From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #22 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Monday, 1 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 022 In this issue: Swedish Mod Re: mike gibbons update! radio radio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TweeKid@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:35:48 -0400 Subject: Swedish Mod I have not checked into these parts in a while so somebody may have tipped ya'll off to these recent releases if so I am sorry for bringing it up again. I recently came across two volumes called THE ROOTS OF SWEDISH POP-THE MOD YEARS on Uppers Records. Volume one is straight ahead Swedish mod/pop dating from 1979 to 1985. Volume One includes tracks by Mops, Docent Dod, Studio Sex, Moderns, Vertex, Baby Snakes, The Girls and Route 66, all of it seems to be quite fine. My love for garage, however, is more satisfied by volume two ROOTS OF SWEDISH POP-THE GARAGE DAYS that includes such fave rave badns as The Creeps (early Creeps before they sucked!!!), Backdoor Men, Wylde Mammoths, High Speed V, Crimson Shadows, Stomachmouths, Baby Snakes and Cornflake Zoo. While I'm not sure who might have copies in the US you can write to the label at the following address: Uppers Records Box 129 401 22 Goteberg Sweden - --Matthew Kaplan-- things that I'm spinning today: VA: Roots of Swedish Pop Volume 1&2 Leslie Gore: It's My Party-The Mercury Years (Mercury Records) The Best of the Angles (Mercury Records) The Best of The Shangri-Las (Mercury Records) Growin' Up Too Fast-The Girl Group Anthology (Mercury Records) ------------------------------ From: Tawsurf@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:51:54 -0400 Subject: Re: mike gibbons update! laura, thee phantom 5ive is a trendy, surf combo and we also have 5-6 blasters that you could call garagey cause they are fast, utilize perhaps 3 chords and are primitive...we played atlanta fri nite and nash on sat nite. our garage covers included: flamin groovies, the emperors, sonics, and kid thomas! so i will be lookin for some tampa hits-i have spent considerable time in the tampa area and have been to shows at the cuban club, the fair grounds, the london victory club, the lonesome coyote, some club in downtown gulfport- all of which probably no longer exist, no? cheers, toddd ------------------------------ From: "Donald G. Smith" Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 09:53:06 -0400 Subject: radio radio personally I'm unconcerned if Ron Asheton gets any money or not- it's a political thing. It is Ron who's the militia Nazi freak living in his parent's basement, right? The whole missed-out-on-Hendrix thing *has* to have been the biggest over-rated myth that I ever heard. Even if many of us "missed out" on seeing original garage bands, Lux and Ivy love to talk about searching for 45s in Sacramento when all they had to go on was whether they were published by BMI or ASCAP! (apparently one was picky about who they'd sign up- so that was the whitebread lame-o publisher) How much crap they had to sort through. Let's be honest- we have a greater access to fucked up music on reissues now than ever before. Sure, Greg and other long-time collectors may long for the days before $300 psyche lps, (that's why they made cassettes), but for me to walk into a record store, choose a new Arf Arf, Bomp, Crypt release of 60s music and plop down $15- give me convenience or give me death. that unreleased Tyme track on BFTG #7 is a total monster and was completely unavailable when the band was together... but now it is... Sure I miss the days when the punk rock scene was tight-knit and not-so-corporate, but too many of my friends started their kids' college funds with MTV hits for me to miss it that much. I for one, don't miss the days of getting street-hassled by Night Ranger fans for wearing doc martens... Anyway- since someone else brought up their radio show, I thought I'd do the same... I started off on WMUC-FM 88.1 in the Northeast Washington, DC suburbs in 1986. My show has changed over the years, reflecting a lot of the more exciting new bands and styles, but the core of my show has always been 1950s-1970s rockabilly, garage, psyche, and lounge (which had none of the following back in the 80s that it does now...) I'm back on the air in 1996 and getting dozens of requests each show. If you're a label releasing garage/psyche/lounge/etc music please consider focussing on our station as an integrated part of your media blitz. You can send me promo material at: Don Smith, WMUC-FM, PO BOx 1754, Bethesda, MD 20827-1754. promo key=off Don ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #22 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"