{"id":16794,"date":"2017-01-11T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16794"},"modified":"2017-01-11T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:58:02","slug":"blowin-wind-with-slik-toxikpunishment-guitarist-kevin-gale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16794","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; Wind with Slik Toxik\/Punishment Guitarist Kevin Gale: \u201cI\u2019m one of the luckiest motherfuckers on this planet to be honest.  If it wasn\u2019t for the guys that I play with, I wouldn\u2019t be playing music.  These guys make it so that I enjoy music again.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/thegreatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/13707532_1138701892819589_5667238262688970683_n.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>Back in 1992, a little band from Canada by the name of Slik Toxik released an album called Doin\u2019 the Nasty.\u00a0 That album absolutely blew my mind.\u00a0 It was such a huge sounding record full of great songwriting, incredible musicianship, and a voice that sounded 20 feet tall.\u00a0 Slik Toxik quickly became one of my favorite bands but as fast as they came, they were gone with the wind.\u00a0 Where the fuck did they go?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In 2016, I noticed one of my followers was a guy by the name of Kevin Gale who, as it turned out, was a guitarist in Slik Toxik.\u00a0 We hit it off right away and he introduced me to his latest (and really outstanding) band, Punishment.\u00a0 We finally decided to do an interview and I\u2019m so glad we did.\u00a0 Kevin is easily one of the sweetest dudes in hard rock and I had a blast talking with him about the Slik Toxik days, his band Punishment, and his adoration of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.\u00a0 Enjoy this one y\u2019all!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin, thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview, my friend!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much doing this, man.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be fun.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before we get started, I have to say that I do wish I could go back in time to my 17 year old self and say, \u201cDude, you\u2019re gonna be buddies with the guitarist from Slik Toxik someday.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs] Yeah.\u00a0 Poor you! [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slik Toxik was one of my favorite bands back in the day and definitely the \u201clittle band that should\u2019ve.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m also very lucky that I got to see you guys live.\u00a0 What a powerful live band you guys were!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s what the strength of us really was.\u00a0 We were a really strong live band.\u00a0 The songwriting was good too but we were just really lucky and that\u2019s the bottom line.\u00a0 Anybody who\u2019s \u201cmade in\u201d in the industry, whatever that definition is, they just got luck [laughs].\u00a0 That\u2019s just what it is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZg7QLBQlGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think you downplay it a bit but what was it about Slik Toxik that got you guys noticed and eventually signed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you could tell me, I would be able to relate that to my current band [laughs].\u00a0 Honestly, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We had a great, a charismatic lead singer; we had kick ass guitar players, and a solid rhythm section and decent songwriting.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s what it was but honestly, I just don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We were playing a club in Toronto and our management found us there.\u00a0 It all happened pretty quickly but my mind is pretty hazy from that era [laughs].\u00a0 It all happened really fast and again, we were really fortunate and lucky.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys released the Smooth and Deadly EP and then released the full length, Doin\u2019 the Nasty but I heard that the EP was actually recorded after the full album.\u00a0 Is that true?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was done after the debut was finished.\u00a0 Capitol wanted something to put out before the full length so we did that EP and put BFD (Big Fuckin\u2019 Deal) on it and then did three other songs for the EP.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I have to ask.\u00a0 Who is Rachel and why was she breathing (Rachel\u2019s Breathing) on the EP and then dead (Rachel\u2019s Dead) on the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs]\u00a0 That\u2019s funny.\u00a0 We used to get phone calls constantly at 3 in the morning from this random girl and we just dubbed her as \u201cRachel\u201d [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>I was in a metal band in the 90\u2019s and we named ourselves Rachael\u2019s Dead.\u00a0 Do I owe you any money?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Oh man.\u00a0 No, we\u2019re good.