Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 225 - Matty Matheson (God of Cookery) Sep 05, 2019

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Rejoice!!! It's finally happened! After losing one episode to the unknown, Matty Matheson comes to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy to talk about the good & the not so good times that led Matty to become one of the world’s most beloved chefs! Also, how punk & hardcore were paramount to his journey. DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!!!!
ALSO, don’t miss the return of Matty Fest with Decedents, Wu Tang and Danny Brown! Saturday September 7th at Echo Beach!!!!!!!!!!
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Episode 224 - Alex Lichtenhauer (Control Top, Get Better Records) Sep 02, 2019

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Weather, technology & scheduling be damned! This week Alex Lichtenauer (Get Better Records and Control Top) is on the show! After months of trying, join Alex & Damian as they discuss scene building & affecting positive change through music. Don't miss this rain soaked all too short conversation!
Also Touched On:
A NOFX tape gets passed around
The Decline is the peak
Pikesville Teen Center scene
The Baltimore Hardcore scene
Cult Classics
Ramrod
Charm City Art Space and the fall out
Moving to New Hampshire and scene building
The Starving Artist
Punk experiences it first
The first decade of Get Better Records
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 223 - Ben Lee (Noise Addict) Aug 29, 2019

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DREAMS COME TRUE! This week Damian welcomes his childhood hero & dream guest to the show, BEN LEE!!! Listen in as the two get caught in the metaphysical weeds discussing moshing at a Hard-Ons show to collaborating with Tom Robbins on musicals. ANOTHER EPISODE THAT CANNOT BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
A long time in the making for Damian
No one ever came
The Sydney all-ages scene
The Hard-Ons
Hellman
getting caught in the mosh at age 12
Rage: The TV program
Lo-Fi is Punk
“I thought it sounded like ‘Appetite For Destruction’”
Tom Robbins as a punk collaborator
Dennis Tek opens for Rollins
Nirvana and the Violent Femmes were the reason
Television Personalities
The Vaselines
K Records
Half A Cow Records
Lemonheads
Smudge
Girling
Fallaheen Records
Not being able to open for Alex Chilton because it was a school night
“Do I get paid for that?”
the Bathing Ape collaboration
artist run labels are a bad idea most of the times
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 222 - Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, The Pink Monkey Birds) Aug 19, 2019

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What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he’s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Helping invent punk
The Dogs and the Motels
The Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids
Seeing Patti Smith and Ramones
Zolar X: hilariously dedicated
The faded glam of LA as an influence Learning from Rodney
Th Quick: “Our Sparks”
Backdoor Man Magazine was the Bible
The birth of Zine culture
Doing the first Ramones zine
The odd crowd the Ramones attracted
16 and standing beside Dee Dee
Thrift shopping with Blondie
The Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers
“Glad I was there for that”: life with The Screamers
Pat Suzuki and Argento
“You have to see this band the Cramps!”
Took the bus from LA
Going to New York and seeing the Contortions
Befriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox
The Mumps come to LA
The Student Teachers
The Blessed
“Those people were sick!” No Wave people were no fucking joke
“Yeah I noticed” The shift from punk to hardcore
Opening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual
“They Hated Us!”
Here come the angry kids
Going to see the Slits play in the UK
Record shopping in Paris in ’77
Working at Bomp
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Episode 221 - Jay Bentley (Bad Religion, Wasted Youth etc.) Aug 15, 2019

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In honour of Bad Religion playing the Psycho Las Vegas Fest, Jay Bentley from Bad Religion is on the show! Tune in as Jay & Damian discuss finding punk, forming Bad Religion, the birth of Epitaph, leaving before the Unknown & coming back! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? LISTEN!
Also Touched On:
Raw Power Fanzine
DIY? Are you High? What else was there
12,000 kids vs. Jay and Greg
Going to LA to see shows
The Stains and the car through the wall
Mad Society the SUPER little kids
“Well fuck this, we’re going to make our own.”
The Circle Jerks like your tape
“We are already on the radio?!?”
Rodney On The ROQ
Buying the Dickies and the Germs record store
Making the first 7”
making the first lp
Smoke 7 comp
Experimenting right into drugs
Joining Wasted Youth
The Clubs stop letting punk happen
Citadel: Proto glam
Do you be in the Circle Jerks? And winding up back in Bad Religion
Into the Unknown and back
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BE VANS
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Episode 220 - Riki Rachtman (Cathouse, Headbanger's Ball, WCW) Aug 07, 2019

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What do MTV, WCW & Darby Crash have in common? This week’s guest is RIKI RACHTMAN!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the former WCW/Headbanger’s Ball & current Cathouse Hollywood Podcast host to talk about The Germs, Black Flag & the Adolescents: OH MY! Not to be missed!!!
Also Touched On:
The greatest Canadians
Wearing Germs shirts on Headbangers Ball
Blink 182 is old school now?
Devo’s first record as gateway
Rodney on ROQ
Bloodstains
Keith Morris rocking a Spiderman costume fronting the Black Flag
Fear
Not getting the Germs… at first
X plays every show
Meeting Darby
The Adolescents Blue Album is one of the great albums EVER
Rob and Darby
Knowing more about Black Flag than Black Sabbath
Going to Universal Studios with an Adam And The Ants superfan
Auditions for the Angry Samoans
Forming a hardcore band
“Hey Devo!”
“Hey Meatloaf!”
Meeting Lee Ving in the current day
Metallica meets the Plimsouls Battery Club could have been Green Day
Trying to record and hang with Pantera
WCW
On the road with Scott Steiner
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 219 - Chris Hannah Part 2 (Propagandhi) Jul 28, 2019

