Bad Fun

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Welcome to Episode 25 of Doc Rockavoy's Indy Music Garage! I've been playing a lot of gigs this fall with my band, Zombie vs. Shark, and I decided to put on some underground rock and roll, and some not so underground rock and roll, since we keep being booked with some over-dramatic, self-absorbed, and (rude) Lo-Fi type bands that have made it imperative to make rock and roll totally lame and boring, a mix between Wonder Bread and the Lawrence Welk Show (OK, maybe the silly Fleetwood Mac would suffice?). I've noticed that a lot of bands that we play gigs with are kind of over-into themselves and narcissistic. They also have so much stupid, ineffectual musical gear, it takes them 45 minutes to set up, and nothing is added to their sound (think the lame band, The Killers, gag!!). This is a bad trend for independent rock and roll, since the bedfock of rock and roll in Blues, R & B, and also Soul Music is sex; rhythms and grooves that make you shake your a - -! Your band either has "it," or not, period! So I thought I'd put some stuff on today that does just that.

In the 1990s, when "Lo-Fi" music reigned, it was very boring to go to shows that were not punk rock or garage rock gigs, since those Lo-Fi bands were boring from the sexy point-of-view, as many were just too serious for having fun. Stiffling was the word for it. It was really too serious, and that's why I tended to go to the Go-Go music joints in North Philly when I lived there; it was the only place to find some rhythmic music (for those of you that don't know what Go-Go music is, it's funk/R & B mixed with Black Power politics, with a dash of the emerging MC/DJ music back in the early 1970s).

I put some Meatmen on today, off the War of the Superbikes album, which was some kick-a - - rock and roll parody. There's also some Thee Hypnotics, the Cult's Electric, and Circus Lupus on here as well. I also put on some local Norman OK band like Shitty/Awesome and Brocho's album, Can't Get Past the Lips (that is, the way OK music is only connected to the Flaming Lips), which is one of the best albums I've ever heard in the underground (going back to 1980). OKC area garage rock bands are really the best in the country at the moment, with no major label sellouts, and oodles of vinyl releases. It's the next "scene" to be devoured by the vulture corporate record industry, mark my word on that. There's a track from the DC band Trouble Funk as well.

The playlist, in order, for today is: The Meatmen, Turbonegro, Thee Hypnotics, The Cult, Scream, MC5, Broncho, Straw Dogs, Junkyard, The Cult, Circus Lupus, Rocket from the Crypt, Detroit Cobras, The Make-Up, Slant 6, Truman's Water, Bardo Pond, Shitty/Awesome, Rocket from the Crypt, Green River, Reptile House, Lungfish, Egghunt, Pailhead, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Girls vs. Boys, Edie Sedgewick, The Customs 5, Trouble Funk, Portishead, Killing Joke, Skull Defekts, Drive Like Jehu, Swervedriver, Embrace, The FU's, Sorry, Marginal Man, The Adolescents, TSOL, The Zeros, The Freeze, Volcano Suns, and The Cramps.

Thanks for tuning in!

Cheers,

Doc Rockavoy