{"id":294583,"date":"2018-12-13T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294583"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:52:34","slug":"my-first-memory-of-mannheim-steamroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/13\/my-first-memory-of-mannheim-steamroller\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Memory of Mannheim Steamroller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller and The Carol of the Bells.\u00a0\u00a0You know where I first discovered Mannheim Steamroller music?\u00a0\u00a0Two things.\u00a0\u00a0I was in Sacramento.\u00a0\u00a0It was 1985 or \u201986, and it was Christmastime. I\u2019m watching an NFL playoff game.\u00a0\u00a0It might have been the last week or two of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120718-Rush-Talks-Music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120718-Rush-Talks-Music.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/APP-120718-Rush-Talks-Music-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it was during the Christmas season, and they were using Steamroller tunes as bumpers going into Christmas breaks, but only five or six seconds of it.\u00a0\u00a0I said, &#8220;Man, that is cool. What is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-294597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Rushs-Father-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Rushs-Father-002.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Rushs-Father-002-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>So I started investigating it and found out it was Mannheim Steamroller.\u00a0\u00a0I remember being on an airplane shortly after my father had passed away, at 35,000 feet on the way to Los Angeles. It was pitch black, and I was listening to Steamroller in the headphones.\u00a0\u00a0This is back when I could hear, and&#8230; I don\u2019t know.\u00a0\u00a0Listening to it created a connection between me and my dad.\u00a0\u00a0So whenever I hear this Steamroller stuff, ah, man, it just has instant sentimentality to it &#8212; and my father never heard it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, he didn\u2019t even know it.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t know that he would have even liked it.\u00a0\u00a0He was a big classical music aficionado.\u00a0\u00a0So he might have thought it a bastardization.\u00a0\u00a0He was that way. A purist.\u00a0\u00a0Like, I played for him Waldo de los Rios, Mozart Symphony No. 40, kind of disco-ized, and (laughing) it just ticked him off. (laughing) It made him so mad!\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;How can they do this to a great piece of art like that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know where I first discovered Mannheim Steamroller music?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":294089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My First Memory of Mannheim Steamroller - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/13\/my-first-memory-of-mannheim-steamroller\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"My First Memory of Mannheim Steamroller - 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