This is such a great song. It's the son of Dean Martin on top of it too. Jamie said:

This is a cool one!

Great. Reminds me of the Three O'Clock in the vocals. Jamie said:

This is a cool one!

This is a cool one!

thanx for the reply....yea it was pretty sci-fi*.....who did that weird version of Peter Gunn?? Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Sorry about your album getting ripped off. That just happened to me recently.

Anyway...yeah, the Raybeats. I have a copy of Guitar Beat from 1981. I bought it because the store owner put a description on the wrapper saying "a Ventures for the 80s". One of the guys from Los Straightjackets was in it, but he wrote the only good song on it, "Calhoun Surf", everything else was trying to sound 80s meets sci-fi or something....The jacket looked cool. A lot of surf bands between 1980-1986 were pretty bad I thought except Jon and the NIghtriders. Remember the Halibuts? ugh.

ratoonie said:

Does anyone remember the Raybeats???? my album got ripped off.........back in 1984...... it may have been an Import... it was Dark blue...

Sorry about your album getting ripped off. That just happened to me recently. Anyway...yeah, the Raybeats. I have a copy of Guitar Beat from 1981. I bought it because the store owner put a description on the wrapper saying "a Ventures for the 80s". One of the guys from Los Straightjackets was in it, but he wrote the only good song on it, "Calhoun Surf", everything else was trying to sound 80s meets sci-fi or something....The jacket looked cool. A lot of surf bands between 1980-1986 were pretty bad I thought except Jon and the NIghtriders. Remember the Halibuts? ugh. ratoonie said:

Does anyone remember the Raybeats???? my album got ripped off.........back in 1984...... it may have been an Import... it was Dark blue...

Does anyone remember the Raybeats???? my album got ripped off.........back in 1984...... it may have been an Import... it was Dark blue...

WOW! That Punk Zine archive is something else and all the early issues. Thanks for posting that. kopper said:

I know Gearhead reviews new stuff, but I think they only review stuff they like. In other words, if they don't like it, they just won't review it. That bothers me to no end. I wanna read the negative reviews as well as the positive, so I know what to avoid as well as what to look for.

I used to do a 'zine with some local folks here in St. Louis called Head in a Milk Bottle... this was back in the early 2000s. It had originally existed in the mid-1980s and we brought it back to life, but then it only lasted two issues. The third issue was finished, but was never printed. I'm hoping to put this all online eventually. The editor/publisher was Bob Thurmond of the Snake Alley podcast... and I'm still waiting for Bob to get me all the files from that 3rd issue so I can put it online. Bob's a nice guy and everything, but there's a reason why is nickname is "Slack."

ChinMusic was a pretty cool 'zine that combined baseball and punk rock (some garage stuff, too). Then there was Motorcycho which is about garage punk and motorbikes. Then there was Multiball, which combined punk rock and pinball! And I don't think anyone's mentioned John Holmstrom's PUNK magazine. John's putting out a "Best of PUNK" book that looks like it'll be worth having.

Does anyone remember a 'zine called Probe? I think it was around mostly during the '90s, but was pretty great. Featured pics of nekkid people and punk rock. I only have one or two issues, but they were kinda doing what Horizontal Action did later.

Also, check this out: Punk Zine Archive

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

There's a very small free subcultural zine in upstate NY called Outsider, they feature all kinds of punk including garage, psychobilly etc. and also focus on hot rods and tattoos.
http://www.myspace.com/outsiderzine What I'd be interested in knowing is which zines review new garage punk releases. It seems to me that some publications like Ugly Things focus only on established groups from the original 60's era or 80's revival bands while others like Lost in Tyme review stuff by current underground bands as well.

I know Gearhead reviews new stuff, but I think they only review stuff they like. In other words, if they don't like it, they just won't review it. That bothers me to no end. I wanna read the negative reviews as well as the positive, so I know what to avoid as well as what to look for.

