Pat Monahan
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
And so he was loving this movie and loved all of the Elton John stuff and Paul Buckmaster was still alive and Paul Buckmaster was the, he was the string arranger for Elton's music.
So he got Paul through Columbia Records to write the string line.
Wow.
And then my guy Donny Einer who said you didn't have what it took and then he said now you do.
He really made it happen and we became a band that could travel all over the world.
I mean, my theory about music, that is not music theory like you teach, but my theory about music and musicians is that if you don't have a deadline, you'll never finish.
And if you do, you'll get the shit done.
And we got it done.
We got it done later than our deadline, but it got done because we were like, we have to keep going.
So I'm really excited to have this chance to you to really unpack a lot of the... I'm not going to know nearly as much as you know about this song, but I'm happy to go down it with you.
The wind is the second chorus.
I'm a drummer, so I know very little about music.
You're going to have to teach me about this song.
is the piano player on that track.
We at the time didn't have a piano player and Chuck was, and still plays in the Rolling Stones.
Yeah.
So Chuck came in just like cowboy, you know, and came in and he just put a bounce to it.
Yeah.
So he may have added a little bit of something to it without telling anyone because he took it from