Spring Squall

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Welcome to Episode 8 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I decided to play lots of long play, psychedelic and space rock. Spring is coming too slowly and I thought a squall of feedbacky guitars and ephemeral space rock would bring forth warmer weather. I'm short for words today, so right to the playlist. There's alot of Flying Saucer Attack, one of my favorite bands.

The highlights of the show is a track by The Gardes that I really like, who are from Ponca City, Oklahoma and whose album, for me, is one of the best albums beginning to end I've ever listened to. Another highlight is the band Spain, from Los Angeles. Their first album was really cool, and Evan Hartzell, a friend and drummer I've played with, is on the kit. The last highlight is "Let My Children Hear Music," from my band, Zombie vs. Shark. It's an instrumental of utopian sound named after the great Charles Mingus album.

The show is a whopping 135 minutes! The playlist, in order: Flying Saucer Attack, Lungfish, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Jimi Hendrix, Bardo Pond, Swervedriver, Come, Portishead, Spain, The Gardes, Roy Montgomery, Zombie vs. Shark, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Low, Chris Brokaw, Experimental Audio Research, Lungfish, Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack.

The Hard Stuff, Hedonism, Mopeyness, and You

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Welcome to Episode 7 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! Spring has finally arrived with warm temperatures, and it's rock and roll season for the next couple of months, with Norman Music Festival 4 set for late April. For today's episode, we have a bunch of awesome OKC/Norman bands from its huge and radical garage rock music scene, who will play NMF 4 this year. This is the hard stuff, as Brother Wayne Kramer would call it, so give it a listen.

I decided to mix in some hedonistic 70s rock and psychedelia to pay homage to our ancestors of tripped out noise rock, and to always remember we walk in their footsteps. A little modesty about what we call "new music" is always in order. There is also some pop and mopey English new wave music in there, like the Cure, U2, and The Smiths. I love discordant and atonal guitar playing, and some of it is noisier than you think. Outside of Captain Sensible and Brian Baker, the guitarists Johnny Marr, Robert Smith, and John McGeogh (who eventually played in P.I.L.) are some of my favorites for their original approach to rock/pop.

One of the highlights on the show is the band Pee, from San Francisco. My grade school friend Jim Stanley's band from the early 1990s. Jim and I were really influenced by all this stuff. When I recorded the albums today, it was funny to see that The Go Go's, Cure, Siouxsie and Banshees, and Psychedelic Furs albums were mastered "hot" to take up almost all bandwith. These albums rock!

The line-up for today, in order: Glister, Shitty/Awesome, The Pretty Black Chains, Zombie vs. Shark, Psychotic Reaction, Junebug Spade, Klipspringer, The Boom Bang, Debris', Big Star, Sweet, Grand Funk Railroad, The Kaleidescope, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, The Smiths, The Go Go's, The Psychedelic Furs, The Cure, U2, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, Tommy Keene, REM, Pee, Lush, The Moon and the Melodies, Calexico, and Mazzy Star.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy

The Revolution Will be Hijacked....by Youth with Cassette Tapes

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Welcome to Episode 6 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! For this episode, I have a DC heavy rotation of bands, with a little space and stoner rock thrown in the mix. When I selected the music for today, I realized that alot of my punk rock record collection is on cassette tapes, which was the older mode for music piracy when I grew up.

When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to buy records together, and given our meager cash, we would divide up the buying so we wouldn't duplicate our record purchases, knowing that we would record each other's records on cassette tapes. I bought alot of the DC and East Coast underground music, and my friend Kasey had all the West Coast and Midwest punk. Thus, I have no Misfits in my record collection, or the Circle Jerks, Battalion of Saints, Wasted Youth, and Adolescents, for example. My friend Johnny Reichard had a comprehensive collection of Brit punk, every Damned and UK Subs record. I will have to purchase a tape player that makes MP3's in the future to mix more into the rotation.

I still don't have a podcast microphone, which is just as well. Some highlights here are a new track by Crowds and Power entitled "Bad Actress," and a great band headed by Jack Gory from Philly called Scab Cadillac. Jack was really cool, and has since passed away, but was a true bohemian and punk rocker. I first met him at Silk City Lounge in the mid-1990s, and enjoyed his jovial and warm presence. He was a mix between a gnarly football player and Lord Byron, equally brute strength and poetic in his endeavors.

The last track by Sick Pleasure on this episode is a true dirge of punk.

The show is about 115 minutes. The playlist in order is: Minor Threat, Sick Pleasure, TSOL, Sorry, Gray Matter, Grand Mal, Second Wind, Aggression, Red C, Marginal Man, Reptile House, Kyuss, Ignition, Minutemen, Beefeater, Nation of Ulysses, Truman's Water, Articles of Faith, The Fall, Spacemen 3, Fugazi, Scab Cadillac, Delta 72, Zombie vs. Shark, Crowds and Power, Holy Rollers, The Snakes, Bluetip, Murder City Devils, Das Damen, The Cult, Queens of the Stone Age, Zen Guerilla, Scream, Fire Party, and Sick Pleasure.

Thank for tuning in, and I'll mix it up next week with some early 80s punk/pop!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy