Garage Punk Hall of Fame — who would you nominate?

[ted cogswell]

I'd like to get a list of people - artists and groups - that people here would consider the best of the best from a GaragePunk perspective. If we can get together a list of say, 50 or so candidates, I'll conduct a poll here on the forum to elect members to a "Garage Punk Hall of Fame".

Candidates can be from any era. Just to get us going why don't I throw out some names off the top of my head.

How about...

Billy Childish
Mick Collins
The Dead Boys
The Devil Dogs
The MC5
The Monks
The Mummies
MX-80
The Seeds
The Stooges
Roky Erickson/13th Floor Elevators
Link Wray


And feel free to toss out any names you can think of. Even if you don't think they're quite "Hall of Fame" worthy but should at least be considered.

Lets see what we can come up with here...

[tobi joi]

hello el tiki
i would consider the following Bands:
Dead Moon, thee Daggermen, the Miracle Workes, the Untold Fables, the Prisoniers, the Milkshakes, the Drones, the Bevis Frond, the Cynics, the Damned, Sex Museum, Demolition Dollrods, the Flaming Groovies, the Frumious Bandersnatch, the Lollopop Shope, the Nipple Erectors/the Nips, the Pop Rivets, Sir Douglas Quintet, the Wimple Winch,
the Music Mashine,
theres so much more that i could think of but thats a start
love
tobi joi

[Screamin' Danny Blix]

link wray
the cramps
the sonics
13th floor elevators

[Jymn Parrett]

Sky Saxon
The Seeds
Marcus Tybalt
Jan Savage
Daryl Hooper

[Hank Cockpit]

Reatards

[zacharythax]

Here is a list of groups and public figures I considered seminal and far and away head and shoulders above the pack in influence:
Cramps (who more than anyone else opened up the surge of interest in rockabilly and 60's garage to the hoi polloi)
Stooges (like George Washington 'nuff said)
Lester Bangs (as an early champion in the press)
Link Wray (what band worth listening to DOESN'T owe a debt to him?)
Ronnie Dawson (one of the top 5 concerts I ever saw)
Fuzztones (The Lysergic Emanations LP galvanized me as a late teenager.)
Standells
DMZ (punk pioneers who dredged up the old muck)
Sonics
Dave Allen and the Arrows (for that rattle of the Mosrite Fuzzrite pedal)

That being said, I agree with Jamie. Halls of Fame are for sports, and if we were all captains of our high school football teams or prom queen cheerleaders we wouldn't BE here!

[Rockin Rod Strychnine]

I think the best definition of garage PUNK was the original wikipedia entry that Kopper started and psted 3 years ago before it got toatally changed.

This was revised by myself and others but it's based on his original entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garage_punk&oldid=148...

[Rockin Rod Strychnine]

These bands were definetly the examples of garage punk from 1976 to the present:
Black Lips
Boss Hog
Cheater Slicks
Billy Childish
The Devil Dogs
The Dirtbombs
DMZ
The Drags
Gas Huffer
The Gories
Guitar Wolf
Thee Headcoats
The Hives
The Horrors
The Hunches
The Inhalents
The Intelligence
The Konks
The Lazy Cowgirls
Lost Sounds
The Makers
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Thee Mighty Caesars
The Mummies
New Bomb Turks
The Night Kings
Oblivians
Poison 13
Reatards
The Reigning Sound
The Rip Offs
Sinister Six
The Spits
The Statics
Supercharger
Supersnazz
The Supersuckers
Teengenerate
The Trashwomen
The Woggles
The Von Zippers

with these bands being the founding fathers: The Sonics, The Monks, The Stooges, MC5 and New York Dolls.

[Rockin Rod Strychnine]

Maybe the Hideout hall of Fame is a better name just so there's no argument if Bo Diddley belongs or not or if a group is garage punk or garage revival or British beat or WHATEVER.

[saturn drive]

Just wanna add some perfect french garage bands :
les Dogs (not the KBD's ones)
les Thugs
The Neurotic Swingers
The Hatepinks
Gasolheads
The splash 4,
Fatals,
Magnetix...