I've just moved into my new place in London, and I've just started a garage band, but is there a 'The ...' band name that hasn't been used before ever! Come on help me out!

nice :)

Great article. Thanks.

Here's something for all of you garage rockers who only like the real thing... http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:69816

Uhhh, seems like, I've let it out here ha?? HAhaha.

America (Canada is, with all respects, included) is the capital-continent of GP for real, right? Seen by the mass of people that live there and would fire it up back in the day basically and also by the historic and cultural background and all. But you know that better than' me, since you are living there an' all. For fan numbers, I don't know, ...but good shit happens all over the place: I mean, check SWIZZZZERLAND makin' my ears proud to listen in, check CAMBODJA's history of rock music (where records where destroyed and the movement was actually killed by the fucked up shithead army ---> "shotdown" fer real!). I sure enjoy me some ITALIAN stuff, like MOTORAMA, or WHITE PAGODA. Hell, there is loads happenin' there. Right GRINGO? Shit I'm sure leaving stuff out, like the PEOLPE UP IN THE NORSE COUNTRIES... sorry guys, you are grrrrreat! Check SPAIN and all the wild festivals going down there, totally, positively jealous of those guys moxie! BRITAIN, Dirty Water, BILLY CHILDISH all kinds of other sweet humbug - NUFF SAID! SOUTH AMERICA HAS A LOT ROLLIN' man, what a jam! Even GERMANY has wrought out some awesome bands. The MONTESAS come to mind. ÁUSTRIA is slowly catching up, the STAGGERS crew is doing a lot, BATMAN AND ROBIN, SPEEDY AND THE FUCK OFFS got good crap rollin' - so as ya hear, stuff is going! But here, some other jerkfucks I'm not cool with personally take GARAGEROCK as gospel and are tooo hardcore about it, not enjoying it at all. I'm not calling names. I just don't enjoy the headache they are spreading, so screw that - I'm biased. I'm all out for diversity and if someone yells "POP-sellout!!" to every new band on the scene, tha's no fun! I'm here for the sounds baby! "!CAUTION: WISEASS RANT AHEAD!" I mean do what ya want, right? It's just, I don't like no expert smartass scene-ster authority tell me how to listen to my music (just the tellin' is enough). But said people sure enjoy humpin' the legs of the BLACKLIPS when they play a show here. And what is the BLACK LIPS? One of the toprockin' GARAGEROCK bans out who have reached mass Pop appeal - but aren't pop. And what do the BLACK LIPS do? Play all kinds of crazy shit, spreading it far, but not spreading it thin! "RANT ROAD END!" I'm writing this in a gritty mood so don't get me wrong, heehee. For the site: Damn, I'm glad this place is thriving! I sure love it!

i know about 2 people who are into garagepunk. then again I'm in philadelphia, though this one day i was in some cafe and they were playing some 60s garage mix... so there's some hope in this town yet.

Not enough...no really I think there are people out there that are fans of this sort of stuff that don't know or don't care that it fits in the garage punk genre.

According to statbrain the site gets 18,500 hits a day which is pretty damn impressive (even considering return visits...) so there must be a pretty healthy army of GaragePunkers out there...

Hmmm, do we start cooking up plans for world domination?

So I've been wonderin' fer a while now...how many fans of garagepunk do y'all think are actually out there...

My guess is a decent indicator would be the avg. number of downloads the regular podcasts on the GPPN get, but I am after more info and numbers fer a better idea ...fer instance, typical door counts at these recent and upcoming "mega" garagepunk fests (i.e. Gonerfest, the Scion thing comin' up, etc.), typical total sales fer current garagepunk national acts records, ....things like that...ideas and guesses (& most importantly, brutal discussion) is all welcomed!

Half Naked Accordion is ver popular in some Slavic nations

My favorite is of course Lux Interior,
Don't remember what shes from but I always remembered there was a girl called Dinah Cancer.
There is a dragqueen in London too whose name I love: Suppository Spelling!

