Ep476: Redd Kross - Born Innocent with Jeff and Steven
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jeff & Steven McDonald join us to discuss the new documentary "Born Innocent - The Redd Kross Story", learnings from their lifelong musical partnership, memories of early punk days, David Bowie, Germs and more.
Topics Include:
- Possible talk of touring Asia and the Pacific Rim
- Steven and Dale are road dogs
- Jeff more of a homebody than Steven
- Adjustment from touring back to home
- Steven and Mario seeing King Gizzard in early days
- Playing the L7 Fast & Frightening Festival
- Challenges of making the "Born Innocent" documentary
- Keeping the documentary to 90 minutes
- The dynamics of the brothers – getting under each other's skin
- Earlier attempts to tell the story of Redd Kross
- What parts of the Redd Kross story were under-represented?
- Leveraging "devices" to tell the story and manage viewer expectations
- What did you learn about yourselves watching the documentary?
- Ability to view the unique partnership of the brothers
- Taking away learnings from the movie – relatable learnings from the brothers
- Brothers within a band – comparisons with Oasis
- Are the brothers enjoying the current state of their band
- Grateful for the movie and the book – most proud of the REDD KROSS album
- How did David Bowie show up for their 1st club gig?
- Punk in LA in late 70s was a small community
- The bill was UXA, Black Flag and Redd Kross
- Memories and experiences with Darby Crash
- The impact of Darby Crash's death
- People who may misinterpret Germs
- Video of Germs performance for "Up In Smoke"
- The humour and comedy of punk
- Interview wrap-up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Nate. Just a quick note to share that I will be doing some guided tours of the punk rock museum Saturday, December 7th in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 0:09.9 | If you're in or anywhere near Las Vegas, come on down Saturday, December 7th, 1.30 p.m. We'll talk records, punk rock artifacts, share stories, anecdotes, and more. |
| 0:21.3 | I'll even be doing some podcasts from the punk rock museum that weekend with various punk rock legends. |
| 0:27.3 | It's going to be a fantastic time. |
| 0:29.1 | Hell, we could even get a beer and a tattoo together on site. |
| 0:31.9 | That's Saturday, December 7th, 1.30 p.m., the punk rock museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. See you there. And now, on with the show. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. Here's your host. The |
| 0:48.3 | biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode |
| 0:53.8 | 476 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:59.8 | And you've got to forgive my voice this week, everyone. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm traveling around, staying in a lot of air-conditioned hotels. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm here in Las Vegas where there's a lot of smoke in the air. |
| 1:10.7 | So my little lungs are looking to kind of keep up. I'm here in Las Vegas where there's a lot of smoke in the air, so my little |
| 1:11.6 | lungs are looking to kind of keep up. I'm sure it'll sort itself out. But look, you guys aren't |
| 1:17.1 | seeking an update on my pulmonary system. You're probably here because we have back on the show |
| 1:22.3 | today, Jeff and Stephen McDonald of the band Red Cross. Now, some of you may recall we recently had the |
| 1:30.1 | fellas on episode 454. This is when the recent Red Cross double album had just dropped. |
| 1:37.3 | We spoke all about that, but Jeff and Stephen have been very busy this year. Not only with |
| 1:42.7 | that double album, but also a book, now you're one of us, |
| 1:46.7 | which is now in the tippy tops of all the music bios and entertainment book sections, |
| 1:51.1 | but there's also a documentary that is now getting screened across the U.S. Born Innocent, |
| 1:57.4 | the Red Cross story, as directed by Andrew Reich, and it tells the story of Red Cross. |
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