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Speaker 1: This is quest Love And as you notice throughout June,
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Speaker 2: Now for Part one, Part two, and Part three of
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Speaker 1: This is the legendary Jimmy Jam. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: to another episode of QLs Classic.
Speaker 2: I'm Questlove.
Speaker 1: This episode we consider it to be our finest hour.
Speaker 1: We interview the music god himself, Jimmy Jam. This is,
Speaker 1: without no doubt one of our best moments, my personal favorite.
Speaker 1: In Part one of this three part series, we discuss
Speaker 1: this life in Minnesota, of Minneapolis, coming up as a DJ,
Speaker 1: his friendship with Terry Lewis's music partner, and getting mentored
Speaker 1: by the one and only Clarence Aphon, not to mention
Speaker 1: Uh Princey starting a little unknown band called The Time.
Speaker 2: We Hope you enjoyed. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: So I went to the mirror, yeah, with Grayson Vaness. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Jimmy Jam Yeah, I had to be my
Speaker 1: first Grammy.
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Speaker 2: Was my name. Yeah, and I still say yeah the
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Speaker 3: Ro come Suprema So Supremo, Role call, Supremo.
Speaker 2: Supremo roll call. Yeah. Never out of touch. Yeah, Jimmy
Speaker 2: jam is here. Yeah, I miss you.
Speaker 1: My.
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Speaker 3: Roll call, Suprema son Son Supremo.
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Speaker 3: Roll call, Suprema So Supremo. Role call, Suprema son Son Supremo.
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Speaker 1: Roll call, Ladies and gentlemen. I do not want to
Speaker 1: waste a second. Welcome Jimmy, jim Okay, let's go, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Jam Where were you born? No, I'm not wasting a second.
Speaker 2: No, how you doing, I'm good, I'm good man. We're
Speaker 2: very overwhelmed for this Pineapple goals man. This is goal yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like my life is whatever.
Speaker 2: Door I thought she was gonna fall my Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was like, my life.
Speaker 1: Is Baltic Avenue and Mediterranean, like this is ward Walking
Speaker 1: Park place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Monopoly references, it is. It is sports.
Speaker 1: Hello there, mister James Harris, the third Man.
Speaker 2: I'm wonderful man. It's great to be here with you
Speaker 2: today finally and your crew, your whole crew. Man, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We've been looking forward to this one for a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is serious of life life goals here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just we're starting from the begin Where were
Speaker 2: you born, sir? Minneapolis, Minnesota? Okay, uh, what part of
Speaker 2: what part of Minneapolis? I grew up South Minneapolis, So
Speaker 2: you know, I can say like forty first in Portland Avenue,
Speaker 2: which doesn't mean a lot to anybody, but you know,
Speaker 2: if you think of downtown, it's like, you know, First Street,
Speaker 2: second Street, you know, First Avenue, so on and so forth.
Speaker 2: I lived forty one blocks south of downtown.
Speaker 1: I feel like when any black person is from the
Speaker 1: south side of town, south side of east side, that
Speaker 1: means something something going on.
Speaker 2: Like what part of what was the town part of
Speaker 2: town to not go to? In Minneapolish, Well, okay, if
Speaker 2: you were black, the northeast was where to not go to.
Speaker 2: It was called actually the northeast is what we called it.
Speaker 2: Where the white people lived. Yeah. Yeah, every town has
Speaker 2: always white people. The white people didn't didn't necessarily want
Speaker 2: us to be there, you know, because white people live
Speaker 2: every I mean, let's face it. Back, growing up, I
Speaker 2: think the state population was something like three percent black,
Speaker 2: and maybe it was eight percent black in Minneapolis or
Speaker 2: something like that. So pretty much white people were everywhere.
Speaker 2: But certainly, you know, everybody was very tolerant, I guess,
Speaker 2: I would say, and it was very progressive town. But
Speaker 2: as you can tell from the music, it came out
Speaker 2: of there. I think that's had a lot to do
Speaker 2: with it. But no, I mean, really, the north side
Speaker 2: probably is where the folks were. You know, I was
Speaker 2: one of the only South Side guy. I mean in
Speaker 2: Prince obviously because we went to school together and stuff.
Speaker 2: But on the north side of town you had you know,
Speaker 2: Morris Day, Jellybean, Terry Lewis, you know, and you had
Speaker 2: the community center called the Way, which everybody used to
Speaker 2: rehearse at and that kind of thing. So it was
Speaker 2: a lot more happening on the north side of town,
Speaker 2: I would say that on the south side.
Speaker 1: So in your formative years, how many of your contemporaries
Speaker 1: and peers that you were professional with would you see
Speaker 1: on a regular basis?
Speaker 2: Everybody? Man, it was a small community, it was. It was.
Speaker 2: It was a lot like I always say that Purple
Speaker 2: Rain the movie was a kind of a it was fiction,
Speaker 2: but it was it told a lot of truth and
Speaker 2: that was there was like a couple of clubs you
Speaker 2: could play at, and there was more bands than the
Speaker 2: clubs could hold. So it made for a very competitive
Speaker 2: situation where if your band wasn't firing, you just wouldn't
Speaker 2: be playing in the club. And so that's the way
Speaker 2: we grew up. So there was like the Elks Lounge.
Speaker 2: There was a club called the Nakarima Nakaima was actually
Speaker 2: American spelled backwards. And you know, the Cozy Bar was
Speaker 2: another place. There was a place called the Flame. And
Speaker 2: you know, so between, you know, back in that day,
Speaker 2: you had you know, my band, I had a band
Speaker 2: called Mind and Matter, Terry had Flight Time. We were
Speaker 2: together and then we were apart. We were you know,
Speaker 2: we were going back and forth a lot. And then
Speaker 2: Prince had Grand Central. Morris had a band called the
Speaker 2: Enterprise Band of Pleasure at one point, you know, so
Speaker 2: on and so forth. So what happened was there was
Speaker 2: all these bands, but there's only a couple of places
Speaker 2: to play. But all of those guys and particularly people
Speaker 2: like that, and really the best, probably the baddest dude
Speaker 2: up there was Sonny Thompson.
Speaker 1: Everyone speaks of Sonny Thompson like he's God, Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: what is it about? What is the legend of Sonny Thompson. Well,
Speaker 1: Sonny Thompson.
Speaker 2: I remember back when I first met Terry, and I
Speaker 2: remember we put our little band together and stuff, and
Speaker 2: then they used to do these big outdoor festivals at
Speaker 2: a place called the Phylliswheetlely, which is a big community center,
Speaker 2: and they used to do these outdoor concerts and I
Speaker 2: remember seeing they had a band, actually the original band
Speaker 2: that was called the Family. Sonny Thompson was in that band.
Speaker 2: But I'd never seen a brother play the guitar like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, he just was like he was like legendary.
Speaker 2: He was like the dude. And on top of it,
Speaker 2: he had the attitude like if you didn't like him
Speaker 2: or you didn't like the way he was playing, he
Speaker 2: was gonna come down to kick your ass. Right, So
Speaker 2: he'd he'd played the gig and stuff, and then afterwards
Speaker 2: if he'd like, look at it you and you'd say
Speaker 2: to him, he killed it, Sonny, Man, that was amazing,
Speaker 2: because you better say that. But the good news was
Speaker 2: he always was. He was amazing, and he was a
Speaker 2: dude that everybody just kind of stopped and stared and
Speaker 2: went damn. What was his style of playing? He was
Speaker 2: a great rhythm player. He played with a lot of aggression.
Speaker 2: You know. The thing I always said about about Prince
Speaker 2: and the way he played is I've never seen anybody
Speaker 2: attack instruments the way Prince did, Like he literally attacked
Speaker 2: the instruments louder or just toned well, you know he would.
Speaker 2: I mean I always say, like, for instance, Terry. You know,
Speaker 2: Terry's a great bass player, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: But you know how we always use the analogy like
Speaker 2: in basketball, people that make you better. Prince was that person, right,
Speaker 2: So Terry would be playing a bass part and Prince
Speaker 2: would take the bass from Terry and go, no, play
Speaker 2: it like this, and then he'd play it, and then
Speaker 2: he'd had Terry the bass back, and Terry would look
Speaker 2: at the bass like he'd never seen it before. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like damn. You know so that but that was
Speaker 2: the way Sonny was, and I think Prince got a
Speaker 2: lot of that from Sonny, like the attack of the instruments.
Speaker 2: And it's the same with the keyboards. We used to
Speaker 2: break keyboards all the time because it wasn't like you
Speaker 2: would just hit the keyboard politely. It was like we
Speaker 2: were doing all kind of swoops and wow wow on
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, like we would break keyboards.
Speaker 2: I mean that kind of stuff. I mean that was
Speaker 2: the way he wanted you to play. And so I
Speaker 2: mean that that kind of attitude to me was the
Speaker 2: thing that you know, set him apart, along with a
Speaker 2: whole lot of other things, but it really set Prince
Speaker 2: apart for sure.
