1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Lincoln Nebraska do you dance!?? If so, to what songs?? - July 10th, 2026 - 12:00pm

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Hour number two, one-on-one. Appreciate y'all hanging out with us. Upper 70s, Fouty. Maybe some rain, but we'll get through. This one is Adam and the last train. Adam and the last train.

Adam and. I got to smooth out that. that riff in the middle there. I'm trying to splice together their riffs. The more you listen to it, the more you listen to it, the more you listen to the three albums, and you just kind of go, uh, it's really, it is a hidden gem. I'm not just saying that either. It's not good stuff. Good guys. I'm not for I need to call Todd, right?

Shout out with him. He's very exceptional young man. And now he's grown up. He's literally, so the singer and the guitar player, the lead guitar player, they're on tour with better than Ezra right now. And those are the guys that. on album two of their, yeah, their second album, the album cover is a van. It's a band. It's an animated picture of the eccentric travel band.

Yeah, it's a lot to look at. Where they would, they would pile in the back of the van, all the equipment, and they would drive from Virginia to Pennsylvania, Virginia to North Carolina, Virginia to Atlanta to play gigs. And then that van would sit outside my bar as the unloaded gear. I wonder where Josh is. Josh was their roadie. So imagine, again, this is just a local band in Northern Virginia.

But Josh, and now they're worldwide. But Josh was their roadie. And he was the typical long-haired, shaggy. Definition Roady. Definition Roady. He is on tour currently. I want to say that he, let me, let me find out where Josh is. So those are my friends, Josh, Angie Warner, who is on tour with, she's now on tour,

Y2K. Oh, okay. Yeah, Y2K. Y2K. Yeah. That's who she's on tour with. She was the tour manager of the year. The Music Federation's tour manager of the year.

Yeah. Yeah. That's not bad. And then Josh, Josh is on tour. Man, who is Josh on tour with now? Man, I just saw him. And they were, they were, but yeah, Todd's on with better than Ezra. And, man, I need to find out where Josh is.

I want to say he did a blues guitar. That's who he's on tour. Kind of famous. Texan would be able to help you out with that. Yeah, yeah. If he called my dad on the, what's the helpline, he might be able to give a few. Yeah, just very popular blues,

blues and rock guitarist. Man, now I got to find Josh. Now I got to do that. But yeah, it was a really cool time. There was another band that we had. if you like Folksey Americana

Yeah I can get into that Think 10,000 maniacs before Natalie left Okay The band is Eddie from Ohio And Are they big?

That sounds familiar Yeah, they've done They've done a thing thing But they were based out of the Virginia But they named it after some guy from Ohio And they do one of the great vocalists, one of the great vocals ever, Eddie from Ohio, again, those are their 10 albums in.

So it's what I miss here is that we don't have anything. Starkey and Bena says, being from Virginia, did you ever host Dave Matthews band? Oh, that's a good question. So folks that do not know that Dave Matthews being born in South Africa, but his nurturing was in Virginia. Charlottesville, as a matter of fact, and so there was this local pub in Charlottesville

that the Dave Matthews band got its birth and played the bulk of its first gigs was at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, at these pubs around Virginia. And he would have these nightly jam sessions. And then other musicians would find out. And this is he was recruiting. He was getting, this is where you get a violin player, which North and South Carolina and Virginia,

those tend to be places where violin players make, make it into popular music. That's awesome. Right? So if you think, again, Charlie Daniels played my nephew's band, Weekend, Excursion, where they've got a cover. of the devil went down to Georgia. Quick side note, one of the coolest instruments, I think you could probably play. Yeah, it's

exceptional. So, like, hard to master, but when you meet someone who has? Dave figured it out, and Dave had, Dave was one of the, I mean, we elevated Dave, there was a stretch of time where Dave Matthews was the coolest white dude on the player. Because he was, I mean, if you watch Dave live,

Dave Matthews can move. Like he's a jammer, and he would be on the dance floor. Dave Matthews would be on the dance floor. That would be a big part of it. He would stop singing and he'd just get on the dance floor. Yeah, LaRoy was amazing. Rest and peace.

