Episode 15, Talking South Carolina Podcast Interview with Daryl Howard with the Cash Money Experience Band Columbia, SC

Episode transcript:

Angela Barrett – “Hey, Daryl. Thank you for being with me today.”

Daryl Howard – Thank you for having me.

Angela Barrett – Yeah. I’m excited.

Daryl Howard – Pleasure.

Angela Barrett – “To know Daryl. You are, the lead singer with Cash Money Experience Band, right?”

Daryl Howard – “Yes, I am.”

Angela Barrett – And you guys have been together for about 20 years.

Daryl Howard – “Well, this band, that I’m speaking of now, been together for 16 years.”

Angela Barrett – 16. So almost. Yeah.

Daryl Howard – “Yeah, almost.”

Angela Barrett – And you guys are a five piece. R and b.

Daryl Howard – “A we we we classify ourselves as R&B, Motown top 40.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. A lot of beach music because I. I’ve listened and danced. Yeah. So, Daryl, tell me one thing. How do you see yourself as have gotten to where you are today?”

Daryl Howard – “Well, since I’ve been doing this since I was young. My brothers, it’s a family thing with my brothers. We were called what we are called now, the new rods, because we are still together.”

Angela Barrett – “It is, but again.”

Daryl Howard – A new Ron’s.

Angela Barrett – “Okay, Ron.”

Daryl Howard – “That is a group I first started with. With with my brothers. Two brothers and cousins. We’re a family, a group, right? We had some small recordings out, regional stuff still in Philly and, Delaware area. We had a song called I’m a Loner and that put us on the charts a little bit. We used to open up for The Stylistics, The Delfonics, The Temptations, and Gladys Knight and the pips.”

Daryl Howard – “Wow. All that. And, my other brothers, they just decided to go their own way and do their own thing. But I stuck with it right? It’s like a passion to me. Like it wouldn’t let me stop. So I just kept going and getting into different things. And then I came down here, South Carolina, and got with the band called the Ocasiones.”

Daryl Howard – “I’m a girl watcher, right? I was a lead singer for them for, wow, 20 years. Came down here in 93. I was lead singer for them, Wayne Pittman for 20 years. And through that band I came up with Cash Money because a lot of couple his members were in the occasions as well. So they decided to retire.”

Daryl Howard – “But I didn’t want to stop. Sure. They asked. That’s when I put together. I asked my bass player and my guitar player. They were with occasions. I asked him, did you want to keep this thing going? So we all got together and that’s our cash money experience came together.”

Angela Barrett – “Now, how did you guys come up with that name?”

Daryl Howard – “It or not, we were doing gigs and people was paying a spot checks. Couple checks bounced up. So we said we have to make a statement on this thing. Let’s call ourself cash money. So that way that would kind of make it make the people say okay. And it works too, because they say, now we would like to pay you my check, but, does that cash money mean anything?”

Daryl Howard – “I say, well, you know, we we ran into a couple couple problems with checks, so that’s why we came up with the name Cash Money. So they say. Oh, yeah. We just. I mean, well, we we accept checks and everything. Don’t get your. But that’s how that name came up. We said, man, we need to make it.”

Daryl Howard – No cash money.

Angela Barrett – “Right, right.”

Daryl Howard – “And the experience came in. There was a, there’s a famous rap group called Cash Money in Los Angeles. And every time they go on and look for us, they would pull them up because they was more famous than we were. But we said we need something to set us apart. So that’s where the experience came in. Right. Money experience?”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah, I get it. That’s a great story. I love it. Bounced checks? Yeah. I now, Do you guys, like, do y’all have other things y’all do y’all work other places besides just playing money or. I mean, music or y’all just, play music?”

Daryl Howard – “No, we are blessed to do this full time.”

Angela Barrett – “Phenomenal. So, how many gigs do y’all do? Let’s just say any given month. Wow.”

Daryl Howard – Well.

Angela Barrett – I don’t know. That varies.

Daryl Howard – “But to sum it up, we do around 82 jobs a year.”

