Matt now sings and plays guitar in A Fine Day For Sailing, Ian plays guitar in the Moneros and accordian for the Surfin' Turnips, Rob is the bass player in both Los Imbasils and the High Class Joes. And if anyone knows the whereabouts of Stars drummer Gary Lee can they get in touch...
Influences
60s Garage Rock, 60s Brit Beat, Bristol, Club Shake!, Nuggets, Back From The Grave, Woggles, Billy Childish, Buff Medways, Thee Headcoats, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Cesears, Pretty Things, Byrds, Birds, Los Fumestones, Bucky, The Monks, Mummies, Flakes, Sonics, Seeds, Standells, Wailers, ? And The Mysterians, Chocolate Watch Band, Hentchmen, Thee Exciters, The Kingsmen, The Who, Creation, Badfinger, Downliners Sect, Zombies, Them, Rolling Stones, Stax, Motown, The Beatles, Ringo Starr, The Kinks, Small Faces, Pretty Things, Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Saints, Hives, Flamin Groovies, Jonathan Richman, Teenage Fanclub, MC5, Big Star, Kim Fowley, Monkees, Beach Boys, Ramones, Smiths, The Pixies, Super Furry Animals, Elephant 6, Apples In Stereo, Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Keys, Murry The Hump, 60FT Dolls, Chikinki, The Waistcoats, Nic Armstrong, David Viner, Indikation, Dirtbombs, Dee Rangers, The Sights, Kenickie, dreamy girls, comic books, beach movies, Vespa, Lambretta, scooters, lucha libre.
The Mighty Stars were four young scamps from Bristol, England whose music combined a brash raw energy with an intimate understanding of the intricacies of the three-minute pop nugget. Back in their day, the Stars were reknowned as the premier worldwide exponents and figureheads of the Garage Beatpunk sound!
The Stars toured the length and breadth of the English Isles in a 1963 Bedford Transit van. One infamous gig was the time they played the Dirty Water Club in London where they also backed Kim Fowley, the legendary self-styled shamen of rock n roll! Kim himself said of the Stars they were "godlike geniuses of dumb-ass rock 'n roll!"
The Stars even made it out to continental Europe for a swift whistletop tour of the lowlands of Holland, a trip that took in the Paradiso in Amsterdam, the Waterfront in Rotterdam and the Vera in Groningen.
January 1964 saw the release of an EP recorded especially for the Los Angeles-based Avebury Records. It was a regional hit in both LA and Somerset, England.
Please find below details of next month's FRaTCaVE
cheers Elmer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Saturday 7th March @ the FrATCaVE Doktor Combover Stripbeat Sleaze from Liverpool. Doktor Combover play filthy instrumentals with a Hammond backbone and driving Sax. Mondo Topless raw, ass-shakin grooves!!! plus The Mantawrays Lively Surf Supremes with a splash of Raucous R’n’B, Frat stompers! plus Los Imbasils DJ formation team & special guests Andy & Carl Combover from the Go-Go Cage club. for your Garage, Soul, R’n’B, Surf and Beat dancing needs. 9pm - 2am £5 @ the Fratcave, below the Crown, St Nic's Market, Bristol. BS1 1JH. www. myspace. com/thefratcave www. myspace. com/doktorcomboversleaze www. myspace. com/themantawrays
About Doktor Combover From their roots working the strip joints of Las Vegas, Doktor Combover perfected their raw and dirty instrumental sleaze, pumpin' out ass shakin' grooves for the topless dancers' filthy gyrations. Their reputation as the dirtiest and most notorious combo on the strip led to their acclaimed residency at Burlesque joint 'The Go-Go Cage'. Over-indulging in a downright salacious playboy lifestyle resulted in the boys being run out of town by mobsters after running up massive gambling debts. Frantically looking for a new home they chose to flee overseas to Liverpool in England, attracted to its NorthWestCoast scene,its sunny climate and the city's fine surfing action on its world famous River
If you like your drum kits Ludwig, your guitars Burns, and your amplifiers Vox AC30's, then The MASONICS are the band for you. This Medway beat-pop supergroup play prime garage-rock. …tis Elmer’s birthday too so come along & boogaloo!!
Squirrel Skin Slippers… ….are a rough n tumble Mr & Mrs originating from the bone-rattling mythical antipodes of New Zealand.
Stitched together from the beaten skins of old deep south dirty blues, DIY garage music, folk noir and 60's punk, garage spirit. This new and unpredictable creature is then brought to life with their own fuzzed-up experimental style and served with a (friendly) snarl!
Playing live… The SAVAGEMYNDS Garage Punk Reverb Drenched Fuzz Fuelled Mayhem Hailin' from the south and foaming at the mouth their straight up sound makes for instant classics with screamin' vocals, solid bass lines, fender twang and backbeat thud.
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