S2-E4 - Deane Walden | Christian Artist

Go Under the Musical Influence of Deane Walden answering 9 Questions about his Musical Self.
 
Deane Started In The Band with the Paper Chasers (R&B, Hip-Hop, Trap Music), to SwitchinLanes (Christian Hip-Hop) to Going Han Solo, Blowing Up on Spotify as Deane Walden (Christian Artist).
 
Recording in a Masonry Locker Room?

 When You Get Board, You Record!

They Did a Song with Three 6 Mafia?

Take Me to Church!

Taking It All the Way Back to Youth Group!

I Just Listened to the Dope Messages!

The Crawl Space Incident?

A Music Deal in the Works with the Universal Music Group?

You Have the Music, You Just Need to be Sexy!

Mom Introduced Us to Hip Hop Through Biggie & 2Pac!

We Got Our Style From Lil Wayne, 50 Cent & Pop Music?

Music Discussed from Three 6 Mafia, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Eiffel 65, Hanson, Mario, Chosen Few, The Diplomats (also know as Dipset), 2PAC, Biggie, *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, LFO, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, Try Pendley, Cam'ron, Elevation Workship, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Jersey Boys & More! 

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https://open.spotify.com/artist/0uETUFhhoBO8WlhRqGiOWZ?si=bWLPLGPCQ3ewuhrgDrHlkA

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Under the Influence with DJJonniBravo S2E4 - Deane Walden

[00:00:00] Theme Songs: Where I. [00:01:00] 

[00:01:03] DJJonniBravo: Hello, I'm Jonni Bravo today. You're going under the musical influence of today's guest Deane Walden on Under the Influence with DJJonniBravo, Deane. I'm so happy to have you here, man. 

[00:01:14] Deane Walden: I'm happy to be here, man. 

[00:01:15] DJJonniBravo: So Deane and I go way back, all the way to youth group at, our church.

[00:01:21] I know Dean's been involved in music and I got him to be part of Season 2 In the Band because he used to be in a couple of, groups and bands. Now he's a, so artist and I wanted to get together with him and chat with him about all of that stuff. He was in the Paper Chasers 8 0 4. He's gonna tell us about some of the other groups and then he's also had a solo career blowing up on Spotify.

[00:01:44] Deane Walden: Yes, sir. 

[00:01:45] DJJonniBravo: Tell me a little bit about your musical self. 

[00:01:47] Deane Walden: I'm a twin, so I have a brother named Devin. When I was young, I got into music, but I didn't start doing hip hop until I was about 15, 14. Me and my brother actually, we took masonry class in in our high school.

[00:01:59] We started [00:02:00] recording in the in the masonry class locker room. We didn't really know what we were doing. We had these old computer headsets and we had all of our friends in there. It was, pretty crazy, once you think about it. We started doing music around that time when I was 15.

[00:02:13] And about 16 is when we kind of like started taking off a little bit, like at our high school, started getting some friction. People started they heard a couple of our songs that we made. And then we had four people that wanted to join us, so there was like two white dudes at a high school.

[00:02:29] I went to a high school with, you know, mostly my black brothers and me and my brother, we were like really the only two white twins that went to this school. So we were pretty popular at that point. Then we became seven deep in the group. We had seven people at the age of about 17 and we were still recording in the masonry locker room, doing stuff after school.

[00:02:53] We would even go into our cars at lunchtime to record on our laptops. It was probably about 18. We graduated everything. I got [00:03:00] married when I was 18, right outta high school. Got my own place with my wife. We lived in a trailer for a couple years. But I gave up music around that time to be with my wife and around probably about a year later.

[00:03:12] My wife was working, I was working I was getting bored at home. So we started recording again and I had a lot more freedom this time cuz I wasn't at my parents' house. Brought back the group and we, brought back the same name. We started off paper chasers and we were doing hip hop music and then we added the name paper chasers 8 0 4 at the end of it because there was already another group at the time called paper chasers, I think out of Atlanta or somewhere.

[00:03:36] Started making like mix tapes after mix tape, man, we were, let me see. I was 19. I didn't stop that group until I was about 20, 23. I wanna say it was 23. I think we ended up making about nine mix tapes and, we made a lot of moves, man. We actually did a song with DJ Paul from three, six mafia.

[00:03:58] Now take it for granted this was all [00:04:00] secular music. Okay. Like this was about drugs. This was about women. This was some heavy, you know, hip hop and trap music that we were making at the time. We came in second at the fair here where we live at. We had a nice little run with the group.

[00:04:14] It was tough because it was about seven of us in the group still. Everybody wasn't on the same page and life gets in the way and things like that. I can talk about that all day, man. 

[00:04:26] DJJonniBravo: And I remember some mixed CDs that I had gotten from you or your dad. I was looking for those. I was, and I was looking on Spotify for the paper chasers. There are a lot of groups on Spotify with paper chasers in the name. Trying to find y'all's music. So I could reminisce before I interviewed you. And I couldn't find the disc and I couldn't find you on Spotify, but I know, you're on Spotify with switching lanes and also, 

[00:04:49] Deane Walden: yeah 

[00:04:49] DJJonniBravo: under Deane Walden.

[00:04:51] Deane Walden: Right. 

[00:04:51] DJJonniBravo: You've gotten pretty big in a lot of follows and you're doing Christian music. Would you label it Christian music? 

[00:04:59] Deane Walden: Oh yeah, [00:05:00] for sure. Definitely. So long story short, man, I was doing a secular music for so long. Like I said, we started off at 15, got married, brought it back.

[00:05:10] I was 23 years old and you know, I grew up as a Christian I saw you in youth group. I love Jesus and I love God, but I, just won't live in like Jesus wanted me to, and I was really like a baby in in the whole Christian community, cuz I never really read the Bible for myself.

[00:05:26] Didn't really care. I just always, went to youth groups, listened to the dope messages and was like, oh yeah, I'm definitely a sinner. I, definitely need to be saved. And that was basically, how far I went with it. But I had a an encounter, with Christ when I was at work, when I was 23 years old I was working in a cross base and me and my friends, like, you know, we're, we're big conspiracy nuts.

[00:05:48] And we were talking about all these conspiracies, you know, the satanic what was it? It was called, uh, satanic panic. Back in the day we were talking about free masonry. You know, we was the whole, you know, [00:06:00] faking the moon landing and I remind you, we're in a cross space working. This is when I was smoking cigarettes too.

[00:06:06] My friend, he was a Christian too. we both knew that we, like we say, we believe in Jesus, but then he started talking about hell I know this theology is all messed up right now, but as I grew in the Lord, I understood like, this really didn't matter, he had in his mind and I didn't know, cuz like I said, I was a baby, so I was like, oh yeah.

