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
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