Bert Kreischer

And yeah, of course I remember it because number one, I remember it because it was different.

You know what I mean?

And I was like, oh, what is, you know what I mean?

So we're just sort of,

The funny thing was, because the power ballad was such a big thing at the late 80s for hair metal bands and metal bands.

at the time what what was really popular with me and my friends was uh susie and the banshees smith circles jerk dead kennedys like that like that was like you either had a trend that's where we come from yeah and then we found i mean we always liked roots music and you know so echoing the bunnyman doesn't have any graham parsons in it yeah no it doesn't um

And I mean, Susie's one of my obsessions, you know?

I mean, in Atlanta in like 1980 and 81, like the Dead Kennedys.

You're not putting Dead Kennedys.

You're wearing Dead Kennedys t-shirts.

Someone's like, what the hell are you doing, boy?

You know, I'm like, if they knew what MDC meant, you know, you get beat up for wearing stuff like that.

the dead we had in atlanta the the the one of the best hardcore bands ever our our hardcore band in atlanta was the band called neon christ and um

When I'd see them, Randy Duto is the singer, and I got to be pals with him, and we would go see their gigs.

Actually, their guitar player is the singer in Alice in Chains now.

His name was Kip back then, and he played guitar in Neon Christ.

So you would go to their gigs, and you'd get a stack of Neon.

It was just a red punk logo, Neon Christ.

And I had a little...

tan volkswagen rabbit you know what i mean stick shift i had two bumper stickers on my car they were both white stickers with red logos and one was the monkeys and one was neon christ and every time i would take that car to like the grocery store out in the burbs people would rip i had a stack of them they would rip that sticker off the car like it was blasphemy