#370:Slim Jim Phantom/Stray Cats

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🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of LET THERE BE TALK my guest is the great Slim Jim Phantom drummer for The Stray Cats and Author of the book A Stray Cat Struts.

In the 80's The Stray Cats absolutely exploded onto the scene with a kick ass Rockabilly Sound and Look. The song writing was fantastic and the live shows were next level.

Sit back and enjoy Slim Jim's stories all about the early days of The Stray Cats and also his love of Music,Baseball and LA

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of Let the Be Talk It Is Monday, July 24th,
0:08.4	mental Monday. How are you guys all good? You have a good weekend? Was it fucking, was it action packed?
0:17.2	As my buddy used to say back in the action packed. Yeah, man, doing good. Just chilling here at the
0:27.0	hut, getting the day started. It's been not too hot over the weekend. It's about 85. It's it's
0:34.8	L.A. That's pretty nice 85 and had a good week in a comedy. Did you guys, what did you guys do? Did
0:43.6	you guys go out there and and tear it up? Did you guys tear it up? Did you party until you forget
0:51.8	about everything? Fucking today just going, ah God, back to work. I fucking work every day,
0:59.7	man. It's like it worked. I worked all week and I did comedy all all night, you know, every night
1:06.2	and then podcasts and during the day. No days off here. I don't want to day off actually.
1:13.4	My brain starts to fucking go to dark places when I got a day off, you know, sitting around,
1:20.3	start to think like what the fuck? Anyway, yeah, man, we had a what we have on Friday. We had the 30 year
1:29.7	anniversary of guns and roses, masterpiece, appetite for destruction. And I thought about doing a
1:38.5	podcast on it, but then I was like, man, I can't talk about that record again, man. I mean, I've
1:44.4	talked about it for 30 years straight every day. I just start, I just start sounding like a robot,
1:51.5	you know, but yeah, the records obviously monumental to me and probably top five record ever played
2:00.1	in my life on cassette tape and vinyl and digital download or whatever format I've had it in
2:08.6	over the years. But I do have the original cover with the Robert Williams painting,
2:16.1	with the original sticker inside all on vinyl. And I put that thing on Friday and then just posted
2:23.7	tons of photos of my love of guns and roses. Of course, absolutely monumental band and a lot
2:33.3	of back and forth on Twitter over what is the best day be record of all time. Is it Van Hanlon?
2:40.6	Is it appetite? Is it Zeppelin one? You know, thank God we can have that argument, meaning that
2:51.2	people have put out masterpieces on their first record and talk about, you know, fucking digging
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