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    • April 12, 2009 3:56 PM CDT
    • does anyone have the correct track listing for this LP? as far as i can tell it's printed wrong on the jacket... too many tracks on one side etc. there are a couple songs I want to put on the show and I needs the info yo!

    • April 12, 2009 8:47 AM CDT
    • thanks,
      i really think sandinista ¡ is one of the most interesting records of the time it had been made¡
      joe was really talented
      i always was a huge fan
      but right Now is coming to argentina the documentary
      so im gonna watch it ¡
      kisses.

      Duck.

    • April 12, 2009 2:35 AM CDT
    • Well, what do you guys think? A certain eighties version is at the top of my list, though a sixties instrumental by a great band is not far off!

    • April 11, 2009 11:13 PM CDT
    • Hey Ho,

      I am listening to Psychedelic Rock and Garage Punk since the beginning of my conscious life (at least it seems like it) but sadly never learnt to play an instrument properly. But that should change now. I am able to play basic chords on the guitar and on the keys and got my hands on a nice combo organ and want to start playing all my fav. Nuggets/Pebbles out there, but how to start??? I'm really bad in hearing notes/chords from records and I haven't found anything on the net yet. Are there any Organ players out here who can give some helpful tips about how to get going? Especially playing technique explanations typical for garage rock would be great.

      Aloha

    • April 11, 2009 5:12 PM CDT
    • Wipeout! said:

      ...startin' to believe garagepunkers on the whole don't like social networks (at least usin' 'em fer real...not just lurkin')
      There's at least some truth to this. Several key contributors from the old Psychotic Reactions board never even signed up here.

    • April 11, 2009 2:15 PM CDT
    • troggy said:

      I agree this place isn't a patch on the old forums for info. In fact, there's absolutely no debate about it. That's the one thing I really miss. I mean, I like being able to come here and add songs to my jukebox and look around a bit but the amount of discourse, sharing of info and music was far greater on the old board.

      This site has been around for what, about two years now? I just don't think the amount of participation here is gonna get much greater than it is right now. Sad but true.
      Now I'm wonderin' again if the ol' forum info (aka threads that had real info of use) could be brought back from the dead (this is definitely Kopper's area of knowledge)...even if possible I bet it'd be a herculian task to host all that shit somewhere on this site. ...startin' to believe garagepunkers on the whole don't like social networks (at least usin' 'em fer real...not just lurkin')

    • April 11, 2009 12:03 PM CDT
    • I agree this place isn't a patch on the old forums for info. In fact, there's absolutely no debate about it. That's the one thing I really miss. I mean, I like being able to come here and add songs to my jukebox and look around a bit but the amount of discourse, sharing of info and music was far greater on the old board.

      This site has been around for what, about two years now? I just don't think the amount of participation here is gonna get much greater than it is right now. Sad but true.

    • April 11, 2009 2:17 PM CDT
    • Gonna be in Memphis fer the June 19th show (wish I could do the next nite in Memphis as well as the 2 in Detroit)

    • April 11, 2009 1:07 AM CDT
    • Wish I could :(:(

    • April 6, 2009 11:41 AM CDT
    • if it is easier to fly to england from where you are then the Gories/Oblivians are playing at the Blast Off Festival in Nottingham, UK this July.

    • April 5, 2009 10:32 PM CDT
    • I too live in australia and would love to fly to memphis for the gories/ oblivains show. I can always dream!

    • April 5, 2009 5:58 PM CDT
    • Uh... what? I know the Mummies are coming to Austin in like, June.......

    • April 4, 2009 9:12 AM CDT
    • Just got my tickets for the Detroit show. Anyone going?

    • April 11, 2009 12:17 PM CDT
    • kopper said:

      The best way is to get other similar blogs to add yours to their blogrolls (or links sections).www.feedburner.com
      Right, that and link your blogsite in your sig on any music boards that you frequent, etc.

    • April 11, 2009 12:14 PM CDT
    • If all of this other stuff fails, I use divshare which is easy and free up to a certain numbers of gigabytes. You can upload songs and make playlists.

    • April 9, 2009 11:46 AM CDT
    • I use blip.tv for uploading. If file is uploaded you can copy the link of the file.
      Second step is paste the link to blogcastone.net
      Then you get the html code. Copy/Paste html code to your blog.
      I use it for my myspace and it works great.

      I hope it's helpful !

