RIP Al Barile

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Al was a hero and friend of this show. This is for him. Our deepest condolences to Nancy and the whole SSD Family.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to a sad edition of Turned Out of Punk.
0:04.5	My name is Damien and today of course I'm going to be talking about the passing of Alan Scott Brill, aka lethal from the legendary, all hugely seminally important hardcore band,D society system decontrol and later engage
0:25.7	someone who I got to know I'm not going to pretend like I knew extremely well but I got to know
0:31.9	a little bit from being on the show and unlike a lot of people that were on the show he's someone that I actually stayed in
0:39.0	contact with afterwards and and we talked a little bit here and there about wrestling and
0:44.6	music and someone I really had a lot of respect for if you followed Al on social media you
0:52.9	know that over the last few years he is really kind of what
0:56.9	came on social media he talks about it on this episode that you're about to hear because he wanted
1:02.9	to kind of confront what was happening in this world around us he was someone who in addition to being
1:09.9	hugely important for music i feel feel like, was a very
1:13.2	important voice at a time when a lot of our, sadly, a lot of our heroes in punk and hardcore
1:20.0	were revealing themselves to be maybe not as down with the ideas of unity and everyone being as accepted as they might have pretended to be at different times.
1:33.7	Al is someone who really, really wanted to fight against sort of the rising tide of fascism and extreme right ideologies in America and someone who made it very public that he was not a fan of Donald Trump.
1:51.1	I think you'd want me to say that expressly right here, right now.
1:56.0	I'm going to miss Al.
1:57.5	I'm going to miss his presence in this world.
1:59.9	I'm really going to miss knowing he's out
2:01.5	there. This episode, I wanted to put back up there because I know maybe people are going to be
2:07.9	wanting to hear some stuff about him. And I want to make sure there were no ads and there's just
2:13.5	a little acknowledgement about how important this guy was.
2:19.2	He survived by his amazing wife and friend of the show, Nancy.
2:24.7	Nancy Burrill is someone who, like Al, I think Al would also be the first to say,
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