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

I just stumbled across this old guitargeek.com forum thread asking for the best garage punk & primitive rock 'n roll rig. Being interested in guitar gear old and new I thought I would repost here and see if anyone wants to weigh in.

http://guitargeek.com/chat//showthread.php?t=79323

Well, I'm sure we'd all love to own copies of all our favorite Garage bands on vinyl, but those orginal pressing can get pretty pricey! I just picked up a reprint of "Black Monk Time" on 180 gram vinyl, and it's amazing(available on Amazon for those interested). Anybody know of any other recent re-issued Garage vinyl?(links please!)






ROCKxROLL
-BW

I kinda thought that might be the case, but needed to express it further. Thanks for getting back to me and I do have some messages sent to those pod-casters . Keep up the great Podcast as well this sweet site.

Rock'n roll,

Black'n Bart

Which Feedburner feeds are you having issues with? Each podcaster maintains their own Feedburner account/feed, so Michael's right in saying if one or two are giving you problems, to contact those individual podcasters directly.

I'll hit them up! Thanks

Hey, we do too! http://blip.fm/thenevermores Jimmy Shelter said:

We have a blip.fm acount for our band:
http://blip.fm/TheMieters

We just start using it, so no idea if it'll take off.

Very cool! Thanks for the heads up.

Just a tip for those of you who believe in promoting wherever you can:

Who ever wrote those notes... I'm guessing it was Greg Shaw who wrote the liner notes in the Pebbles series, wasn't it? Tim Warren's liner notes in the Back From the Grave series are great, too. Joe's Garage said:

One of the old "Pebbles" vinyl LPs had a great set of liner notes that kinda summed up a good reaction to the notion that the "Beatles saved rock and roll". Who ever wrote those notes did a great job to note how before the Beatles, Britain had Lonnie Donegal singing "My Father is a Dustman" type of crap. I watched that show on Feb 9th 1964 and I can remember there was a lot of U.S. rock music back then too. And anyway, Beatles, Stones, Who etc. did not bring us recycled Lonnie Donegan...now did they???

Kevin Schneider said:

I found this tidbit of trivia: the 1963 Grammy for best rock and roll recording went to Bent Fabric for "Alley Cat".

"February 8, 1964, there was not one single rock 'n' roll band in the country. February 9, the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show. February 10, everyone had one....My life began on February 9, 1964." - Little Steven (quoted in Esquire, Dec 2008) What do you think? I think in general he might be right, but I can think of lots of bands that existed prior to '64... the Wailers, the Sonics, the Pyramids, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc." Not only that but the Kingsmen and the Trahsmen were in the U.S. top 10 on February 8, 1964. The Rivieras would follow just a week or so later.

Well, that's good. It's just that it still needs some work. Yes, I know this has been going on forever, and I can't say I blame anyone for losing patience, but I'm sticking with it.

The reason that i went back, was that i was receiving emails from the site (or representatives thereof) saying that the site was improved. I didn't see any changes, but i did give it a chance. dave MikeL said:

Well, then, stop going to that site.

whatwave dave said:

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is.

MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

Fuck you. I'll like whatever I want to like. If you can't deal with it, it's your problem. BTW, you should have written "believe" rather than "belief." And for your information, I like Springsteen's early material, i.e. "Born to Run" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town," along with select tracks from the first two albums and "The River." Yes, "Born in the USA" was an embarrassment, because it was the sell out album. OCEAN PALACE said:

the very fact he is bruce spprignsteisnsssss guitarist is enough reason not to have anythign to do with this thing, if you think differently then you should be ashamed. how can you belief in a man who plays dancing in the dark 100 times a year.
MikeL said:

Well, then, stop going to that site.

whatwave dave said:

I got that message too.....went on that site a few times and it was a total waste of my time......unless i was having trouble sleeping that is.

MikeL said:

BTW, here's an e-mail that I received from fuzztopia. Maybe that was the plan all along, to just keep it in a beta format for a while to see how it would work out...

Fuzztopia would like to thank everybody who has created a profile and helped us test the site. Your feedback and contributions have been a huge help!

The site will be coming down for a little bit as we are in the process of making some changes based on your comments (better user interface, updated look and feel, faster load times, profile customization etc.), as well as continuing to get more cool content, and real opportunities for bands.

We will continue to keep you updated as we move closer to the launch.

'67 Ludwig Downbeat kit [with '65 Premier Royal Ace piccolo snare], 5-Star Super Zyn Cymbals n hats
'70 Marshall Super Bass 100 + '66 4 x 12 speaker cab
'70 Gibson EB-3 bass [slotted headstock]
Reissue Marshall JTM45 head + 4 x 12 cab [with replaced mid 60s Alnico speakers]
Reissue black face Fender Twin
Electro Harmonix Holy Grail reverb pedal
Colour Sound Tone Bender pedal
Mics: AKG D-12 [classic square 'bass drum' mic], Shure 545 [SM57 forerunner], one other Shure Unidyne, can't remember model number!