[00:06:25] Okay. But he was trying to tell me that there was like this unforgivable sin. You know, called blast me of the Holy Spirit. And he was telling me, he was like, yeah, it's when you make fun of like, God, and I was like, what? He was like, yeah, man. Like, if you've ever made fun of God, you're doomed to hell. I'm like, hold on.

[00:06:41] What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure we've all made jokes before. I was like, look, I got go outside. You gotta show me the verse. He showed me the verse where it talks about Jesus is you won't be forgiven if you blast stream the Holy Spirit.

[00:06:52] Now I know it's just, it means you never receiving Jesus as your savior, but at the time it like freaked me out. I thought I was going to [00:07:00] hell it just opened my eyes up. And that day, is when I had like my change, man. Like I went from secular lifestyle to, I want to know what the Bible really says.

[00:07:11] I wanna know who Jesus is. Like, I really want to know for myself. And I know it's, it kind of sounds corny. Like it won a big deal, but it was a big deal to me at the. Cuz I was young and dumb and didn't really understand anything. It just opened up my eyes, man, and no lie to you, man. A week later, I left paper chasers, cuz we were also having like some issues.

[00:07:31] Like I said, I mean you have seven people. We had a deal in the works with the universal music group. I don't know if I can say their name or not, but we knew someone big there. I mean, I could say his name, but we had a couple interactions with him. We went to New York to meet him.

[00:07:47] He came down here for a week. Universal, flew him out. We had a big deal going on,

[00:07:53] I know this is gonna sound weird, but he wanted all of us to lose weight and like basically, you know, be [00:08:00] sexy. He wanted all of us like to be like cut in shape. He said we had the music.

[00:08:05] He, just wanted our image to be better because. When you try to sign a group, it's very hard because that's a lot of money split different ways, but we had such a versatile group that's what they were looking at. You know, we had three white guys and four black guys, and, we did R and B pop rap.

[00:08:23] we did basically the whole genre. You can think of at the, at that time, I guess it was 2000 and 2009, 2010 era. So that was that whole deal with that. So we had a whole big deal with, that company. And this was still in the works when I had that encounter with God. Week after that crawlspace incident, like I said, I know it sounds kind of corny.

[00:08:45] I was like, look, I have to get deep into this Bible. I gotta see who Jesus is for real you know, there's so many things I don't know. And I left the group and I still left the group open for them to be together. But see, I was the engineer. I engineered all of our music.

[00:08:58] If you hear anything [00:09:00] from us, like that was all me. I engineered everything and I had the studio. But I said to them, I said, y'all can still use the studio. I can't engineer your stuff because that's me promoting something. I don't agree with no more, but y'all can still do it. And long story short, it kind of just fell apart because everybody wasn't on the same page.

[00:09:17] And I was kind of the glue. Me and my brother were, you know, holding that, group together. You know, I still talk to some of the guys in the group today. There's still deep down. I know there's some tensions because of how everything went and how there was a deal laying there on the table and stuff like that.

[00:09:33] Cuz we did work very, very hard at the. I mean to get a DJ Paul feature is if we got it for free from him too, like that is, I mean, that, that verse is probably worth, I don't know. He, could have charged us easy $50,000, but he liked the song so much. He actually tried to buy the song from us and, we were so ignorant at the time.

[00:09:54] We were like, no, we don't want you to buy it. We just want you to be featured on it. Now I'm looking back, I'm like, man, we should have [00:10:00] just sold it to him and pocket the money. That's why this, other group that I had started after paper chases was called switching lanes because I had an encounter with Jesus and I wanted to switch my lanes over, you know, I wasn't living for God.

[00:10:14] And then I had an encounter with God and understood. I wasn't on the page that he wanted me to be with him. I created, uh, I started switching lanes. It was a Christian hip hop group and it was awesome because my bro, my twin brother kind of jumped on the way with me cuz he was the same way he believed in Jesus, but we kind of went to a school where like hip-hop was the culture, you know what I'm saying?

[00:10:39] Cussing rapping, smoking weed, you know what I'm saying? Like it was this, it was just the culture that we kind of adapted as our lifestyle and we let that culture basically not brainwash us. It just pulled us in. He said the same thing. He was like, dude, I'm on board. Let's do this. Let's make, Jesus music.

[00:10:57] We started it in [00:11:00] 2014, I think. Yeah, it was 2014 I think is when we started switching lanes. It was kinda remarkable because everybody in the old group in paper chasers, it was like, God replaced them. With someone just like them, but you know, they were on Jesus team.

[00:11:15] You know what I'm saying? Like most of the guys that God replaced these guys with kind of acted alike, but they loved Jesus. Not saying that the people that was in paper chases didn't love Jesus, but it was just, it was remarkable how it happened so fast and how God, you know, added to this new. We did switching lanes for about three, I think, three years, almost four years.

[00:11:37] I don't know if it was longer than that. Man, we, we blew up bro. We were doing concerts all around Virginia. We traveled to West Virginia. I think it was the summer of 2017. We were booked out that whole summer. And it was the first time I've ever been out of town to do, you know, concerts or shows.

[00:11:57] We had one like every week and it was awesome, man. And I [00:12:00] love everybody in that group, but long story short is just, it's so hard when you're in a band when you're in a group because it's so many people if I've always heard like this, man, if there's one dead root in the garden, it'll kill all the fruit on the tree. When you're not on the same page with people gaps, get bigger and then what happens is, people conspire against you or this person's saying this, this person's saying this.

[00:12:24] In switching lanes, we changed so many people's lives, with the gospel. We had so many people come up to us and send us emails. 

[00:12:31] We were changing people's life. Well, first off it wasn't us changing people. It was Jesus changing people through us, we were going all over Ashland, Mechanicsville new Ken. We had churches all over.

[00:12:41] We were doing shows and ministering to tons of people so I, have a kid and I started becoming more of a dad through this process, so I had a kid in 2015, who started switching lanes, went out in 2014, switching lanes, didn't start growing until [00:13:00] 2015, 2016 ish.

[00:13:03] Like it didn't start getting bigger until that time. When we started getting these more of these out of town shows, I was like, look, man I can't really go because I have to be there for my kid. So basically, I had to play, family guy. I had to be the, you know, the family dad, and I told the group members and most of 'em understood, but there was a little tension of me not going out to these outta town shows because I was on a lot of these songs.

[00:13:27] You know, I gave the option. I was like, look, y'all are going out of town more than I am. Let's do some songs with just, you know, these specific people on the songs. So they can go out of town and won't feel some type of way. And we did do that, but like I said, started the group. So I was kind of the, mold and the glued to all of this cuz I had the studio and I had the camera.

