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How KISS and Aerosmith Shaped Punk's DNA [Highlight From Episode 314] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: This episode's guest is Sahan Jai Siria, the author of
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  Speaker 1: Don't Say Please, The Oral History of De Kreutzen. They
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  Speaker 1: were into a broad range of music, which you did
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  Speaker 1: talk about. They were fans of classic rock bands like Kiss,
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  Speaker 1: cec are Zeppelin, ACDC, Aerosmith. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I learned, you know, like I came up listening to
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  Speaker 2: punk and hardcore. You know, I'm I'm almost forty, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be turning forty in October. So the classic rock thing
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  Speaker 2: was not really anything that I really paid much attention
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  Speaker 2: to as a young kid. I loved Queen. I was
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  Speaker 2: a huge Queen fan, but you know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: other bands maybe just they didn't really connect with me.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't really until later in life that like,
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  Speaker 2: especially like the glam stuff that really resonated with me.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they came from really liking a lot
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  Speaker 2: of seventies punk, but a lot of the classic rock
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  Speaker 2: stuff didn't resonate with me. And I think it's because
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  Speaker 2: I had other, you know, punk things to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing that I learned and researching this book
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  Speaker 2: and just reading about this period in general, is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people who listen to punkin hardcore bands. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't listening to punk and hardcore because they were
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  Speaker 2: helping invent it. So they were listening to the heaviest
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  Speaker 2: music available, and the heaviest available was like hard rock
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  Speaker 2: and classic rock, you know. And so many people you
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  Speaker 2: know who are like kind of gen X age group,
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  Speaker 2: they you know, Kiss was a big deal for them.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a early early influence because it was
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  Speaker 2: just like it was made for teenage kids. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they look like cartoon characters. You know, it's just guitar
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  Speaker 2: solos and flamethrowers and in ball machines. It makes so
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  Speaker 2: much sense for a certain a person of a certain
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  Speaker 2: age at a certain time to be a Kiss fan, right,
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  Speaker 2: So all those things were just like you know, the edgiest,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like gnarliest thing available. And I think so
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  Speaker 2: many people who went on to play in punkin hardcore
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  Speaker 2: bands definitely did their time listening to you know, classic
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  Speaker 2: rock them and that stuff. I mean, thround, sweet and slight,
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  Speaker 2: but all that stuff is great, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting and reading a lot about grunge
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  Speaker 1: bands and how much they were influenced by early Aerosmith
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  Speaker 1: and Black Sabbath. I hear that often early Smith and
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean the early Aerosmith records are pretty
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool. I mean, especially you know, the vocalist for
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  Speaker 2: Decrots and Da Kevinski. He cites Stephen Tyler as a
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  Speaker 2: huge influence. When he first told me that in person,
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  Speaker 2: years before I was writing the book, I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting it, because again I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 2: some of these like people who listen who made punk
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  Speaker 2: and hardcore were listening to classic rock. But I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about it. I was like, well, you think about
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  Speaker 2: the end of dream On where he's really pushing his
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  Speaker 2: voice into like screaming territory. I'm like, oh, that makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But yeah, I mean the grunge bands. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Kirkobane is a huge fan of like a record like
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  Speaker 2: Rocks by Aerosmith. He loved that record.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, it's dirty, it's it's it's grungy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah totally, you know, I mean the sound of that
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  Speaker 2: record rules. That's a that's a that's a great record.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like the world's biggest Aerosmith fan, but they
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  Speaker 2: have some rec as A definitely dig for sure,