Speaker 1: What were the what was a gold club to play
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis at the time, Like, was First Avenue a
Speaker 1: dream that was unattainables?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Actually, here's an interesting thing. Yeah, Now First Avenue was
Speaker 2: actually the first place that actually allowed like black bands
Speaker 2: to play. So there was a quiet segregation. Oh it
Speaker 2: was not in your fleece, Oh it was. I guess
Speaker 2: you could say it was quiet. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: were a band and you were trying to play somewhere,
Speaker 2: you knew there were clubs that were just unattainable. You
Speaker 2: just weren't going to play that club. And I thank
Speaker 2: God to this day that that happened because what it did,
Speaker 2: as history has always shown with black folks, is from
Speaker 2: adversity comes all good things. You know, you look at
Speaker 2: what you don't have, and then you figure out that
Speaker 2: you can't go the easy route that everybody else is going,
Speaker 2: and then you figure out a way to go get
Speaker 2: it done. So what we used to do back in
Speaker 2: the day, we knew we couldn't play I can't remember
Speaker 2: even the names of the clubs, but there was all
Speaker 2: these very fancy white clubs and they all had white bands,
Speaker 2: but they were all playing R and B music, which
Speaker 2: was ironic. We knew we couldn't play those clubs. So
Speaker 2: what we would do is, for instance, there was a
Speaker 2: hotel downtown called the Dykeman Hotel. It was a hotel
Speaker 2: that was probably about a year away from, you know,
Speaker 2: being torn down. I mean it was just nobody stayed there.
Speaker 2: Rooms were rady, the whole thing. But what they had
Speaker 2: was a big ballroom. So what we would do is
Speaker 2: we would take, you know, we'd go to the owner
Speaker 2: of the hotel and we'd say, hey, can we rent
Speaker 2: the ballroom out. We'll give you the liquor, whatever the
Speaker 2: liquor sales are, you keep and we'll take the door.
Speaker 2: We'll charge you know, three bucks at the door or whatever.
Speaker 2: And so what it did is it forced us to
Speaker 2: become entrepreneurs, because it wasn't like we just had the
Speaker 2: talent we could go play. It was like, okay, we
Speaker 2: got the talent, now we got to figure out how
Speaker 2: we're going to go play. So we would do that.
Speaker 2: Now we now back in the day, there's no Twitter
Speaker 2: and no social media, so it was go to institut prints.
Speaker 2: That was the place you go. You print up a
Speaker 2: bunch of flyers and then you put them on people's
Speaker 2: cars and you'd say, you know, ladies get in free too,
Speaker 2: for one drink. So you'd say whatever the heck you
Speaker 2: needed to say to get them to get them down.
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden you get on Saturday night
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you'd get fifteen hundred people
Speaker 2: in this ballroom. Meanwhile, the white clubs are sitting empty.
Speaker 2: So now they're going, wait, where's everybody at tonight, And
Speaker 2: they're like, well, they're all going to see the band
Speaker 2: you wouldn't let play at your club. And so what
Speaker 2: happened after that was there began to be a little
Speaker 2: bit of a thing where people begin to recognize that
Speaker 2: maybe there's a talent or maybe we should let these
Speaker 2: folks in, you know, because these guys are talent and
Speaker 2: they're obviously drawing, right. But the first person to really
Speaker 2: act upon it was Steve McClellan at First Avenue who said,
Speaker 2: we'll book you guys in what was called Seventh Street Entry,
Speaker 2: which is like the little club, right, so if you
Speaker 2: were cool there, if you could get it going there,
Speaker 2: then we'll move you to the main room. But he
Speaker 2: was the one that really gave us the shot, and
Speaker 2: he gave you know, back then it wasn't just by
Speaker 2: the way, it wasn't just black bands, but it was
Speaker 2: like new wave bands you think about, like the Replacements
Speaker 2: in the suburbs and all of those bands, those bands
Speaker 2: all started, those white bands all started in that Seventh
Speaker 2: Street Entry. We even mixing with those guys at all,
Speaker 2: like would you see replacements? And we didn't mix at all,
Speaker 2: not I mean just because we didn't. It wasn't it
Speaker 2: we didn't like them. We were aware of them, and
Speaker 2: I think they were aware of us. But we know
Speaker 2: we never mixed together at all. It was just kind
Speaker 2: of the same dudes from the neighborhood that we grew
Speaker 2: up with. It was all of those same guys all together.
Speaker 1: So kind of jumping ahead a little bit, did you
Speaker 1: have goals to make it out of Minnesota or.
Speaker 2: Or was it just like, Okay, we'll just be a local.
Speaker 1: Band here and maybe well no, I mean, or I'll
Speaker 1: get a job, like are your parents supportive of this?
Speaker 2: Or well, okay, so two really good questions. So my parents.
Speaker 2: First of all, my dad played in a band and
Speaker 2: was always a professional musician. Used to take me to
Speaker 2: rehearsals and stuff back when I was, you know, six
Speaker 2: seven years old, and and I you know, at that point,
Speaker 2: I had the music bug totally, so I got to
Speaker 2: see it. I used to used to get to go
Speaker 2: to the studio and the whole thing. But he was
Speaker 2: always he never made it really where he wanted to.
Speaker 2: He was always kind of that guy on the cusp
Speaker 2: of making it. You know. He'd get on a few
Speaker 2: Back in the day, there were kind of regional records
Speaker 2: that were hits, and my dad would play on those
Speaker 2: records and then they'd ask him to go tour. But
Speaker 2: because at that point of his life he had me
Speaker 2: and he had gotten married, my mom always used to
Speaker 2: kind of frown upon, you know, like, well, no, you can't.
Speaker 2: You got responsibilities, you got family, and you got you know,
Speaker 2: you can't just run off and go on tour and
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And that really affected what happened
Speaker 2: with me because when I got to the point where
Speaker 2: I really wanted to do music, my mom was one
Speaker 2: hundred percent behind me because she realized that my dad
Speaker 2: never had a chance to do what the way he
Speaker 2: wanted to do it. So she really kind of stepped
Speaker 2: out of my way and was very supportive of me.
Speaker 2: So that was huge for me. By the way, and
Speaker 2: they because they separated and so or they got divorced,
Speaker 2: and so I basically stayed with my mom. So she said,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, as long as I see you doing music,
Speaker 2: you can do whatever the heck you want to do.
Speaker 2: But you know, as long as you was serious about
Speaker 2: it and that kind of thing. So that was that
Speaker 2: was important. What was the industry in Minnesota?
Speaker 1: Like if cars were Detroit and black families were there,
Speaker 1: middle class and buying instruments and stuff, and the same
Speaker 1: for factories in Indiana and the Midwest, what was the
Speaker 1: industry in Minnesota that kept was that an industry town
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 2: Well, the things I remember growing up were first of all,
Speaker 2: grain and flower. I remember gold Metal Flower was a
Speaker 2: big company back in the day. Pillsbury was up there,
Speaker 2: big company general. Yeah, I forgot I er, I now realized.
Speaker 2: He said that the ghetto boys thought he had came,
Speaker 2: but it was gold metal Flower. Now I get it.
Speaker 2: It was flower. Thank you for solving it. Mystery whether
Speaker 2: I was made.
Speaker 1: Life because of his accent, you know, I thought than
Speaker 1: flower solving the mystery of Willie.
Speaker 2: I didn't know there was a mystery. You know, we
Speaker 2: had it, but I just didn't. You didn't put it together,
Speaker 2: That's what he was saying.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: But all of those were up there, and obviously three
Speaker 2: M was up there to Honeywell. There were some some
Speaker 2: pretty big companies up there for sure, but just to
Speaker 2: and just to wrap the other thing we were saying.
Speaker 2: The whole idea, yes, was to get out of town.
Speaker 2: That was our focus because we knew we couldn't sit
Speaker 2: around and depend on playing in the clubs that weren't
Speaker 2: gonna let us play, and we knew that we couldn't
Speaker 2: make it playing in a club circuit where there's two
Speaker 2: or three clubs and there's a bands or whatever it
Speaker 2: is like that was not going to happen. So we
Speaker 2: set our sites always on making it nationally that was
Speaker 2: our whole thing. When Prince made it out, that showed
Speaker 2: us that it can happen. And it also because he
Speaker 2: was so unique in what he did, that then brought
Speaker 2: everybody started looking at Minneapolis like, Okay, what else is
Speaker 2: up there? Because that that happens with all towns, happened
Speaker 2: with Seattle, happens. You know, that's just the thing that happens.
Speaker 2: It's like something great comes out and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: what what else is there? What else is there? So
Speaker 2: we were definitely the beneficiaries of that. And there's a
Speaker 2: lot of great I will say, a lot of talented
Speaker 2: white musicians playing R and B music that never made
Speaker 2: it out of Minneapolis. Some of them made it out
Speaker 2: because Jesse took a couple folks with him and when
Speaker 2: he did his band Jesse Johnson reviews the Peterson's. How
Speaker 2: many Peterson's were there? A lot? Yeah, that was the
Speaker 2: That was the musical family up there. I mean, just
Speaker 2: so much talent, you know, but there were but there
Speaker 2: were other ones too, And I'm just kind of I'm
Speaker 2: blanking on names and stuff, but there was a lot
Speaker 2: of talent. But because they didn't they were very comfortable,
Speaker 2: so they had no reason to try to think outside
Speaker 2: of getting out of Minneapolis or anything like that. Like,
Speaker 2: we were so a lot of great talent up there
Speaker 2: that people didn't know about until, like I say, until
Speaker 2: that time when you know, Jesse picked up a few people.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think Margaret Cox, who was actually
Speaker 2: Tomorrow Margie. But yeah, but Margaret Cox was insanely talented,
Speaker 2: you know, so as a singer. So yeah, people like that.
