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TOAP Classic: Freddie Pompeii from the Viletones is here

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

TOAP CLASSIC #31 (RECORDED January 30, 2016):

RIP Freddie Pompeii - January 9, 1947 to May 13, 2017

Freddie's guitar sound and song writing is an influence on everyone from Bad Brains to Sonic Youth. Listen to the Viletones. Legends never die.

Forever blessings to Mickey Skin for setting this up way back when.

Episode 60 -

This week on Turned out A Punk: it is legit legends week as we welcome, guitarist of the legendary Viletones, Freddie Pompeii the show for a legendary episode. Hear stories of: acid fuelled Velvet Underground experiences, laying the foundation of Punk and being in arguably the most important Canadian punk band ever.



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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk classics,

0:06.5

a show where we take old episodes of Turned at a Punk that have been lost from the internet

0:09.5

and return them to their previous glory by sticking them back on the feed.

0:13.2

You can find this podcast on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and all other forms of social media.

0:19.7

Well, that's pretty much it.

0:21.0

At Turned Out of Punk.

0:22.0

You can find me on Twitter or Instagram at Leffordamian.

0:25.2

I play in a band.

0:26.0

More information can be found at F-U-C-K-E-D-U-P.C-C-E-D-U-P.

0:31.4

Now sit back, relax, and enjoy another T-O-A-P classic.

0:39.4

I'm so excited to get to do this, Freddie.

0:41.1

This is like a big thrill, because, like,

0:44.0

I can't think of too many bands more important to the history of music

0:47.6

than the violtones, especially for me.

0:49.8

Right.

0:50.6

Flattered.

0:51.0

And the type of music that I like.

0:53.4

I won't go into too many details now, because this could be just me speaking about the vowel tones for an hour.

0:59.1

But instead I want to talk to you about you.

1:01.0

Cool, man.

1:01.7

I start off all the podcasts kind of the same way, which is how'd you get in a punk?

1:06.2

But obviously with you, we're going to go back before that.

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