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Episode 153 - Jim Cuddy (The HiFi's, Blue Rodeo)
Episode 153 - Jim Cuddy (The HiFi's, Blue Rodeo)
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jan 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week on Turned Out A Punk, one of the greatest Canadian songwriters of all-time (He’s 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’s to see how punk helped & hindered his journey to Blue Rodeo, ultimately changing Canadian music forever…. and of course the DOA, The BFG’s & Canadian bands in Alphabet City. THIS IS A MONSTER OF AN EPISODE!!!!
Also Touched On:
Diodes and Demics were THE bands
Forming the HiFi’s
Beatlesqe
Randy (not Rampage) and DOA
Power Pop
Elvis Costello
The appeal of punk
Punk grows up
Steve Koch
Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time
Why was there no first wave punk from Kingston?
Chris Speeding
“You guys wanna rumble, you know, for like money?”
Cabana Room
BFGs
Meeting bitterness from the music scene upon success but not from the musicians
The passing of Handsome Ned and how it changed Toronto
The arrival go heroine
“The elegant junkie” myth
No interest in being “An Event Band”
Ready Records courting Blue Peter
Picking Colin Newman
Getting on the radio
Dave Booth a Rockabilly manager with a great ear
The Spoons and Ceramic Hello
No fitting in with Synth and getting out of town
Post HiFi recording
The 70’s were competitive in music
Going to New York
Anyone can get a gig in CBGBs
Cowboy Junkies living in Alphabet City
Getting “Charlie Brown’d” the the record biz
The **_*_** Wives: the most controversial band in the city
The difference between Vancouver and Toronto’s scene
Chris Huston: the link
& MUCH, MUCH MORE...
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
Also Touched On:
Diodes and Demics were THE bands
Forming the HiFi’s
Beatlesqe
Randy (not Rampage) and DOA
Power Pop
Elvis Costello
The appeal of punk
Punk grows up
Steve Koch
Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time
Why was there no first wave punk from Kingston?
Chris Speeding
“You guys wanna rumble, you know, for like money?”
Cabana Room
BFGs
Meeting bitterness from the music scene upon success but not from the musicians
The passing of Handsome Ned and how it changed Toronto
The arrival go heroine
“The elegant junkie” myth
No interest in being “An Event Band”
Ready Records courting Blue Peter
Picking Colin Newman
Getting on the radio
Dave Booth a Rockabilly manager with a great ear
The Spoons and Ceramic Hello
No fitting in with Synth and getting out of town
Post HiFi recording
The 70’s were competitive in music
Going to New York
Anyone can get a gig in CBGBs
Cowboy Junkies living in Alphabet City
Getting “Charlie Brown’d” the the record biz
The **_*_** Wives: the most controversial band in the city
The difference between Vancouver and Toronto’s scene
Chris Huston: the link
& MUCH, MUCH MORE...
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
Released:
Jan 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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