WEBVTT - Thundercat 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.680 The Quest Left Show is a production of iHeart Radio. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.200 Okay, put them on the table. Do you do what? 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.240 You make more sense? Right, because we're going to talk. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:27.760 We're gonna talk. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:28.720 We're talking about it. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:33.960 Yes, we're going to playing our spot nay Man a 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:34.600 year tonight. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.440 I'm here, your name, I'm leaving. I'm leaving. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.360 Okay, where are you? Next? Thing? 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.360 Next is the Australia, New Zealand and Tokyo in Japan. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:46.400 I'm doing the Ronnie Foster. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.559 I'm leaving on a midnight playing. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.800 Ah. Okay, wait are we on? I'm sorry? 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:53.440 Yeah? 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:59.840 All right, god I did that like Walter Crime. Good evening. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.920 All right, So once again, ladies and gentlemen, you are 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.760 tuned into the platform that apparently is a haven for 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.080 bass players. Yes, we've had so far, James Alexander, we 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.760 have flee. You had none but coin words for our 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.360 guest today. Of course, the Mono Neon episode, which we 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.240 guys were highly happy with today, is no exception. I 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.720 got to get a drummer on here. Eventually, it's probably 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.320 reductive to just refer to our guests as a bass 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.520 player or a Grammy winning bass player. I really don't 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:39.600 know the proper superlative that could accurately describe our guest today. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.199 He's definitely one of the quirkiest I mean, of course, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.680 these are things you've heard about him. Quirky, genius, very distinctive, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.640 very original. I love his work because it's full of 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.880 truth and humor and pain. It scares me to here 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.160 is music because these are often the thoughts that are 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:57.800 in my head. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:58.520 Oh man. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.600 Yeah, So as we celebrate Black Music Month, we at 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.400 QLs here are happy to welcome the one of the 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.800 only Thundercat to the show. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.640 Thank you, bro Man, thank you, thank you, thank you. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.639 All right, number one, you got to show me the chain. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.720 Okay, what's the Doom? 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.200 I wore these because I wanted to get a chance 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.120 to talk to you about him. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.560 This is a very very special story. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:28.680 He hold it up to our you know, two of them. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.520 If you look on the inside, there's an inscription too, 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.840 there's a wow. This was These were created by Han Soolo, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.480 who was the person who created the actual Doom mask. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.239 And on the inside it says here lies Victor von 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.919 Doom aka Daniel du Malay rip. Nineteen seventy one. There's 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.359 a long there's a story behind him. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:49.120 What's the story. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.360 Okay, so there is there's a little bit of a 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.639 history between me Flying Lotus Doom, you know, working on 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.919 a couple of things together, this specific moment where these 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.160 come about or these take effect. They were like some 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.480 things I think that were released or Adult Swim, and 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.680 it was like one song was called Between Friends and 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.320 Between Villains and it was kind of like Captain Murphy 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.920 Flying Lotus. So it's like it's kind of like you 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.120 know him, you know, spitting and like it's one of 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.320 those moments where from that fast forward there's so many 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.799 you know, like the legendary stories of how he really 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.120 was the villain slash, you know, be. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.600 Doing all kinds of stuff like, man, wait a minute, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:31.320 is that him? You know? 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.960 No, these two take place after he's moved back to 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.560 London and I think they, oh, yeah, I'm forgetting. One 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.680 of the songs that was also leading to this, there's 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.440 a song called lunch Break on Grand Theft Auto five 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.480 where this was a moment of Doom also like kind 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.360 of you know, getting back into doing stuff. So it's 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.200 like it was kind of like the idea or notion 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.320 of getting getting a chance to work more with him 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.520 was like really you know, Oh my god, you know, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.880 it's exciting, it's you know, and. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.280 How many songs were completed at all? 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.080 I mean this, I feel like Flying Lotus would know more, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.440 bit you know, but I know that there was a couple, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.840 you know, and but nonetheless, i'd me again, I'm like, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.200 I have a doom tattoo, you know what I mean? 