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🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Today on Let There Be Talk my guest is Photographer Ronnie Lyon.
Ronnie and I met years ago at the Bonzo Bash and have been working together ever since.
Ronnie shoots tons of Rock n Roll but he also shoots Surf, Auto Racing and Life.
This mans story is very inspiring. Years ago he worked in a refinery making gasoline for a living but a change of events found him out of a job.
Ronnie decided to go for it and start a whole new life shooting Photos with no guarantee that he would make any money.
Years later now he is a full time photographer and a very happy man.
Like I always say get out there and go for it.
Hope you guys enjoy Ronnie's episode and remember
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0:00.0 | Alright, here we are everybody. Another episode of Let The Be Talk. Coming to you live from Las Vegas, it is 111 degrees outside. |
0:12.0 | I will be here for one week, which means I will not one step outside into real air. I will be huffing air conditioned cigarette recycled air for seven straight days, 14 shows. |
0:29.0 | I will be here at the Rio Hotel at the Comedy Cellar. This is what I call the Trying to Get Funny Tour. Just popping around America in the casinos. |
0:46.0 | I will actually, after this run, be in casinos for 15 days straight and try not to go crazy. |
0:55.0 | Welcome aboard. Fantastic guest today, photographer. And I would say rock and roll photographer, but this man shoots auto racing, surfing, rock and roll, motorcycles, all kinds of stuff. Action photographer. |
1:13.0 | Let's call him that. Mr. Ronnie Lion is my guest today. And it is a handmade episode since this man is an artist himself. |
1:25.0 | I first met Ronnie back at the Bonzo Bash gigs that would happen during the NAMM show. He was snapping some photos. He grabbed a good photo of me and Mr. Bill Ward, the legend of Led Zeppelin, I almost said. |
1:41.0 | But the legend of Black Sabbath, of course, we all know who Bill Ward is and maybe a future guest if we cross our fingers, but I don't think so. |
1:56.0 | Anyway, I must see I'm going a little crazy from just Huffin AC. Let's get into what's happening before we do start the show here. I am in Las Vegas and I hope to see some of you here. |
2:11.0 | I was just out at the Mohican sun in Connecticut, visited a little town that I thought I would never, ever go to didn't even know that it really existed. I saw a film a hundred years ago called Mystic Pizza. |
2:29.0 | And with Julia Roberts, no idea that it was a real place. And there I was hanging out with my man Charlie Hall, the drummer for War on Drugs. He goes, I'll pick you up, take you to a record store, which thank God he did because the Mohican sun comics Roadhouse gig was in the middle of nowhere. |
2:53.0 | I got off the plane in Hartford, got in an Uber and rode in an Uber for an hour and out in the woods. I felt like I was on an episode of soprano. So I was like, are you taking me out here to Blastmir? What's going on? It was wild. |
3:11.0 | But there it was, we turned around a big long bend in this beautiful casino. One of the finest casinos I've ever seen. I still can't believe this venue. |
3:25.0 | And great club, great club owners, Mike and Mark are fantastic comedy club owners and type of people that you wish everybody was that owned clubs. |
3:37.0 | So thank you, comics Roadhouse and thank you to the Dell Raysers that came out and thank you Charlie Hall that took me to Mystic. It was wild. Mystic reminded me of like a bolinus or amity. |
3:51.0 | Like a small amity, you know, the background of jaws. I think that's Martha's Vineyard. I know that. But wild to see amity and Mystic pizza and go to Mystic disc. Very cool record store that a guy owned there that went to Woodstock. |
4:14.0 | A lot of people say they went to Woodstock and now, no, 90% that say they went didn't go. But this man was there and he had photos of him there. |
4:24.0 | Man, the only, there's only three concerts I wish I ever saw that I didn't see, which was Woodstock. |
4:35.0 | Let's step on down the green in 77 and Skinner 77 at Dan the Green. Those are the only three I wish I ever saw. |
4:46.0 | And it's it's funny. I remember a couple years ago doing a little, a little thing on here on, on the intro scene. If you could get into a time machine. |
5:01.0 | What concert would you go back and see and the, the answers were amazing. Everybody had really cool answers. But mine would definitely be if I could only pick one, it would probably be Woodstock just because of what a massive cultural and music event that was just so monumental in life. |
5:26.0 | Altima would have been interesting to just for that dark nuttiness and probably if I was at that age for the right age back then, I would for sure have been at Altima with some Del Rey stories. I was next to the guy that got stabbed. |
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