Angela Barrett – “Wow. So where do you feel the. This band. Where’s the biggest place or biggest scene you’ve ever played? Because I know, you know, like, just here and that.”

Daryl Howard – We’ve been in we recently been to California. We did a big car show out there.

Angela Barrett – “Oh, wow.”

Daryl Howard – “And, they they booked us and then and we get a lot of we’re getting a lot of jobs behind my, neurons fame angle is why I say that. Because we have recordings in London. The neurons. We have recordings in California. They love us in California. So when they see my face with the cash money, they automatically go to the new rod’s name.”

Daryl Howard – “So. Right. Matter of fact, people in London think cash money is the new. You know, because I see my face. So, my, one of my biggest things is, is with cash money is what we would do. And, not, I can’t think of the name Fontana, ill. That’s where it was.”

Angela Barrett – Gotcha.

Daryl Howard – “Ontario. Yes. And, we did a big car show out there, and, they accepted it real well. I mean, it was like they made us feel like rock stars.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. Yeah, well, you are.”

Daryl Howard – And and we just just had our another one that was up with this. We just had our 16th year anniversary.

Angela Barrett – Right.

Daryl Howard – As knew shows.

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – “The concert that was in May. Our manager, Debbie Fries and and, our PR person, Joanne Benson, they really did their staying on that. I mean, the decorations up, putting it together. Oh. It was nice. It was. Yeah. It was. They they flew my family in which I didn’t know. They said.”

Angela Barrett – Oh.

Daryl Howard – Nice family from new Jersey. They they flew them in and surprise me with that because I didn’t know they was.

Angela Barrett – Just.

Daryl Howard – “If it was that that was another big, big, landmark in, in, cash money.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. Yeah. Well that’s great. Now, so about the Bay. Now, what about, you told me a little bit about your background. What about the other guys? What? What? Okay, what backgrounds do they have?”

Daryl Howard – “The name of the guys, in the band or bass? My bass player is named Teddy Jackson.”

Angela Barrett –

Daryl Howard – “Keyboard player Lucious fire. We call him doc. The drummer. Danny Kelly. Guitar player, which he’s from new Jersey with, with where I’m from. That’s why we get along so well. Eugene Williams, he used to play with Kornegay.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, go. One of my favorites.”

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. Yeah. He used to play with Corner Gang because, you know, Corner Gang is from up that way.”

Angela Barrett – “Jersey, right? You know, those long celebration.”

Daryl Howard – “Blues and nation. We, the songs he played on was, celebration. Get down on it. Hollywood swinging and she’s fresh. Yeah, we we do them in our shows. So.”

Angela Barrett – “The celebration song, when I was a very young, white, married woman. That used to be my toilet bowl cleaning. Then I think about it. Several.”

Daryl Howard – “Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, that’s requested a lot. Because when we do birthday parties and stuff like that. Well, can you play celebration?”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. You know.

Daryl Howard – “It’s it’s a, it’s a it’s good too.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. Yeah. I’m sorry.

Daryl Howard – “And people start singing with it, you know, every night are singing along with it. So what? Yeah. Those guys, like I said, they’ve they’ve been sticking with me for 16 years. We actually took cash money into a business, where it’s not a we play a gig and everybody’s full of money, right? We too.”

Daryl Howard – We turned it into a business.

Angela Barrett – Sure.

Daryl Howard – “Matter of fact, we just got a record deal.”

Angela Barrett – Right? I was going to ask you about that.

Daryl Howard – “Okay. Yeah, we just got a record deal from Stock Warner Records out of new Jersey.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – “Amanda. The music, we’re affiliated with them in, And. And Los Angeles. Wow. Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia. They do all our marketing PR work stuff like that. So we just released a song called outside Looking in, which is one of the neurons that I was telling you about, my brother’s group. It’s an old song that the record company in Atlanta gave us.”

Daryl Howard – “They said, you know, go ahead, take that song and redo it for cash money. So that’s what we did.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. I was going to ask you the story behind that song. Yeah.

Daryl Howard – And so it’s a it’s a new Ron’s a remake of what of the neurons old songs. And we did it our way.

