I haven’t done a chat in awhile and so I was thinking that I needed to find someone that I was sure would be a great guest and who I happened to have known a lot about and sort of gotten to know a little bit and Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross certainly fit that bill. Jeff is quietly a real pied Piper in his own way and his influence sort of paved the way for years of fun and non conformist “we are going to do whatever the heck we want” music and attitude spawning over FOUR DECADES. Which in itself is really amazing. The Redd Kross “Teen Babes” mini album from 1984, even though it was them playing cover songs, they were the cover songs that really turned a generation of kids who liked music on to what had happened before the punk rock scene of the later seventies and early eighties, and it was through that record that I was introduced to the Stooges and David Bowie. Their other covers of New York Dolls and Blue Cheer were also the influence on me discovering that stuff too. Teen Babes wasn’t their best record but it was sort of the most important one for me for the after-mentioned reasons.
Plus, Redd Kross were literally one of the first punk bands that I had ever heard and Jeff, along with his younger brother Steven, are two of the coolest nicest guys ever. It was a pleasure to talk to Jeff the other day and I hope you enjoy our groovy life affirming chat where we namedrop everything from Mood Of Defiance to My War to Charlie Watts to Kiss and way beyond. We get pretty deep. Or is it pretty stupid?
Hell, it’s probably both. Thanks to Jeff for giving me an hour plus of his time. Enjoy!!!
25 сен 2021
