1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - The origin of Go-Go music! August 19th, 2026 7:25pm

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

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Back to one-on-one with DP. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Welcome back one-on-one Friday, 3 o'clock. Batting practice. Salt dogs. Let me know if you're in or not. Texted in. Young Wyman gets to take his first wings down there with the gang.

Good for him. We get to measure himself. We'll see how it goes. Was it switch hit or? Rudy. is relentless. I'm just going to let you know. He's not going to. Yeah, he's got a nice swing is what I hear. Yeah, Rudy, we call him he, he's hitish. You like it. He's hitish. Love to see it. You love to see it. Hitterish is what coaches would say, but hitish is what players would say. You like it. You love to see it.

Well, I mean, he attacks with intention. Good. That's always good. He attacks with intention. I had somebody who played against young, young, young Tristan and said it's the long left-handed swing you would imagine. imagine. Yeah. Yeah, we had some dudes. We'll see what it is. We'll invite, Rudy, you'll invite some teammates down, some friends down. Pointing out soccer, breaking it, they are currently at 101, a 3-1-1-1-1-at-1 at Louisville on August 12th. And then a draw with South Dakota at Hibner Sunday. But tomorrow night, it is number eight Notre Dame. Number eight Notre Dame comes to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take on your Huskers.

So I'm just going to push for you to find, for 705 game time, find your way down to Hibner. Find your way down to Hibner. A number eight Notre Dame is in the building. And then Sunday, at 1205, it's number 18, Alabama. So number eight Notre Dame and number 18, Alabama. If you don't get it, your Huskers need you. They're going to need you there a number to support. So get your tickets.

Again, very reasonable. You can do the general admission for nine bucks. At least that's what I said. I don't know what the tax and otherwise is, but $9 as a base. Makes it a family event. You can get in, everybody in. And it's a great time.

It's a great, great park. Have you watched matches there before? I have, I have. It's affordable. It's nice, especially if you go out there on, like, a Thursday night, suns sound. Good parking. Concession stands are open. And then poke your head inside and check out the tennis facility.

Are you there? Go down the Sid and Hazel Dillon Center and poke your head in and see what's causing all that. But, yeah, it should be a thing. We're going to send somebody down there tomorrow. night to take pictures and video and be a part of it. Friday night for the Salt Dogs, Fargo Moorhead, 705, first pitch, free t-shirt night. Okay. Salt Dog's tote bag giveaway and the post-game fireworks as they acknowledge and celebrate their 25th season.

25th season for the Salt Dog. So pretty cool. Pretty cool along the way. And then we have Friday night high school football. Standing Bear and Lincoln Northwest. Northwest. I have a teammate at North Star, and they're pretty excited about getting their season started.

But down at Sea Crest, and again, if you're looking for something, do a pretty cool thing. Salt Dogs or Seacrest is not bad But we will carry the call live It'll be Austin Orman and national champion Todd Euler on the call And then Wyman, here's the thing that we When I first got here, when I first got to Lincoln

One of the things that my first football season The first thing I noticed was that there was no high school coverage Or not enough high school coverage And so we started a Saturday morning a high school recap. And I had folks call in from Norris. I had folks call in from the Lincoln schools. They would just call in.

I'd pick a listener who was going to a game or who was a fan and wanted to give a recap. And I said, just tell me Friday night what game you're going to so I know which ones to cover in that. We spent a lot of time on the road going to Bellevue just to see what was going on. But here's the thing. Young Wyman, we're putting a lot on them,

but I think the idea that if you as a listener, if you're supporting whoever your alma mater is, or if you've got a kid playing in the program, if you want to be the high school reporter for that team, so be it. So be it. But let us know. Say, hey, man, I'm going to this game Friday night.

I think Friday night afterwards we'll take some calls as well. I mean, I think Rudy will still be here on Friday night. So if you want to report in, it was a thing that we did in the other stops of my career that I think was a blind spot here. But now there's no reason why we can't have a Friday night high school calling show. But we will have a roundup on Saturday morning. What time? 7 a.m. Brightnerly. Get your coffee.

Get your coffee. Get your thoughts together. It'll be a fun time. You'd be okay with them. calling you with their little 30 second report. Works for me. It's just right over here. When you said,

stay within the rules. That's all that's all I ask. Well, that's why I say, but I would say pick your listeners in advance and kind of find out who's doing what, right? Yeah,

why not. Be a part of it. That's why you're here. Yeah, it's there. For show, this Saturday. Correct.

