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Paul Revere and the Raiders, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Starfire, the Astronauts, The Atlantics, the Brogues, the Heard, the Pleasure Seekers, The Shag, the Spiders, the Trashmen, the Troggs, The Velvet Underground, Tommy James and the Shondells
Bardwell Park Garage
Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izglMClMNPk
The Shag – Stop and Listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-RoSd4pLc
The Starfire – I never loved her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK-FzlxZdJU
The Brogues – Ain’t no miracle worker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cm3solF6K4
The Atlantics – Come On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY03qCXUMFI
The Heard –Stop it baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0GTvxOlL8
The Spiders – Boom Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbcU5ArqBQ
The Astronauts – Baja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4FvOi-N18
The Sandals – The theme from The Endless summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAXfmnImjg
The Velvet Underground – I love you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8G4clUJBY
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Kicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kVFfKezVo
The Electric Prunes – I had too much to dream last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4
The Trashmen – Surfin bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK3JtWgtats
The Pleasure seekers – What a way to die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM
Tommy James and the Shondells- I think we’re alone now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U
The Troggs – Wild Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns
Question Mark and the Mysterians – 96 tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNTSk8EsoAM
The Choir – It’s cold outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvBpnaVHE8
Them – Gloria
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Listened to 3 more. The Heard – great guiitar.
The sandals needed a joint and spacey chick to entwine with. (sounded a bit like a soporific Hank Marvin)
Good voice on Starfire.
I didn’t know any of them.
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The Atlantics, maybe?
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Don’t think he knew too many of the top half, neither did I beforehand really. Though I’d worked on this for a while.
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A good mix Algy. Will try to play some later. in between my 1000 other tasks 🙂
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It’s interesting music, I thought. 🙂
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I will have 45 mins, later this arvo to listen.
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I was looking at a house with a bricked up garage just the other day, Council had given the owners permission to have either a garage OR a carport, so when they renovated they built the carport and they use the renovated and bricked up garage for storage/bikes/toys/workroom.
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Ah but what constitutes a garage. Three walls and a door of sorts normally.
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I once worked writing software with a guy in his Silicon Valley garage.
Mind you, it was a massive double garage with direct access to his huge family house, was carpeted, air conditioned, had a sink, fridge and kettle ….
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And a day bed?
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Oh yes, I forgot the furniture. Lounge, multiple desks and computers, fax (that dates it). He also had a part-time secretary. He made a good income for his wife and two teenage daughters traveling about a quarter of the year giving courses for IBM.
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He was a good guy. Apart from bright, entrepreneurial, knowledgeable he was one of those rare people who kind of raise everyone around them closer to their level. More often in the techie world they like to keep their knowledge to themselves.
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And a day bed?
hee hhee.
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On the tee hee consider yourself pointedly and assiduously ignored, JL.
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I heard of someone actually employing someone to work in a garage, The gave up after a while and worked somewhere else.
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This garage might well have housed a musical genius. Who knows? I somehow doubt it. Robin Boyd wrote a book The Australian Ugliness. It was/is very controversial and many a conversation has been held on his view of our architectural cowardness.
This garage photo perhaps sums it up neatly.
Have a closer look and let Robin take you on a tour of this garage. The liver coloured bricks were a feature of that period the book was written. Everything had to stand out and be a ‘feature’. Nothing was allowed to simply ‘be’. Notice how the later brick, when the garage door was bricked up, it became even more of a feature, a slightly different brick interspersed with the main liver colour. Thousands of acres were filled up forever sky-wards with this hideously looking brick.
Now look up, if you can! Look carefully at the roof. The wonderful Wunderlich glazed tile. Again a feature with a green and yellow tile mixed in with the main colour. Who cannot be amazed at the ingenuity of it all? Who can avoid its ‘beauty.?
Now the spread of concrete at the bottom. First a walkway, but what the heck. Make the whole driveway out of concrete. How many Holden ‘special’ were driven over it?
Of course, the blight of the nineties and twenties, a supreme architectural invention, the powder coated zinc aluminium fence. (They last forever) The final touch!
You can see how nature is protesting, the paspalum grass desperately trying to reclaim its birthright, climbing up in desperation, tear it down. Who would not?
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I was trying to tell you, algy, earlier, computer malfunction, that ‘Garage’ is a great success with visitor I have staying with me a few days. The show is a great success. Many thanks. 🙂
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You’re welcome shoe, I don’t think the bricks open though. There’s an amazing array of this I’ve found.
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Love Gloria. Now once again quite a few I do not know. Was the theme THE ?
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Garage bands.I haven’t had a chance to listen.
The Troggs came from Southampton, from memory.
Catch up when I finish work – at about 9:30.
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Jules is right Vivenne, Garage Bands, could also be called Garage rock, Garage Punk or Surf rock, they are all from around the mid 1960’s. Some you’ll know of others probably not.. The Pleasure Seekers is a band put together by the Quatro sisters.
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Got it. Just noticed most of the bands started with The.
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I am fascinated by the photo of the garage door. That’s before even hearing the music. Who is the elderly gentleman and is he trying to open a door ? Has the garage been bricked up and is it part of a house now? So many questions.
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I know that faux architecture was very popular in the sixties and seventies but I have never seen a garage door looking so much like a brick wall. I suppose it was designed specifically to prevent nosy neighbours from getting a look who would be coming and going from their safety behind the Venetians.
It is Cold Outside. is my favourite. Thanks Algy.
( Helvi doesn’t believe me it still is a garage door.
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I don’t know what to believe now, Gez, after this. You reckon that is a garage door. Chap in the photo seems to think so.
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You’re right gerard, though I don’t think its a door, I think its bricked up. Now the old bloke, I don’t know what he’s think. Questions about the quality of the mortar maybe. Or where did I put my car?
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