Get the book- Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock...I got a copy used on Amazon for next to nothing.

Excellent! That's exactly what I needed! I'll post some pictures when I get some work done on it. I've made a full scale body pattern and I'm hoping to cut it out in the next few days. Color-wise I'm leaning towards white with a black pickguard. We'll see...

Hey Jamie, this site might provide the answers to your painting questions: http://reranch.com/ i would probably go for white or maybe black or another dark colour with the headstock painted to match.

I'm way too poor to buy all the guitars I want so I'm gonna make a few and see how it goes. So far I have a these two in the works:

1. Vox Phantom with two lipstick pickups
2. Something jazzmaster/jaguar-ish with p90s

I've got some poplar for the bodies and a nice squier strat neck for the phantom. I can't decide on a color for the phantom. White would be cool. Some kind of reverse sunburst would be great. My painting skills are gonna be limited though I'm sure. Price will be a factor too. I don't know if nitrocellulose varies by color.

Thanks, I figured it out. It's limited to five items (I think you gotta pay to add more), but I added a representative selection from The Malarians Swag Shack I thought you could also upload five mp3s, but it only let me do four.

ok mal go to the control panel or room or whatever they call it and move the mouse over the store tab. It should say create item. then you put the title such as "tour t-shirt" and a description. then you set the price and handling cost. put up an image and there you have it. Still don't know exactly how it all works but I'm learning. If you have any other questions ask. I know someone that is buying two of my songs today so i told them to call me when they do so I can hear some feedback on how "user friendly" it is. Mal Thursday said:

The Mean Mean Men said:

we joined and like the fact that it is pretty genre specific. Plus you can create your own items for merch. and that's pretty cool too.

I set up a page for my band, the Malarians (http://www.ebandagogo.com/The_Malarians/), but how and where do you do the merch thing?

The Mean Mean Men said:

we joined and like the fact that it is pretty genre specific. Plus you can create your own items for merch. and that's pretty cool too.

we joined and like the fact that it is pretty genre specific. Plus you can create your own items for merch. and that's pretty cool too.

Thanks for the heads up. We're here... http://www.ebandagogo.com/Acid_Fascists/

We just set up a page for our band on eBandaGoGo. I was really impressed by the number of quality garage rock & punk bands that have already found it. Looks like they've been doing a lot to promote the site to the right people. It doesn't quite have all the bells & whistles that the Hideout does, but it's still pretty cool and a good place for bands to network with other bands.

Any other bands here use it? If so, post your links!

My flash on you - Love
Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart
Down to the Wire- Neil Young (Buffalo Springfield)
Can't stand back - The Rats (Toody)
6 cold feet - the Gories (ha no bass line!)

Love Canal - Flipper
Room for One - Eater
Cut-Out Man - The Thought Criminals
Shutdown - the Germs
how about those?///....

After a discussion in a bar last night, I put you all up in a challenge. I disagreed with the list of top 25 Bass lines that my friend Nick had compiled for his site, Friggin Fabulous Radio. So now we are going to see what you all come up with! Give me your top 5 Bass lines!

Pagans - Fever
Controllers -Jezebel

Lee Ving.
L. Ron Bacchus of the Hard Liquors.

BORN BAD in the Bastille district in Paris is super cool...lots of vinyl. But one of the guys that owned it died a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, great album. That was like the 4th or 5th album I ever bought and I've loved it ever since. Seems like someone should have sampled the opening bass riff for "Rest Cure"... El Diablo Americano said:

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the whole album. His cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" is the best I've heard.

FAUST
CAN
NEU

Yeah, if you already know basic chords...learning songs by ear (for garage rock anyway) is probably best. That website listed above looks great for learning the words, however. I had to painstakingly decypher bad sounding records to get lyrics to garage rock songs and it was tough. But it might be a good idea to compare the lyrics to the records still. I mean I just looked at Liar Liar by the Castaways recently and somewhere in the first verse it says "come kill me honey, see how I cry", Kill? I think it's really "Come to me honey, see how I cry". Kill is rather extream, don't you think?

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I used to hang out with Rowland back in the days, in the 80s I guess, friends and partners in crime. Yes, he was a great guitarist but I remember Rowland as one of the nicest guys around. Sure, there was some freaky shit happening, but he was modest, humble, intelligent and sharp as a razor. Rowland dying is pretty fuckin' sad, especially under the circumstances. I'm glad he is remembered on this forum...

I bought the single 'Release the bats'.

They were great...Tracy Pew (RIP) had a great bass guitar sound, especially on "Six Inch Gold Blade". The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

I still can't realize this...and I still haven't got the "strength" to get and listen to his last record, "Pop crimes"...
Has anyone did ?

Andy Seven says : "I remember seeing The Birthday Party live at The Roxy (Sunset Strip) right after "The Bad Seed" was released"
Wow !!! How I wish I could have seen them ! Must have been a great moment !

I still can't realize this...and I still haven't got the "strength" to get and listen to his last record, "Pop crimes"...
Has anyone did ?

Andy Seven says : "I remember seeing The Birthday Party live at The Roxy (Sunset Strip) right after "The Bad Seed" was released"
Wow !!! How I wish I could have seen them ! Must have been a great moment !

You can never really go back to where you came from Rod! You gotta keep moving forward. I think that is why the Sonics resisted reuniting for such a long time (that and some personal BS between them all) Still they are a heckuva band nonetheless. Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I thought they sounded more like their 72 reunion show at the Paramount then they did their records, but that's OK because even in 72, they didn't sound contemporary, in fact they sounded more like what retro bands would sound like in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, even early 90s. I'm really just glad that they didn't feel the need to update like the Wailers and the Kingsmen have.