Do you mean the pitch adjust slider on the right, or the 45/33 speed adjustment knob on the left?

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Well that stinks. It was a good product. Only thing I didn't like was the speed adjuster (but I'm not a DJ either).

Well that stinks. It was a good product. Only thing I didn't like was the speed adjuster (but I'm not a DJ either).

It's the end of the world as we know it...

http://gizmodo.com/5675818/end-of-an-era-panasonic-kills-off-technics-turntables

If you've ever been a DJ, known a DJ, or listened to a DJ, there's a good chance you're familiar with Technics. Panasonic's analog turntables are legend among scratchers and spinners. And now they're gone.

Panny made the announcement that they'd cease Technic sproduction because of "a decline in demand for these analog products and also the growing difficulty of procuring key analog components necessary to
sustain production." In a word: obsolescence.

3.5 million SL-1200 turntables sold since 1972. Countless audio mixers and stereo headphones that also bear the Technics name. But with sales of analog decks being just 5% of what they were 10 years ago,
Panasonic's finally pulled the plug on a classic.

What made Technics so good? A reliable Direct Drive turning mechanism. A heavy, rock-solid 27 pound base. And three decades of tradition.

It's not that Technics are the only analog turntables in the world. It that they were the
analog turntables. And now, like any other technology that gets
eclipsed, they're antiques, collectibles, curios for fanatics. Lets
hope anyone who's got one keeps it well preserved.

Yeah, maybe... Still doesn't give him a lot of room to be throwing around wickedly backhanded compliments.

MikeL said:

Bebe Buell claims in her autobiography that Keith was the real heart and soul of the band musically before he got into heroin, so maybe that's why so much of the Stones' output was kind of spotty in the 70s and beyond.



Ken said:

I don't think that Keith has much room to talk about quality of music post 1972 or so. Or being overblown.

For that matter... What's wrong with playing bars in New Jersey?

Keef is not ripping, he's saying that there's been nothing better than B.S. in tha last 35+ years. That's quite a compliment!

Bebe Buell claims in her autobiography that Keith was the real heart and soul of the band musically before he got into heroin, so maybe that's why so much of the Stones' output was kind of spotty in the 70s and beyond.

Ken said:

I don't think that Keith has much room to talk about quality of music post 1972 or so. Or being overblown.

For that matter... What's wrong with playing bars in New Jersey?

I don't think that Keith has much room to talk about quality of music post 1972 or so. Or being overblown.

For that matter... What's wrong with playing bars in New Jersey?

LOL! I do like Springsteen, but I can see your point. And yeah, many people do consider Meatloaf to be an even more over the top derivative of Springsteen. BTW, I like Meatloaf too, but he's more of a guilty pleasure. BTW, I love that picture you use of Lester Bangs for your profile.

Gunther Toody said:

Further proof that Keith's musical tastes are those of a true rock and roll fan. Springsteen's stuff is definitely "overblown" to the point that it mostly sounds like it's from some godawful Broadway rock musical, ala Meatloaf's stuff.

Further proof that Keith's musical tastes are those of a true rock and roll fan. Springsteen's stuff is definitely "overblown" to the point that it mostly sounds like it's from some godawful Broadway rock musical, ala Meatloaf's stuff.

Now THAT would be a potentially awesome movie...the tripping Elevators VS. 60's redneck Texas and the cops, the insane power of their live show in its prime, bringing free-style acid-rawk to San Francisco (via Texan Chet Helms) when all the bands that are known for acid-rock were still playing good-timey folk, the Elevators sad self-destructive career choices, and drugs drugs drugs drugs...


SarahJayne said:

They should just make it about the 13th Floor Elevators instead. Drugs, drugs, drugs, cops, rock & roll, Janis Joplin, drugs, crazy people, the Austin psych scene, drugs, cave dwelling, drugs, and drugs. All the bases covered right there.

"Jack The Ripper" by Jack & The Rippers, FORT WORTH TEEN SCENE VOL. 2.

Oh yeah and The Decemberists (I think that's their name) wrote a song about the Shankill Butchers. They're not generally thought of as serial killers though, it's kind of borderline. Their story is far more fucked up than any serial killer's.

Slayer did a couple - Dead Skin Mask about Ed Gein and 213 about that Jeffrey Dahmer chap.

did a set of serial killers on the radio a couple of weeks ago (some already mentioned)...