[00:13:47] That's kind of where it started falling apart, man. And I, don't wanna say it's it fell apart because you know, God's the one that created it, but we became distance. The whole group became distance because of. The [00:14:00] time, I couldn't put back into it at a certain time period when we were at a certain peak and one day, man, I don't know if I should tell all this, but one day we were having a, switching lanes meeting at a at a specific diner and me and one group member who I'm, I love to death and we are cool now today, but we had a big argument, man.

[00:14:21] We had a big argument in front of everybody. Some curse words were said from both of us. And a lot of people were there and I was like, okay, I'm out. And unfortunately I, when I left the group and then after that slowly, it just started declining. Everybody was moving. This person had a baby and, yada, yada, but.

[00:14:43] Switching lanes is still there. I still talk to everybody that was in the group meeting that guy that got into an argument. He's the best songwriter I've ever met. He's probably one of the best artists, best freestyler. I mean, this dude is, he's got a God given talent, probably the best artist I've ever met when it comes to like [00:15:00] lyrically.

[00:15:00] And we're good now, but I was so hurt at the time. I didn't want to be a part of nothing anymore because I know I had to be there for my son. So after that happened my son got a little bit bigger and I started just doing solo music and ever since I started doing solo music is when I started getting more traction for some reason.

[00:15:20] I don't know if it's just cuz that's how solo artists are today or, if it was because that's when Spotify had first really started booming. But I started doing solo Christian music. There was a company it's a Christian company called rap Zillow. They're kind of like the hip hop platform for Christian artistes.

[00:15:39] They reached out to me one time after I dropped my like first solo album, they reached out to me and they were like, Hey man, we really like your stuff. We're doing this like promotion to help like new artists. I forgot what the program they called it is, but basically we would split everything 50 50, and they would promote my stuff and promote my [00:16:00] songs and put it on their platforms.

[00:16:01] I did it and man, it got me like when I first started with them and it got me up to I think it was like 20,000 monthly listeners. It was a blessing cuz I thought I was kind of tapped out for music, after switching lanes cuz I was so hurt because I loved the group so much and we had amazing.

[00:16:17] I mean we had bangers man and it was all for Jesus. God just showed me, never to give up. Even though you feel like your testimony's done or your story is at its peak. I mean, you can keep on going man. And it will, it'll keep on going to the day you die. I started doing solo music, man took off and now I'm at a time where I'm still doing solo music.

[00:16:36] I've dropped, I think four or five solo albums. I recently just dropped an R and B album that is strictly for my wife. It's kind of got like the, it's like a, modern day, like Jersey boy type feel to it. It's and, you know, it's all Christian based. But I would consider this one, like R and B.

[00:16:57] And I also would do like clean pop songs here and [00:17:00] there just because of my love for pop music. But I would definitely consider myself a Christian artist. I don't really have much debate over there. I know there's a big thing in Christian hip hop about, are you a Christian artist or are you a Christian?

[00:17:12] That's an artist. Now I'm here now talking to you, man. So I know you got some questions that asked me. I'm sorry. I was talking your head off. 

[00:17:19] DJJonniBravo: No, that's alright. Uh, the listeners if they don't appreciate it, I appreciate it. Cuz I know you have, you know, this strong love for Christ. And I know, when you're explaining this incident that happened in the crawl space, some people might think you know, he's crazy or whatever, but you go through these experiences like this when you believe in Christ I remember one of the youth teachers used to say he saw license plates that had messages on it from the Lord and remind him to pray for certain people.

[00:17:45] Yeah. I mean, so, if you don't believe in Christ, it just sounds kind of silly, you're just like, whatever. Right. But I know that experience was real with you. I remember you told me a story where you were performing and you felt like these big giants or these big shadow creatures were like. [00:18:00] 

[00:18:00] Over you or in front of you or something like that. Yes. Yeah. I remember you, you telling me that one time too, so I'm sure that probably you know, scared you as well. And it seems like when you tell your story, you know, you were on the cusp ear two separate times with a group where you could have just like blown up and, you know, the Lord had you take a different route.

[00:18:22] And I know the other thing about you is that you're a real strong husband you're a real strong father, in that regards Toby Mac lyrics, when he says I wanna be a strong dad and, in a, and that kind of thing. And I know that means a lot to you too, so I can totally.

[00:18:36] See that in the story that you're telling. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on too, because I know you're gonna bring that message and I know you're gonna bring that message draw, but that's you and that's yeah. What I'm trying to portray here to the folks that are listening because I think that people need to hear it and it is real and it is real life, 

[00:18:56] Deane Walden: yeah, definitely is. Yeah. And that [00:19:00] story, I told you, I was in New York and it was the first show that the guy from universal came out and was watching this and that whole time, man, I could just feel like a demonic, like presence in the whole, it was like this big club and my brother felt the same thing and it was something in the crowd or something that I was seeing like in the very, very back man.

[00:19:20] And I can't even really explain it, but it was like, And then I would also have like certain dreams about like shadow people I'd have sleep paralysis. And this was all when I was doing, and I'm not saying secular music is bad, cuz the world needs secular music to make it go round. Because secular music, I notice this doesn't sound weird, but secular music gives a platform to Christian music and it gives a lot of UHT to Christian music, but it's just so much other things that come with that whole lifestyle. What was the second thing that you were saying about the oh man, I had something. I was gonna say that you were referring 

[00:19:52] DJJonniBravo: to about your message and you being you know, strong husband and a strong dad, you know, strong father.

[00:19:59] Deane Walden: Yeah, [00:20:00] that was something I had to really sit down and pray about it because I always had a drive to make a group, get a group put on like, I wanted to be the Christian Wang, like I wanted it to be something special.

[00:20:11] This is what I was gonna say. So when we had that universal deal going on, you know, that's when I switched lanes, I left it on the table for the, you know, but the same thing happened with switching lanes, man. Like when I left switching lanes

[00:20:23] we like at our peak and we actually had a certain other Christian platforms, like really interested in who we were.

[00:20:30] It's just so weird, man, at both of those peaks is when God, like, kind of just like pulled the plug, you know, and. He does that because sometimes, I mean, actually every time, if you look at the greatest people in the Bible God will, make you go through the desert and be alone to have a, stronger encounter with him, you know, just like Moses and a whole bunch of other people, and scripture.

