Thanks for the correction. Wholeheartedly agree. Really a mind blower, where the reality is crazier then most of the myths about the band. I wish it would have continued in more detail about Roky's solo career. I'm sure there's another books worth of material right there I'd love to read. I got to see Roky and the Explosives play webster hall in NYC a few years ago and it was totally amazing. They still had it, and I felt extremely lucky to get to see him play with his old band members that really knew how to play with him and get the most from him in terms making him feel comfortable. Roky and The Explosives Halloween! live 79-81 is one of my favorite cds and they still sounded just like that screaming guitar and everything. Even Roky took a guitar solo ! Brother Panti-Christ said:

The 13th Floor Elevators are my favorite band ever and I've waited in anticipation for this book's release. AND, I tell ya, this book just blew me into the weeds, AMAZING!! The 13th Floor Elevators are the true pioneers of psychedelic music, whether you like that kind of music or not.

And if you think you have a hard time scoring grass to smoke these days, those boys had it REALLY rough!! Followed by cops, gigs getting busted, homes raided and the sheer fear and paranoia of being 'the next big thing' in their music scene. I truly loved the whole book, even as sad as their story gets toward the end of their career.

Julian Cope did a nice forward but all the writing credit goes to Paul Drummond. I've read hundreds of books about bands, songwriters, producers, music movements and this book is truly an amazing read written by a man who truly loved their music. Great work, well researched, and a must read for any fan of 60's music. ***** five stars out of five!

The 13th Floor Elevators are my favorite band ever and I've waited in anticipation for this book's release. AND, I tell ya, this book just blew me into the weeds, AMAZING!! The 13th Floor Elevators are the true pioneers of psychedelic music, whether you like that kind of music or not.

And if you think you have a hard time scoring grass to smoke these days, those boys had it REALLY rough!! Followed by cops, gigs getting busted, homes raided and the sheer fear and paranoia of being 'the next big thing' in their music scene. I truly loved the whole book, even as sad as their story gets toward the end of their career.

Julian Cope did a nice forward but all the writing credit goes to Paul Drummond. I've read hundreds of books about bands, songwriters, producers, music movements and this book is truly an amazing read written by a man who truly loved their music. Great work, well researched, and a must read for any fan of 60's music. ***** five stars out of five!

Read that Cope was an established author, but hadn't read any of his books. Good to know it's worth the time.

Beat-man's old band The Monsters have some pretty metally moments. i'm a big fan of The Monsters and Beat-man. Gringo Starr said:

The Reverend Beat-Man is a total Metahead and a Slayer fan! Go figure!

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Shit, Survive by Nuclear Assault was pretty much my favourite album for a while when I was a teenager. Funnily enough I never owned Reign in Blood, but I loved Hell Awaits.

I never heard of The Crumbsuckers but i picked up a 12" of theres a few days ago at goodwill! "beast on my back" very thrashy / crossover stuff. "age of quarrel" has been suggested to me so many times I gotta check it out. FREDDI said:

Oh yes,Cro-Mags with "The age of quarrel" were good too.
I would add S.O.D., Nuclear Assault,Suicidal Tendencies the first one,
Ludi-Christ,Crumbsuckers...
wow!!

Doc Sanchez said:

"Masturbatory guitar work", haha, exactly! You can't say it any better!

I always loved these guitar solos which seem to have no structure at all, but still you always can say whether it's King or Hanneman playing. They always feel like some otherworldly noise, more like the screams of the damned in hell than guitars. But I like the brutal riffs better than the solos, they're so powerful, played with so much pressure. And Rick Rubin did a good job producing the album - clear, with loads of pressure, but still dirty as hell. Reminds me more of, say, the Cro-Mags than of other Metal acts (especially scandinavian Death Metal bands from end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s often had a pretty weak sound).

As you said: Slayer rules and leaves nothing more to be said.

Yes,I know Kreator,I owned their first LP "Pleasure to kill" I still got lots of vinyls of that era,and now that somes have reached collectors prices I'm tryng to sell them,since I don't listen anymore.(But Stones,Kinks,Yardbyrds,etc. bought in the same years will never get out of my home!!) I loved EXODUS-"Bonded by blood" too.I have seen them with Venom in 1984! Doc Sanchez said:

Oh yeah, Nuclear Assault. And Suicidal Tendencies - I really love them up to "The Art of Rebellion". Man, they were REALLY important for me back then. Another really, really great metal record is "Extreme Aggression" by the german band Kreator. I don't think they were ever that good again, this one is soooo hard and aggressive, you can really feel that the strings are made of steel...

Shit, Survive by Nuclear Assault was pretty much my favourite album for a while when I was a teenager. Funnily enough I never owned Reign in Blood, but I loved Hell Awaits.

Oh yeah, Nuclear Assault. And Suicidal Tendencies - I really love them up to "The Art of Rebellion". Man, they were REALLY important for me back then. Another really, really great metal record is "Extreme Aggression" by the german band Kreator. I don't think they were ever that good again, this one is soooo hard and aggressive, you can really feel that the strings are made of steel...

Oh yes,Cro-Mags with "The age of quarrel" were good too. I would add S.O.D., Nuclear Assault,Suicidal Tendencies the first one, Ludi-Christ,Crumbsuckers... wow!! Doc Sanchez said:

"Masturbatory guitar work", haha, exactly! You can't say it any better!

I always loved these guitar solos which seem to have no structure at all, but still you always can say whether it's King or Hanneman playing. They always feel like some otherworldly noise, more like the screams of the damned in hell than guitars. But I like the brutal riffs better than the solos, they're so powerful, played with so much pressure. And Rick Rubin did a good job producing the album - clear, with loads of pressure, but still dirty as hell. Reminds me more of, say, the Cro-Mags than of other Metal acts (especially scandinavian Death Metal bands from end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s often had a pretty weak sound).

