Jun 5, 2023
Ray Ahn and Peter Black of Australian punk band The Hard-Ons discuss the early days of the band, the records, the band name, career choices, music catalogue, artistic evolution, the new LP "Ripper 23" and more.
Topics include:
- Ray’s record room
- Record shopping, Miles Davis
- Ray’s early history with music/vinyl
- The Hard-Ons love vinyl, large album cover art
- Blackie always thinks like an album
- The 1st records Ray and Blackie bonded over
- Record shopping around Sydney as youths
- Discovering Australian punk
- The Sex Pistols taught Blackie he can start a band
- Ray joins the band
- History of the name “The Hard-Ons”
- Benefits & challenges of the band name “The Hard-Ons”
- Making the “Surfin’ On My Face” EP
- Being approached by Virgin Records
- Conversations with Epitaph records
- Ownership of The Hard-Ons catalogue
- The complexities to self-release music & back catalogue
- “Ripper 23” cover art
- The Hard-Ons continuing to evolve
- Shifting members and the future with Tim Rogers
- Parallel project of Nunchukka Superfly
- Multiple bands make a musician better
- The Hard-Ons Doublethink records single
- Ordering vinyl for “Ripper 23”
- Interview wrap up
Order The Hard-Ons "Ripper 23" on vinyl here!
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