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – “That matter of fact that’s going to be, fully released tomorrow.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, I was going to say the 19th was a day for you guys. Yeah.”

Daryl Howard – “The record company put together a, a big package for us. We have a clothing line, that’s going to be launched. We have a website that’s going to be launched. We also have the the song. So all that’s going to be launched tomorrow.”

Angela Barrett – “So is this coming out as a single or is it going to be in a single a gotcha. Well, great. Well congratulations. That’s phenomenal.”

Daryl Howard – And I’ll send you a copy.

Angela Barrett – “Absolutely. Please do. Now, when you guys are on stage, is is the way you dress a very well thought out, first of all, ourselves. I mean, I know there is, because I’ve seen you play, but, Tell us the story behind how y’all came up with sort of. I’m not going to call it outfits, but costumes are, you know.”

Daryl Howard – “Again, all this is stemming from the neurons.”

Angela Barrett –

Daryl Howard – “When we opened the show for Gladys Knight and the pips in at the Convention Hall in Camden, she called us in her dressing room.”

Angela Barrett – Now we all is this. And oh.

Daryl Howard – Wow. This is back in the 80s.

Angela Barrett – And the.

Daryl Howard – Before I came down here.

Angela Barrett –

Daryl Howard – “And she told us, she said that dressing is a very important part of the show because number one, it shows respect for the audience. If the audience is going to pay money to travel, to come see it, you should have respect enough to look presentable on the show. Sure. She also said that’s how she was taught from Motown.”

Daryl Howard – “Motown taught her that, how to do that because that was part of their success. So all their groups, they went through grooming process, how to talk, how to dress right, how to do interviews and conduct herself on stage. So she sat us down and said, follow that rule. And that is 75% of your show, the dress. Because people, people’s going to see you before they hear you.”

Daryl Howard – “So I told the guys the same thing. I said, look, we’re not going to go out there looking like, we just got off work. If you see cotton grass, you know, jeans, and I’m not down in the other other bands because if that’s that’s the way they want to do, that’s fine. But I want to stand out.”

Angela Barrett – “Well, and you sing a very particular type of music, right?”

Daryl Howard – “Right. We do more show. Show. Our band is more of a show band career and then getting up there and just playing, you know what I mean? We want to entertain our going audience and and, interact with the people and, and make them feel a part of the show.”

Angela Barrett – “And it almost, a little old school bringing you, throwing you back a little bit in time when. Yeah.”

Daryl Howard – “Well, that’s where I came from. The old school.”

Angela Barrett – “Right? Me, too. And. And when and when you could understand the words in the song. Right. And you could say them in front of children saying.”

Daryl Howard – “Right. Yeah. We try to do we try to do shows up now we, we we can get, we can get down that we really wanted to we can we can go there and we, we want to do you know what I mean.”

Angela Barrett – What if requested a lot.

Daryl Howard – “Of our artists, a lot of our, performances is more like, family oriented, you know, and, and older people. So we always try to, respect that some. That’s the thing that we try to do and bring people together to have fun.”

Angela Barrett – “Right, right, right.”

Daryl Howard – “We that’s why we get a lot of gigs. Because they say, man, if you want to have fun, call Cash Money.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah, that’s.”

Daryl Howard – “You know what I mean. And and just like, get back to the dress. We got a reputation now where when we walk in, I mean, we’re not dressed when we walk in, because we got to set up and all that. Sure. People come up to which are wearing night club owner, which you are wearing tonight, it’s a surprise.”

Daryl Howard – “We’ll let you know because now it’s got to the thing. They want to come see us to see what we’re where. You know, I got all that works. You guys together?”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. Now the creative process with you guys. How how does that work for us.

Daryl Howard – The shows and.

Angela Barrett – Yeah I mean like that. Yeah. You don’t get up there and do the same set every where you go.

Daryl Howard – “We, we had different sets. That goes back to what I said about, different, different audiences. We have different sets for different places.”

Angela Barrett –

Daryl Howard – “If we go, for example, the Myrtle Beach, we got a beach set. Yeah. My girl, under the boardwalk. I know things like that. When we do a dual club. That wants to party, then we come with with, Marvin Gaye, the temptations. You know, Cuzwhen the gang, right? If we don’t like a wedding or something, then we can come with the Righteous Brothers.”

