Jun 23, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 15 segments
Vic Bondi is a punk rock legend that is still putting out vital, energetic punk that matters. It was my absolutely pleasure to host him on this episode of Couch Riffs Podcast. Vic Bondi and His Issues…
Vic BondiGuest
Mike SquiresHostFor more details, see harrisx.com slash t-mobile-savings.
There used to be regional sounds, right? And I imagine that sort of stood in the same way with a void where people aren't hearing recordings being distributed around.
Maybe too much? I mean, it starts to level everything out at a certain point, right? It's exciting to have
Seattle has had this incredible music scene incumbent up here by virtue of its isolation, developed some really unique characteristics.
There was a jazz scene in the city on Jackson Street that was really famous, right? And West Coast jazz in part is born here and in LA, right? And then also the whole garage thing, in some ways you can say like garage begins in Seattle, man, like between Tacoma and Seattle.
Come on, right? Like The Ventures, come on, right? So there's this incredible, even before grunge, even before punk up here.
And in fact, actually, in the hardcore punk days, this is a little bit of a backwater.
There was... green river but there weren't that many nationally known punk bands right in from like 83 to 86 like later on it starts to develop right uh but for for really the heyday of american hardcore there wasn't a lot in seattle but there was poison idea and tad right down the road so oh yeah yeah oh
For more details, see harrisx.com slash t-mobile-savings.
There used to be regional sounds, right? And I imagine that sort of stood in the same way with a void where people aren't hearing recordings being distributed around.
Maybe too much? I mean, it starts to level everything out at a certain point, right? It's exciting to have
Seattle has had this incredible music scene incumbent up here by virtue of its isolation, developed some really unique characteristics.
There was a jazz scene in the city on Jackson Street that was really famous, right? And West Coast jazz in part is born here and in LA, right? And then also the whole garage thing, in some ways you can say like garage begins in Seattle, man, like between Tacoma and Seattle.
Come on, right? Like The Ventures, come on, right? So there's this incredible, even before grunge, even before punk up here.
And in fact, actually, in the hardcore punk days, this is a little bit of a backwater.
There was... green river but there weren't that many nationally known punk bands right in from like 83 to 86 like later on it starts to develop right uh but for for really the heyday of american hardcore there wasn't a lot in seattle but there was poison idea and tad right down the road so oh yeah yeah oh
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