Hello and welcome to another edition.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Turnout of Punk.

I'm your host Damien Abraham.

And today on the show, a legend for me, someone I've wanted to talk to for, I guess, decades at this point,

Preston Woodward from the band, State, aka the State is on the show.

Now, they are a very obscure band, I think, to a lot of people.

I've surprised actually telling people about this episode,

how many people I ran into that weren't familiar with the state.

And if you are among that group of people, you need to check out everything they've done.

But in particular, the first EP, No Illusions, which is, of course, produced by the late, great Ron Ashton.

There are deep stooges and destroy all monster connections with the state, as you'll

hear about in this episode.

But my God, this record is one of the greatest American hardcore seven inches, in my opinion.

Like the guitar sound on this thing is devastating.

You'll hear me wax on and on and on about this record in a bit.

And I think this band the whole way through is a very underrated band.

They put out an LP at the later part of the 80s, which is not quite the equal to the 7-inch, but they put out a bunch of records since then, which are awesome.

And there's a CD that's hard to track down you'll hear why in a little bit

that is also worth tracking down for all the demos and other stuff but this band goes deeper than

that first seven inches here in a second and Preston is is great for stories there's a lot of

really awesome parts for this episode, and I'm very

excited for you to hear it. State has, or the state has some shows coming up, in particular,

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