DMZ / The Lyres

DMZ's self-titled album is pretty good. The rarities/outtakes comp When I Get Off is a bit crappy though.

Lyres "On Fyre" is awesome.

Dirty Water records just reissued the Don't Give It Up Now single. My copy's warped really badly though :(

Yes to "On Fyre" and also to "A Promise Is A Promise"? I guess the rest is hit/miss, which is why a thread's in order to help SORT THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF. I haven't heard any 90's stuff either.

"Lyres Lyres" is pretty good too.

I didn't like A Promise Is A Promise.

xpost oh yes "Stacey" is on that

Get DMZ's major label debut.

"Help You Ann" is the best Lyres tune and it's on "On Fyre," the rest of which fades from memory quickly after playing.

I saw the Lyres a couple times in Boston on weekends and Mono Man/Connelly was fair. If you were into sock hop garage rock in a bar, you might have thought they were better.

The DMZ studio album has some very interesting metallic parts, far heavier than anything Connelly did later. Search out "Don't Jump Me Mother" for one of the best Raw Power rip-offs from long before everyone was ripping off the Stooges.

As for the Lyres, don't forget "Don't Give It Up Now", also from On Fyre.

Yeah, "Don't Jump Me Mother" kills. That's a good description of it. My other favorite was "Baby Boom" which takes a completely different tack. "In a hospital room, from midnite to noon, it's the g-ga-goo-goo-gah-gah - uh- ... baby boom."

get DMZ's major label debut

yeah I like this way more than the lyres

get thee the Lyres' first EP: What a Girl Can't Do/ Buried Alive. Also second "On Fyre", and for raw sloppy fun the "Let's Have A Party" live record.

Or the first Barrence Whitfield and the Savages LP.

just a reminder that y'all could be listening to the DMZ self-titled album right now

It is a marvellous album, it absolutely rocks bells, is shitloads of fun and there is nary a dud moment on it.

Yes it is. Is it still available? I wonder if its on Spotify?

it is.

Just bumping it again cos it is ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og9hQirCA6k

The new comeback Barrence Whitfield & the Savages record is not as good as the first early '80s one. The new one is kinda speedy garage-rock by numbers, while the former had that Little Richard & Smiley Lewis aspect to it.

But Barrence and the Savages sounded great tonight (though I still like the older songs better). Guitarist Peter Greenberg's garage rocking guitar was good live.

Greenberg was a guitarist in DMZ, so that's why I am posting here. Although I am tempted to give Barrence his own thread even if few ilxors these days seem to know of him.

Saw Barrence Whitfield & the Savages again. They covered MC5’s “Ramblin Rose”, & Barrence wailed like a garage rock Smiley Lewis. DMZ guitarist Greenberg is still in the band.

Any other Barrence Whitfield fans here? Need to do an ilm search .

http://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/03/20/barrence-whitfield-and-the-savages

Nice interview with Barrence

Below is a 2015 one with Peter Greenberg

http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/cincinnati-kid-peter-greenberg-of-barrence-whitfield-the-savages/

I think Rambling Rose is a bit older than the MC5 I have a great version by Jerry Lee Lewis from the 50s. I think it was from before him too.

Actually it's a title used by several songs and the MC5 version is a different arrangement of the 1961 Jerry l;ee Lewis hit. His is more syncopated. I have it on a compilation with his 50s stuff. Worth hearing.

Thanks

Found out earlier that the MC5 version seems to be based directly on the Ted Taylor soul cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_JQcdZjiDU