71 Deniz Tek - Doctor / Flight Surgeon / Coffee Farmer ( Radio Birdman / New Race / The Visitors )

In the pantheon of badassery in punk rock, no one has a lead on Deniz Tek. In addition to helping to bring Detroit-style rock ‘n roll to Australia and then to the world with Radio Birdman and playing with some of those Detroit legends in New Race, Deniz became an emergency room surgeon, then a navy pilot and flight surgeon and finally a Kona coffee farmer in Hawaii. We talk about it all, from his early years working at an auto plant in Michigan to his current music with James Williamson of the Stooges, an upcoming reissue of the New Race LP and how he’s still learning new things and taking on new challenges. Yeah hup!

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Links:

Deniz’s website
https://www.deniztek.com/

TEKONA Coffee
https://www.tekonacoffee.com/

Deniz Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/artist/258125-Deniz-Tek
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/feb/23/cult-heroes-deniz-tek-radio-birdman-punk-rock-australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Birdman

Bill’s disaster at sea reading list
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/862342-bill-florio?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=disaster-at-sea

Kona Coffee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kona_coffee
https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/1999/01/04/story1.html

Pepsi Kona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOM5i1amTKg

Olive Oil Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSaj9RRzGE

Easybeats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnqxbdnzlhw

Michael Banzai Ramos
https://www.reviewjournal.com/uncategorized/pilot-lands-home/attachment/commercial-pilot-michael-banzai-ramos-calls-mira-villa-a-luxury-condominium-community-in-summerlin-home-he-purchased-the-cielo-floor-plan-one-of-the-few-top-floor-units-not-price/

Mort Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s499hbtwUEs&list=PLDkPmVsDCFndWsJKC024MsUxf2RZhmD3L

Aloha Steve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKiZ9VSD6U