Thanks Lenny! !!! I'm totally gonna digg into that stuff and @ everybody: keep that list coming! love to see that we're "one world under the influence", gogo! Lenny Helsing said:

All right El Tiki...here's a few more in the worldwide pantheon of not just white / pale / caucasian / aryan type race teen rockers for ye, most of em a rockin and a rollin and oilin in a garage punk and folk rockin psych-o-delliccccious vein...and there are many more too, tho of course I knows where yer comin from - but dig!

All right El Tiki...here's a few more in the worldwide pantheon of not just completely white / pale / caucasian / aryan type race teen rockers for ye, most of em too are a rockin and a rollin and some greazy oilin' in a rockinrollin' garage punk and folk rockin even psych-o-delickk vein...and there are many more too, tho of course I do knows where yer comin from - but dig!
The Zeros
Los Saicos
Tall Emma and his Skipper
The Wheels
The Sea-ders / The Cedars
The Shake Speares
Kareem Issaq & Middle Eastern Rock
The Night Stars
El Abranis
Ray Psyah
The Invaders
Os Rocks
African Boys
Os Rebeldes
Naomi and the Boys
Raks
The Quests
Kouroush
The Fore Thoughts
Lery-Co Jazz
The Tielman Bros
..and of course lest we ferget the mighty Bo Diddley
Los Peyotes
Os Haxixins
Los Explosivos

KING SALAMI

BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES count?
(only good for the first couple of albums in my opinion)

1st: I don't believe in Race
(what a fucked-up word-invention ... we're humans - and that's that!)
2nd: If you do believe that races exist, here's a translation of my oppinion for you:
I'm a racist - I hate the race of assholes - and it has any colour!

AND NOW (after clearing out the shit) - WHAT'S THIS THREAD REALLY ABOUT:

After 25 years of enjoing Garagepunk & goin' to Gigs, I realized, that (at least here in Europe) the Garagepunk-Band-Scene is very mono-coloured & pale ...
and again: no - I don't believe in race (read 1 & 2 again, if you don't dig it).
The Garagepunk-Band-Scene is basically pale-skinned ... why is that?
Is this a Garagepunk-Phenomena, or is it just my unknowledgeful blindness?

I'm gonna list the bands that come to my mind, being of many colours & nations (and I'm not listing souly 70ies bands like "Sly&the Family Stone" or punkish 80ies Bands like the "Bad Brains", but really the Garagepunk-shit) ...

I'd be thankful to all of you, to list others
& show that the Garagepunk you listen to is not "for-white-kids-only"

So here's my list, and please expand it!

- Love
- Can
- The Morlocks
- The Dirtbombs
- King Khan

Whoa! A bit off there mate. Say wot you want about men at work, the'yre shit. But Steve Irwine did more for animal protection and conservation worldwide than many other so called groups and organisations who have money at theyre heart. in Britain we have David Attenborough who if he was'nt a worldwide spokesperson for animals and mans existence we would be in a very very sad bad state. The problem with Australia and America is that it was colonated by fuckwit nations that killed first and asked questions later, hence the mass extinctions and worlwide climate fuck up man has and still does perpetuate. He left a very wonderfull family who keep his inexhaustable work going. if it was'nt for people like Steve Irwine, the planet would be right royally fucked! Think about yer crass statements before you write mate! Don't want this to turn into a political debate but that was a stupid fuckin standpoint from ya!

The Clash, The Open Mind, Zen, The Rezillos, The Remains, The Standells (but I was in a gig a week ago and it was horrible), Shocking Blue.. Every week I gave a favourite band and a favourite song...

...well, of course not exactly "GARAGE" or something, but still one of thee most important bands in Punk Rock history, at least in my opinion... Lubna Barracuda! said:

and the Dead Kennedys? I know it's not exactly garage rock, but last night I saw Jello Biafra playn' with Guantanamo School of Medecine, and I'd remember that great San Fran Band...Dead Kennedys uber alles!

well, here we go...
THE CRAMPS
RAMONES
JERRY LEE LEWIS
BO DIDDLEY
THE SONICS
BLUES EXPLOSION
NEW BOMB TURKS
GAUNT
THE DEVIL DOGS
ANGRY SAMOANS
BILLY CHILDISH/HEADCOATS/MIGHTY CAESARS
BLACK LIPS
KING KHAN/BBQ/THE SPACESHITS
DEMON'S CLAWS
GUITAR WOLF...
...in no particular order and of course I may have missed a few bands here

and the Dead Kennedys? I know it's not exactly garage rock, but last night I saw Jello Biafra playn' with Guantanamo School of Medecine, and I'd remember that great San Fran Band...Dead Kennedys uber alles!

O yeah Andy the Scotsmen's 'Beer Bust Blues' fueled many a party night at some of our old Edinburgh garage punk club nights after it first appeared on ye olde GaRagE PuNk UnKnowNs LPs: "well it's friday night an that's mah night to howl...' Andy Climax said:

yeah. Nice one Lenny. I always tend to forget about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Part 2 is a great wee pop gem of wierdness and idiosyncracy. 'Scuse Me Miss Rose is in my top 20 altime garage tunes. gettin goosebumps even thinkin of it. Has anyone heard The Scotsmen, Beer Bust Blues. If not check it out. A finer garage there has yet to be made.

