Hi Austin , you sure send us something , but to avoid big travel , loss and expanses to reach France maybe we can to that by the web ?
What do you think ?
E.
PS: And hello everybody.

haha...I've done that...dreamed a whole song. Woke up thinking its f*ing great then I sat down and played it and it was just a generic country tune with rambling lyrics and it kinda sucked...sounded way better in my sleep! Hidden_Punk said:

umm... sometimes i have really crazy dreams and i write about them... actually one time i woke up and the whole song was already in my head words melody and the guitar part.... it was kinda scary... too bad it was about medieval dragons and stuff hahahahahahaha

but yeh originality is really important with me, im trying to stop listen to so much Nirvana at the moment actually... i find myself writing stuff that would sound good for cobain not me... i think wats best is to write stuff when ur not listening to anything overwhelmingly good

I used to be afraid to say anything...not wanting to piss of the sound person or sound whiny during a set...now I just ask for what needs to be done, cuz it's more fun to perform that way. Turn down guitars in monitor, turn up vocals...etc...As long as your cool to the engineer they are usually cool to you.

*every once and a while though I've got the pissed off jerk who is filling in for someone or hung-over and doesn't want to be there...I just think...FUCK OFF man you get to sit around and listen to live music for a living.

Ya, i really dig that R'n'R Monkey CD as well, really good party rec!! And the Crucials is on my want list....

SHAKY JAKE!!!!!

Total agreeeeement on both halfs of this two-part review coconut, Mister.

The R'N'R Monkey is loads of fun! Thanks for kickin' that one up again.

yeppers kids, I'm tryin' to get back into the record reviewin' river of muck...& ya can peep at my most recent (well 2 as of right now) reviews over at my blog, Raunchy Noise ...dig it.

Not to get all hippy on you, but I am a very Zen influenced player. I like to begin by playing a chord/note or maybe a short progression (ex. E - G - D). Then once I get into a groove and an idea for a rhythm I play it until a lyrical pattern comes to mind and I then sing free verse until I hit on a theme. From there I expand the chords and actually try to "destroy" them in a way, by playing the chord in different patterns or at different parts of the fret board (adding minor chords/dischords, feedback, fuzz) until I get an original sound. Lyrics for me always come last...because I don't know what I want to say until the song unfolds...but it sounds like you've got enough ideas to stockpile templates for lyrics (remember it's all about editing in the end. You may want to take out a lyric, add a word, rearrange the prose). I've heard of people writing lyrics and molding the songs around them but it never worked for me. Check out my band VAUDEVILLAINOUS at www.myspace.com/vaudevillainous to hear how my songwriting turns out. AND let us all know when you get something going. I'd love to hear it!

July 26th

Virus Radio:

18.00-19.30

Haunted George live 22/5-2008 Elværket, Helsingør
Paul Giovanni - Maypole (Wicker Man soundtrack)
Les Rallizes Denudes live 1973

19.30-20.30

Kompromissløsa Ateistarna - Slavmoral
Trust - Phalanx To The Galaxy
The Johns - Burrito
A-Frames - Calculator
Fe Fi Fo Fums - I Just Wanna Boom Boom Girl
Tunnel Vision - Comrades
Laughing Hyenas - Gabriel
Gutar Wolf - Missile Me
David Peter & The Wilde Sect - Oh! Amy
Black Dice - Toka Toka
Meatmen - Wine, Wenches & Wheels
Fromtheashes - You Are The Problem
Richard Hell - The Boy With The Replaceable Head
Zyklon B - Manic Depressive
Earthless - Lost In The Cold Sun

July 19th

Lowcut 19.30-20.30:

Aeroflot - Be My Wife
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
Chainsaw Eaters - Brain Entrance
Flesheaters - Dominoes
Spider - Tonight At 10:00 PM
ANTiSEEN - NC Loyalty
The Lids - Distracted (RIP Benjamin Jay Womack; Carbonas, The Lids, Gaye Blades etc.)
Kenni Cocksucker - Kenni Cocksucker
Repulsion - Radiation Sickness
Carcass - Exhume to Consume
DAF - Der Mussolini
Locators - End Of The World
John Foxx - Underpass
Vee Dee - Electric Room
FNU Ronnies - Watchful Eye
Sun 0))) - Aghartha

The Austin Chronicle just published Sky Saxon's final interview. It's oddly prescient, and totally Sky.

