January 25, 2024 • 44 mins
The River 97.3 and Harrisburg University Present - THE HU POWER HALF HOUR with your hosts Frank Schofield and Glenn Hamilton. This week, Frank and Glenn talk about the the current state of the music biz, upcoming HU shows, and Frank's experience at The Sphere in Las Vegas and more. Plus music from The Black Keys, The Black Crowes, Last Dinner Party, My Morning Jacket, Cage The Elephant, and U2. Tell your friends about the HU Power Half Hour and be sure to like & subscribe! For info about upcoming HU Concerts, follow Harrisburg University Presents on all the socials and visit HUpresents.live Thanks for listening! You can listen to The HU Power Half Hour Saturday Nights at 8pm on The River 97.3FM and streaming live on the iHeart Radio App.
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Harrisburg University presents the HU Power HalfHour. It's all about new music,
vintage music, and Harrisburg University music. It's the half hour you look forward
to every week and now the HUPower Half Hour on the River ninety seven
to three. You know it's beena year. Can you believe it has
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been one year since we've done ourlast HU Power Half Hour. You've had
an incredible year too. I lookdifferent, No, you look the same.
You look you haven't changed? Howdo I look at? Just kidding?
All right? More great, hairy. We always start strong. Let's
just get this show gone. Alot of stuff that you've known before we're
going to be doing again, alot of behind the scenes stuff. But
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let's start with the Black Keys.This is their new song, Beautiful People.
They're going out this summer. Ijust love the Black Keys, man,
It's so great. You can't getenough of these guys. Here they
are Black Keys, Beautiful People areThe HU Power Half Hour presented by Harrisburg
University. Say oh you be sayingyou some be gone, sirlemb alone,
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get putting all of my demons too, My said, saying my crazy over
the delving place into the son Iwould say, to give my song nothing
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never coming back, said, hesaid, say it's been to again once
again. Just a friend of thewinds seeking shelter again, back all the
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beautiful people say, Yeah, areyou gonna be singing on the show now?
Yeah? I might. Oh God, all right, folks, you've
been warned. Yeah, I'm alittle different now. A lot of therapy
and a lot of adderall and I'ma little different guy. Awesome one year
later, you know I've lost waitand I'm grayer. Hey, I'll take
it. I see you working outonline. I see what you're doing out
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there trying. That's the Black Crows. I'm not Black CROs. The Black
Keys man on the HU Power halfHour. It's been a long year.
It's been a full year, Glenn. How many shows have you done in
the last year, Frank, betweenExcel Riverfront and all your other shows,
forty fifty shows, I would think, I bet it's more than fifty.
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I had a full summer. Yeah. I had Trey Anastasia, I had
Man, I had Mountjoy, wehad the Roots, we had Jason is
always always a winner. He comesback. I know, he always calls
you. He loves Harrisburg. Heloves that. He likes that riverfront thing.
Such a great vibe. Who wouldn't. It's perfect idea. You were
at a show I was at,Jason Isbell. Was that the one you're
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at? The one I was at? Kicking off the summer concerts season.
Yeah, we had we had afull, nice little run over the summer,
but we had a full you know, we had Wilder Woods, We
had a bunch of great stuff thatwe did at Excel too. Yeah,
and we have a bunch of youknow, we're doing the shows now for
next summer. We're getting we're gettingthrough it. And now now that the
stadiums are done and the sheds aredone in the festivals, you see all
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the festivals are pretty much announced.Now. That's when the agents kind of
come around and go, hey,we have some holes. Now we can
talk. They call it Phil thePhil. I need to fill a date,
Frank, what can you do?And sometimes I get surprised and I'm
like, ohh like I let goone the other day I was like,
I did not want to let itgo, but I didn't. I didn't
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have a big stage, you know. But this has definitely become a concert
market. This is definitely and youknow, Live Nation knows it. We
know it largely part to you.You've put it. You've put Harrisburg on
the map even bigger than it's everbeen. So I I feel I kind
of did help create a market thatdid not exist, and I should say
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I created there was something there andI just took advantage of it. I
just did it outside of the deafleopards and the you know they're coming out
and stuff. Yeah they are,but I'm just saying your market is outside
of it. Yeah, I usedI kind of stick in my alternative indie
genre of stuff that you're killed necessarilysee, you know, anywhere else,
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and it kind of just it kindof just works. And the people have
turned out for good tickets and we'vehad great you know, I got great
partners with Excel. Dolphin County isa great partner. I got great sponsors.
You have p SECU and a bunchof other people and trogues, and
you know, it's hard to makea show ticket for ticket, It's very,
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very difficult. But there's a lotof great things coming down the road.
And it's kind of a nervous timeto be in this industry right now
because it is it's kind of nutsbecause you know the old line, the
old adage is all all agents areliars and all promoters are desperate, you
know, and it's kind of likeyou never know what's kind of going on.
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Are you desperate? A little bitdesperate? Friends, Oh, you
always have to be, So that'saccurately, always have to be, man,
you always have to be like crap, I don't have a like right
now for my summer. I liketo do six, six or seven shows
in the summer, and I probablyhave three booked you already. No,
it's Fleet Foxes. So that's Fleetfox is major. And the other ones
that I do have booked are reallygood and that'll help me, you know,
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bring anothers because when you can goto William Morris Endeavor or go to
a CAA or Washington and you cango, hey, this is what I
currently have now, they're like okay. And plus we're a proven entity now
and they kind of know that we'regoing down. But we have great partners,
including you, Glenn, thanks man. And this show now, this
show, no algorithms, hand pickedcurated list. Absolutely, you know.
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I always like to joke and sayat Central PA's college radio station, this
is it's also season five, right, this is our final season? Do
you know what I made my list? I didn't know what season it was,
so I just put a question markand just yesterday I put in the
five because I look back. Butyeah, we've done a couple We've done
a couple hundred shows. It's easy, easily, and they're all up.
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You know, you can check outall the previous seasons and if you're if
you're a fan of the show,if you've listened before. I just needed
a break and I was just busy. Sure, but I realized that this
show makes me better. Glenn makesme better, me being on top of
the music, paying attention to youknow, you're gonna hear a song coming
up. I'm gonna I'm gonna raveabout them coming up though. But it's
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just it's it's hard to stay current, it is. There was so much
music out there and so many concertsoverwhelming, really is. It's yeah,
and then more than ever before,and it's harder for a radius like for
how to get broken in. LikeI got offered a someone the other day
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from Metallica's group Q Prime, whichthey're which they have an agency, which
they have a bunch of artists forit's just so hard to get noticed in
and a lot of people sometimes justbypass the whole process and go right to
the top. And then you'll likeInhaler, like, how did they do
that well? Inhaler? You knowit's Bono's kids, so sure, but
still but they had a natural soundand it's just worked. But it's it's
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always the grind. It's always likeDes Rocks. Des Rocks is a classic
example. We've had them here acouple of times. They've opened up.
Now they're starting to peek out.They're doing a bunch of stuff for Mma
and bunch of There's just so manydifferent paths to get to where you got
to get to, and then atthe end, it's like, to what
end. I'll be honest, Iwould not want to be an artist.
