Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 215 - Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (Goth Boi Clique, Tigers Jaw) Jun 24, 2019

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Punk will never die! As if to illustrate this, founding member of Goth Boi Clique, Wicca Phase is on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former member of Tigers Jaw to talk about Emotrap being yet another mutation of punk & how they were brought together by wrestling podcasts. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Getting into Blink 182 but it not counting
Tom from the Menzingers wins the talent show with a Rancid cover
Typing Punk into napster AFI & Anti-Flag & IN
Calling into Hot 97 & getting put on air at 8 years old
Going along to a Backstreet Boys show More a Frontyard Dancer than a Backyard Wrestler
Then Amazingness of Crimpshrine
Scranton’s hot ska scene
Leftover Crack & the Beach Boys over everything
An invite only message board of obsessive music collectors
Borrowing CDs from the library & finding the Smiths & Mount Eerie
Forming bands that were derivative of the Microphones & Conor Oberts
Test Pattern
Forming Tigers Jaw
Title Fight
Hating the pop-punk scene
Shout out to the Aarons!
Lil Peep on wrestling
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 214 - Billy Duffy (The Cult, Death Cult, The Nosebleeds) Jun 17, 2019

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Well, somethings in life are worth waiting for & this here is one of those things! BILLY DUFFY IS ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK! Listen in as the two start from the beginning & we learn just how this legendary guitarist found his way through punk to the metal explosion of the 80’s. YOU CANT MISS THIS ONE!!! CATCH BILLY ON TOUR WITH THE CULT THIS SUMMER! Check listings
Also Touched On:
Coming of age in the summer of a punk
Billy & Johnny: Best haircuts in town
The better guitarists in the neighbourhood
Football or Rock and Roll as the only ways out
Free & Thin Lizzy
Slaughter And The Dogs: Bowie freaks go punk
How amazing the Buzzcocks were
Seeing the Pistols for the first time at the 2nd Manchester gig
Five school friends enter & three leave
“All the heads were there”
Guitar hers
Raw Power was a massive band in Wigan
Filling Vini Reilly’s shoes
Bringing along Morrissey
Opening for The Magazines
Throwing out candy to the crowd
The Nosebleeds
“The only reason they kept me around was because I was good at table tennis”
“She actually sang on a Johnny Thunder’s record?!?” The Lonesome No More
Getting into gretch guitars
rockabilly arrives
nothing would have happened without punk
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Episode 212 - Darby Allin (The Wrestlers, All Elite Wrestling, Evolve) May 22, 2019

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IT'S HERE!!!! Tonight, May 22nd on Viceland (in the US) at 10:00pm EST, Damian's show "The Wrestlers" premiers!!! What better way to celebrate than by having one of the stars of the first episode on the show: DARBY ALLIN!!! Listen in as Darby scares the crap out of Damian with stories that prove that everyone that said Jackass was bad for kids was right. *WARNING* THIS EPISODE IS INTENSE.
Please check out The Wrestlers for more intensity!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Going to see the Circle Jerks & a world opening up
Seeing Turbonegro because of Jackass and Skate videos
being drawn to darkside of humanity
dropping out of amateur wrestling to be into punk
A very old school definition of punk
the jock before punk rock
“If I could grow up and get paid to be an asshole..”
The Jackass influence
being obsessed with punk documentary
Loving The Nuns
Seeing Subhumans
Loving Leftover Crack
Booking the band that ways brings pig guts
Moshing in the streets with Shane West
Getting into straight edge through H2O and Minor Threat
Preferring GG’s early stuff.
The Murder Junkies were supposed to perform at the wedding
Minister Dino
Torturing DJZ as a thank you for DJing the wedding
Going to film school in Arizona
John Waters is real
Liking things that aren’t fake
finding wrestling
Making movies
Fighting in dog shit
The awesomeness of Ethan Page
CM Punk draws you back
being on Ridiculousness
There is no winner when Darby wants to do something nuts
“I’m in the mood to do something stupid”
Working with Wicca Phase and Fury
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Episode 211 - Milo Aukerman (Descendents) May 17, 2019

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SURPRISE EPISODE!!!! Scratch another one off the bucket list because, thanks to our friend’s at Punk Rock Bowling, MILO AUKERMAN OF THE DESCENDENTS IS ON THE SHOW!!!! Join Damian as he talks to one of his heroe’s to find out about going from a new wave lovin' nerd to one of the most iconic vocalists ever! YOU’VE GOTTA TO HEAR THIS!!!! Go see the Descendents play Punk Rock Bowling next weekend (with Damian) too!