    • April 10, 2009 2:43 AM CDT
    • A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 10, 2009 Dengue Fever is an amazing California band that has helped revive the crazy psychedelic sounds of pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Back in 2005, the band traveled to Cambodia — not only the land of its musical idols, but also the home of its lead singer, Chhom Nimol. That tour — Nimol’s first trip home since she’d immigrated to this country five years before — is the subject of a rocking documentary called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, released on DVD next Tuesday. Directed by John Pirozzi, the film follows the members of Dengue Fever as they visit Cambodian marketplaces (where merchants are amused by guitarist Zac Holtzman’s Mr.-Natural-as-a-young-man beard and bassist Senon Williams’ height); a school where the band shares songs with a group of children; a studio where Dengue jams with masters of traditional Cambodian instruments; a karaoke bar where a couple of Dengue members sing with some locals to “I’m 16,” an old Cambodian pop hit; and various stages where the group performs its surf-a-delic sounds — nightclubs, an outdoor festival in a shantytown, and a CTN (Cambodia Television Network) studio, where the musicians are special guests on a variety show that makes Mexican television look tame. But as fun and enlightening as Sleepwalking is, there are some basic unanswered questions that leave a viewer not quite satisfied. And these oversights deal directly with the East-meets-West story that is central to Dengue Fever’s appeal. THAT'S A REAL FARFISA First of all, there’s the question of how the band got so interested in Cambodian rock in the first place. According to allmusic.com, keyboardist Ethan Holtzmann fell in love with the sounds of Cambodian psychedelic rock of the late ’60s and early ’70s — Sin Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ron, and others — when traveling in that country in 1997 with a friend (who got the disease for which the band was later named). But what was Holtzmann doing over there in the first place? Was it some music endeavor? Was he an archaeologist studying Angkor Wat? Just bumming around? I would have liked to have heard him talk about this. But more important is the story of Chhom Nimol. There’s a segment in which Nimol talks about how difficult it was coming to the U.S. by herself. Through interviews and publicity material, we’ve been told that she was a successful singer in her native land. She “sang regularly for the king and queen of Cambodia,” a press release from the filmmaker says. The question is, Why did she come here? Was it to further her musical career? According to Dengue legend, she had a long-term singing gig at a Southern California Cambodian nightclub called The Dragon House before she joined the band (which led to the title of the group’s second album, Escape From Dragon House). I want to know more about her career in Cambodia. When she played before the king, was it command performances at state dinners or more like an American high-school band playing at the president’s inauguration? A Cambodian music teacher interviewed in the film tells us, “The Khmer Rouge killed all the famous singers.” Indeed, those commie thugs who ruled the country between 1975 and 1979 killed artists, intellectuals, professionals, and a third of the population during their time of power. The DVD has a smattering of footage of what looks like real cool Cambodian teen-exploitation movies from that mod à go-go era. But I’d like to hear more about those wonderful Cambodian singers whose music inspired Dengue Fever — and to whom the film is dedicated. Director Pirozzi has started work on another documentary called Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock ’n’ Roll. Let’s hope he makes enough money on Sleepwalking to finish Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten. When Dengue Fever is playing music in this film, frequently there are shots of audience members looking enraptured. Such images of adoring fans aren’t exactly rare in rockumentaries. But wouldn’t it be great if there were a Velvet Underground effect here — if, as the rock ’n’ roll truism goes, anyone who saw them in Cambodia started a band of their own? Perhaps dozens of bands will pop up there, take the music, and mutate it into something new and powerful. Quick word on the CD: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong comes packaged with a soundtrack CD as well as the DVD. If you don’t already have Dengue Fever’s three albums, this could serve as a decent introduction. But long-time fans will be disappointed. Too many Dengue Fever songs here are the same versions that are on their previous albums — “Tip My Canoe,” “One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula,” “Hold My Hips,” and “Hummingbird.” There is a live version of “Ethiopium” (inspired by the music of another nation with a fine little rock scene that was crushed by evil comrades in the ’70s). But there should have been more. The movie has lots of live material that should have made it here. There is some worthwhile new Dengue material, such as the instrumental “March of the Balloon Animals,” plus some nice jams with some of the masters of traditional Cambodian instruments featured in the film. DENGUE FEVER One good thing is that there are handfuls of the old original Cambodian rock classics here by Sisamouth and Sothea, including “Mou Pei Na (From Where)” by both singers and “Dondung Goan Gay” by Meas Samoun, which sounds as if it could have been inspired by Santana. Dengue radio: Hear a huge dose of the Sleepwalking on the Mekong soundtrack and more Dengue Fever and immortal Cambodian rock on Terrell’s Sound World, freeform weirdo radio, 10 p.m. Sunday. And don’t forget The Santa Fe Opry, the country music Nashville does not want you to hear, same time on Friday, both on KSFR-FM 101.1. BONUS: Here's a trailer for Don't Think I've Forgotten.

