Turned Out A Punk

GET READY!!! This week on the show Damian is joined by a legend: DONITA SPARKS of the godly L7! Listen in as the two discuss not fitting in & having to create your own scene, punk as an attitude. Also, the trials & tribulations of headlining the first Warped Tour. 

NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:

Sisters with great taste

Hearing the Ramones & finding your band

Not liking bands that buy shit off the rack

Punk or New Wave

B-52s were crazier than the Cramps

The Dead were a deal breaker

Going to dance clubs in the Northside of Chicago

Hating hardcore

The LA art punk scene gives rise to L7

Opening for Bad Religion

Redd Kross were true glam

Not being a part of the hip LA scene

Grunge up end rock

Meeting Sub Pop

Writing Shove

Covering Bloodstains & turning it into the Mencies Anthem 

The Dick Dale influence

The half-step 

Suicidal’s dirge

Everyones is opening for the riot

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Rejoice!!! It's finally happened! After losing one episode to the unknown, Matty Matheson comes to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy to talk about the good & the not so good times that led Matty to become one of the world’s most beloved chefs! Also, how punk & hardcore were paramount  to his journey. DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!!!! 

ALSO, don’t miss the return of Matty Fest with Decedents, Wu Tang and Danny Brown! Saturday September 7th at Echo Beach!!!!!!!!!!

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Weather, technology & scheduling be damned! This week Alex Lichtenauer (Get Better Records and Control Top) is on the show! After months of trying, join Alex & Damian as they discuss scene building & affecting positive change through music. Don't miss this rain soaked all too short conversation! 

Also Touched On: 

A NOFX tape gets passed around

The Decline is the peak

Pikesville Teen Center scene

The Baltimore Hardcore scene 

Cult Classics

Ramrod 

Charm City Art Space and the fall out

Moving to New Hampshire and scene building

The Starving Artist

Punk experiences it first

The first decade of Get Better Records

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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DREAMS COME TRUE! This week Damian welcomes his childhood hero & dream guest to the show, BEN LEE!!! Listen in as the two get caught in the metaphysical weeds discussing moshing at a Hard-Ons show to collaborating with Tom Robbins on musicals. ANOTHER EPISODE THAT CANNOT BE MISSED!!! 

Also Touched On:

A long time in the making for Damian

No one ever came

The Sydney all-ages scene

The Hard-Ons

Hellman

getting caught in the mosh at age 12

Rage: The TV program

Lo-Fi is Punk

“I thought it sounded like ‘Appetite For Destruction’”

Tom Robbins as a punk collaborator 

Dennis Tek opens for Rollins

Nirvana and the Violent Femmes were the reason

Television Personalities 

The Vaselines 

K Records

Half A Cow Records

Lemonheads

Smudge

Girling

Fallaheen Records

Not being able to open for Alex Chilton because it was a school night

“Do I get paid for that?”

the Bathing Ape collaboration

artist run labels are a bad idea most of the times

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he’s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Helping invent punk

The Dogs and the Motels

The Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids

Seeing Patti Smith and Ramones

Zolar X: hilariously dedicated

The faded glam of LA as an influence

Learning from Rodney

Th Quick: “Our Sparks”

Backdoor Man Magazine was the Bible

The birth of Zine culture

Doing the first Ramones zine

The odd crowd the Ramones attracted 

16 and standing beside Dee Dee

Thrift shopping with Blondie

The Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers

“Glad I was there for that”: life with The Screamers

Pat Suzuki and Argento

“You have to see this band the Cramps!”

Took the bus from LA

Going to New York and seeing the Contortions

Befriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox

The Mumps come to LA

The Student Teachers

The Blessed

“Those people were sick!” No Wave people were no fucking joke

“Yeah I noticed” The shift from punk to hardcore

Opening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual

“They Hated Us!”

Here come the angry kids

Going to see the Slits play in the UK

Record shopping in Paris in ’77

Working at Bomp

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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In honour of Bad Religion playing the Psycho Las Vegas Fest, Jay Bentley from Bad Religion is on the show! Tune in as Jay & Damian discuss finding punk, forming Bad Religion, the birth of Epitaph, leaving before the Unknown & coming back! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? LISTEN!

Also Touched On:

Raw Power Fanzine 

DIY? Are you High? What else was there

12,000 kids vs. Jay and Greg

Going to LA to see shows

The Stains and the car through the wall

Mad Society the SUPER little kids

“Well fuck this, we’re going to make our own.”

The Circle Jerks like your tape

“We are already on the radio?!?”

