Garage rock

It's life-changing to share that with these people.

And the van conversations are hilarious because the darts van is full of garage rock aficionados.

And the black violet van is full of jazz and soul aficionados and R&B aficionados.

And so they talk about completely different topics, completely different points of reference.

That's

what a Fur Fusa sounds like.

And the reason they sound so great in garage rock is because you can hear it over a fuzz guitar.

You can't hear a glorious fuzz.

There was Jurassic 5 and then there was...

Serge Gainsborough, Air, but then also The Music Machine, 60s Garage Rock, all probably within 15 minutes.

I can promise you I do know what I'm doing, but yesterday, maybe not.

And does anybody else do DJing in the band?

But, um, w- the reason I think it's kind of fitting is you talked about outsider art and how these people and artists weren't necessarily, like, fully trained and, um, and they just created music or, or created art and things that happened.

So anyway, today, um, I literally just took the word garage because I, I hear people all the time saying, "Oh, my favorite genre of music is garage rock," and I don't-

Mm-hmm.

I didn't really know exactly what garage rock was.

Um, I was in a pop punk band for all of four weeks where I played drums.

Wow.

Yeah, so we did that.

So it was fun.

Welcome to the History of Punk Rock Podcast.

Today we're digging into punk's genealogy, from garage rock origins through hardcore explosions to modern indie sounds.

Right off the bat, if you trace the lineage of punk, the first stop is that gritty 1960s garage scene.

Bands banging out three chords in their parents' garages and selling a few thousand vinyls on regional radio shows.

The Situationists, with their critique of the spectacle, fed straight into the DIY attitude that Malcolm McLaren amplified on King's Road, and those same radical ideas later hit the stage through the raw energy of the Sex Pistols.

The roots stretch back to Garage Rock's cheap riffs and the rebellious swagger of the Sonics that turned into a blueprint for punk guitar.

In Britain, Early pub rock, acts like the New York Dolls or T-Rex, carried a more theatrical vibe that helped shape the visual aesthetic, while the Stooges and MC5 in America introduced an anarchic stage presence that fed back to the underground scene.

All of this coalesced into what became the sonic skeleton of punk.

When television, Patti Smith, and Suicide started blasting short tracks at CBGB's tiny stages, they turned those inherited chords into an explicit statement of rebellion.

That moment marked the first official punk recording in America.

All these pieces, Garage Rock's Three Chords, Detroit's Raw Energy, New York's DIY Bars, British Pubs, mashed together to create what we call punk.

It's a messy collage that refuses neat categorization, and that's why it kept evolving.

Sounded more like 1966.

This is part of the Garage Rock revival that was going on in the 80s.

I picked this up at Dukewood Records here in town and it was exactly what I was hoping it would be.

The tune is called Stop It Baby and was put out on Dionysus Records.

Hello and welcome to In the Past Garage Rock Podcast, the show where we talk about a song for way too long.

I'm your host, Weldon Gardner-Hunter, and with me, as always, my loyal and faithful co-host, Eric Aristotle Komernicki.

Weldon, I've been thinking about you.

I guess we could just get to the lyrics.

One thing I want to say is, like, this is a really well-performed song, and the band sounds really good.

Like, I said one thing listening to this song is – know i guess it's just the reality of when you do a garage rock podcast some things that you play like maybe uh sorry rondos like the rondos is a little bit like craptastic where you're like oh this is so awesome it's kind of kind of amateurish uh but delightful uh and then there's a lot of stuff that maybe isn't as good as like dream theater i don't but like you know or wishbone ash Or wishbone ash.

But that's a good example because we talk about them sometimes on the podcast.

But they're still good, right? Like I think this song has really good guitar playing and singing and good harmonies and everything.