...okay, some more, mostly modern-era stuff (yep, some double-posts for sure, but who cares?):
CRYPT RECORDS
JOHNNY THUNDERS/HEARTBREAKERS/NEW YORK DOLLS
THE MOORAT FINGERS
GUITAR WOLF
BLACK LIPS
THE SPACESHITS/KING KHAN/BBQ
BLUES EXPLOSION
NEW BOMB TURKS
JEFF EVANS/68 COMEBACK/GIBSON BROS.
PVC
TEENGENERATE...

and let me add Marty Thau of Red Star Records. Milissa Ross Greenberg said:

Lyres, DMZ, the real kids, Billy and Miriam/Norton Records to start

...well, did anyone mention GAUNT???
at least their "Sob Story" and "I Can See Your Mom From Here" albums are reason enough for me...

Sebastian Vulva, The Parents. ;o)

I've been trying to get as many direct orders as possible before adding it to the other Rudos and Rubes books available there. It can be ordered at http://www.rudosand rubes.com. It won't be at Borders, as my brief involvement with a distro that serves them and other chains ended with self-described "underground publishing icon" Vale of Re/Search (my description would be "outdated pseudo-underground scammer") pocketing all the book sales for acting as middle man. Trying to get into the mass-market/chain book outlets now seem to me as futile as the mass-market/chain music outlets; that's the way the cookie bounces! And the cover shot is of Darin Raffaelli, who is always up for anything ridiculous. Tim Moore said:

Does anyone know where I can get this book? Amazon says its still unreleased, but it was supposed to be released 3/1/10???? Borders.com says its on back order.....
What the F?!!!!!

Did Dan Quayle teach you how to spell potato? ;) DammitDave said:

I can Mash Potatoe and I can do the Twist...

I can Mash Potatoe and I can do the Twist...

Hmmm... here's a dvd:

No vids, here, but plenty of instructions! http://www.sixtiescity.com/Culture/dance.shtm

There is also Duophonic in Germany. As cheap as GZ but much better to communicate with. They also have specials from time to time. I love these guys so check 'em out.

There's a topic about this in the Labels & Distros group, too.

I heard Hasil Adkins staged the fight in the doc about him, but it cracked me up - I used some of the footage in this vid. Cheers, Anne  

Bitch Slap Attack from Anne Mette Rasmussen on Vimeo.

I read somewhere that Larry Parypa used drop-D for "The Witch" with a Jaguar or Jazzmaster. I have no idea if that's true.

I also have to remind myself not to care so much and just play. But then again why not put some work into the things you love to do.

When you listen to those old recordings you have to remember that half the charm of what you're hearing is the old recording equipment. one of the techniques used to try to combat the 'rumble' that you can get from a record player was to cut the bottom end out of everything that was been recorded as well as the fact that the frequency response of a lot of the microphones and recording equipment was, to put it plainly, shit.

Your simply not going to get those vintage sounds from modern equipment because of a variety of reasons. Modern manufacturing is more precise, components used in electronics have better tolerances, pickups are machine wound instead of hand wound etc.

As already mentioned you can get close to those cool old school tones by tracking down vintage guitars or old microphones but as soon as you plug them into a modern DAW its gonna be modernized again.

Freddi's comment about the open D tuning is worth checking out also check out open A, really easy to use when you're super pissed.

Doc Sanchez nailed it when he said don't think about it just play.

Cheap guitars sometimes do the trick. Like the Japanese Teisco. You can pick em up fairly cheap off Ebay and the like.

I say that if you get-in-the-ball-park (more or less) of standard tuning, you be in league with most 60's Garage bands; tuning wise. As far as tone... Its already been pointed out that that all depends on which particular band you desire to emulate.

I had a Danelectro DC-3 that I use only for open tuning playin'. I have tuned it with one of the classic open tuning,the D one that is used by most of old bluesmen and bottleneckers and Keith Richards too (Hear his sound on "Exile on main St.") Check it if you didn't,and have fun! D A D F# A D

Yeah I agree with some of the posters. Sometimes we spend too much time worrying about tone and not enough time playing music!!!

Hi!

Funny, when I started playing garage punk, I desperately wanted to sound like Billy Childish and/or The Sonics. I tried and tried, but after a while I just bought a 10€-Blues Overdrive, took my old cheap Squier guitar and my old Dean Markley amp and just played. And no, I don't sound like Billy or The Sonics, but I really love my sound now. I'd say: Don't think about it, Gonzo, just play. And don't use too much distortion, this half-distorted sound is my secret. On my cheap Behringer blues overdrive I only use the gain one third to one half max.

Hope you find the sound you like!

Stay cyco, Doc Sanchez

I can't help it, I'm a anal tone freak. As why lots of treble, I can't get enough of it .Unless it's like 12 on a Twin Reverb, then it's just cutting thin air.

One secret is to not care quite so much. Fannying around isn't rock & roll.

Why bucketloads of treble? You need some mids in there to give some backbone to the sound!

I don't think tuning down a semitone will help you get the sound you want either. As far as I can tell all the bands you are talking about use standard tuning.

Also, you have mentioned a bunch of bands that all have quite different guitar sounds! Compare the Elevators' guitar sound to the Saints, for example. So is there really just the one Garagey type tone? Hell no! The tones are as different as the players themselves so why not just go for something you are happy with.

Being a big fan of bands along the likes of Jay Reatard, Eddy Current Supression Ring, The Black Lips, Sic Alps, The Saints, The Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, UV Race etc. I sometimes I wonder if they use any sort of odd/wierd specific tunings to achieve there sound. Obviously a lot of the time they're tuned to each others instruments and god knows how out of tune they are,  but I'm trying to achieve that kinda trashy garagey type tone, I've got all the right gear and get fairly close but I can never seem to nail it. I generally will tune down a semitone, add bucketloads of treble, lower the mids/bass, bridge pick up with a Tele/Strat or what not into Fender & Vox amps and try to jangle punk it away but it doesn't sound completely there, something needs to be added to the flavour. Are there any obvious secrets I should know about ?

Get Hip http://www.gethip.com Bomp http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/StoreFront I think both are fairly reasonably priced.

I would check out Mixcloud as well.. They have a real nice interface.