I didn't get the stoner vibe from Natural Child at all... except for visually, maybe (the bass player did look an awful lot like a stoner friend of mine from high school), but their sound was just raw, sloppy garage rock'n'roll.

I thought Tyvek kicked ass live. Much better than their self-titled LP which I bought recently but didn't care much for (although I do include a song from it on my latest podcast).

Oblivians did sound a bit strange at the Granada. Just wasn't the best venue for them, but they still sounded great.

Check out some of my friend Tom's pics from the fest here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomq/

Luke, As I said... your set was beautiful. I was listening to you guys & realized that the day was indeed going to be great. I hope I didn't miss picking up some vinyl from you guys while you were out here. Thanks Again!

Luke said:

I somehow was lucky enough to be involved in this,

I somehow was lucky enough to be involved in this, and it was the best possible ending to our first trip to America. the only downfall is that we (Sex Beet) were on first, which meant we played sober as hell, but were then absolutely trashed by early evening.

As fas as I can remember, I managed to catch at least parts of: Digital Leather, Cola Freaks, Natural Child, Hunx, Thee Oh See's, The shrines, Gories, and then somehow I ended up watching the last half of Oblivians from the side of the stage. The whole day is a complete haze, but I fucking loved every band I saw. Anyone that didn't go missed out.

I also completely loved the fact they stuck 28 garage punk bands in the same hotel, with 2 days of free alcohol and didn't seem to expect any trouble. I would have felt sorry for the security guard if it wasn't so much fun!

For sure! Let's all get together some time, eh?

Recordgrooves said:

I met a some nice folks from Lawrence, Denver, New York, KC, Brazil & California. chilled out for a sec w/Kopper & Ryan, 2 of the coolest Garage Punkers, from the Lou!

Oh yea, free Oblivians 7"s.

Turns out there was no trouble getting in to any of the shows with my kids & wife. The rowdiest crowd I saw there was for the Oh Sees (best set IMO)



Here is how it worked out for me...

Jackpot Music Hall 4:20 - 4:50 Sex Beet (Raw & Beautiful) singer asked "turn vocals down cause my singing is shit"

Granada Theatre 4:40 - 5:10 Natural Child (Great Stoner Band)

Jackpot Music Hall 5:10 - 5:30 White Wires (Tore it up!)

Bottleneck 5:20 - 5:50 Nodzzz

Jackpot Music Hall 6:00 - 6:30 Teenager (Loved It)

Granada Theatre 6:20 - 7:00 Cloud Nothings

Granada Theatre 7:30 - 8:10 Digital Leather

Granada Theatre 8:40 - 9:25 Hunx and His Punx

Bottleneck 8:30 - 9:10 Thee Oh Sees (John is a madman, keeps getting better and has great taste in guitars)

Bottleneck 9:25 - 9:35 Tyvek (left the set / too much marshall amp sound for me)

Jackpot Music Hall 10:00 - 11:00 The Gories (of course!) Oh wait, WTF Mick was playing a Squier!

Granada Theatre 11:30 - 12:30 The Oblivians (shitty sound for the Oblivians but still had a good time, Greg is my hero anyways.)

Somewhere after 7:30 the times get fucked up, but I came back home Sunday and saw Gentleman + King Khan/Shrines, best funky time since I've seen James Brown.

Khan even took a second to squat down and sing to my 10yr old daughter then came down later to put his hand down and heal her soul.

We had a blast!

I met a some nice folks from Lawrence, Denver, New York, KC, Brazil & California. chilled out for a sec w/Kopper & Ryan, 2 of the coolest Garage Punkers, from the Lou! Oh yea, free Oblivians 7"s. Turns out there was no trouble getting in to any of the shows with my kids & wife. The rowdiest crowd I saw there was for the Oh Sees (best set IMO) Here is how it worked out for me... Jackpot Music Hall 4:20 - 4:50 Sex Beet (Raw & Beautiful) singer asked "turn vocals down cause my singing is shit" Granada Theatre 4:40 - 5:10 Natural Child (Great Stoner Band) Jackpot Music Hall 5:10 - 5:30 White Wires (Tore it up!) Bottleneck 5:20 - 5:50 Nodzzz Jackpot Music Hall 6:00 - 6:30 Teenager (Loved It) Granada Theatre 6:20 - 7:00 Cloud Nothings Granada Theatre 7:30 - 8:10 Digital Leather Granada Theatre 8:40 - 9:25 Hunx and His Punx Bottleneck 8:30 - 9:10 Thee Oh Sees (John is a madman, keeps getting better and has great taste in guitars) Bottleneck 9:25 - 9:35 Tyvek (left the set / too much marshall amp sound for me) Jackpot Music Hall 10:00 - 11:00 The Gories (of course!) Oh wait, WTF Mick was playing a Squier! Granada Theatre 11:30 - 12:30 The Oblivians (shitty sound for the Oblivians but still had a good time, Greg is my hero anyways.) Somewhere after 7:30 the times get fucked up, but I came back home Sunday and saw Gentleman + King Khan/Shrines, best funky time since I've seen James Brown. Khan even took a second to squat down and sing to my 10yr old daughter then came down later to put his hand down and heal her soul. We had a blast!