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.120 Like again, come into the knowledge of doom is such 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.880 like a spiritual experience, you know what I mean, It's 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.880 like for anybody. And I think that's kind of why 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.640 the mass kind of even just resonates with people. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.880 Well, I sort of experienced this firsthand when Kolkeith hmm, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.160 you know, he came to me as you know, one 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.320 fourth of the ultraman Negin seas and then he had 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.919 this whole nother afterlife now doomed to me like because 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.320 of my age, I guess or my experience, you know, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.440 and on third base in the gas face like he's 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.480 always been zev love X to me. And I had 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.400 to get accustomed to doom because they're so radically different, yeah, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.800 than just your traditional break pieces and stuff. But I 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.200 would like to ask people that worship at the altar 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.720 of doom, like is there ever any curiosity into his 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.159 past his Clark Kent period? 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.960 Absolutely? 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.000 And you got to For me, it's kind of like 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.000 I would have to go backwards because it's like I 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.320 removed by about ten, twelve, fifteen years and I would 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.720 come to discover that stuff later on before I. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.160 After right, Okay, that's why I want to know the 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.920 osmosis thing. For me, I got it. And again I come. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.800 I come from a history that with the dudes that 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.240 Sara where it was like do your history, No, no, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.920 go backwards and know where things came from and leading 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.599 to these chains being made. There's like this him expression 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.880 to want to work more, but I would have to 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.800 go meet him in London because you know. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.160 He wasn't wasn't allowed by states. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.520 You know, good Lord, that did not age well right now. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.000 But we were like, nah, whatever it takes, let's it 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.479 don't matter. I'm pulling up. I was like I saw 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.120 the goal, I saw the you know, the you know, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.719 I know where we were going and what could have been man, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.840 oh my god. Now I'm thinking about it, like, ah, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.799 what could have been lying Lotus? And you know it's 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.000 we were building a nuke, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.760 I always at least in my head, and this is 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.919 weird for me to ask a question because like I know, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.800 now I'm playing the role of journalists and you're the artist. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.120 But also forget that in my day job, i'm one 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:30.640 of you. However, when you have an entire ecosystem. And 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.640 I mean this in the most lovinglessiest way. Ever, when 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.040 I say batch it crazy, I just meant like eccentric. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.040 Oh you know, we got it? 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.120 Like someone has to play the straight person, do they not? 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.839 Or like, look, there's the years of who. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.560 Wants to be in the alpha in a room, like 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.280 in this situation, if it is Lotus, who's the alpha 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.200 and who's someone has to be fifty one forty nine? 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:55.719 Do they not? 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.839 Or m speaking of it in that terminology? I think 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.520 no way. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.040 There's a place that exists in the heart of knowing 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.400 that the value of it is worth its ability to 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:09.880 figure it out. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:10.960 So it's almost as. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.440 If being the president and if it works, it works exactly. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.200 So like even when me and Lotus would look at 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.880 each other, it would be like this, it was like 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:18.880 it was like Star Trek. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.600 It was like make it so it was like here we. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.080 Go, all right, see this is why I have this platform. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:31.080 I think because of my drill Sergeant Dad like has 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.120 made me into such a control freak that I'm almost 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.880 afraid to have that level. I mean, I guess you 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.320 could say I might have had it with D'Angelo, but 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.680 even with him, by like month one, I think I 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:46.920 was operating in fear. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:47.520 Hmm. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:52.960 Because label people will drop by and you know, mind 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.960 you this is ninety six ninety seven, so everything's like 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.320 sexy and shiny, and yeah, you know they're thinking he's 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.960 going to come up with like one twelve's only you. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:11.120 Right right and jeans with a big belt buckle and right, and. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.480 You know, by like the first year, I was like, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.400 oh god, they're gonna blame me. They're gonna blame me 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.240 for this, blame me for this. So I just was 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:17.920 never in that. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.440 Place that's awesome. 