Why's that? Anybody can phone in a question. They don't have to be outside the States for that! Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Well he's doing a book tour...I guess this thread would be better for people who aren't in the States.

In the library I used to work at symbols were filed before numbers and in the order they were placed on the standard typewriter/keyboard and MS word normal text symbol menu. So, if you choose to file ? and the Mysterians under the symbol then those albums could be filed before the numbers, and you could also file ¡Viva! L'American Death Ray Music by symbol, if that band uses Spanish grammer, don't know, or just by letter, but you get the gist. When in doubt ask a cataloging librarian, those people are anal beyond belief!

I forget where I was, but I once wandered into a record store somewhere... and for some reason I think it was down south, maybe in New Orleans, or it could have been Texas... anyway, they had everything, ALL genres, mixed together. I don't think they sold classical stuff, it was all rock/jazz/soul/R&B/country/punk/reggae/funk/pop and that (including a good chunk of garage shit), but it was all sorted A-Z. I felt not having to keep darting around the store for different sections very liberating. It was awesome just to start at the A's and start flipping through the records and having every genre right there at your fingertips. Doc Sanchez said:

Oh man, I know too well what you're talking about, and I really must stop myself from thinking about all this. Or as Leonard Cohen puts it: "If these thoughts interest you for even a moment, you're lost".
Actually, I don't file my records alphabetically, but rather roughly by genre, and there by preferences, or how the groups somehow go together (from the players, labels, producers or just how they sound) so I just can take all records from here to there when I DJ, and I know it will roughly fit. The single artists are sorted by date. But Jesus, if I even start thinking about filing them alphabetically by artist, I wouldn't find any sleep no more...

Oh man, I know too well what you're talking about, and I really must stop myself from thinking about all this. Or as Leonard Cohen puts it: "If these thoughts interest you for even a moment, you're lost".

Actually, I don't file my records alphabetically, but rather roughly by genre, and there by preferences, or how the groups somehow go together (from the players, labels, producers or just how they sound) so I just can take all records from here to there when I DJ, and I know it will roughly fit. The single artists are sorted by date.

But Jesus, if I even start thinking about filing them alphabetically by artist, I wouldn't find any sleep no more...

John White said:

Check out the Boss VE-20 vocal foot pedal, you can do many different sounds with it. It has a distortion setting that I'm sure can create that effect if you play with it enough.

Check out the Boss VE-20 vocal foot pedal, you can do many different sounds with it. It has a distortion setting that I'm sure can create that effect if you play with it enough. If your playing a club where you set up the PA, you can have total control from the stage. If you are dealing with a soundman, just set it up a he can patch it through your channel.

Yeah. They are pretty dope for vocals. You can check out the BLACK EYED SNAKES. They used one alot.

I am looking for a vocal effect for a live/recording setting that has good breakup and a tinny sound. I've been looking at the Shure Green Bullet, which is harmonica mic (omnidirectional), and Copperphones and their relatives (can't remember the name of the manufacturer). Do you have any experience with any of these mics or suggestions of artists who have utilized them for voice?

Hey, you played the Geargrinders! That song was recorded live on my old radio show, The Wayback Machine. Just sayin'.

More recipes!

Mine always changes too, but it frequently comes back to "Freddy's Dead," "The Ballad of Thunder Road" (Robert Mitchum), and Canned Heat's version of "One Kind Favor." "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" is up there too.

Today, it's...Sheriff and the Revels - Shombolar

Impossible for me to name my favorite song of all time but the song i'd choose that encapsulates everything I love about rock & roll? EASY :

Runaround Sue by Dion & The Belmonts.

Perfection!

Yes, and that's what Louie Louie does for me lawrence galvan III said:

I agree with Kopper, it is difficult to name a "FAVORITE",Louie Louie by The Kingsmen is FUCKING AWESOME,
but Cruel To Be Kind still gives me chills when I here it. That's what a "FAVORITE" song should do! Is it not?

OK, when you're three pages into a topic, you gotta start referring back to what you are talking about cuz I don't think I'm the only one thinking that you are just refering to the last post. You are no longer just talking to the original poster. If you'd been the very first person to reply, it would have made more sense what you said. Ross Jesus Navaro Richards said:

no, slade owned it! got even better round about their 1979/81 tours also! get some in yer!

