Turned Out A Punk

JELLO’S BACK! That’s right, one of punk’s original firebrands returns to the show & oh boy, is it ever a good one!! Join Damian as he sits down with a feisty JELLO BIAFRA to discuss punk & politics as only Jello can. Listen in as the two friends talk: watching workout tapes with Zappa, getting cornered by Timothy Leary at Giger’s art show, going to war with Tipper Gore & so much more!!  Not to be missed & don’t miss Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s awesome brand new album: “Tea Party Revenge Porn” out now on Alternative Tentacles!!!  Also Touched On: Jack Chic comics The Dancing Assholes and the Faith Healers GG Allin’s hardrock band Lee Ving’s Psych band Felt: the pre-Dickies band Greg Sage’s band with a singin’ Wrestler Hedge-fund record collectors The censored acetate of “Too Dunk to *BEEP*” The Greek DK’s record The Beach Mutants Toronto VS Vancouver  Drake Releasing the Eraserhead soundtrack The Bad Brains Working with Bob Last Going to Australia The Lime Spiders Wrong Kind Of Stone-age The Celibate Rifles Meeting Hard-Ons after they were attacked by Skinheads The Government was supposed to be on “Let Them Eat Jellybeans!” “No Alice Cooper props!”: The surgical gloves Having to be willing to fail on stage The Husker Hotel: “Hi, we’re Husker Du and we’re here to stay!” The Fartz  Pushing potted plants in people’s faces Debating the definition of punk Ian and Henry shaving heads on the side of the stage Mosh vs. Thrash and Slam The Mudd Club sucking The origin of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” The night the British Movement attacked the Dead Kennedys and MDC in Lester UK Mayhem  Denver catches up “This is war!”: the PMRC “You are the victim”: meeting Zappa Timothy Leary trying to get Jello to help with Al Jorgenson at a Giger exhibit  Gwar shows up to save the day & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

13 Mars 20211h 50min

DANKO JONES ARE DOING THEIR FIRST EVER LIVESTREAM TONIGHT (and tomorrow)! To celebrate the event, The DND (Danko Jones [the person], Nick and Damian) got together for more good times and self-reflection. Listen in as they discuss a bunch of topic including whether or not they should even bother putting this episode up! Get tickets for Danko's livestream here: https://linktr.ee/dankojones And Nick can be found here on Twitter: @nickflanweakly Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

12 Mars 202152min

JOEY SH*THEAD’S BACK!!! One of Canada's most iconic musicians, DOA's Joey Keithley returns to the show! From teaching the punk world how to tour, to running for political office; Joey's life is worthy of a movie & soon, it will be! Keep an eye out for Scott ("Salad Days" & "Creem" documentaries) Crawford's highly anticipated documentary on Joey: "Something Better Change" coming soon!  Until then, listen to Joey & Damian talk: lost Mystic Recording sessions, the Yippies' roll in the early hardcore scene, RCMP surveillance in the wake of the arrest of the Squamish 5 & so much more!  NOT TO BE MISSED!!!  Also Touched On: The sonic range of small town Vancouver The reason for the creative explosion Vancouver: weird mix of people Why not Toronto and Montreal? SCUM in Montreal The Nils The BC and Quebec connection Lee Kendall: the original singer of The Skulls Art Bergman’s first band: Schmorg The coming together of the suburban groups with completely different idea of what punk was The Ramones show up and teach everyone how it’s done Studying Black Flag Playing one of the first Husker Du shows Grant Hart  Playing with the Bad Brains in 1979 The all-time great line-ups No rules Going to China the lost Mystic Session Label Issues: drugs and the music business  CD Characters and the “Cocksucker Blues” connection Anti-Canada Day The Squamish 5: “Anyone heard from Gerry lately?” RCMP Surveillance   Playing hockey against Negazione  & TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

10 Mars 20211h 23min

DARRYL JENIFER IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the BAD BRAINS' LEGEND to discuss his journey in punk. From kicking Cars' records off of turntables, to the Bad Brains' early "James Chance" era, to the real story behind the Clash Bond Street show:  DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!  Also Touched On: Growing up with Soul, GoGo and Motown Discovering the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Ramones Some nights, it’s Wow! Some nights, it’s Why? Brothers before Bad Brains RIP Sid McCray: too punk for a band The influence of a Budgie Loving No New York Comp  Mindpower The James Chance inspired first line up of the Bad Brains “Five people clap for you and now you’ve sold out” From one song to Black Dots in a few months Playing with on back of flatbed  the Mall in DC Seeing Jame Brown at the Howard Theatre in ’64 “Why is the bass too loud?”: The first time seeing Bob Marley  The Swimming Pool Q’s The Urban Verb the year 1979 The Happening Playing Berlin when the Wall fell The art of writing a setlist Kicking a Cars record off the turntable: “Why are they playing this shit?!” “Biker Music”: Hearing the Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist for the first time A “19 year old young Peter Tosh” had no love for Basquiat  Ian MacKaye: Very Washingtonian  The Old New York CBGBs: always cool The Bloodless Pharaoh’s Brian Setzer goes swing Red Hot Chilli Peppers : “How the hell did this band get on the bill?” The Beastie Boys going rap Screamin’ Mad George is making shit again: living with The Mad “Stay Close To Me is a Clash influenced song and Pay To Come is a Ramones influenced song” Meeting Jerry Williams and Th’Cigaretz  “The Ramones are dope but I am The Damned“ The Clash and The Ramones are sore losers & SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

