"THE EASTERN DARK" (late '80's Australian band)....heavily influence by the Ramones, but had their own sound....only had an ep and a 45 then the singer was killed in a car wreck................"DMZ" (late '70s, Boston-based band)an excellent Stooges-type band.........."THE SWINGIN' NECKBREAKERS" (from New Jersey)....punked-up rhythm'n'blues and raunch'n'roll......."THE DETROIT COBRAS"...all covers with a punk-edge: Irma Thomas, Otis Redding, rhythm'n'blues covers, 60s garage covers.........the singer sounds like Irma Thomas.....THE SONICS..(60s pacific northwest band)....sounded like a punkier mid-60s Stones with raw/raunch production...the singer had a great set of howlin' pipes......."THE PAGANS" (late '70s Cleveland punk band)...."THE MIGHTY CAESARS" (British garage-punk band led by Billy Childish)a hybrid of Link Wray, The Sex Pistols, the early Kinks, Chuck Berry, The Clash, Bo Diddley......lo-fi raunch.....'THE ORIGINAL SINS" (late '80s band from Pennsylvania)....psychedelic, velvet underground influences....excellent songwriting........."THE MONKS" (a '60's u.s. band, based in Germany)....strange is the first word that comes to mind....a 60s punk band with a banjo player and some punky lyrics "I Hate You Baby", etc....gotta hear it for yourself...they shaved their heads & dressed like real monks, and some of their fans also dressed-up like monks...."JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS" (U.S. east coast band - mid-to late '70's)heavily influenced by the Velvet Underground...their first lp is by far the best......they penned "Roadrunner" which was covered by the Sex Pistols on the "Rock'N'Roll Swindle" lp...solid lp



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Oh Leonard I am to tired to rock!!!!!!!

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> Oh Leonard I am to tired to rock!!!!!!!


i can't believe my ears: The Rooster man too tired to rock........what's this world coming to?

Madrugada

I'm really into Tinsley Ellis, a bluesman from Atlanta, formerly of the Heartfixers. He records for Alligator Records, if you'd like to follow the lead of Mick and order some blues from Chicago. LK, he comes to Cali on a regular basis. Check him out if you can.

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> I'm really into Tinsley Ellis, a bluesman from
> Atlanta, formerly of the Heartfixers. He records
> for Alligator Records, if you'd like to follow the
> lead of Mick and order some blues from Chicago.
> LK, he comes to Cali on a regular basis. Check him
> out if you can.


hey Elmo....an aquaintance of mine used to work for Alligator records in Chicago.....he got me this awesome Hound Dog Taylor T-Shirt

They've got a website as does Tinsley -check 'em out! You won't be sorry!

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> They've got a website as does Tinsley -check 'em
> out! You won't be sorry!


thanks for the heads-up Elmo

Don't know if they're "relatively unknown" or not, but up here in Canada we've got a band called Sloan who are pretty good. Actually, they opened for the Stones in Boston I believe. Another good rockin' band is Sam Roberts. Both worth checking out IMO.

The Fabulous Poodles released a good album in the late 70s named Mirror Star...

Leonard!!!If you go to old Holland!!!!We are going to see a bannd called Duitse Herder(German shep)...I know you ar gonna have a good time!!!!!!!

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> Leonard!!!If you go to old Holland!!!!We are going
> to see a bannd called Duitse Herder(German
> shep)...I know you ar gonna have a good
> time!!!!!!!


if i go to Amsterdam, i might get lost in the Stoned-Zone

Rooster will be you bodyguard!!!!!!aND THE GIRLS WILL R&r!!!!

Cindy Alexander - a class act.

Bands I love
Goober Patrol
My Bloody Valentine (their cd Loveless is classic guitar noise)
Gotohells
Supersuckers ( a rock, punk, country combo gaurenteed to kick your ass!!)
RadioBirdman (2 great Aussie punk bands from the 70's)
The Saints
The Muffs
The Lunachicks!!! (a very cool NY all girl punk band)
THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT (an absolutely fantastic Japaneese garage-punk band)
GUITAR WOLF (DITTO!!!!!!)
Gren
Hangmen ( who do a KILLER version of Citadel on their cd Loteria)
Wildhearts!! (Ginger is amazing)
Nashville Pussy (treated their cats for fleas once, REALLY haha)
Screeching Weasel (can't stop listoning to them lately)

Pete...also a Muffs fan.....Kim Shattuck is a talented singer/songwriter and has lots of charisma on stage.........my fav's are the 1st cd and the Hamburger comp........saw lots of their early shows in the early '90s here in L.A.

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> I'm really into Tinsley Ellis, a bluesman from
> Atlanta, formerly of the Heartfixers. He records
> for Alligator Records, if you'd like to follow the
> lead of Mick and order some blues from Chicago.
> LK, he comes to Cali on a regular basis. Check him
> out if you can.


Cool On It is a bad-ass album with one of the great alltime front covers.

Supersuckers
Screeching Weasel
Hanoi Rocks
The Nimrods
NOFX

Pagans Mind
Absinth

Bay city rollers

Cool Leonard, met Kim and the Pandoras once at a record store in Columbia Mo. Absolutely loved their outfits and look! "In and Out of My Life In a Day" has long been my theme song (along with "I Can't Get No Sat.") !! hahaha!!

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> Madrugada

Yeah, they're very good! I've met the vocalists, and we talked for an hour or so. He really digs Bob Dylan, and other great musicians. I gave him a recording of the Dylan-Oslo-2002 show, on tape, the next time we met. Friendly guy.

Hey dennysmith61 thats my favourite band too! Shang a Lang was probably the first record I ever bought, the next was Blitzkrieg Bop, actually they don't sound that different

I love Eastern Dark, I met the bass player at a Rollins Band gig in Sydney many years ago,nice guy and a mine of rock n roll info. Radio Birdman were (are still) a good band, but how they are worshipped by the indie crowd in Australia is over the top. The Saints were for me the classic Australian band.

Madrugada are a fine band, i've seen them 3 times, the last time I was standing next to a beautiful women, it took a while to dawn on me but then I realised it was Martina Hingis (ex world top tennis player)

To this list I would I would like to add the fantastic but almost forgotten Gun Club and another Aussie band The Scientists, the Sub Pop compilation of their stuff is really to be recommended. And also Frank Black his recent records are all cool.

"Too old to rock n roll,too young to die" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

another fine Australian band are the Cosmic Psychos.....lots of stoogy wah-wah guitar mixed with snarling punky vocals.....a nice bunch of guys as well

Hey Leonard your psychic, the Rollins gig I mentioned above the Cosmic Psychos were the support band!

Too Much Joy
Redd Kross
The Figgs
Noisy-Le-Grand
Madjuana
L.P.
Cracker
Sloan

humanriff77 Wrote:
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> Hey Leonard your psychic, the Rollins gig I
> mentioned above the Cosmic Psychos were the
> support band!


i'm a cosmic psychic.....actually toured with them in the u.s.a in '95 for 20 shows.....they were a blast!

They were great live, I can imagine the tour took some toll on your liver if you were drinking with those Aussies!!

humanriff77 Wrote:
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> They were great live, I can imagine the tour took
> some toll on your liver if you were drinking with
> those Aussies!!


friggin-A right!......they could drink almost anybody under the table....except for one night when the singer/bassplayer Ross passed-out on the snowy sidewalks of Wisconsin and cracked his noggin' open....it was tough for a little shrimp like me to pick him up off the ground, but i managed

Leonard, I heard some samples of them on amazon and am quickly buying up their catalog. There is a live cd from 89 but very expensive (60$). Do you have it and is it worth the $ ? Thanks!