The Mourning after.. Theres a blast from the past. we had Kev the keyboard player sleep on our couch more often than not. Lost touch wi him and his girl wendy a while back. Some naff rock band in the states wi the same name now. They were fabulous. Y'dont have a copy of the live tape anywhere do ya? Pauline, was a gnarl classic. We supported them when they played the west port bar in Dundee. D'ya know it? Striped shirts and bobbed hair back then. still wearin the shirts but the hair a bit thin on the ground now, literally. Gotta new band goin on up here keepin the garage thing alive. Friends of the light Machine. auld men makin' a racket, that should ken better.

Crikey Andy, that's positively err well pretty local now eh...and here's me thinkin these posts were mainly comin in from folks in the States - well many of them are I guess...Dundee, nice one, and home of The Poor Souls who made a couple o pretty decent 45s way back in the 60s. Hey Troy McLure and the Octembers though, that's a great name, when did youz play Basin Street can you remember, that was a great venue we had there back in the day...and our Calvin (ex Thanes drummer) put on so many great groups there, inc. the original line up of The Mourning After, probably with me and Calvin's band The Offhooks playing (him as lead singer). I recall the name Creeping Terror too, are you still around doin stuff...or maybe you play in another band now? Thanks muchly for the cool praise for our Wildebeests' 'Gnus' LP, glad you digs!!! OK cheers for now Lenny Andy Climax said:

Heya. Gnus of Gnaverone, wot an album. Love it, love it, love it. I'm from Dundee myself and have seen and been in a few bands around the north east. Creeping Terror played a few times in auld reekie and Troy Mclure and the Octembers played Basin street and a few other places in the middle belt. Keep doin wot yer doin my man, we all appreciate it soooooooo much!

Hey Dan, YES YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha yr pal Lenny 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)

Heya. Gnus of Gnaverone, wot an album. Love it, love it, love it. I'm from Dundee myself and have seen and been in a few bands around the north east. Creeping Terror played a few times in auld reekie and Troy Mclure and the Octembers played Basin street and a few other places in the middle belt. Keep doin wot yer doin my man, we all appreciate it soooooooo much!

Hey Ross, cheers for info, i'm doin fine and it's been pretty sunny in Scotland today, well up here on the north-east coast it has...re- your response, ah South Q'ferry i see, well it's great that you were introduced to some great music while you were still there...and that you are still into said musics now. There's always been a bit of a mod thing goin on in the outer reaches of Edinburgh; remember Rod Spark's Second Generation from over the water in Dalgety Bay??? He's still around E'burgh and these days has the group Modus. So do you come back over for visits now n again...yeah The Mummies, cool...do you also recall Edinburgh beat group The Kaisers back in the early 90s, or had you gone by then? They actually played with The Mummies in Paris back then...We formed The Wildebeests not long after, autumn '94 with ex-Kaisers bassist John Gibbs, and ex-Milkshakes bassist - now on guitar - Russ Wilkins. That was 16 yrs ago, but we're still around making a right old rock'n'roll garage-punk style din...O yeah of course the likes of The Chob's 'We're Pretty Quick' is indeed another serious garodge killer diller that more folks outside that particular fraternity really need to hear eh no!!! OK bub over n out - Lenny Ross Jesus Navaro Richards said:

hey boss! How u today! Yeah i was down in South Queensferry, dont know why, but i actually miss it, all my older friends left for Cali, and surrounding areas, some went to Michigan, so i guess i had to leave too.. These people gave me my first taste of music, i mean like 25 years back, a real mountain of sounds, and most of the usual stuff u all talk about, but as diverse as lefty frizzell, some pre 65 avant garde, lots of acid sounds, mod of course, and the beat thing.. We have a great scene out here now though, the Mummies played a wee while back.. And the scene here is hot anyway..

The Pretty Things, Love, 13th Floor Elevators, Syd's The Pink Floyd, The Byrds, The Music Machine, The Rolling Stones... kopper said:

The Sonics, The Mummies, the Oblivians, the Ramones, the Cramps, the Saints, the Wipers, the Real Kids, and on and on and on...

