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Jerry Skids: On Punk Rock and how he got started in music

Punk Rock Musician, Jerry Skids

Listen how Jerry turned his love of punk music into several albums, and what it
takes to get started!

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Episode 15
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah

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one of the dreams pockets i’m your host
Joe part today I’m interviewing Jerry

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skids who is living history through
music welcome to the show Jerry thanks

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thanks for having me on man thanks for
coming on i really appreciate it when we

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start by giving the audience some
background about yourself

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sure well mama 33 grew up in Long Island
New York you know I live in Brooklyn now

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Scott engaged and I grew up a punk and I
mean that in the music sense punk rock

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and rock and roll classic rock all that
stuff

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yeah that’s that’s me so before we get
started more about your music career

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what would you say inspires you

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I’m inspired by many things uh my family
of course my dad is a musician you

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always been a musician he played in many
many bands and I don’t like he’s been an

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inspiration even though he hasn’t been
in my life all the time but besides that

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I also inspired by a lot of other things
i’m inspired by political musicians and

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you know a lot of Punk’s out there
people who are able to just go out and

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do their thing without any worries a lot
of kids kind of like 16 17 18 years old

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he just kind of got up and went on tour
got a big yellow school bus and went out

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there and you know although i was never
able to do something like that that’s

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you know to me is the ultimate DIY the
ultimate do-it-yourself attitude and

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that’s kind of where I come from

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so could you give me a couple bands that
you find inspiring recently there’s

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mischief brew folk band for pump and you
know they sing about squatters they sing

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about you know living on the streets and
such and although i haven’t really been

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in that world I’ve been around millions
and millions of people who lived in that

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world i used to hang out in the parks in
New York City and and that type of music

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really speaks to me on the political
punk rock and such if you go back to old

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bands fans like crass from the eighties
bands like that they just gave it their

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all they talk about things that most
people might find offensive but it’s you

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know it’s the truth

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they spoke it and they got in trouble
something from from the English

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government such but a

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shoulda mentioned there from the UK but