Who’s up for a jog?On a Friday morning, Guttermouth front man Mark Adkins talks for more
than an hour over the telephone from his home in San Clemente, Calif.
about, politics, honesty, distance running, guitar down strokes, Hot
Topic stores, paddle boarding, real estate values, self-imposed racial
segregation and several other topics related or un-related to punk
rock. Adkins is funny, knowledgeable and courteous, but is also
supremely confident in his opinions. In a strange way, the Guttermouth
front man is punk rock and anti-punk rock all at once.
The 42-year-old Adkins is known for his boisterous stage antics and his
practice of gently (and sometimes not so gently) harassing his
audience, but he's also deftly intelligent and in supreme physical
shape. He says that after our conversation he's going to run between
eight and 10 miles. How punk rock is that?
But it seems that Adkins has struck a balance after 20-plus years of
playing in Guttermouth and gladly celebrates his two decades in punk.
