What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he\u2019s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
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\nAlso Touched On:
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\nHelping invent punk\n
\n\nThe Dogs and the Motels\n
\n\nThe Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids\n
\n\nSeeing Patti Smith and Ramones\n
\n\nZolar X: hilariously dedicated\n
\n\nThe faded glam of LA as an influence\nLearning from Rodney\n
\n\nTh Quick: \u201cOur Sparks\u201d\n
\n\nBackdoor Man Magazine was the Bible\n
\n\nThe birth of Zine culture\n
\n\nDoing the first Ramones zine\n
\n\nThe odd crowd the Ramones attracted\xa0\n
\n\n16 and standing beside Dee Dee\n
\n\nThrift shopping with Blondie\n
\n\nThe Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers\n
\n\n\u201cGlad I was there for that\u201d: life with The Screamers\n
\n\nPat Suzuki and Argento\n
\n\n\u201cYou have to see this band the Cramps!\u201d\n
\n\nTook the bus from LA\n
\n\nGoing to New York and seeing the Contortions\n
\n\nBefriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox\n
\n\nThe Mumps come to LA\n
\n\nThe Student Teachers\n
\n\nThe Blessed\n
\n\n\u201cThose people were sick!\u201d No Wave people were no fucking joke\n
\n\n\u201cYeah I noticed\u201d The shift from punk to hardcore\n
\n\nOpening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual\n
\n\n\u201cThey Hated Us!\u201d\n
\n\nHere come the angry kids\n
\n\nGoing to see the Slits play in the UK\n
\n\nRecord shopping in Paris in \u201977\n
\n\nWorking at Bomp\n
\n\n& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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