#449:Alex Skolnick/Testament

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

On today's Let There Be Talk the guitar god Alex Skolnick stops by and tell some amazing stories about his career.

Of course you know Alex from his work with the Thrash Metal Gods Testament but did you know that he once played guitar in Ozzy's Band for a week or that he Auditioned for the Spin Doctors?

Hear all these great stories on todays Brand New LTBT.

Also get his brand new record Conundrum on iTunes right now.

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0:00.0	All right, all right. Hey, man, chilling, just tripping was up. All right. All right.
0:07.0	Here we are Monday, the 26th of November. Welcome to another episode of Let There Be Talk.
0:17.0	And there will be some talking. How are you guys feeling good out here on the east coast?
0:24.0	Waiting for it to rain. I'm staying in this place and it has like an air conditioner that hangs halfway outside.
0:36.0	And when it rains, I know right away because I can hear it to start hitting the aluminum shell on the air conditioner.
0:44.0	And it reminds me of back when I used to work construction. I lived in this condominium.
0:51.0	People call them condos. They don't use the full name condominium.
0:56.0	I lived in this condominium that had a aluminum car port. And when it would rain, it would hit that car port.
1:08.0	And I would be laying in bed at like 6.30 in the morning. And I would hear shh shh shh shh shh shh.
1:17.0	And I would be like, oh yeah, no fucking work today. And just close my eyes. I wouldn't even look outside.
1:27.0	It was just hypnotic. It was the sound. I should sell that sound on those sleep machines.
1:37.0	You know how they got like tropical rain forest? Ocean, wind or whatever.
1:44.0	Mine would just be aluminum car port, white trash sleep machine.
1:50.0	Shhh shh shh shh. Anyway, I got that here where I'm staying in New York.
1:58.0	And when it rains in New York, it does not mess around. Like Saturday night, it was just porn.
2:06.0	I was going back and forth from the comedy seller to the village underground, which is just right around the corner.
2:11.0	And you bounce back and forth club to club set to set. And you know, I didn't have an umbrella.
2:18.0	I was like, ah, no umbrella. It's just storming.
2:23.0	So some good sleep and may happen later this afternoon again after they after I post this podcast and get a little couple of things done.
2:35.0	It's supposed to pour rain. Nothing yet though. Great guest today.
2:41.0	Brings me a way back to my Bay Area days. I love having a guest on that I grew up with because it just fires up memories.
2:52.0	I was talking to my boy Steve the door guy at the seller last night. He's like, dude, you got to start writing down these memoirs.
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