I can't say,I change opinion every five,ten seconds..
at this moment I'd say...The GASOLINES!!

I'm sure you forgot MEN AT WORK..I'm with you at all! dan melchior said:

black lace, the toy dolls, joboxers, spandau ballet, kajagoogoo, the monks, chicago, haircut 100, the cynics, the swingin' neckbreakers,trad gras och stenar, the androids of mu, alternative television, the fall, franki valli and the four seasons, abba, chants r and b, the troggs, jim shepard, the upsetters (jamaica), can, five star, men without hats, midnight oil, matthew wilder, the outsiders, bob dylan, fleetwood mac, louie and the lovers, jacques dutronc, duran duran, the ighty sparrow, i roy, lone ranger, captain sinbad, mikey dread, everything on bullwackies, yabby you, suicide, the better beatles, ooga boogas, led zep, black sab, nazareth, the byrds, sir douglas quintet, jj cale, abc, human league, roxy music, survivor, - etc
(I don't really like some of these bands)

Question Mark and the Mysterians, Standells, the Monks, the Sonics, The fabulous Waylers, the Sparkles, Shadows of Knight, Gonn, We the People, Kinks, Yardbirds, Troggs, Count Five, Kingsmen, 13th Floor Elevators, Moving Sidewalks, Seeds, the Music machine, the Fuzztones...but, over all: THE CRAMPS.

I went to a Garage Shock a few years back, I don't remember which number. It was at Emo's in Austin TX and it was a great time. The Von Zippers, Gasoline, The Immortal Lee County Killers (v1), The Cherry Valance, Fatal Flying Guillotines, that band that Mark Arm was/is in, think it's called The Monkeywrench...lots of other bands as well. It was a great time. All put on by Estrus Records (are they out of business now?)

OK, I found more videos by "Garage Shock" and I think that is actually the name of the band, so, sorry. Guess that's not the Drags after all.

Think I'll go start a band called Gonerfest now.

I can't tell if this is the Drags or someone covering them (and the video's description is pretty unclear on this, too). Says it's from Garage Shock 2008... and hell, I didn't even know there was a Garage Shock in 2008. Or is "Garage Shock" the name of the band? Very confusing! I saw the Drags twice back in the '90s. Once in Austin and again at TrebleFest '96 in Denver, and they were insane. Much more energetic than what you see in the video above.

Hello Garagepunkers.  I've been looking around for some live footage of the Drags and the Horrors (not the UK band, I mean the guys on In The Red.)  If anyone could provide me some links I would appreciate it very much.

Anybody read this yet? I forgot all about it... still need to order it.

Ronnie towards the end of Teenage Mojo Workout is quite a scream.......and Frank Black is quite a screamer generally

Don't know if they're rock & roll enough for you lot though

Not a lot compares to Gerry though, i hear that in my stomach before it hits my ears

Yeah, it's posted in the General Lee's Garage group forum and also in the events section: http://garagepunk.ning.com/events/gonerfest-seven-in-memphis I'm going to try to make it this year. Can't believe it's FOUR days... damn.

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but:

http://www.goner-records.com/gonerfest/

GUITAR WOLF is gonna be there and hopefully I will too.  4 days of fun and Rock'N'Roll.  See you there!

I use a Fender Bassman TV Duo Ten amp with a Fender Jaguar Bass (red).

Check out Soundblox classic distortion, it recreates most of the fuzz boxes mentioned. You can go to their website a watch videos of all their products. They make 4 types of foot pedals for distortion, the classic, pro classic, multiwave and pro multiwave. These are digital pedals, I know some people have a problem with that, if you do, Big Muff or Rat pedals are a good place to start.

I'm using a clone of a roland bee baa fuzz. it's a goodin.

Tam White - legendary singer / founder of Edinburgh, Scotland's 1960s R&beatsters THE BOSTON DEXTERS and THE BUZZ has died yesterday of a suspected heart attack. He would've been 68 next month. Tam was a phenomenal singer, and in the garage punk world his voice will surely always resonate due to leaving behind the audacious and terrifying 1966 Joe Meek-produced freakbeat-punker 'You're Holding Me Down' recorded as by THE BUZZ, and written by the 'Dexters / Buzz guitarist Johnny Turnbull...Tam also made his mark with a couple of earlier garage/R&B stompers, especially the rarefied stomp of 'Nothing's Gonna Change Me' waxed up for the the Contemporary label circa 1964. The 'Dexters were whisked off to London, where they would record a couple of 45s for Columbia, before a split happened, two leaving and two staying with THE BUZZ being the result. Once the beat boom died Tam stayed in London, and would go on to carve out a singing career on the Middle Earth (including the great psych-etched 'Future Thoughts' b/w 'Lewis Carroll' 45) and Decca labels that took him well into the 70s. He then briefly had his own Scottish TV show...before the blues came howling back into his heart, and he pursued that, and his jazz leanings right up until his death. RIP Tam