Episode 265 - Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Junkyard, Fake Names etc.)

“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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