\u00a0 Maybe a nickel [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>The only tour I remember you guys being a part of was the Faster Pussycat tour in \u201992.\u00a0 Did you guys do much touring other than that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not really.\u00a0 We did that Faster Pussycat tour for a little while but then they went on tour with Ozzy so we went back home [laughs].\u00a0 We toured with Yngwie Malmsteen in the US for a little bit but that was about it for touring in the use aside from a couple of headlining shows. \u00a0We didn\u2019t tour a whole lot more than that and then did some Canadian shows.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys toured with Yngwie?\u00a0 Man, how was that?\u00a0 I know he has a reputation for being, how shall I say it?\u00a0\u00a0 Difficult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs]\u00a0 He was really nice to us.\u00a0 He loves to drink.\u00a0 I almost got his Rolex [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the hell did that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He says to me when we were in Chicago \u201cHey man check out my Rolex&#8221; so I put it on and a few hours go by and he keeps getting more wasted. Then we had to leave and I thought I got away with it he goes, \u201cHey man give me my watch.\u201d\u00a0 I was like ugh.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever look back on that time and think, \u201cMan, if we had only been four years earlier\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, I used to.\u00a0 I used to be really bitter about it but I\u2019m not anymore.\u00a0 It is what it is.\u00a0 The musical climate had to change in order for things to progress.\u00a0 It happened and there wasn\u2019t much we could do about it. \u00a0I was fortunate enough and very grateful to have been able to do what I did and to even get that far.\u00a0 Most people don\u2019t even get a taste of that.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back in the day, bands could get label support, a tour bus, tours, etc.\u00a0 Do you find that it\u2019s hard to be a band now than say when Slik Toxik was around?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely.\u00a0 The cost of everything goes up, club owners aren\u2019t paying what they used to, especially to bands who aren\u2019t on the radio or who aren\u2019t going to draw huge crowds into their club.\u00a0 You end up with a lot of negatives against you.\u00a0 Is it worth it to do it?\u00a0 Hell yeah it\u2019s worth it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a musician it\u2019s what you do.\u00a0 The avenues are smaller and smaller these days though.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>These days, bands are schlepping it in vans and leaving gig to gig.\u00a0 Could you do this these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh man, back in the Slik Toxik days, we did our share of schlepping it around touring Canada in a cube van.\u00a0 If I did that now, at my age, I would probably seize up and not be able to move at all [laughs].\u00a0 There\u2019s no way I could do it now.\u00a0 I\u2019m amazed we lived through it back then but our manager back then use to say it was character building [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time when you guys were touring, did you have a sense that you might be coming into the scene at a bad time or was it more of a \u201cFuck it.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just milk it for what we can and enjoy it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, we were just having fun.\u00a0 We were a bunch of kids that, like I said, got lucky.\u00a0 Yeah, we worked our asses off but we had a lot of fun and we did what we had to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we were thinking about much of anything.\u00a0 We were just doing it because we had nothing else to do [laughs].\u00a0 I wish there was some better story that we had our future planned out or that clairvoyantly we saw what was going to happen but we just didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I remember talking to Dave Murray from Iron Maiden once and he said, \u201cWe had no idea any of this was going to happen and we got lucky.\u00a0 I\u2019m the luckiest fucker on the face of the earth.\u00a0 I get to do this every day\u201d [laughs].\u00a0 I\u2019ve been lucky enough to meet all of my heroes and all of them will tell you that it it\u2019s blind luck.\u00a0 Yeah there\u2019s talent involved but the majority of it is luck; being in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slik Toxik released Irrelevant after the debut.\u00a0 This album was a change in sound and took you into a more modern direction.\u00a0 Was this intentional or was this a kind of label push?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the story behind that one.\u00a0 We had been writing for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> album and the record company was listening to what we had.\u00a0 They then came in and said something that I\u2019ll never forget.\u00a0 They said, \u201cIt\u2019s not organic enough.\u201d [laughs]\u00a0 I said, \u201cCan you define organic?\u201d The answer we got was, \u201cI don\u2019t know but it\u2019s not organic.