It is us the worst time.If you have the old idea in your
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head of becoming a big, majorrock star in fill in stadiums and doing
that for thirty years, those daysare gone. Man. My recent thing
over the past year has been alwaysto find the opening act. After they're
done, there's always that hour totwo hours where they're eating or hanging out
and you know, they're just kids, and I'll walk in and just kind
of pop down, you know,personal Frank will sit down, Frank the
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promoter, you know, all characters, Buddy Frank, Yeah, Cartoon Simpson's
character. Hey man, I'm Frank. What's up guys? You know,
hey man, you guys are great, you know, and can it get
you anything? Yeah, And butto see their eyes open up for someone
to pay attention to them, tohelp them get their laundry done, or
help them get food, or helpthem you know, I gotta go,
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Frank. I gotta be in Bostontomorrow, make their life on the world
better because no one pays attention tothese kids, and they're just on it
and they just get thrown out.And then you're on the road, and
it is not an easy life tobe on the road because it's just you
don't know where you are. AndI used to think that was a joke,
like a spinal tap joke. Rightly, look on your guitar. Yeah,
I used to think that was ajoke. Totally. It's not.
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Madonna just did it in Toronto.She's like, hey, Boston, she's
getting up there. It's because theygo all over the plan and I'll rarely
even say my name because I knowit doesn't matter, you know what I
mean, It's just it is whatit is. Yeah, and you just
kind of push these kids out.But this sh it's going to be designed
to help. I want to dothings a little different this year. I
want to open people's eyes up tonew music that I think is great out
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there. But I'm also gonna giveyou some hints of stuff that we have
offers out on of shows that aregoing to come in. So if I
can't announce it yet officially, ifyou listen to the music, maybe you
will know kind of what's going on. Nice this next song here, I
saw these guys open up for Arrowsmithin Philadelphia. I was there. I
was at that show. Thank godwe got to see it. The mix
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was horrible, but I'm telling youright now, I love the Black Crows
and Chris Robinson. I remember whenI interviewed them back when I was at
TPA many many moons ago, andI'm telling you what, these guys are
fantastic. Love them. This isone of their news songs out there on
the HQ Power Half Hour. Thencome back trying to lum My Loling someone
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pod their sign up, trying tostand brimis for dealers, though our style,
the tack, a call to thetouch. Don't you wear this?
Styn, come my dog, abumble cures, Oh the bond the bar,
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I'm not a pounding spear and warningBard and were cording shoes. Thou
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has a fly with notes of roads, and I had said, the harsh
stand of sorrow is for us recognizeto love. The God is the one
you care to guys. I've beensome thoughts on my whole till the day
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you said that that has until wedon't have a chair. But gave Devin
the flys the know it spading thefounded, and that's a black crocer.
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I don't think their sound has everchanged. No, and that's what we
love about him. It's rock androll, man. They brought that back
In nineteen ninety nobody was doing this. It was all guns and roses and
Metallica, and they came back andbrought like you know, the faces and
that that whole roots rock. Iremember when they came to town they opened
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up for Jeezy Top, Yeah,I remember that, and it was at
Old Hershey Park Arena, the oldBarn. They came through on Southern Harmony
too. Yeah, and they headlinedthe next tour they did. I thought
that album was much much better.Yeah. Same, They got to do
what they wanted to do on thatone. Anyway, I remember introducing cecy
Top on that show and it wasso crazy. Do you ever tell you
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the story? I'm not sure,So I get it. Somebody wasn't there,
didn't make it, and I wasI was a DJ. Yeah,
and you can you can figure outwho it was. And then so then
they're like, somebody says to me, hey, man, do you want
to go up there in intro it'zzy? And I'm like okay. So
I go up there and to becenter stage at Hershey Park Arena, and
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I'm talking like it's much grander thanyou think because it's much steeper. It
is like it's like Gladiator Dome.It's like just massive, Like you can
see the smoke. You can barelysee the up in the corners because of
the smoke, and just in thelights and how it held the room and
stuff. So I go, Igo, hey, everybody, welcome.
How we do it? And allI hear is this little voice it comes
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out of the monitor And I didn'tknow about monitors back then, Okay,
hey man, you don't have toscream. And I'm like yeah, and
I'm like, oh hey, guys, well, like i had to change
my whole team. But that wasback then when I didn't realize that people
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talked. People talk to amplified withthe equipment, like you got a lot
of people don't know. But whenan artist is on the stage singing,
there are people talking to them throughmonitors going hey man. They're just saying,
like your mix all right, andthen they'll talk back like I'll give
you a classic example. Guns andRoses does that all the time. He's
got a mic in the back thathe just talks to his guys like like
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repeatedly of all that stuff. Sothe new band that I was that I
was talking about Q Prime, thisis who it's going to be. And
this this band right here, they'reup and coming, they're starting, they're
brand new, and you take ashot at some of these guys, but
you gotta check them out. AndI know my daughter loves them. I
know a lot of people. Ithink they have a real deep catalog.
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We are trying to make offers totry to get them. I don't think
it's going to happen. This isthe last dinner party, and this song
is called Nothing Matters. Check thisout and then check out a bunch of
their other songs sentenced now at thelast time. Know just how you feel.
I dig my fingers in expecting morethan just the skin swim. I
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can feed like a motor, Ican say it and the nighting gay,
I'm tunsing and convertible and PLI I'mnothing matter us. We got I tell
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you we take. The mood isbusting with and like one more and we'll
away attenders, real chev res andwe're a lot of hacking fever, like
a mood of like a say artand nothing that is cousing because that's a
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fun. Humpy Luggy Elder and Iwill have you like nothing matter us and
umpy luggy Helder and I will haveyou. I'm nothing matters with the con
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conspression through. I'm putting all mybeads on you. I shall they never
understand us. I'm so don't howmany don't don't tell me? Do nothing
matters? Nothing matters, don't helpme happy ills and I was happiest.
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I don't them not think they canhelp me? Let be ill and not
the happiest like something. Nothing saysthanks. You're listening to the Age New
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Power half hour on the River ninetyseventy three. I'm a made it a
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quiet chum. I'm mad to onedevotion. I'm made what the people say,
I'm a made by a nebat admationlike mo I get this a homay
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it an husbanen hommy hob hom TVspec SHOs. I'm mad whatever mean to
be as a roll away us thejestice I May evolution, I'm a mad
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black how May is rejected. Iwas mad weeks up in this place the
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most the face. That's my MorningJacket on the River ninety seven point three.
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There I am. I'm a multistation DJ. Now look at that.
Well, I guess you've been onit for five years now. I've
been there the whole time. Yeah, I like My Morning Jacket. They're
a great band. I think they'reone of those and it fits with It's
a band that they've just been outthere and you know, they're like Willco.