I used to do a 'zine with some local folks here in St. Louis called Head in a Milk Bottle... this was back in the early 2000s. It had originally existed in the mid-1980s and we brought it back to life, but then it only lasted two issues. The third issue was finished, but was never printed. I'm hoping to put this all online eventually. The editor/publisher was Bob Thurmond of the Snake Alley podcast... and I'm still waiting for Bob to get me all the files from that 3rd issue so I can put it online. Bob's a nice guy and everything, but there's a reason why is nickname is "Slack."

ChinMusic was a pretty cool 'zine that combined baseball and punk rock (some garage stuff, too). Then there was Motorcycho which is about garage punk and motorbikes. Then there was Multiball, which combined punk rock and pinball! And I don't think anyone's mentioned John Holmstrom's PUNK magazine. John's putting out a "Best of PUNK" book that looks like it'll be worth having.

Does anyone remember a 'zine called Probe? I think it was around mostly during the '90s, but was pretty great. Featured pics of nekkid people and punk rock. I only have one or two issues, but they were kinda doing what Horizontal Action did later.

Also, check this out: Punk Zine Archive

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

There's a very small free subcultural zine in upstate NY called Outsider, they feature all kinds of punk including garage, psychobilly etc. and also focus on hot rods and tattoos.
http://www.myspace.com/outsiderzine What I'd be interested in knowing is which zines review new garage punk releases. It seems to me that some publications like Ugly Things focus only on established groups from the original 60's era or 80's revival bands while others like Lost in Tyme review stuff by current underground bands as well.

Do you for people who can read French or peole who are French? I'm neither but pictures are always cool. Isaacwashington said:

In France, the best is DIG IT (print), but it's for french readers... You can take a peek on the website :

In France, the best is DIG IT (print), but it's for french readers... You can take a peek on the website :

There's a very small free subcultural zine in upstate NY called Outsider, they feature all kinds of punk including garage, psychobilly etc. and also focus on hot rods and tattoos. http://www.myspace.com/outsiderzine What I'd be interested in knowing is which zines review new garage punk releases. It seems to me that some publications like Ugly Things focus only on established groups from the original 60's era or 80's revival bands while others like Lost in Tyme review stuff by current underground bands as well.

I missed Issue 29? I have to check out your website more often.

Anyway...Not a fanzine but I only just discovered Shindig. Not as awesome as Ugly Things but cool. I use to like things like Cryptic Times, Bad Vibes, Bad Trip, Psychedelicitesen, and Garage and Beat (but this was so long ago).

Unless the band had a top 30 hit and was on one of the major network shows (shews?), you're right, there really isn't a whole lot out there. I'm really surprised at what DOES eventually come up.

Most garage bands from the sixties could just barely make a record let alone film a live performance. There are some exceptions (Zachary Thaks for instance). Has anyone seen the new Remains Documentary? I heard it is mostly interviews and really no live footage because it doesn't exist - besides a couple of T.V. appearances and a very bad quality film fragment of them on the Beatles tour.

Aquarium Drunkard ran a post today on Wayne Cochrane. Wayne has always intrigued me over the years and his internet legend grows day by day. 

I have quite a collection of live shots of various bands I've seen over the years. Please feel free to look at my photo page.

Glad you liked that idea:) kopper said:

MikeL said:

I'm waiting for a political candidate to use "I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys in a campaign commercial.

Shit, what a great idea! Makes me want to run for office if for no other reason than THAT! Haha...

MikeL said:

I'm waiting for a political candidate to use "I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys in a campaign commercial.

Hey everybody,
I don't know if anyone posted it already, but there is a blog called the swisstape blog with live bootlegs from the 80's and early 90's of shows in switzerland with bands like the miracle workers (yahoo!), chesterfield kings, Ramones, Screamin Jay Hawkins etc. I don't know who runs this blog wether who recorded, but I like it alot, bootlegs have such a particular charm...
http://swisstapes.blogspot.com/

Nice!