Daryl Howard – “Al Green, you know. So we had eight sets that Sharon’s incorporate with, you know, like last night. It was, like a concert. So we mixed it up, right? Beach for beach people. We did some R&B for R&B people. Then we did some top 40 for the younger people. So, sure, we make sure that we have enough material that we can do that.”

Angela Barrett – “Now, where are some of the top 40 songs that you guys do?”

Daryl Howard – “Well, we they like to we do Bruno Mars. People love Brandy on Mars. We do. Let me see Bruno Mars now. Now that.”

Angela Barrett –

Daryl Howard – “Well, we do most most of the the popular. Not most of it, but the popular stuff that you hear on the radio. Sure. We try to, put do about learn about least 5 or 6 of them. Right. Would cooperate with our show.”

Angela Barrett – “Now, where do you guys practice at?”

Daryl Howard – “My keyboard player’s, he has a building on Beltline.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, nice.”

Daryl Howard – Is set up.

Angela Barrett – And y’all are all here in Columbia?

Daryl Howard – “Yes. He has a studio. He has a studio where we rehearse. Everything’s set up. What we do is go in, plug in, and. Yeah, first. Yeah, we we try to rehearse twice a month. Yeah. You know, at least twice a month.”

Angela Barrett – “Well, I, I say I interrupt you with my celebrations. Say you were, you were telling me about the backgrounds and and of course, we got to the guy that played with Kool and the gang and. Yeah. Tell me about the others.”

Daryl Howard – “And and the other guys, the keyboard player he’s played with, out of Atlanta. He’s coming from Atlanta. He’s played with, artists, R&B artists like, cameo. The Gap Band, things like that. He’s played with them. Bass player. He’s played with old school guys like, Clarence Carter.”

Angela Barrett – Oh.

Daryl Howard – Johnny.

Angela Barrett – “That’s something you can’t play for children. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. That’s what we’re not saying, that we can go there now when they want us to go there. We bring out class car. You know what I mean?”

Angela Barrett – You got to be from certain places to know. Yeah. Yes. By the way. Oh.

Daryl Howard – Yeah. Yeah.

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – “And the drummer, he he he’s he’s the youngest guy in the band. Matter of fact, he hasn’t played with too many groups, and. But he’s been with us for 16 years, so, you know, we kind of, groupings in.”

Angela Barrett – Sure.

Daryl Howard – “Yeah, we kind of groomed him. So, so. But the rest of the guys have played with, big artists, so they kind of know how to conduct herself. Sure. They, you know, they know the game. We know they know the business.”

Angela Barrett – “So now, how do you think, out of the people that, you know, that you played with Gladys Knight and the pips and I think you said temptations and.”

Daryl Howard –

Angela Barrett – “What do you think was your favorite band that you, you know, played with.”

Daryl Howard – “Well, well I was the nicest and I’ll go back to Gladys Knight.”

Angela Barrett – “So now I know,”

Daryl Howard – “They, they treated us. They I mean, don’t get me wrong. Everybody has an ego to your point. All the other groups, they got a little ego. I mean, of course they got hit records in famous. You know what I’m saying? So. So that the groups were mean to us. They treated us like, musicians and with respect.”

Daryl Howard – “You know, as much as they could, because we were the only one that didn’t had the hit record and stuff like that. Right. Well, Gladys Knight, she took her, took the time to sit down with us. And tell us what I was speaking about, about the dressing and how to conduct herself. She took the time. I mean she is she is a very down to earth lady.”

Daryl Howard – “She is. And, I real and I, I’ve told that story every time because, she, she really gave us some gems on that. I mean, and and we I follow that too, till the day, you know. Right. So I would say Gladys Knight in the pips, and we we we performed. Matter of fact, other top 40 stuff that she was asked me boys to man.”

