I totally agree!

Brielle said:

Thirsty Moon record shop in the Hillcrest area of San Diego (California) has to be my favorite so far, that's relatively near to me. I mostly always spot something that makes my eyes grow big and my heart thump a bit. The people working there are friendly and normally know whats up, from what I've experienced at the least. The vinyl is well categorized as well. *Some* stuff can be a bit pricey, that's the only slight negativity about it though. Weooooo..

That's cool man, after posting I read your post and realized we went to the same university! Had some good times in New Paltz! Bob Blackstone said:

New York City, NY
House of Oldies - the owner has a log up his ass - they have the bigger names although I picked up great original copies of Moby Grape 69, The Beach Boys Surf's Up and The Seeds' Future here at bargain prices.
Rockit Scientist
Kim's Video
Other Music
Midnight Records - mailorder vinyl and cds, though if you make an appointment you can actually go there - the owner is somewhat strange.
Eat Records - Brooklyn - you can sit down and eat food than sift thru records.

Albany, NY
Last Vestige - one of the best I know of...great vinyl....it's in the ghetto though...best advised to wear armor

Danbury, CT
Gerosa - geared heavily toward classic rock

Waterbury, CT
Brass City Records - alot of psych and hippie stuff

New Paltz, NY - went to college here, great town
Rhino Records

So there's the tristate area in a nutshell....

Does anyone know Cleveland well? I went to one place that was pretty cool at the edge of town, in like a sorta hip area, or as hip as Cleveland can be but this place had alot of garage, beat, punk and so forth...vinyl and cds. The owner was this short stocky barrel chested fella with a beard...dark hair.

OK, I'll start small and get bigger. In my college town, New Paltz, NY there's a couple places: Jack's Rhythm's - 54 Main St, New Paltz, NY Good but small selection of vinyl and CDs. I bought my first Teengenerate LP there and some of the 45s I distro (The Playmates, Radio Shanghai, Trio) are on shelves there and some CDs like The Fadeaways, Teengenerate live and The Dogs Tribute. Rhino Records - 3 Church St., New Paltz, NY Great selection of all types and lots of garage, surf, exotica, punk and indie on vinyl. Waaay back in the day it used to be affiliated with the Rhino label. In NY city, I can recommend two places although there are plenty others, like Bleecker Street Records, Academy etc.: Other Music (Manhattan) - www.othermusic.com Mostly out music, avant garde, experimental and indie rock, but there's also some punk, garage, electronica and indie on vinyl. I put some experimental CDs there (Flight of Idea, Six O'Minus, Varo). Passout Recordshop (Brooklyn) - http://www.myspace.com/passoutrecordshop Mostly vinyl punk, hardcore, garage, exotica, rockabilly, psychobilly, etc. I put some 45s (Playmates, Radio Shanghai, Trio) here and some CDs (Fadeways, Teengenerate live, The Dogs tribute). The owner Pee Wee is also in the punk band I.C.U. In Japan there are tons and tons, but I'll give you a short list of the more garage punk ones: Disk Union is a chain that has everything including ample vinyl selection depending on the location. Shimokitazawa is the largest I've seen, but Shibuya has a good punk shop. Japan Vinyl in Shinjuku, two shops, one dealing in more classic rock and mainstream and the other selling more udnerground punk, indie stuff. They bring bands like the Rezillos, The Boys, The Only Ones, Pretty Things, The Undertones to Japan. Record Shop Base, another chain with punk, hardcore, garage stuff. The Tokyo shop is in Koenji. They reissued and released Nikki Corvette stuff in Japan and more recently the Baby Shakes and Test Patterns. Senseless Records in Hachioji carries more punk (pop punk, hardcore, post hardcore, oi!, ska) but you can find the odd ball country, garage, neo-rockabilly LP. Run by Tsuchiya from Peace of Bread and it's connected to a studio which has regular events on the weekend. I distro Armedalite Rifles LP and other upstate NY punk here. Micky Room in Yokohama, very tiny place in a seedy apartment near Yokohama station. Lot's of underground hardcore, classic and rare punk to find punk from all over the world. I distro Armedalite Rifles LP here as well and other NY punk stuff. Last might be the best for this crowd. TIME BOMB RECORDS. I haven't been to Osaka yet, but I'm dying to check this shop out. Simply the best place to find garage punk, Japanese or otherwise. The Time Bomb Label has released stuff by bands like 5678's, Acid Eater, Mad3, Supersnazz, First Alert, etc. There's plenty of other places I haven't check out or I can't remember the names, but these are the ones that stick out.

