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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Episode 25 - Wade MacNeil (Gallows and Alexisonfire)
Hurry in dear listener and grab a seat as Damian welcomes to the show his friend Wade from Gallows and Alexisonfire. Listen in as the two discuss Wade going from a Misfits obsessed teen, to forming a band that changed the face of mainstream music in Canada. Also hit on: -Getting a good guitar teacher with good taste as first exposure -Hearing the Misfits Earth A.D. and shaping your high school world -Southern Ontario Nazi Boneheads loving the second Misfits show in Toronto -Razor Eater: Spraycan Lysol Punk -It all starts with the Misfits: Plan 9 the punk band -Sick Boys: St Catherine’s’ Punk band -Chixdiggit -Down By Law -Listening to the Doughboys through the propped opened bar door -Martyr Diablos Martyr -Shout out to the Terminal Wally’s -Snapcase opening your mind -George Petit and Wade: going to any and every show. -The Buffalo Basement scene -Level Plane and Magic Bullet -Plane 9 becomes After The Hallowed Moment -Being the former Mr. Vegas -Alexisonfire: the all-ages scene’s supergroup -Dallas’ old band aiming for Shiner and coming up Creed -Dillinger Escape Plan: fighting their guitars -The amazingness of Japanese record stores -The significance of Tears For Fears -Touring in March Break -Breaking down in Binghamton -Being a 17 year old touring shakedown artist -Alexisonfire getting to laugh last at Blockbuster -Principle Simpson: Alexisonfire's benefactor -Not fitting in to any scene -Wade’s Podcast -Alexisonfire: Un-Fashionablecore Fashioncore