"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004 the hits: they keep a' comin'. Music pioneer Greg Shaw, 55, dies 
LOS ANGELES - - Greg Shaw, a music entrepreneur whose passion for raw, spirited rock made him a pioneer in the independent record label field and a prophet of the current “garage rock” resurgence, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his record company announced. He was 55. “He was an extraordinarily important individual in the history of rock ’n’ roll,” Steven Van Zandt, lead guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s band and the host of the syndicated radio show Little Steven’s Underground Garage“, said Friday. “He was literally responsible for the contemporary garage-rock movement, which he single-handedly started with the Bomp! label.” As a journalist and record label head, Shaw always championed renegade artists regarded as too unruly for mainstream packaging. The Stooges, theGerms and Sky Saxon were among the acts he recorded. But over the years his turf encompassed a wide stylistic range, from rockabilly to such 1960s-rooted sources as mod, girl-group, garage-rock, surf music, psychedelia and power-pop. He founded Bomp! Records In 1974 to release a single by the San Francisco band the Flamin’ Groovies. Shaw’s real passion at the time was a brand of ’60s rock heavy on attitude and attack, the kind of music most famously compiled by writer-musician Lenny Kaye in the 1972 album "Nuggets",two LPs full of cult classics by the 13th Floor Elevators, the Blues Magoos, et al. Shaw called the music “punk,” but when that term was appropriated by a whole new genre, Shaw dubbed it “garage rock,” a reference to the classic location for teenage band practices. Shaw’s dissemination of the music helped turn it from ephemera into scripture, keeping it alive during years of mainstream indifference. In the last few years, young disciples such as the White Stripes, the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become upstart best sellers, finally bringing the marginalized sound to the top of the charts. .... Bomp! continued to release singles from the Wackers, the Poppees, Willie Alexander and other regional acts, and covered the thriving L.A. scene by recording the Weirdos, 20/20, Devo and others. The label also became an advocate for forceful “power pop” acts such as the Plimsouls and the Shoes, and issued an influential series of archival garage-rock compilations called “Pebbles.” Shaw always hoped that Bomp! could forge an alliance with a major label, but he said that the large companies always wanted too much creative control. He folded Bomp! in 1979 and established a new label, Voxx, as a purist, low-budget home for ’60s garage-style bands, including the Crawdaddys, the Fuzztones, the Lyres and the Pandoras. Shaw gave the music a live platform for a time by opening a Hollywood showroom called the Cavern Club. damn. and wouldn't ya know it? our strategic ramones reserve is at an alltime low too. the flamin' groovies: "teenage head" " ..i'm a child of atom bombs and rotten air and Vietnams..." posted by downtown | 1:53 PM |
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