YouTube Stars!

Earlier this week, I saw a very cool band on Late Night with David Letterman. The Orwells are 5 guys who are just out of High School from a suburb of Chicago called Elmhurst, Illinois. These sk8er bois are channeling certain 60s Garage and 90s Grunge bands that came before them. The singer, Mario Cuomo, reminds me of Jim Morrison from The Doors, Kurt Cobain from Nirvana and Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam. The music is straight ahead Hard Rock with 60s Garage influences.

The Orwells were on Letterman's show back in January. Dave seems to really love them! They put on an animated performance. Singer Mario was wearing a Black Leather Jacket and whipped his shoulder length hair until it covered his face. He was on his back on the floor at times! Dave asked them for an encore back then, but guitarist Matt O'Keefe was unable to comply since he broke every one of his guitar strings during the schedule number. So Letterman's band, with Paul Shaffer on vocals, reprised "Who Needs You" but with his own lyrics. Watch the end of the video below to see that!

Now on to the performance I just saw. Singer Mario was again animated with a bit of a demented look on his face, as all great rockers do! Half his blonde hair was dyed black, and strands were cemented to his forehead by sweat. The band played "The Righteous One" from their new album Disgraceland. Quite a brilliant rock tune! I think this is right up there with songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. Watch The Orwells perform this song on Letterman, then watch the Official Video for it! Both versions Rock! \m/

Labels: Chicago, David Letterman, Garage, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Late Show, Letterman, Nirvana, Orwells, Punk, Rock, The Doors, TheOrwellsMusic

posted by KennyCrane at 6/15/2014 03:54:00 AM 0 Comments

Today we welcome a NEW guest blogger, Lyn Price. Lyn is a talented singer who is joining us to review Music Videos from the 1960s! Read what Lyn says about two Garage Rock videos and a huge Psychedelic Pop hit by rock stars Tommy James and the Shondells.


Groovy Sixties Tunes!

The Monocles
"I Can't Win"



In Los Angeles, 1967, a songwriter named Jim Newby wrote a classic garage hit - "I Can't Win"

This track stood out among others because it contained all the makings of a great Garage song. In a record shop, in the front row, you could see the song "I Can't Win". Once you hear this song, you want to hear it again and again.

"I Can't Win" is still a winner. One reason may be that elements of Garage Rock are flying high at high speed. This track delivers - Garage at it's best with Surf, Rockabilly, Psychedelic and Exotica. The music flows - makes the listener want to dance.


The Illusion
"Did You See Her Eyes"



In 1969, a band from Hempstead, Long Island, New York got hold of a smoking hot Garage song entitled "Did You See Her Eyes". The song, filled with exquisite drum rolls, earth shaking harmonies and psychedelic heaven, made it to 32 on the Top Forty.

The video, put together by Music Mike, has not lost anything, even a moment of the excitement that this track generates. Illusion are a fantastically good Garage band and this video, with music and pictures, put Illusion on the map.

The video is psychedelic, with colors flowing and images dancing. This song did put Illusion on the map. And it's still there, ready to pick up and move forward.

Do not miss out on listening to this track. It moves.


TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS
"Crimson & Clover"



“Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” “Draggin’ The Line”... The music of Tommy James is heard continuously, everyday, in every country in the world: on radio, television or a film soundtrack. To date, he's sold over 100 million records and has been awarded 23 gold singles plus nine gold and platinum albums.

Born in Dayton, Ohio and raised in Michigan, Tommy James was modelling at age 4. He formed his first band early on - and recorded "Hanky Panky". Although it achieved success on a local level, it didn't move the way it should have but, several years later, the song was found in a record bin by a D.J. Then the crowds began to request the song again and again.

This song, "Crimson and Clover" is sung with a lot of feeling and was immensely popular. The same goes for all his songs, and "Hanky Panky" is such a good dance record that it's not surprising the crowd responded well to the D.J.'s decision to push it. The response to "Crimson and Clover" was something close to magic. Tommy James, born Tommy Jackson, has been putting music out there for a very long time. Let's give him and the Shondells a large round of applause !