Scary, how did I manage to avoid seeing you there (or am I just not remembering it... wouldn't surprise me; I drank a lot of beer.) Really wish I would've caught Human Eye now. Sounds like theirs might have been one of the best sets at the fest. Drat.

Scary Manilow said:

It was awesome to meet you, Sara-- and thanks for making it out to the show on Friday!

Sara said:

Had SUCH a blast!! We saw: Tyvek, Greg Oblivian, and Nodzzz at an in-store Friday, and Fag Cop and Spook Lights Friday night at the awesomely boozy Replay. Then Bad Sports, Gentleman Jesse, Cola Freaks, HUMAN EYE (!!! wow !!!, so glad I got to see Timmy Vulgar!), Happy Birthday, and the GORIES! That was the second Gories show for me, the first being last summer in Detroit at the Majestic. It was super nice to see them in a little place and really get down with them. After the show, we were somehow able to also catch Gino Washington with KK and the Shrines which was amazing!! and catch the end of the Oblivians as well. Lines were never a problem. The whole festival atmosphere tends to make me rather manic, and this was no exception. By the end of the night though, when it was time to head to the Spits after party, I was totally spent. Hope to catch them some day.

Lawrence had great thrifting opportunities and we met lotsa cool people. Got to say hello to our illustrious leader Kopper and to meet Dave, and saw a TON of Denver people there. It was a super BLAST. Let's all do it again real soon, ok?!?

Those shoes are awesome! Just have to make up my mind between the high or low tops. Getting old does suck as I too would have liked to have seen the Spits! Diners, yeah, I miss Drakes (home fries) and Paradise (spinach jack enchildas)....

kopper said:

Great time! Weather was perfect, too. We saw the Gories, Oblivians, Tyvek, Thee Oh Sees, Cola Freaks, Hunx & His Punx (the only band that bored me enough to leave mid-set), Teenanger, White Wires, Digital Leather, and Natural Child. Then we caught Greg Cartwright DJing and Brimstone Howl playing live at the Replay Lounge. We'd gotten a tip that the Spits were playing a house party afterward, but we were too beat to go (getting old sucks), so we got back to the Motel 6 around 2:30 and crashed.

Turned out the express pass was really unnecessary, which was a good thing since they couldn't find Ryan's name on their list, even though he liked the page the day before like he was supposed to have done. Weird.

It was also great to meet Ruby and her husband and several others from this site. Got lotsa comments about my GRGPNK fuzzbox logo tee I was wearing! A couple of people even noticed the shoes. :)

But I couldn't believe there are NO DINERS in Lawrence! We drove all around on Sunday morning looking for a good greasy spoon to get a quick, cheap breakfast but there were none to be found. Strange. So we ended up just going to McDonald's. Some enterprising person should really open a diner on Massachusetts. I'm sure it'd do well.

It was awesome to meet you, Sara-- and thanks for making it out to the show on Friday!

Sara said:

Had SUCH a blast!! We saw: Tyvek, Greg Oblivian, and Nodzzz at an in-store Friday, and Fag Cop and Spook Lights Friday night at the awesomely boozy Replay. Then Bad Sports, Gentleman Jesse, Cola Freaks, HUMAN EYE (!!! wow !!!, so glad I got to see Timmy Vulgar!), Happy Birthday, and the GORIES! That was the second Gories show for me, the first being last summer in Detroit at the Majestic. It was super nice to see them in a little place and really get down with them. After the show, we were somehow able to also catch Gino Washington with KK and the Shrines which was amazing!! and catch the end of the Oblivians as well. Lines were never a problem. The whole festival atmosphere tends to make me rather manic, and this was no exception. By the end of the night though, when it was time to head to the Spits after party, I was totally spent. Hope to catch them some day.

Lawrence had great thrifting opportunities and we met lotsa cool people. Got to say hello to our illustrious leader Kopper and to meet Dave, and saw a TON of Denver people there. It was a super BLAST. Let's all do it again real soon, ok?!?

