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Pat Monahan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
305 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

Yeah.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

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.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

So he got Paul through Columbia Records to write the string line.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

Wow.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

And then my guy Donny Einer who said you didn't have what it took and then he said now you do.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

He really made it happen and we became a band that could travel all over the world.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

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.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

And if you do, you'll get the shit done.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

And we got it done.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

We got it done later than our deadline, but it got done because we were like, we have to keep going.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

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.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

The wind is the second chorus.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

I'm a drummer, so I know very little about music.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

You're going to have to teach me about this song.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

is the piano player on that track.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

We at the time didn't have a piano player and Chuck was, and still plays in the Rolling Stones.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

Yeah.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

So Chuck came in just like cowboy, you know, and came in and he just put a bounce to it.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

Yeah.

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

So he may have added a little bit of something to it without telling anyone because he took it from