Episode 222 - Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, The Pink Monkey Birds)

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he’s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Helping invent punk

The Dogs and the Motels

The Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids

Seeing Patti Smith and Ramones

Zolar X: hilariously dedicated

The faded glam of LA as an influence

Learning from Rodney

Th Quick: “Our Sparks”

Backdoor Man Magazine was the Bible

The birth of Zine culture

Doing the first Ramones zine

The odd crowd the Ramones attracted

16 and standing beside Dee Dee

Thrift shopping with Blondie

The Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers

“Glad I was there for that”: life with The Screamers

Pat Suzuki and Argento

“You have to see this band the Cramps!”

Took the bus from LA

Going to New York and seeing the Contortions

Befriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox

The Mumps come to LA

The Student Teachers

The Blessed

“Those people were sick!” No Wave people were no fucking joke

“Yeah I noticed” The shift from punk to hardcore

Opening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual

“They Hated Us!”

Here come the angry kids

Going to see the Slits play in the UK

Record shopping in Paris in ’77

Working at Bomp

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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