

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!
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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May 29, 2018 • 1h 16min
Episode 170 - Chris Freeman (Pansy Division, Attachments)
How often do you get to thank someone for the kindness they showed you that helped shape your life? Well this week on the show, Damian gets to thank CHRIS FREEMAN FROM PANSY DIVISION for being so rad to his younger self & his friends. They also discuss Chris’ pre-Pansy Division career in Seattle’s Attachments & the bigotry of the music world that made him quit. Then joining Pansy Division & changing punk forever! Kick back, this is a good one!
Also Discussed:
Pansy Division Sets The Tone In Damian’s Eyes For How A Band Should Treat Fans
Rockstars Becoming Assholes… Probably The Drugs
Moving Back To Seattle From Aberdeen
Devo & The B-52s
Seeing Cheap Trick Opening For Kiss
Aerosmith Starting To Suck… Drugs
Being Too Young To See U2 On Their First Tour
Mr. Bill’s
The Heats & The Cowboys: The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
Iggy Pop Gets Banned For Nearly Killing All Some People
The Pretenders
Mondo Veda & Red Dress
Going To Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Blackouts Leave Town
Working With Bruce & Jon. Hearing The First SubPop 45s
H-Hour: Pre-Tad
Soundgarden
A Marketing Company Tells You, "You Can’t Be Openly Gay"
Getting A Band Together
Music Dies In 86'
Moving To San Francisco
Joining Pansy Division Based On An Ad
Seeing Redd Cross, Faith No More, Green River etc.
Meeting Lynn From Tribe 8 In & Out Of Work
Pansy Division Started With A Drum Machine
Signing To LOOKOUT RECORDS
Hearin Kerplunk & Knowing It Will Be Huge
Touring With Green Day
GayC/DC
And Much, Much More!!!!
BROGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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May 26, 2018 • 1h 55min
Footnote 169 - Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)
Hardcore, We live it. We breath it. Nerds can’t stop what can’t be defeated! This week, Chris is called away on a last minute mission for the core, so Dave It Up steps up to take the mic & spit that hot fire in his absence. Listen as the two dissect Kerrang’s Hardcore Geography & of course the godly Sam Beam’s 90’s sludge/doom/Stonerrock/ connection.
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May 21, 2018 • 56min
Episode 169 - Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)
WHO'D OF THUNK IT, Turned Out A Punk Meets Iron & Wine!?! That's right, this week Damian sits down with South Carolina's own, Sam Beam. Listen in as Sam tells of his journey from humble skateboarder to indie rock superhero. This one is full of surprises, SO GET READY!
Also Touched On:
Where Your Music Ends Up
Getting Into Punk Through Skateboarding
Trading Tapes
COC
Getting Into The Ramones
Fugazi Plays Richmond & The City Shuts Down
REM Claimed As Local Heroes
Hüsker Dü
Nirvana
Pixes
Sex Pistols Playing South Carolina
Singing About Reagan
The Infotainment Era
EYEHATEGOD Lays Waste!
Being Roommates With Erik From Avail
Opening For Unsane
Forming A Band With People From Cavity
Sam’s Great Sludge Record Waiting To Come Out
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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May 18, 2018 • 1h 39min
Footnote 168 - Thomas Anselmi (Slow, Mirror, Copyright)
Yesterday I needed Punk, today I need some hate, but I know who was always there, now baby it's too late! Chris & Damian are back to breakdown this week's Thomas Anselmi Episode! News, Analysis & a little MAILBAG for good measure. IT'S ALL IN HERE!!!
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May 16, 2018 • 1h 30min
Episode 168 - Thomas Anselmi (Slow, Mirror, Copyright)
WHAT A WEEK!!! Damian gets to sit down with Canadian Alternative music legend, Slow’s Thomas Anselmi! Listen in as the two discuss Vancouver’s punk scene from all sides: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of it. Also, interesting discussion on the role of singers, the importance of the the barrier between the audience & the band.
Also Touched On:
The Sex Pistols Vomit In The Airport & An Otherwise Progressive Stepdad Is Aghast
Going To Quintessence Records
The Greatness Of The Early Vancouver Scene
Slow Mixing The Music That Got You Beat Up With The Music Of Those Doing The Beating
The Idea That Community Ruined Punk
Subhumans Play Your High School
The Squamish 5
A Scene Divided
Starting A Band: Psychotic Dick Bites
East Van Halen: The Band That Invented Grunge
The Effect Of Clifford Olson On The Young Punks
No Exit
Auditioning For Black Flag, In The Middle Of Their Show, Unbeknownst To Them
Nick Moves To LA, Forms Painted Willie & Tries To Break Into Show Biz With An Island On His Head
DOA Kinda Invented DIY Hardcore
Organizing A Field Trip At Boarding School To See
The Subhumans & X
Forming Slow
The Making Of A Confrontational Front Person
Drugs In The Vancouver Punk Scene
Why Singing In A Band Sucks
Expo Hurts Everyone
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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May 14, 2018 • 1h 44min
Footnote 167 - Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider)
Indie sucks, Hardline sucks, Emo sucks, Nerds sucks! This week Chris & Damian have to call in some backup for an episode of this magnitude, so Pittsburgh's favourite son Dave Martin joins the show. Laugh & learn along as the power trio discuss the Jesse Michaels Episode, the mailbag & more!!!!
