Keith Morris from Circle Jerks, Black Flag and OFF! is here

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

We're going wild in the streets on this episode because Damian is joined by his buddy & a goddamn LEGEND: KEITH MORRIS! Listen in as the two discuss the LA punk explosion, & what led up to it, from the most first hand of perspectives. From going with Greg Ginn to see the Dogs in a music wasteland to watching West Coast hardcore take over the globe a few years later. This is NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the brand new jammed packed reissue of Group Sex (one of the best records ever!) out now on Trust Records.

Also Touched On:

Not heroes, friends

Great bass players

LA versus NY punk

A nice thick red face and zucchini noodles

Talking Heads, Blondie and most of the early CBs scene wasn’t really punk

The Dickies and X are the only bands to get signed

Zolar X

The Imperial Dogs

The Dogs from Detroit: Ginn and Keith’s favourite band

The Last kick it off in the South Bay

Lucky Leher gives out his number on Group Sex and regrets it

Jeff trades Keith a song in exchange for a new band name

Hollywood vs the Beach communities

The effect of growing up in the “Hey Devo!” era

Don’t stand around trying to figure stuff out, jump in: Beach Jocks

Circles Jerks and Fear to 5000 people at the Olympic Auditorium

The Stooges on their last legs

The effects of Charles Manson on you Culture

Vom were… fun

Fear forming to mock punk

The Extremes to Youth Brigade

The Atoms: pre-DFL and GnR

The first tour

Fanzines

Making sure you were playing with the good band in each town

Borrowing riffs

four month long tours

no merch

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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0:00.0	I'm going to be here. So, Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out A Punk. I'm your host,
0:33.0	Damian Abraham, and once again I'm bringing you a conversation with someone who
0:36.0	grew up listening to Punk, may or may not still be involved in Punk,
0:39.0	but had the life changed by the genre in a major way.
0:41.0	And down the show, huge guests, one of the biggest of all time returning to the show
0:46.4	from a little band called the Circle Jerks, a little band called Black Flag,
0:50.9	and a little band called Off, My buddy Uncle Keith Morris is here today on the show again. Yes, that's right. More on that in a second, but first. If you'd like to get in touch with the podcast, head over to the email address, turned out a punk podcast at gmail.com.
1:06.0	That is run by my brother and show producer and guest booker, extraordinary, Tristan Abraham.
1:12.0	Tristan, thank you for all the hard work you do.
1:14.0	I love you buddy.
1:15.0	I love you brother.
1:16.0	And I mean that literally, he's actually like my brother,
1:19.0	so I love you Tristan so much.
1:21.0	Thank you for all you do.
1:22.0	And he'll get the message to me. Tristan so much. Thank you for all you do. And he'll get the message to me.
1:24.3	Tristan also runs the Turned Out of Punk Facebook page and Instagram page. Both of those are found at Turned
1:30.6	Out of Punk on their respective platforms. If you want to get in touch me directly, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at left for Damien.
1:39.0	If you want to support the show, the best way to support the show is just by telling all your friends, letting everyone know that you know that you enjoy the podcast that we do each and every week here.
1:48.0	You can also support the show by subscribing to it and rating it on your platform of choice or specifically iTunes.
1:56.8	You can also support it by heading over to the Patreon.
1:59.4	dot com slash turned out a punk page and checking out some of the stuff we do there and
2:04.4	thank you thank you to all of you that do do that and make the show possible
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