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Phil Satlof

May 4, 2026

3:27
Um, Phil, you're next to me on my screen, so wanna, wanna kick us off?
3:31
All right.
3:32
So, well, technically, I guess it would have to be that I played the sousaphone when I was in elementary school through high school, and John Philip Sousa, who invented it, is from DC.
3:45
So, the Washington Post March, which I played in the marching band, technically, maybe that's [laughs] it.
3:51
But then when I moved here when I was 18 years old, although I do have some cool stories about seeing punk bands in the churches and stuff, my first experience two days after I moved here was going to the Carter Barron Amphitheatre and seeing Richie Havens and Terence Simeon and the Mel- Playboys.
4:11
And of course, being new to DC, we had no idea we were...
4:14
This was at George Washington University.

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