Classic Rerun: Florida Rocks Again! #10

Classic Rerun:
Florida Rocks Again! #10: Miami, Pt. 1

Teenage sounds abound as host Mal Thursday takes you on a trip back in time and space to Miami, Florida circa 1966, with music from South Florida favorites the Montells, the Birdwatchers, the Proctor Amusement Company, the Clefs of Lavender Hill, Steve Alaimo, and many others. Co-producer and music guru Jeff Lemlich provides commentary on the bands, the WQAM-WFUN radio wars, and more.

If you dig this episode, check out part two in Florida Rocks Again! #27: Miami: Where the Action Is!

Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound. Originally posted February 2006.

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And don't miss these rockin' trilogies from the GaragePunk Podcast Network (click on show title to launch):

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! #35: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 1

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! #36: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 2

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! #37: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 3

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #13: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 1

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #14: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 2

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #15: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 3

Get the DVD of the award-winning documentary CRACKING THE EGG: The Untold Story of the Nightcrawlers, as well as Savage Lost, Jeff Lemlich’s essential book about Florida garage bands, at the Florida Rocks Again! Online Superstore.




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Brand new reissues of the Birdwatchers, 31st of February, the Last Words, and more at
HenryStoneMusic.com.

Back to Mono

Legendary record producer and notorious mental case Phil Spector got sentenced today to 19 years to life for the murder of Lana Clarkson. According to a parade of witnesses, Phil liked to play a friendly game of Russian Roulette with his dates when he was particularly inebriated. Unfortunately for Lana, she lost.

Spector may be a dangerously insane killer of B-movie actresses, but he did make some truly great records in the '60s, and you've got to separate the art from the artist. Dostoevsky was a degenerate gambler, owed money all over town, but the son of a bitch could write a damn good novel.

It was nice knowing ya, Philly.

Cue the intro to "Be My Baby."

The Mal Thursday Show #15: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 3

The Mal Thursday Show #15: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 3

Join Mal Thursday as he wraps up the trilogy with another attempt to tell the sordid story of his life through music, which this time around is provided by the Embrooks, the Fleshtones, the Ramones, the Higher State, and T. Rex, among many others.

Produced by JM Dobies in Living Monophonic Sound.

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And in case you missed 'em (click on show title to launch):

The Mal Thursday Show #13: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 1

The Mal Thursday Show #14: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 2

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Classic Rerun: The Mal Thursday Show #9

THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #9: Sons of the Stage
Originally posted 20 October 2008

To kick off a weekly series of podcasts from the GaragePunk.com archives, here's my self-referential variation on THE MAL THURSDAY SHOW #4: Songs The Lyres Taught Us, featuring various songs covered by my old bands: The Malarians (1984-1990), The Cheetahs (1991-2001), and The Whores (2000). Featuring music from the MC5, the Dead Boys, Mott the Hoople, Nobody's Children, the Painted Ship, and the Lonely Moans, among many others.

As I wrote at the time, "This episode is bittersweet, in that part of me wishes I was still up there on stage with a mic in my hand. These days, my voice has about three songs in it before I start sounding like Jack Klugman. Most of all, I remember how much fun it was to play these songs for people."

Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

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Mal Thursday and The Cheetahs:
THE CHEETAHS: That's Your Problem
THE OUTSIDERS: Filthy Rich
THE CREATION: Makin' Time
THE WARLOCKS: New Things Runnin' Around My Mind
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Between the Lines
LONELY MOANS: Rotting
PETER ZAREMBA & THE LOVE DELEGATION: Some Velvet Morning

The Whores:
MC5: Kick Out the Jams
IGGY & THE STOOGES: Dirt (alt. take)/I Got a Right
DEREK & CLIVE: Sex Manual
MOTT THE HOOPLE: One of the Boys (demo)
THE DEAD BOYS: I Need Lunch (rough mix)

The Malarians:
THE TAMRONS: Wild Man
THE COLONY: All I Want
THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS: Never Let Go
TERRY REID: Superlungs My Supergirl
THE BAD ROADS: Blue Girl
THE CLUE: Bad Times
NOBODY'S CHILDREN: Good Times
THE TURTLES: A Walk in the Sun
THE PAINTED SHIP: Frustration
THE MALARIANS: What's New, Pussycat?

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2009 Film Classics

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2009 Film Classics series kicks off this weekend with Casablanca and From Here to Eternity, and continues all summer long with a nice program featuring new prints, restored foreign classics, 70mm spectaculars, and more. Programs generally include a killer double feature and a classic Warner Brothers cartoon.

Other highlights include Buster Keaton's The General with musical acccompaniment by Guy Forsyth (May 28), a tribute to Paul Newman (July 5-12), and "Saluting the '70s" (July 14-22).

For more information, go to austintheatre.org.

Massholes

When I was living in Western Massachusetts during the ’80s and ’90s, first as an undergraduate at Hampshire College in Amherst, then as a post-graduate slacker/rock ‘n’ roller/indie label mogul in Northampton, I encountered what I came to know as Massholes (Massholus Erectus), a species unique to the Commonwealth.

