Patcast by Pat Monahan

John Fox is one of the nicest and most charismatic people in the entire NFL organization. As head coach of the Denver Broncos, he's built a team in the mile high city that's a serious contender and under his leadership, his team is poised for another great year. He happens to be a Train fan as well, and he came out to see us play at Red Rocks, and sat down for a conversation about football, life, and what it's like to have one of the craziest, most stressful jobs in sports.

Our guest this week survived the era of 80s hair metal, and today he tells his story. As the drummer and a founding member of the band Danger Danger, he toured with all the biggest acts of the 80s and early 90s, and saw the meteoric rise of the metal scene. On today's Patcast, we sit down with for some stories, live music, and a great interview with Steve West.

Lyle Workman is one hell of a talented guitar player. After playing on the Pat Monahan solo record years ago, we lost touch with him for a while, but in the meantime Lyle's been very busy becoming one of the most in-demand session musicians and touring guitarists in the music industry, and the go-to soundtrack guy for almost every single Judd Apatow movie! You might be aware of him, but you've already heard him. Get to know Lyle Workman this week on the Patcast...

Striking Matches are a brand new country duo out of Nashville, Tennessee. Before opening for Train in Tahoe, Justin and Sarah took the time to sit down with Pat, Jerry and Pergo and tell their story and play some music. They've just wrapped up recording their first record, and you can hear a lot of their songs on the tv show Nashville. And this week, you can find out more about them on the Patcast!

The Gin Blossoms got started in the late 80s, and by the mid 90s, they had written some huge hits. They toured the world and released a lot of great music, and after a brief hiatus got back to touring together in 2001. They've survived some really difficult times as a band, and this week they tell us their story--right here on the Patcast.

More on Gin Blossoms:

http://www.ginblossoms.net/

He's toured with Train before, he's coming on the Sail Across the Sun Cruise next year, and his new album Magazines or Novels comes out tomorrow. But today he sits down for a conversation and live performance with us. It's singer-songwriter Andy Grammer on this week's Patcast!

Download Andy Grammar's new album:

http://smarturl.it/magsornovels

This week, we have a conversation with one of the best music writers in the world--David Wild. In addition to being a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Huffpo an authoring numerous books on musicians, he is one of the main writers on many of the biggest award shows, and he's a regular on Adam Corrolla's podcast. His son Alec drops by as well, and clues us in on what the kids are listening to these days.

Mark McGrath became an enourmous pop star as the lead singer and frontman of Sugar Ray. He went on to host a number of tv shows, and now he's back on the road with Sugar Ray and curating the Under the Sun Tour, which brings lots of 90s bands back together for the first time in a long time. He's also starring in a movie that's about to come out. And this week on the Patcast, he talks about his path to pop stardom and how he feels about the music and entertainment industry from the 90s to right now.

More on Mark:

http://www.markmcgrath.com/

This week it's a very special Patcast with a very special guest. This band started in San Francisco in the 90s, and has been touring the world ever since. They are also 6 of our favorite people. This podcast started a year ago. So for the one year anniversary of this podcast, our guest is Train.

Travie McCoy started as the lead singer of the band Gym Class Heroes. He had several huge hits with them, and several huge hits on his own as a solo artist. With Gym Class still active and his solo career moving ahead at the same time, his music career has kept him very busy. This week, we talk about how he got into art and music, what he's into now, and how he juggles having one foot in the hip hop world and one foot in the pop world at the same time.

More on Travie McCoy

http://traviemccoy.com