david j and kevin haskins of love and rockets and bauhaus

By My Side is such a great song. One that inspires many covers. It's always funny to me how people who were actually in the bands are completely shocked to find out there's interest in their music after all these years. Usually, they don't even have their own singles anymore. Fuzzmeister said:

Met Lobby Loyde - in fact he produced my band Arctic Circles first proper recording session in 1985. We walked into Richmond Recorders after work at about 5 in the afternoon and walked out at about 5 the next morning - 4 tracks recorded and mixed all in that timespan. Lobby was a fun guy who had a lot of funny stories. He liked to listen to everything up full blast.

The Arctic Circles first demo session was done by Greg Heenan, the bass player in The Elois. He had a little demo studio called Fitzroy Sound. Nice easygoing guy. He played us the Elois single while we were at the studio. He was kind of bemused when we told him about the whole 60s garage revival scene.

Met the Damned when they played Canberra in '97. My wife and I had a long chat with Patricia Morrison, nice lady.

Met Chris Bailey of The Saints, circa the "Monkey Puzzle" days. He noticed I had a Lurkers badge on, we had a talk about the Lurkers who he seemed to know well from The Saints' early days in London.

We have a blip.fm acount for our band: http://blip.fm/TheMieters We just start using it, so no idea if it'll take off.

I blip when I have the time (not very often, in other words): http://blip.fm/kopper

I used it for a day or two, then forgot about it. It's allright but, Rex was right about the time consuming part. I prefer to listen other peoples playlist rather then my own. http://blip.fm/Weekminded

Of course I am. Michael Kaiser on Blip.fm

kopper said:

Satch don't come around here no mo'. His loss!

he got chased away for his wicked sense of irony, if I recall. :(

Grrtch said:

not weird enough for me! good lord whatever happened to the days when a thread like this woulda scored at least two dozen snarky posts in the same 11 hours?

Satch don't come around here no mo'. His loss!

not weird enough for me! good lord whatever happened to the days when a thread like this woulda scored at least two dozen snarky posts in the same 11 hours?

..ooooo..... hahaha! I've turned into one of those, "remember them good old days, Johnny?" geezers... sheesh! and whatta short memory, too! just got back from SXSW and inhaled bands for like six days straight. no, wait.. I never inhaled... naw.. no way...

wierd people yeh

and weird people!

we just joined up - theres so much good punk rock and roll here!

Click here to read! Press is good, no?

Oh yeah, some staples there. Have you heard any Sharon Jones with the Dap Kings? Just a little kick. Ivan Andreini said:

Irma Thomas, Etta James, Julie London, Boobie Gentry and Patsy Cline, to begin with...
Great big kiss
Ivan (boy)

Heck yeah it is. You know how some of the legends sort of can't carry on that torch many years after their prime? Despite not getting completely gaga over her 80's and 90's material, she still keeps a strong pace going head to head with the more mainstream sounding stuff at the time. Stuff like "We Don't Need Another Hero" or "What's Love Got To Do With It" is pretty listenable and doesn't really make me cringe like some of the output of the veterans. Lieutenant Cheeseliver said:

'Puppy Love' is such a killer tune. That's probably my favourite of hers. Her early-mid 60s stuff is top notch!!

Hi Sara! Wow! Great stuff here! That's a great video of the FIL/WOF medley. It's hard to sit still and listen. LOL Nice memory of your parent's first date. You're like a Turner Tot lovechild. Sara said:

THANKS MMM, cool footage! Tina is so fantastic. Check out "Fool in Love" into "Work out fine"..

I love "Can't Believe What You Say" too, this is just a bit of old footage....
My mom and pop's first date was at an Ike and Tina show, I guess you could say I owe it all to them!

That site isn't at all affiliated with the KBD series, just an awesome assortment of tunes from the KBD era.

So, it's finally my turn to make a mixtape fer our "Poor Punkrocker Poker Nite" and I want to blow some minds...any ideas fer killer tunes, preferably with some kinda (however loose) gamblin' theme, I would appreciate!

Well...I got myself a BBE free fuzz, which is great for the vintage sound....I just got a T-Rex mudhoney, not a fuzz per se but in Boost mode, rips your fucking face off..like a Big Muff but better...and I got a 'You Dirty rat' but swapped the stock rubbish chip about for an LM308N.....sleazy

i play an ashbass fuzzbrite.. the most incredible AND affordable fuzz their is!!

believe it!

Cheers Jason. Jason Edge said:

"Life After Doomsday" by Clayton. I was wrong about the date. It was published in 1980 but falls back on a lot of Civil Defense knowledge from the '60s. It's has a '60s read to it, if that makes sense. It was the best of that genre that I've ever read. It's weird but plain fact unlike the paranoid extremist books.

High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That last part is sound advice for young people! Whats the name of the '60s apocalypse manual? sounds great!

Jason Edge said:

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.
No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

Ron's pic reminds me of The Dregs of Humanity. I watched too much shit TV in the 80's

"Life After Doomsday" by Clayton. I was wrong about the date. It was published in 1980 but falls back on a lot of Civil Defense knowledge from the '60s. It's has a '60s read to it, if that makes sense. It was the best of that genre that I've ever read. It's weird but plain fact unlike the paranoid extremist books. High Lord Mardy Pune said:

That last part is sound advice for young people! Whats the name of the '60s apocalypse manual? sounds great!

Jason Edge said:

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.
No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

when did the spacemen leave? you don't bother to fuse chromosomes and walk away from the experiment. i read the other day that the root/origin of the word eden means walled garden. talk about escape from the planet of the apes. The Cats Eye said:

Maybe the spacemen will come before 2012.