\u201d\u00a0 We were lucky enough to work a little bit with <span class=\"_3oh- _58nk\">Glen Robinson<\/span>, the guy that produced Kyuss, and Garth Richardson who worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers so after that we started down tuning our guitars.\u00a0 We got some ideas from them about how this whole new thing was going to go.\u00a0 We started down tuning before all those other guys so we\u2019ll take credit for that.\u00a0\u00a0 No, I\u2019m just kidding [laughs].\u00a0 We were tuning down to like drop D and stuff and I had no idea how to even make chords out of that [laughs].\u00a0 It was pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musically the album was a shift but songwriting wise it still had that Slik Toxik vibe to it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 It\u2019s a really dark album.\u00a0 We were angry kids.\u00a0 We were pissed off and when you\u2019re pissed off and you have a voice and you can actually put that voice out there.\u00a0 Do I think what we did was right at the time?\u00a0 Yeah, I think so.\u00a0 I think that was pretty important for us to do at the time.\u00a0 Again, it was a natural progression for us as a band to go that route.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>So was the title \u201cIrrelevant\u201d sort of a play on words as far as where the genre was going?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t mean anything actually.\u00a0\u00a0 The title was just completely\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irrelevant!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Exactly.\u00a0 It could\u2019ve been called Brown Shoes for all we cared so we just called it Irrelevant. \u00a0It means nothing.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which makes it completely brilliant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] I suppose if you look at it in hindsight.\u00a0 We were just pissed off kids so we didn\u2019t care what it would be called.\u00a0 We could\u2019ve called the album Pissed Off and it probably would\u2019ve been more fitting for the time [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dangerous Toys put out an album called Pissed around that time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 Same deal right?\u00a0 All of us mid-grade sort of bands sort of got thrown away in the hype and than you had some of the huge bands that were able to ride it out.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think it would go over if say Slik Toxik released Doin\u2019 the Nasty now, in 2017?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn\u2019t [laughs].\u00a0 It might still stand the test of time but I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I do love a lot of the songs we did on that album and I\u2019m proud of them but do I think it would\u2019ve done as well today?\u00a0 Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what was the end of the line for Slik Toxik?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the end of the line for me was that I got tired of not making any money.\u00a0 I quit the band and then I got a job.\u00a0 After that I think they did a couple of shows with another guitar player and it just fizzled out from there.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back on Doin\u2019 the Nasty, what song are you super proud to have your name on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSweet Asylum\u201d, \u201cMidnight Grind\u201d, \u201cIts Not Easy\u201d, \u201cCrashed.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Actually all of it but the epitome of Slik Toxik was \u201cMidnight Grind.\u201d\u00a0 I think that song encompassed everything we were about.\u00a0 This was in the days before ProTools and we were recording on 2.5\u201d tape.\u00a0 All those really high harmonies you hear on \u201cMidnight Grind\u201d are all Nick (Walsh; lead vocalist).\u00a0 That\u2019s in the days when you really had to go in and sing and play that stuff.\u00a0 That really set me up for a lot of my work ethic when it comes to going into the studio.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to know your part, get in, and get out of there.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slik Toxik used to get a lot of shit about being Skid Row rip-offs but I felt like they were doing that before even hearing you guys.\u00a0 I never remember you guys lashing back or getting fumed about it but was it tough to swallow at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never forget this.\u00a0 Nick and I were sitting on his couch and we were watching MuchMusic and Sebastian Bach was on there.\u00a0 He was carving on Nick for some reason and Nick and I were just watching this going, \u201cWhat the fuck is this guy talking about?\u00a0 What does he mean that Nick\u2019s copying his moves?\u201d\u00a0 So Nick, all 5\u20197 of him gets on the subway to downtown Toronto and marches down there and confronts Bas and says, \u201cWhat\u2019s your fucking problem man?\u201d\u00a0 Bas is a tall guy and Nick is not [laughs].\u00a0 Afterwards they ended smoking a couple of joints together and being friends over it [laughs].\u00a0 This whole Skid Row comparison was just ridiculous.