New York City, NY
House of Oldies - the owner has a log up his ass - they have the bigger names although I picked up great original copies of Moby Grape 69, The Beach Boys Surf's Up and The Seeds' Future here at bargain prices.
Rockit Scientist
Kim's Video
Other Music
Midnight Records - mailorder vinyl and cds, though if you make an appointment you can actually go there - the owner is somewhat strange.
Eat Records - Brooklyn - you can sit down and eat food than sift thru records.

Albany, NY
Last Vestige - one of the best I know of...great vinyl....it's in the ghetto though...best advised to wear armor

Danbury, CT
Gerosa - geared heavily toward classic rock

Waterbury, CT
Brass City Records - alot of psych and hippie stuff

New Paltz, NY - went to college here, great town
Rhino Records

So there's the tristate area in a nutshell....

Does anyone know Cleveland well? I went to one place that was pretty cool at the edge of town, in like a sorta hip area, or as hip as Cleveland can be but this place had alot of garage, beat, punk and so forth...vinyl and cds. The owner was this short stocky barrel chested fella with a beard...dark hair.

Columbus, Ohio has ::

Lost Weekend Records
Used Kids Records
Magnolia Thunderpussy
Evil Empire Records

Employees at all four places know their stuff!

AKA Music yo, 2nd and Market... where i go to get shit.
The Record Exchange is ight. Also Sailor Jerry's always has some good records on sale.
Repo Records, every once in a while they have some cool stuff usually just trendy music for all the hipsters.
Tequila Sunrise, never been there since I think its much like repo if anything.
Theres a bunch others but I usually always go to AKA.

Missing Link is closed down, apparently recently. I managed to miss out on another great thing. Jannell said:

Central Indiana stores (that I know of):

-Vibes Music in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN
-Village Green in Muncie, IN (near BSU)
-Indy CD and Vinyl in Broadripple Indianapolis, IN
-Missing Link Records in Indianapolis, IN

*I'm not familiar with Bloomington at all but I KNOW there are lots of rad record shops there.

Also - if you are in Muncie, IN - there is a used vinyl record shop downtown called Dan's Downtown Record Store. Another sweet spot for used gems is the Off Broadway Antique Mall. On the weekends you should check out the Main Street Flea Market. Hellz yeah.

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.

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!

The A-Bones are the masters of cover art tributes. The first thing I ever got by them was a single that featured them looking like Paul Revere and the Raiders on their first Columbia album. I also remember the last A-Bones album looking like FOR YOUR LOVE by the Yardbirds.

UH-HU!
Enjoyed the songs...
Have fun blasting the country!

Tsk! Effin' Blowheads! swt said:

I'm still pissed off because a local station carries Underground Garage at the exact same time I do Terrell's Sound World on our local public radio station here in Santa Fe.

I'm still pissed off because a local station carries Underground Garage at the exact same time I do Terrell's Sound World on our local public radio station here in Santa Fe.

That last statement isn't true at all. Jon Weiss of Cavestomp had been coaxing The Sonics since 2000 to come out of retirement and they even tried a practice in 2002 but decided against it. They only now just gave in. And of course, Jon Weiss had a falling out with Steven to the point where Steven didn't even mention Cavestomp on his show for 2007. The return of the Sonics should hve been priority one that year for Little Steven, but he knows how to hold a grudge. It was the idea of our local station in Seattle, that carries Underground Garage, to promote the Sonics Seattle concert in 2008 during his show hours, not Steven's. It was a local ad during the break. He was simply an invited guest by Bucks Ormsby of the Wailers, who helped put that show together. But Little Steven had NOTHING to do with the return of the Sonics. Gas-House Gorilla said:

