"Blast Off Girls" by Herschell Gordon Lewis is as real as it gets. He even recruited a real garage band to play The Big Blast. Highly recommended stuff.
I also recommend "Mondo Mod" which has documentary footage of the Sunset Strip including bands performing at Gazzari's and The Whisky A Go-Go.
And if you like pre-fab rock groups there's always Max Frost & The Troopers in "Wild In The Streets".

I watched a pretty good doc about Roky Ericson of The 13th Floor Elevators. If you dig that band at all you'll at least find this interesting. If you aren't familiar with Roky's story - he did a lot of drugs and had some shock therapy done to him for being schizophrenic and is now just batshit crazy. Sad. But interesting.

The Trip

Psych Out

Riot On Sunset Strip

Bunny Lake Is Missing - not garage but I think the Zombies are in this one

Blow Up - not garage either but a good film from 1966

Standells - on the Munsters (not a movie)

You talking about docs? There's a cool Dead Moon documentary -Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story - that deals a little bit with Fred's perspective on that. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396913/ As far as movies from that era, Strawberry Alarm Clock was in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Do you know movies that deal with the golden '60s garage era? Cause I feel my brain more empty than a Jeffrey Lee Pierce's bottle of whiskey about that. Thanks.

wow looks like this is BIG LEAGUE COMPETITION!!!!!

My lord...We've been jacked! Worst marketin' scheme ever under the auspices of garage rock community building ....& who in the fuck amongst true garage fans would give a shit over Springstink tix?

Is this like a corporate version of our little Hideout? From an email I just received: Friends of The Underground Garage, Stevie Van Zandt is excited to announce the Beta release of Fuzztopia – “all things Rock and Roll.” We need your help adding content, and we’ll be rewarding a few of the best profiles. As a “one-stop” for FANS and bands, Fuzztopia will ultimately include: --a place for you to purchase songs and albums from bands, including content exclusively available on Fuzztopia. --advice and tools, from “city secrets” and “cool stuff” to “techville,” “video games,” and “da biz,” among other things. We’ll be gathering content from our favorite sites, but we’ll also have recommendations and feedback from musicians, bands, and people like Little Steven that just haven’t been available anywhere else. Think of “city secrets” as all the places in your hometown (restaurants, bars, clubs, etc.) that you would recommend to visiting friends. Likewise, if you have “city secrets” from other parts of the world you’ve visited, Fuzztopia is a fantastic place for that insight. --tons of streaming video content. At “The Drive-In,” fans of B-movies will soon be able to watch and chat in real time. Meanwhile “Fuzz TV” will have live concert footage, original programming, and music videos. Here’s where we need your SUPPORT & EXPERTISE: --sign up as a fan, and create a profile --add TWO of your favorite videos --provide 5-10 “City Secrets,” plus ANY PHOTOS. --ADD comments about “secrets” AREADY posted by others. Remember, people will be looking for your input! We know you have the inside scoop, and we want you to share it. --create a playlist from the bands that have already uploaded their music. --the beta version of Fuzztopia isn’t just about building - we want your feedback. Are there things you don’t like? Areas that need improving? A feature missing? Is anything confusing? Should we add something else? What do you like best? This is the time to tell us. We will REWARD the best profiles with a couple of great prizes: GRAND PRIZE (one winner) * A pair of tickets to ANY one of the remaining Summer/Fall tour dates with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band! PLUS you and your guest will receive exclusive laminates to meet Stevie Van Zandt backstage before the show! 1st PRIZE (one winner) * Fender Stratocaster Squire Classic 50’s guitar signed by Stevie Van Zandt! 2nd PRIZE *FIFTEEN 2nd prize WINNERS will be selected RANDOMLY among the COMPLETED PROFILES, so everyone creating a thorough profile has a chance to win: *A script for an Underground Garage radio show PERSONALLY signed by Stevie Van Zandt. PLUS a double CD copy of the applicable show. The scripts are always written by hand, and include a bunch of commentary. This is a highly collectible, immensely cool look at the creative process for the show Here is the sign-up page: http://beta.fuzztopia.com/PreRegister.aspx Thanks for your help making Fuzztopia the best place for “all things rock and roll.”

I hate feeling like I hijack these threads! I checked Time Bomb's site and they have NOT NOW in on CD and vinyl for about 1500 yen in Japan. If they are selling the album at the show, I'll probably pick it up. Here's some more artwork by Rockin' Jelly Bean (Erostika/Jackie & the Cedrics).

OH MY SHIT! If that ain't some frakkin' hot action there! Enjoy getting closer to the A-Bones! Besides that, will someone be taking Photos/Video of that? I mean: PLEASE???? Pacifiction Records said:

This is awesome... I'm about to see the A-Bones in Japan and their stuff keeps popping out of nowhere at me! I've seen the Japanese bands a million times but the A-Bones will be an initiation for me!