Over time, I came to be one myself.

A Masshole is defined as "a person from Massachusetts who is regarded as an asshole, or engages in behavior generally considered to be asshole-like." It can also be used as a term of endearment among Massholes. Recently, I've expanded the definition beyond the borders of the Bay State. I hereby coin the term Masshole to mean a Mass Media figure who is also an insufferable asshole: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dennis Leary (a Masshole by both definitions), Octomom, A-Rod, Kobe, and that douchebag from "The Hills" would be prime examples.

Anyway, my old friend Frank Padellaro (King Radio, the Cheetahs, Scud Mountain Boys) tells me that he’s putting together a three-volume compilation of Northampton-area bands from three distinct eras: Sheehan’s (’80s to early ’90s), The Bay State Hotel (early ’90s to early ’00s), and the post-Bay State period (early ’00s to present). Being a horrible archivist, I have only a fraction of the material I released on my old label, Chunk (read “The Chunk Records Story” HERE), and have misplaced most of the live tapes I recorded over the years. I do have in my possession a few of the records I put out on Chunk (had to get some of them on Ebay), and a handful of live recordings of my old bands. Brandon Staiger recently sent me a CD-R of my old band The Mal Thursday Experience (later known as the Cheetahs) playing live on the “Homegrown” show on WRSI in 1991. It’s a bit rough and under-rehearsed, but the sound quality is pretty durn good. Thank you, Brandon.

Anyway, I think Massholes would be a great name for the compilation series. There have been Northampton-based collections in the past (Big Fish in a Little Pond, Chunk’s Hotel Massachusetts, and the Northampton Music Festival samplers), but no one has taken the historical approach. I’ve always loved '60s garage compilations, especially those with a regional angle, and Frank’s comp idea reminds me of those. So I’m stoked, and will rake through the ashes of my collection to find some tasty nuggets for the project. Thanks, Frank.

When it's done, I'll cherry-pick the best cuts for an all-Masshole edition of The Mal Thursday Show.

Florida Rocks Again! #37: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 3

Hot on the heels of Florida Rocks Again! #35: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 1 and Florida Rocks Again! #36: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 2, it's Florida Rocks Again! #37: Mal's Florida Favorites, Vol. 3.

Oh, but fear not, loyal listeners, this episode ain’t a bunch of rehashed rebop, it’s another mother lode of 100% prime choice cuts, hand-picked by your host with the most, Mal Thursday. So turn up your listening device, set a spell, and blow your mind Florida-style with music from the Hiss, Gram Parsons, Blues Image, Tin House, Sam & Dave, the Split Ends, and Wayne Cochran, among many others. You’ll be glad you did.

Produced by JM Dobies and Jeff Lemlich in Living Monophonic Sound.

Visit the Florida Rocks Again! Online Superstore to get the DVD of the rockin' documentary Cracking the Egg: The Untold Story of the Nightcrawlers, and don’t forget to pay a call on the Florida Rocks Again! Swag Shack at Cafe Press.

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Playlist:

THE HISS: Chocolate Hearts
WILCO: One Hundred Years from Now
THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: If You Gotta Go, Go Now
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND: Revival
BLUES IMAGE: Take Me to the Sunrise

TWELFTH NIGHT: Grim Reaper
CHOCOLATE BALLOON COMPANY: Gotta Get This...
RON & THE STARFIRES: The Grass Is Greener
ME & THE OTHER GUYS: Everybody Knew But Me
THE CANADIAN ROGUES: You Better Stop
THE OUTSIDERS: She's Coming On Stronger
HOPPI & THE BEAU HEEMS: I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
THE SPLIT ENDS: Rich With Nothing

WAYNE COCHRAN: Get Down With It
THE SOUL PLEASERS: Baby Don't Cry
HELENE SMITH: You Got to Be a Man
SAM & DAVE: I Found Out
DAVE PRATER: Keep My Fingers Crossed

THE ECHO: Shadows
THOSE FIVE: Challenge of a Fantasy Man
TIN HOUSE: Silver Star
H.Y. SLEDGE: Citation on Liberty
HOYT AXTON: The Pusher
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: The Last DJ

Florida Rocks Again! would like to congratulate Charlie McCoy, one of the all-time greats from the Sunshine State, on his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Dig these buried treasures from the GPP archives:

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! # 9: Florida Folk Rock

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! # 11: Florida Freak Out!

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! # 12: All About You

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! #16: The "I" Decade

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! #17: Hey, Man

FLORIDA ROCKS AGAIN! # 23: Night and Day

ISO Texas Bands for The Mal Thursday Show and Texas Tyme Machine

I am seeking out Texas bands, both past and present, for my Austin-based radio shows Texas Tyme Machine and The Mal Thursday Show, which are part of the GaragePunk Podcast.

