

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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Oct 4, 2019 • 1h 24min
Episode 229 - Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, Final Exit, International Noise Conspiracy)
This week on the show Dennis Lyxzén from Refused talks Swedish punk & so much more with Damian. DON’T MISS IT!
Also Touched On:
The continuation of 2001 Quick Fanzine interview
Exploited shows up out of nowhere in your record collection
being into NY hardcore when everyone else in UK 77
87 the dead time for punk between the booms
Puszone in Thrasher
“You get it home and it’s mucky pup”
Taller punk
The Join
let’s gather all the freaks in one place
let’s build a scene
isolation and boredom builds the biggest hardcore scene in the world
no sick of it all show in Umea
Doctor and The Crippens
Were you at the Shelter show?
Step Forward: no one is going like this so let’s just go nuts
be the guys that goes off
Refused: “We knew the potential”
The curse of recording LPs
Meshaggah sounding like Anthrax playing to 4t people
Skate punk made
Asta Kasta the link between scenes
Trallpunk
David's death metal influence on Refused
the regions of music
learning about Empire and the Ruts from the gods of DC
This is kinda cool but super sloppy
becoming friends with manny from Race Traitor
Peaking too early
Final Exit
The Path Of Resistance connection
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 30, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 228 - Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, The Color Wheel, Golden Exits)
Lights, Camera, Action! This week on the show we go to the movies as Damian sits down with director, ALEX ROSS PERRY! Listen in as the two discuss how Alex applied what he learned from basement shows to making movies & lamenting the loss of video store culture.
Also Touched On:
Video store people unite!!!
Green Day as first exposure
becoming a Lookout kid
Big band bringing cool bands on tour
Blink opens for Bad Religion and then a few years later the inverse
Local H opening for Stone Temple Pilots
Meeting the older kids in the basement
a Propagandhi shirt
the secret christian punk scene
if you have played a show for less than 10 people you can make movies
Making a soundtrack
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 20, 2019 • 46min
Episode 227 - Bif Naked (Gorilla Gorilla, Chrome Dog)
Get Psyched! CANADIAN MUSIC ICON, BIF NAKED IS ON THE SHOW! Join Damian & Bif as they sit down to discuss her crazy journey in music. From giggin' endlessly across Canada with Gorilla Gorilla, to trying to win over Life Of Agony fans in Europe, to ultimately changing the Canadian music landscape forever. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!!
Also Touched On:
Making My Daddy’s Getting Married
DRI plays NOT the Albert
The Punk-Funk of Gorilla Gorilla
Being in a touring band is not for everyone
The double standard of being a woman in the touring punk scene
Hockey Music
Sugar Ray could have been a great punk band
the East Coast VS the West Coast vibe
Personality Crisis
SNFU
Flipping a coin for Toronto or Vancouver
Pot & flannel
Chrome Dog was ahead of its time
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
playing in Bad Religion in both bands
The skater scene vs. the rocker scene
Getting stoked about Jello rejection letter
loving early Screeching Weasel
covering Mastodon
Touring with Chi Pig & The Wrongs
Having to learn to play with no monitors because the music industry sucks
Opening for Life Of Agony & the audience didn't care that her daddy was getting married
meeting Gail from Belly & getting into Straight Edge
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 10, 2019 • 54min
Episode 226 - Donita Sparks (L7)
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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 5, 2019 • 1h 43min
Episode 225 - Matty Matheson (God of Cookery)
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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Sep 2, 2019 • 47min
Episode 224 - Alex Lichtenhauer (Control Top, Get Better Records)
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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 29, 2019 • 1h 15min
Episode 223 - Ben Lee (Noise Addict)
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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 19, 2019 • 1h 6min
Episode 222 - Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, The Pink Monkey Birds)
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!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 15, 2019 • 1h 11min
Episode 221 - Jay Bentley (Bad Religion, Wasted Youth etc.)
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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Aug 7, 2019 • 1h 26min
Episode 220 - Riki Rachtman (Cathouse, Headbanger's Ball, WCW)
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!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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