THE BEST SHOW LIVES! To celebrate, Turned Out A Punk is lucky enough to have the host of The Best Show: Tom Scharpling. Listen as Damian and Tom discuss discovering punk in small town New Jersey, and how Tom goes on to create a radio show empire that counts some of the best and brightest from the comedy and music worlds.
Also touched on:- Husker Du as first contact.- Discovering Punk in isolation- The oppression of 80’s Springsteenmania in New Jersey- Frankie Goes To Hollywood: New Jersey’s PissChrist- REM rocks the lunchroom.- Conflict zine as inspiration for everything. (See, I told you Gerard!)- Too Fun Too Huge the lesser known pre-Matador Records zines- The wishing well of record mail-order back in the day.- Gerard Cosloy is AWESOME!- The label not even a MUTHA could love.- Sneaking to "Eating Clubs" to see icons of indie rock- Dinosaur Jr.- “EATING IT” the CBGB of comedy.- H. John Benjamin and Jon Glaser’s “Get Hyped”: the best performance of anything ever. - The importance of an early David Cross’ blessing - The Best Show as a band member’s secret handshake- Damian gushing about The Best Show
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