Daryl Howard – “Oh, I know them box personally. Boys did well. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and, we met back there from Philly. We’re off in Philadelphia. So I know them guys personally. So, we do. We do a lot of their stuff. You know, speaking up top 40 stuff. We do some of their stuff, like, you know, and, end of the road was our biggest hit, called Engine Road.”

Daryl Howard – “Right? And we do that one. So. So, yeah. We, like I said about Gladys Knight is about my favorite. Get back to that. Yeah. Dance. You question.”

Angela Barrett – “So would you say would you say that was probably the,”

Angela Barrett – I guess the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given by another musician? Or can you think of something else? Best piece of advice?

Daryl Howard – I think that was it.

Angela Barrett – “Yeah, that’s a pretty good one, though. I mean, it’s.”

Daryl Howard – “That put me on the right track right there because we was going into it. I mean, we was going into it at that time. We were young. All we wanted to do and, be honest with you, we didn’t care about getting paid. We didn’t care about, the business in all we wanted to do, to be honest, to sing with girls.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. That’s it.

Daryl Howard – “I’ll be honest with you. I mean, we were young boys coming up. Sure. And we loved the girl hollering it all that and making eyes at us. Waving at us. And, that’s that’s that’s all we were really, you know, into it for at the time. But when Gladys Knight set us down and told us, look, you could go further if you follow these steps, because that’s why I’m that, she said, that’s why I’m where I’m at now, because Berry Gordy claimed room the all his groups and yeah, I took it from there.”

Daryl Howard – “So that was one I think that was the best piece of advice. Yeah. That groomed me and made me, think about how to do this, get me in this business, because the business is very competitive and hard. I mean, people see you on stage, and. Oh, he’s having so much fun in which we are, but they don’t know the behind the scenes.”

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. You got to deal with, the rehearsals, traveling and stuff like that. You know, they don’t they don’t see that part. Yeah, you see that part of it? So they buy some. Gladys made me think about it more on a business point of view than just us. And we can do this for a living, you know.”

Daryl Howard –

Angela Barrett – “Right, right.”

Daryl Howard – “So that piece of advice really made me, made us take more.”

Angela Barrett – “So you just mentioned there, about the traveling and sort of what the people don’t see. How do you guys handle all that?”

Daryl Howard – “Well, as far how it far as,”

Angela Barrett – “Dealing with that? I mean, it’s a lot it’s it’s a lot of stress.”

Daryl Howard – “And also I say again or. We we we exactly. We, constructed it so it can be like a job. Like somebody going to a 9 to 5 job. We know yours.”

Angela Barrett – Is not 9 to 5.

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. It’s. No it’s not nine five. But, but we treat it as a job right. And a business. We set it up that way and all the guys know when we, have a gig, we treat it like a business. We be there on time, right? All the time and everything. Even far as the business go.”

Daryl Howard – “As far as money’s. We set it up that we don’t run in the back room, split the money up. We. We have everybody, gets paid at a certain time when they get that pay at a certain time. Now that we had that record deal, we get royalties from, the record company. So we we try to set it up like a business.”

Daryl Howard – “Sure. We have that mindset, you know? And the fun part is onstage. That’s the fun part. Well, we know when we’re not on stage, just like now, I’m doing this right. Always sustain. And this is a pleasure, you know? But these are some of the things people don’t see, right?”

Angela Barrett – “Well, they’ll see this.”

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. I’ve seen it. Yeah. You know, and but.”

Angela Barrett – “Marketing, your marketing and. Yeah.”

Daryl Howard – The marketing. Exactly. Exactly.

Angela Barrett – Which is part of it. With any business. Right.

Daryl Howard – Right.

Angela Barrett – If you don’t have that and you don’t have good marketing. Well.

Daryl Howard – “And I’m proud of the guys because they, they, they, they, we all have the same mindset.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – That helps a lot.

Angela Barrett – Right. That’s right.

Daryl Howard – That you don’t have to explain why I’m doing this or why we’re doing that. They already know.

Angela Barrett – “That. It’s it’s nice to work with people who, not that you want to think alike and agree on everything. It would be. Yeah, that would be a great learning.”

Daryl Howard – Yes. Yes. But everybody knows what the goal is.