Had SUCH a blast!! We saw: Tyvek, Greg Oblivian, and Nodzzz at an in-store Friday, and Fag Cop and Spook Lights Friday night at the awesomely boozy Replay. Then Bad Sports, Gentleman Jesse, Cola Freaks, HUMAN EYE (!!! wow !!!, so glad I got to see Timmy Vulgar!), Happy Birthday, and the GORIES! That was the second Gories show for me, the first being last summer in Detroit at the Majestic. It was super nice to see them in a little place and really get down with them. After the show, we were somehow able to also catch Gino Washington with KK and the Shrines which was amazing!! and catch the end of the Oblivians as well. Lines were never a problem. The whole festival atmosphere tends to make me rather manic, and this was no exception. By the end of the night though, when it was time to head to the Spits after party, I was totally spent. Hope to catch them some day.

Lawrence had great thrifting opportunities and we met lotsa cool people. Got to say hello to our illustrious leader Kopper and to meet Dave, and saw a TON of Denver people there. It was a super BLAST. Let's all do it again real soon, ok?!?

Always good to see ya, Dave! Jason and Kat were indeed at the RBG show.

DammitDave said:

Thanks for the review, Ryan. I need to buy some records (and get out more). Also thanks for the tip re King Khan. Good to see you and Kevin. I expect Jason and Kat were at the RBG show. Good turnout though, I thought, and a very good set. I enjoyed the originals as well as the Suicide and Saints covers. Maybe not Stax Review London 67 but still, for StL, very enthusiastic.

The best I saw: HUMAN EYE and HUNX & HIS PUNX (I'm a sucker for cross-dressing, 60's pop, and shallow punk rock posturing, what can I say?)... Still kicking myself for missing THE SHRINES, but I couldn't pass up seeing THE GORIES at the bar where I work. Too bad stage divers and an apathetic sound guy killed their set for me.

OBLIVIANS were great, FUCKING great, but this is my 4th time seeing them and... maybe it was the giant stage and budweiser-drunk fratboys, I dunno. Something about the atmosphere pulled me out of their set. Greg called it when he said, "You guys like subwoofers? Cuz this fucking place has GOT EM!"

Still the best thing that's happened to Lawrence since the 90's, when we saw shit like this around here all the time. Hopefully this will start bringing those days back...

Thanks for the review, Ryan. I need to buy some records (and get out more). Also thanks for the tip re King Khan. Good to see you and Kevin. I expect Jason and Kat were at the RBG show. Good turnout though, I thought, and a very good set. I enjoyed the originals as well as the Suicide and Saints covers. Maybe not Stax Review London 67 but still, for StL, very enthusiastic.

Here is my recap of the Scion Garage Fest on my blog, Functional Rubbish: http://functionalrubbish.blogspot.com/2010/10/scion-garage-fest-10-2-10.html

Great time! Weather was perfect, too. We saw the Gories, Oblivians, Tyvek, Thee Oh Sees, Cola Freaks, Hunx & His Punx (the only band that bored me enough to leave mid-set), Teenanger, White Wires, Digital Leather, and Natural Child. Then we caught Greg Cartwright DJing and Brimstone Howl playing live at the Replay Lounge. We'd gotten a tip that the Spits were playing a house party afterward, but we were too beat to go (getting old sucks), so we got back to the Motel 6 around 2:30 and crashed.

Turned out the express pass was really unnecessary, which was a good thing since they couldn't find Ryan's name on their list, even though he liked the page the day before like he was supposed to have done. Weird.

It was also great to meet Ruby and her husband and several others from this site. Got lotsa comments about my GRGPNK fuzzbox logo tee I was wearing! A couple of people even noticed the shoes. :)

But I couldn't believe there are NO DINERS in Lawrence! We drove all around on Sunday morning looking for a good greasy spoon to get a quick, cheap breakfast but there were none to be found. Strange. So we ended up just going to McDonald's. Some enterprising person should really open a diner on Massachusetts. I'm sure it'd do well.

Yes, Kopper is right. be yourself, even if that takes finding yourself first. I understand that you are young & probably have not yet figured out where you are going with life, but the fact that you are thinking about it is a good start. I remember seeing Lux play at CBGB's when the Cramps first started. He was very different from the Lux he became. People grow & evolve.

kopper said:

What a ridiculous topic. How about just being yourself?

What a ridiculous topic. How about just being yourself?