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Because the world demanded it, Damian welcomes back to the show one of his all time favourite lyricists & TOAP Guests: PROPAGANDHI’S CHRIS HANNAH!!!
Get pumped for a pretty bleak discussion! The two reflect on the current state of things, where/when it all started to get much darker & of course, some punk rock talk too!
Also Touched On:
The Prophecy Foretold: Chris Hannah Was Right!
1996
The record flopped: YAY!
“Fuck these jokers!”
Traveling with a mini-mall
Greenroom as a bio-pic
The punk and politics
G-7 Records falls apart
Consolidated rule
Hearing Randy for the first time
Todd and Chris go crazy while record Today’s Empires
Wanting to be more Los Crudos, Dropdead and Born Against
Fuck The Border with a rap part as an I Spy song
Jord: the voice of reason
Trying to make everything sound like a sped up cassette tape.
The terrifying prophecy of Propagandhi lyrics
the moment we could have saved the world
9/11 changes everything
You don’t own your cellphone
Falling-out with Fat Mike
Changing views on Punk Voter
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 218 - Dan Panic (Screeching Weasel, Groovie Ghoulies, Pansy Division, Squirtgun, Ivy League) Jul 23, 2019

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Some 23 years ago a much younger Damian met Dan Panic at a show in Toronto & the positive impact on was immense. Now, two plus decades later, Damian gets to sit down & thank Dan the only way he knows how: by punishing him with questions about his musical past! Join D & D as they sit down to discuss playing drums in some of the most iconic pop punk bands.
Also Touched On:
Damian meets Dan and it sets a standard
Blondie as a gateway
The Feds’ (pre-Smashing Pumpkins/ pre-Poster Children) fake tour booklet
Ivy League forms in 10 minutes
Weedeater (pre Charles Bronson) and the new scene in the Western Suburbs
The evolution of the Chicago scene
The Los Crudos Screeching Weasel Connection
An apology to Cedric
The Riverdales VS Weasel
Tony Molina RULES
Listening to Mars Volta
Playing with At The Drive-In
Joe does not like weed smoke from future rock gods
Playing with Sons Of Ishmael
Opening for the first “last” Screeching Weasel show
The influence of Ringo
The nuns forcing you to write with your right hand
Melody over everything
The funny side of Born Against
Quitting music for five years
Touring with Pansy Division
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 217 - Jon Wurster Part 2 [or 4] (Superchunk, Bob Mould, The Best Show, Mountain Goats) Jul 13, 2019

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Whether you call it his second or his fourth time on the show, one of the greatest guests ever, JON WURSTER RETURNS! Either in the world of drumming or comedy, Jon truly is a GOAT! So sit back listen in as Damian & Jon go deep before he takes the stage with Bob Mould… Who also says one word on the show… So do we call that his Part 1? YOU DECIDE!
Also Touched On:
Going to Ohio to learn to record
Missing Husker Du by one day
Circle Of Shit
The scum influence on Philadelphia music
Jon’s connection to Serial Killers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has to follow Green Day… with the singer of Serial Killer
John Drewbaker: So punk the local magazine did an article on him titled The Punk
The best show Superchunk ever played
Not loving the cross-over thing… except COC
the cool frats in Philly
Joining Jack Wenberg
Is there a drummer in the house?: Mike Joyce no shows the Buzzcocks
Brad from Finger plays with Keith Urbane
going solo to see MDC on a Monday night in a college town when school out in 2019
The weirdness of Texas punk
The weirdness of Philly punk
The greatness of YDI live
The best of the metal records
Void rules ok!
Going Country
Why punk endures
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 216 - Rachel Goswell (Slowdive, Mojave 3, Minor Victories) Jul 07, 2019

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Tune in & gaze down because this week on the show RACHEL GOSWELL (Slowdive) joins Damian for a chat!!! Listen along as the two discuss going from being a first wave goth kid to finding out you accidentally created a genre!! Plus hear Damian fan out... Again.
Also Touched On:
Punk through a brother
Siouxie and The Banshees as inspiration
Tinderbox
who invented goth?
in the gig straight down to the front
photos at gigs
Christian Death
Ghost Dance
Neil is a prefect at school
not into Indieschmindie stuff
My Bloody Valentine unites them all
meeting Alan Magee
Meeting the goths in College
Being broke on Creation
Falling-out with Creation
The Sony deal
Getting asked to take Oasis on tour and saying no
Never touring Pygmalion
Getting dropped
the fourth Slowdive album becomes the first Mojave 3
signing to 4AD
A starting afresh
Shoegaze as a genre: “Wot on earth?!”
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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