{"podcast":{"title":"Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast","slug":"only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570","podcast_index_feed_id":357570,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/onlythreelads","website_url":"https://onlythreelads.codeadx.me","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/554fa0b4-d3ed-11ed-8322-abbfb1668ca0/image/1dc9a3c3714f940fa7191ffb2ed70072.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"O3L Media","episode_count":414,"summary":"Only Three Lads is a lively podcast celebrating the Golden Age of Alternative Music from the '70s, '80s & '90s. Join Uncle Gregg, Brett Vargo, and a variety of ”Third Lads” as we share our Top Fives, stories, and news about the music we love, and have a lot of fun along the way! Whether you‘re into indie, punk, new wave, Britpop, power pop, synth pop, shoegaze, grunge...or whatever...there is going to be something for you to discover and love. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T16:21:18.417951+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570"},"episode":{"title":"E316 - Rousers' Jerid O'Connell - Top 5 '70s NYC Punk Obscurities","slug":"e316-rousers-jerid-o-connell-top-5-70s-nyc-punk-obscurities","published_at":"2026-02-10T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/e316-rousers-jerid-o-connell-top-5-70s-nyc-punk-obscurities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN9079673727.mp3?updated=1770652709","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN9079673727.mp3?updated=1770652709","summary":"Ramones. Blondie. Television. Talking Heads. Patti Smith. New York Dolls. Everyone knows the big names that made New York City THE epicenter of American punk rock in the 1970s. But that's only a part of the story... For every band that \"made it\" in some way, there were hundreds of bands who either faded into obscurity or never got the break they deserved. They shared the same stages at legendary clubs like CBGB and Max's Kansas City. And their stories are essential to the NYC punk revolution of the era. One of those bands was Manhattan's The Rousers, whose drummer, Jerid O'Connell, joins us as Third Lad today! Rousers 1979 Sire Session is out now on Left For Dead Records on both black and translucent white individually numbered 12” LP vinyl and 2 x CD set (with bonus tracks). Inspired by the New York Dolls, Ramones and such immortal ‘50s rockers as twangy guitar hero Duane Eddy, the Rousers were woefully under-documented in their prime. A few major labels sniffed around, including RCA and Warner Bros. subdi­vision Sire. But no one committed them to vinyl until their single “Party Boy” b/w “Don’t Let The Band Stop Playing” 45 (produced by Wayne Kramer of the MC5) via Jimboco in 1981. This oversight is corrected with the release of the demos that the original Rousers lineup cut for Sire in the label’s basement studio on New York’s Upper West Side in 1979. Never before released, the tapes sat shelved in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Sire archives for decades, digitized and re­stored in 2024. This is not a footnote. It’s a rescue mission. Tracked to tape under the sharp ear of Ed Stasium, hot off sessions with the Ramones and Talking Heads, the 1979 Sire demos are raw, radiant, and long overdue for release. They captured the Rousers in full dragstrip ignition mode: duelin…","meta_description":"Ramones. Blondie. Television. Talking Heads. Patti Smith. New York Dolls. Everyone knows the big names that made New York City THE epicenter of American p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6672,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/episodes/e316-rousers-jerid-o-connell-top-5-70s-nyc-punk-obscurities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/e316-rousers-jerid-o-connell-top-5-70s-nyc-punk-obscurities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}