For over twenty years now, I have been deeply in love with 1960s garage music. A former boyfriend introduced it to me around 1982, & I have never looked back. When other women in the 80s were boppin' to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", I was saying GIRLZ JUST WANNA HAVE FUZZZ!!
There's nothing that screams rock n' roll more to me than a 40 year-old acetate recording of four guys who can barely play, with their amps too loud and their songs kept under three or four chords. I am a musician who plays guitar, bass & drums, I sing & write a lot of songs, some of which are pop/acoustic-type stuff, and others which are VERY garage-oriented & loud. Although I play numerous instruments, my skills on them are NOT stellar! My real love is writing & arranging songs. When you hear a song I wrote, 9 times out of 10, I also wrote all the drum parts, guitar riffs & bass lines. Since what I write varies so much, I created two myspace profiles: one for my garage/rock stuff, and one for my pop/acoustic stuff (that profile address is www.myspace.com/pamlynnmusic). YOU ARE HERE: GARAGE!
All during the 1980s I spent every free night I could going to great New York City clubs like The Dive, Tramps, Irving Plaza, etc., to see great "neo-garage" bands like The Fuzztones, The Vipers, the Ravens, and tons of other bands. I also spent every spare moment playing garage music & putting bands together or joining existing bands. I was in two all-female garage bands: The Magpies (played lead guitar), and The Spider Babies (I played bass). I was in an instrumental surf band called The Tidal Waves (first I played bass, then switched to rhythm guitar). Then I started a band called The Bandoleers, which was sort of a power-pop thing (I played rhythm & sang). Various other assorted bands were started up & shut down all during this time. Then my friend Brian & I started a garage/punk band called The Black Outs (I played bass & sang) , and when that ended, we turned into Phaseshifter (I played rhythm & sang), sort of the same thing, but with a different lead player.
At the age of 45, looking back now, I realize that I fucked up alot. I settled for playing with bands that weren't really playing the exact type of music I wanted to be playing. I was having a good time getting drunk & stoned, and enjoying the company of the people I was playing with. I didn't realize that I needed to move on towards what I really wanted to do: play my own original songs in a screaming garage band with a 60s monster style! So, in short, what you are hearing here is not always what I was dreaming in my head at the time. You CAN get a glimpse, though....
I began developing a chronic illness in my late 30s, & I was no longer able to do constant late-night gigs & drink all night like I did. I may not be a snot-nosed teenage garage punker anymore, but my love of garage is stronger than ever.
A NOTE OR TWO ON THE RECORDINGS:
The recordings that you hear on this site are mostly live rehearsals or
4-track analog from 20 years ago, so please forgive various rough spots. But what's garage music without rough spots??
I'm currently home-recording & would love to find people close by (I live with my husband in northern New Jersey) who love garage as much as I do & would be interested in jamming/recording. Maybe even a gig or two here & there???Some pictures of the bands I played with in the past:
The Magpies, an all-female garage band (lead guitar):
The Spider Babies, an all-female garage band:
The Tidal Waves, an instrumental surf band (first bass, then rhythm guitar):
The Blackouts, a garage/punk band (bass, singer & songwriter):
I am currently looking for other musicians who like what I write (and write similar music) & would be interested in jamming/recording/gigging.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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I made this MySpace Music Player at MyFlashFetish .com.
