Jerry Skids: On Punk Rock and how he got started in music
Check out the full episode here:
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
Transcription
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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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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
