John Dwyer

Sydney's a busy man these days so he can't always make it.

Um, but I'm here with our f- guest, Big Mac McCarthy, and we're gonna be talking about his short story, John the Rock, that's available on Rare Candy Substack and also Dennis Johnson's collection of stories, Jesus' Son.

Mac, how are you?

I'm doing well.

[laughs]

Yeah, I am.

I just thought, you know, I needed to prepare spiritually for the, the Dennis Johnson conversation and this was, you know, this was ...

I'm really method with it.

studio album from

2011 when they were called The OCs on the label In The Red featuring John Dwyer on vocals Bridget Dawson on BVs Ty Segal and Heidi Marine Alexander also on the BVs going to send that one out to Joel and Steve from The Breakdown Saturday afternoons 3 till 5 playing exclusively new music apart from the 4 o'clock classic I don't think they've had many repeats either almost if not longer than 20 years

It's impressive stuff.

Not like our tired old

That album came out in May this year, and it is...

Uh, the project of John Dwyer, who, uh, was of course coach whips and the OCs as well.

Uh, yeah, it was like a little side project they just did to like, as a creative exercise.

That's Heathen Axe, uh, totally like blown out, um, kind of heavy riffing.

You're tuned into the Rare Earth Show here on University of California's KALX Berkeley, returning once again with a new album as Damaged Bug.

We've got John Dwyer.

So thank you so much for coming back.

It's always a pleasure talking to you.

So these other things are sort of the opposite of that to me, you know?

Yeah, I totally get that.

And yeah, I think all fans of John Dwyer, OC, everything related knows about the D&D ties and the sci-fi.

Yeah,

It was in San Francisco.

The guitar player is a guy named John Dwyer, who's in this great band called Dosie's.

unbelievable songwriter.

And then the drummer was a guy named Warren Canfield, just unbelievable metal drummer.