Turned Out A Punk

On the latest episode, we're keeping the Scared Straight energy going as Damian sits down with Ten Foot Pole frontperson, DENNIS JAGARD! Listen in as the two have a revealing conversation about the risk that comes with pursuing your dream. Topics  ranging from: cleaning up after the Cramps to fighting nazi's at the Gilman, to ignoring Prince's career advice & other goodness are all covered. 

Not to be missed!

Also Touched On:

“Big fan”

Dennis’ dog and workout partner

Dad trying to take the stage from under Black Flag

Missing Minor Threat by a week

Brian Walsby bringing over records

Mike Thompson: the original singer of Scared Straight

The Cramp’s Show Aftermath: Cow Tongues and 7”s 

breaking up in Pittsburgh 

Invest in your art and the risks involved 

Not taking Prince’s career advice

“Punishing” Jimmy Eat World fans and them not loving his shoes

Switchblade held to the throat 

Touring Texas with NoFX during their worst line up

Slamming for cardio for Ill Repute 

Fighting Skinheads at the Gilman

The Longest Line and the great leap forward

AND MORE!!!!

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IT'S WORLD SERIES TIME! What better way could TOAP celebrate than by having the only Major Leaguer/Punk Musician ever (A former LA Dodger at that!), on the show?!? Join Damian as he sits down with SCOTT RADINSKY to talk about playing punk shows & playing baseball at the highest level AT THE SAME TIME. Listen in as the two also go deep on: Mystic Records, RKL, other secret MLB Punx & tons of other goodness! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

Chilling at the abandoned Country Club pool in 6th grade

 

The skater kids

Fear and Circle One

Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies and America’s Hardcore

Violence at shows

Scared Straight

The new scene

In defence of Mystic

Never breaking up

the late 80s lean years for LA punk

Juggling baseball and punk

Shows before and after baseball

The Punk Baseball Connection

Never being a “Jock”

Were there any other punks in baseball?

The bad kid and the good kids in school

It’s just a game

Ian as a god

RKL are gods

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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The Bard Of Barking comes to the Turned Out A Punk Kingdom! On this episode Damian sits down with one of England’s greatest song writers: BILLY BRAGG. Listen as Damian & Billy go deep on the greatness: Riff Raff, Chiswick Records’ pub rock, never listening to the Clash’s “Sandinista” on principle & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS. 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On: 

Sounds

A Damned reel to reel as first exposure

it’s gotta be recorded wrong speed?

Sceptical of the art school quality of it

The Jam are the first band to have an impact

Dr.Feelgood are the British Ramones

Do up your top button lest you look like a Bee Gee

The Clash live blowing your mind

Forming Riff Raff

Recording I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut and being reborn

getting high on recording

Snatching a cup of “Sex and Drug and Rock And Roll” badges from your future manager

Albion Records

The unreleased Riff Raff movie

Throwing matinee gigs in Clopton 

The Now’s “Development Corporation”

Jon Savage’s end of Punk was just the start

The power and sway on being big city rockers in a small town

Getting East German Punks Stoned for the first time

Lil’ Kevin joins the band

Punk splitting into Oi and The New Romantic

Never listening to Sandinista by the Clash

Blanking on The Levellers

“They weren’t in the Clash Wars!”

Lesson learned from Patrick Fitzgerald’s failure

Life’s A Riot

proto-Britpop 

The Housemartins 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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IT FINALLY HAPPENED: BOB MOULD HAS COME ON TOAP! One of the most requested guests for the podcast, as well as one of Damian's biggest inspirations, is here to talk Punk & it is spectacular. From Jesse "The Body" Ventura coming to hardcore shows to the infamous Tulsa Jack demo, this one is a trip. Also, don't miss Bob's UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING new album "Blue Hearts"!

Also Touched On:

CHOM-FM

Seeing punk before you heard it

School bus trips to see concerts in Montreal

Rush at their peak versus Aerosmith at their worst

Cheap Trick blowing KISS of the stage

Ramones opening for Iggy

Suicide Commandos in Rock Scene

Blank Records records in Burlington Vermont

Where did punk start?

Divergent evolution

The Suburbs

Taking lesson from Chris Osgood just to hang out

How different would alternative music have been if Husker Du had kept Charlie?

Final Conflict and Willful Neglect

Ken Lester with the hook up

Ron Reyes coming through with ribs and the strawberries

Making Duff McKagan leave the TV so Husker Du can watch wrestling

The story of the Tulsa Jacks demo

Breaking into the Biz

Diamond Jim: Husker Du’s Tour manager

Working at WCW

The Misfits

Vampiro

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!

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What a week!! Today on the show Damian is joined by the awesome Lydia Loveless! Listen in as they discuss going from being forced to play bass in the family band to self releasing her fantastic new album, "Daughter". As always,  not to be missed!!!

Also Touched On:

Mommy loved the Clash

Dad jamming New Wave records

The Romantics are Punk

Being forced to play bass

Playing weird gigs

joining Carson Drew

The Columbus buzzed about punk scene of the mid-00s

Opening fo the Carbonas

Going solo

Everyone ends up with a country side project

 Finally getting somewhere! 

seeing a noise artist for the first time: “When is he going to start the show?”

Touring with the Supersuckers

A family fest

& So Much More!!!!

