the litter-distortions
both shadows of knight lps on dunwich
the sonics-here are & boom
the seeds -first two lps
the yardbirds -having a rave up not really a garage lp but is a great lp to start with
the ugly ducklings- somewhere outside lp
? mark & mystreions-96 tears
there's more but these ones are the ones i like

Little Black Egg by The Nightcrawlers.

I'm really startin' to loath these lists but fuck it here go a few o' my all-time favs off the top o' my head:

SONICS "Here are..."
les SEXAREENOS "Live in the Bed" (actually a tie w/ "14 Frenzied Shakers")
DEL-GATORS "Pound Down"
the A-BONES "Life of Riley" (again a tie w/ the 7'' comp, "Daddy Wants a Cold Beer...")
the TRASHMEN "Best of"
SAM the SHAM & the PHARAOHS "Lil' Red Riding Hood"
BLEED "Motor Psycho"
the CHURCH KEYS "Work With It!!!"
the BLACK LIPS "Let It Bloom"
COCOCOMA "self-titled"
GREENHORNES "Gun For You"
& anything by thee wild Billy Childish...

Jesus...I know I'm fergetin' a few favs....how did this list get so long? (I actually left off albums already mentioned by others, too!!)

The MONKS - Black Monk Time is my all time fave.

Another one of the good guys dies too young.R.I.P. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wells

RIP Sky. Thank you for everything.

Sky Saxon paased away this morning in Austin, Texas.
He was admitted to St. David's Hospital on Monday.
The cause of his death is yet to be confirmed.

Here's to Sky, one of the true originators of the Garage Punk scene.

Thankfully I got to see him play a couple of weeks ago at Austin's "Fuzz Club"
He was backed by a local band "Shapes Have Fangs", The Seeds tunes sounded awesome.
I got him to sign a Seeds LP for us...I was stoked by that.

RIP Sky Saxon

Wig
The Texreys

Here's the link: http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/06/25/rip_sky_saxon.html Sky Saxon RIP!! piepsi said:

Oh no, he died :(

Oh no, he died :(

i really hope he pulls through. sounds like he's on the up and up though, so i'm not too worried.

You're right, Julia. Our Hideout friend Martha was planning to see the Chicago show. They've got in show in Pittsburgh too: California '66 Revue!!!Where can you find Sky Sunlight Saxon of The Seeds, Electric Prunes and Love on the same bill?An amazing late summer tour is in the works that will put all three of these amazing bands touring together as California '66 Revue! Dates so far: August 4, 2009 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 5, 2009 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ August 6, 2009 - Quick Center (WPNK Benefit) - Fairfield, CT August 7, 2009 - The Middle East - Cambridge, Massachusetts August 8, 2009 - Theatre Plaza - Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 9, 2009 - B.B. King Blues Club - New York City, New York August 10, 2009 - Patriot Place - Foxborough, Massachusetts August 12, 2009 - Double Door - Chicago, Illinois August 13, 2009 - Shark Hall - Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 14, 2009 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 16, 2009 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, Ohio August 17, 2009 - Hard Rock Cafe - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 18, 2009 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, Virginia To be able to visit these venue websites, please go to www.skysaxon.com and you can click on their name to go to the website.

Here's a link to a story in The Austin Decider: http://austin.decider.com/articles/the-seeds-sky-saxon-in-critical-condition-at-st-da,29636/

This troubles me.
Hope he pulls through.
Isn't he on a triple bill this summer with Love and the Electric Prunes?

I apologize if this thread has already been started......

Last night Sky Saxon was admitted to the ICU at an Austin, Texas hospital. Here''s a note from his wife, Sabrina (visit her Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/sabrinasaxon for up-to-the-minute details of his condition):

Sky is in ICU and is still considered in critical condition.

Needless to say Sky seemed to be getting a wee bit better but took a turn for the worse .... I won''t go into details here but suffice it to say when we got him here in the ambulance, the doctors were telling me they just couldn''t tell me he would be okay. I was devastated.

It has been touch and go all day .... and probably about 3 hours ago the nurse told me he was going down ... blood pressure was dropping like crazy and they were trying one last medicine. she asked me to go over and start talking to him ... as his sedation was low enough that he would understand me ....

so i did ... and it slowly got better and better and better ..... and it was going steadily up .... and he was feeling better ....

he has a tube down his throat so he could not talk and that was very frustrating for him .... so i told him i would ask him yes and no questions ... and he was good with that .... slowly i figured out all the questions he had and answered them .....

now his color is back ... and the purple is receding a lot ..... his blood pressure is normal ... the heart rate is still a little erratic but they are more confident now that that will get better ... once all of his vitals are steady and normal they will take that darn breathing thing out of his throat .... this was only a precautionary tubing so they could get him breathing well while they worked on all of his other vitals ....

once he gets stable they will start trying to figure out what is the root cause of the problems is ... there seems to be an infection somewhere and since he has suffered from stomach pain for basically all his life ... we are certain it is somewhere in there ... but the gastro guy can''t do anything to check it out until he is stable ....

