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Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Ep 842 : Del James - Song Writer, Author and Rock n Roller

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

Music Interviews, Music

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today I sit down with my incredible friend Del James.

Del is a man of many hats in the art world - Song Writer, Tour Manager and now a graphic Novelist.

He has just released a brand new Graphic Novel called Consensual Violence that is available on Amazon.

This man loves Rock n Roll, Wrestling and Horror Films and we dive into all of it.

Tune in and enjoy my friends.

thank you 

DDR

Follow Del on Instagram @deljamesgang 

My tour dates can be found here - https://www.deandelray.com/tourdates 

My Stand Up Special is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbeaApu4OP0 

Join My Patreon here - https://www.deandelray.com/patreon 

Transcript

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0:00.0

February 6th and it is another episode. I'll have to be talking is episode number 842 and yes,

0:08.7

it is four days late. First time in the 13 years that the episode is going up extremely late.

0:18.7

But if you have been following the show all these years you know i had my 60th

0:25.2

birthday on february 3rd and it was the insane bond scott tribute the final and i'm still

0:35.2

recovering from it not that i did any kind of party in, but just from the

0:41.5

adrenaline and the insanity of that entire couple months really of putting that thing together.

0:52.0

And I will talk all about it on a bonus episode on my Patreon

0:56.4

but I will say this right now

1:00.5

I want to thank everybody from the bottom of my heart

1:04.0

that came out to the sold-out show at the Avalon Theater

1:08.3

I could sit here and peel through all the memories, but it's going to take a long time to

1:18.4

wrap my head around what went down.

1:21.6

Special thanks to Bill Burr, Josh Homme, Justin Chancellor, Club Soda Kenny,

1:31.6

John and the entire staff at the Avalon,

1:39.7

Billy Corrigan, Jerry Cantrell, Allison Mosshart, Chad Smith, Steve Goodrich at Dunlap, Gibson guitars, Nikki Black, Steve Gorman, Marcus King, Mike Inez, Josh Z, Billy Rowe, Byron

1:46.8

Bowers, Ian Edwards, Russell Peters, Jason Roberts, Ler from Primus, Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons,

1:54.1

Jeff Fletcher, mates rehearsals, Brad Wilk, Gabe Karen, cadaver kai aaron's divided by 13 and uh shit i hope i'm not forgetting anybody

2:10.6

anyway unbelievable night tons of video and photos all over my Instagram and all over YouTube.

2:22.9

Wow. Setlist real quick in case you wanted to know.

2:27.3

Opened up with Livewire. Then went into TNT, riffraff, bad boy boogie, whole lot of rosy, squealer, deuce, which is a kiss song, and the legend

2:38.4

Gene Simmons stepped on stage. Sin City, dirty deeds, hell ain't a bad place to be, let

2:45.7

be rock, highway to hell, and the legend himself, Josh H closed with Knight Prowler with Marcus King

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