Episode 74: Christopher Sutton (The Dirt Bombs, The Gossip, Dub Narcotic Sound System etc.)

It has been my great privilege to count this week’s guest low-end legend Christopher Sutton as a friend for near three decades now. Episode 74 marks his TMpod debut, the first of many appearances I hope! The conversation starts at the beginning, wherein we meet a young Chris in the 80’s walking down the strip mall streets of his hometown of Lacey, WA carrying his new $208 bass guitar toward home where he would begin practicing his hair metal bass shredding.  It wasn’t until his mom insisted he and his friend Dan check out a music festival happening downtown that he had any inkling that he lived in a punk rock epicenter. All that changed the moment they stepped out of the car to check out the International Pop Underground Festival. It wasn’t long before he met IPU creator, K Records founder Calvin Johnson while recording with Oly ska band Engine 54 and was swept away on a musical odyssey that continues to this day and has taken him around the world beginning with Calvin’s Dub Narcotic Sounds System continuing with C.O.C.O, The Gossip, The Dirt Bombs, Chain and the Gang to name a few. Always a prolific musician, Chris has recently released a collection of selected solo tunes on the Antiquated Future label created between 1998 and 2019 called you brought me back from the dead. It's great listening and I urge you to seek it out either in it's cassette form or streaming on all the web places! Enjoy my conversation with Chris! LINKS: Antiquated Future Bandcamp SUPPORT THE POD!!! THANK YOU!!! https://www.patreon.com/traegermethod Music: Christopher Sutton 'We're So Ugly' 'Baby Ornette' and 'Love Dub' We also feature a short excerpt from The Transfused musical recorded live in Olympia in 2000. TMpod theme by Jason --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-traeger/support