I'm Too Old For This Shit - The Heavy Metal Fairy Tale of Siren

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Heavy metal band Siren are living, breathing proof that dreams can and do come true at any age! And now there’s a documentary called “I’m Too Old For This Shit – A Heavy Metal Fairy Tale,” produced by Chris Jericho, that chronicles their unlikely 30-year journey from early-80s struggling band in Brandon, Florida to playing the Keep It True Festival in Germany in 2018. Original drummer Ed Aborn, singer Doug Lee, and new guitarist Todd Grubbs, explain how what it took to put the band back together, rehearse, and play the show of a lifetime. Ed and Doug remember Siren’s early days and releases, what broke them up in 1984, and the fan base they never knew they had. Plus, they describe what it was it was like filming the documentary, and seeing the finished film for the first time! It’s a heartwarming, feel good story to offer a bit of hope and inspiration to this horrible year.

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0:00.0	I welcome to talk as Jericho is the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll and we are ending
0:18.4	off the year by getting our rock and roll on today with a great comeback story, a
0:22.8	feel good story about a heavy metal band that kind of slipped through the cracks.
0:27.8	I did a documentary on this band.
0:30.6	The band is called Siren.
0:32.0	They're from Brandon, Florida.
0:33.6	They got started in the early 80s.
0:35.5	They broke up the fears later due to chicaneery as usually happens between some bands.
0:43.0	But through some incredible twists of fate, they got an offer to play a huge festival
0:47.0	in Germany 30 years later where they had a huge fan base that they did not know about
0:52.2	and they found themselves on stage playing at the Keep It True Festival, like I said 30
0:57.3	years later.
0:58.3	Dreams never die.
0:59.3	It's an incredible story.
1:00.6	And we captured it all for the new documentary.
1:02.5	I'm too old for this shit.
1:04.6	Heavy metal fairy tale.
1:06.2	I produced it and Nathan Maury who directed the Judas video Burn Me Out in order to run
1:12.0	painless, directed this documentary as well.
1:15.2	I produced it like I said.
1:16.2	I sent Nathan to Germany with Siren to capture all the footage from their trip to play
1:21.0	the Keep It True Festival in 2018 because like I said, when I heard about this, I thought
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