Turned Out A Punk

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Tony Foresta from Municipal Waste is here Apr 14, 2020

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Get stoked!!!! On the show today, one of the all-time most sought after guests, Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta stops by for a chat! Listen in as Damian celebrates all that is awesome with the thrash/ metal/ hardcore/ punk god. From Avail to AmRep to Power Violence & Phobia, all the bases are covered! Shout out Scotty Tankcrimes!!!!

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

This took a long time to happen

loving the Beastie Boys

Sneaking out to see DRI

Danzig and Sacred Reich

Pink Lincolns at the Blues Chair

Reading MRR

Beavis and Butt-head

Christian punk and metal

Seeing the first show on the Check Your Head tour

Forming James River Scratch

Jamming at the AMC theatre smoking weed and telling off the cops

Beers with Face To Face

MxPx 90s Beef

Moving to LA and loosing a friend with to Phobia

talking to Ryan about forming the Waste at a DRI show

Touring with Jerome’s Dream and Tragedy

“DRI’s playing tonight! Let’s just go there and play it!”

“I remember Gord!”

No one was doing it like this

STABBED IN THE EYE

Scotty Tankcrimes

& MUCH, MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Episode 254 - Joey Sh*thead Keithley (DOA, The Skulls, City Councillor For Burnaby, BC) Apr 09, 2020

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We don't care what you say! This week on the show we have the OG road warrior of punk: DOA's JOEY KEITHLEY!!! Listen in as Damian sits down with a hero & one of the true pioneers of HARDCORE to talk punk, touring & cutting the trail that bands still follow to this day!
SERIOUSLY, NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Thank you Joey from every band that hopped in a van ever.
Seeing the Damned’s literally Smash It Up on TV
Going to see the Ramones at a free show
The bikers hated the Lewd
Winning over the toughest of crowds
Captain Maniac, Buzz Constantly and Sparkling Apples
Punk: freak magnet
Moving to Toronto
The origins of the “Fuck Bands”
Nearly getting signed by Nash The Slash
Making videos in Vancouver
Disco sucks is a hit! (kinda)
“Are all Canadians this stupid?”
Pissing off the side of the stage and a legend is born
Chuck jamming on the bongos
the first “tour”
the infamous DC high school tout
getting the Dezerter lp out
Touring China
Hearing the term “Hardcore” for the first time
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 253 - Amy Dumas (Wrestling Legend, AKA Lita) Apr 05, 2020

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THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! Wrestling Week concludes with one hell of a main event: Damian is joined by WWE Hall Of Famer & wrestling legend AMY DUMAS! Listen along as Amy talks going from 7 Seconds shows, dumpster dived donuts & playing in Fugazi side projects, to wrestling in front of millions of people on TV as LITA! The Punk/Wrestling Connection is real!
AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!!
Also Touched On:
This took a long time to happen
getting a mixtape from the girl at the bus stop
7 Seconds
going to see the Circle Jerks and 7 Seconds at the Metroplex
MRR
Moving to DC
loving Lookout Records
Bay area bands’ scrappiness as inspiration for getting into wrestling
wishing you knew other punk wrestling fans
“I just need to listen to my people” - going emergency record shopping
communicating with Robbie Brookside through record pressing info
on the road with 15
robbing leftovers from Denny’s
Moving to DC
Dumpster divin’ for donuts
playing in a Fugazi and Slant 6 side project
“Did you hear I’m going to be a wrestler?”
going to Mexico and wandering around Mexico City looking for Lucha
Kid Power!
going to the WWE
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 251 - Effy (GCW, Freelance Wrestling) Apr 01, 2020

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It's (Supposed to be) ManiaWeek! In celebration of what is usually the biggest week in wrestling, we will be releasing three episodes highlighting the most powerful force in the world: The Punk/Wrestling Connection! On this episode, Damian gets to sit down with one of the most dynamic personalities in independent wrestling: Effy! Listen in as the two discuss going from sneaking secular music into the house, to helping revolutionize pro-wrestling. Also, Effy teaches Damian about the Christian Gwar!
Also Touched On:
Meeting 2 and a half years ago in Florida
Growing up in a religious household
Sneaking secular CDs from the library
Grandson of a Grammy Award winner
Raised by the kids of preachers
Sending dad out t get the System Of The Down CD and him thinking he is bring Satan into the house.
The computer generation’s parents had no clue what we were up to?
“Hey, this is not it. Is ti?” straying from the flock in youth group.
Going to see the Christian Carmen
Going Atlanta for a show with mom
getting wrecked at the Warped Tour
Getting sober and stopping music
Church arena tours
Grave Robber: the Christian Gwar
Wrestling is for everybody
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 250 - Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont, Fecal Matter) Mar 28, 2020

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IT’S EPISODE 250!!! Why not celebrate with Damian as he sits down with one of his hero's, DALE CROVER?! Listen in as Dale & Damian discuss going from being a Kiss loving kid, to a Melvin, to becoming a Rock N Roll icon.
AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also Touched On:
Everybody loves Dale
Seeing Rock and Roll High school
Growing up with Metal Church and the Lewd
Kiss being people’s Beatles
Seeing the Melvins for the first time
Dale’s band’s accidental extreme on TV set
Popular kid Krist Novoselic plays matchmaker
“Nice Mentors’ shirt”
“Special Forces” the heavy metal two piece
The Facal Matter demo
Meeting Kurt Cobain
Going on tour with RKL but they don’t make it
Recording the 1st 7”
Alchemy Records: “he was our Andy Warhol”
“You take Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground and that is what Olympia sounds like”
Finding Dave Grohl a band
Nirvana on Red Kross “Why are these guys so happy?!”
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 249 - Anna Calvi Mar 25, 2020

