Fred Schneider from The B-52’s, The Superions and Fred Schneider & The Shake Society
Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:39.3 | 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. |
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