A Date With the Everly Brothers Beach Boys’ Party! Candypants Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers Electric Ladyland Ferry Cross The Mersey Green River Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful It Crawled into My Hand, Honest Jan and Dean Meet Batman Kink Kronikles Long Gone Dead Meet the Beatles! Never Mind the Bollocks Out Of Our Heads Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. Question Mark and the Mysterians Ramones Leave Home Sun Sessions The Who Sell Out Unearthed Merseybeat Vincebus Eruptum We’re Only In It for the Money XTC Live Young Rascals Zombie Heaven
Sounds Like
"Rock music’s all-time hardest-working man, all apologies to James Brown." (All Music Guide)
"Champion of bubblegum and all things pop, who turns out to be a pretty fine performer of same." (Cosmik Debris)
"A nice little change-up from psychobilly. Awesome." (Blastitude)
"Cooler than Elvis!" (Tragedienne)
"A one-of-a-kind guy." (Tower Pulse)
"The fifth Kink!" (antiFolkie Lach)
"Long-time champion of music for the people in his excellent fanzine The Pig Paper." (Mojo)
"All too vividly remembers his first public performance as a young child, singing Kingston Trio songs to a bemused Canadian Cub Scout pack." (Music Hound Folk: The Essential Album Guide)
"Expertly mixes traditional bluegrass and country pickings with a liberal shot of lipsmacking power pop sensibilities." (Sideways Symphony)
"I could insert overused adjectives like 'shimmering pop gems,' but the description wouldn't even come close." (Cut and Paste)
"Because of the biz he is in, Gary has arguably met with a plethora of thrilling incidents,
but one experience he will never forget is sharing the stage with the late great Del Shannon!" (Twist and Shake)
"A talented, sweet voiced singer." (Epinions.com)
"Mixing elements of Monkees, Buck Owens, early Who, and the Everly Brothers. And it works just fine." (Miles Of Music)
"A highly-regarded singer, songwriter and guitarist." (Rock Beat International)
"Helped craft solo albums for former Cheepskate Shane Faubert and American maximum rhythm 'n' bluegrass sensation The Ghost Rockets." (Try Acid)
"A kind of cool and surprisingly fashionable Johnny Cash vibe happening." (The Musicians' Exchange)
"Insists on upsetting the status quo and confounding stereotypes." (Blank Pages)
"A good example of how, if you've got really great sounding, solid musicianship, you can get away with anything lyrically." (Roctober)
"A fine musician and vocalist, with pipes that would do the Hollies and the Beach Boys proud." (Morty's Cabin)
"Terry Melcher is disguise, still hiding from Chas. Manson." (Pallid Pilgrim)
"He should be carried around in a sedan chair for the rest of his life." (Nerve)
August 1963 - Gary discovers CHUM-AM Radio.
February 1964 - Gary sees a very certain Ed Sullivan Show.
March 1965 - Gary gets his very first guitar.
May 1966 - Gary now knows some chords !
December 1968 - Gary joins his very first band.
August 1969 - Gary plays his very first gig.
May 1970 - Gary directs his first film.
May 1972 - Gary's fourth film gets shown on PBS Television!
March 1974 - Gary has Some Time in New York City.
August 1975 - Gary invades London.
December 1975 - Gary publishes the very first Pig Paper.
October 1977 - Gary and his Loved Ones make their very first public appearance.
June 1978 - Gary produces and releases the very first Simply Saucer record.
February 1979 - Gary's first Pigshit column runs in Flipside Magazine.
November 1979 - Gary's merry band of Loved Ones relocate to Surf City.
July 1983 - Gary joins the Fun With Numbers band in Vancouver, B.C.
March 1985 - Gary joins the Endless Summer band.
July 1986 - Gary's Endless Summer festival appearance with Del Shannon !
January 1989 - Gary records with Pat Boone in Nashville (...no, really!!)
April 1989 - Gary begins the Valentino's Pirates sessions at Daniel Lanois' Grant Avenue Studio.
September 1989 - Gary and Dave Rave escape to New York.
February 1992 - Valentino's Pirates released ...in Russia on Melodiya Records!
July 1992 - Gary joins The Ghost Rockets.
May 1993 - Gary, Andrew Loog Oldham, et al help Alex Chilton re-record Bach's Bottom.
October 1993 - Gary, Jim Carroll et al pay tribute to Don Covay.
October 1996 - Gary first published in book form within the Music Hound Rock: Essential Album Guide.
April 1998 - Gary and Shane Faubert launch To M'Lou Music.
January 2000 - Gary and the Grip Weeds pay tribute to the Bay City Rollers !!
August 2002 - To M'Lou Music pays tribute to the late, very great Gene Pitney.
September 2003 - Gary appears in the film Jandek on Corwood.
September 2004 - Gary and that Next Big Thing make their very first public appearance.
December 2006 - Gary and his Little Sisters say "Yes It Is" !
July 2007 - The Next Big Thing, Ghost Rockets, and Dave Rave Group help bring Sweet Relief.
August 2008 - Our Next Big Thing are stillLiving With Neil Young's War.
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights! Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with tales of stealin’ Lil Wayne’s wardrobe girl and drinking with Fats Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach, plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans, Corpusse, Telekrimen, and tonnes more…
This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for this Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine!
we're very happy to be your friends and we're really excited about our brand new band...members of all reaches of the earth...recording together...we will have our cd done and good to go by early 2010...please come back and enjoy
Interviews with Demon’s
Claws, Red Mass, The Black Lips, Dead Ghosts, artist TrUdE, The Sunday
Sinners, Bloodshot Bill, Manic Attracts, Nardwuar the Human Serviette,
Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo), Teenage Hookers, Petroleum By-Product,
Simply Saucer plus other lubricants like a tribute to the late Sky
Saxon, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs), reviews, and a 25-track CD Comp of
the best new garage, punk, and rocknroll!
Nice to meet you here on this MySpace thing. Thanks for listening (we really dig it) Have a good one, Bob the intern AND the rest of the fine folks at www.radiofreephoenix.com www.deepoldies.com
Hi there Gary, hope all's well in yer world and yer mind. Just droppin' by tae let ye know about the new STY at www.alienpig.co.uk It would be nice if ye could drop by and have a wee snuffle about. Stay forever free with love and good vibes from the STY. PIG X ;@)
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
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