The Hard Times - I can't wait till Friday comes (GARAGE 60'S PUNK)

[hotchipco1]

This is my MONDAY song!

[caesarmtnmama]

We dug Hard Times on "Where The Action Is", esp. Paul Wheatbread and Rudy Romero. We sent them gifts for birthdays and Christmas at their home in Laurel Canyon, LA. Thank you Hard Times for the fun we had as young teenage girls!

[Glendoras]

@caesarmtnmama That's a different band to The Hard Times you are hearing in this vid. But they were a great band too. I love their version of Fortune Teller!

[FuzzyPricer]

Kind of a gas to hear this on youtube. I am Fuzzy Pricer, founder of the Hard Times in 1964. I wrote this tune in a freezing tent in Montana and it was recorded in a basement in Accokeek Maryland. The flip side, "Old Wine, New Bottles" was written on a bet; it's done entirely with only one chord. We still get together once in a while. Maybe I'll upload some recent video. Both tunes were intended to sound like Mick and the boys.

[Glendoras]

@FuzzyPricer Thanks for the comment and info. Your tune has become a garage rock classic! I'd be happy to upload "Old wine, new bottles" too, if you don't mind. Please let me know if you upload some recent videos, it would be cool to watch. Cheers.

[Khultan]

Great teenage exuberance, but I got to say, to all those that continually try to connect punk with 60s music, is folly.

[Glendoras]

@Khultan Top track indeed. Regarding the punk expression, everybody knows the difference between punk music ('77) and 60's music. 60's punk is a term that came later. It's the attitude in the music which you connect to punk, and the fact that teenagers who hardly couldn't play their instruments released 45's and wanted to be rockstars like Beatles and Stones. Pretty much of what the 70's punk was about too. I think you're taking the expression 60's punk a little bit too seriously.

[Khultan]

@Glendoras 70s punk rock is identified as outright angry songs with music played loud, fast and with very limited chord/melodic range, as well as nearly stripped of it's rock'n'roll rhythm n blues roots. The attitude here in this song is that of a joyful, robust enthusiasm rocking number the very oppositve of 70s punk rock's nihilistic, bleached sound. There is a difference between the way teenagers of the 60s rocked the music and 70s twenty year olds approach to it.

[Glendoras]

@Khultan Well, then you don't hear what I hear or you simply don't want to. Punk is a lot more than what you just described and it's very much rock'n'roll with loads of blues roots. But it depends on what punk bands you are listening to. Anyhow, I will not try to convince you, but you can't deny what I hear and many with me.

Cheers.

[Khultan]

@Glendoras No, you can't convince me but let's try to remain civil.

[Glendoras]

@Khultan That's the way I prefer to keep things.. In Sweden this kind of music was called pop in the sixties, no matter what influences the bands had. Call it pop, rock or punk, doesn't matter to me, it is what it is to each and everyone anyway.

[Khultan]

@Glendoras Fair enough.

[KiwiZepFan87]

Love this!! :D I first heard this little gem way back in 1999, when my mom bought the CD "Garage Punk Unknowns Part 1". I'm happy to say that this song has been part of my friday night line-up over some beer! ;)

[EmeraldFlowsion62]

I think the flipside is good too..it's only been comped non-commercially though.

[Glendoras]

@EmeraldFlowsion62 Yes, it's not bad at all!