3 Gigs

Shawna Potter of War On Women takes a moment to speak to me about her first grunge rock band, Fair Verona and how being in a band that does well, doesn’t mean your next project will always be as successful. She shares how War On Women dressed up as a bachelorette party on stage for a sold out Halloween show at The Fest in 2015 and it was one of the best shows of all time. Although the first time they played Fest....was a bit of an adventure.  Official Website: https://www.3gigspodcast.com Host Website: https://www.dominicdavi.com  

Kimm Gardener from CHANNEL 3 shares a story of a lifelong friendship started a band which led to a living room show and the first time he heard the crowd clap for his band. We talk about the enduring appeal of punk rock though the years and the story of headlining for the first time at the Whiskey A Go-Go. What led to them going on tour for the first time and what it was like to play Memphis, in the dead of summer, after G.G. Allen shit in the ice machine the night before…and how the internet brought the band back to life. Official Website: http://3gigspodcast.com/

Karl Izumi from the band Spider stops by to tell us about house parties in 1981, and how his drummer gets busted mid-performance at his first show ever! He also tells how punk crowds in 1990 delt with Nazis. Yet despite his first show and best show being shows that complete broke down at some point, his worst show ever was when he played a house party for little people that famous actor Billy Barty put on. Yes. You read that right. Billy. Barty’s. Party. Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Host: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Mike Park of ASIAN MAN RECORDS and SKANKIN’ PICKLE fame, tells us the story of his first, best, and worst shows ever!  From NO GIMMICK, a cover band playing two songs for a 1986 High School talent show to playing massive festivals in Korea with MU330 as a backing band with no practice to performing with YO GABBA GABBA! as a Super Music Friend to the last days of SKANKIN’ PICKLE where after 6 years of over 200 shows a year he just hit a wall. Official site: www.3gigspodcast.com Host site: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Frontman for Canadian skate-punk band TRASHED AMBULANCE, JAWSH HOTTA calls in to talk about grad party shows, writing his own Christmas songs, the monster drives of Canada, the dangers of microphones, playing festivals that completely tank, social media not being a good indicator of how many people are actually coming to the show, and being the poppy band on a show that features a bunch of bands much harder then you.  http://www.3gigspodcast.com http://www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

The legendary vocalist for THE DARTS, NICOLE LAURENNE, stops by to tell us stories of her classical background, balancing law school with being a Jazz musician, and her love of Punk Rock. Having amazing shows in France where against all odds they kept the crowd, and was showered by roses, but how everything can just go wrong in Houston, TX. Most importantly, she talks about how THE DARTS is the best band she's ever had.  ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" ** Official Website: https://www.3gigspodcast.com/ Host Website: https://www.dominicdavi.com/  

For our first ever Halloween special, our host Dominic Davi tells a haunting tale of an encounter with the paranormal while on tour with Tsunami Bomb back in 2001. Was it really a ghost? Was it all just a dream? What happened that one night in Illinois? We leave that up to you, but the story is told here, exactly as it happened all those years ago. Happy Halloween! 

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Arius, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Holzfeuer, founder and vocalist of the greatest band of all time, ArnoCorps tells the stories of high adventure of their Austrian homeland for our season one finale. From the first American appearance at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, CA that illustrated the importance of building hype around your band and your shows. Having Flex Magazine do a story on the band before the first show. Holzfeuer makes a show changing suggestion for 3 Gigs and the quest to understand heroic archetypes. With the election of Austrian born actor and body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, and ArnoCorps breaking into mainstream news, but did this lead to being banned from the city of Sacramento? However, rising above this…the best show ever happened just this summer in London, England…on their latest tour to support their brand new E.P. “The Unbelievable”, out on Alternative Tentacles R

Austin, Texas vocalist and guitarist Lisa Dixie, talks about her influences, and playing her first house party at 12. Filling in an taking over as bassist for a band called Bionic Man, and leaving on a tour at the last minute and incurring the worst roaming charges ever. Opening for Tsunami Bomb in Houston and Austin. The story of Austin’s Punk Rock Lottery and being a two time champion!  How the lottery led to the formation of Gashgasm. How the worst shows were the shows she wasn’t playing, but then again after thinking about it, the worst show was probably in Cleveland. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official host website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **  

East Bay Punk Rock Legend Jesse Luscious sits down and talks about his first band, Nun In A Honda playing a high school talent show with a controversial song about his guidance counselor. How three shows freaked out an entire college campus. Growing up in a political household, and using punk rock as a platform.  How punk rock has aged and why it continues to evolve and survive. The particulars of EMO. The ongoing battle of Punks versus Nazis. How the best show he ever played was a just a giant prank his band played on an entire audience for a farewell show. How the worst show ever was either the one he never got to play…or the one he got to play with Green Day and Voodoo Glow Skulls. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official host website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "

Diego Medrano of the band Romona tells us how getting out of a relationship and playing a show became a focus for his anger, and making all his friends over the course of 8 songs very uncomfortable. Playing a show with everyone that mattered, but having some unfortunate racial interactions in Tacoma, WA. Yet despite that, the people of Tacoma made up for it in the end. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official host website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket takes a moment while mixing “Stealing The Covers” their brand new cover LP out on Fat Wreck this week, to tell about practicing in his friends basement in Laramie, WY and playing house shows, and playing Gilman St. for the first time. Moving up the chain and opening for national touring bands in the ever changing local scene. How fast Teenage Bottlerocket took off in Laramie. The importance in feedback from bands you open for. How they got on Red Scare and then to Fat Records. Conquering San Francisco for the very first time. The story of Milo, the 9 year old Prom King of the Vans Warped Tour 2016. Returning to Fat Wreck after all this time. The Battle of the Bands not going the way you hoped it would and no matter how bad they always are, some towns you just have to play. Also, sometimes it’s easier to let people think you are from Miami. Official Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official Host Website: www.dominicdavi.com   ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean T

