259: Kid Congo (The Pink Monkey Birds, The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

Guitarist and vocalist Kid Congo Powers has been a key member of
several paradigm-shifting bands such as The Gun Club, The Cramps,
and The Bad Seeds. Over the past fifteen years, he's also led his
own excellent band, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. Kid
tells Joe about: growing up in a Chicano family in Los Angeles;
how he became obsessive about music before ever playing an
instrument, ultimately becoming president of The Ramones Fan
Club; learning to play guitar in The Gun Club; his parents'
experience at a Cramps show; "growing up" in Berlin; sobriety;
how the current pandemic evokes AIDS-era PTSD; and the process of
writing his memoirs.