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Mick Hunt:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Mick Unplugged, the podcast that drives deep into the hearts and minds of inspiring leaders and creatives. And today, I'm here with someone that I looked up to for many, many years of my life. So I'm thrilled to have with us a legend known for his iconic collaborations with the likes of Madonna, Elton John, Roger Waters, Leonard Cohen, just name a few. But now he's stepping into the spotlight with his solo album all comes down to the mood. We're here to explore his new project, his illustrious career, and his unique creative process.
Mick Hunt:Without further ado, please welcome me in joining the great mister Patrick Leonard. Patrick, how are you doing today, sir? Hi.
Patrick Leonard:Hi, Mike. You flatter me.
Mick Hunt:It's all true. Yeah. It is all true. I mean You're
Patrick Leonard:kind, man. You're too kind.
Mick Hunt:No. You were the kind one for for taking a moment to to spend some time with me and the listeners. And, you know, all the collaborations, you know, we we just highlighted Madonna and Elton John and and Roger Waters, but now you're doing your own. Yeah. You're doing your own.
Mick Hunt:All comes down to mood. It's gonna release soon. Yeah. What inspired you for this project?
Patrick Leonard:Well, as you and I were just talking, you know, my wife and I relocated from the West Coast to the East Coast. So we're in a very different environment and a very open environment. We're in the country, and it it's very open. And being a kid from Michigan, from rural Michigan, I thrive with trees and streams much more than stoplights and cars, you know. So there's that.
Patrick Leonard:And I think what got me to this point is after Leonard Cohen passed away in 2016, I'd worked for Leonard for about 7 years and done almost nothing else in that time. No records or anything with anybody else or no writing with anyone else. And at that point, you know, for collaborations, it felt like kind of the last house on the block, you know. I mean, I really couldn't imagine going in and writing pop songs with anybody or doing anything. It just seemed like good, complete circle.
Patrick Leonard:And then as this stuff was going on and we were doing a little hiding from COVID a couple years later, Roger Waters and I started talking about a project that we sort of started picking out a little bit just remotely. And then when we moved here, that project turned into the Dark Side of the Moon redo, which I worked with him for some time on a few months. And then I don't know why. Well, I do know why, but I decided I didn't wanna do it. And I think it just had something to do with having all this music I've been working on myself and the new environment and the new studio, and it just didn't feel right to me.
Patrick Leonard:And Roger had his whole band, and he was all set up, and it wasn't gonna leave him hanging or anything. He's gonna he's gonna do it, and he did it anyway. And and he he did a great job. And so I kinda said, I'm not doing that. And maybe I didn't have that much of a purpose right at that point, but then and this is just it sounds like nonsense, but it's not.
Patrick Leonard:Then David Gilmore called me and said, I wanna make a solo record, and, I'd like you to help me with it. And I went, okay. Because you need your reaction when these people call us not to say no. Right. Is yes.
Patrick Leonard:Yes. Childhood idol. Yes. Let's
Mick Hunt:go. Right.
Patrick Leonard:And, it was a little bit the same thing. We worked for a while, and I just felt like I I can't bring what I need to bring to this. And so I backed away from that one, and now I find myself really with kind of the ultimate nothing to do. Because once for me in my world and my background, once I've said no to that, there's nothing more. There's nothing more.
Patrick Leonard:There's there's nothing. I won't say yes to anything if I said no to that. And it's with the deepest respect for those 2 guys. So allow me to make a record of my own, and I started picking through these pieces and bits and bobs of things that I had to see if I could come up with enough material. And I started to construct things.
Patrick Leonard:I assemble right from the beginning when I'm doing things. I I make because I see things as records, not as singles. I start assemblies right away. 1st songs, you know, side 1, I do that and I've always kinda done it. And I just went I don't have anything.
Patrick Leonard:So I started writing and it all comes down to mood are all all new songs that were written as a body of work intended to be a body of work as a vinyl. So I I just dug into any chops and every chop that I have and applied it to my own work for the very first time in my life. And it was, you know, these things are never easy. If it's not a near death experience, it's probably not very good. So there you go.
Patrick Leonard:And that's really where it came from. It's a lot of writing. I think I wrote over 30 songs for the 16 that are on there. It's a double album. It's a very long piece of work.
Patrick Leonard:It's 84 minutes of music. But I threw out more than I used and, you know, lyric rewrites and lyric rewrites and then take a lyric that's good and write a different song to it and just the processed it till it felt finished. People always go, you're never gonna be done. I said, no. Yeah.
