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**Turned Out A Punk**

Damian Abraham has been many things… the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3… and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978… PUNK!

Latest Episodes:

DND Official episode 1! Mar 12, 2021

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DANKO JONES ARE DOING THEIR FIRST EVER LIVESTREAM TONIGHT (and tomorrow)! To celebrate the event, The DND (Danko Jones [the person], Nick and Damian) got together for more good times and self-reflection. Listen in as they discuss a bunch of topic including whether or not they should even bother putting this episode up!
Get tickets for Danko's livestream here: https://linktr.ee/dankojones
And Nick can be found here on Twitter: @nickflanweakly
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Episode 317 - Joey Keithley Part 2 Mar 10, 2021

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JOEY SH*THEAD’S BACK!!! One of Canada's most iconic musicians, DOA's Joey Keithley returns to the show! From teaching the punk world how to tour, to running for political office; Joey's life is worthy of a movie & soon, it will be! Keep an eye out for Scott ("Salad Days" & "Creem" documentaries) Crawford's highly anticipated documentary on Joey: "Something Better Change" coming soon!
Until then, listen to Joey & Damian talk: lost Mystic Recording sessions, the Yippies' roll in the early hardcore scene, RCMP surveillance in the wake of the arrest of the Squamish 5 & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
The sonic range of small town Vancouver
The reason for the creative explosion
Vancouver: weird mix of people
Why not Toronto and Montreal?
SCUM in Montreal
The Nils
The BC and Quebec connection
Lee Kendall: the original singer of The Skulls
Art Bergman’s first band: Schmorg
The coming together of the suburban groups with completely different idea of what punk was
The Ramones show up and teach everyone how it’s done
Studying Black Flag
Playing one of the first Husker Du shows
Grant Hart
Playing with the Bad Brains in 1979
The all-time great line-ups
No rules
Going to China
the lost Mystic Session
Label Issues: drugs and the music business
CD Characters and the “Cocksucker Blues” connection
Anti-Canada Day
The Squamish 5: “Anyone heard from Gerry lately?”
RCMP Surveillance
Playing hockey against Negazione
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!
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Episode 316 - Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains, White Mandingos) Mar 05, 2021

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DARRYL JENIFER IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the BAD BRAINS' LEGEND to discuss his journey in punk. From kicking Cars' records off of turntables, to the Bad Brains' early "James Chance" era, to the real story behind the Clash Bond Street show:
DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!
Also Touched On:
Growing up with Soul, GoGo and Motown
Discovering the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Ramones
Some nights, it’s Wow! Some nights, it’s Why?
Brothers before Bad Brains
RIP Sid McCray: too punk for a band
The influence of a Budgie
Loving No New York Comp
Mindpower
The James Chance inspired first line up of the Bad Brains
“Five people clap for you and now you’ve sold out”
From one song to Black Dots in a few months
Playing with on back of flatbed the Mall in DC
Seeing Jame Brown at the Howard Theatre in ’64
“Why is the bass too loud?”: The first time seeing Bob Marley
The Swimming Pool Q’s
The Urban Verb
the year 1979
The Happening
Playing Berlin when the Wall fell
The art of writing a setlist
Kicking a Cars record off the turntable: “Why are they playing this shit?!”
“Biker Music”: Hearing the Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist for the first time
A “19 year old young Peter Tosh” had no love for Basquiat
Ian MacKaye: Very Washingtonian
The Old New York
CBGBs: always cool
The Bloodless Pharaoh’s Brian Setzer goes swing
Red Hot Chilli Peppers : “How the hell did this band get on the bill?”
The Beastie Boys going rap
Screamin’ Mad George is making shit again: living with The Mad
“Stay Close To Me is a Clash influenced song and Pay To Come is a Ramones influenced song”
Meeting Jerry Williams and Th’Cigaretz
“The Ramones are dope but I am The Damned“
The Clash and The Ramones are sore losers
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
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Episode 315 - Jon King (Gang Of Four, King Butcher) Mar 02, 2021

