LET’S GET READY TO CROSS THE WRESTLING/PUNK THRESHOLD! This week on the show Damian welcomes on of his favorite wrestler; former WWE, New Japan Pro Wrestling, TNA superstar… MVP! Listen in as the two discuss MVP’s journey from being a kid in a gang to who was sent to prison, to becoming a pro wrestler, to then ascending to the very heights of the industry; all while maintaining a love of punk and hardcore.
Also covered
-The music racial divides breaking down.
-Skinheads in Vitamins stores.
-Dead Kennedy's is a very scary name to a little kid looking through the paper.
-Skinheads.
-“My car, my music”.
-The amazingness of the Bad Brains.
-Open Records in Miami.
-Red Hot Chile Peppers.
-Fire and Ice and drinking beers with the Skins.
-MDC as a first show.
-Getting caught in the mosh.
-An alternative to gang fights.
-Churchill’s: Miami CBGB’s.
-Having trying to find punk and hardcore in prison.
-The joy of Tampa Community radio.
-Reconnecting with the guitar played from FWA.
-Experiencing the alternative revolution from Glade’s Correctional Workcamp
-Getting Fanzines in Prison
-Blue Note Records in Miami
-Going to Warped Tour
-Too much mosh for the Warped Tour.
-Hearing Orange 9mm on the radio
-Chaka Malik is THE GREATEST!
-Robbie Brookside: the wrestler’s wrestler and the punk’s punk
-Quitting WWE to go to NJPW: Punk as fuck
-Having to choose punk or wrestling.
-Working with Kimbo Slice
-farmclub.com
-Japan is awesome!!!!
-Never meeting Lemmy
-Bittersweet: Finally getting to see the Bad Brains
-Seeing Living Color
-Going to Coachella with Gaslight Anthem
-Wrestling: Lovin’ the craft hating the business
-Purple Docs and Purple Drink
-Beef with Fugazi
-And More!