I understand how looking at Little Steven’s comment on the Beatles in isolation can be taken as flippant, or even insulting, in regards to the great pre-’64 bands. Maybe many people here don’t listen to Little Steven’s show or station often. But if you take a look at his other words and actions, it might put things in a different light. The guy regularly plays the Wailers, Sonics, Beach Boys, Trashmen, Ventures and many other pre-’64 bands on his station (as well as the rock ‘n roll pioneers). He calls the ’63 recording of “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen the “Gospel of Garage”. He has done syndicated shows specifically dedicated to Surf. He has spoken glowingly about the early-‘60s Pacific Northwest scene, including calling it the beginning of the garage rock movement. There was a comment earlier in this discussion about Little Steven practically ruining the Sonics show in Seattle last year with his on-stage antics. I can’t speak to that specifically, and perhaps that’s the case. But give him some credit. He’s the guy who coaxed the Sonics out of retirement in the first place, and helped promote their return.

I have a total love/hate relationship with Little Steven and his show. I love the fact that I've gotten to hear songs like Psychotic Reaction and Talk Talk on the radio again but then he goes and ruins things by palying not only his own band but a lot of other boring late 70s shit that was "supposed" to be cutting edge at the time. I like the fact that he has made Iggy Pop, The Ramones, and the New York Dolls legitamate performers in the eyes of mainstream America but then he doesn't do the same thing for more current bands like Girl Trouble and Black Lips (who became popular on their own, I feel). As for his statement, he is trying to be sensational-istic. Of course for his neck of the woods, kids in 1963 were probabaly trying to make it out of the projects by becoming the next Frankie Avalon or Bobby Rydell and that's all he knew. You see someone like Gene Simmons saying that he and a lot of other kids he knew were inspired by the Beatles being on the Ed Sullivan show, I begin to believe that it was a total East Coast thing, that there were NO rock and roll bands. Little Steven could have exagerated a bit better by saying that in 1964, America was a vast wasteland and there was probably a couple of rock and roll bands every hundred of miles or so until you got to the east coast, then nothing. A lot of folk singers or twist groups like Joey Dee and the Starliters. But like I said, I think Little Steven likes to go for sensationalism. Little Ricky said:

February 8, 1964, I didn't know anyone in a rock 'n' roll band. February 9, the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show. February 10, everyone I knew was in one....My life began on February 9, 1964."

That would have got his point across and not made his statement so ridiculous. The Beatles coming to America and getting the attention and media coverage they did played a huge part in the proliferation of garage bands that came in the coming years, I don't believe anyone can honestly deny that. They were a catalyst and figurehead, much like Elvis was when he broke. Neither of them created anything new but they both defined Rock and Roll for most people when they first became popular.

These bands were definetly the examples of garage punk from 1976 to the present:
Black Lips
Boss Hog
Cheater Slicks
Billy Childish
The Devil Dogs
The Dirtbombs
DMZ
The Drags
Gas Huffer
The Gories
Guitar Wolf
Thee Headcoats
The Hives
The Horrors
The Hunches
The Inhalents
The Intelligence
The Konks
The Lazy Cowgirls
Lost Sounds
The Makers
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Thee Mighty Caesars
The Mummies
New Bomb Turks
The Night Kings
Oblivians
Poison 13
Reatards
The Reigning Sound
The Rip Offs
Sinister Six
The Spits
The Statics
Supercharger
Supersnazz
The Supersuckers
Teengenerate
The Trashwomen
The Woggles
The Von Zippers

with these bands being the founding fathers: The Sonics, The Monks, The Stooges, MC5 and New York Dolls.

