Thanks fellas! Glad you were happy with the shirts! Also... The "freebie", well I do what I can!!

Come on people... I still got some shirts left - Send me an email so you can look super cool when you're struttin' yo' funky stuff down those mean streets, like Shawn & The Dirtbag Surfer!!

I second everything the good ol Dirtbag Surfer just said! I got mine today, and I must say, I'm very impressed with the quality of the print job! Great job! Also, the "freebie" thrown in is AWESOME! Very cool!

Thanks, Ixnayray!!!!

Hope to collaborate on some more projects some time!

Got mine and I've got to say these are the BEST! Great job to Shawn and Ixnayray for your killer collaboration on this project to help out the Hideout! The topper of course is the surprise "freebie" thrown in with the package. What a steal of a deal! If you haven't ordered yours yet, what the heck are ya waiting for, hell to freeze over!?! Get on it, this is the best deal going and supports our hang out spot at the same time. Look cool. Be cool. Dig? Thanks pals! Dirtbag Surfer RAT SURF RADIO Coming at you almost live from Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA - Where the Disease Meets the Seas

some of these might not strictly be garage, but they are all what i like.

Deisel Witch, The Amcats, The Systemaddicts, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Molting Vultures, The Green Circles,

Exploding White Mice, Lizard Train, Garden Path, Mad Turks, Dust Collection, The Verge, Screaming Beleivers, 20 Second Sect, Acid Drops, Assassins, The Spikes, The Philisteins, The Dagoes

Machine Gun Kellys Rejects, Masters Apprentices, Blues Rags n Hollers, The Syssys, The Clefs

Definetly one of my faves! Dead Boy said:

The Sunsets - Hot Generation!

Love the tall dwarfs - really dug Toy Love too ....

Doc Sanchez said:

Some more New Zealand bands: The Stones, King Loser, The Great Unwashed, The Tall Dwarfs and quite the whole Flying Nun catalogue.

The Sunsets - Hot Generation!

Some more New Zealand bands: The Stones, King Loser, The Great Unwashed, The Tall Dwarfs and quite the whole Flying Nun catalogue.

They were in the initial topic. Howabout individiual songs like By My Side by the Elois or Come On by the Atlantics. I've never had the chance tohear them but there's the Ugly Things comps from down under as well. Johnny Danger said:

The Lime Spiders !!!!

The Lime Spiders !!!!

Fuck yeah, tickets purchased.

Recently added to the list: The Oblivians, The New Bomb Turks

As long as I'm on the topic of LA female groups who might have had at least one surf song in their repertoir, the one time I got to see the Go Gos (it was 1998), they opened with this:

Technically, this doesn't really count either but it's one of the best things the Bangles ever did (and there's definetly not a lot of that).

Technically, they were a garage revival band who happened to have a few surf style numbers but they were definetly played authentically. David, a.k.a. Crazy Sheep said:

The Pandoras were an amazing 80's surf girl band and the frontwoman was Paula Pierce, almost a goddess who recorded great albums before she died.

The Pandoras were an amazing 80's surf girl band and the frontwoman was Paula Pierce, almost a goddess who recorded great albums before she died.

I stumbled upon a cheap Linn Basic some years ago, and it's definitely worth the money... But I have no idea if it's still available. But if I had the money, I'd go with Linn again.

I bought my first turntable for $500. It's a Pro-Ject Debut III, and I added on the speedbox that lets you switch from 33 to 45 with the touch of a button. It's really about as high quality as you can get for that price. I'd recommend reading some articles on Stereophile Magazine to see what they recommend.

This. if you've got the cash do it. Johnny Danger said:

Looks like you got the dosh so you might as well drop it on the industry standard, Technics 1200. Industry standard for a reason, it'll survive the apocalypse.

Looks like you got the dosh so you might as well drop it on the industry standard, Technics 1200. Industry standard for a reason, it'll survive the apocalypse.

Ok Ok, 

   I'm sure there are probably a bunch of threads like this already, but fuck it..

I need to buy a new turntable,  over 15 years of  collecting vinyl and I still play them on flea market find.  My latest treasure will just toss the needle across a record and scratch it all to shit.  So if I needed an amp or a guitar I'd drop the fuckin' cash right??

I got $500 I want to spend on a new record player, what do I buy??  Technics / Stranton / what ?

Thank you in advance garagepunkers!
~T

This is not so much a one nightmare gig, but one thing that has happened at several gigs. My band, The Experiments, are a loud rock / punk band. We don't hide this, in fact we proudly proclaim it. Several times, when we are about to start playing, and we all hit an E chord to make sure we have the levels right, the club manager will come running up and say "turn down! turn down! Our neighbors will complain!" Nothing is so disheartening. Why did you even book us? Did you listen to our CD at all? Obviously not. This happens at smaller clubs, where the only thing in the PA is vocals. We do what we can to play quiet, but our drummer is a madman, and he dictates the volume level. Can't turn down acoustic drums. I understand the California ABC (Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control) takes a hard line on noise complaints, but really, know who you are booking. Guess we're not going back to that place. :)

We all have them, sometimes one after another, mine goes like this. We traveled to Vegas with another band from Arizona, who told us that they would bring the PA. I should have double checked with them before we left because they were an instrumental surf band. Anyway, we get there and when it came time for us to go on they gave us the "we didn't know we were supposed to bring the PA". I think they just wanted to fuck with us, lucky for me I had a big bass rig, (70's Fender Bassman, 350 watts). I ran the vocals and my bass through the amp and we were able to do the gig. You know what they say," the show must go on". Anybody else out there with a story?

I did read both of those compilations of Lester Bangs' work. My favorite piece out of all of them was the one on the Clash. Ray Mangum said:

Essential Reading:

"Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" and "Mainlines, Bloodfeasts, and Bad Taste" by Lester Bangs

"Unsung Heroes of Rock and Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis" by Nick Tosches

"Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll" by Richie Unteberger

"Stairway to Hell" by Chuck Eddy

On my Reading List:

"Hellfire" and "Country" by Nick Tosches

"The Aesthetics of Rock" by Richard Meltzer

"Lipstick Traces" by Greil Marcus

"Black Monk Time" by Eddie Shaw

Same here. Love the Sonics' version, but I have to go with the version that destroyed America (and its youth)... the Kingsmen!