1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Music and Entertainment from High School: August 5th, 11:25am

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Welcome back. Back, did we get the reads right? I don't make sure. Yeah, yeah. We got our hour one reading. We got two in the next hour.

Okay, but Tifty Cheneers showed up in the room. What did they leave with today? Absolutely. Tifty Cheneas brought us some delicious tacos for today. They provide us lunch. here every Tuesday. And man, I was hoping would be able to talk to him

because they stopped by. They said recently they were going to throw an emo party. I need to know what, yeah. Yeah, I wanted to know how that turned out. I was a little emo kid for maybe a month or two back in the day. Just for a month or two? Yeah, my brother was more into it than me. So I was more of like,

I'd listen to the music, but I didn't dress up and all that. What made you emo? I would just say kind of the music. I mean, there's some music there that would, uh, what were you listening to? Let's go through. Like Hawthorne Heights is my, is my favorite one, which is funny because they, you know, kind of, uh, you know, I don't know how to put it this way, but I guess it was just kind of

funny because my sister went to one of the concerts. And so they told, they, they said they're now of age that they had to go to bed early. So their concert was kind of like, all right, well, we're going to go ahead and call it a day because we're tired. Did you go to, how any shows did you go to? I didn't necessarily. So my brother was, it was, it was, it was coming more the musical one. And so he had, he had bands. And so, you know, he'd open up for some from different, some different folks, like down here at Nickerbockers. I saw some, you know, some, some bands down there. So it, it was fun. I, I, I wasn't at, you know, I was more of the sports guy, right,

more than music. So I, I didn't, don't have a whole lot of great stories there. But, yeah, I mean, There are times that I feel like listening to some emo music. I say when I feel a little feisty. Okay. That's a whole other conversation. Like, what makes you, what makes you feel emo? What happens that when you go, okay, I need to go into the email. It's more just nostalgic, I suppose.

Yeah, just teenage feelings. Days when you had hair. Well, just missing, yeah, missing, you know, everything that goes along with being a, you know, 13 or 14. year old. I understand. I understand. I go back. Musically, I am a

renaissance man. I'm eclectic. From country to emo, like, to go into the full emo day. I went through the little fair

era. I went through the funk parliament funkadelic, old R&B, Motown. in deep, full blues. I was a classic music musician. When I was younger, I played the concert cello and the concert bass. Yeah, I was the music nerd.

But I also played, you know, classic guitar and electric guitar because I wanted to be a rap. Like, I wanted to do, I wanted to learn everything. Do you still know some instruments? I miss playing guitar. I was taught on John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel and, you know, that era. Like I was the guy that would have a guitar at a party in Animal House where somebody comes along and grabs the guitar and smash it against the wall. Because nothing, nothing, nothing upsets a guy with a girlfriend more than. the guy at a party with a guitar that the girl's sitting around.

Oh, yeah. The guy with the guitar at the parties is usually having an interesting end of the night. Yeah, and the fact that I was an athlete on top of that and a black athlete on top of that and a predominantly white thing. So imagine the black guy singing Simon and Garfunkel at an all white party. There are some things going on. That never got any. I maybe could learn, but the only

instrument I picked up was the recorder because they made me do it. But I don't, I just, I couldn't learn. I, so, Texas says, so DP, you listen to both kinds of music country and Western. Yeah, there's more to that. And then learning the history of it, the Charlie

Prides, Freddie Fender, I went through, I was raised in a time where Lawrence Welk had people on, I lived in Virginia so Appalachia wasn't that far away. It was a two-hour drive to some real, to be some, there's some picking going on in the front porch, right? It was the thing, right?

But yeah, I was all over the place when it came musically. And that was kind of, that was kind of, because that kind of had to be. But I also, I look, I threw some hands in high school because I was a music. nerd. Well, the jock doesn't carry a concert cello on the school bus in a black neighborhood. And what are you doing? What are you doing? But that was just it, right?

And it was to go from football practice and have your coach tell you you have to miss the recital, the concert rehearsal because of practice. What do you? Like, imagine that conversation to mom. and she would always go, well, it's up to him to choose which one is more important that night. And we allowed him to do it. So, yeah, I was like that dude. We would go to, we would go to Ocean City at the end of every school year, right?

And I was the only black guy there. Like, it was, I'm at the beach. And every year, like, I never brought a guitar, but somebody always did. And it was a problem. it was a problem. Husslebyer says, were you more Carlton or Will Smith? Both. Both. Both.