Patrick Leonard:I am. I really am. When I'm I really am. Like, I'm really good at like, I'm done now. That's it.
Patrick Leonard:But people don't understand. Like, this is great. Why isn't it done? It's like, well, let's whatever little voice says, no. You can be better.
Mick Hunt:Right.
Patrick Leonard:Anyway, that all said, it's done now, coming out. The artwork was done by Storm Studios, the cover, which is the old hypnosis guys. Yeah. And no connection to the fact that I was just talking to Roger and David for all that time. Just that when I came to doing this, I just wanted people that made album covers.
Patrick Leonard:Yeah. And so I reached out to them and, and developed a really nice relationship, and they did a tremendous job. And it was the cover was almost more work than the album. You know, it took longer. It did.
Patrick Leonard:It took longer. But it's a thrill to have it. You know? Mhmm. And especially in vinyl.
Patrick Leonard:You know? That's how I listen to music is. You know? So there you go.
Mick Hunt:There's nothing like dropping down a a 45 and and, like, bang it on vinyl. Right? Sounds different. Sounds it it, like, touches your soul.
Patrick Leonard:Yeah. Well, it's it's a it's a very different technology. And the simple explanation is when you put a needle in a groove, the needle is vibrating based on what the groove's doing to it, and that vibration is being amplified, and speakers are vibrating the same way the needle's vibrating but bigger. And when you listen to digital music, it's zeros and ones going by convincing you you're hearing music. It's a totally different experience.
Patrick Leonard:1 is your mind and the other one's your body. Correct. And, you know, no despair no nothing despairing about any of it. We've consumed digital music for a long time. But if I'm gonna go listen to something in our little music room, I put on a vinyl.
Patrick Leonard:I mean, I can't in my room here in my studio. I can't because I, you know, I don't I'm not doing that down here. This is the workshop. And so it's the instruments are all analog, but the computer, you know, I'm not using tape right now. Although, I I'm now threatening the idea of getting a multitrack tape machine and making a record on analog tape.
Patrick Leonard:I don't know that it's worth it. But, anyway, digital analog, big difference.
Mick Hunt:Totally agree. And and you hit on a couple of things. No. I have a a vinyl player and my wife was like, why do why do you have that? And I'm like, hey, music just feels different.
Mick Hunt:I promise you. And so it's like, what's your favorite song of of the vinyls that I have? We're gonna play it on iTunes, and then we're gonna play it on vinyl, and you're gonna feel the difference. And within 10 seconds, she's like, oh my god. I almost forgot what this felt like growing up.
Mick Hunt:Right? Like, Saturday mornings when your parents are having you clean the house and they throw the vinyls on. Like, it brought you back to a place, and that's what I love about your music. And more importantly, this album. Right?
Mick Hunt:You hit on 16 songs, 80, 84 or 80 plus minutes. And I got to hear a sample. And I'm gonna tell you, like, here's what I heard in the sample. I heard some eighties pop, some eighties soft rock. I heard some funk.
Mick Hunt:Like, what's your creative process? Because just in that sample, I'm like, I can't wait to hear the whole thing because it's probably gonna be my favorite album because I just felt like I heard music. And no disrespect on today, but I heard music. Just listening to that quick sample there.
Patrick Leonard:My it's Uh-huh. It's always been the same. So when I sit down to write something, my writing never feels time related, like it doesn't feel like now or then or it's it's always been the same. So when I sit down to write something, my process is the same. I have a a little keyboard here in case we wanna but I usually just start with improvisation for everything at the piano, not not an electric piano at my my regular piano.
Patrick Leonard:But in this case, my my conditions were no keyboards that were made after 1979. So there's no eighties anything. There's no no polyphonic synthesizers, no drum machines, no sequencers, none of it. Everything is pianos, electric pianos, Hammond organ, Mellotron, mini Moog synthesizer because that was around, and some modular synthesis because that was around at the time. And so I kept it so that it's basically a seventies record in that sense of it.
Patrick Leonard:And there is almost no electronic anything. It's guitars and keyboards and so it's it's very much that. And then thematically, as I started writing, the lyrics started to present certain themes and certain groupings for sides. You know, because when you pick your favorite records, you you better believe those guys planned that side and the other side. And if there's a double o, all four sides were planned.
Patrick Leonard:So they did a thing. You know? So that construct influenced it a lot. It's not fixed. It's not quantized.