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.880 I would try to reel it backwards like the crazier 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.040 they got right, So right, okay, But I always wanted 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.800 to know that, what is your first musical memory in life? 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.880 Oh there's something that did pop in my mind and 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 I vaguely remember it. I don't know if this was like, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.280 you know, this is from a different era of like 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.760 I don't even know I'm remembering it wrong, I'm sure, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.520 but I remember. I think this was in Detroit with 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.040 my mom. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.679 I think you born. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.280 I was born here in La Okay, raised in Compton 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.680 for maybe the first ten some odd years of my life. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.880 Four Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm from Compton, like my 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.040 dad's really from Compton. Like my dad is like Compton Compton, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.960 went to like Centennial and then when he when the family, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:12.480 my dad married my mom and she was from Inkster, Michigan, and. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.319 She moved to La to be with my dad. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.800 And we at the in in that first few years 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.480 of life. I would I think they were maybe trying 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.040 to figure. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.120 Out where we were going to go or. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.040 And I remember my mom always always make sure to 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.959 try to remind me of things, like you know, growing 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.600 up at church out there, or like I don't remember anything. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:33.719 I remember McDonald's. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.160 I remember, you know, like drawing the Ninja turtles and 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.040 getting in trouble falling off a swing. I think I 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:43.240 got in trouble for flashing my neighbor. Like I don't know, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.760 I remember it's snowing a lot. I think I got 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.600 remember cat poop in Compton. No, no, no, this is 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.839 in Detroit, Detroy. No, not snowing in Compton. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.000 Okay. I was like, wait a minute. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.240 From what I can remember growing up in Compton, I 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.480 just remember my grandma's back door that led to the kitchen. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.840 I think I got in trouble. There a lot you 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:03.400 got in trouble. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:03.880 A lot didn't. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:04.800 Yeah, I would imagine. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.080 I think there's a couple of there's like a couple 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:08.960 of moments that I can see in my brain, Like 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.240 I think there was a garage, and I think there 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.440 was like this brick wall around our house that was 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.440 blocking us off from the main road in the freeway 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.000 and everything, but it was like concrete. I think I 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.480 remember standing face in the corner with like a voice 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.000 changing helmet in my like my toy guitar. That was 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.199 like but but it wasn't like because I was in trouble. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.360 I just think I liked the corner and I liked 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.200 how I was, like it made my voice sound, so 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.520 I would like base the corner and like play with 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.960 the toy. I don't know, maybe that sounds weird. I'm 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.360 pretty sure it does. But yeah, no, that's but it 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.880 was lived between Compton and for a small stint of 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.720 time Inkster, Michigan. Okay, and my first memory would be 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.720 singing this song. I don't know it was for church 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.719 or something with my brother where it was like I remember. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.960 Take my life and let it be constantly created. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.480 And I don't remember what it was for. I feel 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.440 like there was a video and that was the only 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.200 time I can remember wearing a suit. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.480 I think I hated it ever in life. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.760 Yeah, I think that was the I feel like I 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.319 remember it was like my mom had us in it 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.000 was like Christmas suits. I had like a green suit 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.520 with a bolo tie. It was like a seersucker and 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.959 I think that was my I was like, never again and. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.439 You stuck to that. Yeah. Okay. So when you said 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.200 you're from Compton, and I'm certain that that's maybe ninety 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.160 percent of your reactions, But I also realized that my 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.199 reactions are based on what I hear from the news. Yeah, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.480 because we live where we live, I'm now questioning everything 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.200 I hear. So I will ask you, what do we 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:49.280 get wrong about Compton? And was that just marketing to 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.800 sell some records? Because the thing is is that my 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.440 mother's side of the family left Pittsburgh. Half of them 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.319 moved to Alta Dina, and I think my grandmother got 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.880 a house in Compton. So apparently I lived in Compton 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.840 in like for one year in nineteen seventy three while 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.600 my parents went to make a record, right, and you know, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:17.320 I have slight memories of life childhood. