1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Trains playing at Redhill Auditorium May eighteen. Tickets are available 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: through OZ Tig's Pat Monahan is with us this morning. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, how are you guys? 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: Good? 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 2: Very well? 6 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: So touring with Katie Tunstall and Jason Wade from Lifehouse. 7 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: What can we expect at the show? 8 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I've learned after thirty years that it's 9 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 3: better to travel the world with friends than people that 10 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 3: you don't know, and so I've known Jason for many 11 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 3: years and kat was just on our cruise and she 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 3: was our first time meeting. She is absolutely incredibly lovely 13 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 3: and talented, and I think we're going to do a 14 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: lot of fun stuff on stage together. 15 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 2: A lot more people, a lot more bands and artists 16 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: doing cruises. Mit haws. That working for you because it 17 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: sounds like a little fun. 18 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 3: It is, you know. I think that was our ninth 19 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 3: one and I can remember a couple of them. 20 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: So answers the question, a lot of fun the bars open. 21 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 3: I'm told that they're incredibly fun. 22 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: Up on the poop. I've been a fun on. 23 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: The poop there and there are captive audience too, So 24 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: that's that's all good. 25 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, literally, as well as. 26 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: The cruising, well, touring with Ario Speedwagon. 27 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 2: What what was that like? 28 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: It was great, you know it was It was an 29 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: interesting combination that you know, we didn't know if it 30 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 3: would work or not, but we became, you know, lifelong friends. 31 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: I think we'll be friends forever. They're just lovely people. 32 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin Cronham want to tell him, but one of 33 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: the great joys of our job in the last couple 34 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 2: of years. The two of us were numb because we 35 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,639 Speaker 2: got to chat to Graham Nash for about twenty minutes. 36 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 2: He worked. You work with him, didn't you on your 37 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 2: solo album? What was a lot meet in Graham Man? 38 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 3: Graham was he was lovely. As soon as I met him, 39 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: I started to gush and we just stopped me right 40 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 3: He stopped me right away and said, I'm already hearing me. 41 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: I love it because he's pretty humble. 42 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: Is He's so humble, and you know, it just makes 43 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: you that much more of a fan. As much as 44 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 3: you start as a fan, and then you meet somebody 45 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: who's as lovely as he is, you just like, man, 46 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 3: I'm so glad I'm a fan. 47 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Something I didn't know until today is the 48 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: before there was train, you had a led Zeppelin cover 49 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: band called Rogues Gallery. 50 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 3: There was many, many moons ago, you. 51 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: Know, until today, I guess, But what is your favorite 52 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin song? 53 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 3: You know, my son who's thirteen, he asks me similar questions. 54 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: That's a very hard one to answer. But the song 55 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: going to California, person moved to californiaself. 56 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: That is the most beautiful song. 57 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: But there's other songs like thank You, Yeah that is. 58 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: That's an incredible song. There's just so many of them. 59 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: I'd like to hear using all of my love like 60 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 2: I love that song. 61 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what beautiful? What else an incredible 62 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: song is Drops of Jupiter? Talk about you know, coming 63 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: in hard with that as as your first song. What 64 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: would it be like if you tried to leave a 65 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: show without doing Drops of Jupiter? 66 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 2: Yeah? 67 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 3: I never understood artists that don't play the songs that 68 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: people want to hear. Yeah. I grew up singing, singing 69 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 3: back to you know, all the singer that I went 70 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: to go watch their performances and just dreamt that maybe 71 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 3: that would happen to me someday. And when it did, 72 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 3: it was like, why would you ever get tired of that? 73 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, it does have it a bit. Some 74 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: people get off their off the money maker, the ones 75 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 2: that make them famous. But in Australia we have Paul 76 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: Hogan who did Crocodile Dundee and he gets there, that's 77 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 2: not a knife that's a knife line. All the time, 78 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: do you get people coming up and asking you about 79 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: marrying me? That was their wedding song? Pretty much every day? 80 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 3: No, I love it. I think, you know, to be 81 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 3: a part of somebody's anything is cool, but like a 82 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 3: big important day like that, that's it's incredible. 83 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 2: It must be part of a pretty regular thing. Especially 84 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 2: on those cruises you'd have the captive audience. A lot 85 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: of them would have had that one. 86 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: Yeah. And then my favorite thing to do when people 87 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: are spilling their hearts as I tell them that my 88 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 3: lawyer will be contacting shortly. 89 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: Not daunting. Is it pat to sing the national anthem? 90 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: I know you've done that a couple of times, and 91 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: that can be you know, that's fraught with fraughtness. A 92 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: lot of people have wish they had said yes, and 93 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: then you know others have just had the best time 94 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: of their lives. 95 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 3: I dislike it a lot, and here's why. Yeah, there's 96 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 3: two there's two results. The best result is that nobody cares. 