Yeah, it was, it's the thing. And I know that Lincoln has live music. I wish I was more connected to it, But I don't have, like, I think forward that this space here at the mill at night would be good for some local band, like acoustic stuff I want to start with. Oh, that'd be good. Yeah. Right. That would be awesome. Because we, you get the 100 seats. I wonder, too, if they're doing that O Street renovation, what all that looks like when that's all sudden finished. Well, I just think, I think here, like here, we've got beer on tap. We've got one on tap. Of course, we have coffee and mixed drinks. But I think if there were local artists, folks at the university,

who want to practice and want to be in public and you want to sing and you want to songwrite and do that sort of thing, that would be kind of the place. Yeah, I love that. Virginia, Virginia, so one of the big bands that shows up at the bourbon is G-W-A-R, G-W-A-R, G-W-A-R. G-R. That was my college band. Gore was in Richmond, and I mean to tell you, they got it in. And it's a whole presentation.

War is its own universe. But that was another Virginia band that kind of. Ferall, Virginia Beach. Missy Elliott, Virginia Beach. Yeah, there's a lot of that style in that, you know, in the space. No, there's no piano, but I'm sure we can bring a keyboard in a lot of people. I don't know if there's a, I don't know if to do. You can get in the front.

door. Well, no, there's a beam in the front door. So I don't know if you could do that here. You wouldn't need one. You could just get, like, that's the beautiful thing about today is you don't need a grand piano with the chords all the way. You can get the electric ones. Yeah. Most modern artists usually have those set up now. Yeah, I think the fiddle was better.

Yeah, I love that. I mean, Charlie Daniels, Southern music had a thing. I mean, it was really a thing where the fiddle was a part of, they took it from classical music to rock and roll. and Charlie Daniels again, that whole, you know, the double went down to Georgia. And I played for Harrison the other day, my nephew's band doing a cover of The Devil Went Down Door,

which they would play my bar as well. And everybody knew they were going to dance all night, first of all. You were going to dance and sing all night. But then to close the show was Devil went down to Georgia. And it was a party. And it was hats in the air, man. Hats in the air, shots for everybody.

That was, you know, It's the thing, right? So I think, you know, forward. I think it would be a good use of the space. Oh, yeah. Again, set up. You could set them out the front door or the back door, right? It's nice how we got the patio out there.

Right. You had the patio out there. So folks, you could still hear it from the patio. And I think there would be a pretty good space. Oh, we have that speaker too. We could always just hook up that speaker. Which is the other thing, right? We did some preemptive work.

Plus, we could stream it, which, like, if you're, if your niece, niece or nephew, if they can get acoustic guitar and they've got a following of 50 people who want to just come. Somebody asked if we would want to do

karaoke and I'm not sure we do. I don't know if that's up our alley. I'm not sure that's, listen, I've run bars and I, I've always ended up doing karaoke and I've never once enjoyed it. Can I say,

I'm sorry, people. I've never, I've been, to tell you that I've put up probably, 300 nights of carrier, maybe 500, maybe that many. That's to be fair. Maybe that many, like twice a week, once a week in most places, sometimes more than that, depending on like the off nights, like a Tuesday, Wednesday, you know, not basketball season

because you have games on Tuesday and Wednesday, but they're football season. Sometimes you would do karaoke. I would do live bands, like I would much rather do live bands because live bands would, I mean, they have a following. They would bring, you know, on a bad night, 75 people on a good night, 400. Right. So it was great for Tuesday, Wednesday, off night. But karaoke, and there are people who love it. The people who love it. Do you ever do karaoke? Sir, listen to me. I have a great speaking voice. I am not the singer. Really? Everybody in my family sings. Is it a lack of effort? It's lack of effort.

Most everybody, everybody in my family, if I tell you my genetic family, they are all singers. And when I tell you they sing, They sing. These are folks. S-A-N-G. They sang. And I don't have that. There was a birthday party for my brother, for my sister-in-law.

Last year, Becky and I went, we went back to Virginia, and they began to harmonize. They sat at a table, and then they got a microphone, and they harmonized. And one, you get lost, because they're all gospel singers, right?

