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Turned Out A Punk

Fred Schneider from The B-52’s, The Superions and Fred Schneider & The Shake Society

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Episode 302:
You demanded it, we got it! On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the most iconic front people to ever pick up a microphone: the B-52s' FRED SCHNEIDER!!! Listen in as the two discuss: accidentally inventing a new approach to music, the Cramps getting it, what the Sex Pistols were like live & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

The Velvets, The Stooges and The Ramones

mom never bringing the 7th kid to a show

Records at the A and P

Going to Athens

West Coast Surf > East Coast Surf

Not wanting to be a dance band but loving to dance

the Fans

Ort’s Oldies

Going to the first US Sex Pistols show in Atlanta

house party shows

Jamming in an unheated room at a mortuary

Meeting Lux and Ivy from Cramps at Max’s

CB’s was a dump

“If you can do we can too!” meeting Pylon

Suicide

The modestly of Athens

Steve Albini is a lovely person

Don Pyle rules!

Biker wars

& SO MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS


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and feeding me and the kids. So, Hello and welcome to another edition of Turn Out of Punk. I'm your host

2:15.4

Damian Abraham. Once again I'm bringing you a conversation with someone who grew up listening

2:19.2

to Punk and may or may not still be involved in punk but had the life changed

2:21.9

by the genre in a major way.

2:23.7

And today on the show, it's got to be one of the all-time greatest guests we had on this thing.

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