Chas Kit

Dear Chris,

I'm a Brazilian journalist, songwriter and popular music
researcher. And I must say that a better website than Garage
Hangover one cannot find on this planet. Good text,
primary-source research, record sleeves and labels, sound
files... Garage Hangover has it all.

Just one thing: no Brazilian garage? So I took upon myself
to take the first step (with much more to come if you so
desire!). I tried to send you some recordings and scanned sleeves, but was told your mailbox was full.

Hope you make some room and my material is of some interest and helps to make even better a website which, I repeat, is one of the best ever.

Cheerio,

Ayrton

I didn't realize you were from the U.S. I love this site! I have found out so much info. I went to College and studied Creative Arts. The second year I was to branch out into band management and concert promotion. Unfortunately, the program was cancelled due to low enrollment. I have always had my ear to the ground regarding music and bands. My cousin played drums for a brief time with "The Hawk."
This site informs me, moves me and reminds me of the best time in my life. "The 60's"

Hey,Chris!

I'm Max from Russia,and i'm here to say:

I love your site! It's a great work, and i wanna say THANK YOU VERY MUCH for it.
No doubt, it is one of the greatest websites about garage rock in Internet,haha

Never stop doing what you are doing!
Thanx a lot again and again, huh!
Cheers!

Hi Chris, I play drums in a 60's instrumental surf music band, but I'm also a sixties garage maniac! I'm writin' just to say thanks for your great website an the marvellous music. Keep in touch, Enrico from Italy.

If you read #26 of Ugly-Things (www.ugly-things.com)publisher Mike Stax you will find a lengthy article with the titel: Look to Norway. There you can read about The Dandy Girls, the Norwegian/Swiss all-girl-rock'n roll band who befriended the Dara Puspitas in Djakart and later in Teheran in 1968.

In the next number of UT (#27) there will be an article about the Dandy Girls. And in the Christmas issue there will be an article telling how the two girl-band met and what they learned from each other.

Best regards,
Thor G. Norås,
manager for The Dandy Girls.

Greetings from Lisbon Portugal!

For classic rock and garage rock fans your site is a Goldmine!A must for all the good music fans.What a bunch of great bands that we have the chance to finally hear all thanks to you. Thank you!keep on doing the good work.

David

Just stumbled across your incredible site. Fantastic stuff and a real labour of love, I can tell. I'm a massive fan of '60s transworld garage punk music.... going back to the 1st 2 Pebbles volumes in '79. They changed my life forever. I really just buy comps cuz the originals are just too scarce... although I have a few UK '60s 7"s. Thanks for documenting this wonderful music. All the best.

Can't believe no-one's contributing from the UK May i be the first to do so. Just discovered your site Looks great Best of luck with the funding

Hi Chris - just a quick note to say "thank you" for all of your hard work. When I stop by here - every few days - it's always a complete joy. I have no idea how you find the time to do the detailed updates you do, yet manage to maintain all of the other things you've got going on in your life. Your hard work is not unappreciated my friend!

Thank You for featuring my Dad's band 'The Inspirations' on your website, You must be pretty cool!!

It has been great reading about the talent from Texas! Louann's Club is often mentioned...how can I find out the history of the club. I know the original burned, but couldn't find out what year or what year it was rebuilt.
I think the original was small inside, that it was a "drive-in" restuarant w/car-hops & there was no dance floor, the new club was much larger. When did it close? I always wanted to go, but was too young during it's "hey-day". I would love to have any info you or anyone else has to share.

Thanks!
Jackie

This site is a lot of fun! Thanks for creating it. My sister and I were remembering a song played on WGH radio in Norfolk in the 60s and we cannot find any trace of it on the internet. We don't know who did it but think it must have been a local or regional garage band. We remember the lyrics:

"I get the feeling when she walks
Same old feeling when she talks.
If she would only look my way
That'd be the day you'd hear me say
Thrill me
Please
C'mon c'mon, thrill me
Hey Hey Hey Hey
Hey Hey Hey Hey (call and response)
Hey Hey Hey Hey
Hey Hey Hey
I know I'm all right
All right all right all right"
Etc.

