NYT: Little Steven's Big Crusade (Garage Rock festival, bands old/new - Sat August 14th)

New York Times ^ | Published: August 11, 2004 | By BEN SISARIO

[weegee]

Tickets to this show were still $20 as of this week ($25 day of show)

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[mylife]

"Why isn't there any rock 'n' roll radio?

A fair question, and one that has been much on my mind for the past 10 Years!!

[weegee]

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http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/festival/index.html

Davie Allen & The Arrows (The King of the Fuzz Guitar) (1960s/1990s-2000s)
The Pete Best Band (ex-member of the Beatles)
Big Star (1970s)
The Boss Martians (1990s/revamped for 2000s)
Caerars (1990s-now)
The Chains
The Charms
The Chesterfield Kings (1980s/1990s)
The Chocolate Watchband (1960s)
The Contrast
The Creation (1960s)
The Dictators (1970s/2000s)
Bo Diddley (1950s-now)
The D4
The Electric Prunes (1960s)
The Fleshtones (1970s-now)
The Fondas
The Fuzztones (1980s-now)
Gore Gore Girls (2000s-now)
The High Dials (2000s-now)
Jarvis Humby
The Lyres (1990s-now)
The Mooney Suzuki (1990s-now)
The New York Dolls (1970s)
The Paybacks (2000s, featuring members of The Hentchmen)
Iggy Pop & The STOOGES (Stooges 1960s-1970s/ Iggy 1960s-now)
The Pretty Things (1960s-now)
The Raveonettes (1990s-now)
The Romantics (1980s/now)
The Shazam
Nancy Sinatra (1960s)
The Singles
The Star Spangles (2000s)
The Stems
The Strokes (1990s?-now)
The Swingin Neckbreakers (1990s-now)
The Woggles (1990s-now)

[weegee]

Additional reading here (generally on the mark, I wouldn't accept everything he says):

http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/garageessay.htm

[Polonius]

Bo Diddley, the New York Dolls (what's left of them, anyway) and the Stooges -- sounds like a great show right there.

[weegee]

I've seen 15 of the bands on this list.

Booking Bo Diddley was genius because the Bo Diddley beat provided the genesis for many bands of the British Invasion.

[Revolting cat!]

Pretty Things? Mmmmmmm... (Sounding the way the Rolling Stones should be sounding now. Their last album rocks!)

[RightWingAtheist]

the Gore Gore Girls

Who here also thinks that Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs should reunite and go on tour with this band?-)

[537cant be wrong]

thanks weegee.
garage and psychadelic are my favorite styles. always have been.
van zants show is on here in st louis but being part of the old buffet crowd (dinner at 5 bed by 8) i cant stay awake long enough to hear it.

PSYCHADELISIZE SUBURBIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[t_skoz]

Here is a big bump for Rochester Rock & Rollers THE PRIESTS who will be doing a set at the show!

[t_skoz]

dude, how could I forget Rochester's own THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS ??

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Some reviews are posted here:

http://www.garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9905

[GSWarrior]

the Strokes, the Hives, the White Stripes, the Mooney Suzuki, the Raveonettes, the Datsuns and others play stripped-down rock 'n' roll

I'll take an old Fleshtones CD over these guys....

[t_skoz]

I'd like your brief review of the following: (doesn't have to be too long)

Davie Allen & The Arrows

The Chesterfield Kings

Gore Gore Girls

The Mooney Suzuki

The STOOGES

Nancy Sinatra

The Strokes

What say you?

[weegee]

I didn't get to this show, when I learned that sets would be 15-20 minutes each I just couldn't justify the expense to get a little taste of these bands. Day of show the rotating stage broke and set times fell to around 10 minutes each which means that some bands only played 2 songs.

Those who went still liked what they saw, some would have wanted more, some thought that they heard the right amount from some bands. None of the people I heard from thought that the Strokes deserved anywhere near 1 hour (and on a Strokes forum the kids seemed to indicate that they were going to blow off the show until around 7pm meaning that they were going to miss like 30+ bands.

[weegee]

The Fleshtones have been at this since 1976 and have been active every year continually releasing albums of new material yet they are overlooked in accounts of "punk rock" and CBGBs.

[t_skoz]

The Strokes are retards and I imagine their prepubescent fanbase is as well. Those poor bastards are all going to be drunken coked out losers in a few years. They are in way over their heads, IMO.

It pisses me off that dudes who pay no dues get million dollar, bling-bling rock star status so quick. Also, why do the ugliest guys on the planet start pulling hot chicks as soon as they get the million dollar bling bling hollywood rock star status?

It makes me sick