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KEVIN TALLEY WANTS YOU TO KNOW HE PLAYED WITH SLAYER IN THEIR REHEARSAL SPACE ONCE

 Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 9:38am by

The first time I saw Kevin Talley up close and personal – by which I mean not on stage, where his incredible skills as a drummer give him the appearance of being a rock god, but in person, where you can see how diminutive the dude really is* – was outside a Chimaira concert last year, when he was playing not with Chimaira (a band he’d recently parted ways with) but with opening act Hate Eternal. He was trying to hock some DVDs, and a kid was asking him to just give him one for free. “Dude, it’s me playing with Slayer in their rehearsal space!” Talley objected. “Just gimme five bucks!”

Talley must be really proud of that DVD, ’cause the next time I saw Talley, when he was opening for DevilDriver with his new band Daath, the DVDs were being sold at the merch booth – “KEVIN TALLEY PLAYING WITH SLAYER IN THEIR REHEARSAL SPACE! $20.” Some friends of ours – who shall remain nameless, as I think they’re actually friends of Kevin’s – regaled Vince and I last night with their own stories of the skinsman’s pride in this video document (I’d recount the story for you, but, honestly, I was so high when they told it to me, I’m having trouble remembering it).

ANYWAY, you won’t have to pay Talley five bucks, ten bucks, or even twenty bucks to see what clearly represents one of the high points of his life, as someone has gone ahead and posted footage of the dude playing “War Ensemble” with Slayer – yes, in their rehearsal space – online. Enjoy.

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*Why are so many great drummers so petite? Joey Jordison, Isaac Carpenter – hell, I think Lars Ulrich is a legal midget (or “dwarf” or “little person” or “hobbit” or whatever the preferred nomenclature is these days).

  • http://crustcake.blogspot.com crustcake gerf

    Holy SHIT I can’t believe it!

    I ran into this clown outside of the New England Metal & Hardcore fest a few years back. He is incredibly obnoxious. Same shenanigans you describe here– peddling his wares… clown.

  • Seth

    Q: “*Why are so many great drummers so petite? Joey Jordison, Isaac Carpenter – hell, I think Lars Ulrich is a legal midget (or “dwarf” or “little person” or “hobbit” or whatever the preferred nomenclature is these days).”

    I mean, the addendum to this question should be “why are sick METAL drummers legal midgets?” Overall I’d say lots of sick drummers aren’t tiny, but to play metal well, you need them god damn fast twitch muscle fibers and incredible endurance. Size doesn’t matter for rhythym or feel or tastefulness, but it certainly helps when ripping 1,280th notes on the double bass or flying around the kit for 2 hours straight without stopping to breathe or eat a pack of funny bones. Why are point guards faster than centers? Can you picture an elephant playing double bass like that semi-retarded 5 foot midget from “through the eyes of the dead”? Prolly not…but im sure you’ve already visualized a fucking hamster ripping “ride the lightning” a new asshole. Its just genetics man. Im a 6’7 drummer and I always sucked at footfires in bball practice…now im a consistent but uninspiringly mediocre double bass player. That being said, maybe I should stop blaming genetics and just practice more….

  • http://www.myspace.com/freaksystemband Sammy

    Kerry King must have the smallest dick in all rock. Really, aren’t all those Marshalls in a room that size the equivalent of the guy with a bad ass Corvette AND a truck with a 14″ lift and 42″ tires? Most of them are probably empty cabs. It’s a PRACTICE space, dude.

  • http://newghosts.com Shnaz

    Hey Tom Cruise is short too, and he’s one of the best fucking actors I’ve ever seen!

    Kevin Talley may be good, but what kind of loser has to sell poor footage of themselves playing with Slayer? It’s like he needs everyone to know that his life is actually worth something to anyone but himself.

  • http://www.myspace.com/freaksystemband Sammy

    Musicians are a very self-esteem-impaired bunch. Even the worst of us need that constant reassuring that we don’t suck. It’s easy to make fun of the poor schmuck, but honestly, if I sat in with my heroes for 30 minutes in their practice studio, I’d probably slip that into every conversation possible. We’re all pathetic in our own way.

    Hell, my band opened for an offspring of The (!!) fucking (!!) shitty (!!) Offspring, and I whored it like a meth-head hooker going on a week without a snort.

  • http://www.coreymitchell.com Liquidman666

    The two best things about this vid were Kerry King hiding in the shadows until his solo and how fucking clean Slayer’s rehearsal space was…

  • Get off his case

    It’s call paying rent fucktards. While the rest of us work our 9 to 5ers, Talley’s trying to make it as a musician. Not one of those “I’m on the top forty, and my label loves me for it” musicians, but, rather, like the bulk of musicians who peddle what they have so they can eek out a living doing what they love to do, which is travel the world playing music while still struggling to support themselves, their family and friends back home. God, it royally pisses me off that you find it so easy to knock him when at the end of the day he’s trying to make his life into something meaningful… Just like the rest of us 9 to 5ers. Yeah, you may be selling a TV a Circuit City, or an economic policy to a group of oil men, Kevin’s selling his DVDs… What the hell, pray tell, is so different or worse. It’s called making money to follow a dream. Hella better than what most of us have.