Patrick Leonard:It's just raw. And raw in a record making sense. Like, it's not playing in a bar. Right. You know what I mean?
Patrick Leonard:Like, it's not that. It's very polished, but it's still people playing music. So that's that part of it. The creative process part of it, I have a a small issue when it comes to these things. This record now I wrote over a year ago, and since then I've written 2 more records.
Patrick Leonard:And so I'm obsessing about the latest thing I'm working on because it's definitely gonna be the next record. Mhmm. And it's always been a problem for me because I write every day. If this record had come out the day I finished it, I could have been very, you know, very engaged in it. Now it feels like that old thing, and I don't mean that literally, but my process is the same.
Patrick Leonard:I write at a piano and I start with improvisation and I find chord progressions, or I wake up at 2 in the morning with a lyric idea and I dictate it into my phone quietly in the other room to not wake my wife. And the next morning, I come in and put it in the computer and get it in some sort of shape and print it out and sit at the piano and write from lyrics. And I would say, on this record, it's about half and half, maybe more lyrics than music. And that doesn't mean a complete lyric. It just means the initial thing came from a lyric.
Patrick Leonard:I think it was Leonard that really informed me of the power of starting with a lyric. Because my relationship with Leonard was he'd email with ding and it would just have a title and I'd open it up and print it out and it would be a lyric from Leonard. And I'd write something right on the spot and sing it and send it back to him usually within 15 minutes. And he'd go yes or no, try something more bluesy or more country, and that was how it went. So responding to a lyric is very different than the songs I wrote, say, with Madonna or other artists I work with, which was also always kind of the same thing as I go in the studio and I write music, and they show up and I show it to them.
Patrick Leonard:And then they can do what they want with it or not like it or like it or whatever it is. But that process of sitting down in isolation and writing a chord structure with some sort of melodic thing and beats the stuff, give it a drum beat, that's the other method. And in this record, it went both ways. There was quite a few songs where I had a melody and I had chords and I can make a demo version that sounds fairly convincing on my own fairly quickly and then look search for that theme of, like, what's this about, you know. So that's kind of the process.
Patrick Leonard:And then as the song start to reveal themselves, sequencing, and then you go, this theme doesn't feel right here, but the feel feels right. And that's when sometimes you just take the lyric and throw it out and write another piece of music. So it's that it's that fearlessness to make sure that the structure is really what I want. You know? It's really what I'm looking for.
Patrick Leonard:It's strange to say I. It's strange to say I. First thing
Mick Hunt:I'm gonna say I get it. You know?
Patrick Leonard:And been we for 50 years.
Mick Hunt:Right. So it's all about Patrick now. It's all about Patrick. And I I personally feel like this. Today, we throw around the terms genius and legend a little too loosely.
Patrick Leonard:Yes.
Mick Hunt:But I I need Patrick Leonard to know you are a genius and you are a legend.
Patrick Leonard:Oh, man.
Mick Hunt:Like like, that creative process is genius. I mean, that that's amazing, and it's not just me saying that. Right? So and I'm gonna read this quote because it came from sir Elton John, and I I I have to do it justice. Right?
Mick Hunt:So
Patrick Leonard:You're welcome.
Mick Hunt:Elton said this album by Patrick will make you sit up and take notice. Surprising melodies, incredible music played perfectly by all concerned for me. And this is sir Elton John for me is the manna from heaven listening to the unexpected twists and turns of brave album, and one that is a complete triumph. When you hear those words from Elton John, how does that make you feel?
Patrick Leonard:You don't want me crying on your podcast, Mike. You don't want, you know, you don't want that. No. No blubbering I'll turn into a blubbering baby. When Elton's first record came out and I don't even you know, how did you know about those things in those days?
Patrick Leonard:I mean, I was a kid, man. I was just a kid. So how do you know about it? I don't even know how I knew about it. But that first album changed my whole thing because the way he played and the quality of the recordings and the the players And then the next record, Tumbleweed, because here we in America, it was not there was another album before the one with your song on it that came out in it.
Patrick Leonard:But the first one I heard was your song. And then Tumbleweed, and then I saw him play over and over again. And then all those years later, to find myself making a record with him and from scratch and to see his methods. So you wanna talk about a genius, you know, forget it. I mean, the stories are like nothing else.