Well, because I knew the, the Carlton dance. Back then it was Courtney Cox from Bruce Springsteen dancing in the dark. And so I knew the dance, but I also knew Sugar Hill Gang rappers to lay. Like, it was the same thing. And high school dances back in

1978, 79, 80, 81, you would kind of, I had to fight. We had to literally write letters to the school board to allow Sugar Hill Gang to be played.

It was rebellious to have Michael Jackson's off the wall, destiny album being played. Like it was Earth went in fire, chic, loud cherry,

play that funky music. You know, it was funny. It was funny. But at my house, again, this is the day of three channels, right? So Saturday and Sunday, you watch what you watch. Lawrence Welk was a staple.

It was a staple. And then you would have one. I mean, Freddie Fender, wasted days and wasted nights. Wasted days, Freddie Fender, Charlie Pride, were normal appearances, the Oak Ridge Boys, even back in the day, if you want. want to go back. And then at the same time, there were these variety shows that were on. You know what they need to bring back is the challenge of the network starts.

Okay, I've said this before. I need that. Like, I needed that. We need to bring that back where all the stars from TV shows get back on and they compete in sporting events. And they look terrible doing it. They look terrible doing it. They need to bring that back. But a friend of mine brought it up this morning.

Bach, are you old enough to remember the Bay City Roller? I do not know that. So the Bay City Rollers were from Scotland. And they, this was in the, you know, the, the, the, the, the Partridge family, right? So we got our songs and, you know, everybody in the country knew every Partridge family song. Everybody, you got up on Saturday morning and there was the Jackson's cartoon. There was schoolhouse rock, right? that you would listen to.

But the Bay City Rollers had a variety show. They had a hit. Saturday night. Saturday night. And then they had several, but they would, they wore traditional Scottish outfits. And it became the thing.

And they had the weird haircut. So think Beatles 20 years later. Right? When the Beatles showed up, their very first performance was in D.C. a very first American performance was in D.C. And people talked about it because they had to deal with the haircuts because they had never seen people with those haircuts

and been being presented that way. And it was hilarious. Like it was Bocke was hilarious. To have the girls in the school scream over these Scottish kids. And the outfits were terrible. Go ahead and Google Bay City Rollers. And the songs, the songs were, the main two, Saturday night and then I only want to be with you.

Pre-hooity. Pre-hooty, I only want to be with you. And these variety shows, they would, my goodness gracious, this is the same time where the Donnie Memory show was active. The Brady Bunch had a, right, Bay City Rollers. That, right? The base are, like, it was just weird. Terrible hair cut.

Brough! But it became the thing, right? It became the thing. Hizzlebers says, I see you as a character from the movie The Wood. I had, I was a chameleon.

There's a phrase people use about code switch, that if you talk to me, if it's just me and Bach, my vocabulary and my inflection is one way. But if I'm,

if it's just, just me and somebody from my hometown, different conversation. Different conversation. If I'm in a black barbershop, it's a different tone than if I'm at and everybody's welcome, everybody's in the space barbershop.

If I'm speaking at a black urban school or a suburban school, white suburban school, different. I had to learn to fit wherever I was. and yeah the monkeys were you know aga you're right the monk there was show like part of its family monkeys um i'm fitting i'm forgetting another family um that had uh a music show of course the the brady bunch and the uh i forget what they called the name of the their family band when they won the their

their contests bach were you were you a brady bunch fan no no i didn't watch too much too much much of it. What did you do all your life? Well, the Brady, I mean, I was born in the 90s. So Brady Bunch is still on. It's on. It's still on. It was dated a little bit. The Osmond's, what was, what was the Brady Bunch family name? Now, because they were trying to win a, a, a talent show to win money to get a present for their parents anniversary. And then there's two versions. And then there's two verses of it. One, they're doing it and Peter's voice cracks. Like, he's in the point where his voice is starting to change.

So it screws up the performance because his voice cracks in the middle of it. So they made it a part of the song. And then the other one, it's just them dancing along and then they end up getting their own variety. I don't know how we went down the rabbit hole. My apologies. I did not give the disclaimer

in advance that the family Gump rules were all in play. You never know what you're going to get with one on one. The Partridge family with Dave, was it David Casson or Keith?

Yes. Keith Partridge. David Cassidy. But there was, Sean Cassidy had a show. The Hardy Boys. The Hardy Boys?

Wasn't that it? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's what it was. Yeah, we'll get boxes to five. Again, down the rabbit hole we've gone. And that's kind of what we do on one or one. So my apologies.

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