Speaker 1: So when can I assume that Funky Town was the
Speaker 1: first at least indication that an escape could be made
Speaker 1: or something could happen.
Speaker 2: Was that just like a fluke went off in your eyes?
Speaker 2: Well for us, you know, Prince was the example that
Speaker 2: you could make it because see Prince was like three
Speaker 2: years before Funky Town. I forgot, yeah, Towns seven but no,
Speaker 2: but but but but Funky Town was eighties and that
Speaker 2: was you know, at the height of the disco craze
Speaker 2: and when it was and actually when disco was being
Speaker 2: played on the radio, not only in the clubs, but
Speaker 2: actually the format because I remember we had a radio
Speaker 2: station up there that went from a rock format to
Speaker 2: a disco format, which was very controversial, but disco was
Speaker 2: hot at that point in time. But we thought, what
Speaker 2: did you grow up listening on? Like, what were you
Speaker 2: listening to? Grow? For me, yeah, well there was nothing
Speaker 2: but pop radio up there. I mean, I grew up
Speaker 2: as a kid. My earliest memories were always you know,
Speaker 2: I always loved the harmony groups. I loved Seals and
Speaker 2: Cross America America. Yeah, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Bred that was. I mean, to this day, that's the
Speaker 2: way I stacked my harmonies because of the way they
Speaker 2: sang those songs. Back then, a little bit later in life,
Speaker 2: I liked, like, around the time I met Terry, I
Speaker 2: was really into Chicago that was. That was my favorite
Speaker 2: band ever, you know, and me and Terry both loved them.
Speaker 2: And then Terry then turned me on to when I
Speaker 2: met him, he turned me on to Earth Wind and Fired,
Speaker 2: Tower of Power, New Birth. I met Terry in seventy two. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so we're we're talking Last Days in Time, Earth Winding
Speaker 2: Fire and Music in my mind Stevie Wonder. You know,
Speaker 2: these were the albums and Terry turned me on to those.
Speaker 1: Black radio you didn't have no black radio experience at
Speaker 1: the age of ten twelve.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a black radio experience for me. When I
Speaker 2: got into high school, I was really into or junior
Speaker 2: high and into high school, I was really into Gambling,
Speaker 2: Huff and everything coming out of Philadelphia. Blue Magic was
Speaker 2: my favorite all time group. I know everybody was into stylistics,
Speaker 2: but Blue Magic was my group. But how could you
Speaker 2: hear it or see it was? Oh yeah, Soul Train
Speaker 2: definitely was on, and you definitely would hear it on
Speaker 2: Soul Train. But I remember I had a friend of
Speaker 2: mine whose dad was an executive of music Land, which
Speaker 2: is one of the big retail stores back in the day.
Speaker 2: So he used to get every single record that came out.
Speaker 2: And my thing was I was always a big liner
Speaker 2: note reader and a big label reader. So my thing
Speaker 2: was wit we All collect and Ville Yes. So my
Speaker 2: whole thing was I remember there were records that would
Speaker 2: come out and I would particularly during the Motown era
Speaker 2: because I really I really loved the Motown records, all
Speaker 2: of that stuff, the Holland Dozer, Holland, like I remember
Speaker 2: I did. I remember looking at a Supremes album at
Speaker 2: a like a family reunion or something back in sixty
Speaker 2: two or something or sixty so I was like three
Speaker 2: or four years old, and I remember that Holland Dozer Holland.
Speaker 2: It was the album was called The Supreme sing Holland
Speaker 2: Dozer Holland, that gold record, and I the gold record, right,
Speaker 2: I had no idea what that meant. Well, I kept going,
Speaker 2: what does this mean? What do you mean they singing
Speaker 2: Holland Dozer Holland, And somebody explained to me, no, they
Speaker 2: wrote the songs. The girls are the singers, but somebody
Speaker 2: wrote the songs. And something went off in my head
Speaker 2: at that point. That always made me look who wrote it?
Speaker 2: Who produced it? And so I remember all the Motown
Speaker 2: records would be the first ones I'd always go to.
Speaker 2: And I remember like staring at the first time I
Speaker 2: heard I Want You Back Jackson five, and you know
Speaker 2: Dinah Ross and Dinah Ross presents the Jackson five, and
Speaker 2: I thought, oh wow, that's cool. And I looked down
Speaker 2: the record. I'm like, well, I don't see Donna Ross's
Speaker 2: name anywhere on here. Right, there's some dudes called the Corporation.
Speaker 2: I got to find out who the corporation is, you know.
Speaker 2: So that was always my my thing. And and I
Speaker 2: knew that because what I learned was there were certain
Speaker 2: there were groups I like, but it was all about
Speaker 2: who produced them. Like it was. It was like, you know,
Speaker 2: like Eddie Kendricks could come out with a song and
Speaker 2: I would be like, Yeah, that's okay. And then you
Speaker 2: come out with a song I go, oh, I love
Speaker 2: that song. Okay, who did that song? Okay? Leonard Casting
Speaker 2: and you know, Frank Wilson and okay. And then I'd
Speaker 2: hear another song that had nothing to do with Eddie Kendricks,
Speaker 2: but I'd go, oh, I like that track. Who did that?
Speaker 2: And it'd be the same dudes, right, and and that's
Speaker 2: what and I got. That's when I started going, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's that's my thing. And so for me, that's what
Speaker 2: always excited me, and that's what, you know, ultimately made
Speaker 2: me want to become a songwriter and a producer.
Speaker 1: What kind of equipment were you dealing with when you
Speaker 1: first started, Like did you have a piano in the
Speaker 1: house or Fender Roads or we had?
Speaker 2: How did you get it around to gigs? Oh? Well, okay,
Speaker 2: well I'll tell you. Our very first gig was the
Speaker 2: summer that I met Terry, which was seventy two, and
Speaker 2: I remember my dad. At the time, I thought of
Speaker 2: myself as a drummer. I'd had drums in the house
Speaker 2: since I was like five years old. They bought me
Speaker 2: a drum set and I used to play and I
Speaker 2: used to blast. I remember one of my favorite records
Speaker 2: was this Jackson fire record called Looking through the Window right,
Speaker 2: because I loved the way it had that and I
Speaker 2: used to play the drum to that, and I love
Speaker 2: that the way the and all that stuff, all the
Speaker 2: dynamics of it. So I used to play like to
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, and so I thought of myself
Speaker 2: as a drummer. So what happened was Terry was going
Speaker 2: to put this band together to play at this kind
Speaker 2: of year in summer year in thing, and he said,
Speaker 2: but he heard me play piano, and so he said, man,
Speaker 2: I need you to play keyboards for me for this thing.
Speaker 2: And I said, I'm a drummer, Terry, and he said, no, nah,
Speaker 2: I heard you play the keyboards. I said no, but
Speaker 2: really I played the drums and he said, I already
Speaker 2: got a drummer, and I said, no, I played it.
Speaker 2: I played the keyboards. I mean I played the drums.
Speaker 2: So Terry then brought over jelly Bean Johnson, who was
Speaker 2: his drummer and jelly Bean played and I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can mess with some keyboards. Yeah, So that that
Speaker 2: ended my drumming career at that point. And it was
Speaker 2: Jelli being playing guitar back then, he played, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: did play guitar back then, but he was a drummer.
Speaker 2: I mean he was, I mean a great drummer. So,
Speaker 2: I mean you could tell it back then. He's super
Speaker 2: talented dude. And he's probably the one person in Terry.
Speaker 2: This probably in Terry's life longer than me. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think him and jelly Bean go back. I met
Speaker 2: Terry when I was probably thirteen or something, and jelly
Speaker 2: Bean probably precedes me by three or four years because
Speaker 2: they went to school together. So I didn't meet Terry
Speaker 2: till the summertime, you know, think, but yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was amazing. So what we did is we went out.
Speaker 2: I was playing drums with my dad, okay, and he
Speaker 2: had a gig where he would play the weekends at
Speaker 2: a couple of clubs and stuff and that. And real quick,
Speaker 2: how that happened was he had a trio, right, and
Speaker 2: was him this guitar player named Coffee and a drummer. Right,
Speaker 2: But every they never could keep a drummer. So every
Speaker 2: week there'd be like a different drummer and so yeah, right,
Speaker 2: So eventually one there was a gig and the drummer
Speaker 2: didn't show up, and my mom said, why don't you
Speaker 2: let Jimmy play a set? He knows all your songs.
Speaker 2: We've been watching you play for all this time. That's
Speaker 2: a million So anyway, I so I did. I sat in.
Speaker 2: I did one set with him and stuff, and everybody
Speaker 2: liked it. Crowd liked it. Okay, right, So a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks later and stuff, same thing, and so Coffee,
Speaker 2: the guitar player said, you know, hey, well, my dad's
Speaker 2: name was Jim. Also, he say, Jim, you know, why
Speaker 2: don't you let your son go ahead and play? You know,
Speaker 2: he knows the show show is let him play, So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that whatever whatever, So anyway, I did.
Speaker 2: I played the whole show. So after they get into
Speaker 2: that gig, Coffee said to my dad, why don't you
Speaker 2: just let your son play? Man? We don't have to
Speaker 2: keep finding drummers, you know. So my dad said, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: we'll let you play. Will you are a drummer? And
Speaker 2: then my mom said, and he and my mom said
Speaker 2: how much you're gonna pay him? And she became my
Speaker 2: agent real quick. So and and then my dad said, well,
Speaker 2: you know, i'll throw him out, you know a little something.