Thanks. Glad you liked it. ratoonie said:

welldone--- nice informative read*

welldone--- nice informative read*

* Pissing Out The Poison: Singles and Other Swill by New Bomb Turks. I'm a relative newcomer to the NBTs. I decided to download this in anticipation of NBT frontman Eric Davidson's new book We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001. a history of below-the-radar proudly uncommercial, untrendy bands like The Dwarves, The Cynics, The Mummies, Thee Headcoats, Dead Moon, The Devil Dogs, The Gories, and, yes, New Bomb Turks among others. (The book arrived and I'm reading and enjoying it now. You should too.)

This album is a compilation of singles, rarities, even a Christmas song. It's all high-charged, furious, crazy guitar rock -- what Davidson calls "Gunk Punk."

There's a handful of covers, including The New York Dolls' "Bad Girl" and a Rolling Stones obscurity called "Summer Romance." And there's strong alternative versions of Turk classics like "Crying in the Beer of a Drunk Man," "Let's Dress Up the Naked Truth," "Sucker Punch" and "Taller Crush."

 
* I Know You Be Houserockin' by The Gories. Before he started The Dirtbombs, Detroit's Mick Collins was in another amazing band -- The Gories.

This was a trio featuring two guitars (Collins and Dan Kroha) and drums (Peggy O'Neill). No bass, no frills, just raw punk blues.

This compilations contains the Alex Chilton produced I Know You Fine But How You Doin' plus almost all of The Gories' first album, Houserockin' (missing only "Let Me Ear the Choir Sin.") 

Hey, while fooling around on YouTube, I found an actual live video of The Gories doing one of my favorite songs from this album, "Thunderbird ESQ." Peggy looks pretty sexy chewing her gum. Check it out:



*Party Favorites by Ray Condo and his Hardrock Goners. This Canuckabilly was perhaps the finest rockabilly revivalists of the 90s and early 00s. The only one who comes close was Big Sandy, but the late Condo, who died in 2004, had a crazier edge. The title of his 1997 album Door to Door Maniac (which was an alternate title for a very obscure 1961 Johnny Cash movie)

I first came to know Condo's music when he was living in Vancouver and playing with his band The Ricochets. This album is from his days in Montreal, when he was playing with The Hardrock Goners (named in honor of hillbilly boogie monster Sidney "Hardrock" Gunter) This outfit, which had a fine fiddle player (not sure of the name) and perhaps was a bit more country sounding than The Ricochets.

There's a cool "St. James Infirmary" here as well as a version of "Her Love Rubbed Off," one of Carl Perkins' more crazed compositions, also covered by The Cramps.

But my favorite tune here is "Barroom Crazy," which contains the verse, "I broke both of my arms/I fell down on the floor/I started to dance but I lost my pants/So they tossed me out the door."

I hate when that happens. 

PLUS

* Seven songs from The Very Best Of by Hoosier Hot Shots. True story. When I was a little kid and my grandmother was taking me somewhere, she'd say, "Are you ready, Hezzie?" She'd just laugh when I'd ask who the hell was Hezzie. A few years ago when I discovered The Hoosier Hot Shots it all became clear to me. Maybe I got my habit of making obscure cultural references from my grandmother.

When I did discover the Hotshots it made me appreciate how hip Nana actually was. (After all, she took me when I saw Cab Calloway as a kid.) These guys basically were a country string band (well they had a clarinet too) with the soul of Spike Jones. 

I only had enough to get seven tracks this month, but I'll pick up the rest when my account refreshes. (This is a good one for eMusic bargain hunters. 40 track for the price of 12!)

And, by the way, Hezzie was Paul "Hezzi"e Triesch, who played washboard, bells and whistles.

* "Cucaracha Taco" by Joe "King" Carrasco. I got this for my latest podcast of The Big Enchilada. I already had most of the other songs from this collection, called Yabba Ding Ding. But it looks like a great introduction to the master of Nuevo Wavo.

Don't forget to check out Iggy Pop's tour rider! http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html And-- the essential Ramones gear site. Includes vital information on their shoes. http://rockometer.com/ramones/equipment/

ha! no worries! I am compiling for a radio show I am doing..... too bad you didn't get those in beforehand! Though you should vote off of these anyways! Emily Panic said:

o i didn't realize this was a contest i just wanted to say what my favorite basslines were. woops.