I think the smart thing for labels to do nowadays is to put out all their stuff on vinyl only (CDs just aren't selling anymore, but are good for promo) and then offer digital downloads of the songs so people can make their own CDs if they want to, or so they can put the songs easily on their iPods or other MP3 players/libraries. Personally, I think the MP3s should just be given away, since sooner or later you'll probably be able to find them for free online somewhere. But one good option is to give people a download code so they can go online and download the stuff with the code, but without it you're outta luck. One such service that offers this is TransmitVinyl.com, but it's not free. However, $50 for 500 downloads isn't too bad, I don't think. Another option you could have is to just create a password-protected directory on your website, but to do that you need a website, not just a Myspace page or something, and then another drawback is you just create one password that everyone will share. Sooner or later, that password will get around and lots of other people will get it and use it. Which brings me back around to just offering the downloads for free anyway.

I stumbled over hip hop only recently (except for a few things like the first Eminem for a few cent on a flea market, and the first Arrested Develompent from way back than, a great record, but rather hippie music than hip hop, I think), but I really like nearly everything on Anticon Records, and I get really blown away by Dälek, over and over again. Someone once wrote in a magazine, they sound as if the Melvins played hip hop, and that's just that.

Oh, right, and De La Soul, I listened to them, too, and still like them.

So I think there's some pretty good hip hop stuff out there, and loads of shit, just like in rock music or any other genre.

Hey kopper, warlock pinchers are getting back together. They have a show in august and are doin a new album! Denver!!!!

kopper said:

I have a Run DMC record, even though I can't even remember the last time I listened to it. I like Public Enemy a LOT, though, and once in a while I put that (It Takes a Nation of Millions...) on. I also like the Beastie Boys (at least their first few records). That's it, though, unless you consider the Warlock Pinchers rap, which I'm not exactly sure what to call them, but I sure do like 'em. "Where the Hell Is Crispin Glover" and "Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse" are two of my all-time favorite songs.

I highly recommend a movie called Hustle & Flow from 2005. That was written & directed by Craig Brewer who was also responsible for the cooler-than-expected $5 Cover MTV series about the Memphis music scene. Another of his movies that's really good but has nothing to do with rap is Black Snake Moan. I also highly recommend CB4 and Fear of a Black Hat. High Lord Mardy Pune said:

I totally agree with Ixnayray. The chart shit is just that; it's shit. But the kids keep buying into it and record companies like making money.
I like the early gangsta rap N.W.A., Ice T... A lot of people get offended by it but I think the rappers are just telling it like it is. I think the making of any good rapper though is the DJ sitting behind them. Kool Herc and Grand Master Flash were total musical revolutionaries and I think their attitude was totally punk; "fuck it this is how I'm doing it"

You have to remember that the term hip hop refers to the four corners as Hip Hoppers call it: Rappers, DJ's, dancers and Graph Artists. There's a great doco called Scratch which is mainly about DJing but sorta looks at the other three aspects of Hip Hop.

jhonny burnett trio

Lots of killer screams in rock n roll! Sonics, Wailers, Stooges, Mummies, tons of em! But, here's a list of the most distinguished unusual screamers...Roky Ericson--- madman scream like Jay Hawkins/ Lord Sutch--- with supreme eyes of satan FIRE!! truely a uninhibited wilderness of crazy! Larry May--Candy Snatchers, insane scream from the fine shires of hell. And my most recent favorite and unusual scream goes to the guy from The Keepers on the track "U and I don't belong"---a slight hesitation followed by a roar that would be hard to duplicate! Truely Remarkable

jagger has demon tattoos on the rocknroll circus set, he pulls his shirt off during synpathy for the devil, near the end, and said tattoos dance. it's actually realy cool..

Man or Astroman, check it out!

Is that right. Cool. He's on tour with the Gories in September. That will definetly be a cool bill. kopper said:

Haunted George, in case you guys did not know, is also Uncle Yah-Yah, host of the Haunted Shack Theater podcast found right here on GaragePunk.com.

Chessman said:

I concur with SSP. The new Haunted George record kicks ass...

"BLACK ROOOOOSSTTERRR SQQQUUUUUAAAAALLLLLLLSSSSS!!!!!!!!"

Haunted George, in case you guys did not know, is also Uncle Yah-Yah, host of the Haunted Shack Theater podcast found right here on GaragePunk.com. Chessman said:

I concur with SSP. The new Haunted George record kicks ass...

"BLACK ROOOOOSSTTERRR SQQQUUUUUAAAAALLLLLLLSSSSS!!!!!!!!"