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)

OH man good topic heres some unsung heros:

SHaron Needles - Butt Trumpet
Collin Sick (like missing work haha!)- Pinko and the action boys
Bloody Shit Napkin - Nipple Violator
Rex Everything, Vadge Moore, - The Dwarves

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!

GONG

Carl Sagan's Music of the Cosmos

I agree, Easter Everywhere by the 13th Floor Elevators is amazing. I also really enjoy listening to CAN when I'm tripping too...

Any thing by the 13th Floor Elevators!

"East-West" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band seems to trip my trigger with 'shrooms... sometimes a bit too intense, so I go to Beethoven's 9th...

If you're going to do any type of drug you really should only be listening to the Reatards while you do it.

(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

The Go-Nuts 1st Lp - especially "Do The Chomp", perhaps because I like the Guitar Junior "Do The Crawl" guitar intro, but they were even better live.

A lot of Louis Jordan's stuff like "3 handed woman"

Headcoatees "My Boyfirend's Learning Karate" especially when Childish says 'you sack o potatoes'

Irving Klaws "Loveslide"

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.

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!

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