Turned Out A Punk

Episode 381:

They don't get too much more important to the history of punk than this guest! Today on the show Damian is joined by the LEGEND & one of the true innovators of punk: JAYNE COUNTY! Listen in as the two discuss why Jayne was a legend long before punk hit. From "wrecking" straight people with the Screaming Queens, to Patti Smith's method acting, to Bowie's jealousy, to being the first to play CBGB's & so much more!!! NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also, don't miss Jaynes' essential "Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - The Safari Years" 4CD boxset, out now on Cherry Red Records!

Also, check out Jayne County & Am Taylors' "I Don't Fit In Anywhere" out now on streaming services everywhere!

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Also Touched On: 

Bow down to the Original Punk Rocker

Being the first to play CBGBs

Getting diarrhea from Healey’s chilli 

Getting shot at on stage on Long Island

“Don’t listen to her! Don’t listen to her! She’s the Devil”

The Screaming Queens and “wrecking straight people”

The REAL Queen Elizabeth

Meeting John Lennon

Getting possessed on stage

The New York Street Scene

Iron Butterfly

Never liking the Grateful Dead

Jackie Curtis’ genius

Theatre of The Ridiculous 

Traveling to London with Andy Warhol’s “Pork”

Doing theatre with Patti Smith

Suicide: Room Emptiers

“I’m not a punk, I’m a rock and roller” - Dee Dee

Getting paid by Malcom Mclaren TWICE

Debuting two weeks after the New York Dolls

New Wave killed punk off

No Wave is too arty

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS

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Welcome to the dream! Today on the show Damian is joined by Section H8's MIKE "MEXI" TORRES to talk punk! Listen in as they discuss Mexi's incredible journey from being a houseless punk kid, to making records with his childhood heroes. Smuggling a Rancid tape into "Bad kid school", being stranded in Seattle, living with Cold Sweat, Havoc records as hardcore's Sub Pop & so much more: DON'T MISS THIS EPISODE!

Also, don't miss Section H8's fantastic, "Welcome To The Nightmare" out now on Flatspot Records!!

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Also Touched On: 

Singles Going Steady, Hits and Misses and Pete Genest 

Rancid’s “Salvation” video

Dad surprising you with GnR/ Metallica tickets

Seeing John Denver live

Body Count’s Cop Killer: It reeeeeally bothered people

Rancid's work ethic

No music allowed in the “bad kid school”

Smuggling in “Let’s Go” tape

Tim Armstrong

Duff loves Discharge

becoming “a piece shit bar guy” for a while

Getting trapped in Seattle

Spitting Teeth: “We were bad at being in a band”

War Scar

Havoc Records

Chicago Fest

Aus Rotten were a very important thing

Writing songs while guarding weeds shops

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!! 

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Episode 379:

Never Mind Tom Goes To The Mayor, Here’s Tim Comes To Turned Out A Punk! Today on the show: On Cinema, Office Hours & Tim and Eric’s TIM HEIDECKER is here to talk hating punk, but it still being his scene. Listen in as Tim & Damian discuss: Minor Threat loving drug dealers, losing band members to Digger, Weston as Allentown’s Pavement, being sketched out by Ink & Dagger, troll culture, and so much more! 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, don’t miss Tim and Gregg Turkington’s hilarious “On Cinema At The Cinema” available at www.heinetwork.com 

Also, don’t miss Tim’s equally hilarious "Office Hours" available at www.youtube.com/timheidecker

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Also Touched On:

The Ramones on rock radio

Billy Idol & Generation X

Loving the scene but hating the music

A hardcore loving drug dealer

Minor Threat in the car on the way to get beer

Liking early Green Day

Weston: Kings Of Scene

Dave Weston is PA’s Stephen Malkmus 

Having your band stolen to become Digger

The era when consumer level gear is able to produce at a pro-level

Eric: the one stop cultural shop

Opening (with videos) for the Shins  

Getting discovered by Bob Odenkirk 

“Keep them out of the writers room!”

The 709 South 6th Street Punk House

The Tim Heidecker Masterpiece 

Puss WhIp Bang Gang

The Doors on Beat Club

Cotton Candy: the tape hook up

Rockbitch: wildest band in music

“Wait til you see this!”: discovering Chris Morris' comedy

Faces Of Death

Tom Green

Derrick Beckles and TV Carnage

Smashing the Moog in 12 Tone System

Sola: the best Philly band

Built To Spill: a mutual love affair

Comedy wasn’t cool

Mr Show as a Matador Band

Making “Art”

The Influence of Dr. Demento on culture

Howeird Stern’s Weird Al cash in record

Neil Hamburger and breaking Kayfabe

Cultural curation 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!