Daniel Dart, political activist, artist manager, singer and founder of Time Again tells us about getting a show before he even had songs, with a guitarist that had to be snuck into the shows, but knowing it was going to work. The feeling of playing a massive festival with 80,000 people, and how hard it is to share that with people. How much a life in music changes you forever, and what it’s like to have the city of Prague believe you have a serious drinking problem. Official Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official Host Site: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Stacey Dee, co-vocalist and guitarist for Bad Cop/Bad Cop takes a moment at the 2017 Vans Warped Tour Salt Lake City, UT stop to tell us about playing acoustically for the first time because no one would play in a punk band with her. How music was the only thing that ever mattered, and how it very literally saved her life. What it felt like to play in front of 5,000 people for the first time, and why the best show stories always seem to always be in Europe.Yet despite this fact, a small bar in the middle of nowhere of Germany was still pretty terrible. Official Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official Host Website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Sabrina Worthington, lead vocalist for Austin, Texas punk band, The Applicators stops by and tells us stories about playing the Blondie’s Skate Shop’s last show ever for The Applicators' first show ever, and how The Applicators went from a side project to a full time project. The importance of promoting your own show, and building your own scene around your band without just using the internet. What it was like creating an all-woman punk band when there were no all women punk bands in Austin! Performing in Italy at a club called Jack the Ripper. Dealing with the catcalling bro-dudes of Arizona, and playing a strip club, after MCing a topless volleyball game. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official host website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Spike Slawson, vocalist for the world's premiere punk rock cover band, Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies, takes a moment while on tour in Denver, Co to talk about performing as Ace Frehley in a KISS cover band, the sordid tale of the Electric Banana, and the focus on the how you present vs. what you are presenting. Unself conscious fun fashion adventures in Cologne, Germany. Embracing the theater aspect of punk rock, and just how disastrous performing fireworks night at Pittsburg Pirates PNC Park really was.   Official Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official Host Website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Brandon Paski, Marketing Director for San Francisco, CA alternative radio station KITS Live 105.3 FM and formally the bassist for pop punk bands Boy Kicks Girl and My New Life, sits down with us to tell us about playing a talent show and getting in trouble when sneaking in an extra song, playing the first Boy Kicks Girl show at 1am to no one, and his first Live 105.3 FM BFD at Shoreline Amphitheater with 18,000 people! How sometimes you have to make it all up as you go along, and never getting to see any band that plays your shows. How punk rock makes you ready for anything. The joy of opening for Blink 182, and what it felt like to sell out 25,000 people for BFD 2014 in advance at Shoreline Amphitheater for the first time (and still holding the record of the biggest show there of all time)! The best worst show in Buffalo, NY and having your drummer decide to leave a six week tour after two weeks with little to no warning.  ------------------------------------------------ Official website: www.3gigspodcast.co

Jay Hunter Richardson aka Jay Danger from Danger Friends, while recording in the studio tells us about starting a band to perform at the high school talent show, but leaving out actually practicing as a band, never having met the singer, and not knowing how to play the chosen song…and getting third place out of three bands. Jumping into things he’s not quite prepared for. Becoming local legends based off one song and playing the single greatest house show ever. He also shares how Danger Friends survive the most devastating and heartbreaking shows ever.  Official Website: www.3gigspodcast.com Official Host Website: www.dominicdavi.com ** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Corbett Redford, director of the new documentary "Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punk" and one half of the musical duo, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits stops by 3 Gigs and shares how the Bay Area was once filled with Marijuana and Funk metal, and how he either played his the first show at a sandwich shop or between sets with Papa Roach, while torturing a clown. He shares what it was like playing wherever you could to reach people, the crazy genre hybrid bands of the 90s, the unique qualities of the San Francisco Bay Area Punk Scene with it’s mixing of cultures and multiple cities…opening up for Negativeland and having to convince them Bobby Joe Ebola wasn’t a real band. What it feels like to nail the moment, “how much art can you take?” putting on Geekfests for years, the creation of “irratainment” and having issues trying to play good shows in Eugene, Oregon....and that frankly stated…hippies aren’t supposed to be aggressive. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Host website: www.domini

Bay Area punk rock drummer Kevin McCracken stops by 3 Gigs and talks about singing for his first band ever and not being able to face the audience, the developing early days of the Santa Rosa and north bay punk scene, the "peanut butter sandwich" thing, the evolving punk scene and how social media has effected communication, how the punk rock community has influenced his business model at Social Imprints, the politics of punk rock and Siren, making your show an event, and reuniting Siren to perform a memorial for a mentor and friend, and how confrontations with local extremist vegans while on tour can lead to a very uncomfortable show. Official website: www.3gigspodcast.com Host website: www.dominicdavi.com **This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, only they bring you awesome t-shirts! Find them at freshcleantees.com, and get 20% off your first order by using the coupon code GIG **