Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 292 - Scott Radinsky (Pulley, MLB Picher & Former LA Dodger, Ten Foot Pole, Scared Straight) Oct 26, 2020

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IT'S WORLD SERIES TIME! What better way could TOAP celebrate than by having the only Major Leaguer/Punk Musician ever (A former LA Dodger at that!), on the show?!? Join Damian as he sits down with SCOTT RADINSKY to talk about playing punk shows & playing baseball at the highest level AT THE SAME TIME. Listen in as the two also go deep on: Mystic Records, RKL, other secret MLB Punx & tons of other goodness!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
Chilling at the abandoned Country Club pool in 6th grade The skater kids
Fear and Circle One
Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies and America’s Hardcore
Violence at shows
Scared Straight
The new scene
In defence of Mystic
Never breaking up
the late 80s lean years for LA punk
Juggling baseball and punk
Shows before and after baseball
The Punk Baseball Connection
Never being a “Jock”
Were there any other punks in baseball?
The bad kid and the good kids in school
It’s just a game
Ian as a god
RKL are gods
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 291 - Billy Bragg (Riff Raff) Oct 21, 2020

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The Bard Of Barking comes to the Turned Out A Punk Kingdom! On this episode Damian sits down with one of England’s greatest song writers: BILLY BRAGG. Listen as Damian & Billy go deep on the greatness: Riff Raff, Chiswick Records’ pub rock, never listening to the Clash’s “Sandinista” on principle & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS.
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Sounds
A Damned reel to reel as first exposure
it’s gotta be recorded wrong speed?
Sceptical of the art school quality of it
The Jam are the first band to have an impact
Dr.Feelgood are the British Ramones
Do up your top button lest you look like a Bee Gee
The Clash live blowing your mind
Forming Riff Raff
Recording I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut and being reborn
getting high on recording
Snatching a cup of “Sex and Drug and Rock And Roll” badges from your future manager
Albion Records
The unreleased Riff Raff movie
Throwing matinee gigs in Clopton
The Now’s “Development Corporation”
Jon Savage’s end of Punk was just the start
The power and sway on being big city rockers in a small town
Getting East German Punks Stoned for the first time
Lil’ Kevin joins the band
Punk splitting into Oi and The New Romantic
Never listening to Sandinista by the Clash
Blanking on The Levellers
“They weren’t in the Clash Wars!”
Lesson learned from Patrick Fitzgerald’s failure
Life’s A Riot
proto-Britpop
The Housemartins
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 290 - Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar, World Championship Wrestling) Oct 17, 2020

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IT FINALLY HAPPENED: BOB MOULD HAS COME ON TOAP! One of the most requested guests for the podcast, as well as one of Damian's biggest inspirations, is here to talk Punk & it is spectacular. From Jesse "The Body" Ventura coming to hardcore shows to the infamous Tulsa Jack demo, this one is a trip. Also, don't miss Bob's UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING new album "Blue Hearts"!
Also Touched On:
CHOM-FM
Seeing punk before you heard it
School bus trips to see concerts in Montreal
Rush at their peak versus Aerosmith at their worst
Cheap Trick blowing KISS of the stage
Ramones opening for Iggy
Suicide Commandos in Rock Scene
Blank Records records in Burlington Vermont
Where did punk start?
Divergent evolution
The Suburbs
Taking lesson from Chris Osgood just to hang out
How different would alternative music have been if Husker Du had kept Charlie?
Final Conflict and Willful Neglect
Ken Lester with the hook up
Ron Reyes coming through with ribs and the strawberries
Making Duff McKagan leave the TV so Husker Du can watch wrestling
The story of the Tulsa Jacks demo
Breaking into the Biz
Diamond Jim: Husker Du’s Tour manager
Working at WCW
The Misfits
Vampiro
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
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Episode 289 - Lydia Loveless Oct 13, 2020

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What a week!! Today on the show Damian is joined by the awesome Lydia Loveless! Listen in as they discuss going from being forced to play bass in the family band to self releasing her fantastic new album, "Daughter". As always, not to be missed!!!
Also Touched On:
Mommy loved the Clash
Dad jamming New Wave records
The Romantics are Punk
Being forced to play bass
Playing weird gigs
joining Carson Drew
The Columbus buzzed about punk scene of the mid-00s
Opening fo the Carbonas
Going solo
Everyone ends up with a country side project
Finally getting somewhere!
seeing a noise artist for the first time: “When is he going to start the show?”
Touring with the Supersuckers
A family fest
& So Much More!!!!
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Episode 288 - Joe Wong (The Trap Set, Akarso, Kill-A-Watts) Oct 06, 2020

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Give the drummer some! This week on the show Damian sits down & chats punk with the man who holds down the beat for the podcasting world: The Trap Set's JOE WONG! Listen in as the two discuss basement shows, Dischord's DC, scoring TV shows/movies & even playing bass in the Kill-A-Watts. Not to be missed & also don't miss Joe's AWESOME new solo record, Nite Creatures out on now Decca Records!
Also Touched On:
Dream Guest!
Finding the Descendents at camp
The Violent Femmes
Not liking Green Day because they were on a major
Gravity records
The third wave Dischord scene
Ian MacKaye kept EVERYTHING
Forgetting that you were in The Kill-A-Watts
Forming Akarso
Seeing Fugazi
Booking Modest Mouse in your basement
Seeing your old punkhouse on Hoarders
cheap gas and Taco Bell Bean burritos was the full of the 90s’ DIY scene
Touring to Austin
Music City Washington DC
Comedy Drummers: what gives?
The Yes Men
& SO MUCH MORE!!
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Michael Imperioli from Sopranos, White Lotus and Talking Sopranos Podcast Oct 01, 2020