[00:20:49] DJJonniBravo: And I know what you're saying too, about the music industry and it's not really the music, it's just the industry itself. You know, Prince had it on his face for so long when he [00:21:00] became the symbol that he was a slave to Warner brothers, cuz he didn't own his music. Yeah. He produced all this music and you know, being a producer and coming up with the song and the lyrics and the beat and all that stuff, you know, what it takes to do that prince did this multiple times, not just prince, but I mean, and as much as I love you know, secular and nons, secular music it's the artists that are really being manipulated yeah, TLC signed a contract and they basically got like some Xterra's and I think that was like their bonus and they had sold like 6 million records and it's like, where's the money, you know?

[00:21:36] And it's because the. The contract that they signed. And so the industry's evil, you know, and it can be really evil

[00:21:44] Deane Walden: people make fun of Kanye west for his little shenanigans that he does, but like, you know what he was saying last year, he kept on bringing up prince, about all these rappers, not just rappers, but the, most of the people in the music industry, they don't own any of their rights.

[00:21:58] They're exclusive their [00:22:00] royalties. And it's really, it is modern day slave ship, man. That's what he said. He's a modern day slave ship when it comes to. The music industry, because what they want you to do is, you know, sign this 360 deal. And once you sign that deal, bro, you're done for years. And, the only person that I seen that was successful was Taylor swift.

[00:22:20] She, she signed a 360 deal from what I saw and read. And she was actually, she blew up so fast. She was able to pay herself out that original deal, but you know, and it's stuff, but we don't see, you know, she's probably still under some different contract now with a makeup line, you know, we don't know what these people are doing, but you know, God don't want anybody being in any debt.

[00:22:41] You know what I'm saying at all? And I love ING music. Don't get it twisted. I'm all about secular music. You know, I'm not like condemning anybody in a secular realm at all, but when it comes to like these contracts and the way that the music industry I don't even know if I can be talking about all this, but you know, there's this conspiracy out there about 

[00:22:59] a certain [00:23:00] rap label right now who has had like six deaths. Okay. Six deaths under their label. And the conspiracy is as they're taking out life insurance on these rappers and you know, these other six artists have died under this certain label. Oh, wow. So, I mean, it's, yeah, it's a lot of crazy stuff in the in the music industry and, you know, I mean, let's be honest, there is a lot of, you know, satanic symbol and a lot of stuff.

[00:23:27] I question it because I'm like, all right, you know, someone has to put this there, you know, they

[00:23:32] put this there and this there, like someone has to literally sit there and put these things in order. And but yeah, it's a whole different conversation, man. It's funny. Prince was onto something for real

[00:23:44] DJJonniBravo: Yeah. And it's funny that you brought up, Taylor's not funny, but when you brought up Taylor swift, because she had that dark album too and did the tour with the snakes and everything like that. Yeah. And most people wouldn't think that to look at that any different, but it was totally a break away from her image.

[00:23:59] Right. [00:24:00] You know, and she went back to her image, not too much after that. And looking sexy and all that kind of stuff. And then you brought up, rap stars, you know, like Jay-Z and Beyoncé, they say that they're following the Illuminati. And some people believe that some people don't, you know, when she performed at the super bowl, they say that she was doing certain satanic things.

[00:24:17] Right. And there was pentagrams and different things. And so you can look at that one way and say, oh, that's not real. Or you can look at another way and say it is real. And sometimes it's an artist and sometimes it's, the label, you know, or the people behind the label. Right. Put pushing it.

[00:24:32] Yeah. I mean, you hear so many songs. I mean, 21 pilots has a song about, you know, the industry, there's songs from other artists like pink Floyd, you know, they're talking which on which you were here they don't even know which, person in the group is named pink 

[00:24:47] right. And because they don't even know, they don't care as long as you're making him the green, right. Well, you talked about this a little already about how old you were. But when did you first discover music? Like what kind of music were you into, how old were you, and what were you doing?

[00:24:59] Deane Walden: [00:25:00] So the first time I ever discovered like a jingle or any type of like tune there's two incidents. First off, my mom used to, I know this is sound weird, but she used to hum to me and my brother, like I said, I'm a twin. She used to rub our backs and like hum to us when we were little and she hummed a certain song and that tune will forever be in my head.

[00:25:20] And then second of all, the first time I actually heard like an actual song and grasped the lyrics was Jesus loves you, of course from church. I remember just singing that in children's church. We would go there, we would start off, with like a little worship and we would sing that song.

[00:25:35] And then we had this cool, like, puppet show that, they would do. , I think it was my mom humming and then it was Jesus. Jesus loves now. If you wanna know, like my first song that I actually like was hooked on as a little kid you're probably gonna laugh, but it was there's two of em, man, it's gotta be two of 'em cause it was the same era, but it was.

[00:25:55] Eiffel 65 and it was I'm blue. I'm [00:26:00] blue. Oh yeah. Was that song, just like, I'd be at skate man. And that, just hit, man. I don't know what it was, but that song just hit. And then it was the other song was by Hanson and it was MMMBop that was like the banger of my childhood, I think Eiffel 65 was the first thing I've ever bought, like on my own. It was from planet. I think it was the planet nine. I can't remember what, what it was, but it was on tape. I asked my mom, I was like, I really like this song. I'm blue. I don't even know if CDs were a thing back then, but I remember I got Eiffel 65 on blue on tape, and I had my little tape player that I could bring with me and I was, I would just listen to it while I was at daycare and stuff.

[00:26:40] That was like my first one that I actually like just was infatuated with. 

[00:26:46] DJJonniBravo: So that answers question three, cuz that was my next question. What was your no first song that you remember? So I'm blue, that's the one that you first remember? 

[00:26:55] Deane Walden: Yeah, like, and that's a cool song.

[00:26:56] Lyrics by lyrics. [00:27:00] Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's my it's that banger 

[00:27:02] DJJonniBravo: I think my son liked that song too. In the video is it blue man group or are they, is this all blue or something? 

[00:27:09] Deane Walden: Yeah, it's like they're blue aliens and stuff. Yep. 

[00:27:13] DJJonniBravo: Yeah. It's funny how you have some of those songs that catch onto you.

[00:27:18] I like that you mentioned too about the singing and also like the puppets and stuff like that, because that's some of the things I remember growing up, in church and the other thing being the parachute, you throw the parachute up and everybody goes underneath it. But you're always surrounded by music in church.

[00:27:34] And, and there's a lot of artists that came up, in the church, Whitney, Houston, others that they didn't maintain some of that secularity. Whitney Houston unfortunately took a, 

[00:27:43] different turn. A lot of, artists did grow up like Aretha Franklin and others in church and singing the gospel.

[00:27:49] Those are good times to remember. 