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On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite artists, ANNA CALVI to talk punk! Listen in as the two discuss a punk influence that goes beyond sonics & Anna's fight to create her own music. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Patti Smith’s Horses
Grunge loving teen
Lemonheads
Dad teaching some Shadows songs on guitars
Reading the music papers
The lack of space for anyone that wasn't a white male in 90's UK music
Forming Cheap Hotel
The quest to get music when you had to buy it
Manager making you watch tape of your show
being forced to try a write a hit
breaking free
The Domino/Punk connection
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 248 - Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids, The Spectres) Mar 23, 2020

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Right Now HaHaHaHa! On this episodes, Damian sits down & chats with one of THE ARCHITECTS of this whole damn movement: GLEN MATLOCK!!! Listen in as the two discuss the Sex Pistols, the Rich Kids & how a loose collection of ideas coalesced into PUNK ROCK! Don't miss it!
Also Touched On:
learning the word "punk" from a James Cagney movie
The Nuggets compilations
John Inman and Caroline Coon brand the Sex Pistols
Malcom goes to America and meets Sylvain Sylvain
Getting a mixtape from Nick Kent
going to east London with Bernard Rhodes to see Teenage Rebel
The pub rock scene
Going to see the Faces at some fancy club and seeing the original line-up of the Dolls opening
The Small Faces influence
Duff notices the Motown sound on the bass
getting records from the “White Goods Store”
Jethro Tull’s “Living In the Past” is like Take Five with words
Midge Urge turns down the Pistols but sings for the Rich Kids
Martin and Coulter Slick
The Rich Kids’ influence on Spandau Ballert and Duran Duran
Cock Sparrer in the discos in Spain
The Spectres
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 247 - Whitmer Thomas (The Golden One, Glow, The Walking Dead) Mar 19, 2020

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WATCH WHITMER THOMAS' "THE GOLDEN ONE"! This HBO comedy special has quickly become one of Damian's favourite movies (EVER)! Listen in as Damian & Whit discuss his journey from listening to Bro-Hymn in the car with his mom & brother to performing Dammit with Mark Hoppus as well as agonizing over Fugazi jokes.
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also Touched On:
Whit using Fucked Up as entrance music
A mutual debt paid
Mom teaching you to play Bro-Hymn
The true emotion of Pennywise’s 1998 version of “Bro-Hymn”
Mom loved new wave
Finding demos with two different takes on growing up in the South
Alabama had no punk
Going to Pensacola to see shows
Seeing Against Me before they had real dreams
This Bike Is Pipe Bomb
“Pray to play”: Pretending to be Christian to get shows
Quitting the band and ruining an adult’s life
The Tooks can't make it in LA
The impenetrable cool of the Smell
The SF-Psych Revival
The Fugazi joke
Fixing Danzig’s iMac in 2019
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!
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Episode 246 - Slim Cessna (Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Blood Flower, The Denver Gentlemen) Mar 15, 2020

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This episode Damian explains that this podcast will remain a place people can come to unplug from the realities that they have to face the rest of the time in their lives. Then we turn out attention to, not one but, TWO amazing episodes to try and unplug a little with. In celebration Slim Cessna's Auto Club and the Bellrays tour. there are two Turned Out A Punks out today! First we take a trip to the the dark side of the Rocky Mountain State as Damian is joined by, Denver Gentlemen, Slim Cessna. Listen in as the two talk where this true gothic-occult-cult bend to Denver and surrounding cities punk may have come from and if this is what makes Denver punk so special. Not to be missed!!!
Also, DON'T MISS Lisa Kekaula's amazing episode!!!!!
Also touched on:
Devo on Saturday Night Live
Taking the bus to Denver
The Fluid
The Frantix invented grunge
the Junior T
Soul Merchants
The goth side of Colorado - religion meets subculture
Your Funeral’s Jeri Rossi becomes a serial killer art dealer
Moving to the Boston
Feeding Frenzy
Human Sexual Response/Auto Club Connection
Verbal Assault: “That dude went to prom with my ex-wife”
Psychic TV: Huge in Denver
AND MORE!!!!
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Episode 245 - Lisa Kekaula (The Bellrays, The Dangers, MC5) Mar 15, 2020

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This episode Damian explains that this podcast will remain a place people can come to unplug from the realities that they have to face the rest of the time in their lives. Then we turn out attention to, not one but, TWO amazing episodes to try and unplug a little with. In celebration of the Bellrays and Slim Cessna's Auto Club tour, there are two Turned Out A Punks out today! First Damian sits down with, one of the greatest vocalists of ALL-TIME, The Bellrays' Lisa Kekaula! Listen in as the two discuss: the pre-Coachella Scooter Rally Raves, Fishbone's awesomeness, why vocalists experience being in a band differently and more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also, DON'T MISS Slim Cessna's amazing episode!!!!!
Also touched on:
Hearing X in passing
AM radio
going to see Fishbone for the first time
Samba Hell
Pop Defect
Some much good music
The Proto-Raves that were scooter rallies
“Those are the dudes that run Coachella now.”
Why Ska hit Riverside and Southern California
Meeting Bob
Forming the Rosethorns
“I wish we had kept the name the Rosethorns”
Playing with the Voodoo Glow Skulls
Smokestacks: Sublime before Sublime
White Flag becomes Roadwhore
Fishbone spends year on the road and inspire the Rosethorns the become the Bellrays
I Got A Right is the birth of punk.
AND MORE!!!!!
THANKS VANS!
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