Rodney On The ROQ

Buying the Dickies and the Germs record store

Making the first 7”

making the first lp

Smoke 7 comp

Experimenting right into drugs

Joining Wasted Youth

The Clubs stop letting punk happen

Citadel: Proto glam

Do you be in the Circle Jerks? And winding up back in Bad Religion

Into the Unknown and back

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

BROUGHT TO YOU BE VANS

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What do MTV, WCW & Darby Crash have in common? This week’s guest is RIKI  RACHTMAN!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the former WCW/Headbanger’s Ball & current Cathouse Hollywood Podcast host to talk about The Germs, Black Flag & the Adolescents: OH MY! Not to be missed!!!

Also Touched On:

The greatest Canadians

Wearing Germs shirts on Headbangers Ball

Blink 182 is old school now?

Devo’s first record as gateway

Rodney on ROQ

Bloodstains

Keith Morris rocking a Spiderman costume fronting the Black Flag

Fear

Not getting the Germs… at first

X plays every show

Meeting Darby

The Adolescents Blue Album is one of the great albums EVER

Rob and Darby

Knowing more about Black Flag than Black Sabbath

Going to Universal Studios with an Adam And The Ants superfan

Auditions for the Angry Samoans

Forming a hardcore band 

“Hey Devo!”

“Hey Meatloaf!”

Meeting Lee Ving in the current day

Metallica meets the Plimsouls

 

Battery Club could have been Green Day

Trying to record and hang with Pantera

WCW

 On the road with Scott Steiner

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! 

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Because the world demanded it, Damian welcomes back to the show one of his all time favourite lyricists & TOAP Guests: PROPAGANDHI’S CHRIS HANNAH!!!

Get pumped for a pretty bleak discussion! The two reflect on the current state of things, where/when it all started to get much darker & of course, some punk rock talk too!

Also Touched On: 

The Prophecy Foretold: Chris Hannah Was Right! 

1996

The record flopped: YAY!

“Fuck these jokers!”

Traveling with a mini-mall

Greenroom as a bio-pic

The punk and politics

G-7 Records falls apart

Consolidated rule 

Hearing Randy for the first time

Todd and Chris go crazy while record Today’s Empires

Wanting to be more Los Crudos, Dropdead and Born Against

Fuck The Border with a rap part as an I Spy song

Jord: the voice of reason

Trying to make everything sound like a sped up cassette tape.

The terrifying prophecy of Propagandhi lyrics

the moment we could have saved the world

9/11 changes everything

You don’t own your cellphone 

Falling-out with Fat Mike

Changing views on Punk Voter

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Some 23 years ago a much younger Damian met Dan Panic at a show in Toronto & the positive impact on was immense. Now, two plus decades later, Damian gets to sit down & thank Dan the only way he knows how: by punishing him with questions about his musical past! Join D & D as they sit down to discuss playing drums in some of the most iconic pop punk bands. 

Also Touched On:

Damian meets Dan and it sets a standard

Blondie as a gateway

The Feds’ (pre-Smashing Pumpkins/ pre-Poster Children) fake tour booklet

Ivy League forms in 10 minutes 

Weedeater (pre Charles Bronson) and the new scene in the Western Suburbs

The evolution of the Chicago scene

The Los Crudos Screeching Weasel Connection

An apology to Cedric

The Riverdales VS Weasel

Tony Molina RULES

Listening to Mars Volta

Playing with At The Drive-In 

Joe does not like weed smoke from future rock gods

Playing with Sons Of Ishmael 

Opening for the first “last” Screeching Weasel show

The influence of Ringo

The nuns forcing you to write with your right hand

Melody over everything

The funny side of Born Against

Quitting music for five years

Touring with Pansy Division

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Whether you call it his second or his fourth time on the show, one of the greatest guests ever, JON WURSTER RETURNS! Either in the world of drumming or comedy, Jon truly is a GOAT! So sit back listen in as Damian & Jon go deep before he takes the stage with Bob Mould… Who also says one word on the show… So do we call that his Part 1? YOU DECIDE!

Also Touched On:

Going to Ohio to learn to record

Missing Husker Du by one day

Circle Of Shit

The scum influence on Philadelphia music 

Jon’s connection to Serial Killers

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has to follow Green Day… with the singer of Serial Killer 

John Drewbaker: So punk the local magazine did an article on him titled The Punk

The best show Superchunk ever played

Not loving the cross-over thing… except COC

the cool frats in Philly

Joining Jack Wenberg

Is there a drummer in the house?: Mike Joyce no shows the Buzzcocks 

Brad from Finger plays with Keith Urbane

going solo to see MDC on a Monday night in a college town when school out in 2019

The weirdness of Texas punk

The weirdness of Philly punk

The greatness of YDI live

The best of the metal records

Void rules ok!

Going Country

Why punk endures

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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