To listen to The Mal Thursday Show's tribute to Sky Saxon, click HERE.

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican July 24, 2009 The “Dirty Old One Man Band” is back.

Actually, I think BeauSoleil would sound pretty good playing “You Stole My Motorcycle” and it’s not even a stretch to imagine The Pine Leaf Boys doing “When the Police Came.”

rainbo records in canoga park california. i just got 500 7" records for 950 bucks. including everything mastering, plating etc...
best deal ive found.

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I'm new here so this might not be the best thread to jump in on since I'm a big Beatles fan (but I am wearing my "Stamp out the Beatles" tee). I enjoyed the Underground Garage a few years ago and was a regular listener but haven't really paid much attention for the past 2 years. The format has slowly changed and there is more "classic rock" incorporated and less info on the artists discussed. Steve's quote is of course silly (and dangerous, as some people may take it as fact) and this thread probably wouldn't exist if he had said something like "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.

Yeah, Drew Carey subs for Kid Leo – something like the last Friday of each month. I believe they’re friends from their Cleveland days. His sets are basically pulled from the station playlist. Not surprisingly he doesn’t really know his stuff, but he throws in some good stories. Dan Electreau said:

On a barely related note...

Someone recently told me that they were listening to satellite radio and they heard Drew Carey hosting a show on the "garagerock channel". He said that it started out with some watered down, oldies type stuff but then he kicked it in to low gear for a couple of sets of really cool and fairly obscure stuff.

Anyone heard this?

*btw, the guy who told me this is not so much a garagerock fanatic as he is an all-around music weirdo.

On a barely related note...

Someone recently told me that they were listening to satellite radio and they heard Drew Carey hosting a show on the "garagerock channel". He said that it started out with some watered down, oldies type stuff but then he kicked it in to low gear for a couple of sets of really cool and fairly obscure stuff.

Anyone heard this?

*btw, the guy who told me this is not so much a garagerock fanatic as he is an all-around music weirdo.

I really don't like The Beatles. I've tried. After telling a Bavarian friend that (another worn out saying that I've used the heck out of for a good 25 years) "I step on beatles", he encouraged me to listen to the Star Club recordings; he even provided the album for me. I still don't like 'em! So, obviously my whole opinion on the subject at hand is biased as all get-out. I'm just anti-Beatles and pro Rock 'N' Roll. The two are mutually exclusive! Dan Electreau said:

Michael Kaiser said:

Just admit it! We could all think of a nice, compact quip that could have shaken up the interviewer real good, couldn't we?

Yeah, something like...
HI, I'm Michael Kaiser and my life ENDED on February 9, 1964.

maannn...only if i can find it online...it is from before computers! well for me anyway...i will look...this is sooo funny...after reading your thing & replying, i was listening to a classic rock station here in LA (the one that plays underground garage no less!) & this weird DJ Jim Ladd went into a whole thing that Walter Cronkite did a story on the beatles first & Ed Sullivan called him up & asked how to get ahold of them for his show...funny, he never gets credit & people that don't do their homework never know... kopper said:

Is there any way you can post that essay here? Maybe in the blog on your page? I don't have that comp...
Howie Pyro said:

he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about & neither does the person that writes what he says, at least the above comment! check the entire Norton Records catalog for thousands of perfect slabs of proof...i wrote a huge essay on this exact subject for the liner noted of the compilation record A Fistful of Rock & Roll (Volume 3 i believe)

Is there any way you can post that essay here? Maybe in the blog on your page? I don't have that comp... Howie Pyro said:

he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about & neither does the person that writes what he says, at least the above comment! check the entire Norton Records catalog for thousands of perfect slabs of proof...i wrote a huge essay on this exact subject for the liner noted of the compilation record A Fistful of Rock & Roll (Volume 3 i believe)

he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about & neither does the person that writes what he says, at least the above comment! check the entire Norton Records catalog for thousands of perfect slabs of proof...i wrote a huge essay on this exact subject for the liner noted of the compilation record A Fistful of Rock & Roll (Volume 3 i believe)

Michael Kaiser said:

Just admit it! We could all think of a nice, compact quip that could have shaken up the interviewer real good, couldn't we?

