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Sir Maggot

Polka dot, mind rot!

About Me

I'm 96 Tears old. I play guitar and sing in garage punk outfit The Maggots. Check us out on Myspace at: HTTP//MYSPACE.COM/THEMAGGOTS1 I also DJ quite a lot. Original 45's with Garage, Beat, 60's Soul, Girlgroup, R&B is my main diet. Need another DJ for your club/allnighter? I love playing records, and I'm good at it ;-) My band The Maggots draw heavily from the motherlode of all great punkrock/rock'n'roll, i.e. US 60's garage + we're also totally into 60's soul dance craze records, raw rythm & blues, cromosome damaged rock-a-billy etc etc. We've just released our fourth album and are working on upcoming tours for the moment! The last album was an attempt to mix in more diverse influences here and there + we mixed it in stereo and had audible overdubs. The new album is definitely aimed more directly at the garageaholic crowd again! And it's back to mono again! That stereo/bigger sound experiment was just stupid in retrospect. Sorry bout that haha! I've been in bands like this since the mid 80's, beginning in the Crimson Shadows. What more? I owe my life to the Sonics, the Cramps and 13th Floor Elevators. And of course to my girlfriend Ima - wonderful, beautiful and talented star that she is. A note: I hate metal, anything with "core" in it (PS - Dead Kennedys were great, and I never use the c-word when talking about them. Just like the Cramps have never been, and will never ever be, "psychobilly" -- Blaaargh!) funkrock, jazzrock, psychobilly and pretentious crap in general. I'm also not really interestred in adding people/bands who have like 250 pornchicks as "friends". I just don't think that's very cool. Quite the opposite actually :-) I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1

My Interests

Playing rock'n'roll, cooking great meals for me and my close ones, playing records, being bad

I'd like to meet:

Dunno... cool people who are easy to respect and connect with I guess...

Music:

Rock'n'roll, soul, rock-a-billy, garage/beat, 70's punk(preferably Swedish!) - anything that has soul and manages to get it through. My taste is absolutely objective ;-) If I like something it's because it's good. I am always right. 13th Floor Elevators, Seeds, Keggs, Tonto & the Renegaades, Cramps, Roky solo, Skip Spence, Bobb Trimble, The Deep, Gun Club, Lyres, Jerry Lee, Little Richard, Mighty Hannibal, Beau Brummels, Kinks, Andre Williams, Creation, Bobby Fuller Four, Bohemian Vendetta, Randy Alvey & the Green Fuz, ? & the Mysterians, Guitar Frank, Trashmen, Flamin Groovies, Charlie Feathers, Carl Perkins, Nervous Eaters, Sonics, Headstones, Rationals, Stones, Teddy & His Patches, Gene Vincent, Remains, Beach Boys, Maskman & the Agents, Wailers, Pretty Things, Alvin Cash, Tages, We The People, Gun Club, Tropics, Turtles, Friends, Kriminella Gitarrer, Temptations, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Parliament, New Dawn, Problem, Dead Boys, Liket Lever, Shangri-Las, Sixten, Johnny Burnette Rock'n'roll Trio, Music Machine, Vipers, Hangmen, Wylde Mammoths, Ronettes, Reparata & the Delrons, Skeeter Davis, Hank Williams, Stems, Dovers, New Colony Six, DMZ, thousands more...



Movies:

Old-school sci-fi, horror, monsters, gangsters, Hong Kong, late 60's/70's, all the good stuff. All time faves includes Head, The Wild Bunch, Barbarella, Them!, The Day The Earth Stood Still, King Kong, Spider Baby, Apocalypse Now, Forbidden Planet, Re-Animator + I'm completely hooked on old cliffhanger series like Undersea Kingdom, Flash Gordon, The Phantom Creeps etc

Television:

Right now? Nothing really. I still watch that fuckin thing when I'm tired though or when a good movie's on. 'Stones I Malmö' is the best thing I've seen all year though. Documentary based on an old super 8 film from a party the Stones attended in '65 when they were there. Otherwise I'm waiting for Carnivale season 2 to come to Sweden... damn shame HBO pulled the plug on it after two seasons - it's the best thing they ever did IMO.

Books:

Avid reader of biographies, sci-fi, anything as long as I dig it - must always have a book or two to read... Pick of the decade: Nick Tosches' Jerry Lee biography, "Hellfire".

Heroes:

Don't really know what that is... I admire people like Roky, Skip Spence, Jeff Conolly, who just follow their vision regardless of consequences like mental illness, drug dependency and ultimately death. Wouldn't like to call'em "heroes" though - but that absolute drive is something I find very refreshing and inspirational in a world full of bland, meaningless idiots and jerks. Maybe Nick Tosches is a hero. Great writer, mad, alive and well. I hope.

My Blog

Whoa

Here are a few recent and quite recent scores that I go extra crazy over at the moment...   The Surfaris  So Get Out (Decca) - Fave in the "you’ll never guess who this is" category. ...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:45:00 PST

Ikväll!

...vill jag gärna ha sällskap när jag lirar plattor på Riche! Rädda mig från att vara enbart omringad av mediajönsar och cityfolk!En idé om hur det kan låta i baren ikväll är ju att lista några av sin...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:19:00 PST

Byta biljett?

Eftersom jag  lite plötsligt spelar plattor på Nalen lördag och söndag så behöver jag inte min biljett till lördagen. Anette går gärna båda dagarna och eftersom det var helt omöjligt att ta in nå...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:28:00 PST

Nästa helg!

Är det Roky både lördag och söndag. Dessutom ska jag och Jens Lagergren spela skivor på Nalen båda kvällarna så det blir grymt!  
Posted by Sir Maggot on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:04:00 PST

Roky Erickson

Yay! Som numera alla vet så kommer Roky & Explosives till Stockholm, Nalen, den 15:e december! Vi såg Roky tidigare i år i New Orleans och sedan har jag sett honom på Ruisrock också. Jag har läst ...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:39:00 PST

TV3...

Sitter hemma och borde börja plugga... men den Svenska Lagboken är väl sådär halvkul att öppna... så det blir lite skriva först ha! Nåväl, eftersom det är reklam i nästan alla kanaler så blir man ju d...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:42:00 PST

Mer att reta sig på ;-)

En liten löjlig tidning har plötsligt fått publicitet för att de "vågat" publicera en ful teckning av en löjlig konstnär som bara  vill ha billig uppmärksamhet. Vilka otroliga idioter. Jag undrar...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:34:00 PST

Nu på Svenska. Mer obstinat än någonsin

Jag läste om klotter för ett par dagar sen i Metro eller City. Det var en artikel om hur connex ska jobba mot den så kallade nollvisionen, dvs klotter ska bort inom 24 timmar sedan det kladdats dit. N...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:19:00 PST

Yawn and not-so-yawn

I've been feeling really tired this whole week... usually this happens around this time of the year. It's been dark and cold for a coupla months ya know... it makes you lose energy. Vitamins and exerc...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:08:00 PST

Hot 100

Nope - not a top 100... just a more or less randomly put together Hot 100. Ok, Top aswell... it's not lonely at this top! Most of these are Saturday (or any day that needs to feel like saturday ...
Posted by Sir Maggot on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:44:00 PST