They're like, you know, they'relike Fleet Foxes. They're like you
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know, you know the band thatwe've had at Harrisburg University for so long
that I think is there's a coupleof bands that I think of like maybe
jettisoned out of my and I don'twant to say I take credit for it,
but obviously that's gotten too big thatyou came back Death Cat for Cutie's
massive. Now yeah, they're they'rethey're now a it's probably the first one
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that is now an arena tour.I mean, they do arenas and which
is great for Ben and all thoseguys, But I think that says a
lot about even more about Hu andwhat you've done, because they were big
before and then they kind of waned, and then you brought them back and
they had like a now they've gota resurgence. How much did you have
to do with that because they've beenaround for a long time. Don't want
to take credit for I mean,that's that's Ben and you know, even
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Jenny lewis going out with the PostalService with them, you know. And
by the way, we're trying toget Jenny all right, I tried to
have her before, but you know, that's one of the there's there's just
a couple of bands like that,Like I'll give you another one, the
Stretch Struts, keeps definitely your bandman, Yeah, Struts keep going and
boys and they just kind of keeprocking out. But there's so many new
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bands out there, like the WetLegs or like the You have the other
kids that are out there that justkind of kind of crank along. What
do you like in new music?How do you discover music? I know
you're a DJ, but how doyou? I know you you get your
music, but how do you discovernew music? So let me be really
frank with you. Frank, Yes, I get my new music from you
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because it's been a year. Andthat'll speak volumes because to be honest with
you, man, I and Inever thought I would say this, but
I think a lot of people canrelate to this. I got into radio
because I love music, right,I love it. National DJ Day it
was two days ago. Oh thankyou, thanks for wish me happy uh
DJ Day? Anyway, I hadDJ for thirty years. Yeah, yeah,
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but I got into it. Didyou get into it because you love
music? Is that why you wantedto be a DJ? Did Bruce Bond
and four got Man's Duran durant aha? But that's because you, that's because
you liked music. I love musicI want to play. So I've been
a DJ for forty years since iwas fourteen, uh you know, and
I'm on the classic rock station.I swear to God, Frank, this
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did not happen to you, andI believe you might be the exception to
the rule. When I got tobe fifty, that's when I stopped paying
attention to new music. And Iwill tell you this as I sit here
looking at you, if you wouldhave told me that when I was thirty
or thirty five, I would havelaughed in your face like you are nuts.
I will never not. So that'swhere I am just because family came
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along life. I'm you know,I'm deeply involved in the recovery community,
and I just that doesn't have it. But I just I'm busy. I
got to Plus, I listen tothis stuff all day. That's my job
is to program the radio station.So it's just not on my radar as
much as it was. So Ireally use this show to keep me up
to date on what's going on.Truly, I've found myself dropping out of
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concerts that are not my own,like Hershey or going to Philly to see
unless it's someone that like Tailor orsomeone like there Errowsmith and the Black Crows.
Last time you're going to see Erowsmithbig the only one of the group
in Hershey. That kind of interestsme. As food Fighters, Oh yeah,
I gotta go to the Foods whenthey're in your backyard. But I
don't even know if I have to, Like I even thought about that their
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day because I thought about going,and of course access, I have access
and all that stuff. I waslike, I think I'd be okay if
it like happened I didn't go.I don't know if I would be Like
in the past, I had tobe there. Robert Plant came to Hershey.
I had to be there. Sure, I had to be good.
If I had to see Tom Petty, I had to be there, without
a doubt. For this year,because I believe it or not, I
never have seen them, and it'snot because I didn't want to. So
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you never saw time and place.Taylor was a bigger ever did I'm gonna
tell you this, Taylor was abigger star than Dave. Well, it
depends on the circle, but yeah, I mean when you saw the food
Fighters, Oh yeah, he stolethe show. When you saw the food
Fighters, Taylor was a bigger starand you didn't think that until you saw
it and you were like, whatthe heck man? Yeah, for sure.
It was a gonzo the Muppets,shigger than life personality. Yeah.
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And it wasn't because I didn't wantto. It's because they were either playing
when I was somewhere else or somethingelse going on. It's a band I've
always wanted to see. Frank,they're the last band because I have seen
literally everybody more than a few times. Have you seen Metallica? Yeah,
yeah, a couple of times.But I've never seen the foods. And
it's not because I didn't. OnceI got pit tickets for this show.
So I'm excited, man, Yeah, excited. It's gonna be. It's
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gonna be to me, Dave,can you hook that up? No?
But you probably could. No,No, No, they're probably giving packages
out. Maybe it's almost like theirborder I don't want to say jump to
sharp, but it's almost like theirborderline. They hit that plateau of commercialism,
sellsm just who they are, andit's not I don't know. It's
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you know, music, music andpeople how it relates themselves. It's your
own story and your own secret andyou know, I've always said, and
that's kind of how I got myjob. But I've always said that concerts
and live entertainment time stamps people's memorieslike no one else, Like you know,
I know when you two played backin Hershey, way back, I
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know how much money I had,I knew the cars driving, I know
I had a crappy girlfriend that justbroke up with me. And it takes
you right back there. It takes. But movies do not, Television does
not. There's no other medium orexperience that time stamps your memory of who
you are as a person other thanconcerts. And you know, I guess
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that's why I love the industry.And I guess we're all fortunate kind of
to be part of it, andwe're all just kind of digging this out,
figure and out who we are.And you know, the bigger part
is, I hate to get allphilosophical on this dopey show, but you
know, life short, We're nothere much longer, and you know,
it's kind of like, so youare who you are through your music.
You know, my wife is whoshe is because of her dopey British TV
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shows on Netflix, And everybody isdefined by different things in their life of
who they are. And I knowthis is who I am, So you
know this is who you are.So I'm good with who I am.
You're good with who you are.It is what it is. But there's
so much to grab, there's somuch to grass and with music, Like
I can't work a day. Ifyou ever see my office, you'd be
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my office. I can't work aday with that music. And music is
like I have to have that stereoon right away. I have music all
day. I know everything that's goingon. If I want to get into
I saw a Steve Perry interview fromJourney or something like that. Next thing
you know, I'm playing, Youknow, don't stop believing and just appreciating
it a little more for who itis, you know. So music is
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just the defining who I am.So well, thank you for keeping me
my finger on the pulsele. Thankfor me putting on radio station because I
love radio. I love being onterrestrial radio. Radio works man, but
I love streaming like the streaming servicesworks together. Really, do you remember
the first time that you got aniPod and you figured out, oh my
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god, I don't have to savemusic anymore. Yeah, Like when they
started that service for nine ninety nine, and you're like, you get the
world iTunes. I was right onit. I was like, are you
kidding? But I remember the momentit happened, and I was just kind
of like, it kind of blewmy brain up a little bit. It
kind of did. By the way, have you been to the Sphere?
No? But I know you did, dude. I wanted to go to
you two so bad. I'm notgonna be able to swing it. I
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got to do we have time totalk about that or do you want to
play a song to come back?When you talked about your you're remembering when
you saw you too the first time. I was going to talk to you
about that, but I didn't wantto take you off track of what you
were talking about. Let's play thisnext song because I want to hear all
about the sphere, dude. Let'splay this next song. So Dallas,
this is this is Oh sorry.This is a new one from I Don't
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Know. It starts cold. Ilove these guys. This is from Cage
the Elephant. This is a NeonHills the a two power half hour of
the River. It takes one.No, that guy again, that's a
fair and Tell that's gonna been.So I'm trying to see games slight,
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no Doubt, my Friend, NoCross, Cross, Spiney Pills, the
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Tasty, hun Bomb, Bluem,the wo, the Chippy, my Child.
It's like back in the day Isaid the Left, the second five
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people, Showy sid knock Down,not out its room and second oh up
across Lon that's a cagey elephant,Knon Pills. We're just playing a little
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bit of that, I think,Matt, Yeah, we're just playing some
of these songs. You just wantto play a little samples of them.
I just want to cut it down. Sometimes you don't need a whole song.
Sometimes people have add sometimes people move. Can we talk about that really
fast? And I want to getinto the sphere? Well, just the
fact that people hardly listen to fullsongs anymore, I agree. That's why
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I wanted to do it. That'swhy I want to know albums anymore.
I mean, there are but peopledon't care about listening to ten songs in
a row on an album. That'swe're changing music. We're changing how people
consume broadcast radio music. We're kindof getting this. Can I say I
had I had an idea years agoto have w a d D and all
it was was ten second hooks andyou can put one hundred and fifty songs
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an hour. That was my idea. I should have done it, because
you remember the old mixtapes when youused to get a mixtape in a DJ
and then you would just hear thehook and then they would go into another
song or something like that. That'swhen DJ's are good. All I want
to talk about you too. Ican't wait because I was so jealous.