One Way Streets: Jack The Ripper (Sunrise)
Tutu & the Pirates: Wham Bam Son Of Sam (Sub-Urban Insult Rock For The Anti/Lectual)
Hollywood Squares: Hillside Strangler (Square)
Viletones: Richard Speck (A Taste Of Honey)
Adverts: Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (Anchor)
Mentally Ill: Gacy’s Place (Autistic)
Le Face: Tylenol Killer (Isolation)
Donnas: I Wanna Be A Unabomber (Radio X)

Harry Horror - Gern hab ich die Frauen gesägt (I Loved sawing women) about Fritz Honka (german Mass Murderer).The 7" was forbidden due to the personal rights of Honka. Heres is a youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-fuUseFebY

"killer joe" by kingsmen, but I'm not sure about it.

The Time Flys - Zodiac Killer's Son

They were an all-female band from Sacramento, CA, who put out a few CDs in the early 2000s. I discovered them on last.fm, and I really liked this one song called "Snapshot," which is on their "Take Off" release from 2001. The rest of the album is pretty good too ("Snapshot" happens to be the standout track). I was just wondering if anyone else around here discovered them or got to see them live.

I also would really like to know that!Only saw the Trailer from the official (?) myspace site.

EGO the Living Planet said:

The first two things I thought of:

The screams that start every track of Funhouse

and (this will blow some cred) the scream at the end of the guitar solo before the last chorus of "Won't get Fooled Again"). All these years later, despite all the overplay and the whole CSI thing, it still gets me.

I'm with you there! Cred shmed. It's a great moment in rock music.

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican  October 29, 2010 In the weeks preceding Halloween, the average American, according to statistics I just made up, will hear “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett 17.3 times. That novelty hit from 1962 (trivia note: Leon Russell played piano on the record) seems omnipresent, but it’s hardly the only tacky rock ’n’ roll monster song. They’re everywhere — full of shrieks, wolf howls, cackling witch laughs, bad horror puns, and even worse Boris and Bela impersonations — if you know where to look for them. From personal experience, I can truthfully say that monsters and rock ’n’ roll were two major cultural obsessions of American boys, and probably some girls, who grew up in the early ’60s. So it’s natural that those two realms would cross-pollinate. Recently, I was reminded of a really stupid horror-rock album I had as a kid. The track that stuck in my memory was called “Frankenstein Meets The Beatles.” I had looked for that online more than a couple of times in past years without any luck. In fact, I was beginning to wonder if the memory was just a hallucination caused by smelling too much airplane glue while putting together plastic models of The Wolfman and The Mummy. But one midnight dreary, I decided to look again. Lo and behold, I found it. A legal version, even! It was on a record called The Monster Album by none other than Dickie Goodman, most famous for his “break-in” songs, like “The Flying Saucer” and “Mr. Jaws,” set up as newscasts in which the reporter is answered by short samples of current pop hits. Besides “Frankenstein Meets The Beatles,” the album had songs with such titles as “Ghoul From Ipanema” and “Mambo Mummy.” A word of caution: While the cover looks the same and that song about The Beatles is there, the version of The Monster Album I found on eMusic and Amazon is not the same album I had in 1965. In fact the only other tune from the original that appears to be on this is “Dracula Drag” (which refers to hot-rod racing, not his manner of dress). Bags of candy: If you’re looking for a good Internet source for crazy old Halloween music, it’s hard to beat WFMU’s Rock ’n’ Soul Ichiban! blog . In fact it’s hard to beat that blog, a project of a great public radio station in New Jersey, for crazy old music of any sort. Its recent Halloween posts include “the swingin’est version of the Alfred Hitchcock theme you will ever hear” (by Stanley Wilson & His Orchestra); some videos set to songs from a proto-Elvira from Portland, Oregon, named “Tarantula Ghoul”; and a link to an impressive 60-track collection of spooky instrumentals, spiced up with several audio clips from horror-movie trailers. The collection is from J.R. Williams, an Ichiban contributor and comics artist from Oregon who frequently posts links to amazing mp3 compilations on his Flickr page. Halloween Instrumentals: Ghost Guitars features a fine variety of sounds. There are a few artists you should recognize — The Ventures (“The Bat,” “Fear,” and “He Never Came Back”), Duane Eddy (“The Trembler”), The Champs (most famous for “Tequila,” but here they do Henry Mancini’s “Experiment in Terror”), and Merv Griffin — yes that Merv Griffin — doing a faux-Lugosi intro to a rocking little thriller called “House of Horrors.” There are also a number of bands I suspect were one-offs — Frankie Stein & His Ghouls, The Gravestone Four, and Tony & The Monstrosities, etc. While there’s lots of “surf” music and strip-club sax here, this collection also includes moody tremolo twang like “Innersanctum” by Jim Wolfe & The T-Towners, which reminds me of The Viscounts’ “Harlem Nocturne” and even a little funk in “The Exorcist” by The Devils. You can find this collection HERE. But, hurry. Williams frequently removes links to the downloads. Even more goblin rock is on a blog called Spread the Good Word!. The host, who calls himself Reverend Frost, has 16 compilations of Halloween tunes waiting for you to download. (These aren’t separate tracks like Williams’ compilations. They’re all on hour-long mp3s.) I downloaded the latest. A favorite here is “Mummy’s Ball” by The Verdicts. Rockabilly ace Ronnie Dawson does his version of “Rockin’ Bones,” later covered by The Cramps. There are also some more recent songs by groups like the Fuzztones (“I’m The Wolfman”) and goth-rockers Alien Sex Fiend (”Now I’m Feeling Zombified”). And yes, there’s a Dickie Goodman tune from The Monster Album: “My Baby Loves Monster Movies.”

