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Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Let There Be Talk EP54: Juan Alderete - The Mars Volta

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2013

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Let There Be Talk, old friend Juan Alderete, stops by and talks about his life
in rock n roll and what it was like to play bass in bands like Racer X, The Scream , The Mars Volta , Big Sir and now Zavalaz.
Tune in and rock!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's happening, Dean Del Rey. Thanks for tuning in Monday, October 14th.

0:07.0

Great day. I'm just getting it started here. I had a fantastic night last night opening

0:14.2

for Mark Marin at the ice house. That was a dream come true. If any of you were there

0:20.2

or your new listeners from coming out to the show, thank you for coming out. Well, coming

0:26.2

and most of all, thank you, Mark Marin for having me. That's just an honor opening up

0:32.0

for someone that you just, you know, one of your favorite comedians. Bam, you're opening

0:36.7

for them. I love the guy, man. He's been nothing but just kick ass. Thank you, Mark, man,

0:43.6

for having me. Check his podcast, people. Of course, WTF, just fantastic. Mark Marin, thank

0:51.1

you for having me. So that was a great night last night. Couldn't believe it. Sold out

0:55.6

crowd. Pasadena ice house. Just having fun. Some of my friends came out, hung out. We

1:01.6

just boom, watched Marin do an hour. He was killing. That was fantastic. So that was

1:09.3

it. It was kind of hard to sleep last night. I was all fired up just like, yeah. But here

1:14.1

I am. New episode of Let the Be Talk. Great episode today. My good friend, longtime friend,

1:21.0

Juan Aldo Reddyson. You're wondering who Juan Aldo Reddys is. He's the bass player in

1:26.8

Mars Vulta for the last 10 years. He also played in a band in the early days called Race

1:32.6

or Ex. That was on Shrapnel. They were some of the early shred masters. Just that stuff, man.

1:40.0

Hey, guys, the guy's phenomenal on his instrument. I mean, it's hard to harden up the learning

1:47.2

instrument, but then to master it and become one of the top guys in the industry, that's

1:52.2

shit is crazy, man. So hats off for him. And he's been playing all his life. I think he's

1:59.1

around my age 90. So, you know, play bass for a new 90s old. Anyway, I love this guy,

2:09.0

man. We both grew up in the Bay Area. He's got great stories. And I got excited. I just

2:14.6

get it, yeah, yeah, yeah, more, more, more. But we could have talked for hours. And we did,

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