97 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 3: The worst result is the next day you're a meme. Yeah, 98 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 3: there's no in between. There's there's you know. And before 99 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: I would sing it, I would watch all of the 100 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 3: most terrible ones on YouTube. And my favorite was Michael 101 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 3: Bolton because he had the words written on a piece 102 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: of paper, but he had his hand like on his 103 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 3: chest right, so he's like, he's about a third of 104 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 3: the way and he forgets. So he looks down at 105 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 3: the paper and the entire stadium just starts booing. That's 106 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 3: what I do before I sing the anthem as I 107 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 3: look at all those, because I'm like, I can't get 108 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: worse than that. 109 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: Please tell me you saw the Kyle Lewis one the 110 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 2: runner because he and everyone Kyle was trying to sing 111 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: some great ones, no big finish by what's a lot 112 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: early in your career. Obviously it's horrible, But can you 113 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: tell us about that struggle when you get rejected and 114 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: you know, it's tough in the music guy, especially with 115 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: the big labels. 116 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, when we started, we were flown to New York 117 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 3: City because basically we had a record deal in the 118 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 3: bag and we performed for all the heads of the 119 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 3: label and they didn't want us. So we flew back 120 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 3: to San Francisco and we made our own record. We 121 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: borrowed money from people and paid them all back and 122 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 3: then some. But when the label, the same label that 123 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 3: said no, heard the album, then they were like, Okay, 124 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 3: this is a this is a band we want. And 125 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: so I love that story because no doesn't mean no. 126 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: It just means go get better, or go prove it, 127 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: or go figure out what you didn't figure out. Because 128 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 3: they were right both times. We shouldn't have gotten a 129 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 3: record deal, and then we should have. 130 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you wouldn't want to take no for nance 131 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: straight up, would you. At the other end of the stream, 132 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: of course, is when you find yourself at the Grammys. 133 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: You've won three what's it like going to the Grammys? 134 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 3: Favorite? My favorite part of the Grammys is performing at them. Okay, 135 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 3: And I tell people this a lot. When we were 136 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 3: performing Drops So Jupiter years ago, Bono was in the 137 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 3: front row and he and he gave me a thumbs up. 138 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: And I tell people that's because we were up for 139 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 3: five of the same Grammys and he took four and 140 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: he let us have one. This one. 141 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: That's so good of him. 142 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 3: He's so good of him. 143 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 2: Oh that's funny. 144 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: He's a very sharing, caring guy. 145 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: Bought her as a youngster. Could you imagine you'd have 146 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 2: so much love in a country like Australia because we 147 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: really have a touched usselves to the band and this, 148 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 2: and you're wrotting in your songs and your vocals as well. 149 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 3: You know my Over the years, I've become obsessed with golf, 150 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 3: and Jason Day has become a good friend. There's an 151 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 3: other there's another young Australian golfer. His name is Cam Davis, 152 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 3: out of the same course as I do. And I'm 153 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 3: really good friends with these Australian guys because I get, 154 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: like Adam Scott's a friend, Like there's something about Australian 155 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: humor is very similar to mine. Like these men are 156 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 3: sick in their heads. Yeah, and that's what I love 157 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 3: most about them because I relate to it. And we're 158 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 3: all so like gentle with people who are not so 159 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: sick like us. But being around these guys is so 160 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 3: fun And I just can't wait to be in Australia 161 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 3: because I think I know Australians better now than ever. 162 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 3: Having had these close friendships. 163 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I really want you to have the cam Divis Mullett. 164 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: No on the golf courses where you're going to find 165 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: a lot of that humor happens. I guess now, before 166 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: we let you go, Pat, there's one thing we do 167 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: love to ask. Do you remember the first time you 168 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: heard yourself on the radio? 169 00:07:58,440 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: Yes? 170 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 3: Actually, I was house painter in San Francisco. A song 171 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 3: called Meat Virginia came on the radio, and I was 172 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 3: on my way to paint this lady's house and I 173 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: pulled off the road and I turned around and went home. Yeah, 174 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 3: and I thought I don't need to do this anymore. 175 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 3: And I didn't realize that I wasn't going to get 176 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: a check that day, so I had to go back 177 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: the next day to go pick her house. 178 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: That's funny, you carried away a little early for what 179 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: a great moment. 180 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 3: I turned around a little early. 181 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 2: The question always makes me thinking that Tom Hanks movie, 182 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: the one you know with the Bead of the Wonders, 183 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: the thing you do. 184 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 3: That's actually takes place in the town that I grew 185 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 3: up in. 186 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: The film. Yeah, I love the freak out. Yeah. 187 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: Well, Pat, we're looking forward to seeing you and the 188 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: rest of train here at Redhill Auditorium on May eighteen. 189 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: Tickets are available through oz tix. Thanks for chatting to 190 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: us this morning you thank you. 191 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: Yes, I can't wait. Really looking forward to being there. 192 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 2: Good to check Man. 193 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: Thank you.