You got to go to the Sphere, and I have some other friends that
have been to experience. I wentway to Aeroff my friend John Harris.
It was my first guys trip I'veever been on, and we really yeah,
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I don't have many friends. Idon't It's okay, but it was
the first time that I went.He got we got tickets. I went
out. Walking up to the Sphereis one of the most weirdest I looked
at it, like the size ofit and what it is. I was
like, oh my god, lookat this freaking thing. It kind of
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blew my mind. We get intothe venue and even the inside the food
it's like it's not stadium food.It wasn't arena food. This food was
all gourmet, greatest food you've everhad in your life. Like the burgers
were watering and fresh and freshly cooked. And they had so many different stations
and sushi and this and that andhad all these different you know, Wolfgang
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Puck has like concession stand and imaginehis ingenuity with like food and then they're
serving it to you on a massscale. And plus this place is massive.
Oh yeah, I don't know.I think it's ten thousand. That
sounds right, and that's only andthat's only in one side. It's only
on one side of it. Right. We had floors where I had pit
the ga pit walk in and tosee what it is. It's actually mind
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altering because it's almost like, doyou remember when the meta things were when
you were the goggles and you couldlike it kind of changed where you were.
Now, this thing really did changewhere you were. It changed were
completely immersive. Yeah, because Iam not now in Las Vegas. I'm
in a desert and the show startingon, and you know, Bato comes
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out and I want to give yousome final thoughts that we'll be shocking to
you, but I'm going to givethem to you. So then the show
starts and they're taking us all overthe place. And when I say taken,
I mean like we're really there aroundlike the shows. Yeah, the
show's happening. Yeah, And Ilook up in the corner and there's two
Apache helicopters coming up over the mountainand I'm seeing it in my left but
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the show is happening in front ofme, and you're like, yeah,
yeah, yeah. But then allof a sudden, these Apache helicopters are
right above me. And then allof a sudden you can hear the sound
of the Apache helicopters. Yeah right, and you're just like, they're not
shooting anything, but they're a patchyhelicopter. You're like, I'm like looking
straight up almost back, like whatthe heck is that? Like what is
going on? And then a spotlightcomes down, and then there's Bono in
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the spotlight, or then there's thisand that, and there was so many
immersive things that I encourage everyone togo see it. And it was one
of the coolest experiences I've ever had. But I do not think it is
the future of live entertainment. AndI'll tell you why. I think you
two had the luxury of going first, and it was also a disadvantage of
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going first because they didn't know howto operate. They didn't know what they
were dealing with interesting, and youhad to put like seventy shows together.
You can't just on a whim,change stuff up and move stuff around.
Okay, it minimizes the band.Yeah, Saw it Saw like they were
just kind of incidental and it wasalmost like they were the soundtrack to all
the crazy cool stuff that was goingon, and the focus wasn't on the
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personalities of the band members themselves.A band doesn't even have done a truck.
They're just showing up with their guitarsand that's it. There's no gear.
Yeah, the stage and the monitor. You're just taking a USB plug,
plug it in your video and bamyou're popping up. So I don't
think it's the future of live entertainment. Do you think that's a great destination
for Vegas and that we'll be therefor a long time? Yeah? I
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think depends on who's in there.I think Fish is going to do it.
They're doing four to twenty I heard. Yeah. I think of course
they are. Yeah, and Ithink there's gonna be other bands like maybe
the stones or maybe iconic stuff orresidencies the guys that don't want to go
on the road anymore. Yeah,but I do. I think there's gonna
be one in every city and it'sthe future of live music. No way,
I never thought. But that's howthey that's how they build it.
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Really, that's how Dolde from MadisonSquare Garden buildings the future of everything.
I was like, yeah, maybeNew York or LA. But you know,
I didn't, well, he's notgoing to have a sphere. By
the way, I didn't love theNew Drummer without them all on, Yeah,
I mean I didn't dig it.Man, I don't remember a drum
being played. It wasn't You didn'thear that pounded changed the whole vibe.
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I thought Bono was I hate tosay it, I kind of thought they
were aged a little bit in there. So remember when they came out with
their redone songs the softer way,and I said, I think they're preparing
people for how they're going to presentthe songs. They did rock though,
right, Yeah, but Bono's voicejust was not quite as strong as I
just didn't feel it, to behonest, I didn't feel it in my
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chest. I didn't feel it likewow, this is freaking cool. I
felt it in a way that Okay, this is this is neat, this
is awesome. So what I'm pickingup is it's not about going to see
you two at the sphere. It'sjust about going to experience the sphere and
yeah, and almost matter who's playing. I didn't think you two had the
edge. Okay, And I don'tmean I don't mean that guy, but
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growing up with you too, seeinghim at JFK in Philadelphia in eighty nine
with one hundred thousand people, seeingthat young guy go out there, hold
people yeah, or seeing him inhershey, or seeing him all those years,
I mean, can you is thereanother band in your life that you
grew up with the symbolized your life. I mean that that was that iconic,
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that much of a staple and liveentertainment. Yeah, they were the
first cutting edge. They were prettymuch defining. They really were. Even
when we saw I saw Aerosmith,I thought of that in a defining moment
lifetime wise, like how long havethese guys? But you too is really
that cutting edge forward big thing.So my advice to you is I would
definitely go see it. I thinkit's awesome, but you're gonna come away
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with probably a different and my experienceon the floor is way different than someone
that was halfway up in the stands. Is that the place to be on
the floor or in the sty thestands? Okay, so you can get
a I had respect. I hadto look up the whole time, and
then I had to look at myguys, and then I checked up all
right, and then do whatever.So get on like the first level,
yeah whatever. I just think yougotta be up. I think I was
down pro tip it was. ButI'm jealous, man, I really I
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want to get out there. Ido. I want to get out there.
There's only so many dates left.That's super cheap. But I know
you only live once. But theyhave all kinds of packages together. I
got to do it to keep extendingthe dates they do. But they're gonna
have to move for fish now,I think, I think. But the
thing is how many dates can theyfill in that place? That's how much
that place when you see the video, that's the question. And how does
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that place cost a day to operate? A day? I can't even imagine.
It's got to be a couple hundredthousand dollars a day, you too,
was clearing what I read anyway,it was one point eight million dollars
a show for themselves. So thattells you how much it costs to run
the place. It takes a lot, good, it takes a lot.
Right, I'm jealous, Frank,thank you for episode number one, season
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number five of the h Power HalfHour. We'll finish just like we always
do in a good note. Godbless everyone. Take care of yourselves,
and we'll see you next week.From Harrisburg University, Jon sister to fill
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You don't understand. Stop down.She beat then he's all right,
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he's all right. It's all right. She lives ways. He's all right,
he's alright, alright. She movesin the serious way. You want
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to take her down with your sister, the ray man talk about the things.
You can explain the speak herds hadto speel. If you want kiss
the scot little that he needs onyour knees. Boy, she turned the
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tame. She knows what. It'sall right, it's all right, all
right. She fells you steerious wayit's all right. It's all right,
all man. She moves you stayall right right, all right, live
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my day, lad of my dad? Word see rabat? Why stay into
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new so follow this. It's allright, it's all right, all right.
