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Any other garage/punk/R'n'R forums out there?
Anybody know of any other good forums out there for garage/rock'n'roll/punk/surf etc, this one is a little quiet, maybe there's some other forums worth checking out?
lemme know cheers!
lemme know cheers!
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Permalink Reply by Vagabonds on -
maybe we should start one... Eh I've got procrastination on the mind
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Permalink Reply by Fuzzmeister on -
For Surf, I recommend Surfguitar 101 http://www.surfguitar101.com
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Permalink Reply by The Branded on -
Fuzzmeister said:
Hey thanks fuzzmeister thats a great site, cheers.For Surf, I recommend Surfguitar 101 http://www.surfguitar101.com
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Permalink Reply by Wipeout! on -
Ya think that this board/site is so quiet cuz no one's talkin' or that there's nothing worth talkin' about?
This site is the second coming of the original GaragePunk.com forums (which was way more active, but a huge headache for webmaster Kopper), btw, which I really pine for nowadays....oh the memories...
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Permalink Reply by Fuzzmeister on
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Apologies if I'm teaching Grandma to suck eggs here, but you guys do know about the "new" version of the old Garagepunk forum don't you?
http://garagepunk.proboards100.com/index.cgi
It's only got 270 members so far. A lot that are members also joined the Hideout and of course the Hideout has a few thousand members now, so it may be that the Hideout has become the forum of choice after all.
A lot of "refugees" from the old Garagepunk forum also joined the G45 forum http://finerecordingstudio.com/g45central/ but that is mostly geared towards collectors of original 45s and may not be as interesting to those who can't afford to buy the originals, have broader tastes or who like to hear about current bands.
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Permalink Reply by The Branded on
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Fuzzmeister said:Apologies if I'm teaching Grandma to suck eggs here, but you guys do know about the "new" version of the old Garagepunk forum don't you?
http://garagepunk.proboards100.com/index.cgi It's only got 270 members so far. A lot that are members also joined the Hideout and of course the Hideout has a few thousand members now, so it may be that the Hideout has become the forum of choice after all.
A lot of "refugees" from the old Garagepunk forum also joined the G45 forum http://finerecordingstudio.com/g45central/ but that is mostly geared towards collectors of original 45s and may not be as interesting to those who can't afford to buy the originals, have broader tastes or who like to hear about current bands.Yeah I am a member of the 'new' garagepunk forum, but it never really seemed to catch on, not enough members with a few rare postings now and again, I never really check it much anymore. I am into the G45 forum, but I gave up collecting original records a while back in favour of guitars/amps and current bands records. I was thinking more of a forum for newer bands, clubs, labels etc, just to keep up of when bands are touring, new releases etc, so far myspace seems to be the best for that kinda info. I do miss the old GP forum, simple and loads of up-to-date info. Oh well, sigh! Maybe the hideout will get better in time.
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Permalink Reply by kopper on -
People always forget that the last year or so of the old forums was a real downer. The number of posts and hits to that forum had dropped drastically over the course of about six months to where there were only a hundred or so regulars. That was when the social networking thing was really taking off and everyone swarmed over to Myspace, leaving little time to spend on other sites/forums. So, trying to stay one step ahead of the game, I created this, "our" very own social network (that includes many of the same bells and whistles you get on any other social networking site, including the ability to upload MP3s *AND* video), and what happened? People bitched up a storm about it! True, there were a lot of design flaws and bugs early on but most of that has been worked out. The look is a hundred times better, cleaner, with better streamlined organization, etc. and discussions in the forum (the one you're reading right now) are actually threaded and linear like they should be with a quote option and everything (I fought long and hard to get Ning to fix that). The only thing I haven't been able to get them to do (yet) is figure out a way to integrate all of the members/posts from an old phpBB message board into this network, but that might be just around the corner, too... who knows? Bottom line is this forum is just fine IF PEOPLE USE IT. It's obviously only as good as the people that post here. So if you'd like to see more action, become more active yourself (by posting more often).
There are still a lot of people that won't join this site because they've got some bug up their ass about it. In fact, I just asked Mickster of Off the Hip Records in Australia if he'd ever thought of adding a page here for his label, ya know, to help promote it and stuff, and ya know what he told me? "I miss the old site, and i liked the way it worked; simple, yet effective." So because "he liked the old site" he has decided not to even give his label a presence here AT ALL? That doesn't make any sense to me. You would think a person that runs a RECORD LABEL would want to promote that label any way they can, ESPECIALLY on a site where you have potential customers. But, whatever, far be it from me to tell him how to run his business.
