Ep 760 : Geoff Thorpe / Vicious Rumors

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today I sit down with a Bay Area legend, Mr Geoff Thorpe of Vicious Rumors.

45 Years in the game and still going strong playing Metal Music all over the world.

Geoff started the band in 1979 and has never stopped.

Dig in and enjoy his inspiring story.

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0:00.0	July 22nd and it is a Monday which means it's another episode of Let There Be Talk
0:06.8	episode number 760. Yes thank you for joining me for the last 12 and a half years here on Letterby Talk.
0:17.0	Good to have you, good to feel you, good to see it, good to hear you.
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1:23.6	Speaking of guitars, my guest today in 1979
1:28.2	moved to the Bay Area from Hawaii,
1:30.8	touched down with a handful of cards, handed them out at nightclubs, saying vicious
1:36.5	rumors, band members wanted, and boom, he's been going for 45 years. That is Jeff Thorpe, my friends.
1:46.0	And I got to tell you, early on when I was about 13, 14, 15, 16 years old, I was seeing vicious rumors all over the Bay Area
1:56.8	backyard parties Kagers night clubs the the Omni, the River Theater,
2:04.4	everywhere, giving me an education
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