Texas Tyme Machine, which will also be heard in a regionally syndicated broadcast version, is seeking out Texas artists from the past 50+ years, as we feature the wildest rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, outlaw country, blues, garage, and psychedelic music the world has ever known. We will be featuring contemporary bands as well as "the All-Time Greats from the Lone Star State."

Interested parties can contact me at jmdobies3000 [@] gmail [.] com.

Garage Hangover

Garage maniac Chas Kit has a great music blog that's right up my alley, and if'n you like '66 garage-type sounds like I do, you will dig it the most.

Garage Hangover features stories and soundfiles of various North American '60s combos, sorted state by state and province by province. As the writer/producer of Florida Rocks Again! and the upcoming Texas Tyme Machine radio series, I always appreciate a regional approach, and as someone who could never afford to collect that many original 45s, I appreciate the cool label shots.

Thanks to the rock scholarship and intrepid sleuthing of Chas and his fellow contributors, many of the original band members have supplied priceless photos and incredible oral history.

There are so many great bands represented on the site, but just for a taste, here's an excerpt from the post on local garage legends the Wig:

Here are a few tracks by the famous Austin, Texas band. The 45 of "Drive It Home" is phenomenal, but the live version makes the studio cut seem tame in comparison! The Wig were Rusty Weir, Benny Rowe, John Richardson, Jess Yaryan and Billy Wilmont.

The Wig - Crackin' Up

The Wig - Drive It Home

The Wig - Drive It Home (live at the Jade Room)

For more, visit Garage Hangover at http://garagehangover.com

The Fans Speak Out!

I've gotten some lovely feedback from various listeners of Florida Rocks Again! and The Mal Thursday Show on Garagepunk.com, which warms my heart. Just this morning, I got this email from Lutz Raeuber from the mighty Soundflat Mailorder regarding The Mal Thursday Show:

"Hi..Been listening for some hours already...and feel like writing you how much I LOVE these shows!!! You got an excellent taste!!! Just like mine, it seems :-)"

Here are a few other cool comments about TMTS:

"Very cool...it is good to find music that I can rock out with my cock out to! Peace, Joe"

"Absolutely Killer, Thank You!!!!" - Russell

"This show was ass-kicking. I love you but not you know, in a messy romantic way. In a sloppy fun musical way...Truly, if your shows were people I would be makin' sweet sweet love to 'em." - Theresa

Here's a few comments about FRA!:

"Was listening to the 'Cryin' Time' episode last night, and followed it up immediately with the previous edition, 'Florida Time.' This is still the best podcast out there."
- Charlie Blimey

"Too bad I didn’t learn to appretiate Florida’s musical history until after I moved away from it."
- Nick K., Los Angeles, CA

"Thanks so much for the 'Tampa Bay Teen Scene' episode. Fine show."
- Ronny Elliot, Tampa, FL

"Muy buena sesion… me gusta, me gusta la seleccion!!! baby baby…"
--- M.Tanaka, Barcelona, Spain

"Hey, I love this show. I used to tag along when my brother's band the Dark Horseman played shows in Tallahassee back in '66...Thanks for putting it all together."
-- Don Roof, Lake City, FL

"Yahooo!! Florida Rocks Again! is back! I, like millions of other Americans, recieved an iPod for the Holidays. I downloaded the Florida Rocks Again! podcasts as soon as I could. I love these things. Great tunes, great presentation...Thank you, Mal Thursday. Keep up the great efforts. You have the best podcast on iTunes. Now, I look for reasons to walk the dog or mow the grass, just to listen. If you haven't heard these podcasts, I strongly suggest that you do. The tunes are all classic and the recordings even more so."
- Billy DeMoya

Thanks a lot, folks, and keep on tuning in.

The Mal Thursday Show #14: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 2

Much like The Mal Thursday Show #13: The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 1, here’s another semi-autobiographical slog through the past with Mal and a fistful of killer 45s, featuring the musical stylings of the Small Faces, the Pretty Things, the Damned, UK Subs, Lyres, Death in Vegas, Sons of Hercules, and many more.

Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

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Playlist:

THE SMALL FACES: Talk to You
THE EMBROOKS: No Matter What You Say
THE HUMAN BEINGS: An Inside Look
THE CREATION: Through My Eyes
MOTHERS OF INVENTION: I Ain't Got No Heart
THE WHITE STRIPES: I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman
THE LOVED ONES: Your Everlovin' Man
OTIS REDDING: Changed Man

THE PRETTY THINGS: She Says Good Morning
THE ZOMBIES: Don't Go Away
THE UGLY BEATS: I'll Walk Away
THE OTHERS: I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye
THE BIRDS: No Good Without You
LYRES: But If You're Happy
DEATH IN VEGAS (w/ PAUL WELLER): So You Say You Lost Your Baby

THE DAMNED: Problem Child
SONS OF HERCULES: Grow Up?
UK SUBS: Down on the Farm
TAG SALE: Space Frontier
THE MALARIANS: Get Outta Dallas!
WIMPLE WINCH: Save My Soul

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