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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to the Patent Danny Podcast. I love doing
this because I get to kind of shine the spotlight
on people you may or may not have known. And
I know you're going to know this guy. But it's
been a while since, you know, I've really like had
a chance to say, hey, catch up and all the things.
(00:20):
Ryan Bazari, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome, Hey Danny. How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey, I'm doing really well. Now, before we get into everything,
how did we meet? We met back at like Steve.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think officially it was ninety six when I want
some tickets to a dinner with you, and I think
you just started.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Radio, so I did.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I just came in here in ninety six. So that's
probably why I don't remember the whole situation, because I
was like, you know what I mean, it's like deer
in the headlights.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Help, I can't. I don't know this Quad Cities.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
When I first drove into the Quad Cities, and you
may have had this being from a smaller town, I
thought this was Chicago size.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, I mean it's all relative
to where you're coming from, you know, yeaheah. But you know,
we don't have a lot of traffic it's all on
the bridge, right.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh my gosh, all on the bridge. Well, the great
thing about Ryan is Ryan is a singer songwriter, and
you've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I started writing songs when I was sixteen, so just
about five years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Now, Oh yeah, that's why I said when I was five.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I just got the I don't know. I've always
loved music, and I think I carried the idea of
writing a song in my head for a long time
before I actually thought, ohow hey, I can do this.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And then I did it, and I uh, it just
uh some some part of me came alive, and so
I did it again and again. It never stopped.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Do you do you remember the first song that for
you said, oh I think this could be like a
really great song.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's always the last when he wrote, oh yeah, okay,
you know it's it's an interesting thing. It's a it's
a it's a constant argument out what makes a good
song this and that. But you just write them and
as you write them and get hopefully you're maybe maybe
you're topping the last thing, or you're going in a
(02:12):
new territory. So it's really hard to know what is good.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean, what connects you know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I mean I think the first songs when I
was sixteen, seventeen eighteen, I was writing them for me.
And then you start trying to understand how to be
how do you be better? And then you start throwing
in the whole radio idea, and that's a whole other
layer of thoughts and tools that have to happen. And
it's fun when you can actually get to the place
(02:40):
where you can use those tools that they teach you
and bring in your heart and you're doing it naturally,
like riding a bike. Yeah, then you can write songs
that kind of feel like maybe like commercial, like they say,
but yet they still feel like just a song. Good
old your good old friend rhyme would write, you know,
about whatever's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So, yeah, you brought in commercial. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You eventually moved down to Nashville, yep, because you really
wanted to like be right in the hub of writing.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I wanted to go be among all the other million writers.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And there are a lot of them down there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's the thing is is that you know, Jennifer and
I were married in ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh, don't get that wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Twenty six years you can get all right there you go. Anyway,
we married, We were married a while and we talked
about we had jobs and you know, young married couple,
and we talked about music a lot, and we just
decided that we were serious enough about it that it
meant enough to us about it to go try to
be better and try to learn. And that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Excellent, and you did get radio play. I mean, I
love this because this song I loved. They filmed the
video for it over at the Mississippi Valley Fair and
I mean it was just it's fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Now talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So, yeah, that's a really long story that I'd love
to tell you more about. And if we had ten
parts to this podcast, absolutely well. The short of it is,
as you know, they call it a ten year town.
Nashville's a ten year town.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Surely you know.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It takes a combination of growing and meeting the right
people and just having that lightning strike. And for me,
it happened ten years, six months, five weeks, two days,
and three hours later.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Who's counting.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, So I ran an interesting thing. I auditioned for
the Bluebird Cafe, which I'll be playing this Sunday finally
going back, yay. But I played you audition for the Bluebird,
and you get to do this Sunday show and it's
kind of a I call it an intermediate writer thing
where they have ten writers play three songs to a
(04:50):
packed audience and they're listening hard, you know. And so
I passed my audition right right out of the gate
before I ever moved. So the idea is that at
the end of the night they have a pro writer
and it's like, oh, I want to note that guy
socks off. Well it took literally, oh well, let's say
nine years for that to happen. I mean maybe I
(05:10):
knocked some socks off and didn't know it. But one
particular night, there's a guy playing some songs, well actually
standing in a corner at the Bluebird and it's a
tight little place, you know, and I squeezed by him
and putting my guitar away after my set, and he says, hey, man,
I really liked your stuff. We should write and I'm like, cool,
what's your name? Well, I'm Walker Hayes.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah. So at the time, Walker Hayes wasn't fancy like
Walker Hayes. He was just Walker Hayes on Capitol Records,
trying to make his break, like like we all do
you know?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He was unfancy at that point.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
He was very unfancy, but so you know, I was like,
oh cool. So we wrote a handful of songs over
the next year and a half or so, and uh,
he was with a publisher and that publisher marched down
the road to Rodney Atkins and wow, Rodney put it
on hold, eventually cut it and put it on his
greatest hits. So here I am my little old song
(06:07):
with Walker along all these hits, with all the people
I ever wanted to be such a dream. It was
a single, there was a video. Oh yeah, I ended up.
