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Episode Date: July 10, 2026

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 The Ticket. And with the music that we're talking about, right, that particular song, there weren't a lot of black people in the room when these bands are playing. I mean, think Charlottesville back in the 80s, 90s, uh, Dave Matthews wasn't playing to a bar full of black people. but there were there were matter of fact you know who was a huge Dave Matthews fan Ralph Samson really Ralph Samson is a huge because in that circle that was kind of the

thing Sean Moore was was you would right Samson being Dave Matthews fan just seems awesome well well again it was Charlottesville and Charlottesville was very preppy very elitist wherever is he from now he was was from Harrison. Okay. So James Madison. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he chose Charlottesville. He chose UVA. Made all sense of the world. Harrison, Harrison,

James Madison, see, Virginia is so different. It's so different. I said you're mean. I said you're real. Yesterday. I don't know if you got. Oh, I haven't seen that. But it said, but it was a guy who wasn't from Virginia riding through Virginia going, what has happened in Virginia? There's a beach. And then there's a beach. a mountain and then there's a lake and then there's a river and then there's a ocean and then there's a because every every 15 minutes I'm in a different universe and that's Virginia

coming from northern Virginia northern Virginia was diverse so you can get a little bit of everything because DC's right on the border Mount Vernon right so Mount Vernon has its space in Alexandria you have all of the the military folks from the Pentagon and the military basis that's around it. You go to Richmond, of course, the Confederacy, then you get all the, you know. So like Nebraska, it has its different pockets of personality. And that's kind of what it was. Now, I would imagine that if I went to school at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, I would have had the same taste in music that I had. I listen to everything. I listen. Literally, whatever your genre of music, I've probably seen your favorite artist more than you,

have. Kid Cuddy? Mac Miller? Mac Miller, yes. Okay. MacMiller is probably my favorite. I've seen it's because I've always had to fit in from outside of where I was, even where I was, being blessed from an all-black neighborhood to a predominantly white preppy school with where, I don't know, the director of the FBI and the CIA and the Pentagon, you're going to school with their kids, you've got to kind of widen your scope. Right. I thought Mac Miller, though, that was everyone, though. Or was that more Caucasian? Yeah. It's totally. I mean, it, it depended on, like, I would listen to, again, growing up in an era where there was, everything was everything. So

Casey Kasem, Top 40, whatever he played, American Bandstand, Soul Train, He-Ha. Well, I guess you didn't see them either. You're only until you saw them, saw them, but until, But DC, no, but DC, I started going to concerts when I was like 12, 11 or 12. Okay. And so, but concerts, the early concerts for me were in my neighborhood. My neighbor was a cultural hub. So whether you were Black Panther or otherwise, at some point, gospel, Roberta Flack sang at my church once a month. And then because of that, then any of you were black, if you were a black artist, a known

artist James Brown, you sang, Gladys Knight, you sang at my neighborhood church. And you played at my rec center that was on my street. I told the story that one of my favorite concerts was seeing Dr. John. Right place? You don't know Dr. John? Oh, my God. Dr. John played on my street. He played the rec center.

And there were probably 3,000 people. but he played on my street Casey and the Sunshine Band played on my street Wild Cherry played on my street yeah it was it was pretty cool Dr. John looks like Dr. John Dr. John was a dude man he looks like the name but he played he played on my street

the street I grew up on yeah New Orleans blues jazz Yeah no he it was the thing And then my dad was my step dad was a DC cop So there was a place Any place that held concerts That he was working like if he was doing a side gig, there's a place called Carter Barron Amphithe,

where every 60s soul act would play. So bands like the Delphonics, the Shylights, temptations, four tops, Sam Cook, they would all play at the Carter Barron. And so we would go. My sisters, my older sisters and brothers would pack us in the car and we'd go. those are the concerts. So I got introduced to live music early.

And then again, if it's Aunt Roberta, right, if Roberta Flack singing at your church every month, and then you see her on ABC, oh, there's Aunt Roberta. Right? And then Aunt Roberta would come to town and she would literally, that the temptations ate at my house.

They ate dinner with my house. my mom and then invited her to the concert and invited her to sing along with it. That was kind of the cultural hub that it was. So yeah. Eric, DPS and here in Lincoln think something different, completely different when Dr. Johns is brought up. Understood, sir. Understood.

Dr. John, I mean, it was just, yeah, Bradford Baldwin. Yeah, all those shows and music, better times. Yeah, I mean, but I also saw Abba. I saw Freddie Fender. I saw the Oak Ridge Boys. I saw Dolly Parton. Best concert at all time. The best concert at all time.

Queen. Yeah. Queen. Queen. I saw Queen in D.C. in 19, I want to say 79 or 80. Maybe 81. That towards their peak? No. Early. But I saw them with Billy Squire. for them stroke um uh prince michael jackson like the jacks i saw the the jacks okay yeah yeah um that still is mind blowing um i've probably seen hooty and edwin mccain more than anybody

probably um for a variety of reasons i mean you just like the music man well when So when I was in Carolina doing the Panthers show, I mean, I had a charity and an infall charity, and we would have this event every year. It's called the Run for Daylight program. And Hooty and Edwin McCain performed a fundraiser for us. And they stayed at our house. And they imagined them playing acoustic in my living room.