[00:27:51] Deane Walden: Definitely. Yeah those were the best man for real. It sticks with you forever. I mean, I know a lot of people, they don't really think about it, but the stuff I do with my children. That [00:28:00] stuff, man you remember that stuff forever, I will all forever remember going in children's church and singing certain songs and people take those little instance, you know, with kids, for granted.

[00:28:09] There was this guy that was called the candy man. He was at church and he would come around, he had always candy on him and he would give everybody candy for free and just little things, man. They always stick with you. It actually creates the artists who I am today.

[00:28:23] Same thing with R Kelly, same thing with Chris brown, like you said. So the other artist is even Katie Perry once was, you know, Jessica Simpson. I mean, it's like so many people that are big artists today start off in the church. I mean, big Sean, he's a rapper that's, pretty big.

[00:28:40] He started off as you know, like, he was like a rapping about God and Jesus 

[00:28:44] DJJonniBravo: You're talking about all those artists that went to church and sang in the church and build up their music career, that way it's not like everybody had Disney, you know, kind of like there's that whole group of artists that came outta Disney, Justin Timberlake.

[00:28:58] Yeah. Britney Spears you had a bunch [00:29:00] of those folks that, had Disney for that same kind of growth in their music. And so some people don't have that.

[00:29:06] So the local church is there, outlet for that. 

[00:29:09] Deane Walden: Yeah. Yeah. You're exactly right. 

[00:29:12] DJJonniBravo: let's take short break here and we'll be right back after this. Okay.

[00:29:15] Theme Songs: You are still under the influence with DJJonniBravo.

[00:29:39] DJJonniBravo: We are back I'm Jonni Bravo. You're going under the musical influence of today's guest Deane Walden on Under the Influence with DJJonniBravo. The next question on the list is your first couple songs. So I know that you're married and I'm not going to have you list another song but one for your wife, is there one that you guys dance to at the [00:30:00] wedding or one that you always dance to, or like.

[00:30:03] Deane Walden: Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Man. So we had a wedding, but we didn't we got married by a guy named Morgan day. He was a pastor friend of ours, but we didn't have a huge wedding. Like we brought our trailer at 18. My wife was still in school, I was graduating, but she fed when she was younger.

[00:30:20] So she was still in 12th grade. I proposed and we got married and we lived in a trailer, but we didn't have a big wedding at all. It was like four or five people there. But this song is super special to me. It’s by Mario and this song is called, let me love you. It was a song that was like really popular when me and Tiffany met my.

[00:30:38] The funny fact is about this song was I think I was 17 or 16. I can't remember the exact yeah, my age, but I think I just turned 17 and the song was like popping radio. I loved the song cause I loved Mario as an artist. I asked her out through this song. So one night me and her were talking on the phone.

[00:30:58] We would talk like, two o'clock in the [00:31:00] morning. And these were like the old razor flip phones. So this was a big deal, but I was talking to her and all of a sudden I hung up on purpose and I changed my voicemail real fast. I, don't really remember how I did it, but I, played this song.

[00:31:15] Let me love you for like, three seconds. And then my voicemail was like, Tiffany I know you're listening to this. Will you go out with me? It was something like that. And then it was like, leave a message. And she was calling me back cuz you know, my phone hung up and then she left me a message.

[00:31:30] It was like, of course I go out with you. Then I cut my phone back on, listen to the message. Then I called her back. So it was it's definitely Mario let me love you. That's a special song that will always be. 

[00:31:41] DJJonniBravo: That's real. Nice story. I enjoyed that with the razor phones and you changing the voicemail that was always a fun thing that you could do.

[00:31:47] When we first got phones that most people probably don't even, you know, they don't even probably set their voicemails nowadays. And yeah, we used to think it was so cool that you could, you know, put different sound effects. I think I had hand solo on mine [00:32:00] talking about the force or something, that I had gotten off the TV, but and my wife and I's wedding you know, we didn't have a lot of people.

[00:32:06] I mean, we had a lot of people, but we didn't have a very big wedding and the church kind of put it on and both of us were at the time unemployed. And so we were going out to pay for stuff and the church had already picked it up, like our cake, we would go, you know, to pay for this. And then somebody had already picked it up.

[00:32:21] So, it was a real special time for us too. So those smaller weddings of smaller engagements sometimes it's all you need, know, you just need the service, definitely. And then it makes it official. 

[00:32:32] Deane Walden: Definitely. It makes it super official, man. We're eventually gonna do like a Reval type of thing here in the next couple years, and we'll make that one real big, but it's nothing like starting off little and getting to that point, you know, now your family's big and amazing.

[00:32:46] It's just, it's a blessing man, all around. 

[00:32:48] DJJonniBravo: Plus you're able to afford to maybe move into a place and do other things, cuz you're not spending all of your money on, you know, dress and cake and a place to have it, 

[00:32:58] Deane Walden: right. Yeah, exactly. [00:33:00] Man. Well, now people get married at like 40, so they got good jobs.

[00:33:04] It's really sad because lot of people look at me and TIFF, probably just like you and your wife. We got married right outta high school. And like I said, she was in 12th grade still. She was actually really upset because when she graduated, my, my last name is Walden.

[00:33:19] She was like one of the last ones to go up and walk. Cause, usually you can get your diploma and you can really just leave if you really want to. She had to wait to the very, very end, but it's just sad, man, the way the world's going today, that people are just really against marriage man.

[00:33:33] And, and in my opinion, marriage was the best thing for me that I've ever done. Except, you know, except in Christ is the number one thing I've ever done, but getting married at a younger age, you get to grow with that person. You get to grow with that person, go through things with that person.

[00:33:49] You learn, you know what I'm saying? That's what our relationship is. Nowadays. People using Tinder and all these platforms, they're getting these one night stand and I'm not condemning these people believe [00:34:00] me. I'm not condemning. It's just sad that someone at 30 or 40 can't experience what I've experienced at a younger age, now, they get together with these people and there, so they're older.

[00:34:11] And then they try to, have babies and try to start a family at an older age. Sometimes it just doesn't work out, cuz you're already created your own foundation by yourself and it's harder to adapt to that other person's foundation that they've already created themselves.

[00:34:26] That's why it's so special to me personally, to try to find someone at a younger age. So you can create a foundation together, create a system together that works, 

[00:34:36] DJJonniBravo: so yeah. Getting married at a younger age does help. You build relationship, but if you sit there and wait for this and wait for that, you're never gonna do it.

[00:34:46] And then you might be too old to do it, like you're saying. And it's easier when you can get in there. We didn't marry right out of high school or anything I was actually older than my wife, but we have grown together, and that's part of being married and it's not always a 50 [00:35:00] 50 deal.

