I'm getting fat fuzz out of my Ampeg Scrambler. Sounds best with my '75 Fender P-bass, treble boosted on my Sunn Sonaro head. Been using a single 15'' ElectroVoice cabinet but would love to go back to 10'' speakers.

the Nackers said:

Another option can be the UNIVOX superfuzz (60's blue grey) which i like on my rick'. There a good sound apporximation on you tube.
If you can't find it there are severals clones out there.
I am buying one now. I'll tell you I it sound

Another option can be the UNIVOX superfuzz (60's blue grey) which i like on my rick'. There a good sound apporximation on you tube.
If you can't find it there are severals clones out there.
I am buying one now. I'll tell you I it sound

Let's discuss about badget alterntive to 60's bass amp like the Ampeg SVT, Fender Bassman, Vox etc...
Is there any acceptable cheap bass amp within the new productions (clone included)?
Which 60's badget amp do you suggest?

hahaha!!!
i 'know' i already Wanna hear:"King Khan & His Shrines"!!
BOY HOWDY! ~just by readin'it.. HOOBOY!!

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican December 25, 2009 Political satirist Andy Borowitz recently wrote, "As the decade draws to a close, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans are holding out hope that the 10 years just past turn out to be a dream sequence from which they will soon awake." That pretty much sums it up. But here are 10 albums that made this lousy decade a little more bearable. A few are out of print, but you can find them around.

* Three Hairs and You're Mine by King Khan & His Shrines. The mighty Khan — a foulmouthed Canadian guitar picker of East Indian heritage who lives in Germany — seemed to be everywhere this year, with his partner Mark "BBQ" Sultan and the garage supergroup The Almighty Defenders. But my favorite aspect of Khan's career is when he plays with The Shrines, a full-fledged psychedelic soul band, complete with horn section. There's punk and garage-rock influences in the grooves, even a flicker of speed metal. But make no mistake, this band has soul! And this 2001 Voodoo Rhythm release is the best of his Shrines albums.

* We Have You Surrounded by The Dirtbombs. I guess I like a dose of apocalyptic paranoia in my music. It reigns supreme in The Dirtbombs' 2008 offering. On nearly every song, singer/guitarist Mick Collins seems to be looking over his shoulder and not liking what he sees. The end is near, and everyone's out to wreck his flow. With a lineup that includes two bassists and two drummers, The Dirtbombs are one of the many Detroit bands of the 1990s that didn't become famous when The White Stripes rose to glory.

* Cow Fish Fowl or Pig by The Gourds. Pure exuberant hillbilly funk with vocals that sound as if the town drunk had hopped on a honky-tonk stage and led the band into bold new dimensions. The stomping jugless-jug-band (well, Kev Russell sings about jugs) sound of "Ants on the Melon (With Due Regards to Virginia Adair)" remains my favorite Gourds song.

* All the Fame of Lofty Deeds by Jon Langford. This is the best Waco Brothers album that wasn't really by The Waco Brothers. It does, however, feature Langford, the evil genius behind The Wacos (and charter member of The Mekons.) Here he tackles a favorite Langford theme — the travails and temptations of country singers in post-war America. The story is a bittersweet distillation of everything that makes America attractive and everything that makes it repulsive.

* Kids in Philly by Marah. These Philly kids were roots conscious without a trace of retro, and so spirited — even when they sang of winos in the alley and murder in the streets, Marah had a jarring aura of optimism. And though they were much too young to have experienced the Vietnam War, their jaw-dropping "Round Eye Blues," a veteran's grim memories of the war, mixed up with images from rock 'n' soul lyrics, cut to the marrow. Marah never again matched this album from 2000.

maybe eddie has saved him a seat.

Could some of the podcasters on here point me to some of the best places for me to go so I can get started producing podcasts of my own?

Thanks in advance!

Eric Debris, Clode Panik, Hermann Schwartz, Zip-Zinc, all from Metal Urbain, a '77 french band !