Speaker 2: And she said, no, no, no, you're gonna pay him,
Speaker 2: just like you pay any drummer. Yes, did you pay right?
Speaker 2: And that was the start of my you know, and
Speaker 2: that started my little I don't know college runner. I
Speaker 2: don't know what happened to that money, but we started
Speaker 2: putting that money away. So that was parents. Do you
Speaker 2: ever see your college for money from all them beings? Yes?
Speaker 1: Ever, I had a fifty dollars savings bund like my
Speaker 1: grandmother bought me when I was like five.
Speaker 2: Never seen. I don't know where it's at. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think my dad's been. Last time I saw it was
Speaker 2: on top of the TV. That was on top of
Speaker 2: the Big Team. It's been a long time ago. So
Speaker 2: how does how do you guys melt all your bands?
Speaker 1: Because I can assume that The Time is basically a
Speaker 1: supergroup of Minneapolis based musicians and one Illinois musician. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what starts the process of you guys leaving your
Speaker 1: respective bands to become the Time?
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's uh I'll try to not make it
Speaker 2: too complicated. So here's there's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 2: So for me, first of all, Terry at this point
Speaker 2: had put together what was the nucleus of Flight Time,
Speaker 2: which was Jellyban Johnson on the drums, Terry on the bass.
Speaker 2: Interesting story how he had found Monty Moyer because Terry
Speaker 2: had been trying to get me to join the band again.
Speaker 2: I was. I was off doing my own band for
Speaker 2: a while, and then I had actually quit doing that
Speaker 2: and I had started DJing in your band at that
Speaker 2: time when you drumming or were you playing keys, I
Speaker 2: was playing keys, and I was writing all the songs
Speaker 2: we did. We did all original songs, and it was
Speaker 2: all and I was doing my best, you know Tom
Speaker 2: Bell gambling of this is impression, mind and matter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that's what I was trying to do with
Speaker 2: a little bit of electronics in it. You know, I
Speaker 2: had a little synthesizer and stuff in it. But it
Speaker 2: was definitely trying to be that. That was that was
Speaker 2: my inspiration, and so so I had you know, those
Speaker 2: guys to me weren't serious. They were older guys. I
Speaker 2: was just at I was sixteen at the time. And
Speaker 2: those guys weren't really serious about it, like they're twenty
Speaker 2: two twenty three, and I didn't get well. They had
Speaker 2: jobs and families and kids and stuff. I'm like, twenty
Speaker 2: four hours music and you know, I'm like, y'all are
Speaker 2: messing up. You know, they get high and stuff, and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, y'all getting high, we need to be
Speaker 2: working on our music. And you know, they were like,
Speaker 2: who the fuck this punk kid you know telling us?
Speaker 2: You know. So anyway, eventually I just said forget it.
Speaker 2: So I started DJing. I started working at a record pool,
Speaker 2: you know, getting records. I started working at a record
Speaker 2: store because I the clubs I played at were influentential
Speaker 2: enough that I could know when I heard a record.
Speaker 2: I could go to the record store guy and he
Speaker 2: didn't trust me at first, but I could say to him, hey,
Speaker 2: there's this record. Matter of fact, MFSB had a record
Speaker 2: called Dance with Me Tonight, okay. And I had this
Speaker 2: girl named Joyce whenever I played at the club. And
Speaker 2: this is a teen club. Because I played at a
Speaker 2: bunch of different clubs as a DJ, I had and
Speaker 2: my crowd just kind of followed me around. But the
Speaker 2: teen crowd was my best. We did about fifteen hundred
Speaker 2: kids on a Friday and a Saturday night. It was huge,
Speaker 2: a huge pace, Yeah, huge pressure. Oh, it was great.
Speaker 2: It was it was awesome. It was awesome. It is
Speaker 2: the most one of the most fun moments of my
Speaker 2: life actually was doing that because just the whole idea
Speaker 2: of introducing people to music, which is amazing, and you
Speaker 2: know how that feels. I mean, you guys do that now.
Speaker 2: Teens hold you hoses today. So if you don't play
Speaker 2: what they know, well you know what, okay. So that
Speaker 2: that's my point. So I had this girl named Joyce,
Speaker 2: and Joyce I don't know where she was from, but
Speaker 2: she'd always hand me some record every week and she'd say,
Speaker 2: play this, this is gonna be whatever whatever, and i'
Speaker 2: and I'd listen to a little bit in the headphones
Speaker 2: and previewed and it would always sound a little weird
Speaker 2: to me, and I'd be like, Joyce, are you sure,
Speaker 2: and she'd go, yeah, yeah. And she had a crew
Speaker 2: of about three or four other people and she would
Speaker 2: get out and dance. She said, I know the dance
Speaker 2: floor is gonna clear, but we're gonna I'm gonna dance
Speaker 2: and we're gonna be cool. I mean, okay. So anyway,
Speaker 2: she brought me a whole bunch of different records, but
Speaker 2: the one I remember, the one of the first ones
Speaker 2: was Dawn for Me Tonight MFSB right. So, and I
Speaker 2: said to her, you know, Joyce, I got the album that.
Speaker 2: I said, I've heard the song. It ain't really that No,
Speaker 2: she said, no, but this is the twelve inches different.
Speaker 2: It's a different mix. I said, okay, cool. I put
Speaker 2: the record on and I go cause I talked to
Speaker 2: I'd mixed and I talked. I did both things, and
Speaker 2: I just said, here's a new one front zelm backzillm
Speaker 2: all right, exactly right. And I said, okay, here's a
Speaker 2: here's a brand new one, you know, exclusive, you know whatever,
Speaker 2: whatever whatever. I put the record on the intro of
Speaker 2: the records about I don't know. It's about sixteen bars
Speaker 2: and stuff, and it sounds like I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like nothing's gonna happen, right, And everybody's
Speaker 2: kind of staring at me for a minute because they
Speaker 2: pretty much trust me, so they're staring at me for
Speaker 2: a minute. And then I see him start to inch
Speaker 2: off the dance floor, and I'm like going, oh man,
Speaker 2: I'm right, and then all of a sudden, it kicks
Speaker 2: into this different group goes into this groove and I
Speaker 2: see every and then I see Joyce in the middle
Speaker 2: of the floor with her crew of people start dancing,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, now the dance floor starts
Speaker 2: coming back on the dance floor. By the end of
Speaker 2: the night that record, I had to play it again.
Speaker 2: They loved it that much, so I went to the
Speaker 2: record There was a record store called Hot Licks, and
Speaker 2: I remember this guy named Chico, I think his name
Speaker 2: was Chico fat fingers right, and he played, he played,
Speaker 2: he played, He played with a reggae band uh called
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm gonna I can't remember the name. It's
Speaker 2: like Shagoy or Shambai or had some name like that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: he ran the store. So I walked into the store
Speaker 2: and I said, hey, man, this twelve inch dance with
Speaker 2: me tonight. Can you get some of these? And he
Speaker 2: said yeah. He says why and I said, because this
Speaker 2: is my number one song at my club. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: play it again next weekend. And I said, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell everybody to come down that you're the only
Speaker 2: one that has the record downtown Minneapolis. You're the only
Speaker 2: one that has record. So okay, So he says, well,
Speaker 2: how many should I get? And I said, like a thousand?
Speaker 2: He said, what You're nuts? I said, okay, cool. So anyway,
Speaker 2: next weekend I played it pack the dance floor. I said,
Speaker 2: hot Licks, go down to Hot Licks, are the only
Speaker 2: ones in town with the record. He said, uh, Monday,
Speaker 2: he said, he sold out. And he said and I said, well,
Speaker 2: how many do you order? He said, well, I ordered
Speaker 2: five hundred. I said, I told you to get a thousand, right,
Speaker 2: And I remember I talked to him later on in life.
Speaker 2: I talked to some PR person that worked for CBS
Speaker 2: back in the day and they said, man, it was weird.
Speaker 2: This one record just jumped off for it, you know.
Speaker 2: So wait, we we always did this on Quest Love
Speaker 2: Supreme for old DJs. Can you can you front sell
Speaker 2: dance with me tonight? Right now? So yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: here we go, right, all right, here's an exclusive. You're
Speaker 2: gonna here first for the first time. You trust me
Speaker 2: all this one now, trust me? This is him speed
Speaker 2: dance with me tonight. Here we go. That was with me,
Speaker 2: you know. And you know what's funny is is that
Speaker 2: ended up being I kept charts from you know, dance
Speaker 2: Floor Reaction and all that stuff, and then I started
Speaker 2: printing the charts out and then I would take them
Speaker 2: down to the record store and I'd leave them right
Speaker 2: And that record was my number one record of all
Speaker 2: time during the probably year and a half that I was.