Labels: "Lyn Price", "Tommy James and the Shondells", "Tommy James", 1960s, 60s, Garage, Garage Rock, Lyn, music, Rock

posted by KennyCrane at 2/20/2014 07:01:00 AM 0 Comments

To all who celebrate Christmas, I would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! To all celebrating something else, or not celebrating anything at all, I wish you all the best too! For those who like Christmas songs, I have created my annual Christmas Songs playlist. Here is the 2011 YouTubeStars Christmas Playlist; enjoy!



Here is our 2010 Christmas playlist!



Here is our 2008 Christmas playlist!




If you want some non-Christmas music that is very cool, try this 1960s Garage Rock and Psychedelic Acid Rock podcast!



Happy New Year 2012!

Labels: Christmas, Garage, GarageRockRadio, Happy New Year, holiday, psychedelic

posted by KennyCrane at 12/21/2011 06:35:00 AM 0 Comments

Here are Four Totally Unrelated Man Vids for your enjoyment, videos featuring the males of YouTube - but first -
Happy Birthday, YouTube!


YouTube is 5 years old! Although the URL was registered on 2/14/2005, it didn't really get going right away. YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005.

We had our first Top 100 Weekly Chart on 11/19/2006 and these were the Top 5 Most Subscribed YouTubers:

1 lonelygirl15 60099
2 smosh 31124
3 geriatric1927 30821
4 Brookers 27880
5 thewinekone 21335

This is when people really started to Subscribe to channels, and it happened because of all the publicity for the LonelyGirl15 channel.

The earliest data we recorded was on September 10th, 2006. YouTube had been around for a while and was starting to become well known. After being dominated by women such as LittleLoca, FilthyWhore and Brookers, a 79-year-old man from the UK hit the Most Subscribed spot with the Screen Name of Geriatric1927. Read more about the early days of YouTube at this article and in the early posts right here at YouTubeStars!

Real name Peter Oakley, Geriatric1927 went from his first video (on August 5th, 2006) to most subscribed in about a week! This brought lots of media coverage. Here's the data for 9/10/06 when Geriatric1927 was still at the top, but LG15 was about to overtake him, and did by the following week:

Member ProfileViews Subscribers
geriatric1927 902049 26255
lonelygirl15 2201892 25497
Brookers 2649706 19271
smosh 1507731 18326
thewinekone 555815 12685

Peter continues to make videos to this day. He is now 83! He has uploaded 228 videos, has 51,424 subscribers, 8,238,850 Total Video Views and his website is still going strong. Here is Peter's thoughts on YouTube's 5th Anniversary:





There are a lot of cool musicians on YouTube, but this new band is the grooviest on the planet! The LSD Enigma is Dave from The Riviera Playboys and Darren from McFadden's Parachute. Combining elements of 1960s Garage Rock, Psychedelic Tunes and Go-Go Dance Music - The LSD Enigma is part of the new wave of Garage Rockers getting airplay at radio stations around the world and on Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius 25. The LSD Enigma is on tour and if they come to your town, go see them!





Here is a super High Quality video of Tyler Ward singing a duet with Krista Nicole, who we have been writing about since she was 13. They do an excellent cover of Taylor Swift and Boys Like Girls' hit Two Is Better Than One. This video has about 40 thousand views in the last few weeks and it has a 5 star rating with over 1100 ratings counted so far. Don't miss this one - Tyler and Krista are both great singers and they sound awesome together!





Michael Boyce has been around YouTube for a while, interviewing a lot of the same musicians we have written about here, on his YouTraxTV YouTube channel and his YouTrax.tv website. Now Michael is doing comedy monologues on his YouTraxTVNews channel! He makes fun of all kinds of people in the News these days. He already has 12 News shows up in the last two months, which is pretty amazing, especially since Michael has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Michael is a good guy and these comedy videos are extremely well made. Check this one out and you'll see what I mean!

Labels: dagwoodacid, Garage, Geriatric1927, KristaHeartzuz, youtraxtv

posted by KennyCrane at 2/17/2010 03:51:00 PM 2 Comments

As you may know, I LOVE 1960s Rock n Roll! I especially love the genre called Garage Rock. This is a raw kind of 1960s punk pop featuring fuzzy guitars, pounding drums, pulsating organs, pumping basslines and snearing vocals with background harmonies.

This website - Garage Rock Radio - has MP3s and podcasts of 60s Garage Rock tunes and I Love them all!