HI i just read some things written by john who used to play the bass in the fuzztones he said.. he said about how the main guy jst used to rip off old tunes and steal tunes from past bandmates... I think im a bit like that guy just doing sonics covers and dressing like the bands i like. like a few days ago i was watching all these old horror films just cos i heard the cramps saying stuff about them and then i was like thinking about wearing leather trousers and high heels u knw like just being a poor 2nd rate version of lux interior. What you think i should do? like once i was about 16 and im 19 now and i was proper digging psychocandy by the mary chain and then i was making music like them and stuff.. Nothing original or like my own ideas. Like in garage rock and genres like that its cool 2 jst take a little bit off another song i suppose but i just steal everything cos i literally cant think of my own things i want to do. I suppose its just a simple answer , combine all your iunfluences but thats easier said than done.. i want to make like a proper amazing band not just some cover band........ I JUST WONDERED REALLY IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS HAD THIS PROBLEM OR EVEN GONE THROUGH A PHASE WHEN THEY STARTED DRESSING LIKE A FAVOURITE BAND...... i am very vein and i wanna look cool but deep down in my heart i know im not lux interior and some of those horror films i didnt really like...ideally my band would have lyrics about the wwf during its attitude era, lyrics about formula one, words about like just living in manchester in the UK, stuff about education like how insane it is, stuff about girls. and the guitars would sound like a cross between the cramps and the mary chain and it would have like the attitude of a young paul weller. and i would sing in my normal voice cos alot of the time i put on this fake american voice and i hate that i do that actually cos im jst copying people.... IM SORRY I KEEP GOING ON ABOUT MYSELF AS WELL I AM AN EGOMANIACCC but u knw i wanted to get it off my chest and this is the perfect place to do it.... DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY COOL VISIONS THAT THEY HAVE SO FAR NOT DONE??????????????

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and welcome to 'Come Sin with Me', vol. 25 of YOU GOT GOOD TASTE

This month's theme is all about SIN, or to be exact the 'Seven Deadly Sins'. So for the next hour your gonna be hearing songs related to seven sins of pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

The initial idea for this mix was suggested to me by a certain Miss Dee Claw of The Persian Claws. She knows  I love a challenge! So how could I refuse the lady.

Luckily Dee was keen to help me out and so she's chosen 7 of her favourite Deadly Sin songs. See if you can guess which ones are Dee's tunes or if psychology's not your thing then just go to the playlist.

As a weird coincidence October 5th the day this podcast is released is also Dee's birthday, so don't forget to drop by The Persian Claws page on the GaragePunk Hideout  and have a listen to her band's tunes and while your there wish Dee a happy birthday.

Persian Claws

Hi Johnny!

No, you're still in time for your reply - I haven't had the money yet. But good to know that there won't be difficulties, and yeah, the cheap spirit is what makes this guitar so sweet in a way.

Cheers, Doc

thanks for your answers. I recently had the chance to play a Dano Dead on 67, and it sounded quite like I need it (with a similar equipment as mine). The guy in the guitar store told me, he had to exchange the aluminum nut with one made of steel, for the aluminum nut made the guitar hard to tune. Do you know anything about that?

"Albert De Salvo" - Frantic Flintstones
"Richard Speck" -Gun Club

you can find the entire John Legend album on WFMU, it's all true crime!

The Chesterfield Kings: "Richard Speck" (who may be classified as a spree killer or mass murderer)
Jane's Addiction: "Ted, Just Admit It" (that'd be Bundy)

I happen to dig Shonen Knife... makes me want to eat a bunch of gyoza! By the way, they do a cover of the Kinks song Til' the End of the Day!

I saw both bands recently. I saw the former at the 31st Street Pub on the Friday before last week, and I saw the latter last night at Mr. Small's Theater.

Shonen Knife was fun, but very one note. Just about every song sounded the same. Good pop tunes, all of them, but after a while I just wanted to hear something a little different. Teenage Fanclub was better, although a bit too mellow for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, they write good songs, but I just kept waiting to hear something that really rocked. BTW, Teenage Fanclub is another band I discovered thanks to Little Steven; "Metal Baby" is a staple on the Sirius/XM Underground Garage Channel.

Anyone else here a fan of either band, or both of them? If so, tell me what you think.

So on the reverb front I recently picked up a used Digitech Digiverb and it seems to be a pretty good choice if you can find one for cheap. The spring setting is really the only one I use and it sounds good at relatively subtle levels and not too bad for washed out surf. It does the palm mute surf "drip" sound very easily and it might do it too much for some people. I don't know if it's on par with a real outboard tank in that respect or not. Be aware that although it's capable of running on batteries some won't actually work with batteries it has a high current draw so you'll want to get an adapter. All in all I think it's a good option for people on a budget (garage rockers) and digital effects seem to be getting better and better, but of course it won't be as good as some real springs.