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May 7, 2018 • 1h 26min
Episode 167 - Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider)
THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! This week on the show, we are joined by the legendary JESSE MICHAELS of Operation Ivy & Common Rider fame! Sit back & listen as Damian gets to talk to one of the most influential punk vocalist ever! From the Bay to the Burgh & back again, THIS EPISODE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
June 1978 As First Contact In Via Mad Magazines
Looking In NYC Bookstores While On Vacation With Dad
Finding A Punk Textbook
From Comics & Horror Movies
Colombo Style Interrogating Your Dad’s Students About Punk
B-52’s Rule!!!!
Re-meeting Aaron Cometbus
Hearing The Sex Pistols For The First Time
The Older Brother Plug
Decline Of Western Civilization
Going On Punk Missions With Aaron
Meeting Dave From Neurosis & Noah From Christ On Parade On One Of Those Punk Missions
Going To The Infamous Eastern Front With DOA, FLIPPER, LEWD, SICK PLEASURE, 7 Seconds, HUSKER DU, THE FIX
Negative Approach
Never Seeing Black Flag
Seeing One Or Two Songs By A Band Before You Had To Go Home
Who Threw A Bottle At Wasted Youth?
Reading Flipside Cover To Cover
Gilman brings the bands together
Seeing Minor Threat With DRI & MDC
Moving to Pittsburg
Half-Life Would Play Every Show
Seeing Agnostic Front
Liking SSD How We Rock
The Notorious Fuck-Ups
The All-Girl DMR Gang
Aaron & Jesse Form A Flipper Worship Band
“If We Couldn’t Find A Punk Kid, We Would Make One”
Jeff Ott & A Different Journey Shirt For Everyday Of The Week
Meeting Spike In Pittsburg
Playing In Out Lash
Necropolis (Pittsburg)
Aggressor: Acid, Black Sabbath & Riff For Neurosis & Christ On Parade
Venom: They Are Like Punk, But Really Really Creepy
Slayer
Metallica
Loving Filth
Seeing Dance Craze & Hearing Ska For The First Time
Being The Crimpshrine Groupie
Trve Cvlt Pvnk
Soup: Pre-Samiam & Sweet Baby
New Method
Crucifix
Tripping On Acid & Writing On Walls
Mid-Tempo Melodic Punk ONLY
The Adverts
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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May 5, 2018 • 1h 25min
Footnote 166 - Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy, Bad Flirt)
Cramping styles is the plan, Nerds got up in the palm of their baby hands. This week on the show, it’s records & bullshit records & more bullshit. Chris & Damian go further on the topic of the PI’s Record Collectors & nerd out. They also dive in the RAD Jasmine episode & of course grapple with the MAILBAG!!!!!!
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Apr 30, 2018 • 1h 5min
Episode 166 - Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy, Bad Flirt)
It’s a family thing this week on Turned Out A Punk! Damian welcomes his good bud & modern indie rock god Jasamine White-Gluz on the show who’s band No Joy formerly featured Damian’s Cousin on drums. This episode also marks the first appearance by a sibling on TOAP! Sit back & enjoy as the two discuss going from the folly of renting a van from a band sending random emails about tours to working with your heroes all while cutting your own path.
Also Touched On:
Jasmine, Around The World & Into The Dingiest Backstage
The Legendary Horseshoe
L7 & Babes In Toyland
Civ, Vandals, No Doubt As A First Show
Cool Parents!
First Siblings On The Show
Ramones Records Laying Around
The Muscle Memory Of Turning To Music Channels
Montreal Rock Radio: Prog & Nu-Metal
When The Hometown Hero Joins Hole
Glueleg, Age of Electric, Limblifter
Sloan Is The Best Band Of The Era
Starting A Fake Blog To Get To Shows For Free
Interviewing My Chemical Romance In A Bathroom
Braid
Blink 182’s Picks: Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eats World & Fugazi
Walter From Quicksand Is The BEST!!!!
A Girl, Guitar & A Four-track In A See Of Completely Unhelpful Sea Of Dudes
Opening For Onelinedrawing
Bad Flirt Starts
Going To Springbreak & Booking A Tour Of It
DON’T BY A VAN!!!!
Being Named Laura Lloyd’s Legal Guardian For Touring Purposes
DON’T SHARE A VAN WITH A BAND YOU DON’T KNOW!
Alone In LA Gives No Joy
Opening For Grant Hart
The Smell: Best Coast, Miko Miko, Abe Vigoda and No Age
With Age Comes Understanding How The Music Business
Damian’s Cousin Garland: The Real Musical Talent In The Family
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Apr 28, 2018 • 1h 58min
Footnote 165 - Jerry A (Poison Idea, Gift)
Nerds want it, nerds need it, nerds steal it, ALRIGHT! This week Chris & Damian are in good moods: they get to talk about the GODLY JERRY A & the hometown sports team, The Leafs Lost!!! HAPPY DAYS! Also discussed, a mailbag & of course tons of other bullshit & party!!
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