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00:04 The only other punk band that was around that we knew of

00:08 was the Stooges. But, you know, we were the only thing.

00:12 People just didn't get it. I mean, it was...and also, there was no

00:16 place to play. When we broke up, I mean, we thought that this whole scene

00:20 was over.

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00:40 We never knew him as Jerome. He told us his name was Jerry Clover.

00:44 I mean, we backed up Cheap Trick at Hump and Hanna's one time.

00:48 Oh my God, what an entertainer! This guy, he's not that bad.

00:52 He's better than Monty Rock the Third!

00:56 I think that Zax was just like watching a band

01:00 go from a pretty good thing as In A Hot Coma

01:04 to a great thing as the Haskells. You know, Zax was

01:08 the place. I heard what they were playing and I really

01:12 wasn't that interested. You know what was key in getting

01:16 Damien Blaine into what we were doing

01:20 was Jerome Bridge. And the bartender pulls out a .45

01:24 like right by my head. The lubricants,

01:28 the valiance, muscle beach

01:32 from Racine. They were hilarious. I got arrested on stage.

01:36 Damien came down, bailed me out so we could finish.

01:40 The one thing I do remember is Jerome calling my house, which was a big deal.

01:44 He's like, "Yeah, they blew up our car in the backyard. This is war."

01:48 Something like that. We're assembling all of our troops and we're

01:52 becoming a movement.

01:56 And to give Jerome his credit, he

02:00 really opened up the scene as far as pursuing Kenny Baldwin.

02:04 And he started talking to me about what a wonderful place

02:08 this could be, how cool it would be if I started booking punk stuff.

02:12 Kenny was a patron of the arts. By having that place,

02:16 there's no way he was making any money on that place.

02:20 The Starship was really cold and we found frozen turds in the

02:24 toilet when we came in. It was like the SWAT team came in, these guys with

02:28 like, you know, vests and guns and the whole deal. And we're like, "What?"

02:32 And I went to the doorman, Dave Thomas,

02:36 and said, "Dave, I'm only 17, man. I shouldn't be in here."

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03:28 There's something which happened in the early

03:33 time of a band called Violent Femmes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

03:38 We couldn't get any place that would let us play.

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Taking the City By Storm: The Birth of Milwaukee's Punk Scene | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer

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