Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness)

This week we have a very special guest and VERY important musician when it comes to the DNA of our show and one of our bands in particular... We are joined by the incomparable Only Living Witness vocalist Jonah Jenkins.

The short lived, but ahead of their time and impactful band existed for only 6 years, managing to release 2 iconic LPs in that time that would become cult classics and contribute to changing the landscape of hardcore music forever.

These are personal favorites for the show (and inspired the sound AND name of Twitching Tongues) and we are confident you will walk away from this episode with a new perspective on a band you love, or are new appreciation for one you're just now discovering.

Being on the forefront of integrating clean vocals and hardcore, their mark on aggressive music is present to this day.
With their debut LP "Prone Mortal Form" just passing it's 30th anniversary, it's finally getting a proper standalone re-release via Man Alive records, as well as their follow up "Innocents" on vinyl for the very first time.

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00:00:00 - Start
00:01:07 - Introduction
00:04:24 - Finding Hardcore
00:08:29 - First Instrument
00:10:18 - First Band
00:13:41 - Befriending Eric and Kevin
00:21:08 - Contemporaries
00:24:30 - Complex Man
00:28:11 - Writing Styles
00:31:50 - Signing To Century Media
00:34:02 - Creation of Prone Mortal Form
00:43:06 - Darkly
00:46:05 - December
00:46:42 - Touring on the record and Century Media's reaction
00:50:53 - Tour Stories from Leeway tour
00:53:44 - Innocents
00:59:07 - Eric's passing
01:00:06 - Century Media's impresseion of Innocents
01:01:52 - Hank Crane
01:04:28 - Reflecting back now and wishing for more
01:08:16 - Bands after Only Living Witness
01:13:43 - Band most fond of years later
01:16:47 - History of Raw Radar War
01:17:47 - Inspiration by new bands to create music
01:18:58 - Marker 33
01:21:50 - Food Guy
01:24:18 - Fast Food
01:27:27 - Top 4 Hardcore Records
01:28:59 - Singing on a 36 Crazy Fists song
01:29:47 - The Last Boston Hardcore show attended
01:32:35 - What Jonah is listening to these days

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