She will still the standious ways.It's all right, it's all right,
all right. She go still mysteriousways. All right, don't lave
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the lads. It's all life.That move. Let you move. It's
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Harrisburg University presents the HU Power HalfHour. It's all about new music,
vintage music, and Harrisburg University music. It's the half hour you look forward
to every week and now the HUPower Half Hour on the River ninety seven
to three. You know it's beena year. Can you believe it has
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been one year since we've done ourlast HU Power Half Hour. You've had
an incredible year too. I lookdifferent, No, you look the same.
You look you haven't changed? Howdo I look at? Just kidding?
All right? More great, hairy. We always start strong. Let's
just get this show gone. Alot of stuff that you've known before we're
going to be doing again, alot of behind the scenes stuff. But
(00:43):
let's start with the Black Keys.This is their new song, Beautiful People.
They're going out this summer. Ijust love the Black Keys, man,
It's so great. You can't getenough of these guys. Here they
are Black Keys, Beautiful People areThe HU Power Half Hour presented by Harrisburg
University. Say oh you be sayingyou some be gone, sirlemb alone,
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get putting all of my demons too, My said, saying my crazy over
the delving place into the son Iwould say, to give my song nothing
(01:46):
never coming back, said, hesaid, say it's been to again once
again. Just a friend of thewinds seeking shelter again, back all the
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beautiful people say, Yeah, areyou gonna be singing on the show now?
Yeah? I might. Oh God, all right, folks, you've
been warned. Yeah, I'm alittle different now. A lot of therapy
and a lot of adderall and I'ma little different guy. Awesome one year
later, you know I've lost waitand I'm grayer. Hey, I'll take
it. I see you working outonline. I see what you're doing out
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there trying. That's the Black Crows. I'm not Black CROs. The Black
Keys man on the HU Power halfHour. It's been a long year.
It's been a full year, Glenn. How many shows have you done in
the last year, Frank, betweenExcel Riverfront and all your other shows,
forty fifty shows, I would think, I bet it's more than fifty.
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I had a full summer. Yeah. I had Trey Anastasia, I had
Man, I had Mountjoy, wehad the Roots, we had Jason is
always always a winner. He comesback. I know, he always calls
you. He loves Harrisburg. Heloves that. He likes that riverfront thing.
Such a great vibe. Who wouldn't. It's perfect idea. You were
at a show I was at,Jason Isbell. Was that the one you're
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at? The one I was at? Kicking off the summer concerts season.
Yeah, we had we had afull, nice little run over the summer,
but we had a full you know, we had Wilder Woods, We
had a bunch of great stuff thatwe did at Excel too. Yeah,
and we have a bunch of youknow, we're doing the shows now for
next summer. We're getting we're gettingthrough it. And now now that the
stadiums are done and the sheds aredone in the festivals, you see all
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the festivals are pretty much announced.Now. That's when the agents kind of
come around and go, hey,we have some holes. Now we can
talk. They call it Phil thePhil. I need to fill a date,
Frank, what can you do?And sometimes I get surprised and I'm
like, ohh like I let goone the other day I was like,
I did not want to let itgo, but I didn't. I didn't
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have a big stage, you know. But this has definitely become a concert
market. This is definitely and youknow, Live Nation knows it. We
know it largely part to you.You've put it. You've put Harrisburg on
the map even bigger than it's everbeen. So I I feel I kind
of did help create a market thatdid not exist, and I should say
(04:48):
I created there was something there andI just took advantage of it. I
just did it outside of the deafleopards and the you know they're coming out
and stuff. Yeah they are,but I'm just saying your market is outside
of it. Yeah, I usedI kind of stick in my alternative indie
genre of stuff that you're killed necessarilysee, you know, anywhere else,
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and it kind of just it kindof just works. And the people have
turned out for good tickets and we'vehad great you know, I got great
partners with Excel. Dolphin County isa great partner. I got great sponsors.
You have p SECU and a bunchof other people and trogues, and
you know, it's hard to makea show ticket for ticket, It's very,
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very difficult. But there's a lotof great things coming down the road.
And it's kind of a nervous timeto be in this industry right now
because it is it's kind of nutsbecause you know the old line, the
old adage is all all agents areliars and all promoters are desperate, you
know, and it's kind of likeyou never know what's kind of going on.
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Are you desperate? A little bitdesperate? Friends, Oh, you
always have to be, So that'saccurately, always have to be, man,
you always have to be like crap, I don't have a like right
now for my summer. I liketo do six, six or seven shows
in the summer, and I probablyhave three booked you already. No,
it's Fleet Foxes. So that's Fleetfox is major. And the other ones
that I do have booked are reallygood and that'll help me, you know,
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bring anothers because when you can goto William Morris Endeavor or go to
a CAA or Washington and you cango, hey, this is what I
currently have now, they're like okay. And plus we're a proven entity now
and they kind of know that we'regoing down. But we have great partners,
including you, Glenn, thanks man. And this show now, this
show, no algorithms, hand pickedcurated list. Absolutely, you know.
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I always like to joke and sayat Central PA's college radio station, this
is it's also season five, right, this is our final season? Do
you know what I made my list? I didn't know what season it was,
so I just put a question markand just yesterday I put in the
five because I look back. Butyeah, we've done a couple We've done
a couple hundred shows. It's easy, easily, and they're all up.
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You know, you can check outall the previous seasons and if you're if
you're a fan of the show,if you've listened before. I just needed
a break and I was just busy. Sure, but I realized that this
show makes me better. Glenn makesme better, me being on top of
the music, paying attention to youknow, you're gonna hear a song coming
up. I'm gonna I'm gonna raveabout them coming up though. But it's
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just it's it's hard to stay current, it is. There was so much
music out there and so many concertsoverwhelming, really is. It's yeah,
and then more than ever before,and it's harder for a radius like for
how to get broken in. LikeI got offered a someone the other day
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from Metallica's group Q Prime, whichthey're which they have an agency, which
they have a bunch of artists forit's just so hard to get noticed in
and a lot of people sometimes justbypass the whole process and go right to
the top. And then you'll likeInhaler, like, how did they do
that well? Inhaler? You knowit's Bono's kids, so sure, but
still but they had a natural soundand it's just worked. But it's it's
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always the grind. It's always likeDes Rocks. Des Rocks is a classic
example. We've had them here acouple of times. They've opened up.
Now they're starting to peek out.They're doing a bunch of stuff for Mma
and bunch of There's just so manydifferent paths to get to where you got
to get to, and then atthe end, it's like, to what
end. I'll be honest, Iwould not want to be an artist.
It is us the worst time.If you have the old idea in your
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head of becoming a big, majorrock star in fill in stadiums and doing
that for thirty years, those daysare gone. Man. My recent thing
over the past year has been alwaysto find the opening act. After they're
done, there's always that hour totwo hours where they're eating or hanging out
and you know, they're just kids, and I'll walk in and just kind
of pop down, you know,personal Frank will sit down, Frank the
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promoter, you know, all characters, Buddy Frank, Yeah, Cartoon Simpson's
character. Hey man, I'm Frank. What's up guys? You know,
hey man, you guys are great, you know, and can it get
you anything? Yeah, And butto see their eyes open up for someone
to pay attention to them, tohelp them get their laundry done, or
help them get food, or helpthem you know, I gotta go,
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Frank. I gotta be in Bostontomorrow, make their life on the world
better because no one pays attention tothese kids, and they're just on it
and they just get thrown out.And then you're on the road, and
it is not an easy life tobe on the road because it's just you
don't know where you are. AndI used to think that was a joke,
like a spinal tap joke. Rightly, look on your guitar. Yeah,
I used to think that was ajoke. Totally. It's not.
