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The Whyte Python World Tour Book Review
You know that feeling when someone you trust recommends something and you just know it’s going to be right up your alley? That’s what happened when I saw Will Wheaton’s post about narrating the audiobook for The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy. He was almost over-the-top excited about the project. I’m a big fan of Wheaton’s work in audiobooks, and so the first moment I had to download the book and start listening, I took it.
I am 57 years old, and I still remember the exact moment I first saw the video for “Looks That Kill” by Mötley Crüe in 1983. My impression was that this was awesome. It blew me away. I bought Shout at the Devil and Too Fast for Love on cassette, I think, on the same day. I loved the theatricality and the sheer ridiculousness of it all. It was sort of like my favorite band all through middle school (and to be honest, longer), KISS, but something else. Something new.
Next came the wave of hair/glam metal bands that dominated the culture. Quiet Riot, Ratt, Twister Sister, Poison, Bon Jovi, Dokken, Def Leppard, and so many more. This was the soundtrack of my high school and college years. A ten-year dominance.
So, when I downloaded Kennedy’s audiobook about a drummer named Rikki Thunder who gets recruited by the CIA to topple…
