Mostly Harmless With Dammit Damian - Punk Rock Podcast

In this month's live episode, we talk about shitty jobs and our adventures in Employment with Comedian Timmi Lasley & Comic artist Jake Fairly & musical guest: BLACK DOTS! We talk about when and where our dreams died and how we work to keep our artistic journey's alive.  All of this and a rousing game of "Who Said it?" Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ultimate Warrior or STING (not that Sting.)

Comedian Ian Douglas Terry does COOL SHIT. We talk to IDT about his punk rock past, wrestling, THE FEST comedy shows, Crom Fest and how goes against the traditional comedy path and goes his own way. All of this and oh so much more.

This week I interview SUCCESS! I join members Aaron-Rev Peters and Austin Jones outside the Summit Music Hall in Denver, Colorado! We talk with the band members about chasing Success, Bottlecap Studios, joining Red Scare Industries & working with Toby Jeg. We also find time to talk to the band about their Seattle hometown scene, building your own scene, participating in your town and oh so many ways that you and your own band can find SUCCESS!

MOSTLY HARMLESS LIVE with Muscle Beach, Comedian Eric Henderson & Comic artist Gerhard Kaaihue!! Recorded in front of a "studio" audience at Mutiny Information Cafe in Denver! In this month's live episode, Damian drinks way too much and swaps stories with the guys about roommates. During which Damian discovers he's a terrible roommate and gets advice from the gang about working relationships, how to be a better person and we hear funny stories of lives lived in close proximities that go completely wrong!

CHRIS FOGAL! In this week's interview we join The Gamits front man at his recording studio, Black In Bluhm, to talk about the studio's success, Denver at large and his new band: DWAYNE and their self-titled debut on Paper + Plastick!

Damian travels north to Boulder to meet up with filmmaker Alex Cox. Cox has been teaching film at the University of Colorado for the last four years and has recently finished a collaborative project with the students on an adaptation of the Harry Harrison novel of the same name.  We meet up with Alex Cox at his local pub (Under The Sun in Boulder) and over a few beers we have a fantastic chat that covers everything from Repo Man, Elvis Costello, Harry Dean Stanton, film school, teaching young minds, working on Bill The Galactic Hero and oh so much more! It was a fantastic chat, lively and full of energy and interesting directions. 

MOSTLY HARMLESS LIVE IS BACK! This is the first episode of our new run. Recorded in front of a "studio" audience at Mutiny Information Cafe in Denver! In this episode, we are joined by comedian Ian Douglas Terry, Comic artist Zak Kinsella & musical guest: Sleeping Weather to discuss unrequited love and those early school boy heartbreaks that made us the "Men" we are today! We also make a mixtape and play a rousing game of "Who said it? Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage or Rosie O'Donnell!" This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks & Death Wish Coffee!

TWO RAMONES! TWO INTERVIEWS! ONE PODCAST! Marky Ramone talks sobriety, dreams and his new book; Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone! CJ Ramone talks to us about how he became the Ramones Bass player, his Autistic son Liam & giving up Rock N Roll for him and his newest album: LAST CHANCE TO DANCE!

Denver's most notorious party band, DIRTY FEW chat about going to military school, smoking weed, Louisiana living, moving to Denver and van trouble on tour. Most importantly we talk about their newest record, Party Or Don't, out February 19th & 20th at the Hi-Dive Denver! We also chat with our newest sponsor, RATIO BEERWORKS! Founders Jason zumBrunnen & Zach Lowery tell us why Denver needs another brewery, how they work their punk rock origins into the Ratio & their upcoming grand opening!  

Woah! We get in deep with this week's interview with TIM O'HARA, the founding drummer of THE LILLINGTONS, the founder of Stabbed in Back & the new drummer for Toronto, Canada hardcore act: BRUTAL YOUTH!  We sit back with Tim and we talk to him about about marriage, mormon missions, drumming, middle school band politics, missing the boat on Fat Wreck Chords and oh so much more in this in depth interview! Interview starts at 11:00 in! 