Angela Barrett – The same.

Daryl Howard – Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

Angela Barrett – “Might be some little trials and trees to get in your. But goals the same. And that’s always nice. Yeah. Yeah. So you mentioned, singing for the girls and all that. Yeah. Well, so give me your most unusual fan interaction.”

Daryl Howard – “Oh, goodness. Oh my goodness. Wow. Wow. Fan interaction.”

Angela Barrett – And you’re very you know you’re the most unusual one.

Daryl Howard – Most most unusual. Well let.

Angela Barrett – “Me, let me, let me one of the give me.”

Daryl Howard – “Give. Gimme a second. Because there’s a lot of stuff happens out there on the shows. I’ll tell you, it’s the in all of that. Yeah, yeah. Let me see. Okay. I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m a little embarrassed to say this, but, but, we’re we’re talking now.”

Angela Barrett – Yay!

Daryl Howard – “And I’m I’m I’m okay. They’re. We was at a show. There was this person sitting over, to my left. Oh, man. I’m just saying. Beautiful, beautiful woman. It was a woman. Sure. I’m just. I’m just a saying in in. Make it eye contact and sang it in. Doing my little moves and everything. So I goes over to the table and saying to all, you know, I wasn’t being disrespectful or anything, but, you know, I seeing that she was really admiring the so I go over and saying to her and hit my high notes and everything.”

Daryl Howard – “So after the show was over, my best friend came over to me. Sit down. You know, that was a man you were singing to.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, okay. Well. See you.”

Daryl Howard – You know who you were singing to? I know that can look good without a doubt. That was a man.

Angela Barrett – Oh my God.

Daryl Howard – “So who right there? I can say that that was one of your. The most the most. Well, yeah. So I’m like, oh my goodness.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. Right. That’s a good one. Right. That is a good one I like it. Thank you for telling that story.

Daryl Howard – “Yeah. Well again I don’t tell that to everybody now. Oh. So wow. This is going to be on air, isn’t it? Oh, wow. Oh my goodness.”

Angela Barrett – Not so.

Daryl Howard – “Bad. What are you doing? And, And I’m quite sure, though, it I’m the only one that it that’s happened to.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, yeah. I’m out. Yeah. So now you you’ve done this for a really long time. So tell me what you think’s about the industry, what it was when you started versus now and good and bad.”

Daryl Howard – “Oh, well, let me start. Let me start with the with it. Well, nothing’s really bad about it. It’s just changed a lot. Back in the day, when we first started, for example. Equipment wise, I always tell people that. Now, remember, we had guitar, the bass and and the drummer and the singers plugged into the guitar and the thing out of.”

Daryl Howard – “We didn’t have monitors, we didn’t have ear monitors. We did have, cordless mikes. It all that right? A lot of times the new lines didn’t even have a mic, you know? So, now when you do a show, you got a thousand cords hooked up? Yeah. You got do you got ear monitors? You got, you got, gotta have a sound man to be sure to sound right?”

Daryl Howard – “Right. I mean, that that changed, drastically. I mean, that that’s a big change. Now, that’s in the entertainment part of it. Now, the business part of it really didn’t change a lot, too, because, for example, if you want to get a record deal, you would have to go from, record company to record company. You got to audition.”

Daryl Howard – “And that goes for getting gigs, too. You would have to go sometime. You have to do a gig, you know, the club owner say, well, if you can’t do a gig, I can’t pay you. But that’s exposure, right? Okay. But that’s what we had to do. You know. So. So we had to. We had to do those things, even with a record, with a record labels and stuff like that.”

Daryl Howard – “But you have to go to go and stand up and sing from the record. Exit in front of them, stuff like that. What now? All they got to do click. But let’s YouTube. Instagram. Right. Talk. Yeah. You know, and that part of it I love. I don’t have to leave the house now. Yeah. You know, and club owners and stuff.”

Daryl Howard – “You don’t have to go to their club or they don’t have to travel round to see a band, or they got to do when they call me, they say, Daryl, I never seen your band. Where can I see you? Click YouTube, right click Instagram, Facebook and let me see everything you want to see. How we look, how we sound and everything.”

