Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 336 - Danny Elfman (Composer, [The Mystic Knights Of] Oingo Boingo) May 28, 2021

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Who hasn't heard a song written by today's guest!?! Join Damian as he sits down with the great DANNY ELFMAN to discuss punk, politics & wanting desperately to blast Buddy Hackett in the face with CO2! From riots in Paris theatres, to walking around Western Africa learning to play Highlife, to "dropping everything to form a ska band": THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
ALSO, don't miss Danny's monster new "Big Mess" dbl lp out June 11th on ANTI!
Also Touched On:
X, Fear, Wall Of Voodoo: everything fits in
Le Grande Magic Circus
becoming the musical director of a group of street performers
Setting people of fire and putting them out with a rocket ship
“GRAB YOUR VIOLEN!!!”: riots in Paris
The unprecedented time we live in
What the hell has happened?!?
Manson and Trump
“Shut up and sing!”
Writing for yourself again
"Chamber Punk"
The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo
Living life like it was the 1930's
Who is this new New Wave artist David Bowie?
The "lost" Oingo Boingo 10"
Going on the Gong Show
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 335 - Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds, 5’ 10”, Drop Acid) May 24, 2021

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If we can walk together, why can't we podcast together?! Today on the show Damian is joined by his hero, from 7 Seconds: the legend KEVIN SECONDS!!! Listen in as the two discuss the formative days of American Hardcore & building a scene from the ground up. From cold calling Iggy Pop's dad for an interview to Lou Barlow's thoughts on "Committed For Life" to the literal Ian MacKaye on his shoulder: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!! & don't miss the absolutely essential reissue of 7 Seconds' "The Crew" on Trust Records Company, PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
Also Touched On:
A TV expose on punk
Find the X-Ray Spex 7”
Having a cool mom
Not wanting to smoke pot but wanting to hear rock records
The Dolls, KISS and Alice Cooper: The make-up inspiration?
Kevin and Steve calling Iggy Pop’s dad
Interviewing the Chip from Dils, Pat Bag and Joey Shithead on the phone
Starting The Reno Sex Pistols Fan Club to get them played on mainstream radio
Putting flyers up looking for punks
Meeting the 20 other Reno punks in line to see the Ramones opening for Eddie Money
The early punk fan clubs
Foreigner
Jefferson Starship
Basteel: Kevin’s “progressive metal” pre-punk band Chuck Ruff: Reno Legend Young Canadians and DOA at house show
Searching for Bellevue: Reno’s first punk band
The Outcast Hour on KSAN
Convincing the biker bar to book 7 Seconds and making the news
The Zeros rule!
Punk party at the A-Frame in Tahoe
Watching MTV all night long hoping to see “Live Wire”
Urban Assault
The Yobs
The Wrecs
DOA, Black Flag and DOA paving the way
Booking Aggression in an apartment
The Plugz
Negative Trend
The Offs
New Youth: One of the original punk collectives
Sneaking into “Up In Smoke” 7 times to see the Dils part
The Saturday Night Pogo compilation
The Misfits, Poison Idea, 7 Seconds show that didn’t happen
“We got to play after fucking Poison Idea?!”
The Feederz
JFA’s Mad Gardens
The Viva Las Vegas
Lou Barlow and Committed For Life
Soul Force Revolution’s influence on NYHC
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 334 - Dave Baksh (Sum 41, Brown Brigade, Organ Thieves, 747) May 20, 2021

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FACTS: Sum 41 is the biggest selling Canadian Punk band ever & the guitarist, DAVE BAKSH is one of nicest people on earth! Join Damian as he sits down with Dave for an (in too) deep dive into Southern Ontario 90's punk lore & beyond. From firefighter fighting death metal bands to scene consuming high school band beefs to dieting tips from Iggy Pop: this is an all-time episode that is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't miss Sum 41's "Order In Decline" on Hopeless Records in stores now!
Also Touched On:
Years in the making
Not By Choice
Strung Out: melody and thrash make sense
Metal being washed in 90s
The Cross-back-over
Breaking Mark from Len’s toilet
Brenden and Broken Social Scene
The Spazz store in Toronto
Small-town Toronto
Dad playing Kung-Fu Fighter every morning
Mom loves the Ventures
Embodiment: FIGHT EVERYBODY
Packing up a show in the middle of brawl
“The Heep! Baksh, you gotta get out of here.”
Metal as a punk Gateway
Much Music
Being scared of Zeppelin at first
Oshawa’s Figure Four stomping Nazi ass
Al from Trigger Happy being awesome
Simon Head tour manager
Mark Belke from SNFU shows up to be guitar tech
Metal Works
The MC Shan/ Snow/ Treble Charger Connect
The REAL In To Deep origin story
Rap lessons in the studio
The DMX cameo
Surviving Death 3x
“WE GOTTA BREAK DEREK OUT OF JAIL!”: A Paris Street Fight
“If I drink red wine, I get a little bit silly”: working with Iggy Pop
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 333 - Patrick Flynn (Fiddlehead, Have Heart, Clear, Sweet Jesus) May 17, 2021