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.320 And it wouldn't act. It wouldn't act. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.960 Yeah, So I mean it wasn't just the marketing, like 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.880 what was your Compton neighborhood like, or more specifically, if 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:30.000 you were this quirky, eccentric kid or this person that 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.959 you are, now, how do you navigate that in your childhood? 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.199 Because I was that person in my neighborhood. Yeah, And 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.800 by the age of five, my parents were wise enough. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.079 To be like, we got to move. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.040 No, you no, Like you're staying in the house. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.360 So yeah, yeah, okay. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.680 They wouldn't let me go outside. They just thought, like, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.720 you're way too vulnerable, you'll get beat up every day. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.199 And so I just lived in the house with records. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:54.680 I hear you. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.120 There's a lot of intersectional points academically to socially that 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.040 existed for the places that we were growing up and 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.720 stuff like that. And I got two versions of the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.560 story for what this is because there is the person 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.439 that's got their head in the clouds, so to speak. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.000 That has to be kind of like all right, Stephen, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.320 you know. And that takes place a little bit later 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.280 in life, like from maybe thirteen up. And that was 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.760 on meeting Reggie Andrews. But my name I always hear 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:24.280 the most. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.760 Yeah he is, Uh, was Reggie Andrews specifically responsible for 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:34.240 every musician? Yes, And because I hear the name Reggie 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:35.959 Andrews of course of the Dazz Band. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.360 Yeah, it's like it's almost like a sitcom because like 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.320 for me, he's just the teacher, mister Andrews. You know, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.800 he's like, you know, it's bald, big mustache, you know, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.680 and like that old like it's almost like a vigner 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:45.400 and a TV show. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:46.680 It's like you and me and my heyday. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.679 And then when I only saw a video him in 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.640 the Dazz Band on the funeral and my jaw was 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.040 on the floor, I was like. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.520 So you didn't know let it whip or let it 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.280 or enjoy stick or no. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.280 I knew all the songs. I knew all the songs. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.640 I knew everything, but again esthetically or seeing it in action, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.599 I didn't know what that was. I was like I 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.080 always would hear, like mister Andrews was like, oh earth 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.560 wind and fire level, Like I would be like, I 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.280 mean the guy that wears the card again with the 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.360 with I'm like, nah, I know, I just don't see it. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.520 And then I saw it and I was like, if 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.680 that's what he was instilling in me, Oh yeah, I'm 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:21.720 I'm there it is. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.000 How long did he teach at the school? Since it 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:25.280 was built from the ground up. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.160 There's a picture of him at the beginning of the 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.040 school getting built. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.720 Yeah, with a silver shovel. Who else of note went there? 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.600 Because literally, you gotta be the twentieth person. I know, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.280 that's name. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:44.600 And the far side Patrese Terrace Martin, I mean off 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.480 the top. That's just the first thing there's So there's 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.880 a lot. My teacher went to fire a horn section 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:50.760 of Gerald Albright. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.400 Good lord? What was he teaching us? 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.000 Yes, good lord? 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.200 What didn't he teach us? He taught us how to 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:57.520 be men. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.000 We used to have a program called Men of Life 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.840 delegation Tyres Gibson too. You know, my brother, my older brother, 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.240 Ronald good lord. But it's like he taught us how 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.960 to survive, like for real, for real, like he taught 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.440 us how to survive, Like our school was central to 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.240 multiple gang territories. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.360 How do you avoid that? 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.960 Mister Andrews will whoop your asss Like he was that teacher. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.160 He'd be like, don't come in here with that, and 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.400 he would drop kick you in the hallway. For me 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.400 and my brother, he was like a second father. My 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.680 dad had known Reggie maybe since high school to college, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.720 and so it was one of those things where like 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.600 mister Andrews was like, when they're of age, you know 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.360 where to send him because he started teaching early on, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.480 I think. But in the bigger scheme of the experience 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.200 of growing up, we grew up on the line of 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.240 the line between Compton and Watts which was separated by 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.240 the one oh five Freeway. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.120 Okay, so it's like I don't know, like we kind. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.880 Of slowly migrated further north, like landing in West Adams 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.240 by the time I was about thirteen fourteen, which is 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.400 where this all kind of meets in a different place. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.000 Me in middle school, I would get picked up. We 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.560 were going to go to lack High School. I wanted 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.560 to go to Fairfax for illustration, like you know, I 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.680 was like I knew Tom McFarland went there. I was like, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.520 I want to be I want to be an illustrator, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:27.040 and my dad was like, absolutely not. Why because I 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.760 don't know if there's like an undertone of like, you know, nah, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.200 you will you will definitely be broke for the rest 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.000 of your life. I don't know what that was, but 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.120 it was also like the wanting to be the illustrator 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.880 versus mister Andrews being at the helm. I think it 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.600 was my dad knew the importance of us being with 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:45.520 Reggie Andrews. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.440 Is this him? 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.080 No, that's Don Cornelius. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.120 Now come on, now, I know Don Cornelius. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:50.960 Is him? 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.600 No, that ain't him. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.280 Okay, I'm on an old episode of Soul Train. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.480 He played keyboards, So if he is on soul Train, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:58.920 you're gonna blow my mind too. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.440 No, he's definitely want the dash man's on Soul Train. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 That looked like, no, no, that's not him. No, I 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.159 may not see man. I can't I see a like. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.040 I know I can recognize people's faces, but mister Andrews 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.680 with a Jerry Crow Is is that him right there. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.360 On the far left? That's him on the far left? 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.320 Is that right there? That just pointed to the drummer. Yes, wait, no, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.320 that can't be Reggie Andrews. No, hold on, it's a 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.320 whole lot of members. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:29.560 Hold on, they've had members throughout the Yeah, that looked. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.480 That looked a little bit like need to me. I'm 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.280 like they had the softness of the face. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:34.719 I was like, wait, I definitely know one of these 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:35.760 catch is Reggie Andrews. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.320 Yeah, because I'm saying, I was like, wait a minute, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.640 all I see is a handlebar mustache. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.840 I can't I don't know how long he's had to 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.040 handle I now. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.119 I feel like there should be a documentary short on 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.920 him on his mustache or just yes on the mustache. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.320 Yeah. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.639 What did your parents do? I know your dad was 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:55.200 a musician. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.680 Yeah, my dad both musicians. My mom used to play 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.880 in the Philharmonic. My dad what did he play? Flute, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.920 floutist and a bit of percussion, and my U show 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.520 again also played grew up playing at Crenshaw Christian Center 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.200 and all that, And then my dad was more of 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.480 a road traveled musician who worked with many people like 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.720 Jody Wattley. Again, I was every you know, As I 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.159 get older, I just, you know, sometimes I don't remember 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.159 every last thing. But I know my dad was a 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.439 very working musician and then also kind of has been 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.600 working at Disneyland for the majority of my life. Yeah, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.359 Pops is a real He's a g man. Really, he 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.280 is a g I'll never forget the day he got 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.560 the job working at Disneyland. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.240 That was a as a kid. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.120 It's like, I don't have too many core memories because 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.000 it's all washed over and all the things that we're 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.720 talking about, But I do remember seeing my dad in 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.800 a in a grass skirt playing in the Lion King 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.600 Parade or it was one of the it was like, it's. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.359 A core memory. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:51.760 big deal. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.440 I remember he was blushing, he was trying to play 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.080 and he was playing. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:56.119 He was playing Jim Bay. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.240 Really yeah, yeah, he was playing Jim Bay and he 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.879 was walking down and he was like you saw us, 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.360 like waving and stuff, and he's like, okay, okay, yeah. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.560 I'll never forget it saved our lives, you know. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:13.040 So would you often go to Disneyland like Rucini? Yeah, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.800 like this explains everything. Yeah, Like I used to hang 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.639