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#406:Greg Dulli/The Afghan Whigs

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of LET THERE BE TALK my guest is one of my all time favorite musicians ever Mr Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs.

The Afghan Whigs came into my life somewhere around 1992/93 and have never left.

Greg's music changed my life and his body of work is impeccable.

Every record has been next level and of course the masterpiece record Gentlemen has been on my turntable for years.

Do yourself a favor and dive into their catalog and enjoy the ride.

Go see The Afghan Whigs on tour in 2018 and check their new album

IN SPADES out now on iTunes and Vinyl.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of Let The Me Talk today is February 5th a Monday the day after the Super Bowl.

0:10.0

I can't believe that's not actually a holiday somehow that America didn't try to vote for that or something because there's no productive work going on on the day after Super Bowl.

0:21.0

People just blow in all like, oh fuck.

0:26.0

I've always been a huge Eagles fan, you know, huge Eagles fan. I love hotel California long run.

0:38.0

Anyway, if you if you watch Super Bowl cool, I didn't see a fucking minute of it because I was moving and you know, I don't have enough money to hire movers.

0:52.0

Because you know how fucked it is when you're moving, you got to give them first month and last month rent and then I had to pay a month here at my old place because I'm in the fuck you got to give a 30 day.

1:06.0

So it's like three months of rent.

1:09.0

So and I'm at that edge, I can't really ask friends to help me move, you know what I mean? I'm 52. It's not like, hey, help me move.

1:17.0

It's like asking for a ride to the airport. They're just like dude, get hired or someone you're an adult.

1:26.0

And it was the only time that I hated fucking vinyl yesterday as I was moving these 12 boxes of vinyl. I was like, fuck this shit man.

1:37.0

I just want to get rid of everything. I'll just go iTunes own nothing just some clothes, some artwork and and this and iTunes that'll be fine.

1:48.0

I was just going through that yesterday back and forth in the writer van just ride, which by the way, how the fuck not writer but you haul.

1:58.0

How do all you hauls? I'm serious. All of them over the last 30 years of me moving places. They are you can blindfold me and kidnap me.

2:10.0

And if it was in a you haul, I'd be like, oh, I'm in a you haul. The smell. What is that smell? It's so weird. All you hauls have this fucking smell. I can't figure it out.

2:25.0

You know, because it's all different vehicles, you know, makes like Chevy and Ford and whatever they're using. It's not like, oh, it's the factory. You know, like, you know, when you get an old VWs, they all smell the same because of the interior I found out later on.

2:42.0

They used horse hair in the interior. That's why they smell like that. Those old VW bugs and stuff and also porses.

2:50.0

But man, it's so weird. Anyway, I was moving those records yesterday. I was just furious. And then once I got them in there, I was like, this is going to be so great. I'll hook up the stereo. I'm in my new fucking apartment. I made it back to Hollywood.

3:07.0

I mean, you understand, man, most people, once you get in the valley, you might not make it back. We're in that era where it's just getting so expensive. It's like New York and San Francisco.

3:21.0

If you didn't get in early on, you're just, you got to be rich, man. My whole thing was like, I don't even know how I'm going to afford this fuck, but I don't give a fuck what I got to do. I'm going to make this happen. You know, it's just, it's that important to me to be back in the mix, feel alive.

3:46.0

Last night, I was at the new apartment and I did a spot at the store. I walked there and I walked home and I was like, this is fucking heaven, man.

3:57.0

I tell you, man, the closer you live to work, the better you're going to be in life, I think. It's just a better quality of living, not sitting in traffic and just getting steam and mad.

4:11.0

You know, life is too short. Anyway, so yeah, I got some of the shit moved and wow. Today, I have an absolute dream guest and I am not fucking kidding, man. People always ask me, who would be some of your dream guests?

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