They're all gospel singers. But all of them, my nephew, Brandon, has a, band. He is an Earth, Wind and Fire tribute band. And they, I mean, and they, but they play like Constitution Hall, which is where Eddie Murphy did raw. I'm hilarious. Like they, they play in front of two, three thousand people every weekend. I just don't, I don't have it.

That's a lot to live up to as well. I don't have, like, like you listen to them and you're like, oh, that's what angels sound like. Yeah, DP, sing along. No. I'm like a dog. No. No. Howling dog.

Not everyone has it. It's tough. Texas is DP. Just start a bar that you can dance at and have live local music and call it the ticket. To tell you that when Big, when Big Ten was available before what it was, whatever it was before, Becky and I had the meeting. We were in there. We had the meeting. I remember you talking to me about. We had the meeting. We had the meeting. Because I thought pre-tickie.

that if I was going to do anything here, again, I came to retire. But if I was going to do anything, I'd be drawn into like a sports bar or like an entertainment place that I could bring cool bands, right, to come in. Because again, if you have a band, they can fill, they can draw 500 people. It works. I don't know that there's a dance club in Lincoln. I said that the other day. I don't know where grownups go to dance.

I don't know that dancing is a thing in the Lincoln. I don't know for grownups for the, yeah, I don't know. I heard it's my soul to say. I don't know. I don't know. have the ballroom. Textline can help me out with that ballroom. But is it dancing?

Like, am I, I, I'm never gone. Can I go in here? Like, I want a place where I can go in here. Brick House, 99. Prince, 1999. Cool in the gang. Dave Matthews. It could be, you can play anything.

Journey. Give me a little bit of everything, right? Let me sing along to Billy Joel piano man. Let me, let me hear some 50 cent in the club. I want party music. and a place where a grown-up can go and not feel out of place. And I'm pretty sure, like, the music that plays at Barry's and, et cetera, that would, listen, I, I can party with anybody. Yeah, it's a good time.

I can party with anybody. That's a college crowd. Well, but here's the thing. But I'm old now. So now I'm the old dude at the club, but here's the thing. If you are playing dance music around 25-year-olds or 30-year-olds, first of all, I'm out dancing to 25-30-year-olds. I'm out dancing them. Listen, man, I don't know what happened to dancing.

I don't know what happened. I don't know what. I don't know what happened. But we used to dance. Belbib, Beau, new edition. I don't know. That was the thing. I don't know if Lincoln, Nebraska ever did that.

I'm not, I'm not a dance. No, Nellie, like, what do you, what do you do? So when I go, when I go back east and I go to my friends, my friends have places where they, because we grew up dancing. So they go to. places where you could dance. And I dance. And I'm like, oh, my goodness, I forgot. Thank you, Bill and Bennett. Playmore Ballroom. That's apparently the spot for dancers. That's what I was trying to remember. Can they, can they can you really? Can you check on what that is?

Yeah. Texas says, oh, one five nine says are the only spot I could think of like that. The other day was play more. He said, but that's more country. And I don't think anything like the stuff that you like. Now, again, I'm a country, but I'm a Virginia boy. And as I said, I grew up on Charlie Daniels and, you know, Charlie Pride and, and. They've been around since 1929, though. So that has been historically the spot. So play more ballroom, but it is country. So I'm saying, did you ever go to Rumbles at Playmore?

I don't, I don't, I don't, I never, I don't go out here in Lincoln. I don't, it's a weird thing that's happened and I've transitioned. I've transitioned. I don't know. Okay. Is that the doctors and everyone telling you to take a rest when you see rest? No, because the station takes 16 hours a day. Yes.

For me to do all the things, again, for what we do 18 hours a day, seven days a week, we should have a staff three times the size of what we have. But we do a lot with a little. And sometimes it requires, you know, all the FCC stuff. I got to pull to the side of the human reasons. resource stuff, the programming stuff, the contracts, the deals, talking, dealing with Westwood 1,

ESPN, etc., dealing with the UFC, all those things, right? And so I don't go out. And also, okay, so here's the thing, I have associates here, I don't have friends. Like my guys, like I don't have, like, when I go back east, I'm Barry

Thompson-Hawks, like I got people. I got people. When I go to Salt Lake, I got people. I have friends in Salt Lake. I have associates in Lincoln. I don't have people, because most of the people my age are married, first of all. So are you really going to the clubs?