Good time. Right, yeah. Well, but I mean, again, it's the weirdness, right? that you just meet people who you meet people. I can't really say that there's anything, you just meet who you meet along the way. And it just opened me up to different music. Cheryl Crowe.

I do Cheryl Crowe. I knew Jewel when she was homeless. Jewel was homeless living in a van. I didn't know that. She was living in a van. Pretty amazing. Courtney Love. I knew Courtney when she was sane.

sane and sober there you go Satan and sober Courtney Love yeah it was crazy Michael Stipe Michael Stipe invited me to go camping with it

So would you get Starstruck the day Like who would it take? Starstruck today No Adele Adele A good one Maybe Adele

Maybe Adele Um I'm trying to think of a black artist that would make me. Oh, I partied with with, with, with Christy and John McVeigh. Yeah, I

I love Fleetwood Mac. Love, I saw Fleetwood Mac for $12, bro. Back in the day, like in the Dreams tour, the Dreams album? Oh my God, yeah. Most of my high school, the girls I dated in high school in college were Fleetwood Mac fanatics.

Still are to this day. Still are to this day. still are to this day. So Boston, Aerosmith, uh, player, Ambrosia.

I've seen some really good bands is really bad. Some really like it's, but that's, are you comfortable? What was the worst one? No, we don't have to. The worst.

The worst. Uh, no. At that, at that level, you've had people, you have people who have had bad nights. Right.

But I've seen Robert Plant, not Zeppelin. I saw the who. several times. Rolling Stones, I saw them on their big tours. That'd be a really good one. The Who and Rolling Stones are top 10. Yeah. Billy Joel, I've never been in the room where Billy Joel wasn't exceptional.

Elton John is a great, saw Elton John in concert at the, on the mall in D.C. Love, love Elton John in concert. David Bowie. Say it again. Tim and Lincoln's surprised. The Queen was better in concert than Prince. Yeah, because here's the thing. different.

Yeah, they are. Different. In that Freddie Mercury was connected to every single person in the room. It was hard for Prince to be connected to every person. Prince owned every person in the room. Freddie Mercury was connected to every person in the room. Michael Jackson, every person in the room worshipped Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson made people faint.

Yeah. Like Michael Jack, you go to Michael Jackson concert. Michael would just walking on stage and standing. there, girls would pass out, bro. It would pass out. Prince, they would beat you up to get close to the stage. It was a different, it was a different vibe. I joked it.

I watched Queen and Freddie Mercury dance for, I want to say 30 minutes, and I'm not sure his feet ever left the floor. Like he covered every inch of the stage. And I don't think his feet ever left the floor. It was amazing. He was a performer. It was amazing to watch. Madonna.

Janet is, Janet Jackson is, is, is still in that upper air salon. Patty the Bell is just, Patty the Bell makes me cry better than any person on playing. Patty Bill's supposed to start singing. She sings, she vibrates. She vibrates. Texas says Elvis is the best ever.

I'm not sure because my parents, and that good falls, James Brown was so much better on a different level than Elvis. Elvis to me is just like Bill Russell. Like I get, I get that, that he was who he was. I mean, my mom loved Elvis. Yeah, you like broke through barriers.

James Brown, Sam Cook. My mother would tell you, my mother was, my mother was working when the Beatles played at DC Army. The very first American appearance was DC and the DC Army. My mom worked that event. That's awesome. Right? She couldn't, she couldn't attend it. That sucks.

She could work. Oh, but you got to see it still. She got to see it. Which got to be in the room, right? So the Beatles fall. that in that space. James Brown falls in that space of elite in that space. Prince Fleetwood Mac was exceptional.

Who would you describe elite as today? Elite. Well, Swift had her run. She still is technically. Not in a show, not in a concert. Not a Swifty, Swiftie fans. Not in a concert. Beyonce, I'm not a member of that of the Beehive.

But we could do that. Bill and Bennett says, yeah, that who invited the black guy comment maybe He's smoked out of beer. Yeah. Yeah. A great docu-series. It says,

you spoke early about having faith in your ear. Have you ever been to a worship concert? Yes. Whenever I am in Houston, I go to the warehouse with Fred Humann. Houses his faith, his worship shows. Kurt Franklin,

again, I name some that just do it. I was raised on Roberta Flack in the church, LaBelle in the church, the Staples, Mama Pop Staples, Mavis Staples. I was raised in the church. So that is always going to be James Cleveland. There's always going to be things there are in my life. You got to go to break. Well, gone long, it's what happens when we start talking.

But again, this is what we do. Two hours a day, we sit here and we talk to each other. We'll close out when we come back.