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Jun112016

Z Toyz and NPR

Each Friday, NPR's "Morning Edition" airs a Story Corps feature. These personal stories are people recording interviews with a loved one, friend, colleague or other close relationship.

Yesterday, the Story Corps feature was of former 80s rocker Hans Walters and his wife Martha Hiatt. Hans was in the band Z Toyz, which ran in the same circles as Twisted Sister. Anyway, Hans told the story of his lifelong passion for marine biology as part of his interview. For him, the music was the backup plan and marine biology was always the goal.

I'll let you listen to the interview for yourself - it's quite good. Plus you need to find out what Hans names all the sharks he studies! Good stuff.



Reader Comments (3)

After listening to about a minute of that song, I can see why he's a marine biologist now....lol
June 11, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterGary
Oh, man... That video is priceless, especially when they're "playing in the sand" at the beach.

The song is kinda lame and the production s*cks but it's worth watching for these guys' traipsing all over Miami and subjecting the poor locals to pure 80's Flying V Spandexed Mayhem! What's cool is the people they encounter really seem to like it!

Gotta hand it to NPR for threading the needle on this one. NPR as f*cked up as it is in the aftermath of the George W. Bush administration gutting it, still has it's moments!
June 11, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMetalboy!
Woah, that was bad. There is a reason some bands don't make it out of the clubs.
June 11, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterJack

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