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The Working Songwriter

Aaron Lee Tasjan

The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug

Performing Arts, Arts, Music, Music Interviews

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Ohio native describes his journey from guitarist in Drivin' and Cryin' and the New York Dolls to finding success writing songs under his own name.

Transcript

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0:22.0

You're not going to be a Hi and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop. I'm your host Joe Pug. Each episode here we host a

0:26.4

distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration on their

0:31.4

process on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

0:36.0

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran,

0:39.0

trying to figure out the difference

0:41.0

between Pro Tools and Logic, or else a scrappy upstart.

0:45.6

Trying to ironically figure out the difference between Taskam and Tia.

0:50.3

This is your show.

0:51.8

Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing Hi everybody it's the first Friday of November 2020 and I thank you for joining us

1:12.2

this week show is brought to you by Bandzugel.

1:15.4

Built by musicians and for musicians, Bandzugel is an all in one platform to build a beautiful website

1:22.3

for your music. I'm old enough to remember

1:25.1

when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website made and

1:28.6

it would always be some guy named Yasha who drove a Mitsubishi Alantra with spinning rims and a

1:36.5

Papa Roach bumper sticker and who was always trying to sell you hard drives filled

1:40.8

with all of the Warner Brother movies released that year.

1:44.3

And old Yasha would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that would be

1:47.7

obsolete in six months, but it's the future now, you guys. That's not how it works anymore. We can have nice things now.

1:55.0

One of those nice things is Banzugel. Banzugel powers the websites of tens of thousands of

2:01.0

musicians from around the world from weekend warriors to

2:04.2

Grammy winners. All the features you need for a professionally built website are

2:08.6

already built in, hosting and a custom domain name, dozens of fully customizable design templates,

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