I never told him this though he and I later became pals. That guy was Stephen Ielpi and I followed him to CBGBs one night. I mean how could you not see a guy on the train with a Hitler mustache, a walking cane with a monkey skull on it and a mohawk in 1977 and not follow that guy to wherever the fuck he was going? Then punk rock hit New York around the same time I got to high school and I was on the subway and could go places and see and do things so that's how it started.
The Eddie and the Hotrods record came in 1977 I think though. KISS being the first band I latched onto. I mean I did as well, but I also thought it was cool and since I was about 13 I had been seeking out harder music. Since I was sort of a depressive teen he thought I'd think it was funny. It had a kid with a gun to his head on the cover. My (now ex-) stepfather wrote for the New York Post and one day in the newsroom he saw a record by Eddie and the Hotrods called Teenage Depression. OK, so how did you end up getting into punk and hardcore? And what did your mom think of all this stuff when you were first doing it? Was/is she supportive of your music? And before then? Westchester and before then, Queens. Flatbush specifically though I spent a year in Crown Heights. I know you’re from New York City but I don’t remember which borough?īrooklyn.
And about 26 other side projects if memory serves. Robinson and all of those other things as well. You are Eugene Robinson, singer of Whipping Boy, Oxbow, and Black Face and world renowned author, correct? Robinson, a musician, author, actor, podcast host, fighter, and many other things that make him one of the coolest motherfuckers to ever come out of the punk scene. For the latest entry to his A Hardcore Conversation interview series, Anthony Allen Begnal chats with Eugene S.
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