[00:35:00] It's an 80, 30, it's a 90, 20 or 90 10, or, so sometimes somebody could be carrying you a hundred, 10%. Yeah. And so you have to be able to do that and know your limits. And then when you add kids, it becomes increasingly difficult, yeah. To deal with family on top of that.

[00:35:16] And then you gotta deal with your family and her family. And but that's 

[00:35:19] Deane Walden: I agree, man. It's something that. I feel like I said, it's something the world is missing today. It's just, it's like, it's almost the government and no one really wants you married. I mean, you get more benefits not being married.

[00:35:30] I don't know, man. It's just it's a weird time we live in. And I'm not saying that people who don't get married or wrong, that's not what I'm saying. I just think I don't personally believe you have to be with someone for two years to know if you wanna marry him. In my view, if you know that person for at least a year, I mean, what more can you find out?

[00:35:48] You know what I'm saying? Like, some people say, oh, we're gonna get married next year. And they, and I've seen it, man, with my own artists. I've seen it probably 10 times with, with 10 different people. They say they're gonna get married. They never get married, [00:36:00] man. They keep pushing it back, pushing it back, pushing it back.

[00:36:02] And then eventually they end up falling outta love. I just feel like marriage is a glue. Now I do agree as well. People get married that we're never in love in the beginning. And then that's why you have divorces. So I, get it, but I just would feel like if people take marriage more seriously it, it would definitely change, for the better if you get what I'm saying.

[00:36:25] DJJonniBravo: Yeah. I, I definitely do. Well, let me ask you what was your first concert or the first concert that you remember? 

[00:36:33] Deane Walden: So this is funny. I don't know if you were there at the time, but my first concert I ever visited now, I let me make this straight. I've never actually been doing real, like professional concert.

[00:36:44] Never, just never, it never happened with me. My mom was very strict, I got a twin brother. She thinks we'll get in trouble, blah, blah, blah. So the first like concert, I would think I would call a concert was actually at The church me and you went to, and it there was a [00:37:00] band performing there called chosen few and a quick, funny story about that.

[00:37:05] Like I said earlier, me and my brother went to a school where the culture was mostly, African, African American. It was rap. The culture was way different from an all-white school. And at the time uh, there was a rap group out of New York called Dipset and they were wearing like, everything pink man.

[00:37:24] Like they had everything pink, they had fitted hats that were pink. They had fitted, they had shirts that were pink or even Timberlands that, it was pink and baby blue. That was like the thing at that time. And me and my brother picked it up fast, cuz I love pink. I love baby blue. And I'm very comfortable with my sexuality.

[00:37:42] And me and my brother were like, yo, let's start wearing pink man. So like we started like buying all these pink clothes and baby blue clothes and we were like wearing them around our school. And we weren't the very first ones to do it at our school, but we were like, we were on that train right when it happened and it like blew up man.

[00:37:58] Like everybody, like we had like [00:38:00] straight gangsters wearing pink, man. It was a cool little movement, but I say all this. This church that we were going to my mom really wanted us to go there, just listen to this band called chosen you. And I was like I'm gonna bring some of my friends.

[00:38:14] I want some of my friends to go. I remind you, the church that we were going to unfortunately was mostly white and it was mostly, older, white people there. Me and my brother were the type of people that wore do rags and stuff like that. And you Jonni, like you were like one of the main ones who never judged us, you were there with us, you supported us.

[00:38:32] Like you knew the culture, like, you know, you were DJ, like you understood how culture is and how rock and roll was the culture at one point and stuff like that. And how rap is like the culture today that, that kind of raps the new rock and roll. So me and my brother brought. Four of our friends with us and they were black.

[00:38:52] We went to this all white church and we went to go see this all white chosen few like gospel band. And we were [00:39:00] all wearing like pink and story short, like we had like one of some of my friends were raising their hands. I don't know if they were joking or whatnot, but they were like praising.

[00:39:08] And at the very end of the concert the main singer would goes all. I gotta ask this, man. I don't even know where the closest JC Penney’s is because I have got to go get me some some pink shirts for the next concert, because they were doing like this weekend thing there. I think.

[00:39:22] So they had a concert like the next day there or something and they, and he asked us to stand up like our whole like little crew to stand. And was like, don't these guys look good, man, real men we're pink. It was something like that. And we were, we just thought it, it tickled all of us, man. Like were, we were just dying.

[00:39:38] Like it was so cool that the guy on stage, shouted us out and it was a good, like two, 300 people in this big gym. I just always remember that man. It just, that's something, I can't forget it. It was funny, man, and yeah, the pink stage finally faded away a little bit, but I still wear pink here and there and, and, you know, real men wear pink.

[00:39:57] So 

[00:39:58] DJJonniBravo: that's awesome. Yeah, [00:40:00] I always would, and I still do my pants sag a little bit, you know, maybe not as much as some people sag, cuz I do wear a belt cuz I'm getting older now. And if my pants fall down, you know, somebody might call the police. But I do, you know, still have a sag in my pants and some of my shirts, are bigger but probably I'm growing into 'em now, you know what I mean?

[00:40:19] So they, they probably fit better now. But yeah I just like, that you guys would push the envelope and you always did. they Were your friends. I mean, you didn't make excuses for it. You were just like, they're my friends, man. They go, I go, where they go I go and it was no excuses made.

[00:40:35] We're going to the chosen few, let's go to the chosen few, you know, let's go have a good time. And you guys were always looking to have a good time in those, different environments and you did. Yeah. And it was, truth in that, because that you guys were always living it, yeah. That's exactly how you guys were, so there's nothing wrong with that at all. Well, I think you touched on this already. Your first music purchase and you, told us I believe it was a, it was a tape. Is this was [00:41:00] before 

[00:41:00] Deane Walden: CD. Yeah, I think it was before you, that, like that era when CDs are still first coming out, but you could tape was still pretty popular.

[00:41:08] I think it was that error when CDs made it, like just came out or it could have been the little, I can't remember which ones came out first, but yeah, I was, I think it was planet nine or I'm trying to think of some other name that I can't, I think it was planet nine and yeah, I remember going in there and getting it and that was my first time really ever in there, like a record store.

[00:41:29] Cuz you don't really see too much record stores anymore. You can go to like target Walmart, you know, places like that and go where they had the CDs, but. I was kind of like lost when I got there. I didn't know what to do, where to look at. I just went straight up to the people and was like, I like this song, I'm blue.

[00:41:44] I started singing it and they're like here. We got it. But I'll tell you this though, man. I was a little bit older when I was about 14 or 15, my mom and dad. So me and my actually it was when I was 13. Me and my brother, my twin brother. We wanted like a [00:42:00] dope like stereo. Like we never had like a nice banging, like stereo to ourselves.