Patrick Leonard:He is an absolute one off in every sense of the word. So I know when Elton says that about the record that I know what he did. He put it on and he cranked it up so loud that it would kill any normal human in the room because he listens at deafening levels. He really does. And this record is kinda like that's what it's that's what it is.
Patrick Leonard:It's, you know, when you actually get there, it's much more seventies rock than it is eighties anything. And if you're eighties in it, it's just the writing feels familiar probably. You know? Yeah.
Mick Hunt:That's me. You're right. Because I definitely heard like I said, I heard some funk. I heard some some really tight structure beat. And for those that don't understand music, like, tight structured melodies are a thing of the past.
Mick Hunt:I don't think anyone does that anymore. Yeah. It it's on your album for sure.
Patrick Leonard:No. Thanks. I mean, I you know, the blue collar work ethic of being down here in my room usually before sunup while I was making the record. Oftentimes, 3, 4 in the morning because that's when I got a lyric idea. And being here till 6 at night and not 5 days a week, take weekends off every day.
Patrick Leonard:And, you know, you think we don't you get tired? It's like, no. This is the mother's milk. Because when you start to get the building blocks and you start to get the pieces, everything disappears and you're just gonna get there. It's funny.
Patrick Leonard:I was I was writing a little thing for a magazine the other day just looking at themes and I talked about the word genius. And in my little thing that I started to write, which I didn't use this part of it, but something that occurred to me is I said, in your mind, think of people that you think are geniuses that are alive right now. And if you can think of more than 3, you don't know what a genius is. And the things I've said over, you know, decades is I say, when Beethoven was alive, everyone else was trying just as hard as he was, but you can't think of anybody else. You know?
Patrick Leonard:And it's that sort of thing. And so what I've said for a long time is I said, a 100 years from now, it's gonna be Stevie Wonder and everybody else. That's really how I feel about it. You know?
Mick Hunt:I don't disagree.
Patrick Leonard:Stevie just defined it all to me and will always be that guy who's like, that's it, man. That's a genius. And I got to work with him and spend some time with him at his house, and that was wow. From Elton through Elton again, you know, because he played harmonica and clavinette on, Dark Diamond on Elton's songs from the West Coast record. And what a moment.
Patrick Leonard:What an evening. And to me, that's a genius. And if that's how I measure genius, then I'm just killed with a bunch of skills and a creative mind, you know, smoked a lot of weed in the seventies. You know what I mean? Like, I I know what it's supposed to feel like because I saw a lot of concerts very stoned, and I'm just trying to recreate that.
Patrick Leonard:Genius or, you know, old stoner maybe.
Mick Hunt:That's I'm giving you genius. With some skills. No. No. Very very few geniuses and legends, but, Patrick, you're one of them.
Patrick Leonard:I promise you. You're very generous. Thank you. I promise.
Mick Hunt:So what are your thoughts on music today? What are your thoughts on the current state of the music industry, and and do you see it evolving in the coming years?
Patrick Leonard:I have a tremendous cop out for you. I have no idea what's going on because I never listen and I never will listen. I just don't. I can't afford it. Even in the eighties when I was making the records I was making, I wouldn't listen to the radio.
Patrick Leonard:I didn't. I can't. And I've never been able to except when I was a kid. But even then, it wasn't the radio. It was consuming albums of bands that I idolized.
Patrick Leonard:And that list has not changed or grown since then. I think after Joni Mitchell made Mingus, that's probably about the cutoff for me for things that I go, this is part of my musical life. And Peter Gabriel So was a was a tremendous record, but it's not in the same category. Mhmm. And the stuff that I consumed until I had to stop consuming it, which is kind of strange, but it was Keith Jarrett because that's a genius.
Patrick Leonard:That's a Stevie Wonder genius right there. And all you have to do is have gone to Carnegie Hall and sat there and watch him improvise for 2 and a half hours.
Mick Hunt:Absolutely. And you
Patrick Leonard:go, okay. You you know? Really? You know?
Mick Hunt:Yep.
Patrick Leonard:That that's like out of an airplane with no chute and figuring out somewhere to get to the ground, you know? And so I don't know what's going on in pop culture, but I do know, just in my own humble opinion, that the technology and the social media has done a lot to connect people and a lot to bring people to common place, which I think has some redeeming value and has some beauty in it. But I never saw music as an even playing field. That's what I see even just peripherally. And I can't listen to it.
Patrick Leonard:The second I do, I gotta back off it because, and I'm not saying there aren't brilliant people. There's always brilliant people. And I'm sure there are some with shocking inventiveness and everything else. I just the medium having become so technology dependent. It's just a complete turn off to me and, you know, I'm sorry.
