Attention! Please be advised that today on the show we are joined by the legendary filmmaker of The Decline of Western Civilization: PENELOPE SPHEERIS!!! Listen in as Penelope & Damian discuss going from thinking music was dead, to being at the heart of the LA punk explosion, to becoming a "big time" Hollywood director & hating every second of it. Penelope is one of the the greatest to ever do it! 

I KNOW IT’S BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

“Have you heard of the Sex Pistols?”


LA Psych


music as an escape


Going to Rodney's because that was the thing to do


Blue Cheer


Zolar X


Punk changes everything


The Masque and places “where normal people don’t go”


Wish you shot the Weirdos, The Zeros, The Screamers and The Plugz


Showing Foghat the Sunset Strip


How to filming music


Manson changes everything


The Runaways


Art: Bob Biggs, a stripper and a cow on a leash


Where does it start?


Punk could see the future


Punk > Hollywood


Between The “Michael Moore” and the “Hand Of God”  style of documentary filmmaking


We Sold Our Souls


Guns And Roses not being in Decline 2


too glam not enough hardcore


“I don’t know the east coast”


Hardcore was born in Hermosa Beach 


Pollywog park


Violence and gangs


Bay Area Trash Violence


X not liking their parts in Decline.


The Maus Maus


“Hollywood can blow me!”


The horror of working with Weinstein brothers driving the making of the Decline 3


“El Duce was an asshole”

Bikers On Acid

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!


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