Everything Billy Childish ever made. Or better, quite everything that ever came out of the Medway Delta, especially the Kravin' A's!!!

the way you describe it sounds very cool...i wanna hear it already Martin Christoph said:

i guess not..this is very daerk and mod!! like the original but darker wuith bleeding fuzz in the back!

i guess not..this is very daerk and mod!! like the original but darker wuith bleeding fuzz in the back!

The Dickies did quite a lively version of it. I had a live version of it on a compilation album, but believe they did it on vinyl as well. I was about 20 so shoulda been around 89-90. That might be the one your lookin for???

Not sure if they did or not, but The Chesterfield Kings could've done live...they certainly did a great snots-ville version of The Mamas and the Papas' evergreen 'California Dreamin'. Hey Tex, if you do find who it was you were thinkin' of, please let me know...cheers - Lenny

The Magic Kids
"Summer" from Memphis
True Panther

"Good To be" about sums up "Summer", in other words, it was too good to be true. Now that the first track from The Magic Kids first full length has been released it leaves me feeling like I drank a Sunkist the first time and then got handed a Tab. The Magic Kids view the song as a cautionary anthem to battle the lonliness of summer. Chances are most people might peg this song as a downer before they hear the lush outro. The opinion could easily go both ways. Bennet's vocals seem to be aiming for the Bryan Ferry-vibe which serve's this song well, but is miles way from the nasally bubblegum vocals on the first two singels..This might serve the band in the long run but for now it's almost as if they ditched their diet of Kasenatz and Katz records in favor of obscure Van Dyke Parks or boring Wondermints outtakes. Hopefully this is just a bad choice of a single and not representative of Memphis.

Ha, nice one, well whaddaya know eh...you are never too old to learn something new about punk, that's for sure. Cheers Lenny Andy Climax said:

No! Camden and the High Roads, a Kilburn tribute act, haha. No malice taken mate. keep it punk!!!

some names come to mind, beauregard ajax with deaf prescilla, a very dark psyched up album preceeding sgtr peppers! they havea song about a kaleidosope, which is just fuckin lovely! the whole album is musically superb, and keeps u intersted, no stupid blues additions/fillers here!
national harvester from sweden, glue psyche which is very similar to early floyd and hawkwind, but again preceeding the both! the sound is evident on both groups early lp´s,,, and isn´t lol... but its slow strange and dark, some say prog, but choose that word carefully as there is a lot of kak out there!
wailing walls only lp,.. captain beefheart meets the country, its a nice crossover lp, has its faults, but 1st side is a killer, and really recommended! check country of the goose..
can.. tago mago.. german polish korean backward masking drum and bass dance from 1973, some say prog but choose etc tc...... nice tunes and look out for oh yeah! a killer tune!
cheapo crypt samplers 1 and 2.. has got everything. gories turks 9pound hammer, oblivians headcoates and more more more.. pick it up for 2bucks! great great piece plastic!
david bowie ziggy stardust live on the airwaves vol one, huh? i hear u say.. guys this is the nutz, bowie is demi god! back then nuthin like it, and the live version of moonage hang onto and watch that man.. wow! the guitar is freakin awesome! accept no substitute!

were pretty quick by the chob! i just love it, bare facts as well bad part of town and satisfaction guaranteed .. 7 and 7 is by arthur lee, or maybe the soul bedders version! its punkier..

to bend on it a little, i would have loved to have taken train kept a rollin and punked it up like prescious few done! that is fuzz au gogo!

The Dirtbomb's album is the most "rock" album they have put out. It make Ultrglide look like the Gories. I love all of their albums, but often wonder why he won't do another Screws or Blacktop record. After all, I am asking for it why wouldn't Mick just do it.. JK