5 Mars 20211h 22min

No need to wonder what to do for pleasure this week because, JON KING from the legendary Gang Of Four comes to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as he & Damian talk about: cinematic influence, the Dadaist nature of punk, psychedelic Hawkwind shows & fighting Nazis at the Fenton!  NOT TO BE MISSED! & don't miss the new Gang Of Four "77-81" Boxset on Matador Records!! Also Touched On: The influence on the present day trying to never be in a genre Dr. Feelgood: UK proto-punk the disappointment of the Clash toilet reverb: “it sounded shit” being sampled by Run The Jewels’ “We were pretty good at being difficult” Refusing to compromise for Top Of The Pops A friend’s dad with a crack and peel Velvet Underground Marc Almond getting whipped as an opener Having to deal with the first wave of Nazi punks The Mekons Sham 69 & TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2 Mars 20211h 12min

Episode 314: Cancel that vacation because today on the show, the LEGEND JANE WIEDLIN FROM THE GO-GO’s is here to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his dream guests to talk about the good, the bad & the disturbingly violent of the LA punk scene that the Go-Go's fought their way out of. From the reality behind the Germs legend, dealing with Nazi's at Ska shows, the LAPD's war on punks & so much more!   NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the amazing new Go-Go's documentary and their brand new song "Club Zero"!! & also VOTE FOR THEM INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THE GO-GO’S RULE!!! https://vote.rockhall.com Also Touched On: Frosted is super underrated The pre-punk LA Glam scene making punk clothes Meeting Pleasant Rodney’s English Disco Zolar X Silverhead New York Dolls Tales From Canterbury The origin of the song Blades The darkness of the early LA scene  Drug and alcohol  being too punk for power pop the AM radio influence The Weirdos and the Screamers: too good to get signed X Castration Squad The St. Daddy’s Day Massacre Beef with Elvis Costello the real side of the Germs legend & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

26 Feb 202153min

Episode 313: Today on the show, Damian is joined by a legit triple threat: Propagandhi bassist, I Spy vocalist & visual artist TODD KOWALSKI!!! Listen in as they talk finding metal/punk/hardcore in Regina, Unlawful Assembly is Saskatchewan's greatest band, The Besnard Lakes' connection & so much more!  Not to be missed!!!!  Also Touched On: Loving Metal Accused  Possessed a friend from the ally with Razor and Celtic Frost records Trying to comprehend Slayer Insight: Regina’s answer to SNFU Unlawful Assembly: The best unrecorded Regina bend ever The greatness of Beyond Possession  The Chris Todd Kenton Warriors: first band Imaginary metal bands Government Issue playing to 15 people Doing the best stage dive of your life for No Means No Needing to hear what death metal sounded like The Killer Dwarfs playing at the bar at the mall Records On Wheels GG Allin in Flipside: “I’m going to be banned from life if I’m caught with this!” Drummer of Ditchpig The Besnard Lakes/ Propagandhi connection Going to a Fugazi and hoping for Minor Threat Loving Youth Of Today Seeing Tankhog on the best possible day Bonehog did not age well Death Sentence dancers Seeing Sloan on the very first tour Seeing the Small interviewing Propagandhi There is always a market for dark punk The influence of the Melvins, Helmet and Coffin Break The effect of hearing Ebullition records stuff & TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

22 Feb 20211h 33min

Episode 313: Start doing back flips! Today on the show Damian sits down with the hilarious SHAPEL LACEY (AKA The only person in comedy with a DS-13 tattoo)!!! Listen in as the two discuss: how finding punk gave a voice to an anger inside, the various strengths of different Black Flag singers, why hardcore is the most integral of all the punk mutations, the power of the mosh, Oasis: the anti-Nirvana & so much more!  NOT TO BE MISSED!!! Also Touched On: "Wanna join a Ska punk band?" The power of a logo  the various strengths of the various Black Flag singers Henry Rollins: the greatest front person  No one can touch Keith On Nervous Breakdown Hearing "Mississippi Queen" for the first time Never loving 80’s metal From Queens Of The Stone Age to GBH The blues in Grunge Loving Oasis  The chilling effect of Kurt Cobain’s death Loving GBH from crust to hipsters Most people don’t have what it takes to be in a band like Black Flag Deranged Records DS-13 ETA & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

17 Feb 20211h 38min