    • April 9, 2009 11:47 PM CDT
    • I think you should do this anyway. Screw the lack of interest. Besides, we have lots of instrumentals that need to be played. We've got two of 'em up on our page. Check 'em out if you get a chance.

    • April 8, 2009 11:54 AM CDT
    • Awesome. Southern Culture on the Skids has been shamed.

    • April 6, 2009 12:50 AM CDT
    • 18.00-19.30 DJ Thomas Møller:

      Indian Jewelry - Zing Zang
      Balaclaves - Inferno
      Francis Harold & The Holograms - ?
      Ean Erase - Illegitimate Love
      Geogerige - An My Best to You Juanfare
      Black Orphan - Video Kids
      Units - I-Night
      Gary War - Zontag
      Wizzard Sleeve - Alabama's Doomed
      Tamaryn - Return to Surrender
      Spider - Charlie
      Catatonic Youth - Control My Gun
      The Secret Society Of The Sonic Six - Into The Night
      Bad Livers - Lust For Life
      Loosers - Crossbones
      Los Dragsters - ?
      Cold Cave - Our Tears Help Our Flames Grow
      Sixteens - Sixteens
      Fish & Sheep - Power Master

      19.30-20.30 DJ Jens

      Leathervein - You Are The Problem
      Thomas Function - Belly Of The Beast
      Blowtops - The Ripper
      The City Kill - Love's Lonely Children
      Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Hessian Bodyfarm
      The Village Idiot - Stones Of Hate
      Love Potion - Stabbed In The Face
      Residents - Picnic Boy
      Cola Freaks - For Sent
      PJ Bonneman - Jeg Kendte Dem Ikke
      A-Frames - Police 1000
      Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs - Argot 2B
      AV Murder - Caveman Disco
      Lili Z- Let's Go
      Barbaras - Summertime Road
      Nice Face - Hidden Automatic
      Lee Moses - Bad Girl (part 2)
      Muletrain - Regression
      T2 - Fantasy
      Øresund Space Collective - Black Tomato (part 7)

    • April 5, 2009 4:52 PM CDT
    • I like the songs alot. Very cool if they're uncomped. Some quick online searches didn't reveal much except the Wakefield Co. did some mastering for Sonobeat out of Texas. There's a pretty comprehensive history at the below link, but unfortunately, none of the matrix numbers match yours. If you exhaust other options, maybe you can contact Sonobeat to see if they have a SJW contact. Then maybe you can confirm or deny that part or get more information. Sonobeat Records Sometimes, it's so hard to track this stuff down. You can find people who where actually there and still don't remember anything after all these years. If nothing else, you're left with great undiscovered gems minus the history. After the listen, now I want to know who it is! Contagious! Good luck & keep us posted.

    • April 5, 2009 1:38 PM CDT
    • Sidney J Wakefield? That's helpful, I might be able to follow up on that. Thanks. I screwed up and posted the wrong link, though, sorry about that. The first post now has the correct link in it, it is: http://www.box.net/shared/2dpj5r7ur1 Cheers -- H.

    • April 5, 2009 1:37 PM CDT
    • Mad Mojo Marmalade said:

      The link opens to 2 Biscaynes songs.

    • April 5, 2009 7:52 AM CDT
    • The link opens to 2 Biscaynes songs.

    • April 4, 2009 9:41 PM CDT
    • Howdy, all --

      I have a white-label test pressing 45 that's been driving me nuts since I bought it, I have no idea who it might be, or anything else about it, so I'm wondering if anybody can help me identify it. Byrds-sounding SoCal folk-rock, has to be 1965 or 66, could very well be the session musician mafia (Terry Melcher and his extended musical family)... or it could possibly be unknown teenagers from someplace. There's a link at the bottom to mp3.s of the two songs.

      If anybody's a whiz at decoding information from matrix numbers, the dead wax reads DD-HA-1/DD-TB-1 and (looks like) SJW 7561 on both sides.

      While you're there, you might enjoy the Mac Davis protest-song bandwagon-jumping Sonny Bono (or Dylan?) imitation from 1965-ish or the LP by Modern Five, a Euro beatgroup that gigged and recorded in Mexico around the same time.

      Link: http://www.box.net/shared/2dpj5r7ur1


      Thankee schoen --

      Hugo M.
      pmadreenter@yahoo.com
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