An Ipod with 2 days worth of early Rock'n'Roll(yes including '50's rockabilly)surf'n'drag tunes,mid sixties garage and kool instrumentals.stick it on random play,haven't heard a duff tune yet!! Paul
Danny Gatton (RIP) and The Fat Boys, they were the real deal; The NightHawks still getting it on and getting better every year; don't forget early Hank and Johnny Cash, they had a knack for playin it simple that people nowadays can't match; throw some Stray Cats on; don't forget the blues, if you can find a copy of 'Fathers and Sons' it is worth its' weight in gold. In my shop i have a 300cd changer and a 1500 watt amp with bose 701's on the front, marantz 15's on the back and Zeneth Allgre's on the center and people wonder why i don't answer the phone.
Link Wray and The Ventures are obvious favorites, you just can't go wrong. I have around 30 Ventures records in my collection. Although not "old" bands, The Moonlight Cruisers and Lil' Luis y Los Wild Teens seem to get alot of play around here.
I found an LP copy of the "63 Bakersfield Fuel & Gas Championships" in a local thrift store! It's not "music" like you can dance to, but "music" nonetheless!!! You can hear the announcer calling up Stone Woods & Cook, Garlits, Art Morrison, etc. and hear the runs and the ETs and trap speeds. Kinda cool actually. I tried to have a friend copy it to CD for me, but he wasn't paying attention to it as he recorded it and it skips a lot and there are a lot of clicks & pops from the scratches.
another one is http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?searchdesc=motorbilly or just type in what ever you want to listen to. Panora on the computer or I listen to it on the Iphone through the stereo, and rockabillyradio.net
does anybody know what song this is in this video???? sounds cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaTa2R4mAjc&feature=related
A lot of Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, and Dropkick Murphys. Social D makes me want to quit my day job, start a new band, and do nothing but build hot rods in my free time! Lately been listening a lot to Brian McGee / Brian McGee and The Hollow Speed: http://www.myspace.com/brianmcgeemusic He's rising fast - used to be part of the Philly punk band Plow United, now based out of Ashville, NC doing a country/roots rock/rock-a-billy sound Also listening to a lot of Felice Brothers...also roots rock.
Hot rod music? Well, rockabilly works!, but there is more. If we think in cars built in the twenties and thirties, in their stock days there was jazz, but how many hot rods were in New Orléans, Chicago or New York? I not sure if Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke or Louis Armstrong saw hot rods at that time. And Fats Waller: I remember once I saw a picture in You tube of Lionel Hampton with a 34 Ford without fenders, I guess it was taken in the mid-thirties. Unfurtunely, I did not save it and the video is no longer avalible. But there one from 1946 with music by Benny Goodman (and the great Teddy Wilson on piano) called "All the cats join in". I'm sure you'll love it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxa24Bjw9c Well, in the fifties there were all those cool musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, but don't forget John Coltrane, Clifford Brown, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Barney Kessel, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, Stan Getz, Shelly Manne, Paul Desmond, Ray Brown, Art Blakey, Erroll Garner, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Zoot Sims, Lee Morgan, Sonny S***t, Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, J.J. Johnson, Eric Dolphy, Donald Byrd, Red Garland, Herb Ellis, Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Chet Baker, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Dave Brubeck, they are so many guys, and they can be hot rod music yoo!! I guess... At this moment i'm not sure why I'm writing, I think this is not very productive, but I don't care, I'll post it anyway. Final pic: Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson with a Mercedes-Benz 300SL
Guy at work has Sirius radio and plays all that loud screamin' ****. When I tell the guys what I want to here they all scrunch their faces up like I just told them I f--ked their sister.
I don't listen to music much while working, usually talk radio (yeah, yeah, I know...) but driving I mix it up a bunch. Some days it's Gershwin tunes by Eugene Cicero or a best of CD with Frank or Dean. Yesterday it was a mix of Cypress Hill, 311, Eminem, and Limp Bizkit. Day before yesterday was Prince, before that a couple tunes by Tim Buckley. Ya never know what's playin in any of my cars. Last night I was listening to Digital Underground's "Humpty Dance". When I woodgrain I put on "Singers and Standards" on Music Choice cable TV. I guess my music taste is a mess more than a mix...
you can find live video recordings from the ventures live in japan on u-tube....just a quick search.....the surfaris are great too along with the Sandals soundtrack from Bruce Brown's surfing do***entary..."the Endless Summer" I also dig J Giles first album.....THE VENTURES RULE..!!!
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