Mel of the Phantom Surfers here. I built this instrument for my pal Zac of Dengue Fever, and Mojo Magazine is having a contest to name it! How cool is that. I am asking all my friends to enter (it is a UK contest, but enter anyway, mates!) to ensure that the pool of good (read un-lame) names is high. Name away, everyone!

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/11/dengue_fever_need_you_to_name.html

In Britain I've had a few friends and aquaintances "glassed", also in Essen there's a rock club called Turok where on some of the heavier nights people lob their empties from the balcony above. And in the club I worked at they had a net to catch the things so that they wouldn't fall on the people below. In general plastic is so much cooler in a rowdy place. Plus when the stuff breaks on the dance floor, the mess it makes stops fun for a long time.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Where do you live that people get hit in the head with glass bottles? I only saw that happen once and it was really a bad dive bar.

Rubber Gloves in Denton, TX. It's a big, sweaty black room with a tiny arcade upstairs and a giant metal "Pharmacy" sign over the bar. It's situated away from the main square in an old train switchyard next to Morrison's Corn Kit factory. I still don't know what a Corn Kit is. On summer nights, they'd leave the back loading door behind the stage open, but it never really helped with the heat of 300 crazy kids' bodies slamming against each other. After the show you could sit and wait for the trains to pass, running alongside or throwing shit at them as they raced by. All of my best rock n' roll memories are from seeing a show or playing at Rubber Gloves.

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Where do you live that people get hit in the head with glass bottles? I only saw that happen once and it was really a bad dive bar.

Mike Humsgreen said:

I like clubs that have a kind of coridoor shape with no barriers in front of the stage. The worst club I know is the Astoria in London because it cuts the audience off from the stage so badly with barriers even though the stage is as wide as the club. The Highbury Garage is so much better, saw Guttermouth there and it was a class act because the audience could interact with the band, like in the Underworld but without being able to fall over the stage.

Toilets should be cold and basic but enough of them. Also if you could soundproof them and play folk music with whistles then that would kick arse. I think the Panic Room in Essen pipes forest music or something there.

Keep the drinks in plastic beakers with no glass bottles. Glass gets broken on people's heads and on the floor and isn't pretty.

No comfy seats, it's a club for rockin out and not lounging. Plus I remember working in Octogon in Bangor (no garage music unless you are counting that British urban shite) that comfy seats got messed on and torn up easily. The retarded clientel didn't realise that the cushions they were sleeping on had been vomited on 3 times in one week.

Clubs don't need windows but if you could have some kind of food then that would be cool. Like hot dogs or something. Also what sucks in Germany is that unlike in Britain there is no law obliging clubs to serve free water. And if you have a shitfaced friend or are self in need of rehydration then free water is a must.

Agreed. The Funhouse in Seattle is the same way with the juke box, but they turn it off between bands and the sound guy usually puts in a CD that doesn't gel with the music that's on stage. John Carlucci suggested a DJ and I think that's a great idea. I hired one for my show witht the Woggles back in 2005 and it really made a difference.

MikeL said:

BTW, a really cool jukebox can make the place a real draw. There's a place here in Pittsburgh called Gooski's; it's not much more than a neighborhood bar where bands play on weekends, but they have the coolest jukebox in the city, full of punk, post punk and garage rock classics, along with a smattering of glam rockers.

I like clubs that have a kind of coridoor shape with no barriers in front of the stage. The worst club I know is the Astoria in London because it cuts the audience off from the stage so badly with barriers even though the stage is as wide as the club. The Highbury Garage is so much better, saw Guttermouth there and it was a class act because the audience could interact with the band, like in the Underworld but without being able to fall over the stage.

Toilets should be cold and basic but enough of them. Also if you could soundproof them and play folk music with whistles then that would kick arse. I think the Panic Room in Essen pipes forest music or something there.

Keep the drinks in plastic beakers with no glass bottles. Glass gets broken on people's heads and on the floor and isn't pretty.