Daryl Howard – “So that’s what it has come to now. And getting back with the zoom thing, I say I’m kind of new at it. Technology is changed so much even with the equipment. Now the sound man can walk around in the audience with a pat and adjust your sound.”

Angela Barrett – I mean.

Daryl Howard – “Back then you had to sit there on the board, but now he got this, got this pad.”

Angela Barrett – You can just walk around.

Daryl Howard – “He can go into it. He can go, sit in his car if you want to and do the sound. So I guess now that’s how it changed. And it’s good. I mean, it never was bad, like I said, but I love it now the way it is, because it’s more easier. You don’t need as much equipment, you know, equipment is scaled down to speakers.”

Daryl Howard – “Used to be the speakers used to be bigger than the band. You know, to me. Yeah, but now you can carry 2 or 3 speakers and you have the same sound.”

Angela Barrett – Right?

Daryl Howard – “So that that that that’s the way. That’s the way it has changed. You know, from back then till now. And I am blessed to see it.”

Angela Barrett – Right.

Daryl Howard – “Yeah, I am I am really blessed to see it.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. That is. What do you think about your audience. Has that changed.

Angela Barrett – “How they react. No participation. Yeah that’s a good thing. Yeah. Yeah I do think it’s you know I say this with every musician that I ever interview and talk with. Music is the one thing that will bring everybody together because everybody loves it. And it doesn’t matter, I mean.”

Daryl Howard – Right.

Angela Barrett – “You could be country music fan. You could be. Yes. But when you’re at a live performance, like you guys, everybody wants it.”

Daryl Howard – “That that warms my heart to see. To see it. I’m just going to go ahead and say it. It warms my heart to see the black and the whites. Yeah. Everybody’s sitting there laughing, dancing together. Yeah. Clapping.”

Angela Barrett – Almost as if the outside world just stopped.

Daryl Howard – “Exactly. Yeah. And I think, and that is one of the things that fuels me.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah.

Daryl Howard – Because it makes me feel good.

Angela Barrett – Right?

Daryl Howard – I really love that. I love that I can touch people like that. I really do.

Angela Barrett – “Yeah I agree. It’s a it’s a great experience. Oh you’re fine. I’m sure it certainly is. Oh, man. Yes, yes.”

Daryl Howard – Yes it is.

Angela Barrett – “So you you’ve touched on this a few times. But tell me what your favorite part is about being a musician. Well, that.”

Daryl Howard – “Well, that what I just said about bringing people together and making someone smile and of course, doing it for a living and getting paid for.”

Angela Barrett – Yeah. Well. That’s right.

Daryl Howard – “Don’t worry. And that I love to do. And getting paid for it. I mean, it’s it’s it’s a, it’s a, it’s a real good feeling. And sometime I gotta, I tell the guys, I said, look, man, let’s not take this for granted, because I sure don’t. Because we were up here singing, having a good time, doing what we love to do and making a living that we love going to work.”

Daryl Howard – “That’s one. We love doing it. Yeah. You know, and, that that is my most, most, thing about being a musician. That is one of the most rewarding jobs you can have, right? Is is doing something like that. Getting paid for your talent.”

Angela Barrett – “That’s right. That’s right. So now, we talked about your new single comes out tomorrow. Yes. And along with the merchandise and all that good stuff. What’s next for cash money? More to come?”

Daryl Howard – “Yes, more to come. Well, right as we speak, we’re working on another single. Eventually we want to get a whole album.”

Angela Barrett – And is this going to be original or is it still going?

Daryl Howard – “Well, that’s that’s see. And going back, see, always go back to new bars because a lot of stuff we do stems from them. I left the band here to New Rod’s catalog. They love 2 or 3 songs.”

Angela Barrett – Right.

Daryl Howard – “And we need to redo that one next. We need to do that one next. So we haven’t decided whether it’ll be original. Well, I can I can really I haven’t go off the, reservation right now and say it’ll probably be another new rod.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah, because it was not broke. Right.”