It's storytime with SCOOTER JAMES! Jimmy Pinhead himself sits down with Damian on the freezing cold patio at Illegal Pete's in Denver to drink several pitchers of Coors Lite while chatting about the upcoming Pinhead Circus reunion shows with the NOBODYS!  We talk for a little over an hour, that was recorded. We talked about Scooter's first guitar, becoming a father, tour hi-jinks with the Nobodys, being a mid-level punk rock band in the 90's and oh so much more. We even find time to talk about Pinhead Circus's famous former drummer, Brandon Barnes of Rise Against Fame! All this and oh so much more as we try to stay warm on a cold, cold, Friday night at Illegal Pete's!  Check out Pinhead Circus this weekend with the NOBODYS. January 30th at the Triple Nickel Tavern in Colorado Springs & January 31st at the Hi-Dive in Denver!

Darius Koski from Swingin' Utters is today's guest, with special appearances from Chris "Big Bitch" Flippin, Joe Raposo and Joey Cape from Lagwagon! We join Darius on the Lagwagon tour bus to talk about his early musical memories, origins, as well as Fatherhood and why the Swingin Utters have been hitting it so hard these days. The interview devolves into a fun chat with Darius and Lagwagon about their first alcoholic drinks and malt liquor! 

LEMURIA are our guests this week on the Mostly Harmless Podcast! We meet up and interview Alex, Max and Sheena in the basement green room of the Hi-Dive in Denver! We chat with them about their newest release and appearance in Turnstile Comix #3, appearing in Entertainment Weekly, and the art of becoming a comic book characters in both Turnstile #3 and Li'l Depressed Boy! All of this and more in today's interview!

Dan Potthast of Mu33o and Rick Johnson of Mustard Plug join us today to talk about the first time they met, the first records they bought, their home lives, tour life as an adult and the creation of Sharkanoid; the duo's Guided by Voices inspired pop-punk concept album!

Mike, Max and Morgan of HARD GIRLS tell us about what led to their newest record, A THOUSAND SURFACES, working with Jesse Michaels of OPERATION IVY, the wisdom of Mike Park and more! Mike also talks the upcoming Shinobu release!

KEIRSTON WHITE is this week's guest. She can currently be seen on tour with John Moreland. We meet up with the singer songwriter to talk about her early musical origins, how she was an annoying little sister who learned to play and sing from her older brother, Bryon White from The Damn Quails. We also talk about how she found her voice, Stagefright, her friendship with John Moreland and her family connection to Roger Miller. She also maybe sings a little bit of Sublime in this week's audio adventure! Recorded backstage at 3 Kings Tavern in Denver, Colorado.

Hot Damn! SPEEDY ORTIZ are our guests today on The Mostly Harmless Podcast! We meet up with the band in the basement green room of the Hi-Dive. We have a free flowing chat with the band that covers topics such as their early musical origin stories, how they chose their instruments, the geography or middle America and comic books! Songs from this episode include: "Everything's Bigger" from their EP, Real Hair and "Doomsday" from their brand new split 7" with Chris Weisman for Famous Class's LAMC single series!

WOAH! STEVE DIGGLE FROM THE BUZZCOCKS is our guest on today's episode! We sit down backstage at Riot Fest Denver in the Visiting team locker room at Mile High Stadium and talk to the 59 year old guitar player for the highly influential punk band!  We talk to Steve about sleep deprivation, the longevity of the band & songs, crowd-funding of  their new album, The Way; the unending well of creative juices, festivals and oh so much more in today's interview!   Songs from this episode include: "It's Not You" from their upcoming record, The Way as well as "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" from the classic record Love Bites.

JOEY CAPE (Lagwagon, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes), CHRIS CRESSWELL (The Flatliners), BRIAN WAHLSTROM (Scorpios) and Serina Chang hang out at the Walnut Room in Denver, Colorado to discuss German humor, Barry Manilow, Competitive Whistling, First musical loves and the ONE WEEK RECORDS label and tour! This episode features the one week records songs, "Airplane Food," by Brian Wahlstrom and "Meet Me in the Shade" by Chris Cresswell. The episode ends with a live recording of the One Week Records gang playing, "International You Day," by Tony Sly and No Use For a Name.

Damian chugs a ton of whiskey and jumps into a tour bus to interview Dowsing, Sundials and Alissa Reynolds! They have a round table chat about touring life, where they grew up and came into their own, their respective records and what they learn about themselves and each other in their cramped quarters. All this and so much more in today's audio adventure.