Siddhartha Khosla
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226 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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We didn't record it to computer. We recorded it to actual old reel. Mixed it to an old, like half inch tape. Just so it had that stamp of like an old tune. And at that point, I was like, this is awesome. The studio's giving us the... Because the studio was like, Sid, you can just record this at home on your... And I was like, no, we're going to make a Stax record B-side.
Let's do it to tape, live in the room, band in the room. Let's record it like they would have recorded. And that started this whole trend in the original songs for the show. Because then that episode was such a great episode. Brian was incredible in that episode. You were incredible in that episode. I mean, it was just magic. Ron, oh my gosh.
And at the season one party for This Is Us, my band was performing some of these songs. And Chris, I think, may have gone up and performed that song. And afterwards, I see Mandy by the bar next to Taylor Goldsmith. And I went up to him and I was like, hey, I'm your biggest fan. Because Dawes is honestly one of my favorite bands of the last, I don't know, 15 years, easily.
I was listening to Dawes when we were in Jersey City, in my parents' basement. Brooklyn. Sorry, sorry, Brooklyn. And so I was just such a fan. And then he said something to me. He goes, hey, man, if you ever want to collaborate on anything at some point, let me know. And I couldn't believe that this guy asked me that. Because I think Taylor is one of the best songwriters of our generation.
I don't say that easily. He's a lyrically gifted musician. His playing, his writing, everything is just incredible. It connects on a very cool, for me, it hits me in a place. And then... As we got into the future seasons, what was the next one? No, it was Invisible Ink.
Yeah. So Mandy's character, Rebecca was going to, why don't you set up what your character was doing?
Ken Olin episode too.
That was a great one.
Oh, Memorized. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With Taylor again. So Taylor and I wrote that song together. And it just started this beautiful collaboration between me and Taylor.
He did three. We did that, we did Memorized.
Which was Future Jack, right?
Young Jack, your son Jack. Yeah. His song, he was a pop star. That's right. And we needed to write a song that he performs on stage. Which they recorded at the Greek Theater? We recorded at the Greek Theater in the middle of a Chicago show.
Chicago gave us a break for 15 minutes. And we got up there, and we pumped the song, after we recorded it, into the speakers in front of, whatever, 5,000, 6,000 people. How many people does that hold? A lot of people.
By the second chorus, they were singing along with it. No way! Never heard it before. I mean, they were like, you know, lighters lit, everything. So we actually recorded that song at a massive concert and got that footage. So what you're seeing is actually,
Right. Going back to Taylor for a second too, on the very first song we wrote together, I remember Dan called and said, can you write this song, Joni Mitchell type of song. I was like, okay, then I can just get on. I had some melodic ideas, some general idea of what it could be, but just very, very nothing.
Sorry, we should have said that.
So right away, knowing what the story was and this was going to be Rebecca and her journey, I remember thinking, in my head, I was like, Taylor Goldsmith said he wants to work with me at some point. And I called Taylor, and I was like, can we do this? Because also in my mind, too, I thought he's also seen at home with you the progression of your character. Oh, yeah. You working on the character.
He's seen the life of the character. So he knows not just you, but he also knows Rebecca Pearson in an interesting way through you. And I think that perspective, lyrically, would have been pretty powerful.
He would read lines. He would be Jack and you would be Rebecca.
But that became this start of this very special relationship between me and Taylor. And then we wrote, memorized together. And then for season six, when we bring the This Is Us song into Rebecca Pearson's performance, Dan then said to me, Dan's like, can you take that end title theme and make that into a song now? And I was like, you want me to put words to it?
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