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Episode 378:

What happens when heroes become friends? Find out today as Damian sits down with one of his, The Hard-Ons’ RAY AHN & quickly realises that they are birds of a feather. Listen in as the two discuss their shared passions of punk & record collecting. From AC/DC playing earth shatteringly loud at the local park, to power erasing signed records, to confronting hate with humour, to why Jerry A should have thrown Mick Harvey off that boat & so much more: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, don’t miss The Hard-Ons’ latest awesome LP, “I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken” on Cheersquad Records! 

Also, check out the latest LP by Ray’s other fantastic band: Nunchukka Superfly’s, “The Aussie Exorcism (Nah Mate, You Can't Punch A Ghost)” on Tym Records!

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Also Touched On:

The various species and sub-species of record collectors

Australian love for hard rock

Getting the SexPistols single from a friend who didn’t like it

“No one bought Tartus 

Beautifully instructional The Ramones and the Saints seal the deal

AC/DC playing in the park

The influence of the volume on kids in the 70s

Accidentally erasing Kym Bradshaw’s signature

(I’m) Stranded: the real Australian National Anthem

Record Collections not as places of enjoyment

Having to deal with Racists 

Confronting Nazis with humour  

The Celibate Rifles

The Slugfuckers

They not-so-good ol’ days

The Asshole Roster System

being in The Victims

Seeing Gauze in ’89

Touring Japan with Snuff and Sean ‘Fat Bob’ Forbes

& TONS MORE GOODNESS

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Episode 377:

Your eyes are not deceiving you: JEFF TWEEDY is here! The songwriter, author, record producer & Wilco frontman stops by the show to talk punk! Join Damian as he sits down with Jeff to discuss: the legend of Max Load, when punk misses the mark completely, arguing with Gerard Cosloy outside of CBGBs about ad copy, audiences waiting for Jimmy Buffet covers & so much more!! 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

Don't miss the reissue of Jeff's "Chelsea Hotel" soundtrack & the deluxe edition of "Love Is The King" coming soon! ALSO, don't forget to subscribe to Jeff's newsletter here: https://jefftweedy.substack.com/subscribe

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Also Touched On:

Punk on tv in ’77

Local legends Max Load

The bad scary punk dudes

Punk’s most infamous poor taste “joke” band

The Johnny Appleseeds of Punk

A million dollar comic collection

The sketchiness of First Wave Mid-West Punk

Ultraman

Drunks With Guns

“Where do they get these punk clothes?!”

The beauty of the Spanish Swing Scene

Fool Face were a New Wave band

The Stray Cats before the codification

Culture Shock on acid

The Dazzling Kill Men

Producing with Albini

Hooking up with Rockville Records

The internal Dutch East Indie beef

Gerard Cosloy is the real deal

Early tours and having to play with Jimmy Buffet cover bands

Meeting Mamma Stinson 

& TONS MORE!!!

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Episode 376:

Today we welcome one of the most positive forces in the hardcore universe to the show: TOBY MORSE! The author, podcaster & H20 front person is here to celebrate his lifelong love of punk. Join Damian as he reconnects with his one time tour buddy to discuss: the whiplash between Revolution Summer DC & NYHC, Kevin Seconds as a father figure, Verbal Assault being underrated, Chris Gethard's story from TOAP episode 51 & so much more! 

DO NOT MISS IT!

Also, don't miss Toby's brand new kids' book "One Life One Chance" OUT NOW on HE Creative or visit H2OMERCH.COM

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Also Touched On:

20 years of friendship

Going to see Impact Unit

“Never Mind The Bollocks” of 8-track

Verbal Assault RULE

Positive Outlook

The Belly punk connection

The Marginal Man cover

Embrace

Kingface

East Coast surfing

Not liking the “Anarchy and Fuck your parents” vibe

7 Seconds

Meeting Milo and seeing the Descendents 

The Chris Gethard story

Moving to DC just in time for Revolution Summer

Going hippies

Moving to New York to hang with Token Entry

Underdog

Hanging with Sick Of It All

Living beside 

Living in Alan Cage’s closet 

“The Hick from Maryland”

Walter plays the Sugarcubes and Smiths

Rusty and Images

Outcrowd

Violence in NY

The Warped Tour

Generation Records

The amazingness of Kevin Seconds

Recording beside Axel Rose

Not loving “Go”

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Episode 375:

What is the purpose of this podcast if not to help Damian rekindle old friendships? Today on the show, Mayans M.C. co-creator / Showrunner & Righteous Jammer, ELGIN JAMES sits down for one of the most fascinating episodes yet! Listen in as two friends reconnect & discuss Elgin’s harrowing journey from homeless punk, to writing a hit tv show & EVERYTHING in between! 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED AT ALL COSTS!