The world’s scariest band: That’s the title claimed by Deadbolt, a San Diego surf/pyschobilly/SpaghettiOs-Western trash-rock combo that’s been around for more than 20 years and makes music perfect for this time of year. Its latest self-released album, Voodoo Moonshiner, touches on many time-honored Deadbolt themes — criminal activity, violence, and the supernatural. It’s no rock opera, but some of the songs — “Voodoo Moonshine” and “Panic in Georgia” — deal with a strange brew of mountain dew that turns God-fearing hillbillies into flesh-eating zombies. One of my favorites is “Buy a Gun (Get a Free Guitar).” It’s a song about a possessed pawn-shop guitar that transforms its owner into a great musician — and a crazed killer. Then there’s “The Mocker,” a series of short skits about a haunted recording studio in which a singer is taunted and trapped by a mysterious ghostly voice. The funniest part is hearing tough-guy Deadbolt singer Harley Davidson crooning dreary little singer-songwriter ditties that seem to attract and fuel The Mocker. Warning: this CD is difficult to find. When I last checked, Amazon had one copy. On your mark, get set ... My own Halloween rock contributions: My latest Big Enchilada podcast, Spooktacular 2010, is up and ready to creep into your computer. It's RIGHT HERE The live radio version of Spooktacular broadcasts 10 p.m. Sunday — Halloween night! — on KSFR-FM 101.1 and streaming HERE.

I have the first Purple Toads album on cassette and the second one on vinyl. I have a pretty decent collection of Canadian punk. I was hoping there was a website that had hard-to-find songs available to download.

Dig your artwork, Shawn does rock! Plus he's a helluva nice guy.

We play covers and we hammer them into indecipherable messes of their former selves. We play some originals, too. Those sound equally horrible! Have you ever read "Rock Stardom For Dumbshits" by The Phantom Surfers? We highly recommend it. It's kind of puts all this mumbo jumbo stuff yer talking about into...perspective? Love, The Dirtbag Surfers In 1961, when America was giving birth to surf music, one band was already trying to kill it – The Dirtbag Surfers http://www.dirtbagsurfers.com

RE: Blood from A Stone: I was given credit, but he took credit as well and all he did was change the words without my permission. Luckily, I was smart enough to copyright the song years earlier when I wrote it. Jordan & I are the real writers of the song. So I guess it's our "Chinese Rocks" He did the same thing with any song you see that has co-credits with Mike Chandler. (It Came In The Mail comes to mind) RE Braindrops: Mad Mike & I were drinking beer and feeling no pain when the song Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head came on the radio. In my stupor, I started singing along ,substituting the words Braindrops Keep Falling Out Of My Head.." Don't even get me started on the fake record by the band "King Arthur's Quartet"!!! I

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yeah, that's the sucky behavior that I remember you referring to. Didn't you also come up with the Braindroppings title as well?