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Madonna just did it in Toronto.She's like, hey, Boston, she's
getting up there. It's because theygo all over the plan and I'll rarely
even say my name because I knowit doesn't matter, you know what I
mean, It's just it is whatit is. Yeah, and you just
kind of push these kids out.But this sh it's going to be designed
to help. I want to dothings a little different this year. I
want to open people's eyes up tonew music that I think is great out
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there. But I'm also gonna giveyou some hints of stuff that we have
offers out on of shows that aregoing to come in. So if I
can't announce it yet officially, ifyou listen to the music, maybe you
will know kind of what's going on. Nice this next song here, I
saw these guys open up for Arrowsmithin Philadelphia. I was there. I
was at that show. Thank godwe got to see it. The mix
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was horrible, but I'm telling youright now, I love the Black Crows
and Chris Robinson. I remember whenI interviewed them back when I was at
TPA many many moons ago, andI'm telling you what, these guys are
fantastic. Love them. This isone of their news songs out there on
the HQ Power Half Hour. Thencome back trying to lum My Loling someone
(11:05):
pod their sign up, trying tostand brimis for dealers, though our style,
the tack, a call to thetouch. Don't you wear this?
Styn, come my dog, abumble cures, Oh the bond the bar,
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I'm not a pounding spear and warningBard and were cording shoes. Thou
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has a fly with notes of roads, and I had said, the harsh
stand of sorrow is for us recognizeto love. The God is the one
you care to guys. I've beensome thoughts on my whole till the day
(12:35):
you said that that has until wedon't have a chair. But gave Devin
the flys the know it spading thefounded, and that's a black crocer.
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I don't think their sound has everchanged. No, and that's what we
love about him. It's rock androll, man. They brought that back
In nineteen ninety nobody was doing this. It was all guns and roses and
Metallica, and they came back andbrought like you know, the faces and
that that whole roots rock. Iremember when they came to town they opened
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up for Jeezy Top, Yeah,I remember that, and it was at
Old Hershey Park Arena, the oldBarn. They came through on Southern Harmony
too. Yeah, and they headlinedthe next tour they did. I thought
that album was much much better.Yeah. Same, They got to do
what they wanted to do on thatone. Anyway, I remember introducing cecy
Top on that show and it wasso crazy. Do you ever tell you
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the story? I'm not sure,So I get it. Somebody wasn't there,
didn't make it, and I wasI was a DJ. Yeah,
and you can you can figure outwho it was. And then so then
they're like, somebody says to me, hey, man, do you want
to go up there in intro it'zzy? And I'm like okay. So
I go up there and to becenter stage at Hershey Park Arena, and
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I'm talking like it's much grander thanyou think because it's much steeper. It
is like it's like Gladiator Dome.It's like just massive, Like you can
see the smoke. You can barelysee the up in the corners because of
the smoke, and just in thelights and how it held the room and
stuff. So I go, Igo, hey, everybody, welcome.
How we do it? And allI hear is this little voice it comes
(15:00):
out of the monitor And I didn'tknow about monitors back then, Okay,
hey man, you don't have toscream. And I'm like yeah, and
I'm like, oh hey, guys, well, like i had to change
my whole team. But that wasback then when I didn't realize that people
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talked. People talk to amplified withthe equipment, like you got a lot
of people don't know. But whenan artist is on the stage singing,
there are people talking to them throughmonitors going hey man. They're just saying,
like your mix all right, andthen they'll talk back like I'll give
you a classic example. Guns andRoses does that all the time. He's
got a mic in the back thathe just talks to his guys like like
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repeatedly of all that stuff. Sothe new band that I was that I
was talking about Q Prime, thisis who it's going to be. And
this this band right here, they'reup and coming, they're starting, they're
brand new, and you take ashot at some of these guys, but
you gotta check them out. AndI know my daughter loves them. I
know a lot of people. Ithink they have a real deep catalog.
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We are trying to make offers totry to get them. I don't think
it's going to happen. This isthe last dinner party, and this song
is called Nothing Matters. Check thisout and then check out a bunch of
their other songs sentenced now at thelast time. Know just how you feel.
I dig my fingers in expecting morethan just the skin swim. I
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can feed like a motor, Ican say it and the nighting gay,
I'm tunsing and convertible and PLI I'mnothing matter us. We got I tell
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you we take. The mood isbusting with and like one more and we'll
away attenders, real chev res andwe're a lot of hacking fever, like
a mood of like a say artand nothing that is cousing because that's a
(17:30):
fun. Humpy Luggy Elder and Iwill have you like nothing matter us and
umpy luggy Helder and I will haveyou. I'm nothing matters with the con
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conspression through. I'm putting all mybeads on you. I shall they never
understand us. I'm so don't howmany don't don't tell me? Do nothing
matters? Nothing matters, don't helpme happy ills and I was happiest.
(18:34):
I don't them not think they canhelp me? Let be ill and not
the happiest like something. Nothing saysthanks. You're listening to the Age New
(19:03):
Power half hour on the River ninetyseventy three. I'm a made it a
(19:33):
quiet chum. I'm mad to onedevotion. I'm made what the people say,
I'm a made by a nebat admationlike mo I get this a homay
(20:07):
it an husbanen hommy hob hom TVspec SHOs. I'm mad whatever mean to
be as a roll away us thejestice I May evolution, I'm a mad
(20:53):
black how May is rejected. Iwas mad weeks up in this place the
(21:18):
most the face. That's my MorningJacket on the River ninety seven point three.
(22:59):
There I am. I'm a multistation DJ. Now look at that.
Well, I guess you've been onit for five years now. I've
been there the whole time. Yeah, I like My Morning Jacket. They're
a great band. I think they'reone of those and it fits with It's
a band that they've just been outthere and you know, they're like Willco.
They're like, you know, they'relike Fleet Foxes. They're like you
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know, you know the band thatwe've had at Harrisburg University for so long
that I think is there's a coupleof bands that I think of like maybe
jettisoned out of my and I don'twant to say I take credit for it,
but obviously that's gotten too big thatyou came back Death Cat for Cutie's
massive. Now yeah, they're they'rethey're now a it's probably the first one
(23:40):
that is now an arena tour.I mean, they do arenas and which
is great for Ben and all thoseguys, But I think that says a
lot about even more about Hu andwhat you've done, because they were big
before and then they kind of waned, and then you brought them back and
they had like a now they've gota resurgence. How much did you have
to do with that because they've beenaround for a long time. Don't want
to take credit for I mean,that's that's Ben and you know, even
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Jenny lewis going out with the PostalService with them, you know. And
by the way, we're trying toget Jenny all right, I tried to
have her before, but you know, that's one of the there's there's just
a couple of bands like that,Like I'll give you another one, the
Stretch Struts, keeps definitely your bandman, Yeah, Struts keep going and
boys and they just kind of keeprocking out. But there's so many new
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bands out there, like the WetLegs or like the You have the other
kids that are out there that justkind of kind of crank along. What
do you like in new music?How do you discover music? I know
you're a DJ, but how doyou? I know you you get your
music, but how do you discovernew music? So let me be really
frank with you. Frank, Yes, I get my new music from you
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because it's been a year. Andthat'll speak volumes because to be honest with
you, man, I and Inever thought I would say this, but
I think a lot of people canrelate to this. I got into radio
because I love music, right,I love it. National DJ Day it
was two days ago. Oh thankyou, thanks for wish me happy uh
DJ Day? Anyway, I hadDJ for thirty years. Yeah, yeah,
(25:08):
but I got into it. Didyou get into it because you love
music? Is that why you wantedto be a DJ? Did Bruce Bond
and four got Man's Duran durant aha? But that's because you, that's because
you liked music. I love musicI want to play. So I've been
a DJ for forty years since iwas fourteen, uh you know, and
I'm on the classic rock station.I swear to God, Frank, this
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did not happen to you, andI believe you might be the exception to
the rule. When I got tobe fifty, that's when I stopped paying
attention to new music. And Iwill tell you this as I sit here
looking at you, if you wouldhave told me that when I was thirty
or thirty five, I would havelaughed in your face like you are nuts.
