RAW MID 60's GARAGE PUNK MIX
I got asked to do a last minute show,
grabbed all my www.cryptrecords.com mid 60's garage punk reissues,
and had myself a good time at the studio!!
ENJOY!
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WE NEVER LEARN
The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
2 Hour Tribute Show!!!
MOST of the bands from his book,
PLUS an interview with author/New Bomb Turks singer Eric Davidson!
Amazon description: "This is the first and only book on the last great wave of Punk Rock. Musician and journalist Eric Davidson (Village Voice, CMJ, SF Bay Guardian) was there as this scene unfolded, tracking the inspiration and beautiful destruction of this largely undocumented movement. The Black Lips, the late Jay Reatard, The Dirtbombs, the White Stripes, the Reigning Sound, and the Hives (to name but a few) all sprang from an underground music scene where similarly raw bands, enjoying various degrees of success and hard luck, played in venues ranging from dive bars to massive festivals, but were mostly ignored by a music industry focused on mega-bands and shiny pop stars. They reveled in 50s rock n roll and 60s garage rock as much as they did Iggy Pop, the Ramones, and Black Flag, while creating their own wave of gut-busting riffs and rhythm. The majority of bands that populate this book, The Dwarves, The Gories, The Supersuckers, The Mummies, The Oblivians, Billy Childish, Rocket From The Crypt, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cheater Slicks, Teengenerate, and The Donnas among them, gained little long-term reward from their nonstop touring and brain-slapping records. What they did get was free liquor, good drugs, guilt-free sex, and a crazy good time, all the while building a dedicated fan base that extends across America, Europe, and Japan."
HAUNTED GEORGE!!!
All his bands & projects since the late 80's, PLUS a phone interview!
From the IN THE RED records website:
Haunted George. Weird George. Uncle Ya Ya. Skullface George. Graverobber Steven. He’s known by many aliases. Haunted George, under his Christian name Steve Pallow, was a member of The Beguiled, Satan's Cheerleaders and The Necessary Evils during the 90’s. Near the new century he retired from society to the Mojave Desert where he spends his time making caskets, collecting exotic roadkill, making podcasts that have to be-heard-to-be-believed and recording nightmarish music. Exploring the one-man band format out of sheer necessity, he recorded dozens of songs (many of which are abstract/noise recordings under the name Snuff Maximus) on a 1970s era mono cassette recorder with a condenser mic inside. His music largely creepy dirges that call to mind pieces of American folklore, the extraterrestrial, the supernatural and murder. In other words, a BAD TRIP. To date he has released two albums of his home recordings, “Panther Howl” and “Pile O Meat”, on the Hook Or Crook label as well a handful of singles.
About two years ago Haunted George decided to add ex-Necessary Evil Jimmy Hole to the “band” and started making more regular live appearances. His music remained creepy and sinister, though it now had more swing and rocked harder. The decision was made to enter a real studio to put down his latest batch of songs with his new, expanded line up. The result is American Crow. Fifteen tracks dealing with witches, decomposition, murder, death, donkeys, buzzards and roosters. In the hands of lesser talents such subject matter could be perceived as kitchy or contrived but, Haunted George is the real deal. His music is a paranoid and an altogether disturbed aural hallucination; each drum thud the lockstep of a weary fella who's lost himself in the twilight of the uninhabited desert; every space between beats a sparse landscape devoid of humanity, yet rife with fear and exaggerated panic. This is the only horror rock that matters.
“Haunted George’s music rings with a doggerel atmosphere, a recording value that rivals an old beaten transistor, and a mood where getting your soul sucked out of your eye sockets by a roadkill coyote under the spell of a poltergeist might be a good time.” – Victim Of Time
“Considering the other-worldly, dramatically sinister persona conjured of his music, it is almost a shame to divulge the real man behind Haunted George. Listening to this album you really want to believe there’s a grizzled Jim Thompson protagonist toiling away as a shut-in one man band somewhere out in the middle of the Mojave Desert. And in fact, that’s mostly actually the case.” – All Music Guide
The 1st half hour is the HG special...
After that it's all about OUT OF PRINT vinyl from IN THE RED records!
Jack Starr * Gibson Brothers * Oblivians * Johnny Hash * 20 Miles
BACK FROM THE GRAVE!
Info from (but edited by myself) Wikipedia about the BEST 60's Garage Punk comps EVER:
BACK FROM THE GRAVE is a series of compilation albums of 1960s American garage rock released by www.cryptrecords.com. The series originally consisted of eight LP records released between 1983 and 1992 (and hey: Volume NINE is coming out soon!!!!!!). Volumes seven and eight were double albums. Unlike many garage rock compilations, the Back From The Grave series focuses exclusively on the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre. Psychedelic rock is categorically excluded. The series also includes very few pop or folk oriented songs. As a result, the albums are primarily populated by louder songs that are characterized by fuzztone guitars, rough vocals, and are clearly influenced by groups such as Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, the early Kinks, and the Pretty Things. The lyrics and performances tended to focus on anger, lust, and cheating girlfriends, matching the often chaotic music.
BACK FROM THE GRAVE is a series of compilation albums of 1960s American garage rock released by www.cryptrecords.com. The series originally consisted of eight LP records released between 1983 and 1992 (and hey: Volume NINE is coming out soon!!!!!!). Volumes seven and eight were double albums. Unlike many garage rock compilations, the Back From The Grave series focuses exclusively on the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre. Psychedelic rock is categorically excluded. The series also includes very few pop or folk oriented songs. As a result, the albums are primarily populated by louder songs that are characterized by fuzztone guitars, rough vocals, and are clearly influenced by groups such as Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, the early Kinks, and the Pretty Things. The lyrics and performances tended to focus on anger, lust, and cheating girlfriends, matching the often chaotic music.
The series tends to follow the packaging format established by the Nuggets album and the Pebbles series: Each volume includes detailed liner notes that include basic information about each song and group, such as origin and recording date. However, the Back From The Grave series' liner notes are very distinct. The information that they present suggests especially thorough research, often including humorous anecdotes about the artists included, information about the circumstances of the recordings, and brief biological sketches of the groups, in addition to more basic information. The Back From the Grave series was one of the first to actively seek out bands for this sort of information, sometimes even paying royalties to bands included in the compilations.
The liners are also notable for their distinctive style – they tend to be highly enthusiastic, full of intentional spelling errors and slang, humorous asides and tangents. They are noticeably opinionated, and often include insults directed at psychedelic, art-rock, and commercially oriented music.
The albums also include photographs of the included groups, and the covers tend to elaborately drawn cartoons that feature zombies (intended to personify the music found on each volume) emerging from graves and "attacking" various manifestations of the pop-and-progressive oriented world that had come to musical prominence by the end of the 60's (and later on disco and MTV). Back From the Grave is one of the most important and influential garage compilations series ever assembled.
Listen here to an hour of BFTG tunes picked and broadcasted by The Vinyl Avenger:
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