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No, they were produced by a Spector rival, "Shadow" Morton. He later did the second NY Dolls record, and was picked because the Dolls loved the Shangri-Las so much. The Shangri-Las were tough "bad girls", who wore lots of black leather and had songs about "bad boys", whereas all Spector's acts...

Some songs from NYC's The Shangri-Las (Queens represent), '60s vocal "girl group". I think anyone here will be able to relate to these songs; your grandma probably knew all the words when she was young. They don't really have any bad songs. Here they are live on TV in '65, the lead...

I first met Dave Wyndorf of Monster Magnet in 1981 when he was in a kind of pre-hardcore/post-Ramones "combat"-themed band called Shrapnel. They used to play a fair amount of shows with a band i roadied for, The Minx, who were two bluegrass gals who discovered the punk rock, and realized that...

A whole metric shitload of UK DJ John Peel's '70s-2004 (he had to stop working then because he died) shows with live sets by boomer musos like David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars, Roxy Music, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Smiths, The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen...

I don't know why i am in such an aggro mood this morning. I blame COVID-19. Both sides of 1973 proto-punk classic "When Christine Comes Around"/"I'm Gonna Smash Your Face In" by Grudge, aka Laurice, Canadian supergay superstar. The Rezillos, ""Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In...

So (memory spurred by reminiscing with @OTTERWOLF in the squatter symbol thread) here is some superobscure NYHC '80s shit that no one who wasn't there then ever heard. Sadly, their awesome cover of NYC funk classic "It's Just Begun" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch isn't recorded; live this often...

Check out the Woodstock 50 year anniversary live real-time but 50 years later simulcast; they are doing announcements about lost people, bad green acid and free food at the Hog Farm Kitchen right now. The excellent Country Joe & The Fish coming on any minute now. Also check out Sha Na Na coming...

I assume everybody here has to know this old IWW anti-work/pro-spanging classic (written by Wob "Haywire Mac" McClintock), but the spoken-word parts in this version are pretty good (he also changes up the words a bit), and right up the STP audience's alley:

Ok, since at least someone dug those, two more pre-punk early '70s songs, , "Ascension Day" and "Preaching Violence", both by UK communist skinhead band Third World War, who almost were Iggy's backing band for his post-Stooges comeback records My brother, a pretty serious musician, can't stand...

Suzi Quatro, "Can The Can" (1973)- pre-punk music from the gal Joan Jett stole most of her act from. it would be impossible to overstate how in love with Suzi i was at age 13-14. followed by another '73 classic, one of the best road-songs ever, "Radar Love", by Golden Earring: Most likely...