Patrick Leonard:I'm 68 years old. Like Mhmm. I'm not gonna dance to the songs even if I could, which I can't. Spend a lot of time doing the pianos. These legs just good with the sustain pedal.
Patrick Leonard:So I don't mean to cop out of the answer, but honestly, I don't listen. And my feeling about where things are at is I think there's a lot of people making music and there's probably some really brilliant ones, and I hope it lifts people up. But I don't know because I can't listen because it affects this.
Mick Hunt:No. You didn't cop out. You gave me the answer. Right? Like, you you totally gave me the answer.
Mick Hunt:And one of the things that I respect about you and your genius is kind of what you were saying and alluding to. And I hear comedians say this a lot too. Right? Like, I don't listen to other comedians because I never wanna be influenced by a joke or a story. And I think for you as a as a writer and as an artist, it's almost the same thing.
Mick Hunt:Like, you don't wanna be influenced by something, and you always keep the main thing the main thing. And I think that should be relatable to people in your everyday lives too. Right? Like, it's not that it's a bad thing to listen to others and heed advice from others. I'm definitely not saying that.
Mick Hunt:But I'm also saying just sometimes you need to be careful, and you gotta focus on the things that you do and do well and just keep perfecting those things and not be influenced by it.
Patrick Leonard:And if it's your core and it's what you do every day and it you want it to be yours. And anecdotally, and this is not a point of pride, this is a really strange thing. I don't know anybody's songs. I never learned anybody's songs. The tours that I were on, I had tape across the top of the keyboards because I didn't remember the songs because I didn't wanna remember the songs.
Patrick Leonard:I can't play my own songs. I can't play freaking happy birthday, Mike. I never learned songs. So when I was a kid and taking piano lessons, which started when I was 4, I'd fake it. And I could say my sister was a classical pianist, my dad was a jazz saxophone player, and I could play gigs with my dad with a fake book.
Patrick Leonard:And I could play in rock bands because I was young enough to know the rock songs and actually learn them and remember them, but I don't know them now. You know? I don't know anything. I can't play my own songs for you. I don't I can't.
Patrick Leonard:And sometimes I think it's super intentional, but it's not that intentional. It's that if I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna write and try to create whether I'm improvising or trying to write something. And if I'm gonna study, I get out the same books I got when I was 10 years old And I do the finger exercises and the scales and the arpeggios. And if I'm gonna learn harmony, I go to Ravel and I listen until there's something I don't understand what the notes are. And then I stand it up on its end and look at it as a harmony and go, okay, that's a really interesting harmonic relationship because a lot of what was happening back then is the the relationships took place over 3 or 4 octaves, you know.
Patrick Leonard:You know what I what I mean by that? But Yeah. Instead of instead of a chord being here, you know, a chord is you know, it's it's from there to here. But you gotta have the harmony in it because that doesn't sound good, but that does. So you need to know this stuff, and that's theory.
Patrick Leonard:That's not someone else's music. That's theory. So you're gonna go hunting. You bring what you need to get the critter you wanna get. It makes sense?
Patrick Leonard:Go in with someone else's idea, you're gonna get eaten by a bear, man. You know what I
Mick Hunt:mean? That's genius life advice right there. Yeah. Like, we could just end the podcast on that. Like, that was genius life advice.
Mick Hunt:Right?
Patrick Leonard:Thanks, man.
Mick Hunt:I mean Take the tools that you need to capture what you're trying to capture Yeah. Or else be willing to be hunted by someone else.
Patrick Leonard:That's like And you know what too? In that, if you're doing this as it's your life duty, it's your life adventure, you're gonna go until you can't do it anymore, period. And you're gonna do it unrelentingly with one goal in mind, be better. Be better than I was this morning. What else am I doing if I'm repeating?
Patrick Leonard:So finding ways to challenge or looking at things that are very difficult to do, like, there's things on my record that I wrote and then realized they were really difficult to play because I'm putting a song down, so I'm just winging something. And then I have to play it on the organ and the piano and it's like, woah. You know? Because when it comes out, like, I could easily right now improvise something that I could never play tomorrow. If you wrote it down for me, it'd be like, woah.
