#425:Jay Jay French/Guitarist for Twisted Sister

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🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of LET THERE BE TALK the Legend Mr. Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister stops by for a very Heavy and Honest interview.

Jay Jay went from Drug Dealer to Rock Star to Flat Broke to Successful Artist Manager to now a cancer survivor. This man is a true Soldier.

This is one of my favorite episodes in a long time and it took place right in NEW YORK CITY.

If you have not seen the Documentary Film We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! Do yourself a favor and watch it asap.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of Let There Be Talk.
0:06.0	It is Monday, January 11th coming to you from New York City and no better guest to have
0:14.8	a New York City than a native New Yorker. And that is my guest today, Mr. J.J. French
0:22.3	of twisted sister. I always look at twisted sister. I think that everybody knows who they
0:29.0	are because of course they're giant, giant, famous hits. We're not going to take it and
0:35.4	I want to rock and the humongous videos that they had during that era on MTV and anybody
0:44.3	that grew up around then you could not escape that era of twisted sister. But when you
0:51.9	really think about it, twisted sister to me is way, way more than those two videos. And that's
1:00.3	a product of, watch out what you get famous for. People, a lot of people always say that for
1:08.0	your famous for those videos, which is great for them. They've been able to have an amazing,
1:15.4	long, long career and make a living because they have a couple humongous hits. But also the
1:26.8	unfortunate side of that is some people only know them for that. But if you watch their incredible
1:32.7	documentary that I've talked about before on this podcast called Twisted Fuck and Sister, you'll
1:40.0	realize that this is a true, true band that slugged it out for years. And they were a well-rehearsed
1:48.9	machine, an actual punch to the face. One of the most potent rock bands that is very, very underrated.
2:00.0	And if you watch that, you're going to, even if you don't like twisted sister or you're not into
2:07.2	that kind of music, it's really an inspirational film because no matter what they kept going. And it
2:16.9	definitely, there's points in my career where I'm constantly like, wow, man, what the fuck am I doing?
2:24.8	You know, at 52 years old, I've only know one thing. And it's constantly chasing and being on
2:35.0	stage and going for some kind of weird tick that's in my brain. Something that makes me not, not be
2:45.7	able to just chill and settle down. A constant drive to want to do art and perform and see things and
2:54.4	learn things and travel. It does get harder as you get older, you know? Here I am 52 and I'm out there
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