In episode 115 we talk everything East Bay Punk with Jesse Townley! Before Green Day and The Offspring took punk to the world stage, there was a wild, sweaty, all-ages club in Berkeley called 924 Gilman Street — and Jesse Townley (aka Jesse Luscious) was right in the middle of it.

Frontman of Blatz, The Criminals, and The Frisk, Jesse shared stages and a DIY ethos with the same scene that birthed Green Day, Rancid, and Operation Ivy.

Whether you grew up on Dookie, Smash, or Blatz’s raw chaos, this is the East Bay history lesson you didn’t know you needed!

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Welcome to The Stupid And Contagious podcast, a podcast focused on bringing you interviews with the bands that defined a generation!

That generation grew up in the 90s with the Grebo bands (Senseless Things, PWEI, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Mega City Four, The Wonderstuff and many more) on the UK side of the pond and quickly joined by the grunge bands (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and many more) on the US side of the pond.

We are not limiting ourselves to these genres though, we will chart the guitar bands from all genres throughout the decade that was the 1990s.

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