Turned Out A Punk

“I Can’t Keep Up! I Can’t Keep Up! I Can’t Keep Up!” This week, we bring you one of the most requested guests in TOAP history. BRIAN BAKER is on the show! Listen in as Damian has his mind blown with stories from the genesis of DC hardcore from a guy who lived it! After all these years, THIS ONE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. 

Here’s to a little escape

Also Touched On:

Mutual respect

Going to elementary school with Guy Picciotto & Micheal Hampton

Moving to Detroit

Moving home & everyone is punk!

Everyone was into the Damned, Clash & the Viletones

The importance of Skip - Yesterday & Today 

Discharge & Crass

Empire, Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus & the Church inform a sonic change

Either Teen Idles & The Cramps or The Extorts on top of a record store

Pussy Galore elementary school connection

“I could have been seeing Doc Watson play a deli two times a month but I was too busy putting bandanas on my boots, hangin’ outside of 7-11 drinking cokes”

Going to see Stiff Little Fingers with fake IDs & pencil shavings rubbed on your face

The BAD BRAINS

The early Minor Threat shows

not really understanding the name

The Violence

No more fights

The difference between DCHC & NYHC

Getting a Canadian SIN Card

Choosing SNL over playing at the GI

DOA at Woodlawn High School

Forming a Meatmen

Forming Doggy Rock: “just a shit show”

Dag Nasty: The California years

“The Great Minor Threat Escape”

Forming Samhain

“We don’t need this MacKaye character, let’s get Glen!”

Missing out on Bad Religion until “Recipe For Hate”

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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GET READY for a hardcore scientist masterclass! On this episode, Damian is joined by returning buddy, Cold World’s Nick Woj! Listen in as the two discuss, theorize, debate & philosophize on a variety of punk related topics including: the differences between east & west coast power violence, why the punk connection was more present in UK rave, why Jason Mewes got sober, how Toronto has altered rap & hardcore, the revisionist history behind modern Deadheads & other pressing topics. 

NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:  

Beastie Boys, Spazz and Cold World

the massive coastal difference in Power Violence fans

Independent Wrestling and DIY Hardcore

Burial Ground

DJng in the back of Home Base

The Wrestling/ Posi-Numbers connection

Acid House and Post-Punk connection

the motivation for forming Herman’s Hermits and Fugazi are probably pretty similar

Normies 

the 90’s

Hardline

Scott Biben 

Chef G

UK Drill

Is the Lincoln/ Hoover split on iTunes?

Portraits of the Past  

Rap/ Hardcore: Toronto changes everything

The Blood For Blood effect on Boston

Right Brigade Demo

Magnus: Where are they now?

Why Jason Mewes got clean?

The tragic Bane/ Only Crime show

Deadheads: the real story

& Much, Much More!!!

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"Somebody told me that you had a punk past". This week on the show Damian is joined by The Killers' Ronnie Vannucci for a deep dive into the early 90's Las Vegas punk scene. Join the two as they discuss going from NoFX shows in the desert to being in one of the biggest bands in the world. NOT TO BE MISSED! Also check out The Killers' "Imploding The Mirage" coming later in 2020.

Also Touched On:

Moving to Northern California from Vegas

Parent’s friend Emily gives you a DK and a COC tape

Seeing the Minutemen in skate videos

Getting “Head on the Door” by the Cure

Dad’s bitching van

Going to see the Cadillac Tramps at the Huntrage Theatre 

The Summer of Shows

Vermin From Venus connection

The Double Down Saloon… or Double Door?

Sneaking into shows

Meeting older kids at the heath food store

John Castro and A Lesser Dog

Seeing NoFX playing in the desert

How did a desert show work?

Fugazi: Vegas Style

House of Blues changes the game

Purple Dirt with Vegas’ Dave Navarro

Meeting Elephant Stone and forming Attaboy Skip

Fault

Tennis Court shows

When no one comes to the show, might as well play ska/punk?

How the Killer came to be 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Get ready! This week on the show, Damian is joined by the god Katie Harkin! Listen in as the two discuss: the post industrial collectivism of Yorkshire punk, free hats from MF Doom, the damage done to a generation of rock dudes by the success of the Arctic Monkeys & so much more! 

Don't miss it & don't miss Katie's new solo album Harkin!!!!

Also Touched On:

Growing up in Leeds

A trip to Cyprus

the influence of the Smashing Pumpkins

Leeds over Reading!

Feeling bad for MF Doom after his set and trying to offer him a kind word 

Post Industrial Collectivism 

the Arctic Monkeys change everything

forming a band to get a 7” in Jumbo Records

Getting thrown out of a band for suggesting not doing covers

The Gossip blowing up in England

The London music biz

Wichita rules!

“Would you want to be the next Lilly Allen?”

Why is non-mainstream music more mainstream in the UK?

