it certainly is....this group is brilliant..it's so ridiculously (in a good way) focused on what it deals with...a lot of online social network things are saturated with shite and disinterest - garagepunk.com is like a snipers bullet, compared to the wild buckshot of other places...nice one

Click here to read! Press is good, no?

Hawkwind - The Wizard Blew His Horn / Opa-Loka
Violent Femmes - Gimme The Car
Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra - The Utter Nots
Sötlimpa - Ayatollah
Edgar Broughton Band - Freak Out
Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp
Sodom - Burst Command Til War
Green On Red - Five Easy Pieces
Poison 13 - One Step Closer
The Knitters - Trail Of Time
Magnetix - Nonsense
King Custer & Magnetix - Burning Pay
Love Potion - We Will Return
Pruneface - live / Lades 2008
Wolf Eyes - Village Oblivia
Thomas Function - Can't Say No
Mojomatics - Don't Believe Me When I'm High
Dolly Rocker Movement - Brave New World
Setting Son - Wrong From The Start
Venomous Concept - Stupid
Manikin - Shadowplay
Tyvek - Flashing Lights
David Thomas - Salt
Insect Warfare - Cellgraft
Country Teasers - White Patches
Systematic Death - Disobey
Feiler Marhaug - He-Male

How good is garagepunk.com?

Only as good as you can make it. We gotta get more of the crazies and weirdos on this network so that we can once and for all take over the world and spread only cool music.....LOL....

That dude was funny as fuck.

kopper said:

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

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?

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!

David Ray Dog said:

I blame it on the economy. If I'm not taking care of the family (all 24 of them) or out rockin' somewhere (there is a lot of awesome shit to see & hear down here), then I'm out working my ass off somewhere. Seems like there's precious little time to sit and discuss or read interesting stuff . . . sucks, but it could be worse I s'pose.

I blame it on the economy. If I'm not taking care of the family (all 24 of them) or out rockin' somewhere (there is a lot of awesome shit to see & hear down here), then I'm out working my ass off somewhere. Seems like there's precious little time to sit and discuss or read interesting stuff . . . sucks, but it could be worse I s'pose.

Or are forums not as active as they once were?

hARRY nILSSON'S jUMP iNTO tHE fIRE

I helped Drum Wolf drink a 40oz of duty free Jack Daniels, that was fun, neither knew what the fuck each of us were saying to each other, thank god for the international language of booze. Had a great talk with Charlie Parker from UK Subs, He's a super nice guy, that was uber cool. And I meet Jack White, that was super boring and he kept saying things like "we're from America you know" and I kept thinking 'I might live in a country the size of a pimple thats in the arsehole of world but I'm not fucking thick mate!'

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

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.