Speaker 2: I was at that club and she brought me some
Speaker 2: other ones, a Firecracker mass production, and then she brought
Speaker 2: me Firecracker was easy. The follow up was Forever, and
Speaker 2: I don't remember Forever. Forever started off with just a
Speaker 2: high hat, so it just started off with which was
Speaker 2: a guaranteed dance floor you know clearer really yeah, But
Speaker 2: she said, but wait till the beat kicks in, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be real cool. So I said, okay, here's new
Speaker 2: mass production. And people were like, well that they knew
Speaker 2: that Firecracker was the jam, so they stood with me
Speaker 2: for this one. And they stood and when they kicked in,
Speaker 2: they uh huh, it sounds like put the word yeah,
Speaker 2: watch when this kicks in. Though I never even knew
Speaker 2: they had a follow up record. This was a follow up.
Speaker 2: This was a follow up and Masterpieces in A S S.
Speaker 2: They're in storage. Wow, yeah you are. Joyce should have
Speaker 2: got an A and a job, right, Joyce was. Joyce
Speaker 2: was incredible. Man, my DJ game already. I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: these two in my next sets. I got, I got.
Speaker 2: I'll give you one more from that from that day.
Speaker 2: What about are you familiar with breakwater? Do it till
Speaker 2: the fluid gets hot? I don't know that. Do it
Speaker 2: to the fluid gets hot? Let me go and uh
Speaker 2: release the beast, but do it to the fluid gets
Speaker 2: Do it to the fluid gets hot. That was another
Speaker 2: one that was really hot for me. And these records
Speaker 2: were only big at my club, right and at this
Speaker 2: record store. That was the weird thing about it. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I know this got that one? Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2: At the time, just DJ Jimmy James.
Speaker 3: Where was your DJ?
Speaker 2: It was Jimmy jam That came from DJing really yeah? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that came from Jay So what happened? So? Okay? So
Speaker 2: that club was called the Disco Track right now. Also,
Speaker 2: Downtown was a club that went through a series of
Speaker 2: different names, but when I worked there, it was called
Speaker 2: the Fox Trap. Okay, Now, the Fox Trap had three levels.
Speaker 2: Downstairs live music, second floor was DJ, which was me,
Speaker 2: and then third floor was a DJ, but it was
Speaker 2: more chill or you know, laid back right, more of
Speaker 2: a lounge type situation. So when I started working, there
Speaker 2: was a DJ named Kyle Ray, and Kyle Ray was,
Speaker 2: as you call it, the front selling DJ. Like he
Speaker 2: did no mixing at all. It was all just personality
Speaker 2: and playing records, right, So I took an example from him.
Speaker 2: He was actually tragically killed, which was like nuts and
Speaker 2: he tragically died, and so I kind of had borrowed
Speaker 2: a little of his style as far as front loading
Speaker 2: the records. But I could also mix because I had,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of the musical thing, so I always
Speaker 2: did a combination of it. And then I had a
Speaker 2: little keyboard which I actually have downstairs, which was my
Speaker 2: first synthesizer, and I used to play along with the
Speaker 2: records and ate my own little stuff. So I was
Speaker 2: doing that and that, and there was a at the
Speaker 2: I was just going by Jimmy Harris, which was my name,
Speaker 2: and there was a bartender from Philly who called himself
Speaker 2: Delphonix right right, and I went over to get you know,
Speaker 2: a drink from him or whatever, a cold because I
Speaker 2: don't think I was. I don't think that I was eighteen.
Speaker 2: I was probably still seventeen eight I don't I don't
Speaker 2: even think. But I didn't drink anyway, so it didn't
Speaker 2: really matter. And he said yo. He said man. He said,
Speaker 2: I what kind of name you got? Man? And I said,
Speaker 2: what do you mean? I said, what's your DJ name?
Speaker 2: And I said I don't know. He said, man, you
Speaker 2: gotta be you gotta be something. Man. I'm telling everybody
Speaker 2: your name's Jimmy Jam. And I said, okay. He said,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Jams, pot pots and pans, shake my hand. He
Speaker 2: went into this whole rap, right, and I was like,
Speaker 2: that's okay, cool. Right, So anyway, he started telling everybody
Speaker 2: my name was Jimmy Jam and it just stuck, and
Speaker 2: even to the point when we did the first time
Speaker 2: record and I said to Prince when Prince was doing
Speaker 2: like the credits on the record, and I said, Prince,
Speaker 2: what name should I be under? And he said you
Speaker 2: should be Jimmy Cham. I said, okay, cool. So that
Speaker 2: was it. So then it was historic because it was
Speaker 2: in printed. Brother gave me my name Delphonix. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: the bartender at the Fox Trap. Okay, so I'm sorry
Speaker 2: because we're totally off track here. Yeah, okay, So okay,
Speaker 2: So I tell this story about playing in all the
Speaker 2: different clubs and stuff. So at the Fox Trap, Terry
Speaker 2: was playing downstairs in the in the live music room.
Speaker 2: I was playing upstairs right and the DJ room, and
Speaker 2: Terry used to come up. And Terry is really good
Speaker 2: at bugging the ship out of peace and twisting their arm,
Speaker 2: and he's really good at that. He's stubborn, right. So
Speaker 2: his whole thing was, man, you ain't a DJ man,
Speaker 2: you're a musician man. You need to join the band,
Speaker 2: and we need a keyboard player and such and such
Speaker 2: and and I'm like, Terry, I just I'm not feeling it, man,
Speaker 2: you know whatever. So one day he comes up to
Speaker 2: the booth and he says, jam, he said, we got
Speaker 2: a keyboard player. And I thought, oh great, he's gonna
Speaker 2: quit bugging me now. And he says right. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: he said come down, and you should come down and
Speaker 2: check him out. And I said, okay, cool. So I
Speaker 2: grabbed knee deep by funk a delic, which was I
Speaker 2: think seventeen minutes or whatever it was. I put that
Speaker 2: on and I jumped out the booth. It was pretty
Speaker 2: early in the night, so it wasn't you know, nobody
Speaker 2: would have cared if if it went ran out. But
Speaker 2: I ran downstairs. I walk into the room. I hear
Speaker 2: they're playing what you Won't Do For Love Bobby Calwell, right,
Speaker 2: and so they're saying, and I'm hearing this somebody singing
Speaker 2: and dun dudu. I'm like looking around singing, somebody singing
Speaker 2: their asshole? Who's singing? And I looked behind this stack
Speaker 2: of keyboards and this little white guy right and I'm
Speaker 2: like looking and I'm like, oh wait, his mouth is moving,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't sound like a white boy singing. And
Speaker 2: who is that? You know? So I went back upstairs.
Speaker 2: I looked at Terry and I went, you know, gave
Speaker 2: the thumbs up. I went back upstairs. So after the
Speaker 2: gig was over, I came back down. I said, hey, man,
Speaker 2: who was singing to Bobby Callwell? He said, that's our
Speaker 2: keyboard player, Monty Moyer. And I said, oh, I said
Speaker 2: nice to meet you, Monty. I said cool. Terry, I said,
Speaker 2: well good, you got your keyboard player. Now we you know,
Speaker 2: good luck, you know, he said, no, man, he said,
Speaker 2: we got to have two keyboard players. Man, that's the
Speaker 2: that's the vibe, two keyboard players. So fast forward a
Speaker 2: little while. I was going out with this older lady,
Speaker 2: right and h she was beautiful too, Puerto Rican. Oh
Speaker 2: my god. Anyway, so anyway she broke my heart. I
Speaker 2: was I think I was eighteen. She was thirty proudly right,
Speaker 2: oh wow, so damn. Her name her name was Carmen,
Speaker 2: and she worked at the Horse of course, she worked
Speaker 2: at the at the cosmetic counter, one of the stories
Speaker 2: up there, man, and she just was amazing. So anyway,
Speaker 2: she broke over me. So I'm a little broken hearder
Speaker 2: than I'm walking home, right, I'm walking from her apartment home,
Speaker 2: which is, you know, maybe ten blocks not that far.
Speaker 2: So I'm walking up Lake Street, which was one of
Speaker 2: the main things. And I walked by this club. I
Speaker 2: didn't even know it was a club. It was like
Speaker 2: a community center. And I'm walking by and I hear,
Speaker 2: you know, music coming out of it and stuff, and
Speaker 2: I was like something going on in here, right, So
Speaker 2: I opened the door, I look in, I walk in.
Speaker 2: There's a band rehearsing. Whose band is it Terry's band? Right?
Speaker 2: I said, Terry, what's up? Man? He said, oh, this
Speaker 2: is our rehearsal space. Man. Where you know this? They
Speaker 2: opened up this club. They're letting us rehearse here and
Speaker 2: then they're going to actually open it up night times.
Speaker 2: And it was called the YASM y a a s M,
Speaker 2: which was the Young African American Society of Men or
Speaker 2: something like that or something. Yeah, it turned out it's upstanding. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they yeah them. So anyway, I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: So anyway, they're in their rehearsing and stuff. I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: cool cool. So Terry said yeah, man, so come on, man,
Speaker 2: you're ready to join the band. And I said no, man,
Speaker 2: I said, I you know, I'm this girl. Just broke
Speaker 2: my heart, man, you know. And Terry's like, man, you
Speaker 2: get your mind off it, man, you know, you just
Speaker 2: need to jump back in. Just I said, nah, man,
Speaker 2: I don't have any keyboards. Man. You know, I sold
Speaker 2: all my keyboards and stuff. You know, we'll get you keyboards, man,
Speaker 2: what kind of keyboards you want?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: I said no, no, I don't, Terry, I'm good right.
Speaker 2: So this is before cell phones right, I go home.
