When I first heard this I thought it was one of them newfangled mash-up songs. It sounds like Ricky Nelson vs. The Blues Magoos. But it turns out, this version of "Summertime was recorded in 1962 -- four or five years before the Magoos' "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet." You ahe to wonder if they stole their famous riff from Ricky. I found this on the Crud Crud blog. The MP3 is HERE

Woo - friggin' - Hoo!!

My favorite King Khan band... period.

http://www.vicerecords.com/download/king_khan/ password: kingkhan1725 GO GET IT!

Weird! In the article Mike posted i don't agree with "fortysomethings jumping around in Halloween outfits would, uh, “stain the brand” a bit." Ofcourse they should be in mummies outfits!! Hope they've still got it!!

What a spoiler, like finding out that Hong Kong Phooey was a janitor. :-)

Still the best fucking band members since The Sonics though!

Great photos, especially the dismantled farfisa.

fuckin. jealous.
From the pictures they can still go wild, just not crazy...weird seeing 'em sans-toilet paper wrap.

more photos from the show here: pix.jetlagrnr.com/mummies.html

Trent's a midget now? And when did Larry turn into Greg Cartwright?

Here's a little write up on the show. http://detailedtwang.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-watched-mummies-reunion.html

Oh dear, they should put the bandages back on!

Photos of the Mummies (playing under the name Scarecrow & the Corn Shuckers) are on the GaragePunk.com Flickr group pool. Here's one:

I don't know. But I dig "I Dig Girls"!

The Heard: same group that released a single or two on Musicland USA? Probably not.

Austin country singer/guitar-stud Jim Stringer just turned me on to this great Web stie with dozens of MP3s from Kansas bands from the '60s who were managed by Mid-Continent Entertainment, which constantly advertised on KOMA, that 50,000-wat monstrosity in Oklahoma City. The site has MP3s from more than 20 bands, including Spider & The Crabs, The Bluethings and a couple of bands Stringer was in, The Upside Dawne and Tide. Most of these were cover bands so you're going to see a lot of versions fo Young Rascals and Wilson Picket songs. The site is HERE and my blog post about my KOMA memories is HERE.

there's a great part in "End Of The Century", a documentary about the Ramones, in which they talk about playing London very early on and Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten and others sort of weasled their way in to talk to them - this was before any of them had formed punk bands... anyways I'll have to catch it. I love documentaries.

awesome...
thanks for posting!

Great interview, Billy is an extremely interesting and talented guy, thanks for the link

All very interesting especially that he feels an affinity with the Dadaists( artists such as John Heartfield, George Grosz and many others) I can see that having read about them at college many moons ago.

Playlist May 15th:

La Ira De Dios : Quemando
Motorama : Tiki Tramp
Bill Bondsmen : Generation Landfill
Juanita Y Los Feos : El Aqujero
Mac Blackout : Voodoo Doll
The News : From The Moon
Raks : Raks Dance
Kareem Issaq & The Middle Eastern Rock : Besaha
Ray Psyah : Deep Down Inside
De Høje Hæle : Røvguitar
PJ Bonneman : Fri Kærlighed
Mojomatics : Clean My Sins
Freeks : The Go Go Get
Leather Uppers : On The Mic
Blues Addicts : 5/4
Nitad : Rädslan
The Rats : We Are The Rats
Hjertestop : Ind I Lejren
The Quick : No No Girl
Birthday Party : Nick The Stripper
Hipbone Slim : Sheik Said Shake

I've got kind of an unusal blog. It deals mainly with music -- and I write an awful lot about the stuff we all love here in the Hideout -- as well as New Mexico politics, which I'm sure most of you care a lot about also. What can I say, I'm a political reporter by profession. So you can read about The Cramps, The Dirtbombs and Andre Williams, along with Bill Richardson, Pete Domenici and Manny Aragon. Hey, everyone needs a gimmick! But seriously, my blog features my weekly music column (Terrell's Tune-up), the playlists from both of my KSFR radio shows (Terrell's Sound World and The Santa Fe Opry), my monthly eMusic download reviews, and various other rants and raves about the music industry. And in August, I'll be blogging from the Democratic Convention in Denver. Check it out HERE

what I hate is being told to turn up at 5.30 or whatever, so you turn up at 7.00 and nobodys there and not even a mike stand is set up. we just jump on and do half a song and we are good to go but there is only 2 of us so...in new zealand the sound guy would probly be a good mate of mine or somone I already know.
but yeah, I do hate sitting there banging a snare/kick/tom for half an hour

Branded record covers by lee Tea

I've listened to the Rip Offs-Get A Record. Played Tonio K-Life in the Food Chain (there's a few good songs on it, but mostly not good, although it's a green promo copy and it looks cool) and Joe Jackson-I'm the Man, primarily for the title track. It's the best song on the album.

Finally learned how to import videos from my old tapes. (Yeah I'm 5 years late). This is an all time fave of mine. Really puts me back to when I was first discovering punk and going to gigs as a kid in 1980. Have never seen this video on youtube or anywhere else. What do you think of this vid? Am I kidding myself in thinking this is any good?
Find more videos like this on The GaragePunk Hideout