I cannot wait for this!! I've seen Scrawl & the Turks several times each, but never the Gibson Brothers. I'll be up front all day ... don't worry, I'm only 5 feet tall, so I won't be blocking anybody's view :)

Heh heh, yeah, I used to have a Scrawl album. Saw them in Olympia in '88 (or '89). But I gave it away. SCxMS said:

I'd be one of those people. When I was 18 I considered them 'the shit'.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Sad to say but I know people who'd be estatic that Scrawl are playing again.

I'd be one of those people. When I was 18 I considered them 'the shit'. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Sad to say but I know people who'd be estatic that Scrawl are playing again.

as depressing as this sounds.

EBAY... you can pick up fantastic old and new 45s on there, Simple

in Brighton (UK) there are three record stores.

borderline
the one sorta near the guitar shop
and the cafe records and bookshop just down from the train station.

you can find record stores easily, just google and search online.

P

www.squoodge.de/prestashop

9 bucks for a first pressing of what? Rinjo Njori said:

Though populart 7 inches are getting out of hand price wise.. $9 for a first press is ridiculous. Stick to the internet.

Though populart 7 inches are getting out of hand price wise.. $9 for a first press is ridiculous. Stick to the internet.

Personally, I'm an ebay addict...

get a silvertone twin twelve
a teisco or some other cheap japanese guitar
and maybe a maestro fuzztone

Very cool. A friend of mine has a Epi Dot and it sounds great. I've been tempted to get one of those Berhinger VIntage Distortions. Supposedly they're okay Big Muff clones. I'm not sure if a Big Muff is really something I want so I'm thinking that might be a good option just to try out. Speaking of guitar parts, does anyone a good source for Harmony parts? I need to get some new tuners for an old Harmony Bobkat. I'd like to keep the look of the old ones. SCxMS said:

I play a Epiphone Dot Deluxxe with a Bigsby added through a Bessinger Blues Overdrive through a Fender Blues Deluxe. It gets great sound, not too sure haow it stacks up for a total '50's feel, but it cranks.

I play a Epiphone Dot Deluxxe with a Bigsby added through a Bessinger Blues Overdrive through a Fender Blues Deluxe. It gets great sound, not too sure haow it stacks up for a total '50's feel, but it cranks.

I would send them an email to see if they're open or not. There's an amazing amount of parts there for hofner's. Pat said:

Speaking of garage guitar, i have a hofner colorama to rebuild, does anyone have some hofner parts to sell/trade ?

I need a Colorama scratch plate, one pick up version 1 and a Hofner Diamond Top Six String Pick Up ... I don't really know how to stick the vinyl surface on the guitar body, it seems hard to do right for non-professional.
This sites seems to provide hofner parts but i never try to order (the site looks old) : http://www.projectguitarparts.co.uk

Apparently Hofner still makes that model. I don't know if that helps or not. http://www.hofner.com/gab/en/phpshop/43/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.zupf_flypage/product_id,51/category_id,100/ That Hofner Club looks pretty cool too. I wouldn't mind having one.

So at each induction there is a 'band' that gets together of inductees and plays a tribute. Clearly it would be a Bo Diddley song, but who would be in it? Guitar 1: Poison Ivy Vocals: Billy Childish / John Spencer

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Yeah. But it should be once a month, not once a year. I don't think we'll be doing any of this in 25 years. Rinjo Njori said:

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

Yeah. But it should be once a month, not once a year. I don't think we'll be doing any of this in 25 years. Rinjo Njori said:

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

You should limit to five since that is what the RnR does

50s Chuck Berry
60s The Sonics
70s Count Bishhops
80s MIracle Workers
90s THee Headcoats
00s The Dirtbombs

Not sure to have seen :
King Khan & His Shrines (and BBQ)
The Sexareenos
The Movie Star Junkies
Los Yorks
The Black Lips

How about the Leaves? Just for writing and performing the original and best version of "hey joe"!

Sonics
Greg Shaw
Link Wray

Deja Voodoo and Color Me Psycho, two much overlooked 80s Canadian bands.

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

Interpunk has some Knights of the New Crusade stuff. www.interpunk.com But I don't think you will ever find one place with everything you want.

The Asteroid No 4

Hallogallo by Neu! is a good one. As is Fohat Digs Holes in Space by the much-disliked Gong.

* Tangle by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. This band truly is one of the major lost gems of the '90s, one of the most unjustly overlooked groups of their era. And this album (their second) is so overlooked, I overlooked it myself. For some reason I thought I had all their albums. Somehow I never had this one until now.

I first stumbled across the Fellers back in 1991 -- the Summer of Grunge! -- when I was up in Seattle to go to a wedding. They were headlining a bill of fellow unknowns at a little club called The Off Ramp. Their strange, discordant, yet lovably goofy sound twisted my head off. Describing that night in a review of another TFUL282 album back in 1996, I wrote, "I was amazed at how joyful and childlike the Fellers were, not in a self-conscious or cloying way as they created their musical magic, how they could be sweet and ear-wrenching at the same time. I'd never realized before that night that a mandolin could be used as an audio assault weapon." In Tangle, I hear echoes of Captain Beefheart, The Fall, maybe even a little Husker Du. But mainly I hear that crazy band I loved so much at the Off Ramp nearly 20 years ago.


*Git High Tonite! by Bloodshot Bill. He's a one-man rockabilly band from Montreal. He's a crony of both King Khan and BBQ, and allegedly even has his own brand of hair gel called "Nice 'n' Greasy," and -- like me -- he's a major Roger Miller fan. Sometimes you can hear it in his voice.

Although he rose from the punk scene, Bloodshot Bill does not play "psychobilly." You can feel the love and respect he's got for the rockabilly tradition. No metal riffs, no songs about werewolves or zombies (at least not on this album) .

But like the late great Ray Condo, you can hear the "psycho" in his vocals, his hiccups, his yodels.

I'm looking forward to a couple of upcoming CDs on Norton Records featuring this guy -- The Ding-Dongs with Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) and Tandoori Knights with the King (Khan, that is.)

* I Learned the Hard Way by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. I wouldn't call this "over-produced," but Sharon's fourth album with the Dap-Kings is noticeably more polished than he previous efforts. There's strings and vibes and background singers, more obvious references to Motown -- pretty classy stuff, though I prefer Jones and the Daps more gritty and less sweetened,

It took me a few tracks to start to sink into Hard Way. But it was worth it. There's some fine tunes here.

"Money" kicks off with a mini-sermonette about the recession woes, the message here basically is the same as other songs of similar titles - she needs MONEY! "Mama Don't My Man" is nice and basic -- just a guitar, some foot-stomps and some background singers. I bet somewhere there are Shirelles demos that sound a lot like this.

But by far the strongest here, and one of the best Sharon's ever done, is "She Ain't a Child No More," a tragic story of abuse and growing up too fast.

See for yourself. Here's Sharon and the lads performing this song recently on The Colbert Report.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - She Ain't a Child No More
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes

* Rosco's Rhythm by Rosco Gordon. You gotta love eMusic. Believe it or not, this, album is classified as "electronic experimental."

And no, it's not ska either, although Rosco's shuffling piano rhythms have been credited with inspiring a generation of Jamaican musicians.

But in reality, it's good basic R&B from the '50s. Rosco started out in Memphis where in the late '40s he was in a group called The Beale Streeters, which included B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland and the late great Johnny Ace.