10.28.09
Groove Tomb Playlist: October 28th, 2009 The Strangeloves- I Want Candy
The Cramps- Zombie DAnce The Symbols- Do the Zombie The Sonics- Psycho Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs- Haunted House Kaiser George and the Hi- Risers- I’m Gonna Haunt You The Mummies- I’m Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight The Ghastly ONes- Hangmen HAngten Alice Cooper- Devil’s Food/Black Widow Willie Dixon- Evil Albert Elias- King Kong Blue Oyster Cult- Godzilla 45 GRave- PArtytime Round Robin- I’m the Wolf Man Bob McFadden- The Mummy Billy DeMarco- Drac’s BAck Buck Owens- It’s a Monster’s Holiday Bert Convey- The Monster Hop The Hollywood Flames- Frankenstein’s Den Carlos Casal Jr.- Don’t Meet Mr. Frankenstein Lee Ross- The Mummy’s Bracelet The Eastsiders- The Mummy’s Monkey The Misfits- Return of the Fly The Ramones- Chain Saw The Registrators- Chain Saw Rock Gee- Cees- Buzzsaw Twist Bad Brains- Fearless Vampire Killers The Mob- Dr. Butcher G.B.H..- Lycanthropy The Queer Pills- The Todd Killings Winelord- Scary Blood The Mission Creeps- Goo Goo Muck The Boswell Sisters- Heebie Jeebies Slaughter and the Dogs- U.F.O. Sonny Daye- Creature From Outer Space The Ran-Dells- MArtian Hop Bob and Jerry- Ghost Satellite Zacherle- Happy Halloween Roky Erickson- Creature With the Atom Brain The Atlantics- War of the Worlds Bent Bolt and the Nuts- Mechanical MAn Screamin’ Jay HAwkins- Little Demon David Seville- Witch Doctor Bobby Borris Pickett- Monster Mash The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
Groove Tomb Playlist: October 21st, 2009 Al Elias- King Kong
Eater- I Don’t Need It Derek’s Accent- Ain’t Got No Feeling Sonny Daye- Creature From Outer Space The Soft Boys- I Wanna Destroy You Ray Columbus and the Invaders- Yo-Yo The Hollywood Flames- Frankenstein’s Den Alice Cooper- Mr. and Misdemeaner The Pleasure Seekers- What A Way to Die The Plugz- Infection Electric Frankenstein- I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk The TEddy Boys- Don’t Mess With Me Morloch- It’s Time You Realised X- Sex and Dying in High Society The Adverts- Bored Teenagers The Trainspotters- High Rise The Younger Lovers- Danny The Lyres- Busy Body The JAdes- Blue Black HAir Mann Drake- Vampire’s Ball The Cramps- Human Fly The Ramones- Slug JAckie and the Cedrics- Road Race Frank Ballard- Trouble Down the Road The Pebbles- Look Up at the Sky Dick St. John- Boogie Man The Grass- Hoppers- Twin Beat The Stooges- 1969 The NEatbeats- Do the Global Twist Bobby Please and the Pleasers- The Monster The UNdertones- Jump Boys Thee Headcoats- Troubled Times The Have Nots- Do It Again The Starjets- Schooldays The Modern Lovers- Astral Plane Eek-A-Mouse- Skidip Hubble Bubble- Freaks…Out The Sonics- Maintaining My Cool Slaughter and the Dogs- Cranked Up Really High The Buzzcocks- Love You More The Testors- Together The Subhumans- Firing Squad The Gories- For Your Love DMZ- Barracuda Jumpin’ Gene Simmons- HAunted House The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
I love haunted houses. I always wanted to be involved in one. I don’t mean to make fun of this one because it looks really cool, but it’s makes me laugh how all the advertising mentions it’s in an old Linens ‘n Things. Linens ‘n Things actually used to make me pretty uncomfortable without any help at all. I want to open my own haunted house in the beyond part of Bed Bath and Beyond.
My haunted house would be walking around a Linens ‘N Things attempting to find something, never finding it and never getting out. http://phobiatucson.com/
I saw two excellent documentaries last weekend at the Tucson Film and Music Festival. One was called Dig Comics and the other was called I Need That Record. Dig Comics is a documentary about the decline in America’s interest in comic books and I Need That Record is a documentary about the dismantling of record stores. Both were engaging and well researched. Besides being a great doc, I Need That Record had some awesome collage animation in it. These films are really worth seeing if you get the chance. Both have websites: http://www.ineedthatrecord.com/Site/I_Need_That_Record%21.html http://www.digcomics.com/ I got a chance to email a few questions to the director of Dig Comics. That interview is up at Off the Marquee. If you get a chance, take a look. I also put up a list of seven of my favorite horror remakes in time for Halloween. If you think of any great horror remakes I missed, drop me a line. Issue #52 of Razorcake is out. I have some record reviews in this one. Plus there is an interview with Lilly Tomlin. I love her. The Cake is always worth supporting. Thanks to Keegan Rider and The Living Room for putting on an awesome poetry reading tonight. I’m always psyched to have an opportunity to read in front of people.
The Halloween show is on its way. This year, it’ll be on October 28th, just before Halloween. Loads of monster singles, novelty tunes and horror bands. When I started the Groove Tomb, my goal was to make every week a little like Halloween, but after a while, I felt like I was plating the same songs over and over again. Now I’ve saved it all up, and all the comps and ghoul themed madness is coming out.
