one of the wildest biographies, portraying Frank and his pals (including JFK) as a bunch of insecure, whoremongering, rat soup-eatin' honkies. John Lydon's autobio Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs gave me new respect for the guy and it's kind of touching that he finds his story after his mother's death too painful to delve into. White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day by Richie Unterberger is the last word on the VU and clears up the many mysteries surrounding the group. My all-time favorites are Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love by Peter Guralnik, a two-volume biography of the King of Rock and Roll beside which all other Elvis books are trash.

my fault - billy childish (a bit of a bummer) just kids - patti smith faithfull - marianne faithfull be my baby: how i survived mascara, miniskirts, and madness, or my life as a fabulous ronette - ronnie spector ALSO! free online kicksville66 - miriam linna (original drummer for the cramps) @ http://kicksville66.blogspot.com/ i also like the writing of julian cope!

i'm looking to travel more whether it's in the usa or europe and would like to know of some good events to check out.

woops ment to hit the stop following button.

and than there's Devo of course

Uh huh them too...also The Only Ones debut The Saints - Eternally Yours Suicide - debut Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts all early Television Personalities platters too especially Mummy You're Not Watching Me, and They Could've Been Bigger Than The Beatles......just cos they're great though, never mind that I was the drummer in a much much later line up, ha ha... spin on...

Screamin' Billy Hawk said:

1. Wire- Pink Flag
2. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
3. The Ramones- S/T (yeah, so what?)

1. Wire- Pink Flag
2. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
3. The Ramones- S/T (yeah, so what?)

j'avais oublié les Dogs !!

fuzzybeb said:

Ramones 1 st and leave home road to ruin
Damned damned damned damned
heartbreakers lamf
the saints strandded
undertones
buzzckocks

Ramones 1 st and leave home road to ruin
Damned damned damned damned
heartbreakers lamf
the saints strandded
undertones
buzzckocks

BTW, I also love "I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys.

MikeL said:

You should check out a band called Manda and the Marbles. They did a really good cover of "I Wanna Go Home."



Mark Von Frankenstine said:

Here's some random stuff that popped into my head. It's all pretty scattered, but I love 'em all in their own weird little way:

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
The Ramones - Carbona Not Glue
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer?
Dirtbombs - Your Love Belongs Under a Rock
Turbonegro - Denim Demon
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Zombie Compromise
King Khan and Barbecue - Teabag Party
Holly and the Italians - I Wanna Go Home
Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

Tomorrow it'll be a different ten.

Here are some favorites of mine...

"Running with the Wasters" by the Takeover UK.

"Simple Things" by Manda and the Marbles.

"Forget About the Day" by Manda and the Marbles.

"Rock'n'Roll Babe" by the Cocktail Slippers.

"Ramona" by the Ramones.

"Danny Says" by the Ramones.

"Ain't So Cool" by Les Hell on Heels.

"Pull Shapes" by the Pipettes.

"Personality Crisis" by the New York Dolls.

"Fox on the Run" by the Sweet.

BTW, this is just a very scattershot list.

You should check out a band called Manda and the Marbles. They did a really good cover of "I Wanna Go Home."

Mark Von Frankenstine said:

Here's some random stuff that popped into my head. It's all pretty scattered, but I love 'em all in their own weird little way:

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
The Ramones - Carbona Not Glue
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer?
Dirtbombs - Your Love Belongs Under a Rock
Turbonegro - Denim Demon
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Zombie Compromise
King Khan and Barbecue - Teabag Party
Holly and the Italians - I Wanna Go Home
Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You

Tomorrow it'll be a different ten.

OK, so this is really 11 songs, but it's close enough.

Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Radio Birdman- New Race
Government Issue - Rock 'n' Roll Bullshit
Ty Segall - Can't Talk
The Sonics - Money, That's What I Wnat
Immortal Lee County Killers- Let's Get Killed
Stiff Little Fingers- Alternative Ulster
Bad Brains- Pay to Cum
MC5- Kick Out the James
Black Flag- Nervous Breakdown
Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

makin believe-social distortion
its alright-del fuegos
death or glory-clash
ramrod(live)-springsteen
sheena is a punk rocker-ramones
hotel yorba-white stripes
devine thing-soup dragons
good girls dont-knack
wiggle stick-rev horton heat
tumblin dice-stones

A smattering of tracks that are always on heavy rotation for me...

The Devil Dogs – Get on Your Knees
Protex – Don't Ring Me Up
V-3 – Inside Outpost
Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea
Econothugs - Action
The Adicts – Viva la Revolution
Beirut – Prenzlauerberg
Françoise Hardy – Comment te dire adieu
Pagans - Heart of Stone
The Boys - First Time

I just wanna know what kind of person would pay $100 for a Vivian Girls record. You could give me one for free and I'd still think I'd been ripped off.

I think Scion's approach to marketing is really well thought out. They also work with Juxtapoz magazine, it gives their product a real smart street credential. I'm on my second Scion XB, great car, the seats fold down and I can fit all my bands equipment in it. The headroom is awesome, I'm 6' 2" and I still have another 6 inches before I hit the roof. When you buy a Scion you don't negotiate the price, they are already set, so you don't have to go to other dealers to find a better price. Interest rates are the only thing you might be able to pit dealers against each other with, but I think it's all based on your credit score. Anyway, I like the fact that Scion is so involved with garage rock, you just don't see a lot big companies doing something like this.

Thanks for posting, very entertaining.

Scion and Vice are really helping to inject some life into this scene/culture. I just wish I'd see more of it in my own hometown.

Try a ProCo Rat. They have a really dirty sound, but notes ring through nice.

I went to the Bach site, looks cool, Europe has so many choices for low end guitars. I read Guitarist magazine from England, it's the best guitar mag out there, the ads for guitars only available overseas are great, cool designs and low prices. Most stuff in the US has a metal look to them, if you walk into Guitar Center you see rows of pointy strat like guitars, I wish someone would import Fret King over here. Ersk A. Loisque said:

I'm always looking for the cheapest (yet decent) alternative around. My main axe for garage rock is a telecaster by the brand Bach (http://www.bachmusik.com/en/) and I think it does the job just as good as a mexican fender. But then I've done some sweet mods to it: Seymour Duncan Little '59 in the bridge position, tonerider hot classic in the neck position (go buy toneriders, they sound REALLY good! I used to have a hot classic in the bridge as well but I got tired of the single coil hum, I'm more of a bucker guy), locking tuners and a Bigsby B50. Mahogany body and maple neck. Our lead guitarist (who usually plays an american tele) borrowed it for a rehearsal once and his guitar sound became way more distinctive with my guitar. It may not have the feel of a fender or gibby, but price wise - It's the deal!

The Ashbass Fuzzrite is the only one I've heard of from that list and it's a great pedal.

Yep, i remember that group....

There was also groups for selling records...sold a bunch of records that way. Long before ebay started.

Just curious if anyone here ever used this old usenet newsgroup. When I first got a computer and had access to the Internet in the spring of 1994, this was the place to go for garage (and related punk/rock'n'roll, noise, & trash) discussions, at least outside of AOL, which at that time was like the Facebook of the Web. AOL had what they called discussion folders (I think), and I remember setting up a couple... like The Green Door and Primitive Garage Rock'n'Roll. It was somewhere around this time that I also discovered the late, great Bomp List.

Ah, the old days... haha.