871- Faking It In A Heavy Metal Band with Author Tim Kirk
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Author Tim Kirk (All His Damned Mothers Sun, The Feral Boy Who Lives In Griffith Park, Burnt, Christ Never Showed Up, AND films- The MIami Vice Incident, The Nightmare, The Mystery of Durango, Sex Madness Revealed, Room 237, Shudder, The El Duce Tapes) was disgusted with club promoters ripping off bands on the Sunset Strip, so he decided to play them at their own game. Tim gathered his friends to "play" in his band, got a few wigs and turned up to rock Gazzarri's night club. The result is hilarious!
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| 0:00.0 | Free audio post-production by Alphonic.com. |
| 0:07.6 | Hey, it's storyworthy. |
| 0:09.8 | Today on the show, author Tim Kirk talks about playing heavy metal at a club on the sunset |
| 0:15.7 | strip, and Tim doesn't play any instruments, and he's not in a band. |
| 0:21.0 | So how the works was the promoters made the kids that wanted to play. |
| 0:27.3 | You had to pay like $600 for an opening night, for an opening gig, $800 for a million, |
| 0:35.1 | and up to like $1,600, $1,600 for the big night for like, you know, the 10 o'clock, |
| 0:41.0 | 11 o'clock gig, you know? |
| 0:42.8 | And the bit was the guys thought, okay, we'll pay, the crowds will come, the ANR guy will come |
| 0:49.1 | in, he'll see us, we'll sign it, we'll have a big contract, we'll be in limos, and champagne, and we're |
| 0:56.3 | top for the top of the world. |
| 0:58.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:59.8 | And so I'm like, so I was like, okay, so this is win-win for me, so I can rock out and |
| 1:04.5 | then fuck over these guys. |
| 1:06.6 | Today on the show, author Tim Kirk, the author of the brand new book, All His Damned Mother's Sons, talks about playing heavy metal on the Sunset Strip, but he was never in a band. |
| 1:18.8 | Stay close. |
| 1:20.3 | Hey, it's Tim Kirk, and you're listening to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:40.4 | Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:45.9 | Now, you guys know I have not been around lately. |
| 1:49.7 | My shows have been coming out very sporadically. |
| 1:52.9 | A lot of story smash, but not a lot of story worthy. |
| 1:56.3 | And some of you know, because a couple of years ago, while last year, I became deaf in my right ear. |
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