I was very honoured to know Kickboy Face. He lived in Barcelona, my hometown when some friends and me tracked him down and made an interview for a local 'zine. I saw him five or six times more and later on I found out he had died half a year before. One of the top guys I've ever met! El Diablo Americano said:

Derf Scratch (FEAR)
Frank Discussion (Feederz)
Sickie Wifebeater (Mentors)
Klaus Fluoride (Dead Kennedys)
Lorna Doom (Germs)
Kickboy Face (Catholic Discipline)

....ad infinitum.

Derf Scratch (FEAR)
Frank Discussion (Feederz)
Sickie Wifebeater (Mentors)
Klaus Fluoride (Dead Kennedys)
Lorna Doom (Germs)
Kickboy Face (Catholic Discipline)

....ad infinitum.

:-D !!! The Branded said:

Rat Scabies!

I can't believe nobody said the coolest name: Elvis Ramone (Blondie's Clem Burke, who drummed for the Ramones for just two shows when Marky left to get sober)

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.

Huh? that's crazy? Ya shoulda got it... I should just turn it into mp3's and upload it here, in fact I'm on holiday so I fuckin will! Eastwood said:

Holy shit! I almost bought that record the other day, I saw it at this store called Necromance in Los Angeles and wanted it hardcore.

High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That's a good suggestion. But you should go for something with in the lyrics like 'satan's coming to get you' or 'whats that behind you?'
But seriously if you can find a copy then Alfred Hitchcock's Ghost Stories for Young People is a real winner.

Eastwood said:

Carl Sagan's Music of the Cosmos

I bought one of those mounted piranhas at Necromance recently and I must say that it is one of the finest purchases I have ever made. Eastwood said:

Holy shit! I almost bought that record the other day, I saw it at this store called Necromance in Los Angeles and wanted it hardcore.

High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That's a good suggestion. But you should go for something with in the lyrics like 'satan's coming to get you' or 'whats that behind you?'
But seriously if you can find a copy then Alfred Hitchcock's Ghost Stories for Young People is a real winner.

Eastwood said:

Carl Sagan's Music of the Cosmos

Holy shit! I almost bought that record the other day, I saw it at this store called Necromance in Los Angeles and wanted it hardcore. High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That's a good suggestion. But you should go for something with in the lyrics like 'satan's coming to get you' or 'whats that behind you?'
But seriously if you can find a copy then Alfred Hitchcock's Ghost Stories for Young People is a real winner.

Eastwood said:

Carl Sagan's Music of the Cosmos

I once listened to 'Trout Mask Replica' whist having a CT scan. Stuck in a white metal clanking, whirring tube with Beefheart was possibly the most bizarre non-chemically enhanced experience I ever had...

That's a good suggestion. But you should go for something with in the lyrics like 'satan's coming to get you' or 'whats that behind you?' But seriously if you can find a copy then Alfred Hitchcock's Ghost Stories for Young People is a real winner. Eastwood said:

Carl Sagan's Music of the Cosmos

Had pretty "memorable" time once to the Count Five best of...

Just do yerself a favor and forget about all the Pink Floyd-garbage...& get yerself a tambourine!

(laugh in a good way:) 1. the monks- boys are boys (the organ and the "woohoo" crack me up!!!) 2. the monsters- whiskysong. makes me feel like i m already drunk!!!awesome song, awesome band!!! 3. the toy dolls-nellie the elephant. HELL YEAH!!!! :-D

I have always had good results with with pressing with Rainbo Records in Santa Monica CA (now in Canoga Park CA); http://www.rainborecords.com I have heard records pressed by United Records and they are OK. If you can cut your Master Lacquers elsewhere and supply them to them within their specs, then they can sound pretty good. Here is a guy who cuts my Master Lacquers; http://www.groove-o-matic.com It is all MONO though! I have worked with folks that have used several plants in the Czech Republic over the years and they do a good job, but the Shipping Costs and Transit Time (plus exchange rates) sometimes cause havoc with things. Back in the early 1980s there was Imperial Records up in Vancouver BC, but they got busted for pressing Bootlegs (read about that in Clinton Heylin's book "Bootleg: The Other Record Industry") That pretty much killed things up here in Seattle for a while. There have been several record pressing plants that went under in the 90s that their presses ended up sold for scrap metal! Sad. If I had the cash and the space I woulda invested in that equipment. SIGH! Hopefully this helps out someone here.