I think the best definition of garage PUNK was the original wikipedia entry that Kopper started and psted 3 years ago before it got toatally changed. This was revised by myself and others but it's based on his original entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garage_punk&oldid=148391773

ohhhhhhh, very nice that "morning disaster-black leather books", that definitely the kind of psych im looking for, thanks for the obscurity, never heard it before, laso your blog is very good too :))

Yeah, that Dirty Filthy Mud 45 is fantastically freaky. I thought of another great song that would fit the "dark moody strange psych" tag. You may or may not have this but I posted it to my site anyway...... http://therisingstorm.net/rock/garage/page/2/ The band's name is The Morning Disaster and the song is "Black Leather Books"...never released at the time but it appeared on a local Virgina comp series Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things Volume 3.

nice one gas-house, quality list, some of those i havnt heard yet....:))))

more contributions are welcome

Here are some that I dig:

The Painted Faces - Anxious Color
The Plague - The Face Of Time
The Last Word - Sleepy Hollow
The Executives - Moving In A Circle
The Pastels - What Can I Say?
Nobody's Children - Colors And Shapes
North Atlantic Invasion Force - I Won't Be Back
Ronnie Dio & The Prophets - 10 Days With Brenda
The Mauve - You've Got Me Cryin'
Marilyn Mattson - He Means So Much to Me
The Missing Links - You Make Me Feel Good
The Primates – She
The Starfires - I Never Loved Her
The Uncalled For - Masters Of War
Velvet Illusions - Acid Head

Also, the recent Florida Rocks Again podcast featured moody tracks. Check it out if you haven't already.

thanks bob, yes your right, it does demand alot of thought..That viceroys record is amazing, i wonder how many of those were presssed, id love a copy of that...dont think i have ever seen it for sale.

Your list is excellent, i know alot from it, i even have a copy of that dirty filty mud on worex, ( my dads copy)
Theirs a few i havnt heard in your list tho,

Your right also that theirs so much great psych out their, im sure thier plenty of obscure ones still to find too...

thanks for the list...

This kind of question requires major thought as I am stumped - there are a zillion great psych/garage 45's worth a mention. My memory is a bit hazy but the Viceroys Five Steps To Hell 45 (I think released in 1967) is on Psychedelic Crown Jewels? If it is....that is one hell of a song - Stunning,they simply don't make music like that anymore. I believe that group released a handful of 45's and the above mentioned song was the group's last hurrah. Most of these singles you speak of are old and difficult to track down (I've heard them all though and they are great) but here are similar discs (there are alot of moody psych 45's - an endless amount)...maybe you know them already but what the hell, just brainstorming over here:

The JuJus - Sometime Or Other - 1967 (unreleased 3rd single at the time)
The Painted Ship - Frustration - 1967
The Dirty Filthy Mud - Forest of Black - 1968
The Nightshadows - So Much (the psychedelic version from 1967 which is on the Square Root of 2 lp)
Mock Duck - Do Re Mi - 1968
The Purple Canteen - Brains In My Feet - 1968
Les Sinners - Don't You Run Away - From the Vox Populi album which comes in both english and french - 1968
Unrelated Segments - all three 45's.
Instant Orange - Plight of Mary Celeste - 1975 - group started out in 1968 releasing 45's, this sounds like it's from 1968 though, amazing track from an ep the band released.
The Mind's Eye - Help, I'm Lost - 1967
The Quests - I'm Tempted - this 1966 Fenton 45 isn't really psych but it's great with plenty of fuzz.
The Plagues - I've Been Through It Before - 1966 (Fenton 45)
Peabody Company - Tobacco Road - Amazing psych version of this well traveled song from Fist Full of Fuzz. Anything this band recorded is supposedly good thought they never released a 45 but have an album's worth of great material being prepared for release soon.
The Rising Storm - Frozen Laughter - 1966/1967 Calm Before lp
The Index - The Index - 1968 lp
The Savages - Live n Wild - 1966 lp
All Of Thus - All Of Thus lp - a local NY band lp that has a moody Zombies/Byrds feel.
It's All Meat lp - 1970
Kenny and the Kasuals - two lps of 45's
The Contents Are - Through You - 1967 - moody garage folk-rock private press lp

Thanks for the response.
I guess I need most of them.
Can you just scan what you feel like scanning and put them on the web somewhere?
Thanks
Ron

Hmmm... I have a few laying around. the LPs would be a drag to scan, but i could take some pictures. There are quite a few without sleeves too, MUTT records, shit like that... I could help with some, let me know what you'll need, and when you need them...

brother pantichrist