[00:42:05] My dad had one downstairs and he would he would always play like his little country music. And then he had his little like nineties jams of hip hop. , well we wanted our own, so my mom and them surprised us one year. They went out to, I don't know if it was best buy or where they went, but they got this.

[00:42:23] Stereo and they ended up buying us. And I, we didn't ask for it either. It was completely surprise. They brought us a Tupac CD and I wanna say the other CD was, was biggie. I can't remember, but I just remember, man, like that's where I was first introduced into like hardcore hip hop was, and through was Tupac CD.

[00:42:46] It was a CD with like, hey I'm sorry, mama. I can't remember the other songs. You know, I never forget cuz you know, my mom's like this, this young white lady at the time and she told me she was like, the people thought I was crazy cuz I went in there and I was like my two twin kids.

[00:42:59] I wanna [00:43:00] surprise them with the hip hop album. What's the best thing to buy? And they were like, oh, you need to give this CD. It had parent buyers on it and everything and she still got it for us. So, that's what really kinda. I guess, just a little bit towards hip hop, cuz I grew up on pop.

[00:43:15] Like I was a back I don't care who makes fun of me. I don't care, but me and my brother loved NSYNC. We loved Britney Spears Christina agar, L Backstreet boys, LFO. It was like that whole pop era for us. My mom kind of introduced us to Tupac through that. And then after Tupac, it was it was get Richard died trying by 50 cent.

[00:43:35] And then that kinda like just sealed the deal for me and my brother, through the hip hop culture and you know, so on and so on. 

[00:43:41] DJJonniBravo: If you got Netflix, you should watch documentary called pop it's either called pop or pop music. And it's like episode three, they talk about pop music from Sweden because of ABA and part of that whole awakening is Britney Spears, [00:44:00] Backstreet boys in sync.

[00:44:02] They went over to Sweden and like got their, history through. One, I don't, mess it up for anybody that hasn't seen it, but go check it out. It's pop music. That's such a cool story though, about your mom. And I could totally see her doing that. Buying that album and I used to work at a record store.

[00:44:19] We would always take bets on what they were gonna ask for. And I had this sweet grandma come in one time and she was like yeah, I'm looking for this song and its song is about Jesus. I think its called bullet with butterfly wings and I'm like, you want the smashing pumpkins?

[00:44:37] And she's like, yeah, I'm like, is this for a gift? And she's like, no, I'm like, ma'am, this whole album is not gonna be shouting out to Jesus. It's gonna, it's a double album. Right. And she bought the CD because of bully with butterfly wings, because Billy Corgans on that song shouting out to Jesus. And I thought it was so hilarious that I would've never guessed that [00:45:00] in a million years.

[00:45:01] I mean, I could kind of see parents coming in, picking up stuff, but usually when it had parental advisory on it, they would put it back and right. And you're not gonna get it. You know, it's got a parental advisory on it, but that's so cool that your mom bought you that. And what, bigger artists can you have besides Tupac and biggie?

[00:45:17] I mean, east coast, west coast, you know, you got the best of both worlds and well, I mean, he wasn't always west coast, he was east coast first, but still, and I think he was still east coast on that album with dear mama, but that's awesome story. 

[00:45:30] Deane Walden: Yeah, it was something I'll never forget I listened to, he in Tupac, you know, one of the greatest, but it was more after that, you know, just opened the door to hip-hop me

[00:45:44] and all the, that, that pop with 50 cent and little Wayne. That's where, like, we got our style from like, that was like, it was just a weird style, man. It was just, I like weird music, so yeah. yeah. 

[00:45:58] DJJonniBravo: Well I would go into the record store and I would [00:46:00] pick up I'm like, yeah, I want the new Snoop dog and I want Harry con Jr.

[00:46:05] and they're like for you and I'm like, yeah, they're like, seriously, like those don't go together at all, but that's what I would go out and buy. Cause that's that my eclectic mix. 

[00:46:15] Deane Walden: Right. No, I feel you. 

[00:46:16] DJJonniBravo: Yeah. I mean, exactly. You gotta, have it. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back. So hang on.

[00:46:38] Theme Songs: You are still under the influence with DJJonniBravo. 

[00:46:45] DJJonniBravo: We are back I'm Jonni Bravo. You're going under the musical influence of today's guest Deane Walden. And Under the Influence with DJJonniBravo. All right, Deane. Yes, sir. What's your favorite song or songs? [00:47:00] 

[00:47:00] Deane Walden: So my favorite song right now, it's just so funny, but it is a country song.

[00:47:06] His name is Trey Penley and the song is called daddy's son. If y'all, listening and you kind of like country check it out, it's called daddy's son. If you didn't have a good dad growing up, don't watch it. But if you had a good dad, listen to it, it's an awesome song. It's about its him basically explaining who he is as a person and how like he's his dad's son, but I had a great father, you know, growing up, but I also listened through like, to that song through my son's eyes as well, you know, it's kind of like a double whammy and it's just I, haven't really learned a song lyric by lyric in years, man.

[00:47:46] And I know this song lyric by lyric and I would really encourage y'all to check that out. Man, other than that, I mean, I've got tons of other favorite songs one hip hop song that I know lyric by lyric. Cause if it's your favorite song, you gotta know it lyric, by [00:48:00] lyric.

[00:48:00] Would be it's by an, it's an artist, it's two artists on the song, but it's called Hey ma and it's very explicit language, but it's called Hey ma and it's by camera and Joel Santana. And they were in the group called Dipset, but me and my brother, like when we were like 13, 14, that was like the song that like set it, set it off.

[00:48:23] I mean we can tell you that every single part about that song, man, like every lyric can that's got some good memories behind that song. So it's called Hey mall by Cameron and Joel Santana. 

[00:48:35] DJJonniBravo: All right. So we're gonna take it a step further here and ask you what your favorite band artist or group is.

[00:48:43] Deane Walden: All right. So. I have a couple of favorite groups, but I'm gonna do 'em by genre. So if we're going by genre, my favorite Christian band is probably I would say it is goodness. What is the El its elevation worship? I [00:49:00] would say they're my favorite Christian band. If we're going just like secular, like punk rock it's between Blink-182 and Good Charlotte.

[00:49:09] I probably would lean a little bit towards good Charlotte, cuz they were little bit more my era, I think Blink-182 came out like a little bit, you know, before me. If I had to pick old school band, it's definitely the Jersey boys. Cause that was something that. My grandma played for us. I know that they were a different name when they were younger, but I'm just gonna say, Jersey boys and favorite rapper of all time is no doubt.