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Episode 287:
Turned Out A Punk's Sopranos Week concludes in dramatic fashion! On this episode Damian is joined by the legendary MICHAEL IMPERIOLI to talk late blooming into punk! Listen in as the two discuss going from being scared of the New York Dolls at 8 years old to becoming completely obsessed with the era they helped usher Punk in. DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE & also, don't miss Michael & Steve Schirripa’s Podcast, Talking Sopranos!
Also Touched On:
Hearing the New York Dolls at 9 years old and not getting it
being a late bloomer with music
loving classic rock before it was classic
Jethro Tull in Concert
Going to school with adults as a teenager
Echo And The Bunnymen
The Smiths and going back from there
the 11 year old punk the smoked pot and blew up cats in your grade 4 class
Grace Jones live
early REM
Miracle Legion
No Wave
Navigating the real New York
The obsession with late 70’s Manhattan
The power of New York
The disappointment of making Basketball Diaries
Writing Summer Of Sam
Meeting Honeychild
Playing in bands
Galaxie 500
the Nu-York revival
Green Day and the Sopranos
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
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Episode 286 - Drea de Matteo (Sopranos, Sons Of Anarchy, Gangster Goddess Broad-Cast) Sep 25, 2020

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It's Sopranos' Week on the show with TWO amazing episodes! Kicking it off, the GOD Drea de Matteo stops by the show! Twenty years ago, Damian read a rumour on the internet that Drea used to go to Punk shows in New York. Today, he finds out whether or not you can believe what you read on the web. Was Drea de Matteo a punk rocker? Tune in & find out!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!
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Episode 285 - Talib Kweli (Black Star, Javotti Media, People’s Party) Sep 21, 2020

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Hello everybody! Recorded live from somewhere (Ohio), we have the LEGEND TALIB KWELI stopping by the show! Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes as they discuss the deep connections between punk & hip hop. They talk: writing Operation Ivy lyrics on the wall, why Dante Ross isn't a super scrub, what led to Tupac & Biggie hanging out with Kurt Cobain & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
The Deadhead/White dreadlock dude hybrid
The hardcore kids being the ones that tried to really understand rap.
The HipHop/Punk Connection
Self referential genres
Minor Threat
Bodycount
the similarity between hip hop and hardcore fashion
the importance of the year 1988
Writing Operation Ivy and Dead Kennedy’s lyrics on the wall
Nirvana and Hip Hop
the importance of the Video for Smells Like Teen Spriit
Hanging out with Tupac and Biggie
Lyricist Lounge and DIY
The importance of El-P
the effect of NWA getting cool on MTV
Dr. Dre and punk’s: “offensive shit over familiar melodies” formula
Frontline and the SD-50s
The reason Dante Ross talks so much shit to Talib
Sneaker Culture in Punk
Cold World
Pickle Rick golf shirt ain't all bad
The importance of black artists to punk
A band called Death
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!
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Episode 284 - Robbie Brookside Part 2 (The King of the Punk/Wrestling Connection) Sep 18, 2020

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The King is back! Legendary wrestler & punk historian beyond reproach, ,Robbie Brookside makes his return to the show! Listen in as Damian sits down to further establish the power of the punk/ wrestling connection! Listen in as they discuss: Crass & Cave-In coming to the matches, hiding the Shitlickers 7" from the OG Black Tiger, being the old longhair at the Cock Sparer reunion & so much other goodness!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!! One of our longest episodes ever!!!!
Also Touched On:
Mom throwing out the Zine
A squat gig to see AYS with Pete Stahl from Scream
“BASH HIS HEAD IN!!!”: Crass hitting you up for wrestling tickets
Music to scare your sister with
Trying to put on a DIRT show
Corpus, Society’s Problems and Clockwork destruction
Hearing the Siege demo for the first time
The legendary Planet X venue’s punk roots
Anti Cimix and Toxic Reasons hanging in Liverpool
bringing younger kids
Deathmatches are the 7 Minutes of Nausea of wrestling
Paco and Clint Chapman
Mike Clark and MCR UK
This is the best life: Seeing Jawbreaker in a German Squat
Two long hair and 800 men with no hair on the boarder : going to see Cock Sparrer
The Punk Wrestling connection: Cal from Discharge going to school with Klondyke Kate
Defend Grind Core (from skinheads)
The Fits staying at your parents place
“He’s an animal!”: meeting Dave Grohl
Wool: “Mainstream Scream”
Cave In, the NME and Pro-Wrestling
Hiding the Shitlickers 7” from Rollerball Rocco Roc
“That’s just American bullshit this” Green Day infamous Christmas gig
“Are you Larry Livermore?”
Penpals with Green Day
Funaki putting the whole looker room to sleep
and so much more!!!!!
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RIP Wade Allison Sep 15, 2020

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Wade Allison was a father, a friend & a legend. We will miss him forever. This is for Wade. So much love going to the Allison, Metz & Iron Age families.
Photo by Corbin Hughes
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