Any Garage Rock Heads?
tonyphrone
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Lately I'm obsessed with :
The Monks
The Seeds
The Sonics
Back from the Grave Comps
The Monks
The Seeds
The Sonics
Back from the Grave Comps
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my new favorite rock band!
Been revisiting this one lately -
umm...this pic sleeve kinda rules.
big 60's garage head over here. Can't think of anything new I've
picked up lately, but pickwick33 and I did hijack THIS PAGE with a discussion
of The Five Americans, a band that looks suspect but has one really
rockin' album and some other good but more pop stuff.
And if you are digging the Back from the Grave series, check
out the Teenage Shutdown comps, which have excellent sound quality
and well-themed track selections. Sundazed just started a new vinyl comp
series, Garage Beat '66, that has alot of material previously covered on Nuggets
and Pebbles but with cleaned-up sound. These I haven't checked out yet myself,
but I can vouch for the quality of the Teenage Shutdown series .
Leather Boy: On The Go / Soulin'
49th Parallel: Laborer/You Do Things
The Innovation: I Can Make It Without You
The Lords: Rain Dream
Five By Five: Hang Up
Kit & The Outlaws: Don't Tread on Me
Sorrows: Giallo, Rosso, Verde E Blu / No No No No
Climax: You... I (yes, a cover of the Rugby's tune)
And this cool LP
The Petards: A Deeper Blue LP
Love the Leather Boy 45 and Kit & The Outlaws is mandatory D/FW garage fare, what label did you score??
15 Going On 20/Penthouse Pauper is probably my fave, with
both sides coming pretty tough and the A side a raunchy delight.
Still haven't landed the LP, though.
I've yet to hear this live album,but their 45's were sick and over the top.New Zealand garage btw.
My Top Ten Corrosive Texas Garage Bands/Acts
Randy Alvey & The Green Fuz
Merlin Tree
The Spades
Zachary Thaks
The Headstones
The Chessman
Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Exotics
Kempy & The Guardians
The Heard - (The Exit 9 band)
- Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
- Five Americans
- Gentrys
- Paul Revere & the Raiders
- Sir Douglas Quintet
- Top Teen Hits, Vol. 3 (60's comp of Minnesota/Minneapolis artists on the Bud-Jet label)
- Bad Roads (although their performance at the Ponderosa Stomp in Memphis last month was kinda lukewarm)
- Roy Head's "You're Almost Tuff" (white soul singer does the garage thing and KILLS it)
- Allman Joys'"Spoonful" (Duane and Gregg Allman, before they became boogie-rockers)
- Lollipop Shoppe's "You Must Be A Witch"
- Rationals
- Golliwogs'"Brown-Eyed Girl" (early Creedence)
- Split Ends'"Rich With Nothin'"
- A-440's "Torture"
- Third Booth's "I Need Love"
and the litter
Whatchooknowaboutthat?
You want the real deal? These knuckleheads actually pressed their own vinyl fer Chissakes! Dead Moon kept it realer than real, and I assume still are. Killer live show, too.
54-40 or FIGHT!
Cosign on this.
As far as LPs, though, I love the Sonics, Shadows of Knight, the Elevators, the Bachs, Index, the Wailers, and so many others in this thread... but as much as I love those all, I think this album may be the greatest single American "garage" LP--at least, it's certainly my favorite:
Boston's Own!
There's too many groups called the lords Here is a great garage 45 by a group called "The Lords" from edmonton I recently picked up.
The Lords - Savin'
I'm not a garage head (I really like it, just not a genre I'm an expert in), but there are a few great garage 45s made in Edmonton. Specifically by the group "King Beezz" which I've been trying to track down to no avail.
Great CD - their version of 'Neighbor, Neighbor' is sick.
I still grab interesting stuff when I find it.
"You must be a witch" is one of the best Sixties songs I've ever heard. Sounds like it was recorded in the 80s or something.
Birdman9, can you elaborate a bit more on yr other references above?
Fred Cole from Lollipop Shoppe went on to form Dead Moon with his wife Toody and their drummer Andrew.
http://www.deadmoonusa.com/deadmoon.htm
One of the best(still)live garage bands you can see...not an artifact or 'retro' group, they are the real deal Holyfield. Guitar, bass and drums, no frills, no gimmicks and no attitude or irony. I have seen 'em live a bunch of times, but own no recordings(cept on a cassette a friend made me)....I need to rectify that.
Fred and Toody had a vinyl press for a while and Tombstone Records pressed and released their own and like minded bands in the Pacific Northwest.
One of a kind.
The Gestures- Run Run Run
and
Los Chijuas- Changing the Colors of Life
Black Knight?
That's the one I have. I think it came out on Philips too...
They are from my hometown!
Mankato MN represent!!
I've seen three pressings of this one.....2 on Black Knight with one listing the band as The Outlaws and the other Kit & The Outlaws and then the nationally distributed Philips press....believe it or not here in Texas the Philips press is the hardest to find.