

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Feb 17, 2021 • 1h 39min
Shapel Lacey: Comedian and host of It's Managed Podcast
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
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Feb 12, 2021 • 2h 27min
Bill Hader from Barry, SNL, Superbad and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Episode 312:
Yes, that’s right!! On this episode Damian sits down & chats with, Emmy Award winning star/ co-creator/ director/ writer of HBO’s Barry, BILL HADER!!! Thanks to their mutual friend, Jon “King of Beats/Comedy” Wurster, these two anxious nerds are brought together for the longest episode of TOAP ever! Listen in as they discuss: panic attacks while making SNL, Barry as an autobiography, Bad Brains being the best ever, why can’t people just like instrumental Zappa & SO MUCH MORE! DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Mutual love
The Wheelman
Can you make the guns sound like they do in Heat?
Dad hated Dylan and loved Zappa
An uncle flipping out about Minor Threat’s cover of “Stepping Stone”
"Something Brains and something Kennedys?"
Monster Movies and punk: a deadly combination
The Misfits are targeted marketing at work
watching movies like TV
Getting wasted in front of Rush
Trying to school Geddy Lee on Mike Watt
Proudly punishing Spielberg
Cults and music
The Bad Brains
“Your Uncle John’s a Devo”
“Fartface”: Bill, Will Forte and Josh Brolin go down swinging on SNL
Not always enjoying it
Directing Barry: “I can do this”
Horror movies
Evil Dead is punk rock
creative process
SCTV and Kids in The Hall
Iron Chef... America
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Feb 9, 2021 • 1h 13min
Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Bored Games, Doublehappys)
Episode 311 :
On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the greatest songwriters EVER: SHAYNE CARTER!!! Shayne is a bonafide New Zealand music icon that has released some of Damian's favourite records in his various bands. Listen in as the two discuss how punk inspired Shayne & his compatriots in the Dunedin music scene to create some of the best music ever recorded.
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss ANY of Shayne's genius! Check out his amazing autobiography "Dead People I Have Known", as well as the music of:
Straitjacket Fits, Doublehappys, Shayne Carter+Peter Jefferies, Bored Games, Dimmer, The Weeds etc. (As well as all the other NZ goodness: The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, The Enemy, King Loser, Look Blue Go Purple, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones Toy Love, The Verlaines, Wax Chattels, etc. It will make your life better.)!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Toy Love and the Enemy
The Sex Pistols were good even on the reunion... shockingly
The Stooges, Al Green and Leonard Cohen: perfect til the end
Like in wrestling: doing more with less
“That’s the guitar sound from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’!"
Chris Knox: true punk
Martin from the Chills setting up chairs outside of gigs
the power of distance
The guy and the record store setting you straight after calling Jimi Hendrix a hippie
There is no golden egg to chase in Dunedin
1 in 10 000 people are signed to a US label
“Very white, very violent” Dunedin in the late 70s
Car Boys VS. Punks: being willing to die for your art
“Scarfie bashing”
Doublehappys: a form of social revenge
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Feb 5, 2021 • 1h 33min
Steve Von Till from Neurosis, Harvestman and Tribes Of Resistance
Episode 310:
On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite voices in music, STEVE VON TILL from the godly NEUROSIS! Listen in as they talk: Transgressor, hearing GISM for the first time, "Word As Law" not being a band favourite, gigs with Green Day & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve Von Till's AMAZING new solo album: 'No Wilderness Deep Enough'. ALSO, check out his new book of poetry & lyrics: "Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics", both are out now on Neurot Records!!
Also Touched On:
THE MRR COMPS
An influence on everyone
Born in 69
Hearing Los Angelas by X for the first time
Discharge changes everything
San Jose
Kill ‘Em All: “You need this”
The Peace comp
The MRR comps
What the hell is going on in Japan?!?: the first time you hear GISM
international hardcore
Transgressor
the mix bag early Gilman St. shows
Playing with Green Day, NoFX and the Offspring
Tribes Of Resistance
wanting to do all the things
Kamala hooking up the numbers for the first Neurosis tour
the Alchemy scene
RKL’s psychedelic light show
Clown Ally
“Punk rock, and we can’t even drink outside?!? That’s bullshit!”
“Six hours of the Misfits”
Coil, Throbbing Gristle, etc
College Radio: It’s not all REM
Holiday dinner at Chris Dodge’s with Buzz and Dale
Burning Witch: True Doom
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Feb 3, 2021 • 1h 4min
Joe Manganiello from Justice League, True Blood and Archenemy
Episode 309:
Grab your 20 sided dice! Today on the show we are joined by, the bard with a 31 charisma, actor/director/producer/writer/DM: JOE MANGANIELLO!!! Join Joe & Damian on his journey from a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead kid, to a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead adult... Who is also Deathstroke & Alcide the Werewolf.
NOT TO BE MISSED & ALSO, don't miss Joe's "Shoplifters Of The World" out wherever you see new movies March 26!
Also Touched On:
Damian’s whole family is excited for this one!
Metallica turning people on to the Misfits and Discharge
The power of the cover
Get In the Van: “Have you ever read this?”
Being obsessed and getting to meet Henry Rollins
“Crossover stars”
Shepard Fairly setting you straight
Parents hate D’n’D
Trying to keep Role Playing games punk
It’s a war-game
The dream of working in the industry… the gaming industry
Ian MacKaye’s birthday fucking up the booking plans for a live reading of Major League
What’s the purpose of us anymore?