Also Touched On:

X opens for Devo

Getting into LA punk

Accidentally seeing Black Flag’s infamous park gig

Listening to Rodney

Dangerhouse Records

Ramones are more standard

“I was a frickin’ nerd”

Dressing new wave

Bill Stevenson selling you a Decendents record

The 60’s influence on the first 7”

The Allycats influence

Singing in musicals

ripping off Dez

Watching Black Flag practice

The Last connection

Joining the new wave club at school and the meeting getting invaded by the punkers

The Blasters

The Chiefs

New Wave kids that liked a punk

don’t turn around in the pit!

The Germs show: people had gotten in with weapons

The Minutemen

Playing with Minor Threat

The SST fans

New Alliance Records

Hearing “Milo Goes To College” for the first time… in college

Bill joins Black Flag but that was the end of it.

Ray Cooper takes over vocals

Bill’s congratulations card to Milo in the form of an album

The albatross of the Milo head

going to shows in San Diego

TSOL

Battalion Of Saints

Singing on Loose Nut

Seeing the Misfits on the last tour

The drawbacks of a double life

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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Episode 210 - Shawn & Mark Stern (Youth Brigade, Extremes, BYO Records) May 16, 2019

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Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival is but a week away! To celebrate, we have festival founders & Youth Brigadiers, Shawn & Mark Stern on the show for ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES EVER OF TOAP!!! Join Damian in his glee as the Sterns talk about all his favourite topics: From AA Records to Zolar X! OH, MY GAWD!

Also Touched On:

Going to see the Dickies for a first show

A disagreement about Vom

Tampon eating scares of some stoner buddies

Robert Trower

Getting into Devo

Going to back to Toronto and catching the B-52s and the Beat People

Saskatoon Temp-hair dye disaster

100 Punk to rule the world: The Masque and the Canterbury

The Go-Gos

A different perspective on the invading beach punks

Test Tube Records & Greg Heston

Skinhead Manor

Skin Swing Brigade

Someone Gonna Get Their Head Kicked

Matt Groening loves the comp

getting Doug Moody into punk

Bringing Aggression around to meet Doug Moody for a shakedown and it getting them signed

Nearly winding up on the People’s Court

AA Records

French Oi

Eskorbuto

Pure Hell & the Dead Boys

Brendan Mullen’s ear

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Episode 209 - John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats, The Extra Glenns) May 10, 2019

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Years in the making & two attempts at recording have been worth it!!! The King of the Mountain, G.O.A.T. John Darinelle is on the show this week! Listen along as John & Damian discuss going from getting messed with by members of Bad Religion & Christian Death, to finally understanding why Nick Cave would hate the bathroom being in the front of the club, but don't worry, there is lots of Ajax Records talk for all you teeny boppers out there! The Mountain Goats have an AWESOME new record out on MERGE called “In League With Dragons” Check it out now!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Some awesome music talk

seen it in the LA times

Mom ordered Never Mind The Bollocks to the library

When DIY came to punk

Early college rock

The Normal

TVOD

Being scared of punk

Jay from Bad Religion and Rozz from Christian Death trying to mess with you in the neighbourhood

The bully that chases you toward guitar, literally

Charlie Chase and the Folk Music centre

Running into your tormentors at Buttonhole Surfers shows

“Finding someone that like The Velvet Underground was like a Wizard!”

Man Is The Bastard on streaming services

The Extra Glens

Mighty Joe Young

AntiSeen, Eyehategod and Obsessed

Being a parent and trying to leave the house for a show

Nick Cave just trying to use the bathroom

Doing security for Fugazi

Ian MacKaye makes a nice cup of tea

Peter and Ajax Records

“I can have an advance?!?”

