This week on the show: JOHN JOSEPH!!!!!!!! That’s right, the LEGENDARY frontman, author of The Evolution Of A Cro-Magnon sits down to talk with Damian & it ruled!
Also touched on:
The importance of the book in punk and beyond
A kid nicknamed Bowie
loving Parliament
Hearing the Stooges and it changing everything
Hanging with the Ramones at Rockaway Beach
Going to Max’x and getting jumped by Johnny Thunders’ Crew
Crazy Dave Dolan and Dugs in New York
Seeing the Ramones at CBs in ’76
Liking London punk more than the New York stuff
Joining the military and moving to Virginia
Insect Surfers
Meeting a New Wave Girlfriend at the Navy club
loving New Wave
Seeing DCHC for the first time
Sex Pistols
Scamming free airfare
Going to Fear on Saturday Night Live
Going to the Mudd Club
The story behind “Egg Raid On Mojo”… kinda
The difference between New York Hardcore and everywhere else
The arrival of of the DC kids to NYC
“Boston didn’t own shit”
The beef between DC and NYC at SNL
Bad Brains go to Beantown: Going to Boston and clearing the dancefloor
Loving Void
Rites of Spring
The Misfits bring the football players and they get kicked in the face
Bloodclot
Jack Rabid’s Cro Mags
The Donahue Era: Cro Mags vs Most of New York Hardcore
Living what you write
“Getting asses kicked and catching feelings”
Doing vocals Antidote
watching Agnostic Front become good
The Bad Brains the greatest of all time
Meeting Lemmy and Motorhead
Having to talk to GBH about drugs
“We did some shit to people who were dicks”
Also touched on:
The importance of the book in punk and beyond
A kid nicknamed Bowie
loving Parliament
Hearing the Stooges and it changing everything
Hanging with the Ramones at Rockaway Beach
Going to Max’x and getting jumped by Johnny Thunders’ Crew
Crazy Dave Dolan and Dugs in New York
Seeing the Ramones at CBs in ’76
Liking London punk more than the New York stuff
Joining the military and moving to Virginia
Insect Surfers
Meeting a New Wave Girlfriend at the Navy club
loving New Wave
Seeing DCHC for the first time
Sex Pistols
Scamming free airfare
Going to Fear on Saturday Night Live
Going to the Mudd Club
The story behind “Egg Raid On Mojo”… kinda
The difference between New York Hardcore and everywhere else
The arrival of of the DC kids to NYC
“Boston didn’t own shit”
The beef between DC and NYC at SNL
Bad Brains go to Beantown: Going to Boston and clearing the dancefloor
Loving Void
Rites of Spring
The Misfits bring the football players and they get kicked in the face
Bloodclot
Jack Rabid’s Cro Mags
The Donahue Era: Cro Mags vs Most of New York Hardcore
Living what you write
“Getting asses kicked and catching feelings”
Doing vocals Antidote
watching Agnostic Front become good
The Bad Brains the greatest of all time
Meeting Lemmy and Motorhead
Having to talk to GBH about drugs
“We did some shit to people who were dicks”
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