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No need to wonder what to do for pleasure this week because, JON KING from the legendary Gang Of Four comes to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as he & Damian talk about: cinematic influence, the Dadaist nature of punk, psychedelic Hawkwind shows & fighting Nazis at the Fenton!
NOT TO BE MISSED! & don't miss the new Gang Of Four "77-81" Boxset on Matador Records!!
Also Touched On:
The influence on the present day
trying to never be in a genre
Dr. Feelgood: UK proto-punk
the disappointment of the Clash
toilet reverb: “it sounded shit”
being sampled by Run The Jewels’
“We were pretty good at being difficult”
Refusing to compromise for Top Of The Pops
A friend’s dad with a crack and peel Velvet Underground
Marc Almond getting whipped as an opener
Having to deal with the first wave of Nazi punks
The Mekons
Sham 69
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
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Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Go's and Frosted Feb 26, 2021

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Episode 314:
Cancel that vacation because today on the show, the LEGEND JANE WIEDLIN FROM THE GO-GO’s is here to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his dream guests to talk about the good, the bad & the disturbingly violent of the LA punk scene that the Go-Go's fought their way out of. From the reality behind the Germs legend, dealing with Nazi's at Ska shows, the LAPD's war on punks & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the amazing new Go-Go's documentary and their brand new song "Club Zero"!!
& also VOTE FOR THEM INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THE GO-GO’S RULE!!!
https://vote.rockhall.com
Also Touched On:
Frosted is super underrated
The pre-punk LA Glam scene
making punk clothes
Meeting Pleasant
Rodney’s English Disco
Zolar X
Silverhead
New York Dolls
Tales From Canterbury
The origin of the song Blades
The darkness of the early LA scene
Drug and alcohol
being too punk for power pop
the AM radio influence
The Weirdos and the Screamers: too good to get signed
X
Castration Squad
The St. Daddy’s Day Massacre
Beef with Elvis Costello
the real side of the Germs legend
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!
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Todd Kowalski from Propagandhi and I Spy Feb 22, 2021

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Episode 313:
Today on the show, Damian is joined by a legit triple threat: Propagandhi bassist, I Spy vocalist & visual artist TODD KOWALSKI!!! Listen in as they talk finding metal/punk/hardcore in Regina, Unlawful Assembly is Saskatchewan's greatest band, The Besnard Lakes' connection & so much more!
Not to be missed!!!!
Also Touched On:
Loving Metal
Accused
Possessed
a friend from the ally with Razor and Celtic Frost records
Trying to comprehend Slayer
Insight: Regina’s answer to SNFU
Unlawful Assembly: The best unrecorded Regina bend ever
The greatness of Beyond Possession
The Chris Todd Kenton Warriors: first band
Imaginary metal bands
Government Issue playing to 15 people
Doing the best stage dive of your life for No Means No
Needing to hear what death metal sounded like
The Killer Dwarfs playing at the bar at the mall
Records On Wheels
GG Allin in Flipside: “I’m going to be banned from life if I’m caught with this!”
Drummer of Ditchpig
The Besnard Lakes/ Propagandhi connection
Going to a Fugazi and hoping for Minor Threat
Loving Youth Of Today
Seeing Tankhog on the best possible day
Bonehog did not age well
Death Sentence dancers
Seeing Sloan on the very first tour
Seeing the Small
interviewing Propagandhi
There is always a market for dark punk
The influence of the Melvins, Helmet and Coffin Break
The effect of hearing Ebullition records stuff
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!
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Shapel Lacey: Comedian and host of It's Managed Podcast Feb 17, 2021

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Episode 313:
Start doing back flips! Today on the show Damian sits down with the hilarious SHAPEL LACEY (AKA The only person in comedy with a DS-13 tattoo)!!! Listen in as the two discuss: how finding punk gave a voice to an anger inside, the various strengths of different Black Flag singers, why hardcore is the most integral of all the punk mutations, the power of the mosh, Oasis: the anti-Nirvana & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
"Wanna join a Ska punk band?"
The power of a logo
the various strengths of the various Black Flag singers
Henry Rollins: the greatest front person
No one can touch Keith On Nervous Breakdown
Hearing "Mississippi Queen" for the first time
Never loving 80’s metal
From Queens Of The Stone Age to GBH
The blues in Grunge
Loving Oasis
The chilling effect of Kurt Cobain’s death
Loving GBH
from crust to hipsters
Most people don’t have what it takes to be in a band like Black Flag
Deranged Records
DS-13
ETA
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS
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Bill Hader from Barry, SNL, Superbad and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Feb 12, 2021

