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 91 - Stephen McBean (Pink Mountaintops, Black Mountain)
“The type of guest a podcast like this was invented for,” few other people earn that distinction more than Steve McBean. Before he scaled the Black Mountain to get to those Pink Mountaintops he was hangin'’ in the Jerk Ward. Hear about how Steve went from prototypical Hardcore kid to punk rock adult! Also touched on:
Punk in Mclean’s
Going to Victoria
Punk Records at the PNE
Move Out West Young Pre-Teen
Hearing the Neo’s for the first time and it changing your world
forming Jerk Ward
Discovering Tim Crow’s Youth Plague Zine
Stalking the Neo’s
Going to the “Sweatbox”
Ordering the Deep Wound 7”
International Hardcore
The proto-hardcore kids
Doing Verbals Assault zine
America’s Hardcore
One man’s trash is Damian’s Holy Grail
Dino Jr.: “Hey, these guys are ex-Deep Wound?”
Meeting a member of Anti-Cimex at show in the present day.
Hearing Negative Approach for the first time
Missing Black Flag for the first time due age Seeing Nig Heist
Seeing the Accused BEFORE Blaine!
The BYO Canadian Connection
Joining Red Tide
Sludge Confrontations
LPs at the post office
Jerk Ward becomes Mission To Christ
“That’s Not Jerk Ward!”
Mission To Christ: nearly signs to Alchemy
Imagine getting $500 a night
“Uh, I’m 14”
Being excited for the stylistic shifts of bands
BLASPHAMY
Obliterations: “Can we just start a punk band?”
Knowing how to do it now
Pink Mountaintops and Discharge
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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