Speaker 2: Next day, my phone rings Terry Lewis, Come on jan
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do? Man? Come on man, we got
Speaker 2: we got keyboards for you. Man, come on down, come
Speaker 2: on down, you know. And at that point they had
Speaker 2: started getting some gigs and stuff. They were gonna be
Speaker 2: opening for the Barkas and Switch at this concert, right whoa,
Speaker 2: So it was like, man, you got to join the band. Man,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be opening for Barkas and Switch. Now, at
Speaker 2: this point in time, the Alexander O'Neill was our lead singer. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: so this is when alex was the lead singer. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we had a nice little band. We had basically the band.
Speaker 2: We didn't have a guitar player. We it was kind
Speaker 2: of we would rent a guitar player, but we didn't
Speaker 2: really have anybody serious on guitar. Right, So anyway, we
Speaker 2: go and do the gig. The gig was cool. Somebody
Speaker 2: from Switch stole some some of our shoes. Really yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah exactly, so anyway, but it was cool. So at
Speaker 2: that point I pretty much was in that. So anyway,
Speaker 2: so the band was set, except we didn't have a
Speaker 2: guitar player. So we started gig and started doing our thing.
Speaker 2: Our reputation was basically that we were the we were
Speaker 2: the best band in Minnesota. So we you know, would
Speaker 2: other bands agree with you, Well, yes they would actually,
Speaker 2: interestingly enough, because what happened was so this is the
Speaker 2: Jesse Johnson piece. Okay, so Jesse had Jesse had moved
Speaker 2: to Minneapolis, or actually had come to Minneapolis because he
Speaker 2: heard Prince was looking for a guitar player. But he
Speaker 2: was mistaken because he was actually looking for a bass player.
Speaker 2: He was looking for somebody and he ended up getting
Speaker 2: brown Mark. But he but Prince met him, and Prince,
Speaker 2: you know, like Jesse, and he said, he told Jesse,
Speaker 2: he said, you should, you should stay in town and
Speaker 2: and you know, get in one of the bands up
Speaker 2: here and just you know, stick around. So Jesse went
Speaker 2: to Morris's band, which was called Enterprise Band and Pleasure.
Speaker 2: So Morris, interestingly enough, was the drummer in that band,
Speaker 2: not the lead singer, and a girl named Sue Anne
Speaker 2: Carwell was the lead singer. Yeah, Sue Anne Carwell was amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing singer. Prince Di's a lot of stuff with her
Speaker 2: back in the day too. Yeah, I mean she was
Speaker 2: she was an amazing singer. Interestingly enough, little side note,
Speaker 2: Morris did come up and sing one song every night.
Speaker 2: He got off the drums and sue An actually went
Speaker 2: back and played the drums. Oh, they traded switch and
Speaker 2: the song was ironically too Hot, like cool in the
Speaker 2: game Cool the game. Oh okay, okay, okay. So mister
Speaker 2: Coole sang too Hot, so so and he sang it
Speaker 2: really good. That was the funny thing. And if you
Speaker 2: think about it, that's a really tough song to sing.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of different intervals and it's crazy. If
Speaker 2: you ever watch people try to sing that song, it's tough.
Speaker 2: The bridge is tough. No, it's think about it. You
Speaker 2: gotta hit all the Yeah, it's a lot of and
Speaker 2: then it goes to the chain and then you know
Speaker 2: it's a lot. Anyway, he used to hit it flawlessly
Speaker 2: every night. Right, So, anyway, everybody kept telling us about
Speaker 2: this guitar player. You know, they come to our gigs
Speaker 2: and they'd be like, man, you checked out Morrison Nim's
Speaker 2: guitar player, and we were like no, I said, man,
Speaker 2: they got this guitar player. Man, he wears pink suits.
Speaker 2: It does like ten minute guitar solos man, you got
Speaker 2: to check him out. And we were like, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: So we had a night off, we went over and
Speaker 2: checked him out. He was exactly as advertised, right. So
Speaker 2: afterwards we went up to two women. We said, hey, man,
Speaker 2: you need to come join our band. You need to
Speaker 2: come watch us. You know, nothing against Morris, but you
Speaker 2: need to come to our band. So he said, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: So the next weekend he came, well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: because I mean there's no I mean, it is all
Speaker 2: word of mouth and it was fighting words then taking
Speaker 2: money out of my mouth. Well there's no social I
Speaker 2: mean there's no social media, so I mean it's all
Speaker 2: just kind of word of mouth. Somebody hears something, they
Speaker 2: tell the next person, they tell the next person, so
Speaker 2: on and so forth. That's what it was. And so anyway, yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, he came over, checked our band out
Speaker 2: and we were good, right. So he went back to
Speaker 2: Morris and he said, yo, Morris, he said, you know,
Speaker 2: no offense man, but you know I'm going to join
Speaker 2: Flight Time. Man. They're like really good. And what Moris
Speaker 2: said actually kind of surprised. Well, it surprised us when
Speaker 2: we he told us he said, he said, and Morris said, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's cool, Jesse, because pretty soon we're all going to
Speaker 2: be one band anyway. Wow. And we didn't know what
Speaker 2: that meant. We were like, what's the time I was
Speaker 2: gonna be one band? That doesn't make any sense. Okay. So,
Speaker 2: as the story goes, Prince when he was doing the
Speaker 2: Dirty Mind album, right, and of course the first couple
Speaker 2: of albums he did were more R and B records
Speaker 2: with some rock stuff on it, but Dirty Mind was
Speaker 2: a whole different departure. Warner Brothers was scared of Dirty
Speaker 2: Mind because they didn't hear any like funky hits on there.
Speaker 2: Uptown sort of in that, but they wanted another song.
Speaker 2: They said, we need another funky song on the record. Right.
Speaker 2: So Morris actually wrote Party Up, but Prince took the
Speaker 2: credit for it. But he owed Morris a favor and
Speaker 2: he told Morris, if you put a band together, I'll
Speaker 2: get your record deal. So Morris came over to our
Speaker 2: band and said, Prince said, if I put a band together,
Speaker 2: he'll give it, get it, get us a record deal.
Speaker 2: So y'all just be the band and now we'll go
Speaker 2: get a record deal. And that's how Mores ended up
Speaker 2: in the band. But that's not the end of the store.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say so because he didn't want to
Speaker 2: sing initially, right, alex. So we had two dilemmas. One
Speaker 2: was well, actually it wasn't the We actually had one
Speaker 2: dilemma because Alexander O'Neil was the lead singer of the group.
Speaker 2: Was he a good lead singer? Singer at that time?
Speaker 2: Alexandro amazing. Never would sing the same lyrics. Twice we
Speaker 2: had a song called I remember, we had a song
Speaker 2: called march Wright that was an original song, and every
Speaker 2: gig he'd sing different lyrics. He just would just make
Speaker 2: up lyrics as he went along. The chorus would always
Speaker 2: be the same, but the actual lyrics he would sing
Speaker 2: were always different. And he did that a lot because
Speaker 2: he never showed up the rehearsals and he never you know,
Speaker 2: he didn't really care, but he no, he could pull
Speaker 2: it off. He was alex was amazing. So anyway, our
Speaker 2: big dilemma was, well, if Morris is the drummer, what
Speaker 2: happens to Jellybee? Do we have two drummers? Jelly Bean
Speaker 2: was good on guitar, but not at the point where
Speaker 2: we could make him into a guitar player, so he
Speaker 2: was kind of like gonna be the odd man out
Speaker 2: and it was almost like, Wow, who's going to break
Speaker 2: the news to Bean? And oh really? Oh yeah, so
Speaker 2: we were at that point. Well, so Prince called a
Speaker 2: dinner at Perkins Cake and Steakhouse, which is sort of
Speaker 2: like the equivalent of Denny's but better. No, it's still there. Still.
Speaker 2: I went to that Perkins Yep, my first night at
Speaker 2: Paisley Park. Yep, it's still there. Right, that's crazy. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we sit down and we're all going to have dinner basically,
Speaker 2: and Prince is gonna kind of lay out the game
Speaker 2: plan and what we're gonna do. Right, So Alexander O'Neil's there. Now.
Speaker 2: The first thing to say about Alex is Alex always
Speaker 2: speaks in the third person, like a football player. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so Alex, now, you know, he goes into his
Speaker 2: before now we've we've ordered food, right, and of course
Speaker 2: Princess buying, so Alex orders a big steak and he
Speaker 2: orders all this food. Right, So Alex goes okay, Prince
Speaker 2: before we get started, because he had a little lisp, right,
Speaker 2: so he would have go okay, Prince, before we get
Speaker 2: started and things like that that you know, I had
Speaker 2: a few things I just want to get off my chest.
Speaker 2: Here we go and and we're all like looking at
Speaker 2: Alex like what what are you doing? Man? And He's like, so,
Speaker 2: you know, here's the thing, you know, Alex, thatwn On Neil.
Speaker 2: You know, first of all, Adaxon On Neil need you know,
Speaker 2: I need a new house. I needed. I need a
Speaker 2: new call, you know, I need. I need a pooling things,
Speaker 2: you know, a down on Neil. You know, yeah, I
Speaker 2: need a pooling things, you know, down need you know,
Speaker 2: I just need some things. You know. I know this
Speaker 2: this whole record thing is real cute and all that
Speaker 2: stuff that, but this, you know, out of that o
Speaker 2: Neil needs some things. You know what I'm saying, Prince.
