Hey my name is Demetri. I play in a band called Off! with my buddy over here.
Mario.
We just played a fantastic in-store.
As you can see, I don't have a bag but I have a lot of stuff.
I'll start with this guy. The Iron Claw.
Scottish band, probably the first Black Sabbath tribute band from back then.
Apparently they would cover the first Black Sabbath record in its entirety.
It really matches what you're wearing right now too. Looks excellent.
It should be a t-shirt probably, yeah.
But it's doomy, it's really heavy.
It's really crappy sounding fidelity but
y'know they probably recorded it on like a Wollensak tape recorder or whatever.
I was just walking along and I saw this.
This guy right here went on to be in Chavez
and this guy, his name's Matt Quigley
and he's a big reason I'm even doing this.
He just gave me an education when I was like 19 years old
and sat me down and said you need to listen to these two Velvet Underground records y'know.
He was that guy?
Yeah he was that guy, he was like, check out the Stooges.
I'm like, what, the Three Stooges? Why? He's like, no dude, Iggy Pop, y'know.
I was kind of like a late bloomer with all this
y'know, the idea of playing in a band and all that.
So, Matt Quigley from Skunk, thanks brother.
Just a random pick, 'Killed by Deathrock, Vol. 1'
I like this label Sacred Bones. They put out some cool stuff
but this is kind of an interesting take on
the 'Killed By Death' kind of 70s punk rare compilation thing.
But this is focusing on dark punk and deathrock.
I don't know one single band on this LP but I like the art.
Taking a chance.
I'm trusting in Sacred Bones to give me something very dark
and deathy and rocky at the same time.
It looks right up your alley.
Yeah.
Again, hold it up for a second, looks great with what you're wearing.
We were recently at South by Southwest and Keith's girlfriend is one of the Hayden triplets.
And we saw them perform in this beautiful sounding church.
Three-part harmonies, they had a band, Petra was playing violin.
and I was just flipping through and I saw this and I think they even did a Carter Family cover.
So after a day of chasing around my kids and y'know rocking out
I'm gonna settle down with the mellow sounds of the Carter Family.
I think I'm on my last record.
A man just known as Damon.
Apparently the legend of this record is that
y'know, the story always goes someone just finds it for a dollar or two at some swap meet
and it starts trading from collector to collector.
Before you know it, people are paying like a thousand dollars for any original copy
known to exist or something weird like that.
And this guy, apparently he got tracked down, and he had no idea that his
record was exchanging hands for anywhere up to a thousand or two thousand dollars.
He's been living in California this whole time, working
y'know some average job or something maybe.
You know it's funny that cover, I wouldn't think that that's a psychedelic record
based on the cover. I would think it was maybe some kind of a soul record.
Very mystical, 'Song of a Gypsy.'
'Song of a Gypsy.' Yeah.
The music fits the title very much.
Well, since you're out of picks
I'm going to pull out something that you'll certainly have a lot to say about.
Ok.
Glen E. Friedman, 'Fuck You Too.'
I was being inspired by the people around me
inspired by the things that I was hearing.
Y'know, I mean, I was a skateboarder, that's why I started taking skateboard pictures.
And these guys were so incredible, I just thought
it needed to be portrayed in a way that I was seeing with my own two eyes
that I wasn't seeing necessarily in the magazines.
Those of you that don't know about his background
he was a pro skateboarder, skated for Alva back in the day, in the 90s
and probably skated with a lot of these dudes.
And Glen also took a lot of photos of rock bands from back in the day.
Punk bands, hip-hop bands.
And he's into Off! so when we go to New York he takes our photos.
Yeah. I bet... watch this. Boom. Do you know this guy?
Shogo Kubo. I don't personally know him but, as a kid, I had a lot of respect for this guy.
Definitely, he rode for... he's one of the initial Z-boys, Dogtown
I had pictures of this guy on my wall as a kid.
Really?
So I randomly just picked the right dude.
I have two kids that are obsessed with 'Yellow Submarine.'
And I just saw this kind of laying down in the memorabilia section
and I was hoping it was John Lennon because I'm a John Lennon fan.
And so there it is. They're gonna be really excited.
They'll obsess about this toy for months and fight over it.
'Wolf of Wall Street.'
I went to go see it and I had kind of like a...
speaking of kids, y'know, my wife was hitting me up, she's like, you've got to come home now.
And I got like three quarters of the way through it and didn't finish it so
now's my chance.
Thank you so much for talking with us today.
Alright, thanks for having us.
Thanks for the records.