Yeah, well, the full week there. We got maybe high school sports are getting the higher softball starts tomorrow. volleyball of year for not and high school volleyball is a beast of itself it's me a fun time like it's a ride and we'll take you up until the fall season ends in November and get up then right after that basketball starts

up wrestling it's it's a beast and self and there's an audience for it like you said lots to do uh Gus Mohawk asked he said I just got introduced to go go music I know it's big in Washington DC are there any tracks or groups that I should check out now young Wyman are you familiar with gogo music we brought it up the other day. It's a lot of, a lot of the drums, a lot of the drums. Percussion. If you added, if you took jazz, hip-hop, Caribbean, Calypso, and African beats, and put them all together in one, in one vacuum, one fine blender, it's a thing. Again, it's the thing

that unites D.C. And people from outside may not understand that. is. But there are a couple of things. Sports does it. Sports does a pretty good job of whatever your political boundaries are and whatever your financial class situation is, educational class. The real binder

and bonder for the DMV, and the DMV being south of Baltimore north of Richmond. Right? Or north of Fredericks. Pyrist will say it's Woodbridge. Woodbridge.

to Anarundal County, but it's a combination. It's really a melting pot of people who work for the government in various sorts and have for generations. And this music cropped up. It used to be young kids, urban kids, who would just get trash cans and empty. buckets. And they would bang on this for change, on the, on the street corner. And then

I'll take you back even further. The concept, an initial concept, are you familiar with the Cosby kids? Familiar. A little. Fat Albert, Fat Albert Saturday mornings. Yes. He had a band called the junkyard band. So when you look at the opening, the animated opening to Fat Albert, it's his band and they're all banging on trash and doing their thing. Well, that was go-go music.

That's how it started. And then the talented musician schools picked up, D.C. public schools picked up that there were some interest in this thing. Georgetown being the cultural hub for D.C. But these kids would play outside these bars and they would play and people would gather around and they would throw money and people were like, well, why don't you just guys guys? like learn to play actual instruments and so some scholarships were formed and people did this and then nightclubs started to as kids would start to gather in parks you know the nightclubs

figured like if you can have a park where the junkyard band was playing and 500 kids showed up you're you're doing business now well then the grown those kids teenage kids and college kids became grownups and they would move to doing this in bars. And it was a real thing. And I would say some 50 years ago. 50-ish. Because I want to say that Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, Experience Unlimited, or EU,

Chuck Brown is considered the godfather of Go-Go. And Chuck Brown was a jazz musician and eclipsic musician who just, he looked like Godfather. And he has some anthems. Trouble Funk came along, which was a little younger than Chuck Brown. The Junkyard Band came along.

EU Experience Unlimited. They came along. Then you get into the peripheral folks, Little Benny and the Masters. you can find out. And then hip hop found GoGo. Because then artists like Dougie Fresh, Salt and Pepper, all of them

figured out pretty quickly that this was a real thing. And then here's what happened. So imagine L.L. Cool J. coming to D.C. to play in the Capitol Center. And it's sold out. But nobody's there to hear him. Nobody's here to see him. And they ran him out.

And he figured out, okay, here's a deal. I better put some of this in my music or this is a problem. And so all of these Go-Go bands, all these hip-hop bands figured out how to integrate Go-Go into their music. And then that was it. And it is, we call it the heartbeat of the city. And it doesn't matter. I was there. they did a live show of Capsitter where they had like six bands play.

And literally, I don't know anybody from D.C. who doesn't claim they were there that night. There was 18,000 people, but literally everybody of age in D.C. said they were there. Politicians, doctors, lawyers, they all understand that when that beat drops, that's it. Spike Lee did it a huge favor by finding EU. and creating the song DeBut for his movie school days. And that took it to another level. But Salt and Papa did their thing. That was a really good when Curtis Blow did a song called I'm Chilling,

where he used Go-Go bands as well. Okay. Let me clear my throat. Yes. DJ Cool. Originally a Go-Go act that transatlose. that transition into club music a long way. But that same sort of call and response,

hey, if I tell you to say something, you say it, that's the core and the hub and energy behind DC Gogo music. And I'm willing to bet you that Kayla Star has a favorite Gogo band. I'm willing to bet you that she has a favorite Gogo band. Rare essence, yep. Rare essence still plays. All of these bands still play, and in matter of fact, now, big business, matter of fact, the busiest nightclubs in D.C. for live music all have these mature go-go bands who just play, they take top 40 hits and then they go-go-is-it. They put a go-go beat to it. Rare essence, as a matter of fact, in my bar, in my club, I had go-go bands twice a week. And $20 a ticket, even

back in the 1990s in the early 2000s, 20 bucks, 3,000 people. And it's, you just get on a day for it. But if you ever got stuck with somebody, you didn't want to be with, you were stuck with them because each song was 20 minutes. Like there was no break. There was no break. You were stuck with him. So if you ever get it, again, that's a D.C. thing.

Just to watch a place where people get together and there's no boundary. That's what GoGha Music has done. So we'll take another break. Close. I get you ready for Cato Star.