Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 244 - Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Society Ills) Mar 10, 2020

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THIS IS A HUGE ONE! Bassgod Mike Watt joins Damian for a NOT TO BE MISSED conversation about all things punk & hardcore! Listen in as the two discuss Reactionaries, Minutemen, The Stooges & everyone in between. Plus, Damian nerds out about his road map into punk: "Ballhog Or Tugboat" on it's 25th anniversary with the cartographer himself!
Did we mention this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
We are all on the same team
No Watt No Damian
Readin’ in Creem
Lang Bang’s Cousin Lester
Meeting Nicky Beat
“We didn’t where bell bottoms”
Talking to Joey Shithead and Billy Bragg
The Vaudeville side of punk
“Ig said to Ronnie” being the little brother in the Stooges
Going to see the Stooges at the Whiskey
“I thought New Wave was a film movement in France”
“What’s the Alternative to music? Silence!?!”
“There was no guy on the back of the Circle Jerks record to try to dress up as!”
People LOVED Tull and hated the Stooges
“Ig had a weird gig where Ronny Beat his ass with a whip”
“At first D.Boon wouldn’t make a punk band with me”
“We jammed ‘I Wanna Be You Dog’ for 3 and a half hour”
The Reactionaries
Playing with The Suburban Lawns
“The Bass King Of Outer Space”
The Minutemen were radical in music and organization
Hey Taxi! Georgies other band
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Episode 243 - Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee, PS Eliot, The Ackleys) Mar 03, 2020

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Let's hear it for gratitude & paying it forward! This episode Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield stops by to talk all things punk. Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his favourite songwriters only to find out about his own very small role in her punk journey! AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, check out Waxahatchee's new album "Saint Cloud" coming March 27th on MERGE RECORDS.
Also Touched On:
The joys of discovery in the Napster era
Growing up country
Loving the Velvet Underground and GBV
Bikini Kill
The Raincoats
Twin Powers
The Birmingham Scene: a story in two parts
The difficulty finding a way into the punk scene
“Everyone still wishes it was the Ackleys”
Hardcore message board toxicity PS Eliot is born from rage
“I’m a feminist because of the Bridge 9 Board”
Sage words from Marley
Fucked Up
Doing it for the other people
Fake Problems get big
“We are going on tour now!”
The end of MySpace
Teenage Cool Kids
Radiator Hospital
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 242 - Simon Doom (Spiral Heads, MGMT, Thulsa Doom) Feb 21, 2020

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Get ready! This week on the show Damian is joined by Spiral Heads & MGMT member, the great SIMON DOOM! Sit in as they discuss coming of age in the not so great era of NY punk & how that set him on the path for the rest of his life. NOT TO BE MISSED.
Also Touched On:
Nirvana as the gateway band
Getting a Sub Pop comp and hearing the Dwarves’ “Drug Store”
Parents meeting in Jessie Michaels’ dad’s class
Bobcat Goldthwait, Chokebore Butthole Suffers and Nirvana
The loss of Kurt Cobain impacts a young kid
buying bootleg Nirvana tapes off Merle Allin
Drawing Lars’ tattoos on yourself and fooling Merle
reading punk jackets
Making a fake ID to get into CBGB’s
“Are you a spy of something?” - cops find your fake ID
“12 year old boy looking for band members” a personal ad
Spider sends a picture of him puking
becoming friends with the skinhead goes terribly wrong
Social Disease
The Murder Junkies were a terrifying gang without a messiah
Adults beefing with kids
Thulsa Doom
The grimy shityness of punk can be exhausting
if it didn’t have the D-BEAT, i didn’t like it
“This isn’t a metal venue!” Dave It Up and Stuart Schrader’s opinion mattered
going indie
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 241 - Kevin Morby (The Babies, Woods) Feb 14, 2020

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This week on the show Damian reconnects with the godly Kevin Morby! Sit in as the two discuss the pivotal roll punk played in his musical development & the glory days that were the late 2000's Brooklyn DIY scene.
NOT TO BE MISSED & Check out Kevin's latest album, "Oh My God", on Dead Oceans.
Also Touched On:
Having to battle Blink 182 to get Green Day
Matt Skiba joining Blink 182 and a 6 grade dream comes true
Nirvana not being your gateway band
And thus begins: “The Reality Era” of MTV
Asian Man Records setting you on path
No Music in the house
No punks in the suburbs of Kansas City
Dropping out of school
Moving to New York
Going to be a opening scene from Law And Order
the 3rd wave of The BK Indie boom
the Vivian Girls!!!
The greatness of Cause Co-Motion: the Jonathan Fire Eater of the 3rd Wave NY 2000'S DIY
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 240 - Linda Ramone (Ramones Productions, Johnny Ramone Army) Feb 07, 2020