Gerry Atric

Just stumbled on to this guy, Ergo Phizmiz http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ergo_Phizmiz/ Alfred Hitchcock fans should like Number 9 below

Ele Vega said:

have you ever heard the original greek version of pulp fiction's misirlou???? very trippy, enjoy :-) :

Here's a couple of Worst downloads from my O CANADARM! blog: The WORST Live'n'Dead cassette: The WORST LP 1993

Here's YouTube vid of most of the bands that played the Benefit/Memorial. http://www.youtube.com/user/judas668#p/u They raised over $3,000 to start a trust fund for Gregs 12 yr old son.

Timothy Gassen said:

Greg Johnson and I were working on an ED COBB TRIBUTE album for the past couple years, and I've posted some of the songs, my liner notes and my tribute to Greg as well at my Knights of Fuzz myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/knightsoffuzz . It's the only way I can deal with Greg's loss, and I think he'd enjoy it. Best to all, and to Greg a good night.

Greg Johnson and I were working on an ED COBB TRIBUTE album for the past couple years, and I've posted some of the songs, my liner notes and my tribute to Greg as well at my Knights of Fuzz myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/knightsoffuzz . It's the only way I can deal with Greg's loss, and I think he'd enjoy it. Best to all, and to Greg a good night.

As many of you have heard, Greg Johnson passed away on Dec. 4, 2009. There have been a number of radio tributes to Greg in the past 10 days, archived as podcasts. I made it easy for you. I uploaded all 3 tribute podcasts, they're inside .RAR files (like zip but better). If you need software, links are below. Please distribute these links to everyone who'd be interested... When you click the links, you get taken to multiupload, where you can choose from various sources. When in doubt, choose rapidshare or Megaupload. Choose free option. Might ask for a captcha (the match-the-letters game). watch the timer count down... then the download link will appear. CHRW 94.9: What Wave Tribute http://www.multiupload.com/8VAA4B6TDX CJSF 90.1: Grant's Tribute to Greg and Lux Interior http://www.multiupload.com/YZ6F7OR86B CITR 101.9: Rumbletone Tribute http://www.multiupload.com/U2MRQZTKJG Software links: WinRar(Windows): http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-32-bit/3000-2250_4-10007677.html Unarchiver (Mac): http://download.cnet.com/The-Unarchiver/3000-2250_4-10655313.html

I'd say start with volume 10 which features Paul Bearer and the Hearsemen on the cover and then volume 1.

So what's the best one?

my vote goes for mono. I started podacasting in mono long ago and, as Kopper says, for the same archive weight you get a better sound in mono ... besides, about 70% of what I play is mono!

Oh yeah, forgot that I saw 'em do it to it live at a long past Sleazefest (Chapel Thrill, NC) and they easily blew everybody else off the stages that particular year...what I'd give to catch their trash-tastic performance again...yip, yip.

Every couple of months I keep comin' back to this killer band called Bleed (bit of a poor name choice fer a garagepunk groop, imho), esp. their LP Motor Psycho...I lost my copy of their 1st LP (Tales of a Handsome Creep) durin' one of my many moves...any info on this groop (or a lead on how to snag myself another copy of their 1st release or any others fer that matter) greatly appreciated, piefaces... ...BTW my current band's theme song is a cover or their wild wallop'er from the 1st record...I'll let y'all figure it out...dig it

I read this this morning;

Sunday, December 20, 2009
Guitarist James Gurley, Formerly Of 60's San Francisco Acid Rockers Big Brother And The Holding Company Passes Away Aged 69

James Gurley, former guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the psychedelic blues acid rock band from San Francisco who assisted Janis Joplin on her meteoric rise to fame in the late 60's has passed away from a heart attack December 20th at the age of 69. He was two days shy of his 70th birthday.