Daryl Howard – “I feel like the love of some of our songs. And be honest with you, it’s easier. This something year making up’s making up or, you know, creating something thing already has its own format. All we gotta do is put our ourself into it. So it’ll probably be another new rod salt.”

Angela Barrett – “Well, good. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. So the, new website, the, that’ll come out. And I know you can find you guys on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and all those good things, but, what will the website be called?”

Daryl Howard – Cash money experience.

Angela Barrett – Right? Oh. That’s easy. Yes.

Daryl Howard – “Yes. And and also it everything will be incorporated in our link tree. We have a new link tree where, you have links, so you can go to the hear the song, to the merchandise, where we can go to how the books, where you can go to our bio, our pictures. So, everything is going to be linked up to that link tree.”

Angela Barrett – “Oh, good. Website. Yeah.”

Daryl Howard – And have all the links that you can click on to try to do all these things.

Angela Barrett – “Right, right. It’s so, tell us, tell me what? Your net. You guys. I guess the next biggest gig you got coming up.”

Daryl Howard – “Let me see the next biggest one. Well, I like to say all our gigs is big because I don’t want to. Well, yeah, nobody’s told but the big, big, big one. Right now, we don’t we don’t. We have a big thing coming up around Christmas time. Oh, yeah. Greenville? Yeah. At the point said a club.”

Daryl Howard – “No, that is, that is a real big thing that we do every year. People have on their gowns and tuxedos and stuff like that. We wear our best suits and stuff. So that right now I think that’s the the biggest, prestigious one that we got coming up right now. And, let me see. It is about the biggest one.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. Gotcha. So people will be able to find out, where you’re going, where you’re playing, and, how to put you.”

Daryl Howard – “We have that on our face right now. That’s on Facebook. Facebook. We we we post our schedule on Facebook, a whole mass of our schedule, right? Every month. You can find it on Facebook. Go go to Cash Money Experience. Facebook, go to cash money experience. Instagram. Yeah. And you’ll see all our, performances there.”

Daryl Howard – That’s where we’re going to be at there. We posted the month.

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. And when this website, which we’ll come out maybe tomorrow with them released so they can go to the Cash Money.”

Daryl Howard – Dot.

Angela Barrett – “Com and, and do that as well.”

Daryl Howard – Yeah. It’s on the Linktree too.

Angela Barrett – “Yeah, yeah.”

Daryl Howard – “So, a lot of ways to find us.”

Angela Barrett – “Yeah. Perfect. All right, last question.”

Daryl Howard – Yes.

Angela Barrett – No. 2 to 2.

Daryl Howard – Okay.

Angela Barrett – “Two questions. Okay. Well, I missed one a while back. If you could explain the band in flavor, what would it be?”

Daryl Howard – Our flavor.

Angela Barrett – “It’s a it’s a bayan. Could be a flavor. What would you. Well, let the experience be.”

Daryl Howard – “Oh, Chocolate.”

Angela Barrett – “I like that. And,”

Daryl Howard – Hot chocolate. There you.

Angela Barrett – Go.

Daryl Howard – Yeah. Absolutely.

Angela Barrett – “Love it. All right, so this is the last question. Promise. Give me your life in five breaths.”

Daryl Howard – In five riffs.

Angela Barrett – In the six.

Daryl Howard – You got me there.

Angela Barrett – “Dang it. So, All right. Well that’s good. Well, thank you so much for being here today. And, I look forward to, talking with you again and, seeing you the next time I have the opportunity.”

Daryl Howard – “Oh, okay. Okay. I’ll be looking forward to seeing, Yeah. When you when you come, to one of our shows, let me know. Oh, well, I know that you there.”

Angela Barrett – I have your cell phone now. Yeah. Okay.

Daryl Howard – Nothing here to douchey to the guys is.

Angela Barrett – “What? Oh, absolutely. A great. Okay. Thank you so much.”

Daryl Howard – And thank you. It was my pleasure.

Angela Barrett – Absolutely.

Daryl Howard – And I’ll be seeing you soon.

Angela Barrett – Okay. Sounds great.

Daryl Howard – Bye bye. Bye bye.