If you travel to Marseille in south of France have a run at Lollipop Store the best record shop in town. Garage, Punk, Soul, Sixties, Comps (CDs and LP's), Books, Shirts,... . The two boss are real cool guys. You can even have a drink cause there's a little bar inside. Funny place.

When I'm in NY, GREENPOINT - BROOKLYN I love to skip to PERMANENT RECORDS www.permanentrecords.info/ Nice people, cool store, great stuff - great area to hang out anyway. Shopping is easy there: There's a thriftstore like second-hand section, some rarities and the staff (mostly it's the owner herself) is very friendly and up on things. You can find recs from IN THE RED to NORTON and back as well as some old timey thing-eys.

Yeah New Paltz is a great little town...one of the better college towns I've been too - plus it's close to NYC - relatively speaking. My favorite drinking place over there is Bacchus...400 different types of bottled beer...how can anyone go wrong with that?

Aug 16th:

18.00-19.30 VIRUS RADIO

Moorat Fingers - KillKillKill!!!
Rotter - Hippier Lugter Af Peber
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On
Siege - Walls
Turpentine Brothers live (5/3-2008 Elværket. 38 min.)
Mercy - Shadow Woman
Cosmic Psychos - She's A Lost Cause (acoustic version)
Bolt Thrower - World Eater
The Brides - Bad Attitude
Ariel Pink - Gettin High In The Morning
Dixie Buzzards - Save It For Me
Radioators From Space - Television Screen
Pig Destroyer - Untitled
Teengenerate - This Is Rock'n'Roll
Sunn 0))) - Alice

19.30-20.30 LOWCUT

Music From The Film - Welcome/Beware
Aeroflot - Pitbull Of The Pant Leg
The Reatards - Plastic Surgery
Michael Yonkers - Smile Awhile
Rattus - Khomeini Rock
Vee Dee - Kaleidoscope Death Ray
The Dirtys - Fuck
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
Fuck The Facts - The Pile Of Flesh You Carry
Big Black - Bad Penny
Russian Roulettes - Drinking Much Too Long
Chrome - Torque Pound
The Hentchmen - Why Did God Make Girls
Kreator - Total Death
The Death Set - Superzero
Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs - Track 3 (live Dæmonens Port)
Bill Bondsmen - Swallowed By The World
Junkpile Jimmy - Sievehead Stomachmouth
Nick Cave - Avalanche

Just wanna add some perfect french garage bands :
les Dogs (not the KBD's ones)
les Thugs
The Neurotic Swingers
The Hatepinks
Gasolheads
The splash 4,
Fatals,
Magnetix...

Maybe the Hideout hall of Fame is a better name just so there's no argument if Bo Diddley belongs or not or if a group is garage punk or garage revival or British beat or WHATEVER.

TRASHSISTORS always seems to bring the party.

Nice! Canada put out a lot of goooooooooooooood stuff. I especially love The Curse. Dgrador said:

My blog: O CANADARM! features Fine Musical Trash From Canada and Beyond!

My blog: O CANADARM! features Fine Musical Trash From Canada and Beyond!

Here are just a few I'm fond of. Many props to these dudes. Uncle Gil's Rockin' Archives The Twighlight Zone The Manchester Morgue The Devil's Music The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party Blaxploitation Pride The Wicked Thing The Head Vein and several more..... Any of you have a music sharity blog or like any? Also, my thoughts on these blogs: my opinion is that all of these ppl who do these blogs are obsessively committed to promoting the bands and musicians. Its a fact that the whole "try before you buy," thing will work if its quality shit. And if you download any of this stuff and like it - you should leave the blog owner a comment! The point isn't passive exploitation of bands and artists - its to promote and create a dialogue amongst fans. And that's a fact, Jack.

ahhhhh that purple canteen is a killer track, love it, niceeee, some more tracks i didnt know about, that "The denims" is really nice, and ill search for the acapulco gold, the others i know, and they are excellent..

Just thought of a few more i really like in similar strangness..

The inferno-inferno
The boss tweeds-wrist watchband
Grains of sand-golden apples of the sun
Shirley Hughley-Purple & green
New Chains III-The end
The night mist-Last night
Hamilton streetcars-Invisible people
Smoke spoon-Planetary freakout
Remaining few-Painted air
Brain train-me

Im always on the search for more obscure strange beauties like these

btw bob thanks for more contributions, you seem to know your stuff...:))))

I thought of another...

The Denims - White Ship - this is another solid, moody acid garage 45 from 1967 that's somewhat obscure - also on the Fistful of Fuzz comp.