If ALL you're looking for is a forum, then you ONLY NEED TO VISIT THE FORUM here on the Hideout. There, that's simple, isn't it? How difficult is it for people to realize it takes five minutes to set up a "simple yet effective" profile for themselves and start using this thing?
Wipeout! said:Ya think that this board/site is so quiet cuz no one's talkin' or that there's nothing worth talkin' about?
This site is the second coming of the original GaragePunk.com forums (which was way more active, but a huge headache for webmaster Kopper), btw, which I really pine for nowadays....oh the memories...
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Permalink Reply by Wipeout! on
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My only complaint with this board is that we had to lose all the great threads (with oodles of info) from the original GP forums...and if Kopper is working on bringing those threads back on this particular site...fuckin' fantastic!
No one has really taken a stab at my question though, so I will:
There's nothing worth talkin' about currently in the greater garagepunk world....I blame it on Estrus (lol)
That goes double in my neck o' the woods ...Dixie that is.
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Permalink Reply by kopper on
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Oh, I disagree. I think there's plenty TO talk about... but there are too many places to talk about it! You spread people too thin and that's what happens. Look at Facebook, for example. Lots of groups and pages on there where you can talk about music. THIS kind of music. It's tough to compete against that. And I can't blame people for logging on Facebook all the time... it's a great site with a lot of cool features. BUT you still can't upload songs there. There's nowhere to go if you have a video you want to upload (not embed one from YouBoob). Those are areas where the Hideout blows Facebook out of the water, but how do you get people to realize that? I know Myspace offers some of that, but again, it's a lot more limited than it is here. Not to mention Myspace still sucks, no matter how much they try to improve it.
I don't have the time and energy I once had to continually try to promote this site anymore like I did 5+ years ago, so I really need to rely on word of mouth and other people promoting it by telling their friends about it and stuff. But yeah, there are a lot of great new bands, labels, plus festivals and shows happening everywhere all the time, so I don't think it's dead by any means.
Wipeout! said:My only complaint with this board is that we had to lose all the great threads (with oodles of info) from the original GP forums...and if Kopper is working on bringing those threads back on this particular site...fuckin' fantastic!
No one has really taken a stab at my question though, so I will:
There's nothing worth talkin' about currently in the greater garagepunk world....I blame it on Estrus (lol)
That goes double in my neck o' the woods ...Dixie that is.
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Permalink Reply by Wipeout! on
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Point well taken, Kopper.
I just get the impression that the garagepunk world is shrinking...like I said, I live in the South and there ain't shit to talk about, garagepunk-wise, in my neck o' the woods. (One of the main reasons I'm franticly tryin' to get my band together!)
I'm on MySpace and here, but I refuse to join Facebook (for reasons I don't care to get into here), so I have no clue as to the discussions on that site.
On a complete aside, when I was younger my tastes in music were very broad, but during the college years I "found" garagepunk and all the related genres and pretty much wrote off most music outside of those boundaries. Well recently I've found myself going back to my younger-years outlook and diggin' on loads of music that don't fit into the greater garagepunk realm. My point in all this jibberish is while I'm well aware of the depth and true scope of this site, do you think that the term "garagepunk" (so narrow as it can be interpreted) may be leading folks who have broader taste to not post here more? (dunno just a random thought)
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Permalink Reply by kopper on
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Wipeout! said:
My point in all this jibberish is while I'm well aware of the depth and true scope of this site, do you think that the term "garagepunk" (so narrow as it can be interpreted) maybe leading folks who have broader taste to not post here more? (dunno just a random thought)
Maybe. It's hard to say, really. Obviously we all love all kinds of music, not just "garage-punk," and I think you can see that from looking over the discussions in this forum, even. And if people actually listen to our podcasts they'll realize it's not all that narrowly defined, either, and then that will hopefully lead them here. So it may scare some people off, but not a lot of them.
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Permalink Reply by Wipeout! on
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One last thought on this issue:
Does it bother anyone else that there are thousands registered on the Hideout, but only a handful of forum posters?
I wish there was less importance given to the profiles and more to participation, be it in the forums or our growing collection of music, videos & blogs...I mean, is it still that cool to just go hog-wild signing up fer social networks then never actually "socializing" at the site??!!??
Unfortunately I think I already know the answer to this...
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