Patrick Leonard:This is so strange and squirrely and odd. And that to me is kinda what it's all about. If there isn't something that you've never done before on mood, there's things that are in time signatures that I defy anyone to try to count because they're changing every bar. And it's not because I wanted it to be academic, it's because I how I wanted it to feel. And you're tapping your foot to it, but trust me, man, it's all over the board in terms of where those downbeats are falling.
Patrick Leonard:And what that does is it makes you listen. And I'm not trying to make you listen either. I'm just pleasing myself, you know, which is I think another component in this is you care what others think because you want it to affect them, but you're doing it for you. Mhmm. You know, the challenges I do are not for anybody else.
Patrick Leonard:The challenges I do are for me. Sometimes they're a bitch, man. Sometimes they're a bitch. You know? I love it.
Patrick Leonard:Is. And that's a
Mick Hunt:clear thinking you were talking music, and you're out here giving life lessons. I think an album needs to be life lessons by Patrick Leonard.
Patrick Leonard:Well, no. It you know, you do anything long enough, you you get in all the nooks and crannies, you know. There's a there's a thing behind us here. Do you know what modular synthesis is? No.
Patrick Leonard:I'll turn this around and show it to you. Here, first, I'll show it to you and then I and then I'll give you a little bit of here. Can you see that?
Mick Hunt:Wow. Yes.
Patrick Leonard:That's my modular synth. And what it is is it's individual modules that are from different companies, many of them. And you put them in a rack and you screw them in and you connect them from the front. There are no connections in the back at all. And you make sounds and do music with them.
Patrick Leonard:And when you're done, you pull the patch cords out and it's gone. There is no memory. There is no nothing. Okay? Everything is the first time and everything is the last time.
Patrick Leonard:So it's the greatest thing for me because that's how I like to think of it at all of it. Like, I'm doing this now, and then that's it. And then I gotta do something else. And hopefully, I learned from what I did so that the next thing I do is better. A lot of people don't like that idea that you're trying to be better.
Patrick Leonard:You know? But I do. If you're not kicking your own ass a little bit, who's gonna do it for you? You know?
Mick Hunt:There it is.
Patrick Leonard:Especially especially if you're if you're a little bit the big fish in some ways Mhmm. Because then people don't say anything. Yeah. You know? You know?
Patrick Leonard:That's why I love my wife. She's not shy. Like, you
Mick Hunt:know Love it. Absolutely love it. Patrick, I'm gonna get you out of here on this. It all comes down to mood. What do you want people to know most about that album in this project?
Patrick Leonard:What I would like from people in this record is I'd like them to listen to it. Just listen to it, and listen to it as a body of work if you can. By the nature of it being 2 discs, whoever buys the vinyl, it's easy. You get 20 minutes, you turn it over, you get 20 minutes, you go have a sandwich, you get 20. You know, it's a little bit of the vinyl ritual.
Patrick Leonard:But if you're listening to it any other way, if you can look at the way it's laid out and consume it that way, it'll mean more because that's the intention of it. You don't wanna watch a movie a scene at a time you, you know, you wanna watch it as chapters a little bit. And it it's not intended to be anything other than what it is. And something that I've always noticed or noticed started noticing and found it to be really true is all of my great favorite bands that I loved and artists that I loved, in their careers, no matter how long their careers were, there tends to be 3 albums as a group somewhere in the middle. Usually, a little bit towards the end, sometimes towards the beginning that are it.
Patrick Leonard:And there's the ones that were getting them there and there are ones that they maybe shouldn't have made, you know. And then there's those 3. And for almost everyone, you can sort of go, it's these 3, it's the and if you think about it, it's an interesting little thing. And when I finished this, I was talking to somebody and they said, what do you want from this? And I said, I want it to be the first of my 3.
Patrick Leonard:That's what I want. That's what I'm looking for is is I just wanna keep being able to do this now because I like doing it and I like collaborating.
Mick Hunt:Mhmm.
Patrick Leonard:But I'm not gonna do it anymore. I'm gonna force myself to find it all. You know? So That's right.
Mick Hunt:Get uncomfortable. Right?
Patrick Leonard:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're not terrified, what are you gonna get out of it? You know?
Mick Hunt:Right. I love it. Ladies and gentlemen, dropping June 14th is the first digital single, and then the album, both digital and vinyl, which I'm gonna have the vinyl Yeah. July 26th. Right.
Mick Hunt:Can't wait.
Patrick Leonard:Thank you. My way. Been a pleasure.
Mick Hunt:Patrick, you are amazing. And to all the listeners and viewers, remember, your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.
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