Also, lookout for Mayans M.C. Season 4 coming in 2022 & catch up on past seasons on FX now!

Also Touched On:

Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert

The Billy Squier/ Dead Kennedys connection

The Sex Pistols rule

Catching MRR radio by chance

Molly Shannon: New Waver

The Clash vs. The Pistols

Rainbow and The Scorpions

Adventure Jukebox on WXEI

No Milk On Tuesday

Husker Du

Going to the Anthrax and seeing Mental Abuse

Chronic Disorder

Starting a zine

Following Rollins around on the Lifetime Tour

Rage Of Discipline: the band

“Stay out of prison”: advice from Hank

Believing it and living it

A little boy never learning to be a man

Blackout Bar

Meeting Kira from Black Flag…. kinda

The changing of the guard in Connecticut 

Forced Reality

Roger and Agnostic Front: the realest

Getting banned from the Anthrax every other weekend

Skeletal Ambitions

Helping out Jill Heath and DRI

Being a punk rock filmmaker

Julian Temple on Crass

Playing with GG Allin

The skinheads going to see Suckdog

Nancy and Al Barile

Hating Youth Of Today

The lost Boston scene of the late 80’s

Tree

B’zrker 

Sam Black Church

Inheriting the Boston VS New York beef

Metal as fantasy

The power of the phrase: “I love you”.

The delicate Art School/ Street Rock ’N’ Roll balance 

Fighting onstage during Black Flag

Joey C and Righteous Jams

Gibby and the invention of social media

Everything comes down to sadness

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Episode 374:

JESSE MICHAELS is back! That’s right: the legendary singer of Operation Ivy, Big Rig & Classics Of Love returns to the show to talk about punk, hardcore & mental health. Listen in as Jesse & Damian discuss: a lifelong battle with depression, approach to lyrics, Operation Ivy's impact, unease with punk's success, the reason Common Rider was the band it was & loving hardcore punk most of all. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also, don't miss Classics Of Love's RAGING 2020 ep: "World Of Burning Hate"! Available here: https://classicsoflove.bandcamp.com/

Also Touched On:

Records

Mental health and being a lead singer

the voice

The Neurosis method of writing lyrics

The Feederz

“The Nerdy, Happy thing” was deliberate 

HC 86: The negative and the boring

Is it cooler to be in AF or Op Ivy?

The first tour

The Zero Boys

Tim Yo

The dived Bay Area scene

Lovin’ the mid ’00 HC comeback 

Born Against

Warped Tour: not my summer camp

Not loving festivals

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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In celebration of the release of “Architects Of Self-Destruction: The Oral History Of Leftöver Crack”, Damian welcome’s his friend, former LÖC guitarist & co-author: BRAD LOGAN (Episode #119) back to the show!  Brad brought along his co-author, editor of punknews.org & Damian’s new buddy, JOHN GENTILE for the gab! Join them as they go  behind the scenes & talk about the aftermath of making the year’s most compelling & honest music book. OUT NOW on Rare Bird Books now!

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Episode 373:

The triple threat, JENNA PUP is here! Join Damian as he sits down with half of Get Better Records, The Hirs Collectives & all of Jenna & The Pups to talk punk!

Listen in as they discuss: house shows as true punk, color vinyl as proto-NFTs, the wear & tear of hardcore, the overwhelming tide of anyone can do it & tons more! DON’T MISS IT!

Also, don’t miss the fanatic new The HIRS Collective double LP “Third 100 Songs” OUT NOW on Get Better Records!

Also Touched On:

A house show as true punk

Holding on desperately to the word

From Christian to Manson

The Family Values tour

Christmas Card records

Merzbow’s record in a car in a museum

The complete Melt Banana discography

THREEONEG keeps it in print 

NFT as record collecting

The Faustian deal of being the singer in a hardcore band

The punk generation gap

The overwhelming nature of the reality when everyone can do it

Detroit

Touring with Some Girls

gigging with DJ Assault

Wanting to retire to pop music

The staggering reality of “anyone can do it”

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!

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