I will never not. So that'swhere I am just because family came
(25:52):
along life. I'm you know,I'm deeply involved in the recovery community,
and I just that doesn't have it. But I just I'm busy. I
got to Plus, I listen tothis stuff all day. That's my job
is to program the radio station.So it's just not on my radar as
much as it was. So Ireally use this show to keep me up
to date on what's going on.Truly, I've found myself dropping out of
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concerts that are not my own,like Hershey or going to Philly to see
unless it's someone that like Tailor orsomeone like there Errowsmith and the Black Crows.
Last time you're going to see Erowsmithbig the only one of the group
in Hershey. That kind of interestsme. As food Fighters, Oh yeah,
I gotta go to the Foods whenthey're in your backyard. But I
don't even know if I have to, Like I even thought about that their
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day because I thought about going,and of course access, I have access
and all that stuff. I waslike, I think I'd be okay if
it like happened I didn't go.I don't know if I would be Like
in the past, I had tobe there. Robert Plant came to Hershey.
I had to be there. Sure, I had to be good.
If I had to see Tom Petty, I had to be there, without
a doubt. For this year,because I believe it or not, I
never have seen them, and it'snot because I didn't want to. So
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you never saw time and place.Taylor was a bigger ever did I'm gonna
tell you this, Taylor was abigger star than Dave. Well, it
depends on the circle, but yeah, I mean when you saw the food
Fighters, Oh yeah, he stolethe show. When you saw the food
Fighters, Taylor was a bigger starand you didn't think that until you saw
it and you were like, whatthe heck man? Yeah, for sure.
It was a gonzo the Muppets,shigger than life personality. Yeah.
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And it wasn't because I didn't wantto. It's because they were either playing
when I was somewhere else or somethingelse going on. It's a band I've
always wanted to see. Frank,they're the last band because I have seen
literally everybody more than a few times. Have you seen Metallica? Yeah,
yeah, a couple of times.But I've never seen the foods. And
it's not because I didn't. OnceI got pit tickets for this show.
So I'm excited, man, Yeah, excited. It's gonna be. It's
(27:45):
gonna be to me, Dave,can you hook that up? No?
But you probably could. No,No, No, they're probably giving packages
out. Maybe it's almost like theirborder I don't want to say jump to
sharp, but it's almost like theirborderline. They hit that plateau of commercialism,
sellsm just who they are, andit's not I don't know. It's
(28:07):
you know, music, music andpeople how it relates themselves. It's your
own story and your own secret andyou know, I've always said, and
that's kind of how I got myjob. But I've always said that concerts
and live entertainment time stamps people's memorieslike no one else, Like you know,
I know when you two played backin Hershey, way back, I
(28:30):
know how much money I had,I knew the cars driving, I know
I had a crappy girlfriend that justbroke up with me. And it takes
you right back there. It takes. But movies do not, Television does
not. There's no other medium orexperience that time stamps your memory of who
you are as a person other thanconcerts. And you know, I guess
(28:52):
that's why I love the industry.And I guess we're all fortunate kind of
to be part of it, andwe're all just kind of digging this out,
figure and out who we are.And you know, the bigger part
is, I hate to get allphilosophical on this dopey show, but you
know, life short, We're nothere much longer, and you know,
it's kind of like, so youare who you are through your music.
You know, my wife is whoshe is because of her dopey British TV
(29:18):
shows on Netflix, And everybody isdefined by different things in their life of
who they are. And I knowthis is who I am, So you
know this is who you are.So I'm good with who I am.
You're good with who you are.It is what it is. But there's
so much to grab, there's somuch to grass and with music, Like
I can't work a day. Ifyou ever see my office, you'd be
(29:38):
my office. I can't work aday with that music. And music is
like I have to have that stereoon right away. I have music all
day. I know everything that's goingon. If I want to get into
I saw a Steve Perry interview fromJourney or something like that. Next thing
you know, I'm playing, Youknow, don't stop believing and just appreciating
it a little more for who itis, you know. So music is
(29:59):
just the defining who I am.So well, thank you for keeping me
my finger on the pulsele. Thankfor me putting on radio station because I
love radio. I love being onterrestrial radio. Radio works man, but
I love streaming like the streaming servicesworks together. Really, do you remember
the first time that you got aniPod and you figured out, oh my
(30:22):
god, I don't have to savemusic anymore. Yeah, Like when they
started that service for nine ninety nine, and you're like, you get the
world iTunes. I was right onit. I was like, are you
kidding? But I remember the momentit happened, and I was just kind
of like, it kind of blewmy brain up a little bit. It
kind of did. By the way, have you been to the Sphere?
No? But I know you did, dude. I wanted to go to
you two so bad. I'm notgonna be able to swing it. I
(30:44):
got to do we have time totalk about that or do you want to
play a song to come back?When you talked about your you're remembering when
you saw you too the first time. I was going to talk to you
about that, but I didn't wantto take you off track of what you
were talking about. Let's play thisnext song because I want to hear all
about the sphere, dude. Let'splay this next song. So Dallas,
this is this is Oh sorry.This is a new one from I Don't
(31:04):
Know. It starts cold. Ilove these guys. This is from Cage
the Elephant. This is a NeonHills the a two power half hour of
the River. It takes one.No, that guy again, that's a
fair and Tell that's gonna been.So I'm trying to see games slight,
(31:44):
no Doubt, my Friend, NoCross, Cross, Spiney Pills, the
(32:15):
Tasty, hun Bomb, Bluem,the wo, the Chippy, my Child.
It's like back in the day Isaid the Left, the second five
(32:37):
people, Showy sid knock Down,not out its room and second oh up
across Lon that's a cagey elephant,Knon Pills. We're just playing a little
(33:16):
bit of that, I think,Matt, Yeah, we're just playing some
of these songs. You just wantto play a little samples of them.
I just want to cut it down. Sometimes you don't need a whole song.
Sometimes people have add sometimes people move. Can we talk about that really
fast? And I want to getinto the sphere? Well, just the
fact that people hardly listen to fullsongs anymore, I agree. That's why
(33:37):
I wanted to do it. That'swhy I want to know albums anymore.
I mean, there are but peopledon't care about listening to ten songs in
a row on an album. That'swe're changing music. We're changing how people
consume broadcast radio music. We're kindof getting this. Can I say I
had I had an idea years agoto have w a d D and all
it was was ten second hooks andyou can put one hundred and fifty songs
(33:58):
an hour. That was my idea. I should have done it, because
you remember the old mixtapes when youused to get a mixtape in a DJ
and then you would just hear thehook and then they would go into another
song or something like that. That'swhen DJ's are good. All I want
to talk about you too. Ican't wait because I was so jealous.
You got to go to the Sphere, and I have some other friends that
have been to experience. I wentway to Aeroff my friend John Harris.
