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What Had Happened Was

Season Finale: Dante's Legacy and the new reality of the A&R

What Had Happened Was

Talkhouse

Music Interviews, Music

5.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In our season finale we pick up with Dante Ross's story after the massive success of Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. He wins a Grammy for a record with Everlast and Carlos Santana and goes on to become a sought after producer and remixer before returning to A&R in a very different music business. Hear about it all and what's coming in the future for a music business legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What up? What is up? What is up?

0:16.2

Existentially. I don't know. I'm open mic ego. This is what it happened was this is season three

0:23.4

Episode 12 is easy for me to remember what the number is this time because there's only

0:28.8

12 episodes in this season which means this is the final episode of this season.

0:38.3

This is our final walk down memory lane with Dante Ross and as in other seasons when we get to

0:45.2

this point in memory lane it's basically yesterday. We're catching up with Dante on everything that

0:54.1

happened after his multi-platinum album that he made with Everlast, Whitey Forsen's Blues.

1:00.9

He is a winning a Grammy doing a song Everlast in Santana for a while. He becomes the rock remixer

1:11.0

of the day due to the success of a kind of rock break beat hybrid sound that he helps to introduce

1:21.7

into the lexicon. He ends up putting together a stimulated dummies compilation which John Campbell

1:31.6

based on a lot of the music that Dave made. So it's basically a phase of his artist where he's

1:36.4

very artist oriented as a producer and in terms of compiling works that he's done already and

1:43.7

and rap that he's made with a bunch of people into the stimulated dummies stuff.

1:47.4

And he ends up going back into A&R and it's really amazing. I mean if you listen to this season

1:57.9

and can lay down all the obvious successes and home runs the Dante Ross hit as being a person who

2:04.5

can see talent and put talent in a place to succeed it's really amazing that after all this time

2:13.0

with him getting back into into A&R it's well you'll just have to listen to see what his recent

2:21.6

exploits in the A&R have been and how ironic it all is when you look at it as a whole

2:29.4

and aside from that we'll be able to read more about Dante's story in his book that he'll be

2:35.2

coming out with a little later this year so we want to make sure that we support that.

2:39.5

All in all what an incredible season what an incredible journey starting with you know

2:48.8

lower east side of New York late 70s early 80s you know while hip hop is just beginning to

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