More of the usual 45's/lp's that most people know:

Bohemian Vendetta - some of the tracks on that solid record are moody and somewhat strange.
The Mystic Tide - all this group's 45's.
The Outsiders - CQ - one of my personal favorites...I recently saw a original copy of this in NYC for 300 bux.
T C Atlantic - Faces
Acapulco Gold - In My Mind Lives A Forest
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows lp - one of the best ever.

I recently picked up Sundazed's USA records lp. It's more garage than psych but there are some pretty cool cuts on it like the Flock's psyched out What Would You Do If The Sun Died, Time To Dream by the Lost Agency and a few cool tracks by the Park Avenue Playground - great comp of local Chicago bands.

The Mystic Tide...don't know how familiar anyone is with NY but these guys hailed from Long Island - home of the plaza bar, fake tans, chain restaurants, cheesy dance clubs and the caveman guido. I'm amazed something good came out of LI.

Have you heard of the Purple Canteens Brains In My Feet - it's excellent, I've posted it to my page along with a few others mentioned on that list. Shit, my apologies for all the rambling, I just got really into this thread.

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE vol. eleven MY TALE IS HOT Watcha weirdos and welcome to MY TALE IS HOT bringing you yet more rock'n'roll weirdness. It's a regular panties inferno! You can't lick it! This month's show is a second helping of rockin'n'rollin sounds of a sexual nature, but this time I thought I'd try to put them together into a raunchy storyline that tells a TALE of HOT, steamy, sexual liasons and all other kinds of illicit behaviour. See if you can follow my twisted way of thinking and get to the end of the story!! *Warning MY TALE IS HOT is not bedtime listening for kiddies* But don't blame me if it's too blue! Cos this show is just an audio erotic response to Joey Martini's Peek-a-boo Revue podcast show entitled 'Baby Let Me Bang Your box', so do yourself a favour and listen to his weird debased rock'n'roll debauchery and blame him for corrupting Mr A The Barber. Keep it weird, till next time. Mr A The Barber I Dig Chicks! - Jonah Jones Quartet Going Steady - Jilted John Love Is... - The Phantom Surfers Sick! Sick! Sick! - Terry Corin and Her Boyfriends I Got a Rocket in my Pocket - Jimmy Lloyd Uncontrollable Urge - Devo I Want a Lip - April Stevens Girl (You Captivate Me) - ? and the Mysteians I Wanna Make Love - Leroy Dogson Touch Me - The Doors Take It Off - The Pastel Six Delilah Jones - The Thunderbirds Hold It Mary - The Axcents Anyway You Wanta - Harvey Oh, Honey - Gloria Wood Hanky Panky - The Raindrops Bend Me, Shape Me, - The Models Women Tied Up In Knots - Bongwater Weirdo Libido - The Lime Spiders Queen of Pain - The Cramps Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground She Won't Turn Over For Me - Tommy Odim Cool (Joey!) Martini - Blue Jeans Drunk That's All - Laverne Ray Too Drunk To Fuck - The Dead Kennedys Love Potion No.9 - The Clovers www.yougotgoodtaste.podomatic.com www.myspace.com/yougotgoodtaste

For sure, good thievery lends to great writing! ~T Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I'm trying to get back into writing cuz I haven't done it in quite a while (I finally have some new bits I'm finally piecing together) and I can thank Erik for that. What I do is listen to Back from the Grave and then write my own lyrics. Well, not realy, but I do tend to write songs like the way Poison Ivy, Billy Childish, Paula Pierce and Rudi Protrudi do (and I was doing it like that before I even knew who they were. I thought swiping chords and riffs was MY idea. Was I ever wrong.

Keepa Rockin' Rod! Stick the best bits and pieces together, then demo them up and see what sounds good. Some stuff may work and some stuff may not. I have so many scraps of songs on bits of paper lying around. Some are gems and some are shit. I don't know what is what until I actually record it. I had a few demo versions of things make it on my CDs because I liked them better than the finished band versions. You have all the TOOLs for good songs, use them as best you can and I think you will do fine. Everyone else out there, some songs fall out of the sky, and others take time to get right. I honestly don't know if there are any hard and fast rules for this stuff. Good Luck! Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

I'm trying to get back into writing cuz I haven't done it in quite a while (I finally have some new bits I'm finally piecing together) and I can thank Erik for that. What I do is listen to Back from the Grave and then write my own lyrics. Well, not realy, but I do tend to write songs like the way Poison Ivy, Billy Childish, Paula Pierce and Rudi Protrudi do (and I was doing it like that before I even knew who they were. I thought swiping chords and riffs was MY idea. Was I ever wrong.