Now they have a Record Label - Garage Rock Radio Records - that distribute bands from today that have that 60s Garage Rock sound. Free MP3s here.

Please enjoy a very short video of the Garage Rock Radio Theme Song which is used at the beginning of their podcasts, sung by Lyndsey Price. Groovy, man!



Description:
This is the Theme Song for our 1960s Garage Rock podcasts, sung by Lyndsey Price. Visit our website at

http://www.GarageRockRadio.com

and buy Garage Rock music from our Record Label at

http://www.GarageRockRadioRecords.com


Pictures in this video are from Johnny B. Fuzz
http://www.myspace.com/saico66

Children of the Mushroom
New Colony Six
Ohio Express
The Action
The Banshees
The Esquires
The Es Shades
The Henchmen
The Kingsmen
The Moving Sidewalks
The Pleasure Seekers
The Standells

Check out free MP3s and our 14 song Sampler Album at

http://www.garagerockradiorecords.com...

Rock on, Garage Rockers!

Labels: 1960s, 60s, Garage, music, Rock

posted by KennyCrane at 11/19/2009 01:06:00 AM 1 Comments

Garage Rock is a sub-genre of Rock that started in the 60s. When The Beatles hit the United States, every kid dreamt of starting a Rock Band and being the Next Big Thing! And by the time Man walked on the Moon, 40 years ago today, thousands of Garage Bands had come and gone, leaving behind some groovy tunes!

According to Garage Rock Radio Records:

If you enjoy the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Monkees, Animals, Doors, Beach Boys, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly and similar bands, you might like [Garage Rock].

According to Wikipedia:

"Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967... "Garage rock" comes from the perception that many such performers were young and amateurish, and often rehearsed in a family garage... Typical themes revolved around the traumas of high school life. The lyrics and delivery were notably more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming... In the late 1990s, Steven Van Zandt ("Little Steven") became a torchbearer, spokesperson, and proponent for both garage rock and the garage rock revival... In 2002, he started a syndicated radio program called Little Steven's Underground Garage and has also launched an Underground Garage channel on the Sirius Satellite Radio network. Van Zandt has described the music format as "Groups that inspired the Ramones, groups inspired by the Ramones, and the Ramones."

I am a huge fan of Garage Rock! There are some great bands around today that play music inspired by 60s Garage Rock. Among the best are McFadden's Parachute and Lyndsey Price. Here are 2 videos of McFadden's Parachute recorded at a live performance, and one for Lyndsey Price's recent song about the quest to get a Garage Rock exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Enjoy!

For more real 1960s Garage Rock, visit GarageRockRadio.com.

To learn more about McFadden's Parachute and Lyndsey Price, visit Garage Rock Radio Records.

After the videos are AmazonMP3 widgets with High Quality samples of the tracks from recent McFadden's Parachute and Lyndsey Price releases. Have a listen!

Labels: Garage, Lyndsey, McFadden's Parachute, Price, Rock

posted by KennyCrane at 7/20/2009 02:19:00 AM 1 Comments

This post adds to four videos I discussed in the 1960s Music Videos post. This time, I'll list some Garage Rock videos I found on YouTube. If you like this kind of music, check out some Garage podcasts on this blog and some MP3s here. There is a longer list of YouTube Garage videos at this blog post.


Leaves - Hey Joe

This is not the Jimi Hendrix version. It's the uptempo 60's Garage Rock version by The Leaves, from California.



Black Diamonds - I Want, Need, Love You

This fuzzpunk Garager is from an Australain band.



T h i r t e e n t h F l o o r E l e v a t o r s

Roky and the boys from Texas sing their one hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me" on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. From the record titled "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators."



M A X F R O S T A N D THE TROOPERS - Shape Of Things To Come

From the movie "Wild in the Streets." Change the voting age to 14 and elect the first "wigged-out" president. Then stick anyone over 30 in LSD camps. Interesting movie with a great soundtrack.



The Honeybees - You Need Us

Here's a fun one from Gilligan's Island! Ginger, Mary Anne and Mrs. Howell form The Honeybees and perform their smash hit, "You Need Us."

Labels: 1960s, Garage, music, Rock

posted by KennyCrane at 7/17/2007 03:40:00 AM 0 Comments