I got to write with Rodney, and then Walker went
on to do really cool things fancy like.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Apple Bee's sure and so very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, I feel kind of cool that I'm brushing elbows
with the man who brushed elbows with other people too.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I mean, you know, and you're so the thing about.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Ryan, y'all, if he is that he is so down
to earth and so real. Oh yeah, he shakes his head. No,
you are like you truly are like the everyman. And
when you're doing your performances, you're talking about your stuff.
You're a great storyteller, really you are.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, no, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm blessed to be here. You know. I always think
of you and how you came out to Stevenon's to
see the coming home party, when we celebrated Eat Sleep,
Lovey Repeat, and uh, just a lot of different Oh.
I know one time I called in when we were
in town and you mentioned my name. That just makes
me feel like a talk about a rock star. So
it's nice. I think that it's interesting to think about
(07:17):
w l l R being the big you're the iHeart
corporate radio station. But I even had conversations with you know,
Pat and you and your program guy Jim of course
talked to all them when all They Eat Sleep stuff
was going on, and he tried really hard to explain
radio to me. So that's a that's a whole other podcast. Yes,
(07:40):
but but just I'm impressed by you know, you guys
reach out to people in the community in the area
that that you know, you're supporting us, and that's really
really cool.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I love that a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So yeah, Ryan Bazzari and he plays all over. He's
one man. He's a man guy. You're gonna love him.
I do want you to play. Let's talk about your
new single that's out because it's just just out frush
the press.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, it's called That's Gold and it's a song about
seeing the gold and things that maybe other people don't see.
You know, there's three little stories in the song.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'll play it for you if you lie, I would
love you to do that. That's why I made you
bring your guitar.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
My guitar here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's all tuned up and ready to go. I almost
thought another nick that's a good souvenir.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's okay, Willie. If it's okay for Willie, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, totally. Willy is an inspiration. That's Goalie. It came
out Friday and it's on Spotify and all the you know,
digital platforms, and and uh, you know, Danny said, you know,
I'm just the local guy here, but you know, it
would be nice to get the numbers up. The industry
looks at that, and it's really nice. It's a nice
song for a Midwest family to listen to right on.
(08:54):
And that's kind of my thing. I say, I have
country music for your country soul. Yes, and I wouldn't
rule out singing a song about drinking a beer on
a tailgate. But my songs are more about you know,
real life. Like you said, Heart has some lyrics, list
in depth.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Family, Yes, absolutely, let's.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Do it, all right, let's do it. Okay, you want
the whole thing or just a sample.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You tell me what you'd like to do. Because I'm
find you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'll do the between the sample and the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I love it. I love it. Then we send people
to the website.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
All right, that's that's cold, everybody.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Boy just turned sixteen, Grandma, he had it in the
Keys to a Beta pig up two generations old. That's
not roast on the fender. That's not rost on the fender.
(09:58):
The let's go gold. There's a farmer on a jounder
praying for a good here from sun up to sundown,
playing rude by roll.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's not an open.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Field of dirt, not just anold open field of dirt.
That's gold. That's heeing through the clouds.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
To find a silver line.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And that's working through the rock to get down to
the diamond. That's knowing your rich no matter how much.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Green or cobby can hold.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's go old.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
She's a single mama, two kids, tired from a long shift,
and there's so much more to do when she gets home.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's not another bedtime.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Story, not just another bedtime story.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's gold.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
That's seeing through the clouds to find a silver line in.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's working through the.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Rock to get down to the diamond that's not in
your rich no matter how much.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Green or coffee can hole.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's gold.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's go yay.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And you even included coffee in that. That makes my
heart happy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Do you put your spare change in a coffee can?
Like I did?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know? I have a lot of pennies in a
coffee can?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, I can't think of a better place to put
one exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Wow, Thank you Ryan, Thanks, Oh my gosh, that's so great.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So if people want to try to get a hold
of you, I know that your music is out on
Spotify and everything, and I think I can even link
up some things for iHeart for the iHeartRadio app that
will have possibly there.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'm going to look for it and I think I
can find it. But how can people get a hold
of you?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You can your people can call my people or they
can reach out to Jennifer Okay or me on Facebook
or the website or my phone numbers plastered all over
the internet is excellent in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Stalls, that's who that is. Oh no, I'm just it's awesome.
It's wonderful. That's gold, that's what that is.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, So again, Ryan Bassari, Ryan, thank you so much
for being on the Patent Danny podcast.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank you for having me, Danny. It's always good to
see you. I'm glad we got to catch.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Up me too. Thank you.