This week on Turned out A Punk, it is legit legends week as we welcome, guitarist of the legendary Viletones, Freddie Pompeii the show for a legendary episode. Hear stories of acid fuelled Velvet Underground experiences to laying the foundation of Punk and being in arguably the most important Canadian punk band ever.
-The Abridge Version: 60’s Garage “Punk”
-Bubble: Dot Records Recording Artists
-Going to Mariposa Music Festival
-Beating the The Draft
-A band with Dan’s brother Peter Ackroyd
-Meeting Mickey from the Curse
-A Weed Bust
-Experiments in Fuzz: learning to play guitar in prison
-Peter Panic: one-man-proto-punk
-Getting fired from the Gasworks: Meeting Steve Leckie
-The Southern Ontario Circuit and eating Moose meat spaghetti,
-“Freddie, What are you Into man!?!?!”: Getting Punked
-Being a country songwriter.
-Seeing the Velvet Underground play a Sister Ray… in a coffee shop… ON ACID!
-Snorting coke and smoking weed in the lobby during Genesis
-The New York Dolls and KISS (“Just a rock metal band”) at Massy Hall
-Seeing an ad in the paper for the a band
-Forming the Viletones
-Zoom and Chris Hate
-The Viletones and the self-mutilation on stage and in the audience.
-Touring the US for the
-The Reds
-Ben Vaughn Combo
-Other US shows
-Bleecker Bob taking you to the hospital
-The Diodes
-Teenage Head: Friends from the start
-Lydia Lunch puling you off the stage to have her way with you.
-The Cramps and Suicide opening for the Canadian Weekend at CBGB’s
-“The Nazi Thing” an attempt at parody
-The Viletones on the CBC
-The Media buzz
-The almost UK debut
-Enter The Secrets: The end of the Viletones
AND MORE!!!!!!