Born in Detroit, Michigan on December 22, 1939, Gurley took up the guitar at the age of nineteen, practicing long hours listening to blues, particularly fond of bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins. In 1962, he moved to San Francisco and became part of the coffee-house circuit, playing in the folk and country blues tradition.

In the summer of 1965, legendary promoter Chet Helms brought James to 1090 Page Street to meet Peter Albin and Sam Andrew of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and shortly thereafter, he joined the band. In June of 1966, Joplin joined the band, and shortly thereafter she and Gurley began a short lived affair.

At the end of 1966, Big Brother signed a contract with Mainstream Records, with their debut album, 'Big Brother & the Holding Company' released the following year. Initially not garnering much national attention, following the band's historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, it finally debuted on Billboard's album charts in September, peaking at #43.

Signing with Columbia Records in November 1967, the resulting album 'Cheap Thrills' , released in the summer of 1968, one year after their debut album reached number one on the Billboard charts in its eighth week in October. It held the number one spot for eight (nonconsecutive) weeks. Considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco, it was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time.

At the end of the summer of 1968, just after appearing at the Palace of Fine Arts Festival in San Francisco, Joplin announced that she was leaving Big Brother in the fall of that year. After breaking up, the band got back together in the fall of 1969, with Kathi McDonald and Nick Gravenites on lead vocals, albeit with Gurley on bass, not guitar. After releasing two more studio albums the band called it a day in 1972.

Reuniting in 1987, Gurley left the band in 1996 due to not supporting his colleagues idea to hire a female singer to replace Joplin, and to concentrate on solo projects. An album 'Pipe Dreams' was released in January 2000.

Former BBHC bandmate Sam Andrew posted the following remembrance on line this afternoon:
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James Gurley died of a heart attack today 20 December 2009 in a hospital in Palm Springs, California.

I wrote about him just this last week that at The Maritime Hall in San Francisco, sixteen years ago, he played such great solos at our benefit for Chet Helms. He was on fire that night, and we have that on video tape so... there will be no doubt about it. When conditions were right, the man could really play.

James was the most unusual person I ever met, a pioneer, a real original, a very funny man and truly alive with an energy that not many people have. When James was around, life seemed to be magnified. Everything was more interesting, had more meaning, was more vital. He kept that energy right up to now, really. He and I did a set of interviews together in San Diego at the beginning of last summer and he was as wry and spry as ever.

When Big Brother lived at our Lagunitas house a few miles from where I am sitting, we all had our first Christmas together, was it 1967? We both had birthdays right around this time and James handed me a small present and growled, “Let’s put the X back in X-mas.” It was a bah, humbug moment that I know he would truly appreciate now. James has gone to the great X two days shy of his birthday, and two days after mine.

For me and for many people, James was the real 1960s, the real exemplar of that counterculture, the forerunner. Peter Albin, Chet Helms, and I founded Big Brother and the Holding Company, but James was the spirit and the essence of the band in its early days. He showed us the way as a Zen master would show the way, without sermons, without lectures, with as little talk but with as much humor as possible.

When I met James in 1965, he was going to die in two weeks. Of pleurisy. It was always something. James was such a hypochondriac that I was sure he was going to outlive all of us. Now he is gone.

Goodbye, old friend. Ave atque Vale.

Sam Andrew

These comments were posted by Barry Melton, former lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish:

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Today is another sad day in what's turned out to be a pretty devastating year. I learned just about an hour ago of the death of James Gurley this afternoon. James was, of course, the lead guitarist with Big Brother and the Holding Company. I believe James Gurley was the Yuri Gagarin of rock & roll -- the first man ...in space! There was only handful of us that created our mini-genre of psychedelic guitar, and James was the avitar who blazed the path for the rest of us. Go in peace, James...
December 20, 2009 10:57 PM

aloha from istanbul,
i desperately need "charm bag & sister ann" lyrics from gories.

is there anyone to help me??

chacha

MikeL said:

Cool!