Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness)

HardLore: Stories from Tour

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. Get 15% off MADD VINTAGE with code HARDLORE15! https://maddvintage.com/ This episode is brought to you by ATHLETIC GREENS! Try AG1 at athleticgreens.com/HARDLORE to receive a free 1-year supply of vitamin D and 5 travel packs of AG1. HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code HARDLORE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/hardlorepod/ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/hardlorepod SPOTIFY | https://spoti.fi/3J1GIrp APPLE | https://apple.co/3IKBss2 FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/colinyovng/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/ColinYovng FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/bosxe/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/bosxe 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