Sleater Kinney

Saturday Night Live

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

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ARE YOU READY, cause we've got a KILLER one for you tonight! JAMI MORGAN of Code Orange is on the show! Listen in as Damian & Jami finally get a chance to catch up & talk everything from family ties to Dillinger Four to calling in the Heyman Hustle at the WWE. THIS EPISODE HAS EVERYTHING!

Again, NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Punk adjacent parents

Dad went to school with Billingsgate 

the secret family rap history

booking the first Code Orange show at 14

Grade 7 pop punk WAS HUGE!

Selling tickets for your own shows

Never being shown the ropes of genre

The Ska demo that isn’t ska

playing with Menzingers ad a house party at 14

Becoming a bitter ass band… at 15

The Pittsburgh goes apart

The first tour

Anti-Flag

Finding your scene

Booking a Circle Takes the Square tour and then asking them to hang

The four way split and where it went

Converge

Touring with Bane

“You guys fuck with ska?”

Scott Vogal: people’s champ

The Wicca Phase Wrestling Connection

The WWE

Jamming for just Triple H

Paul Heyman, bootleg samples and the making the theme for Bray Wyatt

& Much, Much More!!!

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In further celebration of Pittsburgh Week, Chris and Damian invite Pittsburgh rocker Dave Martin to nerd out about Pittsburgh and get lost in the weeds along the way.

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It's Pittsburgh week on Turned Out A Punk! Often on this podcast, we hear about older punk siblings being a gateway for their younger counterparts ... but not this time. Today on the show, Damian sits down with the hilarious JON DALY to discuss how having punk older brothers drove him away from the genre  for many years. Listen in as the two discuss the fear caused by Danzig videos, having to sneak around with Jimmy Buffet records & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Mutual love

Austin charges his hair, forms Cryptic Alliance and freaks poor little Jon out!

punk spreads to the middle brother Matt

Liking the Circle Jerks but not liking the name and also not understanding it

Being into Jimmy Buffett

Loving the Dead Milkmen

Hard On Gang jamming in the basement

Matt forms Hurl

Parent’s with no other choice

Becoming a Jock

Being on the scene and getting into indie rock

being 15 and getting drunk with Don Caballero 

Connecting to the guys in Metallica 

Pixes 

Polvo

Dub Narcotic 

Not being able to skate

Fuck Rusted Root!

Andy Warhol was not a chill hang

Degrassi

Why is canadian TV so awesomely bad

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Drakulas’ week continues & Zach is back for another attack! That's right, Damian's good buddy (& one-time co-host) Zach Blair returns to the show for the fifth time in celebration of the brand new Drakulas' record Terminal Amusements, to finally record an actual Part #2! Join the two friends as they catch up & dive further into Zach's wild career in music. From Government Flu to Hagfish to Gwar to Only Crime to Rise Against to the Drakulas & everything in between!!!

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What makes a great front person? Well, on this episode Damian sits down with one of the best to ever do it, The Drakulas' Mike Wiebe! Find out what brought him to the microphone & listen in as the two discuss how the local Denton scene has kept producing so many amazing bands & the fight they had to go through to be seen.  Also, don't forget to check out the amazing new Drakulas' album "Terminal Amuesments" OUT NOW!

Also Touched On:

ChiPs and Quincy Punks

a tape with the Dead Milkmen and the Misfits

the silly version of punk being in your DNA

Class Of 1984

Tough Turf

Ramones in a Budweiser Ad

Thrasher 

Brutal Juice and the Denton Scene

The Toadies blow up

Craig Welch was terrifying 

The Skeleton Kids

The Reds become the Marked Men

Parquet Courts continue the tradition

The Dallas Scene vs. Denton

The power of the Weekly in the before internet time

Listening to Iron Maiden and being overtaken by the power of Neil Diamond

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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In celebration of the fantastic new Best Coast record "Always Tomorrow": When Damian first started this podcast five years ago, he asked his buddy Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast to be a guest, but sometimes good things can take a while to happen. On this episode, Beth & Damian finally sit down to talk punk. Listen in as as the two chat: turning hymns into pop-punk anthems, the amazingness of The Smell, forming Best Coast & everything in between!  

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

podcasts: a way to catch up with friends

being obsessed with the dude with the dyed black hair and Social D shirt

You can wear a Strung Out shirt to church?!?

“This is the best shit ever!”: Discovering Hanson

Mom drops you off at the Vandals and goes and gets a tattoo

Youth group and Tooth And Nail

Turning hymns into pop punk songs

punk rock camouflage 

the Omaha connection

Trying to get hidden from the weed smoke at the 311 show

Operation Ivy as the inspiration

the brilliance of true pop-punk

meeting Mika Miko

Hello Operator: A Smell supergroup

Lagwagon, the Ataris and Tony Hawk soundtrack

Saddle Creek

being confused  by Yellowcard

The Locust and THREEONEG

the Infamous Dystopia show

Crowdsurfing through the kitchen at Dean and Randy’s

going noise but not liking it

Forming Beth Coast

media bullshit

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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