SLAYER RULES! Slayer was my all time favorite band in middle school and I will always hold a special place in my heart for them. "Reign in blood" is one of the definitive thrash albums of all time. Dave Lombardo's drums are out of control, as are the manic and frenzied picking. Amazing masturbatory guitar work, if Kerry King played through a reverb tank he'd sound like dick dale. I feel like guitar wise there's a lot in common between surf and metal, players with a need for speed.

Hi there,

since I've been listening to this record quite a lot lately: What do you guys think of Slayer's "Reign in Blood"?

I know this record since I was a teenager, but only had it on tape. So a couple of years ago I bought the LP, and only recently I realized how much I like this record. All lyrical controversy aside, I think it's fucking brillant, it has a supercool non-metal guitar sound, Tom Araya thankfully doesn't do this eunuch metal screaming (well, almost), and "Reign in Blood" just kicks ass.

Who else here is a secret metalhead?

Cheers, Doc Sanchez

Hey! Just listened to 'Rocks' by Primal Scream. Have'nt heard it since the 90's. I think i'll be listenin to that for a while now. Wot a rockin' toon. Its mad how songs like that'll just creep up on ya, especially since it was on BBC Radio 2 just now, Britains radio answer to a lobotomy, or an old folks home.

I don't know...I still think you can have a favorite song of ALL TIME and then a million second choices. For me, it's Louie Louie. Max Reverb-Wipe Out, Peter Griffin-Surfin' Bird. I kind of thought that everyone has at least ONE favorite song that they always come back too. It doesn't mean you have to listen to it EVERYDAY, or otherwise you're not be true to yourself. That's just ridiculous. But your fave song changes everyday? Maybe every five years, but everyday?

you're right for me, today, it's "snack crack" from billy childish. kopper said:

I can't pick my favorite band, album, song, or even genre. I've never been able to do that. It's just too difficult and I don't view music in that way. Every day can be different, every mood can produce a different result. One song can be perfect for one situation or instance but terrible for another. It's like asking what your favorite food or movie is. If you can seriously narrow it down to just one, then you're not living life to the fullest. That's my two cents, anyway.

Jefffrey Lee was such an amazing lyricist! Fire of love is such a great record for them I can listen to Jack on fire, she's like heroin, or sex beat over and over and over. Theres a version of me doing "she's like heroin on my page" Ryan Thomas LeGere said:

Right now my favorite rock n roll song of all time is "Ghost On the Highway" by the Gun Club.

For all time favorite i usually go with WIPE OUT, because no matter what kind of mood I'm in I'm always glad to hear it. No words so its always appropriate somehow. This choice may also influenced by an LSD trip I had when I was young and played the 45 over and over for an hour or two until these girls begged to watch some movie.

For them I can never hear Memphis Creep enough times. simone benerecetti said:

OBLIVIANS : BAD MAN


great song!!!!

Picking a favourite of anything is tough! Here's a few that I just can't get enough of:

Green Door (don't care what version, the Shakin Stevens one down the pub always does the job nicely!)
Man For All Seasons - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
The Crusher (again, any version will do)
Into the Valley - The Skids

I know as soon as I hit the reply button a load more will pop into my head!!

There's an update to this column HERE

I had a fascinating phone conversation this afternoon with Rick Stone, a friendly guy from El Paso who in the mid '60s was the road manager for The Bobby Fuller 4.

Rick had contacted Kyla Fairchild of No Depression, where I'd cross-posted my recent column on the new Norton Records Bobby Fuller reissue El Paso Rock, Early Recordings Volume 3. (I also posted that column here in The Hideout). I wanted to find out what those might be and clear them up.

First, a little background on Rick.

In July 1966 he'd just finished what sounds like a hellish tour with the Bobby Fuller 4. They toured in a hot and crowded truck and, as might be expected, tempers were short and tensions were high.

Bobby and his brother Randy, the band's bassist, had gotten into a fistfight at a San Francisco Club called the Chinese Dragon. (Stone stressed it wasn't a serious fight, but something typical for young brothers.)

 

Bobby had decided to break up the band, Stone said. Guitarist Jim Reese had just received his draft notice. Drummer Dalton Powell was missing his wife and new baby back in El Paso. Bobby was happy about his decision, Stone said.

 

Now he was hoping to get out from under the thumb of Bob Keene and Del-Fi Records, Stone said. "He really wanted to get away from Bob Keene."

 

Keene died in January.

 

As he's told other journalists, Stone was one of the first of Fuller's friends to arrive on the scene after Fuller's mother found Bobby's body in her car. In fact, he's told Spin magazine and others that he had crashed the night before on the couch of Bobby's apartment, just a couple of blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre where Bobby's mother Lorraine also was staying.

 

Stone said when he woke up the morning of July 18, 1966, Lorraine Fuller told him that Bobby hadn't come that night. At this point Stone wasn't worried. "Bobby liked women," he said.

 

In the Spin article, Stone said he'd thought he'd heard Fuller leaving the apartment about 2:30 a.m.

 

Stone told me went down to the parking lot and didn't see the silver blue Oldsmobile Bobby had been driving.