The Enthusiasts
7 Inch

In a small town where the Saw Mill and the NY State Thruway almost criss cross is the small town of Ardsley. Not much there but stores, a bike path that runs along the Saw Mill, and certainly not a place where your average punk band stays-- honestly the average band gets out of Dodge. Rock dreams usually get on the local Metro-North and head south to the city. The Enthusiasts do the same but as they say in punk rock-- don't forget your roots.
On their frist 7-inch they bang out two originals which meld the garage stylings of The White Stripes/ Bloody Hollies with English style Power Pop, without hesitation throw in Misfits patented "Whoa-ooh!" or a breakdown with a few psychedelic riffs. "In the City" with a little added scuff could easily sit on any of the Shake Some Action - UK and Ireland comps. Joey F., tackling vocals and guitar, puts every ounce of energy into to his playing and singing. The song itself is the Punk Rock dream-- singing songs, going to the city, and getting away from where your from.  Dylan H. and Matt G. are a steady rhythm section and follow Joey F's lead pretty well. On "My Two Words" the "psychedelic breakdown" actually gives them a half a minute to shine. Though to be honest the last minute of the song might serve another song a little better. Stylistically the two songs might jump around a bit too much, but why stick to a formula.
While every other band from the far corners of the earth descend on Brooklyn there is something refreshing about three guys coming down from the NY suburbs  playing "catchy" punk rock that feels a little more authentic. Maybe it's our own roots that let us dispense this credibility, maybe it's two pretty good songs, or maybe it's a little bit of both. One things for sure The Enthusiasts only have a couple of miles to go before this 7-Inch is part of history or they make more of their own history.

* You can download the 7 Inch and a Live set over at their Bandcamp page, here.

Surf music is great, but it can get a little boring live. So acts that have great stage presence/shows are tops for me. And they've all been mentioned. Except The Finks, Bomboras, Astronauts (Germany), The Penetrators, The LSDees. The Astonauts (Colorado), are one of my favs. They have the ultimate "wet" sound. The Fabulous Mach Kung Fu, Jackie & The Cedrics...boy...I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. Oh well. ((((((reverb crash)))))))

have'nt read all the posts so these have probably been mentioned before. Man or Astroman, huevos Rancheros, Laika and the Cosmonauts and Los Straitjackets really rub my board. Loverly!!!

I pretty much look for everything on amazon first, so that's why I wrote that. I hope you find something cool at the record store:) gina vah said:

That's what I was trying to say. I was actually looking for it physically, without ordering from the internet. Also, at the record store there was another CD of theirs, I gotta go and check it out. I wonder what it is.

That's what I was trying to say. I was actually looking for it physically, without ordering from the internet. Also, at the record store there was another CD of theirs, I gotta go and check it out. I wonder what it is.

Looks beaufiful! I guess I'll save some money and buy both sooner or later...

I have a Danelectro DC3 and a Jazzmaster (Japan) and I like them.The Dano is a little more twangy as a "cheap telecaster" and the Jazzmaster is more "fatty" and differ from the american reissue for the pick ups and the hardcase not included.Two cheap guitars that worth their price. Honestly I don't think that the reissues justify their price. For the Danelectros I would reccomend you an old american Silvertone or a Made in Korea made in late 90's.The latest made in China models are very cheap but not well-considered.And try for tube amp as soon as you can.Anyway trademarks,prices,models,are not essentials references.Trust your ears,and try before buy when you can. Here's mine:

Hi High Lord,

thanks for your answer! The last few times I heard Danos I liked them, but that was some quite different music (DM Bob and Jem Finer, rather country than garage), so I don't really know. I don't have any store around where I could just test them...

The Jagmaster only has two humbuckers, but you can easily change them to single coils or splitable humbuckers, they say. I just really love how it looks (as I did with the Jazzmaster the first time I saw it on Elvis Costello back then).

Our drummer just loves my sound and he always says that it's a shame that such an ugly guitar like mine sounds that great ;-) And I like my sound, too. So I guess it's more about looking cool, too, after I already sound cool... And since we have more and more gigs lately, I'd just feel more secure to have a second guitar, but it has to keep this semi-distorted, garagey sound, cheap sound while not sounding too thin...

I should drive to a decent store somewhere and just try them, I guess, since I don't want to order them on the internet anyway but see and feel it before buying. But if you have any other tricks, I'm eager to learn!

Cheers, Doc

The truth is that a friend of mine showed them to me a day before i posted the video.I thought they were pretty good and there were only girls,nice guitar solo,vocals and stuff.But i had only heard this song.It was cool and it still is,but after listening to the rest of the songs i have to say i was a bit dissapointed.And i wll have to agree with you now. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yes.

Giannis KRI said:

This went for girlschool?

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I always thought of them as a heavy metal Runaways.