[00:49:36] Lil Wayne, he's the goat Lil Wayne started doing punk rock in like 2005 and he was, doing punk rock and rap together he's a lyrical genius, but like he was so far ahead of his time. Cuz now if you look at like MGK Post Malone some of these other artists that are doing that punk rock stuff with rap in tune into it.

[00:49:59] I [00:50:00] mean, Lil Wayne the goat man. He's the greatest of all time. I mean, he started the face error. He started the mix tape error. He is like a pioneer in the hip hop culture, man. I, and me personally, like that's my Tupac, like that's who I feel is the greatest of all time when it comes to the rap culture.

[00:50:20] DJJonniBravo: Now there's a little song and I'm sure you heard about it because rock has always influenced rap and vice versa is walked this way by Run DMC and Aerosmith. Oh yeah. When I was in sixth grade that blew our sixth grade minds. Because they were mixing the two and you didn't hear very many black artists on MTV.

[00:50:42] Right. And so in that video, when he's breaking down the wall, when Steven Tyler from an Aerosmith is breaking down the wall, he's breaking down barriers. Yeah. For the rock and the rap world that all of us kids could come together and enjoy a piece of music. I mean, there were so many just, [00:51:00] you know, punk rock, heavy metal kids that liked that rap rock R and B kids that liked that.

[00:51:07] And we were all together getting the fat laces, buying the Adidas all because of run DMC. So when you talk about little Wayne being the goat, as far as the punk rock air, you know, he probably got a little bit rap does that bars from everyone from Run DMC and others, but it's so cool when they can mix those genres together and just get people hyped and Lil Wayne is definitely a goat for doing that.

[00:51:32] Cuz he's got some bangers, man. 

[00:51:35] He does man. He actually like loves his fans like. I think he is got what, 13 or 14, like free mix tapes. He goes bar for bar on like every song on the mix tape. Don't make like rappers don't do that no more.

[00:51:48] Deane Walden: They don't give out free music anymore. Everything's gotta be for the dollar now. That's something I will forever be grateful for Wayne doing that. Of course he's got albums too, but he gave you free music as well. I think that's [00:52:00] what really blew him up even more in the culture back when I was younger doing those free mix tapes 

[00:52:06] DJJonniBravo: that SI a lot about him and his character and solidifies him as the goat,

[00:52:10] are you ready for the big final now? 

[00:52:12] Deane Walden: For sure for sure. 

[00:52:13] DJJonniBravo: Here we go.

[00:52:21] How has music impacted your life? 

[00:52:25] Deane Walden: Oh man we could talk about that like all night, but how has it impacted my life? Music gave me an outlet, it gave me an outlet to express to express who I am as a person there's songs that I've done that I've gotten deep on, when it comes to just, you know, giving my life to Christ it gives me an outlet.

[00:52:42] It's kind of like an audio journal, you know, not everything that I do. A lot of music. If I'm speaking through the lens, looking through the lens of an artist has changed my life because it gives me an outlet or like an audio journal to express myself not to only express myself, [00:53:00] but to express the message of Christ, using songs you know, using the gift that God gave me to promote good news to other people, the random people all across the world.

[00:53:11] I mean, I looked on my Spotify and I got people all around the world, listening, even if it's like three people in Uganda or, you know, all around man China, like it's crazy. When you look at the statistics. About who's listening? I mean, it's incredible. Even if I just help make one person's day better is amazing.

[00:53:33] But to also bring a message like that, the gospel, you know, the gospel of grace to tell someone, Hey, I know you probably are going through some, something that is condemning you, but I, have the best medicine for you. And it's this message about Jesus. And man music has just changed my life all around.

[00:53:52] You know, not only like me doing music, it changed my life, but like just listening to music there's tons of people that I've seen [00:54:00] that I've met that people will say. You know, like Leonard Skynyrd saved their life there's people out here, you would never think like certain bands, people like will clinging onto any type of song that gets them through a rough day or a rough time.

[00:54:17] And it could be any band. It could be any artist. And I think it's amazing because like I said, man, it's you expressing yourself through audio form. And if someone, just one person can relate to that, it's just amazing. And it's actually helped me in my life. It's given me motivation. Me personally, if I can make a good song, why can I not be successful in something else?

[00:54:37] You know, why can't I, if I can make a song and talk to someone through a song, why can't I just get up on a stage and preach the gospel? You know what I'm saying? Or why can't I just walk up to someone and say hi to someone and make their day better. Music is so important, man.

[00:54:52] And I ain't trying to go biblical on you, but if you, get into like scripture and understand that, Satan is [00:55:00] it cause some the prints of the air in the Bible. And when you think of air, you think of airwaves. And when you think of airwaves, you think of sound waves. You can corrupt someone's mind by using words, but you can also do the exact opposite.

[00:55:15] You can use their words to heal people to break condemnation and stuff like that. Music is a very scary thing if it's used the wrong way, because there's tons of other people like crazy people out here that use songs, to do bad things. Always a ying and yang.

[00:55:33] It's always a good and evil thing, but if you can use music the right way to make a, better positive place, man, that's how music will impact anybody. I mean, wasn't there a deaf artist that wrote music. Look at that, you know what I'm saying? Like they changed the world and couldn't even hear yeah, it's, changed my life dramatically for the best.

[00:55:52] DJJonniBravo: Well, thanks so much for being here. I, don't see you as much as I probably should. I do witness your life from far away [00:56:00] on Facebook and social media. I know that, you love your wife and that you love your son and that you definitely, love the Lord. I just thank you for being here today and sharing about you and about your music besides Spotify, where can people find you?

[00:56:15] Do you have a website or do you have any other means or people could see where you're at? 

[00:56:19] Deane Walden: If you really wanna find me, you can just Google me and just Deane Walden. You can find me under YouTube. You can find me under Instagram Facebook Spotify apple music, iTunes.

[00:56:30] All the music platforms. If you just look up Deane Walden I'm under there. Like I said, I just dropped a like an R and B, like a throwback R and B album for my wife. It's called brown eyed, beauty. That's, it's got like four or five, maybe it's like five or six songs on it.

[00:56:44] It's got that up tempo, but modern day Jersey boy type feel. Before that I dropped a Christian album. I got four other ones out right now, so yeah, just feel free to go look, man. And I appreciate you having me. We definitely need to link up in the future. 

[00:56:57] DJJonniBravo: That sounds good. Well, thanks [00:57:00] for going under the musical influence of today's guest. Deane Walden on Under the Influence with DJJonniBravo. Go Under the Influence on Instagram at DJ J O N N I B R A V O underscore under the influence. You can also contact it by email it's DJJonniBravo dot Under the Influence @ yahoo.com.

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