\u00a0 I guess Sebastian was pissed that Nick was copping his moves or something [laughs].\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 I was like, \u201cYou\u2019re on your own with this one.\u00a0 I\u2019m not dealing with that [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry Sebastian but Paul Stanley invented the \u201chair flip\u201d, not you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs] That\u2019s funny.\u00a0 The hair flip was invented by Paul Stanley, not you two guys!<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>So here you are now, 2017 with your new band Punishment.\u00a0 Tell me about how this came to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Slik Toxik I quit music.\u00a0 I hated it and I didn\u2019t want anything to do with it. Finally, God bless the internet, I was talking to Darrell Dwarf (Killer Dwarfs drummer) and he wanted me to be a part of his band, Automan.\u00a0 I went and joined that band and its Darrell Dwarf I will credit for bringing me out of retirement so to speak.\u00a0 It was almost like Bon Scott era AC\/DC with a really ripping guitar player.\u00a0 It was cool but it just wasn\u2019t for me and it didn\u2019t work out.\u00a0 There were no hard feelings on either side.\u00a0 Through a chance meeting on Facebook with Brad (Searl; Punishment vocalist) and without hearing him sing a note we were talking and I said, \u201cYou\u2019re the singer in my band.\u201d\u00a0 He says, \u201cBut you haven\u2019t heard me sing a note\u201d [laughs].\u00a0 I said, \u201cI don\u2019t need to.\u201d\u00a0 There was no preconceived notion about Punishment.\u00a0 I just needed to get back into doing what I believed in doing and what I believed in myself for doing.\u00a0 That came about with drummer K<span class=\"_5yl5\">arl <\/span> Anderson and bassist James Verner.\u00a0 James didn\u2019t work out so we got another bassist and then we did our four song EP.\u00a0 We toured and played that for a couple of years and then we just sort of needed a break from a bunch of different things going on.\u00a0 Outside influences can really put a strain on a band.\u00a0 We all took a break from it from then.\u00a0 Brad and I didn\u2019t talk for a while but then we hooked back up again and went out for drinks and he\u2019s really the only guy that I can write with.\u00a0 That\u2019s what set us moving forward today.\u00a0 K<span class=\"_5yl5\">arl <\/span>(drummer) needed to leave to do what he had to do so we got Pat Carrano who is absolutely amazing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve known Pat for 25 years and we used to hang out during the Slik Toxik days.\u00a0 We also have Mark Johnston on bass who I was in a band with before the re-formation of Punishment and that is where we\u2019re at today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cjomdb7u7kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Punishment released Remnants of Things Left Unsaid in 2016 and the album absolutely floored me.\u00a0 I love how you guys melded two hemispheres of music being that Alice in Chains kind of sound with David Coverdale on vocals.\u00a0 With a sound like this, you must be attracting a diverse audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we get a cross section of lots of different people both young and old, people who are into the 90\u2019s grunge to people who are into the more classic stuff.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been getting great responses from the record which has been great.\u00a0 You do this to be self serving but you also do it for the people.\u00a0 If someone digs what you\u2019re doing, you\u2019ve done your job.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been pretty lucky to have a wide variety of people dig what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the creative process in this band differ from how you did things in Slik Toxik?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s way different.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot more focused I\u2019d say.\u00a0 It\u2019s a different vibe.\u00a0 Slik Toxik was good but this is just a whole different vibe.\u00a0 It\u2019s really effortless.\u00a0 This band fully takes my expectations of how things are going to work and it\u2019s five million times better.\u00a0 The guys that I get to play with in this band; they take and make everything fucking amazing.\u00a0 I\u2019m one of the luckiest motherfuckers on this planet to be honest.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t for the guys that I play with, I wouldn\u2019t be playing music.\u00a0 These guys make it so that I enjoy music again.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ok Kevin, let\u2019s cut loose for a little bit.\u00a0 Who do you feel is one of the most terribly underrated guitar players?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh man.\u00a0 There\u2019s so many.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had guys tell me that it\u2019s not how many notes you can play but that it\u2019s all about the song.\u00a0 Believe it or not, I think the most underrated player is Alex Lifeson from Rush.\u00a0 He\u2019s the defining glue that holds that band together.