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Give the drummer some! This week on the show Damian sits down & chats punk with the man who holds down the beat for the podcasting world: The Trap Set's JOE WONG! Listen in as the two discuss basement shows, Dischord's DC, scoring TV shows/movies & even playing bass in the Kill-A-Watts. Not to be missed & also don't miss Joe's AWESOME new solo record, Nite Creatures out on now Decca Records!

Also Touched On:

Dream Guest!

Finding the Descendents at camp 

The Violent Femmes

Not liking Green Day because they were on a major

Gravity records

The third wave Dischord scene

Ian MacKaye kept EVERYTHING

Forgetting that you were in The Kill-A-Watts

Forming Akarso

Seeing Fugazi

Booking Modest Mouse in your basement

Seeing your old punkhouse on Hoarders

cheap gas and Taco Bell Bean burritos was the full of the 90s’ DIY scene

Touring to Austin

Music City Washington DC

Comedy Drummers: what gives?

The Yes Men

& SO MUCH MORE!!

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Episode 287:

Turned Out A Punk's Sopranos Week concludes in dramatic fashion! On this episode Damian is joined by the legendary MICHAEL IMPERIOLI to talk late blooming into punk! Listen in as the two discuss going from being scared of the New York Dolls at 8 years old to becoming completely obsessed with the era they helped usher Punk in. DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE & also, don't miss Michael & Steve Schirripa’s Podcast, Talking Sopranos!

Also Touched On:

Hearing the New York Dolls at 9 years old and not getting it

being a late bloomer with music

loving classic rock before it was classic

Jethro Tull in Concert

Going to school with adults as a teenager

Echo And The Bunnymen

The Smiths and going back from there

the 11 year old punk the smoked pot and blew up cats in your grade 4 class

Grace Jones live

early REM

Miracle Legion

No Wave

Navigating the real New York

The obsession with late 70’s Manhattan 

The power of New York

The disappointment of making Basketball Diaries

Writing Summer Of Sam

Meeting Honeychild

Playing in bands

Galaxie 500

the Nu-York revival

Green Day and the Sopranos

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!

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It's Sopranos' Week on the show with TWO amazing episodes! Kicking it off, the GOD Drea de Matteo stops by the show! Twenty years ago, Damian read a rumour on the internet that Drea used to go to Punk shows in New York. Today, he finds out whether or not you can believe what you read on the web. Was Drea de Matteo a punk rocker? Tune in & find out! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! 

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Hello everybody! Recorded live from somewhere (Ohio), we have the LEGEND TALIB KWELI stopping by the show! Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes as they discuss the deep connections between punk & hip hop. They talk: writing Operation Ivy lyrics on the wall, why Dante Ross isn't a super scrub, what led to Tupac & Biggie hanging out with Kurt Cobain & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!! 

Also Touched On:

The Deadhead/White dreadlock dude hybrid

The hardcore kids being the ones that tried to really understand rap. 

The HipHop/Punk Connection

Self referential genres 

Minor Threat

Bodycount

the similarity between hip hop and hardcore fashion 

the importance of the year 1988

Writing Operation Ivy and Dead Kennedy’s lyrics on the wall

Nirvana and Hip Hop

the importance of the Video for Smells Like Teen Spriit

Hanging out with Tupac and Biggie

Lyricist Lounge and DIY

The importance of El-P

the effect of NWA getting cool on MTV

Dr. Dre and punk’s: “offensive shit over familiar melodies” formula

Frontline and the SD-50s 

The reason Dante Ross talks so much shit to Talib

Sneaker Culture in Punk

Cold World

Pickle Rick golf shirt ain't all bad

The importance of black artists to punk

A band called Death

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!

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The King is back! Legendary wrestler & punk historian beyond reproach, ,Robbie Brookside makes his return to the show! Listen in as Damian sits down to further establish the power of the punk/ wrestling connection! Listen in as they discuss: Crass & Cave-In coming to the matches, hiding the Shitlickers 7" from the OG Black Tiger, being the old longhair at the Cock Sparer reunion & so much other goodness! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!! One of our longest episodes ever!!!!

Also Touched On:

Mom throwing out the Zine

A squat gig to see AYS with Pete Stahl from Scream

“BASH HIS HEAD IN!!!”: Crass hitting you up for wrestling tickets

Music to scare your sister with

Trying to put on a DIRT show

Corpus, Society’s Problems and Clockwork destruction

Hearing the Siege demo for the first time

The legendary Planet X venue’s punk roots

Anti Cimix and Toxic Reasons hanging in Liverpool

bringing younger kids

Deathmatches are the 7 Minutes of Nausea of wrestling

Paco and Clint Chapman 

Mike Clark and MCR UK

This is the best life: Seeing Jawbreaker in a German Squat

Two long hair and 800 men with no hair on the boarder : going to see Cock Sparrer  

The Punk Wrestling connection: Cal from Discharge going to school with Klondyke Kate

Defend Grind Core (from skinheads)

The Fits staying at your parents place

“He’s an animal!”: meeting Dave Grohl

Wool: “Mainstream Scream”

Cave In, the NME and Pro-Wrestling

Hiding the Shitlickers 7” from Rollerball Rocco Roc

“That’s just American bullshit this” Green Day infamous Christmas gig

“Are you Larry Livermore?”

Penpals with Green Day

Funaki putting the whole looker room to sleep

and so much more!!!!!

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