Dear Badgergril: Thank you always for your deovted ness to all things Badger!
I should send you some Wisconsin Badgers things!--
Oh yes i would love a copy of that book--illiterate--how punk!--
Monoman was a good friend of mine for many years--
yes back then i was a hard core vinyl junkie for sure!
even used to rent booth at record conventions and hustle for gems--
myself and another man were the most fanatic coilectors of james brown in town for some time--we would even be going door to door to houses in the various neighborhoods asking about old records people had sitting around--he eventually became a minister in a church there and gave up record collecting as it was listening to devil music--would only hear gospel music--(like Little Richard in many of his incarnations--)
a very fascinating sub culture--i got in to it via working/co-managing a new/used/rare record store right at edge of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, right on MASS. AVE--
i really got into collecting sixties punk/garage music and is part of friendship i had with Monoman--saw the very first show he ever did of The Lyres after DMZ broke up--they opened for Lou Reed at the Paradise club--blew me away and i was hooked--
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Dear Georg:
If it is a punk band is often better to have just one or two words in name--
i used to play in a hard core punk band we were Junkyard Angels--then decided that sounded too much like a bunch of junkies, so then was Depth Charge, and finally someone said let's just call it ATTACK!--
which abt summed it up!
i used to contribute to lot of little punk/hard core zines--and even had a band named after one of my little "Leisure Books", 4 pp collaged zines--the name was BIG DAY--
they were in the classic punk tradition going back to Sixties bands like the Troggs ("Wild Thing") and the Seeds ("Pushin too Hard")--two chords! NOT the obligatory three!
there are hundreds of compilations and reissues now of the great great true garage punk greats/unknowns greater than knowns out now--in the Eighties there was Sixties revival of both the punk and psyche sounds and lot new great bands out of that--
if you come across them check out DMZ which then became The Lyres, from Boston, with Jeff Connolly ("Monoman" for his obsession with record collecting only mono lps & 45s)--a truly great singer and organ player raving away on ancient creaky Farfisas--
or even earlier punk like the Sonics from Seattle who had one of the all time greatest screaming singers, Gerry Roslie i think was his name-- way ahead of their time--("Psycho", "She's A Witch")--or the Johnny Burnette Trio--another awesome screaming singer--Punkabilly from late fifties--and great great guitarist, James Burton--
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