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Twenty-plus year ago, Damian had dinner with Linda & Johnny Ramone. It set the course for the rest of his life. Now, all these years later he is reunited with Linda Ramone to talk about growing up before punk in New York, her late husband & the traveling the world with the greatest band of all-time:
THE RAMONES!!!
Also Touched On:
A brother that loved rock
Black Sabbath
Black Oak Arkansa
“I found a band for you”
Dreaming of going to the city
Heavenly and Starlet going to see the Dolls
Seeing Grand Funk at Madison Square Gardens
going to CBGBs every weekend
Johnny little black books
Fun with Vincent Gallo
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Footnotes Supershow #5: Celebrating the music of Andy Gill, Josh Pappa, Reed Mullin and Vinny Value Feb 03, 2020

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After a tragic week of losses from the world of punk and hardcore, Chris O'toole, Dave It Up, Dave Martin and Damian discuss the musical impact of four people on the world of music.
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Episode 239 - Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, Vacant Andys) Jan 24, 2020

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Tonight we are doin' it for friendship & the scene, because on this episode Damian is joined by his new buddy, CHRIS CARRABBA AKA Dashboard Confessional! Listen in as the two discuss: Florida's isolation causing a music boom, coming to terms with being labeled "emo", playing on CNN in the middle of a news report & more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! Don't miss Dashboard Confessional's "Best Of The Best Ones", a career spanning compilation of Dashboard's greatest hits dropping on January 31 2020!
Also Touched On:
Moving to Florida
Cars rides as punk school
120 Minutes
Archers Of Loaf
Pixies
Dino Jr over everything
Finding Post-Hardcore before punk
Buzzcocks over the Pistols
Liking Green Day they were Green Day
Vacant Andy’s inspired by Jawbreaker
Crimpshrine
Jawbox
The gap between Youth Of Today and Hatebreed
NO ONE CAME TO SOUTH FLORIDA!
Seeing Hot Water Music and falling instantly in love
Building a scene
Jon Riely from Morning Again
Trevor from Fact To Face: “word if getting out”
Fiddler Records
No Idea
Fueled By Ramen
HWM and Less Than Jake pulling the south FLA bands north
Hubble: favourite band that never recorded
Being made to sing
Chad from New Found Glory’s voice in Shai Hulud
coming to terms with the term emo
Reason To Believe rule
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 238 - Mikal Cronin (Party Fowl, Ty Segall Band, Charlie & The Moonhearts) Jan 15, 2020

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Get ready to set sail! In this episode, Damian is joined by his former shipmate on the Bruise Cruise & one of his favourite songwriters: Mikal Cronin! Join the two as they discuss: all ages shows, the Toronto connection, the joy of getting your OWN record & so much more!!!!
Also Touched On:
Growing up in a non-rock house
Hearing Nirvana in a cool babysitter’s car
When mom’s harp explodes…
Pop-punk as a gateway
the Warped Tour as a first show
NoFX
Floggin’ Molly
AFI
getting a full beer dumped down your cast
So-Cal Record stores
Finding the Smell
the possibility of starting a band
The concept of the Sensitive Side 7” blowing your mind
Meeting Ty Segall
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 237 - Jimmy Jacobs (ROH, TNA, WWE) Jan 06, 2020

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Bow down because wrestling’s Zombie Princess is here! This week on the show Damian sits down with one of his favourite wrestlers: Jimmy Jacobs! Listen in as the two discuss his journey through the unpredictable world of wrestling & how it all comes back to PUNK!
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Damian is a fan of SCUM
It never hurts when someone is a fan
Jimmy hears the Misfits…
“All rock is the same!”
Rocking a devil lock in the 8th grade
going by yourself to see Prince in the mid-90s
Is the person or the character what came first?
Shedding the conservatism you were raised with
Cream Cheese And Bagels
The second Undertaker reveal turning you off of wrestling
“Here I am 20 years later, all because Stone Cold got popular”
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!
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Episode 235 - Heather Gabel (HIDE) Nov 28, 2019

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If you want scream, scream with us! This episode, Damian sits down with one of his current favourite vocalists: HIDE's Heather Gabel. Listen in as the two discuss finding a late start through performing & the ongoing journey of punk. DON’T MISS IT!!!
Also Touched On:
“Punk” music
NoFX
Green Day
a tape with Crass
“How can all these bands be the same genre?”
ECONOCHRIST!!!!!
Born Against
Sam McPheeters is always on the list!
Covering “well fed fuck”
Finding a Rudimentary Peni
Seeing Rancid before Lars was in the band
Your boyfriend refusing to stand beside you at a Jawbreaker show
Going to see the Cure and it being transformative
I can’t believe that many people had heard of them!
Hanging out with Robert Smith and it being the best ever
Eric Z’s Grounds Coffee Shop
Making patches for the Suicide Machines
Going to see ICP
Jax
Ink and Dagger RULES!!!!
being able to see Los Crudos whenever you want!
living at the Underdog loft
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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