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!
https://redcircle.com/shows/turned-out-a-punk
Episode 6 - Steven McDonald (OFF!)
This week Damian sits down with his good friend Steven McDonald from OFF! and Red Kross, for a conversation that was so good that they had to record it twice! Steven is the definition of a lifer, having started playing in punk bands at the age of 11 in 1978. He shares amazing and legitimately terrifying stories from hardcore’s formative days. Sit back and enjoy this EPIC 2+ HOUR hang out!!!! Plus, behind the scenes of their VICE-20 Hardcore bands.
Also covered in this episode:
- Steven's genuine curiosity about Damian having been “straight edge”
- The two's evening spent getting to become "Cro-Mags Adjacent"
- Seeing Patti Smith as a child
- Being cousins of the Allycats
- McDonald's and husky kids
- How the Dickies "10" White Dickie" kills Junior High School popularity.
- The A&R skills of Greg Ginn
- "Little kid band" beef with Mad Society?
- The Germs being THE band.
- Rollins: the prototypical hardcore kid
- An impassioned debate on downloading
- Record stores as laxatives