Groove Tomb Playlist: October 14th, 2009
Hubble Bubble- Big Star Rolling The RAmones- Rock and ROll High School The NEw York Dolls- Pills The Sons of ADam- Baby, Show the World The Woggles- Johnny Come Lately Eddie and the Hot Rods- All You Need is Money The Pretty Things- Baron Saturday
Bobby “Boris” Pickett- Monster Mash The Cramps- Zombie Dance The Buzzcocks- Boredom The Wipers- Is This Real? The Zeros- Beat Your Heart Out Death- Freakin’ Out
The REgistrators- Angry Days The Zero Boys- Drive IN The Germs- Lexicon Devil The Minutemen- One Big Lounge Scene The Replacements- Customer The Stooges- No Fun The Hondells- Little Honda
The Carrie Nations- Look ON Up The Strangeloves- I Want Candy The Insects- The Girl That Sits There The Resonars- Black Breath The Box Elders- Isabella The Younger Lovers- Danny Andre Williams- Going Down to Tio Joana Man… or Astroman? Terminal Velocity
Jay Reatard- See/Saw Black Flag- Spray Paint the Walls The Misfits- Queen Wasp Bikini Kill- Finale The Rocking Vicars- I Go Ape The B52s- Planet Claire Screaming Jay HAwkins- Little DEmon
DAvid Bowie- Speed of Life T.S.O.L.- Red Shadows Public Image Limited- Public IMage Digital LEather- Fool’s Heart Mechanism Richard Hell- Time
The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
Groove Tomb Playlist: October 7th, 2009 Eater- You
The Younger LOvers Danny The A Bones- Shallow Grave The MOdern Lovers- Roadrunner Nobunny- Tina Goes to Work The Kinks- ‘Till the End of the Day The Box Elders- Jackie Wood
Thee Mighty Ceasars- Searching High and Low Ron Thompson- Switchblade The Shirks- D.C. is DOomed The Fanatics- I WIll Not Be Lonely The Keystones- I Was a Teenage Monster The Cockney Rejects- Flares ‘n Slippers Scream- CAme Without Warning The NEcros- Count Me OUt Fleetwood Mac- Someone’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked IN Tonight
The Kids- Rock Over Belgium The Plugz- Infection The Modernettes- Barbra The HAve Nots- Leave It Alone The Younger Lovers- Hot Lights The Customs- Bad News The Damned- Testify The Ramones- We’re a Happy Family Mika Miko- Tighty Liberace
Bunny Wailer- Fighting Against Conviction Andre Williams- Tossin’ and Turnin’ Sir Douglas Quintet- Quarter to Three Billy Taylor- Wambie Zombie The Stooges- T.V. Eye Winelord- Cheetah Boy Fear- Hoochie Coochie Man Black Flag- Fix Me MOtorhead- Ace of Spades
The Germs- What We Do is Secret The 5, 6, 7, 8s- Woo Hoo The Chips- Rubber Biscuit Charlie Feathers- That Certain Female Hubble Bubble- Freaks…OUt
CH.3- I Got a Gun Mad Mike and the Maniacs-The Hunch The Middle Class- Out of Vogue The Plimsouls- The Oldest Story in the World Joy Division- Shadowplay
The Bar- KAys- Midnight Cowboy Eek-A-Mouse- Skidip
The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
My last night at De Anza Drive-In A constellation of discarded jalapeños litter the ground in front of three cola cups standing at attention waiting for the next to the last movie ever to be shown at De Anza Drive-In to start. The theater is closing two years short of its sixtieth birthday and the word being passed around is that developers are already interested in putting down another strip mall. The ticket taker told us that lines had been around the block for the early shows and Pandorum, a moderately entertaining sci-fi thriller, will be starting late. Having snaked through the aisles with our headlights out during the end of District 9, we were lucky to find a perfect spot in front of the screen. Accidentally seeing the end of a movie you didn’t come to see is a common occurrence at the drive it. As Pandorum begins, people snuff joints and abandon the scattered islands of concrete littering the parking lot. Science fiction is particularly appealing at the drive in, as is rum, cola and pretzels. Heavy drinking can make the most intolerable movies entertaining, but tonight it becomes hard to concentrate as milestones begin to play out in secession. The fences blocking the entrance go up. The lights at the ticket booth go out. A crucial moment of dialogue is replaced by the announcement that the snack bar will close “in ten minutes.” As Jupiter makes its way across the sky, one by one the other screens go black. Pandorum wraps, and except for a few people needing jump starts, another precession of Saturday night patrons file out with their lights off to be considerate of those still watching the last show with any life left. Leaning on the back of the truck, I turn away from a depressing string of post-screening previews for movies that will never be shown at De Anza and catch a few minutes of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds with no sound. Jump-starting a friend’s car is an excuse to spend a few more minutes hanging around as the end of an era passes. As a kid, I always used to perk up on car trips when we passed a drive in, acutely attentive only for the hope of a glance at a screen as we drove by. Nowadays, snobbery and extensive discussions are generally a factor in my movie going experiences. Sitting under the stars for the last night at De Anza, 108 minutes of Dennis Quaid in a space suit was all I needed.
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