I'm wary of the term garage rock nowadays because of all the boring Burger Records type shit, but this guy (unlike a lot of those bands) comes across real genuine. He digs Sabbath and Neil Young just as much as he does Pebbles/Killed by Death and his passion for rocking out comes across in everything he does.

Super prolific Bay Area garage rocker. Thoughts?The few times I've seen him have been great, but I'm not entirely sold on the records, yet.

Hearty not crap. I'm pretty apathetic to the Drag City material, but I thought Melted was fantastic. I'm looking forward to maybe buying Slaughterhouse tomorrow.And he's good live.

don.chaney wrote:all the boring Burger Records type shitThank you.

I've got the collab with White Fence and will pick up the new one today, I hope, but may not listen to either for a spell becuz I'm fearful he's do for a tumble. Both the Goner LPs, the Goner singles comp and the sessions on WFMU/Free Music Archive are really great. His band features the Moonhearts guy (whose stuff that I've heard is cool) and Mikal Cronin (whose alb is way overrated). They sound shit-hot all together. Don't know why I'm nervous about this year's crop. The team-up with White Fence (a cool, okay Tower Recordings fan-dude) has holy shit! potential, but also this stinks like shit potential. The Ty w/Band LP should be where it's at, but something about that last album on Drag City, which was just barely not crap, has me a little hesitant. Anyway, imo he'll need to crap out on this year's two plus a couple more in order to exit the NOT CRAP high ground. No waffles as yet.

might as be listening to the fucking stray cats, awful bullshit music.

windofpain wrote:might as be listening to the fucking stray cats, awful bullshit music.I guess so, if all you've heard is his rather shitty, earliest output, when he was barely out of his teens. He put out 3 records last year, and none of them sound remotely like the Stray Cats. An absolute monster on the guitar, he and his band put on a brutal show. Melted is great, Twins might be greater. Extremely humble and a nice guy, too.Absolutely positively NOT CRAP.

Twins is great. I recently tracked down Slaughterhouse (Ty Segall Band) and it's really good, too. But Twins is great. Not Crap!

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Live show is amazing. Less thrilled by recordings, but NC for shows alone.