My gear I have at the moment.

- Gretsch Electromatic Corvette: This was just inside my price range at the time. It's a good guitar and I felt like I could get decent single coil and humbucker sounds out of it. The Gretsch style pickups are a bit brighter and twangier than Gibson style humbuckers.

-Epiphone Blues Custom 30: I got a really good deal on this on craigslist. It's a pretty nice amp. My only issues with it would be that the clean channel is a little darker than I like (still really good but I would like a little more chime and twang for the cleans.) and also the reverb isn't Fendery enough for me. It can do the Marshally Ramones thing well though.

-Silvertone 1484 head: I waited for months to find a decent price for this. They've really gone up in the past few years. I don't have a cab for it yet but it sounded great the times I have gotten to plug it up.

-Proco Rat 2 : I won this in an online giveaway. It doesn't quite give me the fuzz tones I'm after but it's fun to play with. It works well for a good boost or to induce some feedback.

-Harmony Bobkat: Got it really cheap from a friend. It's exactly what you need for a "garage" sound. It needs new tuners and a new output jack though.

-1964 Univox 335 copy: It's actually completely hollow more like a Casino. It has the coolest greenburst color. This was also really cheap but I had to rewire it and the neck has a bit of a warp.

I'm hoping to get something to fill my fuzz desires. I haven't decided what that's gonna be yet. I'll also need to something to fill my lack of good reverb at some point.

my hears are not well trained to find out all the words, but not it seems obvious when i'm reading it ! thanks again ! we practice the song this week ! hehe

WFMU's Beware of the Blog always has been lots of fun, but while searching for MP3s of The Weird-ohs/Silly Surfers, I stumbled across this:  Beware the Blog posts by one Debbie D.

I stopped listening to the radio when John Peel died. I also used to listen to Andy Kershaw back in the day, before he went all freakaziod, lost his mind and started stalking his ex-wife [something like that, anyway]. I can't remember them ever playing much garage stuff but i really used to dig their constant curve-balling of Cumbian music, alternative hip-hop, industrial noise, weird shit and dub reggae. Although i'm sure it was John Peel who got me into Man... Or Astro-Man?

Joe's Garage said:

Growing up in Miami Florida in the '60s we had two great AM stations: WQAM / Tiger Radio and WFUN. They had a bunch of jocks like Rick Shaw and a slew of others I can't recall at the moment.

Cousin Brucie was pretty iconic on WCBS-FM in the 80's. We're about 5 years apart, so he might not have been so prominent when you were growing up. By the late 90's, I think U2 was considered "oldies" and the station wasn't so hot anymore. By the time I hit my mid teens I had found WFMU and being situated upstate in Orange County also listened to Vasser College's WVKR. Two local radio stations were the craptastic WRRV, the Rock Revolution, out of Middletown, and Poughkeepsie's WPDH, The home of Rock n Roll, an equally craptastic station geared towards the parents of the kids who listened to WRRV (or vice versa). I guess Woodstock's WDST has the most integrity for being a "mainstream" station that plays some folky, indie, hispter stuff, but nothing that would be considered garage punk. And it was outta range so I never really listened to it growing up. I think I'm really glad I grew up with WCBS-FM. Along with all the vintage 50's classics, they played a lot of garage staples like Hang on Sloopy and Louie Louie mixed in with the British invasion and more obscure Nuggets stuff. Definitely instilled an appreciation for the sounds of real rock n roll. Ed Post-Mortem said:

I remember listening to WCBS-FM in New York, but by that time the station was just like any other mediocre Oldies station, and no one ever really stood out to me on air.
WFMU's "Music to Spazz By" and "Teenage Wasteland" are both great shows, "Three Chord Monty" is good too. I didn't really hear about that station till I was packing shit up and moving to Colorado 5 years ago, but it's the oldest freeform station in the country and 100% listener supported.
There's a show out here that broadcasts on the University of Colorado station (1190 AM Boulder) "The Lunch Hour With Jonny Trash". The show features mainly classic punk rock stuff, and most of it people are very familiar with, but it's still really cool to turn the radio on and hear the Buzzcocks or Television...
"Route 78 West" is a great show that specializes in rare country/honky tonk. One of the hosts has a large collection of rare 78s and records alot of good shows that come through town. "Honky Tonk Heroes" on KGNU (88.5 FM & 1390 AM Boulder/Denver) is another good show that plays alot of obscure and popular country/honky tonk/hillbilly music.

I think it's gotta be an independent station nowadays.

Forgot the Scientists! Mr Yates said:

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