Carrying That Weight With The Trashmen
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2003 intro: This was an unpublished piece, wherein I strung together actual Dave Marsh phrases from his Bob Dylan polemics (in CREEM) under the name Dave ...

The Shakin’ Street Punk Survey
Overview by Metal Mike Saunders, Shakin' Street Gazette, November 1974
This is your big chance! Yes, it’s all coming back. Following the rock & roll revival, the surf music revival, and the reggae revival, the punk ...

Have Love, Will Travel: In Praise of the Sonics
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Gulcher, July 1975
IT ALL STARTS with Richard Berry. He never received a Nobel Prize for writing 'Louie Louie', but to this day it beats me why – his ...

White Punks on Coke
Overview by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, December 1975
THE TERM PUNK is bandied about an awful lot these days. It seems to describe almost any rock performer who camps it up to any degree, ...

The Stooges: No Fun (Elektra)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, August 1980
POINTLESS, PERHAPS so late as to be irrelevant, maybe. An opportunity missed, certainly. No Fun is all these things, I guess, but it does provide an ...

Velvet Underground: Everything You've Ever Heard About… (VU Records)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, December 1982
THE LEGEND rolls on and on, the more it grows the more it encourages. In the context of the semi-legal this was the one we'd been ...

Trash: A Spanner In The Works
Report and Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, April 1983
ONE DAY soon the borough fathers of Brixton will unveil a plaque outside the Garage, Friday night fixture at The Frontline Theatre. A dignified crowd, clad ...

The Fleshtones: Hexbreaker!, plus Standells and Chocolate Watch Band best-ofs
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1983
WE'VE HEARD THIS before, and the Fleshtones know it: "Your scene isn't really so strange/Some things never really change." Hornet-nest guitar. Gnarly vocals. Lyrics that yoke ...

The Fleshtones
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, July 1984
CAN THE FLESHTONES survive and prosper in today's Michael Jackson/Boy George pop ...

The Sonics: Here Are The Sonics
Review by Gavin Martin, NME, July 1986
MUDDY WATERS, he said, "I'm smokin' TNT, I'm drinkin' dynamite/I hope some schoolboy will start a fight." Maybe Washington's The Sonics were the answer to Muddy's ...

I Heard a New World
Essay by Greg Shaw, Nuggets II (Rhino Records), 2001
GROWING UP in America in the '60s, I was surrounded by garage bands, and although I never realized how many more there were across the country, ...

Stronger Than Dirt: The Secret History Of Garage Punk
Overview by Joss Hutton, Sonic Reducer, 2003
Joss Hutton recalls nearly 40-years of ramalama greatness, from 'Louie Louie' to 'Main Offender' ...

Sky Saxon 1937-2009: A Belated Tribute to an Acid-Punk Icon
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
Lost in the the shock and hysteria of Michael Jackson's death was the scant reportage of another pop passing: that of crazed LA garage-pop singer ...

Real Gone: Sky Saxon
Obituary by Kirk Silsbee, Mojo, September 2009
SKY SAXON, the colorful lead singer and sometime bassist of the Seeds, one of the great Sunset Strip bands of the 1960s, died June 25 in ...

Various Artists: Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2009
LENNY KAYE CAN'T have had any idea what he was starting when he compiled his original Nuggets double album of psychedelic "artyfacts" back in 1972. We've ...