Being the roadie for Goldfinger
Nerds of the world unite
Metal going high fashion is teenage validation
Vince Vaughn, Big Show, and Tom Against The Machine: the ultimate DnD party
Going to see Social Distortion and losing your camera with Macho Man photos
DnD Alignments
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 31, 2021 • 1h 8min
Alison Braun: Photographer and author of IN THE PIT
Episode 308:
Mouse is in the house!!! One of the original documentarians of Souther California Hardcore is here: ALISON “MOUSE” BRAUN! Join Damian as he sits down with the legendary photographic contributor to MRR, Flipside, We Got The Power & more! From why she didn’t shoot Black Flag, to introducing El Duce to her dad, to why it took her years to finally get a usable shot of the Bad Brains, to moving to Seattle just before the explosion & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Alison’s AMAZING NEW BOOK available at alisonbraun.com!!!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Having to judge a book by it’s cover
Record stores
the loss of cover art
Kiss and Cheap Trick
Shady has the tickets!
The Go-Go’s and the X and the Whisky
Submitting to Flipside
The Keith Morris versus Jello Biafra stage vibe
Black Flag’s asshole roadie
Police against punks under Daryl Gates
Working for Mystic Records
Doug Moody
Shooting Battalion Of Saints
“Your dad’s over there talking to El Duce”
Seattle: the boring calm before the storm
Never getting to shoot Nirvana
B’last being the best band to shoot
Not shooting Minor Threat
Trying to get a still shot of the Bad Brains
Stains
Submitting punk photo for high school assignment
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 26, 2021 • 38min
Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods
Episode 307:
On this episode Damian sits down with the outspoken vocalist of Sleaford Mods, JASON WILLIAMSON! Listen in as the two discuss: the Sex Pistols still being able to shock, Public Enemy, class, music & MORE! ALSO, check out “Spare Ribs” out now on Rough Trade.
Also Touched On:
A step brother as an entryway
The Sex Pistols: still able to offend
Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Eric B and Rakim as a first show
The class divide in music
Rap in England
British Rap
The non-influence of John Cooper Clark and Mark E. Smith
The Old Blue Last
& MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 22, 2021 • 1h 14min
Fat Mike Burkett from NoFX Is Back!
Episode 306:
NoFX week continues & FAT MIKE is back! 5 years after his first legendary appearance on the show, Mike returns to: berate Damian's tastes in music, drink WATER & talk punk. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! And don't miss Single Album in stores February 26!
Also Touched On:
Back together again
Mike loves the Melvins
a penny scraping against concrete
Rattus
Agnostic Front
MRR
BDSM and being elite
Punk means I’m better than you
The unreleased Johnny Ramone chapter of “Please Kill Me”
Damian has terrible taste in punk
Mike not getting why people love the Big Boys and the Minutemen
Why do people hate me?
Fat’s best year
“No one says Punk in Drublic is our best record anymore.”
Bands that went to majors
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 19, 2021 • 1h 4min
Erik "Smelly" Sandin from NoFX and Caustic Cause
Episode 305:
IT'S NoFX WEEK ON TURNED OUT A PUNK! In celebration of the newly announced "Single Album", here is the first of two episodes!!! Kicking it off with a bang, Damian sits down to talk with the LEGEND ERIK SANDIN! An interview almost a quarter century in the making as Damian interviews Erik for the first time since 1996! Listen is as they discuss: NoFX making him a worse drummer, worshiping at the RKL alter, punk gangs, the "Mystic Records Puppy Mill" & so much more! Not to be missed & don't miss "Single Album" out on Fat Wreck Chords February 26!
Also Touched On:
The nicest band member
Buttrock: here comes punk
Caustic Cause: 30 year old shredders
Don Bolles
America’s Hardcore
Drew Bernstien
Lip service
Scared Straight
The LA Straight Edge Scene
Playing with 7 Seconds
Becoming a worse drummer after joining NoFX
“Raymond” and the art for Liberal Animation
RKL thought the years
Mystic studios: A puppy mill for teenage punk bands
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 16, 2021 • 1h 37min
Steve Diggle from the Buzzcocks and Flag Of Convenience
Episode 304:
There's no boredom around here! On this episode, Damian is joined the LEGEND: STEVE DIGGLE from the godly Buzzcocks! Listen in as the two discuss the birth of punk in the UK, Krautrock, Gorilla Biscuits, touring with Nirvana & tons of other goodness! From "A conscientious objector to work" to punk icon: NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, grab that ESSENTIAL Buzzcocks singles boxset out now on Domino Records!
Also Touched On:
Influencing everybody
Sick of Yes
The Pistols and the Ramones
Forming two days before the Clash
The R and B influence of Pub rock
The slowness of everything in 70’s music
the Kraut rock influence
Thrift store punks
Malcolm McLaren’s mistake completes the Buzzcocks
Promises was a political song
pre-Buzzcocks’ Buzzcocks demos
The Buzzcocks’ practice space becomes Joy Division’s
Jamming for the first album in a rehab centre
Autonomy: An English person trying to sound like a German person singing English
“The riff of Manchester”
“I love those weird little bits you do in those songs!” - Joey Ramone
“We aren’t entertainers!”
Getting paid not to play a biker bar
the 100 club
the Screen on the Green
the kids in Slaughter and the Dogs
Morrissey cribbing notes
Hearing the Gorilla Biscuits’ cover for the first time
Flag Of Convenience
Meeting with Seymour Stein and saying you wanna sound like the Stooges
reforming the band
Touring with Nirvana
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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