Probably not. If I was going to go to the clubs, then I would probably, air quotes, act friendly. Because I'm out there dancing. Right. And as Becky said the other day, we would go to clubs. And she would let me go and dance with whoever

and then whatever chaos happened, happened, right? You're just fighting off people. She just knew as long as, As long as, you know, at the end of the night, like you come back in between songs, and at the end of the night, we go home together. Did you roll up the sleeves one time? What?

To do what? To fight? No, not to fight. Like to go out there and dance? Because then she started dancing. Oh, she danced. I mean, Beck and I danced, we would, to say that when we, especially in our 20s, we would dance three nights a week.

Okay. Yeah, I was going to say, I thought she was out there. And I mean, dance to the point where we would have to bring like a second shirt because we would sweat through the first one. like that kind of high volume dancing. And then I would do dance contests. I would just drive up and down the mid-Atlantic. And I would compete in sometimes two dance-dance

dance contests on night. You were competing. I would dance, I don't know. That was, I thought you're just out there for a good time, not winning. But always,

like my friends, we would have, we were a good time. Like we always, we would go to the bar where we would pick our spots. And we knew the DJ, so he would play what we wanted. And we would dance.

We'd go play softball until now. nine o'clock and then we go to the bar and we would dance until midnight and we did that we probably did that five nights and you wonder why you're metal 100 percent 100 percent so i don't know what like i don't hear anybody say hey i'm going to the club to dance there's line dance and country dancing yeah i don't i don't i wouldn't country line dance because i don't like i don't like black line dancer like i don't like do a cha-cha slide and uh okay okay yeah i don't I don't, I want to dance. Like, I want to shake my booty.

That's, like, man, let's do, but we had music where back in the day of MTV and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the songs came with dance. Like, it, like, it literally told you how to dance to it. Yeah. And so that was a big part of it. I don't know that they do that anymore. And I don't know the good local live bands, even if they're just cover bands, who play enough dance, dance music for me to want to go. I don't know who the good live local bands are of any genre.

Oh, what's the coming running boys? I'm blanking on him. Oh, the coming running boy? Yeah, but I don't know that. That's one local one I know of. Yeah, that's the only one I've ever heard of. There's one guy named Young Gravy who, no, he was not, Elmah. I don't know where he's from.

5703 says Lincoln used to have two really good bands. One of them was called one more time. The other one was rumbles and they would pack places. But I think they'd gone by the wayside and retire, which is what happens that if you grew up, you know, playing 90s and music and, et cetera, you're done or you're done. Del Rey and the Haymarket is also a place.

We had dances in college. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that the college students dance. Yeah, there's places, plenty. I just don't want to be the old dude at a college. Barter. Yeah. Because I'm not really good at sitting and watching people dance. As a matter of fact, I'm the worst because I want to dance.

I want, listen, I would, oh my goodness, we get, if you put me and, and Barry Thompson together, we, even as coaches, we dance. Me and my buddy Lossi that came in from Salt Lake, when we go out, oh, we are, the phrase is this. acting a fool. That is from the neighborhood when somebody say, I'm about to act a fool. Yeah.

I don't think of that was like the best part after winning big games. I'm sure like a lot of high schools do this. Like you play the music. The coaches even start moving a little bit. Oh, hey man. It's 2280. What's up, D.P.

Do you remember the grind on MTV? Yep. So again, in a different era, I would have been on American Bancing and Soul Train. I like the suggestion from Songbird. You start crashing. Yeah, just do the wedding crashers, DP.

I would do that, but again, you're talking about here in Lincoln, Nebraska, and what weddings would I be crashing? They may not, hey, who invited the black guy? There may be some of that. Yeah, blending in is going to be a little bit tougher. A little bit. A little bit. I got your auntie over there on a dance.

I'm his uncle. Sir. Right. Right. I think I want to know. I got you auntie out there dancing the cameo. that's going to be a problem. You know, there are things you don't, Harrison.

There are songs your dad knows the words too. You're not, I'm not sure you want to know. Like your dad, your dad is dances and things. He just. But never getting fights. I remember he's got some stories. Yeah, you got some things, man. Yeah, I went down a few times. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

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