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The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Rocking Manic Ravioli: The Sound of Jules’s Band

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sound designer Nathan Jones and composer John Campbell reveal how they turned “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” into a rock anthem, balanced professionalism with a touch of amateur fun, and tackled the challenges of bringing a fictional band to life. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello Odyssey. I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.

0:14.5

And I'm Jesse, editor of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. Welcome to the official Adventures

0:19.9

and Odyssey podcast. Today we're going behind

0:21.8

the scenes with Jules band Manic Ravioli. That's a name you'll never forget. They were featured in

0:28.2

Unmanageable and facing the music the final two shows in album 77. But making manic ravioli sound

0:35.7

both fun and, well, in progress, was a story all its own.

0:39.8

So we brought in two Odyssey veterans who know how to make a band sound just right,

0:44.0

sound designer Nathan Jones and composer John Campbell.

0:47.1

Let's hear just how manic this ravioli is.

1:02.5

Well, this promises to be a mega talented musical podcast because we're joined by Nate Jones and John Campbell. Welcome, guys. Thanks for having us. Hey, how are you? Especially

1:08.0

with that kind of an introduction. Well, you can't over it because it's the absolute truth.

1:12.6

And both you guys have played on stage in actual bands because you have actual huge talent.

1:19.6

So tell us more about that.

1:21.6

What were the names of the bands?

1:22.6

What kind of style of music?

1:24.6

And what were your roles in the band, singing, guitar, keys, whatever.

1:30.0

Yeah, I've been in bands since I was, I mean, I started playing guitar and stuff when I was

1:34.6

12 and I was gigging by the time I was 16. I was playing in clubs and gigging means playing.

1:41.7

Yeah, and I was, I was playing clubs at 16 and going home at two and getting

1:48.1

up at six, ready to go to high school and do Chaucer's Tales in English class first thing in the

1:53.5

morning. So none of that led to any big names. I'm certainly not famous for music, but the good news is I enjoy music.

2:04.1

I love it when I get to use my talents for Odyssey.

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