Talk – Action = Zero
Today The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased & Incomplete History Of Toronto Punk Rock Circa September 24 1976 To December 1 1978‘s left coast director Tristan Orchard sat down for a couple of hours with Joey Keithley, a.k.a. Joey Shithead of D.O.A. and Sudden Death Records fame.
The Skulls’ 1977 fanzine Drones; courtesy D.O.A., from Imants Krumins’ archives.
The focus of the interview was Joey’s pre D.O.A. band The Skulls, and the time they spent in Toronto in late ’77, early ’78. A few more days in the puzzle of The Last Pogo Jumps Again: A Biased & Incomplete History Of Toronto Punk Rock Circa September 24 1976 To December 1 1978.
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The first gig they got was playing to a completely unappreciative audience at the Yonge Street shit-hole The Gasworks, the gig got by Goddo’s Greg Godovitz. The played the Bill “The Count” Cork’s Shock Theatre, and David’s on St. Nicholas Lane. After a few months in Toronto, they headed back to B.C., broke up, and soon after D.O.A. was born.
Joey walks the walk and talks the talk. He didn’t come out of art school or off the streets; he went to university aiming to be a civil rights lawyer, but got seduced and sidetracked by music and took another course.
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