TIJ - EP183 - Justin Hawkins of The Darkness

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Chris Jericho

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Justin Hawkins of The Darkness loves rock & roll, catsuits, Queen, brilliant music critics, and the band's new album "Last Of Our Kind." He's also got an interesting story about how he became a singer, a unique idea for the band's next album, some inspired new band names, the reason The Darkness toured with Lady Gaga, and his philosophy on humor & music. And did we mention the night of debauchery he experienced with Queen drummer Roger Taylor? Plus, Brian Slagel, CEO of Metal Blade Records, shares stories about his friend - late, great Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.

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0:00.0	The Jericho Network on Westwood One.
0:03.3	Alright, the darkness have a new album out, The Last of Our Kind, and they're ready to kick off the blast of our kind,
0:09.7	Wool Tour in America and Canada.
0:12.0	Next Friday, October 9th, first stop, The Glass House in Pomona, just outside of Los Angeles.
0:18.8	And today, Crazy Man, singer Justin Hawkins joins TIJ, and he is every bit the crazy rock and roll frontman you think he might be.
0:26.9	Wait till you hear his philosophy on critics and reviews, and his argument and idea to change his band's name, like now.
0:33.8	He wants to change the name. Yeah, exactly. He's also talking about his infamous cat suit,
0:38.5	riding a giant penis over top of the audience. His love of queen, the band's new drummer Rufus Tiger Taylor,
0:45.2	who happens to be the son of Queen drummer Roger Taylor, and touring with Lady Gaga, the reactions they got and didn't get.
0:51.7	And if that's not a rock and roll for ya, I also got Brian Sleggle, the CEO of Metal Blade Records,
0:57.6	and one of the architects of the early version of Metallica. He's sharing stories about Metallica's Cliff Burton
1:04.3	here on just after the 29th anniversary of Cliff's untimely passing. Brian was kind of like the fifth member of early Metallica.
1:12.5	In a way that George Martin was like the fifth member of the Beatles, he actually helped get Cliff into Metallica.
1:18.3	So lots of rock talk today. Lots of rock and roll coming.
1:35.5	Welcome to Talk Is Jericho, the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll.
1:40.7	The Rembe for boredom has arrived, and it's Friday.
1:48.9	How awesome is that today's show Justin Hawkins from the Darkness actually has written a song called Friday.
2:07.2	So it's perfect. It's a new Friday into the Pantheon of Talk Is Jericho Fridays.
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