Speaker 2: You know, so this is all cute and everything, you know,
Speaker 2: but I'm just letting you know that, you know, before
Speaker 2: we get started. You know, this is and and as
Speaker 2: he's talking, everybody's kicking each other under the table and
Speaker 2: nudging everybody like what the heck is this dude doing.
Speaker 2: We ain't even got the deals, ain't so Louien sign
Speaker 2: condoeen nothing. It's like, you know, so as he's talking,
Speaker 2: and I see this and if we ever do our
Speaker 2: movie we want to do, it's like a movie. Alex.
Speaker 2: The waiter comes and as Alex is finishing his tirade,
Speaker 2: puts this big steak down in front of him, and
Speaker 2: Alex goes right on, Cue Prince, that's just the way
Speaker 2: I see it. So I'm gonna go ahead and throw
Speaker 2: down and see a steak right here. So Prince and
Speaker 2: Morris look at each other and get up and leave
Speaker 2: the restaurant. Yeah, they're gone. So now we're like, going,
Speaker 2: he's gonna pay for this stake. This is not right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we're like, okay, this is not good. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I don't even know. We were like, dude, what are
Speaker 2: you What are you doing here? Man? What are you doing? Alex? Well, man,
Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm just you know, trying to point
Speaker 2: out a few things. You know, people think, you know,
Speaker 2: because I'm telling you man, you know, he's the way
Speaker 2: it is without that O'Neill. You know, if there's a
Speaker 2: bear in the woods in Alexander, Neil, you better help
Speaker 2: the beard because you don't got to help Alexander. And
Speaker 2: by the way, we have a publishing company called Help
Speaker 2: the Bear. And that's why because that was Alexis. That
Speaker 2: was Alexis line. So, needless to say, we just thought
Speaker 2: everything was done. And I can't remember whether So Terry
Speaker 2: got a phone call and I can't remember whether it
Speaker 2: was from Morris or from Prince. I think it might
Speaker 2: have been from Prince, and he just said because it
Speaker 2: was just it was a very short thing. It was.
Speaker 2: It was basically lose the Bear. Yeah, it was like
Speaker 2: Alexander or Neil is out, Morris Day is the lead singer,
Speaker 2: Jelly Breen Johnson is the drummer. Meet tomorrow at nine
Speaker 2: o'clock at such and such and such at the Yasm
Speaker 2: to rehearse. And that was it, and Alex was done.
Speaker 2: Bean was the drummer, Morris was somebody told him. I
Speaker 2: don't know who told him, but yeah, he got the word.
Speaker 2: But I need to know the story of the next
Speaker 2: time you saw Alex. So was Alex cool with this?
Speaker 2: Of course? Not? Well? Yeah, because yeah, because you know,
Speaker 2: help the Bean. You don't even know, no, But I
Speaker 2: remember what our conversation with the conversation I remember having
Speaker 2: with Alex after that was just one where we said
Speaker 2: to him, hey, man, if we make it, meaning me
Speaker 2: and me and Terry had this conversation with him. We
Speaker 2: just said, man, when we make it, we're coming back
Speaker 2: and getting you. And that was it. And see, Bill,
Speaker 2: it works out, no, because we we you know, it
Speaker 2: just you know, we felt bad and we felt like,
Speaker 2: you know, we didn't know the way things were going
Speaker 2: to work out, that we'd actually have an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do that and come back and grab him. But we
Speaker 2: did the way things worked out. But now we just
Speaker 2: kind of felt like that, and you know, and then
Speaker 2: at that point we were we were off and running
Speaker 2: and Alex was just you know, still gigging locally and everything,
Speaker 2: you know. But yeah, he talked himself right out of
Speaker 2: that and we did one song with Alex, actually recorded
Speaker 2: one song called you. It was called you, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was called you would be Mine. Wow it sounded vague, yes, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was ironic.
Speaker 1: But so once you guys started rehearsing, uh well yeah,
Speaker 1: talk about that process, like how often would you guys rehearse?
Speaker 2: And every single day? Every single day. Now here's the thing. Now,
Speaker 2: the album was already done. I mean, Morrison Prince had
Speaker 2: already done the Time album. We didn't play on the
Speaker 2: time album a lick. So you were given we were
Speaker 2: record or the cassette we were given, Yep, given the
Speaker 2: cassette and six songs could learn learn these songs? Six songs.
Speaker 2: You also did the what's the to the beat song?
Speaker 2: The oh no no, no, no oh oh, dance to
Speaker 2: the beat, Dance to beat dance, So there were extra
Speaker 2: songs too. Correct. Yeah, but we never recorded dance to
Speaker 2: the Beat. I don't think. I think we just played
Speaker 2: it live. I don't think we ever recorded it. If
Speaker 2: it was recorded, it was live for records. So it
Speaker 2: was it only expected of you guys to just do
Speaker 2: a half hour no matter what.
Speaker 1: Or because I'm thinking, like, if you're doing having a
Speaker 1: show's material, usually people do cover songs, have a forty
Speaker 1: five minute show ready or hour show ready.
Speaker 2: Well, when we went okay, so when we went up initially,
Speaker 2: so when we were rehearsed and actually there's one piece
Speaker 2: of the rehearsal I got it, I got it, or
Speaker 2: two actually rehearsal stories I'll relate to you while we're
Speaker 2: on the rehearsals because we're rehearsing at the YASM and
Speaker 2: the ASTHM as it turns out was owned by this
Speaker 2: guy named Leonard Weaver was his name, right, Old cat,
Speaker 2: Old black cat. And he had this bar, and in
Speaker 2: the bar were these juice machines. One was lemonade and
Speaker 2: one was fruit punch. And he also had these lamps.
Speaker 2: It was like a lounge and he had these lamps
Speaker 2: and they were naked women basically with a lamp shade
Speaker 2: on top of it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So when we started rehearsing, Leonard said he had two rules.
Speaker 2: He said, y'all stay out of my juice machine, and
Speaker 2: y'all don't touch my titty lamps. It's Italian, so timmy lamb.
Speaker 2: So we said, okay, cool, we got you man. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna mess when we got it. So we started rehearsing.
Speaker 2: We rehearsing every day at this point. So I remember,
Speaker 2: you know the whole thing. Now, Jerome at this point
Speaker 2: was not in the group. Jerome was a roadie, right,
Speaker 2: and I remember we had gone and done a couple
Speaker 2: of gigs and Jerome had to like ride in the
Speaker 2: truck with the equipment with this gap tooth British guy,
Speaker 2: you know, with the British teeth. Jerome helped me, you know,
Speaker 2: unload the amps, and you know, it was like all
Speaker 2: this and Jerome was just like so pissed off, like
Speaker 2: you know whatever, but he's you know, he's going along
Speaker 2: with it, right, So he's trying to figure out, man,
Speaker 2: how can I get a gig in this thing? You know,
Speaker 2: you know something? And Terry's trying to figure it out too,
Speaker 2: because that's just you know, Jerome's Terry's brothers, right, So
Speaker 2: we're trying to figure this out. So anyway, we're rehearsing
Speaker 2: and in the stick, Morrison, somebody bring me a mirror. Right,
Speaker 2: So on the walls of the yasm are these big mirrors, right,
Speaker 2: but not like little merrors, but I'm talking about big
Speaker 2: full body mirrors, right. So Prince is at the rehearsal
Speaker 2: and he's watching us rehearse, and Morris says, somebody bring
Speaker 2: me a mirror, and out of the blue, Jerome goes
Speaker 2: and grabs a mirror off the wall, puts it in
Speaker 2: front of Morris. Morris turns around, looks at it kind
Speaker 2: of like starter like oh, and pulls out his comb
Speaker 2: and starts combing his hair. Prince falls on the floor
Speaker 2: like he's like, ah, we gotta do that. We gotta
Speaker 2: do that. We gotta do that. And Jerome was no
Speaker 2: longer a roadie. So that's how that's how he went
Speaker 2: from being the roady to be in the valet. It
Speaker 2: was simple as that, and that happened. And every night
Speaker 2: we go into the bar and drink the juice out
Speaker 2: of the juice machine, but then we'd pour water into it,
Speaker 2: so it would look like nothing happened because every time.
Speaker 2: So so Leonard would walk in every day and he'd
Speaker 2: come in and he'd look and make sure everything was cool.
Speaker 2: And then one day we were playing around and we
Speaker 2: broke one of the titty lamps. Oh, and so we
Speaker 2: like turned it around and tried to kind of glue
Speaker 2: it and try to whatever. And I swear to God,
Speaker 2: he walked in and he looked and he said, who's
Speaker 2: been in my juice machine? Because it's because it's because
Speaker 2: it's all like light colored now like brothers trying to
Speaker 2: be slick, but it ain't working right, so it's all
Speaker 2: like that. And then he looks and he's like looking
Speaker 2: at it all of us. He said, who was in
Speaker 2: my juice machine? And we're like going on, we don't know, God,
Speaker 2: but it was Jesse was who it was. So anyway,
Speaker 2: we were like, no, we don't know, We don't really know.
Speaker 2: So he was like looking around my titty lamp. Who
Speaker 2: broke my titty lamb? And it's like, heck, can he
Speaker 2: see that? He's like one hundred feet away from the
Speaker 2: teddy lamb? How does he know that lamp was broke?