Stone said he later attended a scheduled meeting at Del-Fi Records. Other members of the band showed up, but not Bobby. On his way back to the Fuller apartment, Stone said he had a horrible feeling. Soon police cars started to pass him. Stone said deep down he knew that something terrible had happened.

The Oldsmobile was there in a lot next to Fuller's apartment building -- not on the street, as I had written.

Bobby was inside, his head in the seat facing the back, Stone said. His face was swollen and distorted from the heat and the gasoline fumes that permeated the car. "Two thirds of his face was black and blue," Stone recalled.

In Fuller's right hand was a hose, which Stone said looked as if someone had placed it there. Nearby was a gas can.

Stone denied the statement in Del-Fi Records press release I quoted that the gas can "was removed by a policeman (who apparently didn’t consider it vital to the investigation) and thrown into a nearby dumpster." He also said the gas can was on the front floor board, not in the back of the car.

Stone told me something I hadn't heard before. He said the officer there put the can in the car's trunk. But later Fuller's family and friends found not one but two gas cans in the trunk, he said. Neither were empty.

Contrary to what was said in the Del-Fi press release, Stone said he doesn't remember any dried blood on Fuller's face, which he said was too discolored to immediately tell if there was any blood.

But, Stone said, the shoes Fuller was wearing -- which were his mother's house slippers -- had marks as if someone had dragged his body.

As I said in my initial column, all these details are tantalizing, but if Bobby Fuller really was murdered as his friends and family believe, it's unlikely the killer ever will be caught.

So let's remember Bobby Fuller for his music.

UPDATE:

I forgot to mention that Rick pointed out to me that Bobby Fuller's body was found about 250 feet away from the apartment where Janis Joplin would die four years later.

Y'all can listen to, or download the RPR interview with Eric Davidson by clicking on this here link! It's on Blip.TV. And Blip means quality.

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:

When he did the Columbus book reading Eric said that it was a quick-and-easy rhyme that was more or less a placeholder while they came up with another subtitle... But somehow managed to stick on all the way through the publishing process.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

When he did the Columbus book reading Eric said that it was a quick-and-easy rhyme that was more or less a placeholder while they came up with another subtitle... But somehow managed to stick on all the way through the publishing process. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

Understandable. I didn't think about asking him that either when I met him. A few of our friends that we had in common stopped by the record shop where he was doing the book signing and everybody was talking about old times and what not. I don't belong to the chat board that's on the real punk radio website so I couldn't do anything about it. BUT since he's on facebook, I guess I can ask him myself. I was just a bit surprised though, since nobody has ever used that term before.

Sorry Rod. That 2 hours flew by, and honestly that question never entered my mind. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I'm surprised that none of you asked HOW he came up with GUNK PUNK. I know he said WHY but not how....

All great bands, but the topic is Female Fronted SURF bands. Sorry, I'm just a stickler and don't know too many of them to find out who THEY are would be great.

Oh yeah, the one time I saw Famous Monsters, they were playing with Girl Trouble and a bunch of long hair rockers came to the show. I heard they demanded their money back but I don't know if that's true or not. Actually they started shortly before the White Zombie split and I only remember that for sure because I was doing security and ushering up in the second tier of a White Zombie show in 1998 and I sat Dave Crider and a few friends. He got free tickets from Sean Young for putting out a Famous Monsters single.

The first one that came to my mind was also Famous Monsters mentioned by Kopper, who were a female surf trio founded by Sean Y of White Zombie after WZ split. I have a 7" and cd somewhere.
as far as garage singers

we can't forget the Suzi Quattro fronted Pleasure Seekers who gave us the garage staple "what a way to die" covered by Mummies , Trashwomen and a million other bands

The Smears also do it on there "in the garage" lp they were a great band which reminds me they covered another great girl garage group:

Thee Headcoatees (billy childish's brilliant girl band)

Good band. I've heard of the name but did not know a thing about them. I assumed they were something like the Brentwoods or bands on Rip Off. they should change the genres to Pop/Garage/Surf instead of Rock. orange iguanas said:

how has nobody mentioned this band???

http://www.myspace.com/shannonandtheclams

The Deptford Beach Babes http://www.myspace.com/thedeptfordbeachbabes

Yep. http://www.last.fm/user/beatcrazedteen

I'm there, under a secret identity. http://www.last.fm/user/robotclaw I don't do much there, but I've come across a couple of cool people and a couple of cool bands.

I never use it, but... http://www.last.fm/user/kopper65 Then there's this group on Last.fm, too: http://www.last.fm/group/Garage+Punk

I <3 last.fm! http://www.last.fm/user/needlesnpinsfm

I'm at work right now, but if I remember correctly, mine is an SL-1200 MK2. They're all pretty similar, though. Just search eBay for Technics 1200 and you should find all kinds. Ryan Katastrophe bought this baby a few years ago. Yeah, they're expensive new (which is why I recommend buying a used one on eBay)! And for a stylus, get a Stanton 500 E MK II from Garage-A-Records online. Foul & Fair Records said:

Noted! looking up the 1200 there seems to be a lot postfixed letters/#'s, which model is the one for me?
~T Pheck said:

You can't go wrong with a Technics 1200, or check out the Vestax Guber, a very cool little turntable. The Guber is belt-driven though so if you plan on DJing it's not he way to go.