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15 years ago in Germany, Have Heart & F*cked Up played a show - that night would prove to be significant for both of the bands' front people. On today's episode, they've reunited as Fiddlehead & Have Heart's PAT FLYNN sits down to chat with Damian about the 'core! From Warped Tour '99 & not being "it", to studying the calculus of Crass, to trying to re-create Better Than A Thousand, to the Follow Through / Sonic Youth & Terminator 2 / Integrity Connections PLUS so much more! THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! And don't miss Fiddlehead's "Between The Richness" out this Friday!!!
Also Touched On:
One night is Germany…
Finding a CCs Skate mag
Finding Minor Threat
The NIN/ Clevo connection
Filter and T1000
Word And Music
New Bedford: a world of its own
Going to Warped Tour ’99 to take in the culture
A DIY HC shows changes everything
Blink 182: the dividing line
Grey Area
All Chrome: Local Heroes
A HC Fest vs. A Punk Festival Tour
The Epi/Fat crossroads
Crass bands as punk algebra
NoFX as a gateway
The terror of older siblings’ musical tastes
The walls between genres
American Nightmare killing off The Youth Crew Revival
Looking for Better Than A 1000
The Follow Through/ Sonic Youth connection
Booking shows
Where is Big Ed?
Victim 21 and A Poor Excuse
Finding your own replacement for a band
Finding about Intent To Injure from your father’s students’ yearbook
The importance of Atari… to us
The last song on 97A lp RULES
The CT Hardcore through line
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Punks in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame with Jon Wurster May 14, 2021

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Punk researcher Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Bob Mould, The Best Show) joins Damian to discuss the abundance of punk connections with this year's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees! Follow @jonwurster on IG for all your #RockNRollWeirdness needs.
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Episode 332 - Steve-O (Jackass, Wildboyz, Steve-O’s Wild Ride!) May 11, 2021

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How many artists live their art more than STEVE-O? Today on the show, Damian sits down to chat with the Jackass star & one of the most influential performance artists ever. Listen in as they discuss punk, whether or not documentaries are bullshit, being responsible for Darby Allin, Umaga beating him unconscious, trying to walk away from fame & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve-O's banned new "Gnarly" special available at Steveo.com!
Also Touched On:
Getting into metal at Woolworth’s
Living life trying to party like you are in Motley Crue
Slayer
Skateboarding becoming your identity
Getting into the Misfits
SNFU
loving the Dayglo Abortions
7 Seconds and Youth Brigade
Franz: The gateway to straight edge
Getting into Gorilla Biscuits and immediately buzzing your head and X’ing up
Finding a new identity… as a pothead
Seeing the Start Today tour
Verbal Assault
Going to the Safari Club to see Gut Instinct
Outburst
Killing Time
Side By Side
Being scared of Youth Of Today
Bolt Thrower
Needing to get Logical Nonsense for you iPod
The fakeness of documentary
Word Salad
DRI and the passage of time
Blowing a fireball in the seats at a KISS concert
Getting to the video camera through skateboarding
The inception of Jackass
The influences
The similarity between wrestling and jam bands
The Umaga Incident
The Jackass ripoffs
Darby Allin
The Cro-Mags as the soundtrack to failing out of the University Of Miami
Telling Cannibal Corpse that they need make the vocals clearer
Getting old offends people
Bam: the interview is over
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 331 - Nicole Panter Dailey (Former Germ's manager, The Pee Wee Herman Show, Author, Psychiatrist, Professor) May 06, 2021

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NICOLE PANTER DAILEY has lived one hell of a life so far! From managing the Germs, to starting an early LA punk label, to helping create The Pee Wee Herman Show & that's just the start! Join Damian as he sits down with Nicole for one of the most compelling episodes ever of this show to date.
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
The importance of Queen
Fascinated by Glam
The Dogs
“Radio Free Hollywood”: the first punk show
The South Bay taking over by force
“The Adams Family” of weird kids
Backdoor Man zine
The creepy scene at Rodney’s
Acting out trauma through punk
Being a true weirdo
First day of teaching: “What’s Darby Crash like?”
Adventure Time
Midsommar
Donnie Rose and sexual abuse in the LA punk scene
The new hippies helping Old Man Spahn
The Manson Effect
The Avengers
“Not Real Punk”: Dealing with VOM
Bob Biggs
El Duce
Renouncing punk in 1980
Slash Records
The story behind the Germs’ LP, logo, album and (GI)
The Weirdos were the best
RIP Lorna Doom
Psychedelics and therapy
The Residents
Pee Wee: The luckiest man in showbiz
The Rap/punk connection
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 330 - Nate Ruess (fun., The Format) Apr 29, 2021

