tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553627664696466038.post635755255632872053..comments2024-01-26T01:48:08.279-06:00Comments on In The Rubber Room: Wailin'King Merinukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845940782717659360noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553627664696466038.post-84667208858739324282010-04-10T18:05:07.292-05:002010-04-10T18:05:07.292-05:00Hey Ryan, thanks for the comments. I STILL live ...Hey Ryan, thanks for the comments. I STILL live in squaresville and rock'nroll is STILL the only thing that makes my life worth livin'.King Merinukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845940782717659360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553627664696466038.post-28904570514410027972010-04-08T11:58:28.548-05:002010-04-08T11:58:28.548-05:00Oh, man!! Thanks a million, Darren. The illustra...Oh, man!! Thanks a million, Darren. The illustration is even better than I remember.<br /><br />I get a bit misty thinking about those halcyon days of my youth, reading Cryptic Tymes and discovering great garage and rock 'n' roll combos. In those days precious few articles and photos of great garage bands were available to a teenager living in Squaresville. It was often cool images like these that added to the mystique of those elusive and mysterious weirdos from a bygone era, their legacies lurking on obscure compilations mastered from dubious sources. What scant information we could glean was from rumours and half-truths printed on the backs of the LPs.<br /><br />I think something is lost in these times when the (often) less exciting reality of those thousands of bands has been documented down to the finest details. It may be more accurate, but by and large, it's a lot less fun. The dorky photos of a lot of those groups seem a bit out of step with their wild records.<br /><br />I think images like your Wailers portrait go a long way to keeping the image of Garage Rock cool.Ryan L.noreply@blogger.com