Brian Baker is back

Turned Out A Punk

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Whether he"s the Danny Partridge of punk or the Ricky Stratton of straight edge or the Man Ray of Minor Threat: Brian Baker has come back to TOAP! Listen in as Damian once again sits down with Brian to dig further into his unbelievable punk resume and talk accidentally becoming a photographer. From Dag Nasty being the Pearl Jam of hardcore, to ranking Black Flag singers, to loving the Big Boys, to Brian interviewing Damian about the Tragically Hip, to the brilliance of Brannon and so much more: don't miss this one!

Also, don't miss Brian's brand new photography book: "The Road", from Akashic Books.

Also, don't miss Brian on the road with Bad Religion

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Turned Out of Punk.
0:30.1	I'm your host, Damien, today on the show.
0:33.1	It's the return of my buddy, Brian Baker.
0:39.4	You may know him from bad religion. You may know him from bad religion.
0:42.8	You may know him from a minor threat,
0:46.8	Dagnasty, doggy style briefly.
0:49.9	The pre-Sam Hain band.
0:53.2	There's lots of things that you may know Brian from. But you will now know him also from his brand new photography book, The Road, which features a selection of photographs that Brian has taken over the last years, a few years of various tours, and it's a really cool book.
1:10.8	There is a beautiful edition that has come out that is signed and all sorts of cool stuff with like limited edition print and things like that.
1:18.3	You can, uh, we'll have links to all this stuff in the description below.
1:22.7	But for this, Brian talks about this towards the end of the episode himself, but there is a tour
1:28.8	that has been announced that Brian will be going on. And since Brian was on the show just last
1:35.2	week, they've added a bunch more dates onto this thing. So to run over it, October 5th at
1:41.4	Program Skate Shop, the great program skate shop Shop, and Sound in Fullerton, California.
1:47.9	Dan O' Mahoney from No Use for a Name will be talking to Brian.
1:52.4	And that should be a fun conversation, of course.
1:55.3	Then there's October 6th in Los Angeles at Book Soup.
1:59.1	Brett Gerowitz will be talking to Brian about, you know,
2:02.6	guy took his job in the band.
2:05.3	So it'll be a fun conversation.
2:07.7	Johnny Temple will be interviewing Brian on November 3rd,
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