It was my first guys trip I'veever been on, and we really yeah,
(34:22):
I don't have many friends. Idon't It's okay, but it was
the first time that I went.He got we got tickets. I went
out. Walking up to the Sphereis one of the most weirdest I looked
at it, like the size ofit and what it is. I was
like, oh my god, lookat this freaking thing. It kind of
(34:42):
blew my mind. We get intothe venue and even the inside the food
it's like it's not stadium food.It wasn't arena food. This food was
all gourmet, greatest food you've everhad in your life. Like the burgers
were watering and fresh and freshly cooked. And they had so many different stations
and sushi and this and that andhad all these different you know, Wolfgang
(35:06):
Puck has like concession stand and imaginehis ingenuity with like food and then they're
serving it to you on a massscale. And plus this place is massive.
Oh yeah, I don't know.I think it's ten thousand. That
sounds right, and that's only andthat's only in one side. It's only
on one side of it. Right. We had floors where I had pit
the ga pit walk in and tosee what it is. It's actually mind
(35:31):
altering because it's almost like, doyou remember when the meta things were when
you were the goggles and you couldlike it kind of changed where you were.
Now, this thing really did changewhere you were. It changed were
completely immersive. Yeah, because Iam not now in Las Vegas. I'm
in a desert and the show startingon, and you know, Bato comes
(35:52):
out and I want to give yousome final thoughts that we'll be shocking to
you, but I'm going to givethem to you. So then the show
starts and they're taking us all overthe place. And when I say taken,
I mean like we're really there aroundlike the shows. Yeah, the
show's happening. Yeah, And Ilook up in the corner and there's two
Apache helicopters coming up over the mountainand I'm seeing it in my left but
(36:13):
the show is happening in front ofme, and you're like, yeah,
yeah, yeah. But then allof a sudden, these Apache helicopters are
right above me. And then allof a sudden you can hear the sound
of the Apache helicopters. Yeah right, and you're just like, they're not
shooting anything, but they're a patchyhelicopter. You're like, I'm like looking
straight up almost back, like whatthe heck is that? Like what is
going on? And then a spotlightcomes down, and then there's Bono in
(36:34):
the spotlight, or then there's thisand that, and there was so many
immersive things that I encourage everyone togo see it. And it was one
of the coolest experiences I've ever had. But I do not think it is
the future of live entertainment. AndI'll tell you why. I think you
two had the luxury of going first, and it was also a disadvantage of
(36:55):
going first because they didn't know howto operate. They didn't know what they
were dealing with interesting, and youhad to put like seventy shows together.
You can't just on a whim,change stuff up and move stuff around.
Okay, it minimizes the band.Yeah, Saw it Saw like they were
just kind of incidental and it wasalmost like they were the soundtrack to all
the crazy cool stuff that was goingon, and the focus wasn't on the
(37:17):
personalities of the band members themselves.A band doesn't even have done a truck.
They're just showing up with their guitarsand that's it. There's no gear.
Yeah, the stage and the monitor. You're just taking a USB plug,
plug it in your video and bamyou're popping up. So I don't
think it's the future of live entertainment. Do you think that's a great destination
for Vegas and that we'll be therefor a long time? Yeah? I
(37:40):
think depends on who's in there.I think Fish is going to do it.
They're doing four to twenty I heard. Yeah. I think of course
they are. Yeah, and Ithink there's gonna be other bands like maybe
the stones or maybe iconic stuff orresidencies the guys that don't want to go
on the road anymore. Yeah,but I do. I think there's gonna
be one in every city and it'sthe future of live music. No way,
I never thought. But that's howthey that's how they build it.
(38:00):
Really, that's how Dolde from MadisonSquare Garden buildings the future of everything.
I was like, yeah, maybeNew York or LA. But you know,
I didn't, well, he's notgoing to have a sphere. By
the way, I didn't love theNew Drummer without them all on, Yeah,
I mean I didn't dig it.Man, I don't remember a drum
being played. It wasn't You didn'thear that pounded changed the whole vibe.
(38:22):
I thought Bono was I hate tosay it, I kind of thought they
were aged a little bit in there. So remember when they came out with
their redone songs the softer way,and I said, I think they're preparing
people for how they're going to presentthe songs. They did rock though,
right, Yeah, but Bono's voicejust was not quite as strong as I
just didn't feel it, to behonest, I didn't feel it in my
(38:44):
chest. I didn't feel it likewow, this is freaking cool. I
felt it in a way that Okay, this is this is neat, this
is awesome. So what I'm pickingup is it's not about going to see
you two at the sphere. It'sjust about going to experience the sphere and
yeah, and almost matter who's playing. I didn't think you two had the
edge. Okay, And I don'tmean I don't mean that guy, but
(39:06):
growing up with you too, seeinghim at JFK in Philadelphia in eighty nine
with one hundred thousand people, seeingthat young guy go out there, hold
people yeah, or seeing him inhershey, or seeing him all those years,
I mean, can you is thereanother band in your life that you
grew up with the symbolized your life. I mean that that was that iconic,
(39:27):
that much of a staple and liveentertainment. Yeah, they were the
first cutting edge. They were prettymuch defining. They really were. Even
when we saw I saw Aerosmith,I thought of that in a defining moment
lifetime wise, like how long havethese guys? But you too is really
that cutting edge forward big thing.So my advice to you is I would
definitely go see it. I thinkit's awesome, but you're gonna come away
(39:51):
with probably a different and my experienceon the floor is way different than someone
that was halfway up in the stands. Is that the place to be on
the floor or in the sty thestands? Okay, so you can get
a I had respect. I hadto look up the whole time, and
then I had to look at myguys, and then I checked up all
right, and then do whatever.So get on like the first level,
yeah whatever. I just think yougotta be up. I think I was
down pro tip it was. ButI'm jealous, man, I really I
(40:14):
want to get out there. Ido. I want to get out there.
There's only so many dates left.That's super cheap. But I know
you only live once. But theyhave all kinds of packages together. I
got to do it to keep extendingthe dates they do. But they're gonna
have to move for fish now,I think, I think. But the
thing is how many dates can theyfill in that place? That's how much
that place when you see the video, that's the question. And how does
(40:34):
that place cost a day to operate? A day? I can't even imagine.
It's got to be a couple hundredthousand dollars a day, you too,
was clearing what I read anyway,it was one point eight million dollars
a show for themselves. So thattells you how much it costs to run
the place. It takes a lot, good, it takes a lot.
Right, I'm jealous, Frank,thank you for episode number one, season
(40:54):
number five of the h Power HalfHour. We'll finish just like we always
do in a good note. Godbless everyone. Take care of yourselves,
and we'll see you next week.From Harrisburg University, Jon sister to fill
(41:22):
up your room. You've been livingground from a cat. You've been wrong.
You don't understand. Stop down.She beat then he's all right,
(41:45):
he's all right. It's all right. She lives ways. He's all right,
he's alright, alright. She movesin the serious way. You want
(42:10):
to take her down with your sister, the ray man talk about the things.
You can explain the speak herds hadto speel. If you want kiss
the scot little that he needs onyour knees. Boy, she turned the
(42:34):
tame. She knows what. It'sall right, it's all right, all
right. She fells you steerious wayit's all right. It's all right,
all man. She moves you stayall right right, all right, live
(43:05):
my day, lad of my dad? Word see rabat? Why stay into
(43:49):
new so follow this. It's allright, it's all right, all right.
She will still the standious ways.It's all right, it's all right,
all right. She go still mysteriousways. All right, don't lave
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the lads. It's all life.That move. Let you move. It's
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