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Episode 208 - George Pettit Part 2 (Dead Tired, Alexisonfire, Bergenfield Four) May 03, 2019

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GEORGE IS BACK BABY! Once again TOAP shows up to prove that a sequel can equal or even top the original. George Pettit was one of the original guests on this podcast way back when & now he finally makes his triumphant return to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with his good friend to catch up & bullshit about music, culture & how punk can micro change the world. NOT TO BE MISSED! George's band Dead Tired has an awesome new album, "Full Vol." His other band, Alexisonfire also put out some amazing new music as well.

Also Touched On:

A long time coming making this thing

George tells Damian Alexisonfire is getting back together

“What am I going to do now?” the post band question

Wade gets it done

Young Chris O’Toole working at the record store

Niagara Falls: ghost town

Sex Pistols Wax Figures

shows that no one came to

The kind of out of touch having a kid makes you

kid run vs. the old people scene

The end of alternative culture

The brilliance of CityTV

No New Bomb Turks on Much Music

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Episode 207 - John Ross Bowie (Four Chords And A Gun, Big Bang Theory, Egghead) Apr 23, 2019

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Pick Up The Pieces!!! This week on the show, Damian sits down with John Ross Bowie! The Big Bang Theory star & author of the new play, FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN has an INSANE story to tell. You guys are gonna love this one! SO, HEY HO... Oh, forget it

Also Touched On:

A dance routine to Rockaway beach

The String theory of cool

NOW, I want to sniff some glue

Buying Ramones records

The Spin mags 10 year anniversary of punk issue

The dramatic aspects of growing up in 80’s NY

Spring 84 seeing The Go-Gos

Putting an ad looking for a penpal

A friend in Kitchener

Asexuals

Doughboys

The Nunfuckers rule!

Going to CBGB’s to see Breakdown

The two different audiences for New York hardcore bands and cali punk in NY

Murphy’s Law and the Dickies on halloween

A group of comedy people at Matador 21

Musical theatre meets punk

The Mumps

World Inferno Friendship Society

Liking Let’s Wreck This Party

Bad Religion’s Into The Unknown

Greg Graffin coming to DJ on your radio show

Bob Dylan for jocks

Bugout Society are crazy underrated

Crucial Youth trolling MRR readers

Damian’s dad loves Toy Dolls

understanding why your parent feared punk

when hardcore get reeeeaaallllyyyy hard

Mutant Pop rocks!!!

Sicko

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Johnny Marr from The Smiths is here Apr 14, 2019

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Episode 206 -

Here's Johnny!!! This week on the show Damian is joined by one of the greatest guitarists in the history of British Rock & Roll: JOHNNY MARR!!! Johnny has an amazing new album, “Call The Comet” & has played in some of the most LEGENDARY bands ever but, as is par for the course with this show, the two spent most of the time talking about a band that only ever released one song on a compilation. CHECK THIS ONE OUT & don't forget THE TOAP PATREON!

👨‍🎨: Gray Abraham

Also Touched On:

The Sex Pistols’ legendary Lesser Free Trade Hall

Billy Duffy changes the next day

Going to see Slaughter & The Dogs at age 12

Stooges, The Dolls & Dr Feelgood

The glory days of working class rock & roll

The first single

Playing guitar

The GODLY Sister Ray!

A freak show of a band

A scary group of dudes

A drummer with dreads in South Manchester in the late 70’s

In a band with adults at age 14

Steven & Isaac got nothing on Clive.

Clive says “If you are a intros band, you are going to need this…”

Pete Shelley: the true radical for the time

The differences between the london punks & the punks around the country that took up the flag

The importance of Jon Savage’s book

The importance of Magazine

Bowiefreaks

The Suffragette City is the template for punk

The Robert Alman Punk Salon

The White Dice

Paris Valentino’s riff becomes Handsome Devils

The Only Ones are gods!

“Peter Perret is my Sid Barrett”

Seeing Nick Lowe from the knees down

The FBeat audition

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Footnote Supershow #3 - Youtube Party Tonight! Apr 11, 2019

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The Turned Out A Punk Patreon is live! Head to patron.com/turnedoutapunk and check it out! Also, check out Chris, Dave It Up, Dave Martin and Damian as they talk about the best live bands they never saw, youtube clips and Dave It Up not liking the Cramps(!?!?!?!?!).

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