It was a very hard driving rocky rolly song. We loved it as pre-teens. We would be so happy if someone could identify it.

Hi, I'm a 26 years old girl from Italy. I think you're doing very great job for garage rock's cause. Your site is beautiful and complete, when I look for informations about some strange band, a one-hit band that I heard in some obscure compilation, I almost ever find them in your blog. Garage rock is my magnificent obsession. Thanx for what you doing, and sorry for my english!!!

Greetings from Rome

Nina

It's really great that such sites like yours exist. Actually, I found it when I wanted to find some information about the Czechoslovak band The Beatmen. Then I found here other fascinating bands. I visit your site very often.

Hey, thanks for doing such a stand-up job! I'm 24 and from Houston, and I got turned on to garage rock when my older brother gave me a CD a long time ago featuring a number of bands from Houston/Austin in the 60s. All of it is totally rocking and original. Nowadays, I can't get enough. Simple guitar riffs with a heavy fuzz, melodic bass lines, intense drum grooves with the occasional crazy fill, passionate singing and yelling--this is what rock and roll should be!

So thank you for this resource that has allowed me to find so much more of it. Your history and research is especially helpful.

All the best,
Jonathan Wing

Really enjoyed exploring your site and was very pleased to find a bunch of long-lost Canadian bands along with others from around the world. The amount of work you've put into this is pretty incredible. BTW: I didn't notice anything on The Bad Seeds and Zakary Thaks (both out of Corpus Christi, TX, with connections to Bubble Puppy) or on two more Montreal bands: The Haunted and The Rabble. An indie label worth checking out is http://www.disquesmerite.com/ -- reissues of classic Canada/ Quebec garage/ indy rock. Most of the site is in French, but there are some gems to be found there. Cheers.

My comment is all essentially in the subject line. This is fantastic fun, dude. So, do you DJ around Brooklyn or NYC at all - or anytime soon?
Julie

Thank you for this site that I discover not long ago (I was looking for cover pix of the Dynamites...): Great music and quality sound and images.
Really great!

Hi Chris,
I have been following your blog for a while and am still learning about the garage bands all over the U.S. and the world. It is really a fantastic website.

Singapore has a band that has made a name for itself not only in Singapore, Malaysia and the rest of South East Asia but also in Europe. I am sure you've heard of them but uncertain if you have featured them. It's called 'The October Cherries' also formerly known as the 'The Surfers'.

One of the members, Peter Diaz, has a website and you can find information about them currently on my blog.

Cheers,
Andy Young

Great website.. came here originally due to some google searching for some Brent records stuff you have posted, and then found you have a treasure trove of information on my other obsession of local and province/country wide garage groups in Ontario. No one comes close on the web, in terms of using straight up info, pictures, sound clips, with no biases or so called "weasel words" . On par excellence! Look forward to contributing ! Peace from S. ontario/ and Vancouver Island..coast to coast baby!

Hey Chas ,just visited the site for the first time must say im more than impressed to finally see someone with a taste for good music. Sent you a line regarding me dad playing drums for "The Dinosaurs" . The 45 on ur website almost shocked him ,nice work man...
P.S Your son Emmett is Adorable....

Great page Chris. I´m a record collector here and like several people here, we have a cult with the vinyls. I'm really sad about the link about peruvian bands.. You know, shit happens everywhere... anyway, there a lot of bands from Peru really wild and crazy like Los Saicos, Los Mads, The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter, The Jaguars, Los Holy´s, etc. Hope you can write about that bands. Here in Peru was edited this year a great book: Demoler, edited by Revuelta Editores, by Carlos Torres Rotondo. The book is the story of peruvian bands since 1964 till 1975, even had a list of all the 7" edited in that period. Is the first serious book about peruvian bands (if i can i will try to buy you a copy). Anyway, continue your terrific job Chris. Saludos.

Look the book of the story of peruvian bands here:

http://la-fortaleza-de-la-soledad.blogspot.com/2009/09/jueves-4-demoler-en-la-feria-del-libro.html

Saludos.