No comfy seats, it's a club for rockin out and not lounging. Plus I remember working in Octogon in Bangor (no garage music unless you are counting that British urban shite) that comfy seats got messed on and torn up easily. The retarded clientel didn't realise that the cushions they were sleeping on had been vomited on 3 times in one week.

Clubs don't need windows but if you could have some kind of food then that would be cool. Like hot dogs or something. Also what sucks in Germany is that unlike in Britain there is no law obliging clubs to serve free water. And if you have a shitfaced friend or are self in need of rehydration then free water is a must.

BTW, a really cool jukebox can make the place a real draw. There's a place here in Pittsburgh called Gooski's; it's not much more than a neighborhood bar where bands play on weekends, but they have the coolest jukebox in the city, full of punk, post punk and garage rock classics, along with a smattering of glam rockers.

Sweet as bro. Have fun!

Petulant Child said:

great I have never really played with feedback before!! I hope this guitar is still there when I go to get it!! thanx for the help!

Mardy Pune said:

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.


Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

great I have never really played with feedback before!! I hope this guitar is still there when I go to get it!! thanx for the help!

Mardy Pune said:

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.


Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.

Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

I have a knockoff of a Gibson 137 (anyone ever heard of a Crestline?) that I've been using with the natural crunch of a new Vox combo (VOX AC30VR it's a 30W 2x12 transistor with a tube to warm it up). I have a HiWatt that I use on special occasions. The sound is god-like in perfection.

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.

Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

I have a '71 Harmony Meteor which sounds great overdriven. Really nice, controlled feedback with this one. It was really quite a find. I bought it back in '95 when I was trying to break into vintage guitar dealing along with my bandmate. Problem was, everything we were buying, we liked so much, we didn't want to turn around and sell any of it. I only paid $175 for it. At first I didn't like it much, and even after my friend did a bunch of work to it, it wouldn't stay in tune very well. It wasn't until I really decided one day that I was going to try playing it again, and often, that either one of two things happened, I developed a "touch" on this guitar, or it just needed to be played in order to be right. Either way it sounds awesome now, like a cross between an ES-335 and a Gretsch. Somebody mentioned Nugent; I guess you could also say it's a little like one of his Byrdlands, being that the neck is short and it's a thinline hollowbody. I played a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go" in one band with it, and the tone was strikingly similar to his . I play it through a '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb re-issue with an Ibanez Tubescreamer. I also have a Vox Distortion Booster which I used for leads.

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

quelle sensation !

GENIAL !

Scopitone N°14 - SHEETAH ET LES WEISSMULLER

really like the Dead Boys, during the same year I got into Velvets, Television, MC5, New York Dolls etc

Yes, scales. There should be all kinds of blues and country (yes, country) tabs out there.

"One day I was listening to a DJ play Presley's 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' - I turned the radio up and shouted, 'That sounds just like us playing!' At last someone was recording country music with a beat. That's what Rockabilly music, or Rock & Roll was to begin with - a country man's song with a black man's rhythm. I just put a little speed into some of the slow Blue's licks." -Carl Perkins

All the 60's garage guys learned from early rock and rollers and blues guys (Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc). Learn those and songs and you'll know half the stuff from the Beatles, Yardbirds, Animals...and the list goes on

I 'veen been playing guitar for many years.I own a hollow body,a peavey t-60 and a gibson sg 1961 reissue.So now its time for my surf guitar.At the beggining i was sure about tha jaguar.I said there is no question,i am just gonna get a jaguar.But the mosrite idea occured to me.They are pretty expensive but here's the deal.

I just noticed several free tracks by Dan Melchior& Das Menace over at the Free music archive http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Und_Melchior_Das_Menace/ - a few from his upcoming album Catbirds & Cardinals plus some "unreleased rarities." Not to mention the live on WFMU songs I'd already taken advantage of.

Thanks, Dan!

i don't know about folk punk, but this is some punk-folk: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/the-donegal-mafia/113945405297874