\u00a0 I mean, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart are both technicians in their instrument but then you have Lifeson is a technician as well but he\u2019s very cordial and he makes those songs so big for three guys.\u00a0 Man, the list could go on for underrated players but he\u2019s the first one that comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about overrated guitarist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh wow, that\u2019s another good question [laughs].\u00a0 I don\u2019t really think anyone is really overrated.\u00a0 I think that if a guitar player moves you, and if that player writes something you really dig, that doesn\u2019t make them overrated.\u00a0 I think everyone has their own strengths where they need to be rated that high or whatnot.\u00a0 I mean, you have guys like Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert.\u00a0 I watch a video of Paul Gilbert playing and I just put my guitar down and say, \u201cI\u2019m not even going to bother.\u201d Those are the kind of guys that do that well.\u00a0 But then you have guys like Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, and Angus Young who\u2019s the sloppiest motherfucker but wrote every great riff known to mankind [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Hollywood was to make a movie about your life, who would play you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Farley [laughs].\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty much the closest you\u2019d get to finding someone to play me.\u00a0 That guy was like a bull in a china shop and that\u2019s pretty much how I play guitar [laughs].\u00a0 I\u2019m not a technician.\u00a0 I play guitar like a meathead so I think he\u2019d be the perfect guy to do it [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one hard rock\/metal album that nobody should go without owning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can I pick two?<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s your fucking interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs] Ok.\u00a0 There\u2019s so many\u2026 dude this is hard.\u00a0 It might have to be 3.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s just make it a Top 5 and be done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs] Ok, let\u2019s start off with number 1.\u00a0 Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath.\u00a0 All I have to say about that one is Ronnie James Dio.\u00a0 Heaven and Hell has some of the most classic Sabbath riffs on there and I know it\u2019s going to offend some but it\u2019s better than anything they could\u2019ve done with Ozzy.\u00a0 Screw them [laughs].\u00a0 Second is Judas Priest\u2019s Screaming for Vengeance.\u00a0 I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens and all I remember seeing was walls of Marshalls!\u00a0 Third has to be Iron Maiden\u2019s Number of the Beast!\u00a0 Dickinson\u2019s first record.\u00a0 The fourth one Queensryche\u2019s Operation: Mindcrime.\u00a0 Easily one of the best prog metal records ever written.\u00a0 Finally, anything by Rush from Fly by Night to Moving Pictures.\u00a0 That right there is my definitive metal collection.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the most un-metal thing about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m made of flesh [laughs].\u00a0 Oh yeah, and I drive a Ford Escape [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could anything differently, would you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 Not a thing.\u00a0 Everything happens to you for a reason.\u00a0 If I did things different, things would not be what they are now and right now I\u2019m where I\u2019m supposed to be whether I like it or not.\u00a0 The situation that I\u2019m in right now, I have a beautiful wife, I\u2019m with Punishment, this is exactly where I\u2019m supposed to be and I wouldn\u2019t change a thing.<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, finish this sentence.\u00a0 If I wasn\u2019t a musician, I would be\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A podiatrist [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>=============================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin, thanks so much for taking the time for doing this.\u00a0 This was really a blast for me and I hope you enjoyed it as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fuck yeah I did.\u00a0 Thanks so much for doing this and supporting us.\u00a0 I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on Punishment, check them out on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/punishmentmusic\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/punishmentmusic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1992, a little band from Canada by the name of Slik Toxik released an album called Doin\u2019 the Nasty.\u00a0 That album absolutely blew my mind.\u00a0 It was such a huge sounding record full of great songwriting, incredible musicianship, and a voice that sounded 20 feet tall.\u00a0 Slik Toxik quickly became one of my favorite bands but as fast as they came, they were gone with the wind.\u00a0 Where the fuck did they go? 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