I THINK YOU HAVE REALLY DONE YOUR HOMEWORK AND A GREAT JOB ON THIS SITE DUDE !!!! WE NEED TO HAVE A GARAGE BAND REUNION CONCERT !!!! WITH ALL THE POSSIBLE SURVIVING CAPABLE PLAYERS OUT THERE . IT WILL BE BETTER THAN WOODSTOCK !!!!! OR BETTER YET DO A LIVE ALBUM !!! WILDBILL

Hello...

My father Peter McBurnie was lead vocals in The City Muffin Boys, a garage band from Toronto in the 60's. I have some newspaper articles and even some interesting CBC recordings of the band. At some point they were supposed to make their debut for The Doors but were stopped at customs (you can guess) anyway- if you're interested I'll try to post more info. I would also like to learn more about them as there isn't much out there..

Thanks,

Mélisande

Lonnie lee and the big beats started in the fall of 1958 when I was in college at NEO at Miami Ok..we were probaby the second rock band in oklahoma north of tulsa. the first was probably bobby poe and the poecats, who went to tennesee in 59...the orig. band consisted of bob william on bass, jerry adams on drums, jeff goosbey on piano ray frick and I on guitar and I did vocals...we played boat shows, on radio, movie houses, colleges mixers ect...In 60 ray and I join the reserves, and in aug 6o I started over again with dale, archie and jerry woods..dale did not last very long because of wanting to attend school parties and dating, woods left right afer that. I pick up ronnie mason on drums, bob shoulder on bass and vaugh quimby on sax. archie stayed with me until he went to college. The five of us play all over kansas, okla, ect. This was the band that recorded with Amco records in 61-63, spent a lot of time in the studio. In 62 the lable released "you shake me and flip side was little angel" bob shoulder did the vocals, them I recorded "corner girl and I've been around"

When archie went to college the band busted up and I joined up with a band called the ramrods and worked with them unil 1970. There is a lot more to the story of the lonnie lee and the big beats that will be in a book to be published by the end of the year which will have a lot of research of the bands in Northern Okla..already is out on the bands in southeren part of okla. It was a great time for bands with a lot of places to play your music...

I thank you having my name mentioned in your article, I am almost 70 years old now and it is hard to belive what I accomplished in the music business...great memories.....

r

Thanks so much for the website! I have often wondered about David Keller. I worked for him when he had his t-shirt business in Toronto in 1971-72...and have tried to find him...this is the first mention-so maybe someone will read this...

if it is ok...I am going to post an email address ok? kmae02@hotmail.com

Cheers!

Hello Chas...I sent you a message reference "Sound System" photos. I never got a reply..so I!m trying again. I will be visiting those folks who have possession of some of the band. I do not have MP3 so when you contact/send an address to where I can mail them.Have a wonderful day!!!!Lynn PS Hope Emmitt is fine!!!!!!!!

Hi Chas,
I came across your site while doing research for the site I'm creating for Lighthouse (the band Skip Prokop formed with Paul Hoffert after Skip left the Paupers). As we used to say...I'm blown away!! I made a donation - I know just how much work is involved researching and putting a site together. Please check out Lighthouse's site...www.lighthouserockson.com. I'm currently working on an extended history page but it's not up yet. I manage Lighthouse (have done so since the band reunited seventeen years ago). It's the band's 40th Anniversary and we're doing a big splash hoping to get the word out. I'd like to create a link to your site on my links page. Would that be ok? i've also sent the site to Skip. Don't think he's seen it.
If you get a chance you could check out my site as well. I'm a fine art photographer in one of my other lives. www.brendahoffert.com. Unfortunately I haven't updated for a while. No time!!
Hope your Christmas was Merry and may your New Year shine.
Brenda
BTW, if you go to the Lighthouse site please vote and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

Chris -- Thank you so much for your hard work on Garage Hangover -- it's the atomic bomb!!!