As you said: Slayer rules and leaves nothing more to be said.

The Reverend Beat-Man is a total Metahead and a Slayer fan! Go figure!

"Masturbatory guitar work", haha, exactly! You can't say it any better!

I always loved these guitar solos which seem to have no structure at all, but still you always can say whether it's King or Hanneman playing. They always feel like some otherworldly noise, more like the screams of the damned in hell than guitars. But I like the brutal riffs better than the solos, they're so powerful, played with so much pressure. And Rick Rubin did a good job producing the album - clear, with loads of pressure, but still dirty as hell. Reminds me more of, say, the Cro-Mags than of other Metal acts (especially scandinavian Death Metal bands from end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s often had a pretty weak sound).

As you said: Slayer rules and leaves nothing more to be said.

Kopper-- like I said on Facebook-- "The Kopp Out", but I am glad you are channeling your inner "Agent Orange/DRI" fandom. For the longest time I thought you'd been listening to 60s, R&B and "lowdown & dirty rock'n'roll since you were a wee one... (Just a joke)

I knew something was brewing lately, I just did! Well, I can't complain about you playing *your* type of music - BLAST AWAY! :) My vote goes to YARD SALE, that just sparks a lot of fun associations, in or around music and records! It also could help get the idea out that the music concept of the show puts all the different genres under one wrapper (...or in one record crate therefor), but don't take it from me. NOISE ANNOYS is second there, has a good catch to it, me thinks. Anyhow, I'm glad you found time to make another show! Looking forward to it and can't wait!

I've decided to retire the Savage Kick podcast and start a new one. Hell, Ryan Katastrophe can do it, why can't I? ;) It's been over a year since I did an episode of it, anyway. Time to start fresh and do something different. The show will be similar to Savage Kick, but I plan to drop most of the B-movie/TV sound bytes and samples (or at least keep them to a minimum) and stick to a barrage of unruly music. This is a show that I hope to get included on Real Punk Radio, too, so I plan on mixing it up a bit more than Savage Kick by playing some of my favorite old punk/hardcore, noise-punk and weird shit in addition to the garage-punk, surf, '60s, R&B and "lowdown & dirty rock'n'roll." So garage purists probably won't like it as much as some of the other shows here, but I don't care. I intend it to be a show featuring the music *I* like, so I might as well play what I like, right? I'm also planning on including a big chunk of "podsafe" music (stuff I find on Mevio's Music Alley), at least an entire set of that stuff every episode, if not more.

But, my new show needs a name! I've been trying to come up with a good name for it for a few days now and have some ideas, but am also welcoming any suggestions you guys might have. So post below if you have a good one. Here are the ones I've got on my short list so far:

Noise Annoys
Yard Sale
Kill City

I also had Rock'n'Roll Overdose on the list until I realized it was too much like Rock'n'Roll Suicide, so I scratched that one.

Cheers,
kopper

Anyone remember it? I have extremely thin memories of being a wee lad watching this show with my dad in north Jersey circa '84. Honestly my whole memory is hazy and I just remember getting a kick out of this crazy guy in a flannel suit and his goofy puppets. But I just checked the wiki and saw he had a ton of wild and diverse musical guests too! Everyone from the Ramones to Bon Jovi to Cyndi Lauper to the Dead Boys! Anyone have any stories about watchin' the Uncle Floyd Show?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Vivino

oh for fuck's sake

Totally fucked up the link there, this should be better

It's a week old now but what the fuck

http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/15/label-love-in-the-red

and I never knew that about Ike, woulda been killer if he could've pulled it off.

I was kinda worried about that myself, on the gonerfest page (somewhere) they have a list of hotels, and i remember there being a hostel also, but to stay there you gotta do some work or some sort. Scary Manilow said:

Where's a good place to stay in Memphis? We we stuck at a Red Roof in across town when the Gories played last year-- needless to say, I wanna be a little bit closer tot he action this time around. That's a lot of walking back and forth.

Where's a good place to stay in Memphis? We we stuck at a Red Roof in across town when the Gories played last year-- needless to say, I wanna be a little bit closer tot he action this time around. That's a lot of walking back and forth.

Thanks for sharing!

I remember Miriam Linna telling this same story in Kicks with Bobby Fuller as the lead story. Scary stuff. I wouldn't doubt Bobby's family and friends for a second. Who knows what he could have done in his future? I believe he would have been one of the leaders of country rock and WAYYY better than the Byrds or Gram Parsons. He probably would have also done something experimental like Johnny Rivers just because that was the thing in '67 and '68. But it probably would have been good. But yes, there is a lot of great music that we don't have to dwell on this.

When I first heard - or rather read - the term 'gunk punk' I thought it was sounded like like some dumb shit the maintstream (probably British) press would come up with to hype up the latest hip scene or something (y'know, the one that's been around for years but they've only just discovered), and the snob inside me was thinking, oh man I really hope this doesn't catch on, I don't want to hear a bunch of trendy fuckers talking about how much they're into this "gunk punk thing" or see 'we name the ten hottest gunk bands you need to hear this year' on the cover of some rag. Course now I don't really give a fuck. And so far it's a fucking great read.

And I was into gunk punk before it was popular!

Yeah... Eric has real nice way with words. I've been enjoying picking my way through the book early in the morning before I head into work. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Well it is a good term. Gunk is to punk what grunge is to alt. Both are filthy. When you put gunk in the label, you don't think of Green Day or Blink 182. And now we know why singers sound snotty.

Ken (Evil Empire Records) said: