Ep145: Chuck Dukowski of Würm, Black Flag & more
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Before Black Flag, Chuck Dukowski formed Würm, a highly revered & influential band to the Los Angeles punk scene. Now Chuck is re-releasing the Würm catalogue for Record Store Day Black Friday and today share tales of the band, stories from his music career and discusses the rare records of his time with Black Flag.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this Chuck Dukowski, and you are listening to The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:06.8 | Happy Thanksgiving week to our American friends, and, of course, happy record store day, Black Friday, to everyone around the world. |
| 0:14.0 | This week on the show, we are talking with Chuck Dukowski, punk rock legend, member of Black Flag, |
| 0:23.2 | co-founder and manager at SST Records, |
| 0:28.5 | a member of so many bands, SWA, CD6, heaps more. Today we're going to talk to Chuck about so many things, including rare punk rock records, black flag, even the metric system. |
| 0:33.7 | But we're going to focus a lot of today's conversation around Worm, the punk sludge |
| 0:39.2 | band, which Chuck formed early in his career and set the foundation for so many bands that came |
| 0:44.6 | afterward. Worm is a very influential band. It holds a special place in the punk rock evidence |
| 0:50.1 | locker, and we are fortunate that a compilation of W music and rarities, worm exhumed, |
| 0:56.5 | is being made available on record store day Black Friday, November 23rd. There are super |
| 1:02.4 | limited numbers of this release, I think something like 1,000 or 1,100 units worldwide, which |
| 1:08.4 | means that these are about to become highly collectible. It's |
| 1:11.7 | chalkful of pictures, liner notes, all sorts of things. It is a piece of punk rock history. |
| 1:16.5 | So if you see a copy of Worm Exhumed in your local record shop, grab it because you're |
| 1:21.6 | probably not going to see it again. It'll be like that stupid cake vinyl box set that everyone |
| 1:26.7 | is kicking themselves for not buying. |
| 1:29.1 | Get worm exhumed Friday, November 23rd. |
| 1:32.2 | It kicks ass and it hits shelves for what is likely to be the first 30 to 45 minutes of record store day, Black Friday. |
| 1:38.6 | And while you're getting records at your local independent record store, |
| 1:42.2 | make sure to ask the local record store retailer |
| 1:44.8 | about the groove washer record cleaner. If they don't have it in stock, well, you've got my |
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