30 Years of After The Rain with Gunnar & Matthew Nelson

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

So why did Chris Jericho have long, blonde hair when he first started wrestling? Because of Gunnar and Matthew Nelson! And why did the Nelson twins have long, blonde hair? Because Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora told them they should! Nelson and Chris Jericho have more in common than just blonde hair though – they’re both also celebrating 30-year anniversaries this month – Jericho’s 30th in wrestling, and Nelson’s 30th anniversary of the release of their major label debut, “After The Rain.” Nelson tells the tale of making that album while flat broke, how they were able to become one of the biggest bands in the world with virtually no support and no money, and why after having such a tremendously successful first album, they almost didn’t get to release a second! They remember headlining tours because no bands wanted to take them on the road, what one guest VJ spot on MTV did for their career, being sidelined at Geffen Records in favor of grunge, what happened the night they met Cindy Crawford, and how COVID forced them to postpone their 30th Anniversary celebration plans.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll and let's
0:16.8	go. It's the Death Macaegan joke of the week.
0:21.1	Chris Jericho, Death Macaegan, call on you. How you doing, dude? Oh, you know, I will
0:26.7	open it. Do you hear about the guy who covered his balls? He has balls in glitter? Pretty
0:34.6	nuts if you ask me. Thank you very much. That was a good one. I legit, I liked that one.
0:43.3	I told my wife, you should have it was awful, but I liked it. So thanks to Duff for keeping
0:46.8	us laughing every single week, every single week for the last three years. What a guy.
0:51.7	And thanks to all of you who've been laughing along with the Winnipeggers every Thursday
0:54.9	night, Dave Spivak, Rybo and I just released a new episode last night, Made in Winnipeg
0:59.5	about road trips and experiences seeing one of our favorite bands, Iron Maiden. So wait
1:04.3	to hear the stories from the time we saw Made in the Forum in Los Angeles with Eli Roth
1:08.6	and his brother Gabe. Surprise any of us made it out of their alive. You can check out
1:12.5	the Winnipeggers on my Facebook and YouTube channel. New episodes every Thursday night at
1:16.7	9 p.m. Eastern. All right. So today, back of the rock and roll, I got Matthew and Gunner
1:21.9	Nelson from Nelson are here. I know a lot of you guys had the after the rain record.
1:25.9	It was a huge record and it came out in October of 1990. We're celebrating 30 years of after
1:30.4	the rain with the story of that album, how Nelson was able to become one of the biggest
1:34.1	bands in the world with virtually no support and no money. They were broke when they made
1:38.4	that record and bet on themselves in a big way. You heard how much they influenced me in
1:42.1	my early days in wrestling. Their hair, the way they dressed. You hear from the heights
1:47.7	of success that they got after the rain to barely being able to release a second album,
1:52.9	just a couple years later. That's so insane. And the grunge era has something to do with
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