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

[@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.

[@danielnye427]

Awesome - would love to learn the chords! Are they anything like this: chordify.net/chords/the-hard-times-i-cant-wait-till-friday-comes-garage-60s-punk-glendoras-dj-mean-mojo-mathias ?

[@Trentonpage]

FuzzyPricer what type of guitar was used?

[@smackroscoe]

Yep, felt very Stones-y.

[@FuzzyPricer]

@@Trentonpage Lead guitar was a heavily-modified Fender Jazzmaster. Played through a TWO Fender amps.

[@FuzzyPricer]

@@danielnye427 Looks good!

[@HotPlatters1]

In 2007, I was in a thrift store and came across 31 copies of this single... I stupidly only bought 5 copies and when I got home and slapped one on the turntable, I knew I had screwed up... I went back the next morning and miraculously managed to locate the other 26 copies... Needless to say, I bought em' all and sold all but one (which I kept) over the next several months...

[@Glendoras]

Ed Odel Awesome!!

[@FuzzyPricer]

I only have two left!

[@permanentvacation2406]

I would've had a heart attack lol best find ever

[@thomassmith5860]

permanentvacation yes I would have been in full cardiac arrest

[@danielmccurdy9948]

@@thomassmith5860 You're killin' me.

[@nostalgiaof98]

60s garage rock really is pre-punk, I LOVE IT

[@TheItalianBeatnik]

Great 60's punker.

[@FuzzyPricer]

Fuzzy Pricer here, founder of the Hard Times and author of our songs. I still have a few of these 45s available. Slightly water-damaged, but not warped at all. Never played. $110.00 plus shipping, each. Get with me if you want one.

[@coolluv]

I'll take one. How do we get in touch?

[@thomassmith5860]

fuzzy pricer writing Hot music in a cold tent

[@thomassmith8721]

Great guitar. Not only punk but in your face punk. Like take that man !

[@danielmccurdy9948]

Well, this is better then the Stones! Hahaha

[@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]

+1

[@DaveAnchovies]

It's too tough for 1964.

[@odilecroc3843]

yes!

[@leebeaulac9730]

Alex I checked your video out and it's really cool! Long live the HARD TIMES AND THE FRANTIC FIVE! Lee (The Reverend Dr. Bojack, one of the Hard Times)

[@danielmccurdy9948]

I've been waiting since 1967 for Friday to come. Is it here yet?

[@Glendoras]

Daniel McCurdy haha!

[@hotchipco1]

Great Moddish sound! Northern Soul/Garage hybrid!

[@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.

[@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!

[@exploringmind7648]

different bunch I think

[@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.

[@thomassmith5860]

great band information

[@vdklippe]

Garage stomper : Psychedelic States: Maryland in the 60s

[@FuzzyPricer]

Actually, northern Virginia.

[@thomassmith5860]

fuzzy pricer I am confused where you guys from Maryland or Virginia

[@FuzzyPricer]

@@thomassmith5860 Northern VA. Fairfax area.

[@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!

[@hotchipco1]

This is my MONDAY song!

[@kekrangel6247]

LOVE IT LIKE #900

[@alkli]

great to see yoou guys are still around! my band actually covers this, we are the frantic five from Greece, and there is a video of us doing i cant wait till friday comes, hope you have time to check it out and like it!

[@FuzzyPricer]

Yes, we have heard it and we love it!

[@FuzzyPricer]

I have seen it. You guys rock!

[@Glendoras]

@FuzzyPricer Hey there, I am about to upload a couple of newly received garage 45's, will have Old Wine, New Bottles uploaded when putting those up too! Cheers!

[@The_Klystron7]

There was another band called "The Hard Times" on the west coast I believe (had a hit with "fortune teller",. same era. Probably common in those early days. I like this band too so maybe its good to use that name.

[@FuzzyPricer]

Hey, this is Fuzzy again. Okay to upload "Old Wine, New Bottles" - It's on the flip side.

[@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.

[@christophepeter8881]

Love the story about the song, which is freakin' great ! Fuzz for ever !

[@stevenimeson902]

This is great stuff!

[@FuzzyPricer]

Thanks, Steven.

[@popbottle2645]

i like that he says "when that yellow moon is on the wane".

[@buzzawuzza3743]

Is this the same Gray Ant label that the Figurines released "He Ain't My Boyfriend" on?

[@RAMLIA1]

♥

[@MURUR1025]

About as good as it gets....

[@jeffmead2935]

yep .... they smashed it eh

[@anoneff]

How can I get a hold of more of the Hard Times music? This song rips as do the songs in Darling Darling.

[@FuzzyPricer]

Have you heard the flip-side: Old Wine, New Bottles?

[@Glendoras]

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

[@lealsan]

Buena rola !!!

[@aldelacerda2940]

the hard times ? did you guys play at the street scene in el monte , back in the 60"s.

[@FuzzyPricer]

There was another 'Hard Times' on the west coast.

[@FuzzyPricer]

That was the west coast Hard Times.

[@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.

[@permanentvacation2406]

American Born Patriot. same chords different decades

[@user-mp3eb8bl2u]

Это и есть гараж,я отвечаю.

[@FuzzyPricer]

Re-release fell through. Need a new producer. Who's interested?

[@Glendoras]

FuzzyPricer Damn, hope you succeed to sort it out!

[@FuzzyPricer]

@@Glendoras No takers, so far.

[@СергейК-т3м1л]

задело с первого аккорда класс

[@Beefm11]

APPARENTLY YOUR FINGERS FROZE:)

[@Glendoras]

@FuzzyPricer Hey Fuzzy, it's up now.. Please have a look at my channel! Cheers from Sweden.

[@FuzzyPricer]

Thanks!

[@Khultan]

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

Not very original-sounding.

[@skeets6060]

PUNK????? get real boy

[@Glendoras]

skeets Yeah well... another time waster..

[@barfyyarfy996]

Punk before 70s punk look it up . They called this punk before punk was really punk.

[@FuzzyPricer]

@@barfyyarfy996 Yeah, this pre-dated Punk.

[@theresa837008]

This is good Punk!