Florida Rocks Again! #42: Daytona Beach Weekend

Florida Rocks Again! #42 Daytona Beach Weekend

Mal Thursday takes a trip down A1A to Daytona Beach to bring you a mess o' fine 45s from the '60s and beyond. Featuring part one of our interview with Florida Rocks Again! Hall of Famer Chuck Conlon of the Nightcrawlers. Get the rockin' documentary Cracking the Egg: The Untold Story of the Nightcrawlers on DVD at the Florida Rocks Again! Online Superstore. Also featuring music from the Allman Joys, the 2/3rds, Charles Vickers, and many more.

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

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Playlist:

THE PREMIERS: Daytona
THE HUNGRI I’s: Half Your Life
THE HALLMARKS: Troubled Soul
THE 2/3rds: 2/3 Baby
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: I Don’t Remember
THE ALLMAN JOYS: You’ll Learn Someday/You Deserve Each Other
THE EARTHMEN: A Nice, Clean Town
THE MIXED EMOTIONS: I Lied
THE SURFTONES: Black Bottom Inn
TOMMY KNIGHT: Say You Do
CHARLES VICKERS: Baby Sometimes the Road is Rough
THE BREWED: Lifeless Love
THE 2/3rds: All Cried Out
CONLON & THE CRAWLERS: I Won’t Tell
CHUCK CONLON: Poor Little Mixed-Up Kid
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: Show Me the Way/All Day and All of the Night
FLOYD MILES & FRIENDS: Goin’ Back to Daytona
DENNIS WHEELER: Down in Daytona
SANDY & THE BEACHCOMBERS: Daytona Darlin’
HALF JAPANESE: Daytona Beach
SUZI QUATRO: Daytona Demon
THE THIRD CONDITION: Monday in May

All 42 episodes of Florida Rocks Again! are available absolutely free via iTunes or at floridarocksagain.garagepunk.com, including these wild tales from the archives (click on images to launch podcasts):

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Classic Rerun: The Mal Thursday Show #3

Originally posted December 3, 2007, here's the third episode of award-winning rock 'n roll podcast The Mal Thursday Show. This time out, Mal features a heapin' helpin' of wild garage to assault your ears and bend your mind, including a set of fine releases from the Get Hip label, another one chock full o' Massholes, and a Derek & Clive bit that's most certainly not NSFW.

Presented in Living Monophonic Sound, direct from stately Thursday Manor in Austin, Texas.

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THE CYNICS: Coming Round My Way/Creepin'
SONS OF HERCULES: Grow Up?
THE UGLY BEATS: I'm the One
CHARGERS STREET GANG: Tom Waits for No One
THE BREAKUP SOCIETY: The World Will Change Our Love

THE GREENHORNES: Shame and Misery
THE BEGUILED: Kitten With a Whip
DEREK & CLIVE: This Bloke Came Up to Me
THEE MIGHTY CAESARS: You Make Me Die
MUDHONEY: Touch Me, I'm Sick
ATVFF: Stop, Look, & Listen

THE MALARIANS: Once Upon a Time (In Your Mind)
LYRES: Pain
KING RADIO: Flagrante Delicto
THE PROBATES: Why Don't You Just Shut Up and Fuck Me
THE MIRACLE WORKERS: When a Woman Calls My Name

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Classic Rerun: Florida Rocks Again! #21

The all-time greats from the Sunshine State return to the GaragePunk Podcast to emote for the ages with a three-hankie, five-star episode where all of the songs are all about shedding many bitter tears. Sometimes the singers are talking about making someone else cry, but more often than not, it’s the singers themselves who are the ones doing the crying. Featuring 21 weepin’ wailers from such artists as Benny Joy, Mouse & the Boys, the Montells, and a set of Daytona-area music presented by the great Lee Hazen.

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

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Playlist:

BENNY JOY: Don’t Boo-Hoo Mary Lou
HOUR GLASS: No Good to Cry/Nothing But Tears
THE SQUIRES V: Bucket of Tears
THE BERKLEY FIVE: You’re Gonna Cry
THE IMPACS: I’m Gonna Make You Cry
THE MONTELLS: Cry to Me
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: Cry
THE SURFTONES: Why Cry Baby
RAYNA LEGGETT: No Time For Tears
THE PEBBLES: Endless Tears
SAMMY HALL: Weeping Annaleah
STEVE ALAIMO: Nobody Cries for Me/Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
FLORIDA DEEP SIX: I Don’t Wanna Cry
MOUSE & THE BOYS: Tears in Your Eyes
NANCY: Tryin’ to Keep From Cryin’
BETTY WRIGHT: Cry Like a Baby
JAMES & BOBBY PURIFY: You Left the Water Running
TIMMY THOMAS: Drown in My Own Tears
THE SANDPIPERS: All Over But the Crying

The Biggest Sucker in the World

That'd be me.

How else to explain my continuing obsession with rock 'n roll music, which, as I was quoted in The Miami Herald earlier this year, has been going steadily downhill since 1966?

Beats the hell out of me. In more ways than one.