Fred Arechiga--Dawg Drummer

Chris, what great work you are doing. A wonderful website and certainly a stroll down memory lane. I played in a 60 group from the little North East Texas town of New Boston, near Texarkana on the state line of Texas and Arkansas. Our group, LCS and The Bishops IV were a top forty group played for several years and in many different venues throughout the four state area of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Chris I just completed a new digitally remixed and remastered CD of some classic rock and original songs we recorded on old analog tape at Robin Hood Brian's Studio in Tyler Texas in 1967 and Sevens International Studio in Dallas in 1970. I do hope to be downloading our CD with the text, and sending it to you soon, hopefully to be highlighted on your web site. Right now, I am hoping to find a long lost friend and our keyboard player from the day, Sandy Weiser, from Texarkana. We all lost track of Sandy after the group disbanded, and we all moved on with our adult lives. The last I heard from Sandy he was a DJ in the Detroit area, an also heard he may be playing or have played with a gospel group somewhere. I would really like any of your website family who may know Sandy Weiser, or a least contact him, and to have Sandy contact me or just let me know how I may get in touch with him after all these years. It has been since 1972 since any of us in the band have been in contact with him. Regardless of his circumstances, situation, lifestyle, etc, all the members of the Bishops IV would certainly like to catch up with Sandy.

Sandy was one of the finest keyboard players I ever met. He was very versatile, playing his big beautiful Hammond B2 with two Leslie's Tone cabinets, and numerous other keyboard instruments, as well as being accomplished on the auto harp, and harmonica and Sandy contributed significantly to our vocals. Sandy was an absolutely professional musician, and most of all our great friend, and I would certainly like to catch up with Carl Sandor Weiser (Sandy) if any one knows how to contact him. Thanks to everyone, Dannie Wilson

Thank you for a fabulous site! Some of these were edgy, highly charged bands, and they should have been as famous as the Electric Prunes or the Blues Magoos. I knew some of them personally, and they continued to play in other bands for many years. It is wonderful to read about them and see all the old records they made. They made some great stuff. Especially the Distortions and the Rockin' Rebellions. Thanks again, and I wish you luck!

Hey CHRIS..'Fantastic site " The knowledge inside of your head about this music must be over=flowing.Just lucky to be a small part of this. LYNN JENKINS of THE SOUND SYSTEM

I was stationed at Kincheloe Air Force Base in the late 60’s and heard the Amen sing these songs. I had the 45 … but lost it long ago. I had on reel to reel tape and lost that long ago. I have randomly searched for it over time but today found the .mp3’s on your site. They bring tons of memories, along with the memory of a red headed girl I was in love with from the Canada side of the Soo.

You have earned my lifelong thanks …

Hi Chris !

Just stumbled across your site looking for information about the Myddle Class and their great single "Free As The Wind" which I heard on a Chicago FM radio station in the 60's. Perhaps you should add another feature to this site in the form of a donate button for fans of this site. People could donate whatever they thought the experience of this site was worth to them. They could make donations every month or ocassionally in whatever amounts they wanted. Sort of a power in numbers concept. Perhaps you could set it up to get your donations by Paypal. It would be interesting to see what kind of cash this would generate for you. Who knows perhaps enough small donations would add up to be a mighty river.

Keep Up Your Project
Russ

WOW WOW WOW!!! I could not believe this site when someone sent a link to me. I was in a 60's band called The Bystanders from Yonkers, NY. and I found a couple of bands that played around when I was a kid. The Gyrations, who feature Robert Karlsson and his brother...Robert was my drummer for a while, and "The" another great Yonkers Garage band. This stuff is amazing, and cannot figure out how you found these gems. Also, any other info on Saints and Sinners would be great. Lead singer/Keyboards was Kevin Brenner who was my business partner for years and prior to that was my booking agent at a company called CTA. I would love to hear, see, or learn more about that band. Supposedly they opened for the Beatles when they played Shea Stadium. Thanks a million for the memories and keep up the good/great work!

I was doing a search on the original Lost and Found (Misfits) from Houston and came across your site. I love it. I hope you are keeping it up.

The Original Misfits will all be together in September in Austin. We all got together last year for the first time in many years for some of us.

Jimmy Frost, Mickey Bishop, Pete Black and James Harrell. Thanks for such a cool site!!!

So ....did you get a good gig?