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Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 5 a.m.

This week on Turned Out A Punk, one of the greatest Canadian songwriters of all-time (He\u2019s in the Hall Of Fame for it): Jim Cuddy!! Jim has a fantastic new album called Constellation (In stores now!), but for the purposes of our show we take Jim back to his early days as a power popper in the HiFi\u2019s to see how punk helped & hindered his journey to Blue Rodeo, ultimately changing Canadian music forever\u2026. and of course the DOA, The BFG\u2019s & Canadian bands in Alphabet City. THIS IS A MONSTER OF AN EPISODE!!!!\xa0

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Also Touched On:

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Diodes and Demics were THE bands

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Forming the HiFi\u2019s

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Beatlesqe

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Randy (not Rampage) and DOA

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Power Pop

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Elvis Costello

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The appeal of punk

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Punk grows up

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Steve Koch

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Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time

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Why was there no first wave punk from Kingston?

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Chris Speeding

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\u201cYou guys wanna rumble, you know, for like money?\u201d

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Cabana Room

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BFGs

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Meeting bitterness from the music scene upon success but not from the musicians

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The passing of Handsome Ned and how it changed Toronto

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The arrival go heroine

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\u201cThe elegant junkie\u201d myth

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No interest in being \u201cAn Event Band\u201d

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Ready Records courting Blue Peter

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Picking Colin Newman

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Getting on the radio

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Dave Booth a Rockabilly manager with a great ear

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The Spoons and Ceramic Hello

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No fitting in with Synth and getting out of town

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Post HiFi recording

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The 70\u2019s were competitive in music

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Going to New York

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Anyone can get a gig in CBGBs

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Cowboy Junkies living in Alphabet City

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Getting \u201cCharlie Brown\u2019d\u201d the the record biz

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The * Wives: the most controversial band in the city

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The difference between Vancouver and Toronto\u2019s scene

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Chris Huston: the link

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& MUCH, MUCH MORE...

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS

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