First, I eschewed grad school in favor of playing with my band, the Malarians, after I graduated from college. Not the greatest career move, J.M.

There was a brief period in the middle of the last decade when I actually made a living from rock 'n roll, when I was running the show at the semi-legendary Bay State Hotel and putting out vinyl with Chunk Records, my independent label ("Medium Fidelity, Extreme Quality"). I got fucked over by the band I'd groomed for bigger things, thanks to my naivete, stupidity, and R.E.M.'s lawyer. I lost my appetite for the whole thing overnight, and Chunk died a protracted death over the last few years of the '90s. At least I missed out on the downfall of the record industy, but then again, if I'd only managed to hold on to all of the back stock, I'd be an Ebay millionaire by now, or at the very least make my car payment every month from selling my old records (see "The Chunk Records Story, Part Four" for the grisly details).

And then there's radio. I'm told I'm a brilliant DJ with a great voice and impeccable taste. That and $2.95 will get me a small coffee at Starbuck's. I love the medium itself, if not the current state of the industry, and the internet has provided me a worldwide audience for my current projects, The Mal Thursday Show and Florida Rocks Again! Terrestrial radio has been less than kind to me, however, and here's hoping against hope that will change with my new show. The Sisyphean quest continues.

Why all the gloom, doom, and self-laceration, you ask?

It's mainly because I've been re-reading Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader the past couple of days, and I keep flashing back to when I was 16 years old, and had subscriptions to both Creem Magazine and The Village Voice. I loved reading Lester's stuff back then, and reading it again thirty years on, I have been getting little pangs of sadness and regret for all of the wasted energy and lost years spent on such an unworthy mistress.

Bangs, like me, was a true believer against his better judgment, and his stuff is still compelling 25 years after his death. I share more than a few parallels with him (for one, I'm writing this from Austin, where he once lived), and agree with his stance that "listening to music made 20, 30 years ago [now it'd be 40 or 50 years ago] is not living in the past, is not nostalgia...it's good taste."

Of course, in the very same piece ("Bad Taste is Timeless"), he also asserts that "I can guarantee you that there will be no Throbbing Gristle repackages from Japan in the year 2000."

Actually, I think most of the Throbbing Gristle import boxed sets, of which there are at least five, came out in 2003-2004.

Anyway, I could go on and on, but I won't. Suffice to say, I still love the music. Even if it doesn't love me back.

Ron Stults of the Unrelated Segments 1949-2009

It's with a heavy heart that I must inform you of the passing of Ron Stults, who was the lead singer of the Unrelated Segments, the Detroit-area group that was one of the greatest garage bands of all time. In 1966 and 1967, the band released such gems as "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Where You Gonna Go?" (which I used to sing in the Malarians), "It's Gonna Rain," and "The Story of My Life" (hear it on The Mal Thursday Show #13).

Get the best of the Unrelated Segments HERE.

The Mal Thursday Show #20: Heavy Hits

The Mal Thursday Show #20: Heavy Hits

After ten consecutive theme shows, Mal Thursday is back on the free form tip with this, the 20th episode in the series. Free-form, yes, but with a concept: Heaviness. In addition to a full plate of new releases from the Sons of Hercules, Snowbyrd, the Rationals, the Higher State, and the Texreys, Mal unearths godlike heavy jams from Blue Cheer, the Litter, Rodriguez, and the Troggs, among other heavyweights.

A potent brew of Texas garage, Detroit hard rock, and other heavy sounds from all around the world. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

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SEGER LIBERATION ARMY: Heavy Music

THE SONS OF HERCULES: A Different Kind of Ugly

SNOWBYRD: Light It Up

LYRES: Tear You Up

THE RATIONALS: Look What You’re Doing (To Me Baby)

THE SIR FINKS: Can’t Be Still

THE HIGHER STATE: Automatic Motion

THE EVILTONES: Swallow You Whole

OS HAXIXINS: Dirty Old Man

LOS EXPLOSIVOS: Trampa Mortal

THE TEXREYS: Back from the Grave

THE SMALL FACES: Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am

THE TROGGS: I Want You

MOTT THE HOOPLE: The Moon Upstairs

MC5: Looking at You

DETROIT with MITCH RYDER: Rock and Roll

RODRIGUEZ: Only Good for Conversation

THE LITTER: My Little Red Book

BLUE CHEER: Second Time Around

All 20 episodes of "The Mal Thursday Show" are available absolutely free at the iTunes Store or at malthursdayshow.garagepunk.com.

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Coming Monday December 14:

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Florida Rocks Again! in the Pensacola News-Journal

Troy Moon has written a feature article in today's Pensacola News-Journal about the local music scene of the '60s, inspired by the most recent episode of Florida Rocks Again!, "Jeff's Panhandle Party Platter."

Pictured above is the Sandpipers, backed up by Daytona Beach legends the Allman Joys at the Sahara Club in 1966. Charlyne Kilpatrick of the Sandpipers remembers that the Allmans were "skinny and ugly."

Read the article HERE.

Good stuff!