Yeah, something like... HI, I'm Michael Kaiser and my life ENDED on February 9, 1964.

Possibly a touch off topic here (hell, this thread has already gone off on a few tangents) but this whole business has brought up an issue that's always been a bit of a bone of contention for me, that of claiming that certain people (or bands) are responsible for 'inventing' a scene...

Nothing is actually ever 'new', no band exists in a vacuum, scenes and styles evolve naturally with bands drawing on a shared set of influences, inspiring each other and shaping their sound via a kind of peer review.

Obviously certain acts can be credited with pushing a scene out into the mainstream and gaining mass popularity (and obviously The Beatles acted in this capacity on both sides of the Atlantic) but there still needs to be an audience which is receptive to that sound, conditioned by what has gone before.

I'm not suggesting anyone here would be guilty of this but you do get this crap all the time. Just the other day someone said to me:

"So, who would you say invented punk?"

"No one did you fucking retard! It was all derived from what had gone before!"

(argument ensues...)

Little Steven's comment seems to more or less support this naive idea of 'invention', when as we know full well bands in both the UK and US (and all over the bloody world) were drawing on the same set of references and forming a similar sound.

Being on the wrong side of the pond to be hearing Little Steven's radio show I'm not really aware of his work in this area but from what I can gather from this thread he seems to be setting himself up as some sort of authority on Garage and Rock n' Roll (let me know if I'm wrong there).

Whilst the comment may work as hyperbole to highlight the impact The Beatles had on popular music, it seems to me that if you're going to be try and be some sort of musical oracle spreading spurious bullshit ideas like that only serves to undermine your authority...

Greetin' Cretins,

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I know I said I'd never do this but I've gotten a lot of submissions of some LOUD, LOOSE DIRTY AND PRIMITIVE GRADE AAA TRASH and I just can't put singles out of all of these fine bands. You need to hear 'em so here's what we're gonna do:

Bamalama Records, in association with Garage Disease Records, are gonna do us one of them there cheap ass comp CDs, and we're looking for submissions of trashy, gutbucket, sewer dwellin' screamin' rock n roll- y'know...REAL rock 'n roll... the good stuff, natch!

How cheap, you ask?

5 lousy bucks post paid North America, 6 bucks the rest of the world. If ya want, for 3 bucks, we'll send you the same comp on CASSETTE! That's right, jerky - cassette. King Dummy & Boss Brian* at Garage Disease have 500 high quality cassettes and they needs to get rid of 'em to make room for cases of beer and 80s porn videos. Between you and me, they're a couple of Luddites and aren't sold on the whole digital revolution - they don't even own a computer which is why I'm having to do all of this stuff. (Thanks, morons!) If you want both, you can have 'em both for $7 AND we'll throw in a whole bunch of swag. For 12 bucks, you get CD, cassette, swag and a swank Bamalama t-shirt
- POSTPAID!! Can't beat that with a stick!!

All bands on the comp get t-shirts for the band, a grab bag o' swag, and 5 copies of the comp (extras can be had for cost, which as you probably gathered is really damn cheap...)

Contact us at garage.disease@rogers.com for the skinny!

* - (this whole thing was their idea and look who's doing all the work!)

So yeah, that's what. I love these interviews, they are pretty recent. Thought you might give it a go too! MICK COLLINS DEAD MOON MIKE WATT PS: I KNOW you hate IAN SVENONIUS, I don't, so frakkin' what, hahahahahha!