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What's beef?! Well, today on the show it's what we start off by squashing! Join Damian and Grammy award winner Nate Ruess as they put past disses aside to celebrate a mutual respect and love of punk. Listen in for talk of: fifteen, fun. having no fun on top, fake IDs, ecstasy & pop-punk, nearly being on "Watch The Thrown" and so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also touched on:
Squashing the beef
Finding ska punk
catching a “Rude Boy” shirt
Cheshire Cat
Nerf Herder
When you best friend books the main punk venue
Talking over the scene
The Fake ID Empire comes crashing down
The Nile Message Board
Everyone in Tucson wanted to be the Locust
Unruh
The importance of Indie pop
Almost siding to Field By Ramen
The Format
Working with Steve McDonald
Getting to the top and it sucking
Quitting all the bullshit music
Playing the Grammy’s being the worst
Writing a song and being told it is a hit
“We Are Young” supposed to be on Watch The Throne
Working with Brian Wilson
AND TONS MORE FUN!!!!
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Episode 329 - Bruce McCulloch (Kids In The Hall, Tallboyz etc.) Apr 23, 2021

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"(INSERT YOUR FAVE 'KIDS IN THE HALL' QUOTE)!" because today on the show the LEGEND BRUCE MCCULLOCH is here! That's right, the shame based, Kid In The Hall comes by for a chat & oh boy, is it awesome! Listen in as Damian sits in awe as Bruce regals him with stories of: finding the Nerves single, fighting redneck cowboys, faking work injuries to hide knife wounds from punk shows & so much f'n more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Free from the CBC's restraints
Searching for punk before punk
Hawkwind
Finding Milk N Cookies
Sometimes it’s Queen and sometimes it is a Marc Almond
Bob Dylan and Patti Smith’s libraries
The Kids In The Hall impact
“The Shadowy Men made us cool”
Lorne Micheals
Sex Pistols
The Modernettes
The Users
The Nerves The Dils being the favourite
The Damned
Not liking Ian Dury
Picking your favourite songs to be the soundtrack
Want to go Toronto for the music
Vancouver Punk vs. EVERYBODY
Don Pyle sending a ticket for the Damned show
Getting, not one but, two black eyes at the Edge in Toronto
Never being part of the beautiful part of punk
The Parachute Club was taking over
The Modern Minds were a perfect band
The Golden Calgarians… the second wave
The Hot Nasties
Rolling through Edmonton with The Rock N Roll Bitches and Callum Keith Rennie
999
Buick McCain
Getting knifed at a Husker Du show
Cowboys beating up the punks
DOA and SNFU had scary shows
Coming to Toronto
Viletones
Pere Ubu
Shorty Petersen
Never watching SNL
Second City: Corny piano music and shitty white lighting
“Everyone that likes Cat Power likes Kids In The Hall”
80s: No cool comedy
“Fuck you, I’m not an entertainer.”
RIP Gord
Junior Brown, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Tragically Hip
Riverdale
Withrow Park
The “50 Years in Entertainment” special
Shame Based Man
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 328 - Trever Keith (Face To Face, Icarus/Daedalus) Apr 20, 2021

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This week on the show, Damian goes face to face with the face of Face To Face: TREVER KEITH! Listen in as the two discuss going from being a late bloomer into punk to fronting one of SoCal punk's most iconic bands.
Not to be missed & also don't miss the new Face To Face album "No Way Out But Through" dropping later this year on
Fat Wreck Chords
Also Touched On:
Not getting punk at first
Hearing Bad Religion and it clicking at 20
The Descendants and the best band
Not digging the Germs and the Dead Kennedys
The roots of punk and metal being the same
Black Dove: The band that eats glass!!!
The house foundation show scene
Victoria Manor
The other Zero Tolerance
Face To Face forms
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Guttermouth
Violence at shows
a riot at Pigfest
Rhythm Collision
Meeting the Grim
Ill Repute
Signing to Fat and touring with NoFX
Going to Europe with Lagwagon
Working Geza X
Major label headaches
The start of Vagrant Records
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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