Merry Christmas (although on your time zone you are already halfway through January, 2009 aren't you?)

Cool. Take your time. I just made a new banner for the site.

i have the mixtape ready to sendpace but I am having uploading troubles. I will try to get it up today so to speak.

Its beautiful! Thank you sir!

Just posted to Spreadgun. Hope it's ok

Welcome back, if you are back yet. Hope you are doing well

i know you won't have time for this for a while, but at some point check out http://concerts.wolfgangsvau lt.com/dt/dkt-concert/20053249-14729.html it is a 2005 concert by DKT, which features the three remaining original members of MC5. The energy on this really amazed me, it is pretty good.

And I am indeed going where you think I am ;)

Im sorry to hear that man. Health is a fragile thing, Im just now discovering.

Maybe this will make you feel better?

http://www. aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/1 1/18/bob-dylanjohnny-cash-1 968-sessions/#more-3756

The original Voidoids album "Blank Generation" is very wonderful. There was also a Richard Hell retrospective in 2005 called 'Spurts' which had stuff like a version of 'Blank generation' recorded live when he was still a member of Television, plus a demo from 'neon', the Tom verlaine/hell band that preceeded television. It is actually very wonderful, and if I had to buy one recording (there are only four or five out there) that would be the one.

I just looked up what Hell is up to now and I was interested to read he is recording with Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell. If it results in a release it will be the first stuff since he recorded 3 songs with Thurston Moore about fifteen years back. he is not exactly prolific.

I am fucked off right now for many reasons, my health mostly. I have an appetite to do all sorts of things and my health is getting in the way. Enjoy your trip which I hope is to where I think it is, but keep in touch mate

The original Voidoids album "Blank Generation" is very wonderful. There was also a Richard Hell retrospective about five years ago in 2005 called 'Spurts' which had stuff like a version of 'Blank generation' recorded live when he was still a member of Television, plus a demo from 'neon', the Tom verlaine/hell band that preceeded television. It is actually very wonderful, and if I had to buy one recording (there are only four or five out there) that would be the one.

I just looked up what Hell is up to now and I was interested to read he is recording with Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell. If it results in a release it will be the first stuff since he recorded 3 songs with Thurston Moore about fifteen years back. he is not exactly prolific.

I am fucked off right now for many reasons, my health mostly. I have an appetite to do all sorts of things and my health is getting in the way. Enjoy your trip which I hope is to where I think it is, but keep in touch mate

Thank you sir. I actually did track down the Music Machine album. Is there anywhere you recommend starting with Richard Hell?

I know things have fallin off around here, but I assure you that things are in the works and I've just been really busy lately. Im going out of Country on friday and Im determined to have some new stuff going before I go. Also the Halloween badges are still coming, I just pisplaced them somewhere while consolidating hardrives. How are you doing? I enjoyed your new blog entry.

My Music machine lead in Porterville came to nothing, but I found this link today http://mrmeuble.blogspot.com/20 08/05/music-machine-poussent-le-bouton.html It might help. Also, www.hypem.com is a good source to find stuff on blogs. also also, I do have a couple of Richard Hell tracks.

what goes on?

Yeah I have a Stranglers cover of it on my BEST OF comp. Kick Out the Jam and Louie Louie are good calls, as I have many covers of Kick Out the Jams in particular.

I do know that when I started playing in bands a lot of people were taken with that particular US sixties garage punk sound, and that 96 tears was always the first song many people wanted to play, as if that particular sound was personified by that song. My favorite was always 'Dirty Water' by The Standells, more trashy but very wonderful. Other songs you HAD to do were The Kingsmens 'Louie Louie', "Woolly Bully' as well as a Stooges cover or three and of course 'Kick Out The Jams'. In the early 80s, The Stranglers had a side project as "THe Purple Helmets" which covered all that kind of stuff and the first single they did was...96 tears.

I was just driving to work and The Music Machine's cover of 96 Tears came on my ipod, and I realized that that has got to be the most covered (non-blues, standard, etc) song ever. I think I personally have about 40 different versions of i t, it seems like. Even Suicide and The Residents have covered it. I was hoping for some of your thoughts on this?

This is one of my favorites http://live-b ootleg.blogspot.com/blog.

Thanks for that blog list Ian, there are a couple of ancient concerts up there which I was actually at, it is amazing how many shows I find now that I actually attended a lifetime back. Also, there is some Floyd/Syd stuff up there I don't have which I didn't think was possible