A version of this was published on The Santa Fe New Mexican Web site March 20, 2009 Three years ago, I wrote a column about eMusic, the music-download service. I’m still addicted. It isn’t really for the casual downloader who wants to pick up three or four songs a month. It’s a subscription service in which customers pay a monthly fee. In my plan, I pay about 25 cents a download — about a fourth of what iTunes charges. You won’t find much current mainstream music on eMusic. Many of the labels are indies. Some of my favorites include Sun, Stax, Norton, Voodoo Rhythm, Daptone, Bloodshot, and Arhoolie. In recent months, I’ve discovered a lot of great R & B, soul, early rock ’n’ roll, and gospel obscurities. Here’s a look at some recent favorites. * Funky Yo Yo by Don Covay. This is an obscure 1977 album from soul master Covay. Despite the fact that it came from the dawn-of-disco era, the album is free of ’70s gloss. In fact, some songs are downright minimalist. My favorite is “I Don’t Think I Can Make It,” which sounds almost like a long-lost Percy Sledge meditation with at organ coloring heavy drums. But the best part is the spoken-word segment: “You might your find yo’ love with the trash man, the ice man, sometimes the undertaker. But wherever you find it, baby, I want you to hold on to dear life.”

* The Day the Music Died: In Memory of The Big Bopper by J.P. Richardson and others. J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, is the only one of the three musicians killed in that plane crash in Iowa 50 years ago who never got a movie made of his life story. I can’t judge the cinematic value of his life compared with that of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, but the Bopper was a fine songwriter. His big hit was “Chantilly Lace,” but he’s also responsible for George Jones’ “White Lightning” and Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear.” This collection shows he had a knack with novelty songs. You can hear “Big Bopper’s Wedding,” “Bopper’s Boogie Woogie,” “The Preacher and the Bear,” “Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey Out of Me),” and perhaps the ultimate ’50s novelty song, “The Purple People Eaeets the Witch Doctor.” And there are some non-Bopper tracks, including a spooky Holly song I’d never heard before called “Valley of Tears”; “We Belong Together” by Valens; and a maudlin little talking-song tribute to Holly, Valens, and Richardson called “Three Stars” by someone named Tommy Dee. * Impala Play R & B Favorites. Impala is an instrumental group from Memphis that plays a basic surfy sound sometimes augmented with a crazy sax. A song called “Taos Pueblo” — which sounds a lot like the surf classic “Apache” — caught my attention on this 1998 effort. But there are other tracks that make this album a real joy. There are greasy, sleazy tunes including covers of Henry Mancini’s “Experiment in Terror” and Link Wray’s “Vendetta.” The song “Makin’ It” sounds like the stuff they had to have played in Jack Ruby’s Carousel club. And no, “Hell of a Woman” is not the lame Mac Davis hit. This short but menacing tune could be used in the soundtrack to a movie version of the Jim Thompson novel of the same name. * Burn, Baby, Burn by Stud Cole. Yikes! This album, available now on Norton Records, includes some of the most intense stuff I’ve heard in a while. Some have called it “psychedelic rockabilly,” and I can’t think of a better label. There’s a mad apocalyptic feel to many of these songs. “The Devil’s Coming” sounds particularly acid damaged, aided by some cheap recording effects. And in “Black Sun,” Cole sounds like some swamp shaman railing against the elements. Meanwhile, songs like “I’m Glad” and “It Ain’t Right” sound right out of the ’50s. The gospel according to eMusic * Dragnet for Jesus by Sister Wynona Carr. Sister Wynona, who hailed from Cleveland, was active in the 1950s and worked as choir director for the Rev. C.L. Franklin’s (Aretha’s dad!) church in Detroit. But more important, she was influenced by and toured with the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She and Carr were guitar-picking gospel belters who moonlighted in the secular R & B world. This collection has several “novelty” gospel tunes including “Ball Game,” “15 Rounds for Jesus,” and the title song, which, yes, is a sanctified send-up of Jack Webb’s famous TV show. It must be heard to be believed. Don’t dismiss Carr as a novelty artist. This lady could sing. * Slide Guitar Gospel (1944-1964): The Complete Recordings of Rev. Utah Smith and Rev. Lonnie Farris. The Rev. Smith was a traveling, electric-guitar-slinging evangelist known for donning homemade wings and, with the help of ropes and pulleys, flying over his congregation as he sang his signature tune, “Two Wings.” He sang like the frog-throated Blind Willie Johnson and played guitar like a hopped-up Sister Rosetta. There are three versions of “Two Wings” here, recorded in the ’40s and ’50s.

I came for Elder Smith, as he also was known, but I stayed for the Rev. Farris. His recordings are more recent than those of Smith — apparently, they date from the early 1960s. Farris sounds like a direct precursor of the sacred-steel music we’ve come to know and love from Arhoolie Records. On some of the Farris songs, there’s a sax player. These are some of the grittiest recordings to ever come out of a church. * You Without Sin Cast The First Stone by Isaiah Owens. Owens, a Montgomery, Alabama, native, might be the Hasil Adkins of gospel music. Owens wails and pounds his electric guitar, which seems to be tuned to the key of H. And this isn’t a field recording from some long-gone era. All these tracks were recorded, mostly from radio broadcasts, in the late ’90s and early ’00s. Owens gives 17 amazing testimonials for Jesus and one fine pitch for a local auto mechanic — you never know when you may be down in Montgomery and need your brake pads fixed