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Episode 312:
Yes, that’s right!! On this episode Damian sits down & chats with, Emmy Award winning star/ co-creator/ director/ writer of HBO’s Barry, BILL HADER!!! Thanks to their mutual friend, Jon “King of Beats/Comedy” Wurster, these two anxious nerds are brought together for the longest episode of TOAP ever! Listen in as they discuss: panic attacks while making SNL, Barry as an autobiography, Bad Brains being the best ever, why can’t people just like instrumental Zappa & SO MUCH MORE! DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Mutual love
The Wheelman
Can you make the guns sound like they do in Heat?
Dad hated Dylan and loved Zappa
An uncle flipping out about Minor Threat’s cover of “Stepping Stone”
"Something Brains and something Kennedys?"
Monster Movies and punk: a deadly combination
The Misfits are targeted marketing at work
watching movies like TV
Getting wasted in front of Rush
Trying to school Geddy Lee on Mike Watt
Proudly punishing Spielberg
Cults and music
The Bad Brains
“Your Uncle John’s a Devo”
“Fartface”: Bill, Will Forte and Josh Brolin go down swinging on SNL
Not always enjoying it
Directing Barry: “I can do this”
Horror movies
Evil Dead is punk rock
creative process
SCTV and Kids in The Hall
Iron Chef... America
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
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Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Bored Games, Doublehappys) Feb 09, 2021

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Episode 311 :
On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the greatest songwriters EVER: SHAYNE CARTER!!! Shayne is a bonafide New Zealand music icon that has released some of Damian's favourite records in his various bands. Listen in as the two discuss how punk inspired Shayne & his compatriots in the Dunedin music scene to create some of the best music ever recorded.
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss ANY of Shayne's genius! Check out his amazing autobiography "Dead People I Have Known", as well as the music of:

Straitjacket Fits, Doublehappys, Shayne Carter+Peter Jefferies, Bored Games, Dimmer, The Weeds etc. (As well as all the other NZ goodness: The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, The Enemy, King Loser, Look Blue Go Purple, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones Toy Love, The Verlaines, Wax Chattels, etc. It will make your life better.)!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Toy Love and the Enemy

The Sex Pistols were good even on the reunion... shockingly
The Stooges, Al Green and Leonard Cohen: perfect til the end
Like in wrestling: doing more with less
“That’s the guitar sound from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’!"
Chris Knox: true punk
Martin from the Chills setting up chairs outside of gigs
the power of distance
The guy and the record store setting you straight after calling Jimi Hendrix a hippie
There is no golden egg to chase in Dunedin
1 in 10 000 people are signed to a US label
“Very white, very violent” Dunedin in the late 70s
Car Boys VS. Punks: being willing to die for your art
“Scarfie bashing”
Doublehappys: a form of social revenge
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Steve Von Till from Neurosis, Harvestman and Tribes Of Resistance Feb 05, 2021

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Episode 310:
On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite voices in music, STEVE VON TILL from the godly NEUROSIS! Listen in as they talk: Transgressor, hearing GISM for the first time, "Word As Law" not being a band favourite, gigs with Green Day & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve Von Till's AMAZING new solo album: 'No Wilderness Deep Enough'. ALSO, check out his new book of poetry & lyrics: "Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics", both are out now on Neurot Records!!
Also Touched On:
THE MRR COMPS
An influence on everyone
Born in 69
Hearing Los Angelas by X for the first time
Discharge changes everything
San Jose
Kill ‘Em All: “You need this”
The Peace comp
The MRR comps
What the hell is going on in Japan?!?: the first time you hear GISM
international hardcore
Transgressor
the mix bag early Gilman St. shows
Playing with Green Day, NoFX and the Offspring
Tribes Of Resistance
wanting to do all the things
Kamala hooking up the numbers for the first Neurosis tour
the Alchemy scene
RKL’s psychedelic light show
Clown Ally
“Punk rock, and we can’t even drink outside?!? That’s bullshit!”
“Six hours of the Misfits”
Coil, Throbbing Gristle, etc
College Radio: It’s not all REM
Holiday dinner at Chris Dodge’s with Buzz and Dale
Burning Witch: True Doom
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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