I feel much better about it now ... he seems more able to fight to stay alive .... and is gaining his strength little by little ...

he is asleep right now and seems to be resting well ... i''m here in the room with him in ICU .... they have wireless here and i had thought to bring my computer just in case they did ... just felt confident enough he is okay to pull it out .... he is sleeping really well right now ...

so please keep him in your prayers that he will beat this .... and be able to get out of this place!

will keep in touch and let you know what is happening ... now that i''m hooked up here in his room that will be easier to do ....

Sabrina
Sabrina is requesting that Seeds/Sky fans send him cards and balloons (no flowers, please -- the ICU doesn''t allow them).

Here''s the mailing address (remember, Sky''s legal name is Richard Marsh):

St. David''s South Austin Hospital
901 West Ben White Boulevard
ICU-10 (Richard Marsh)
Austin, TX 78704

Of course, your prayers and good thoughts/energies are most welcome as well!
Hey bros and sistas.....sign Sky''''s guestbook here...........http://guestbooks.netservices.gr/readgb.cgi?name=Sunlight

Another deed done well in saving all our cash and time, ahahaha!

At least the Moody Blues and Bee Gees had some very good early tunes ("Lose Your Money", "Go Now", "Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You", "In My Own Time"). Can't say much for the garage resumes of Procal Harum and Cat Stevens though... The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Well...about the content of the book : reading this, ok you'll find pages about great bands as The Sonics, The Count 5 and so on...but you'll also find some about The Moody Blues (aaargh), The Bee Gees (bluurgh), Procol Harum (beaaargh), Cat Stevens (please stop this, I ain't nothing left to spew up !!!)...Let's just say this is not exactly what I call garage bands...
...About the man, let's say that the little I know about him ( some kinda mod listening to Barbara McNair in his nice looking apartment with framed James Bond ost on the walls and writing for crappy magazines ) makes me quite sick...

By the way, why am I writing about this ???
Sorry, I'm going back with the dead right now...
Cheers !!!

The Moody Blues ??? That's fuckin' WRONG ! Thanks for the heads up...I won't be looking for this book ! Cheers, Wig The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Well...about the content of the book : reading this, ok you'll find pages about great bands as The Sonics, The Count 5 and so on...but you'll also find some about The Moody Blues (aaargh), The Bee Gees (bluurgh), Procol Harum (beaaargh), Cat Stevens (please stop this, I ain't nothing left to spew up !!!)...Let's just say this is not exactly what I call garage bands...
...About the man, let's say that the little I know about him ( some kinda mod listening to Barbara McNair in his nice looking apartment with framed James Bond ost on the walls and writing for crappy magazines ) makes me quite sick...

By the way, why am I writing about this ???
Sorry, I'm going back with the dead right now...
Cheers !!!

Thanks, Elpollacko. i was gonna say that very thing. ELpollacko said:

richard holguin said:

punk is self expresion ,

Way to simple. Under that definition nearly everything is "punk" which it is clearly not.

ya know, I can 't say that i've heard a lot of clash punk. i heart punk i hear harmony?

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Yeah, saw this on Pitchfork yesterday. Almost lost all control. So excited! http://pitchfork.com/news/35678-black-lips-king-khan-mark-sultan-almighty-defenders/

Just got this e-mail from Vice Records VICE ANNOUNCES ALBUM FROM GARAGE-ROCK SUPERGROUP, ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS KING KHAN BBQ SHOW + BLACK LIPS RELEASE SELF-TITLED ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 22nd When the Black Lips had to flee India after almost getting arrested (long story) and getting their passports confiscated (longer story), they fled to Berlin to hole up with their old pal and label-mate King Khan. Mark Sultan (aka BBQ, one half of King Khan BBQ Show) also happened to be there, and it happened to be freezing in Berlin that week so no one really wanted to leave the house. So what do a bunch of garage-rock all-stars (and international refugees) do in the middle of winter in cramped conditions? They give birth to an album and band of the same name, The Almighty Defenders. The guys went to Moon Studios and recorded these tracks, brimming with soul, earnest shouts, cries and hand-claps over post-modern gospel-rock anthems. This album is being released on LP and digitally on Vice Records on September 22nd Almighty Defenders: http://www.myspace.com/thealmightydefenders

the above link has listenning to the record! enjoy!

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Amazing ...went the strings of my heart;
waited thirty years for this to happen,
quite moving;
Cheers, beerrs and dynamite (and Mud)
Ivan