Speaker 2: It was crazy, It was times, man, but it was
Speaker 2: like the whole formation of us as a unit. That
Speaker 2: was the back drop of it, And it was a
Speaker 2: reason we were so tight, not only as musicians but
Speaker 2: just as people because we already grew up as friends anyway,
Speaker 2: but that those experiences just totally solidified everything that we
Speaker 2: were doing. And then we would play at night, like
Speaker 2: like we would rehearse it during the day and then
Speaker 2: at night Weaver would open the place up, charge people
Speaker 2: and we play songs, not you know, when we do
Speaker 2: a couple covers, but mostly it just be our stuff.
Speaker 2: People didn't know what the heck we were singing, but
Speaker 2: they just liked it. You know. It was just like
Speaker 2: a place to go and hang out.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is what I gotta know now. More than anything,
Speaker 1: you guys had this image that was just as important
Speaker 1: and prevalent as the music was. And how did you
Speaker 1: guys actually care for like, did Mars have ten versions
Speaker 1: of that gold jacket?
Speaker 2: Did you have, Doris? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly, because the thing is that what I know about
Speaker 1: touring is every show I do, it's drenched.
Speaker 2: Are you? But I know that it's required that you
Speaker 2: guys you know it. Do you guys have a.
Speaker 1: Wardrobe person that runs shit to the cleaners and stuff?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like, and did you have to look
Speaker 1: that way? Twenty four to seven?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, yeah, so the wardrobe really was based on
Speaker 2: the way we dressed anyway, because guys always as a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, as a matter of fact, you're looking
Speaker 2: at it. You're looking at it right now. But I'm
Speaker 2: going to show you a picture of Terry. You can't
Speaker 2: see this on the air, but this is Terry Lewis
Speaker 2: at like fourteen fifteen years old. Wow, that's it's not
Speaker 2: as a guitar strap. Yeah. And he's got and he's
Speaker 2: gotten and he painted this base red, black and green.
Speaker 2: This is the base. When I met Terry, he painted
Speaker 2: his you know, so he was afrocentric and the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That's right. So when people talk about the way we looked.
Speaker 2: I mean that that goes from you know, back in
Speaker 2: that day. I mean we we we used to take
Speaker 2: because the thrift stores. We couldn't afford to dress. We
Speaker 2: wanted to dress nice, but we couldn't afford it. But
Speaker 2: you could go to a thrift store and get a
Speaker 2: suit for ten bucks, right, and get a hat and
Speaker 2: a whole thing. So we were always rocking that style,
Speaker 2: and Prince just enhanced it. Now Morris is stuff the
Speaker 2: press we called it the pressley, the jacket that he
Speaker 2: had on the first two album covers. There was only one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was only one that was it the pressley, And yeah,
Speaker 2: we kept it dry. You know. That was part of
Speaker 2: Jerome's job. By the way, he was the real valet
Speaker 2: for the group, so he'd call everybody and say, you know,
Speaker 2: have your dry cleaning ready to go, you know, if
Speaker 2: we'd be at a hotel or that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all of our stuff was thrift shop stuff.
Speaker 2: And it was interesting because the first tour we did,
Speaker 2: I remember, we would go to thrift and we would
Speaker 2: clean up. Second tour we did, they were all out
Speaker 2: of stuff. Because people caught on and doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it totally caught on. So it was interesting. But yeah, no,
Speaker 2: that that was the thing, man. We just that was
Speaker 2: always kind of our our style anyway, you guys weren't
Speaker 2: quite of age, but like that that look when they
Speaker 2: came out in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the first time I think, like we
Speaker 1: were all big in our moms, like, yo, take us
Speaker 1: to the thrift store.
Speaker 2: Word you would never hear darn. I was wondering if
Speaker 2: that was cool to y'all because.
Speaker 1: That's like the dog I mean, they they talked about
Speaker 1: baggies and then like and you know, my mom be like, baggies,
Speaker 1: I can get you some bags.
Speaker 2: It's like two dollars at the thrift store. And it
Speaker 2: was like the thrift store. Yeah, well f as I
Speaker 2: frowned on it.
Speaker 1: But like because my cousins were more like in the street,
Speaker 1: you know, like b boy and just came out and
Speaker 1: sergery of valent a drug dealer shit, right, But when
Speaker 1: oh my goodess, like all of sixth grade, all I
Speaker 1: wore were just baggies and my parents couldn't be more pleased.
Speaker 2: On like twenty bears of pint, you know what I mean. Yeah, So,
Speaker 2: so you guys just naturally look like gangster. We just naturally, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just naturally did it, and and we just kind
Speaker 2: of fell into it. And we also liked the whole idea,
Speaker 2: the whole cool aspect. We liked anyway, because it was
Speaker 2: about respecting yourself and it was about you know, dressing
Speaker 2: well and having class and that. And we liked the
Speaker 2: idea of that. I mean we enhanced it, and Prince
Speaker 2: enhanced it. I mean he he took it to a
Speaker 2: whole other level. And yes, he wanted us to always
Speaker 2: look the part he hated the idea of because we
Speaker 2: used to talk about it back in the day when
Speaker 2: we first started touring and stuff. We would go out
Speaker 2: like with Cameo, you know, and Cameo would have, you know,
Speaker 2: the glitter suits on and the whole thing, and and
Speaker 2: Prince always kind of frowned on it. He just said, no,
Speaker 2: he said, you should look the way you look, you know,
Speaker 2: and nobody should see you looking unlike yourself what they
Speaker 2: expect to see you. Even to the point where I
Speaker 2: remember with Morris, I mean, by the second tour, we
Speaker 2: were holding that pressley together with tape literally, I mean
Speaker 2: it was just like that thing was about ready to
Speaker 2: fall apart, and I remember Morris kept saying, Prince, can
Speaker 2: I get a new jacket? I need a new Presley
Speaker 2: And Prince was like, no, that's what people expect to
Speaker 2: see you in, and that's the way you need to look.
Speaker 2: He was very much into that, right. And I remember
Speaker 2: about halfway through that tour and we were kicking his
Speaker 2: ass pretty good every night at that point. Oh we know, yeah,
Speaker 2: And I remember they at one point in time, I
Speaker 2: remember the management came to us and said, we're gonna
Speaker 2: put you guys out on your own, on your own
Speaker 2: tour because Prince didn't let us play. You have to
Speaker 2: now think about once again, no media, no social media. Right.
Speaker 2: So everything that you got you read right. It was
Speaker 2: a new paper thing. Right. The two biggest markets obviously
Speaker 2: were La and New York. Right, those two markets. We
Speaker 2: didn't play with Prince. We didn't open with him, right,
Speaker 2: So he did Madison Square Garden or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: We didn't play, but we played for Vanity six. So
Speaker 2: we were in the building, right, which to this day
Speaker 2: is the thing you're probably pisss jelly Bean off the
Speaker 2: most of anything. Man. All our friends are out there, man,
Speaker 2: we're in the building and stuff, and we can't even play.
Speaker 2: I was like, he used to get so mad. Same
Speaker 2: with the Forum in LA. Never played the Forum in LA.
Speaker 2: We played Long Beach Arena, and we played I think
Speaker 2: Nasau Coliseum or something in New York. But we never
Speaker 2: got to play those shows because the reviews were all like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Prince was great, that was great, but you got to
Speaker 2: see the time, you know, and he didn't want that,
Speaker 2: so that was the thing. So we never played those markets.
Speaker 2: So after we saw that happen and we were kind
Speaker 2: of like, okay, So the management's like, you know, we're
Speaker 2: gonna put you on your own tour, and I think
Speaker 2: it was gonna be Evelyn Champagne King and Shallamar or
Speaker 2: somebody like that, right, So we were like, okay, cool, great,
Speaker 2: we'll do our own tour. That's cool. So then they
Speaker 2: changed their mind and they said so by this point
Speaker 2: in time, so Morris said, well, if we're doing our
Speaker 2: own tour, I'm getting me a new Presley. So Morris
Speaker 2: orders this new Presley, right, And I remember Prince used
Speaker 2: to sometimes come in our dresser room because after we
Speaker 2: do the Vanity six set, we would they in the
Speaker 2: old at the beginning, they would give us like fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes to change, right, So we would come out and
Speaker 2: do the Vanity six set, and then we go back
Speaker 2: in the dress room, hang out for a little bit,
Speaker 2: and then we come back out. Sometimes we'd actually be dressed,
Speaker 2: but we put on like capes or we put on
Speaker 2: something stupid. So people said, the people on the side, yeah,
Speaker 2: so they couldn't see who we were, right. So, but
Speaker 2: it was great because we were so warmed up. It
Speaker 2: was like our sound check, right, play it for Vanity six.
Speaker 2: So it even made us better, right, And and then
Speaker 2: it got to the point where he wouldn't even give
Speaker 2: us enough time to change or anything. We really started
Speaker 2: killing him then because we were all warmed up, and
Speaker 2: it was like Jellybean, like the longer he played, the
Speaker 2: better he got. He was one of those kind of drummers,
Speaker 2: so it was all working against him. So I remember
Speaker 2: we had kind of lattashed him in about three or
Speaker 2: four gigs in a row. So anyway, he comes into
Speaker 2: the dressing room and we were really kind of feeling
Speaker 2: ourselves at that point in time, and he comes into
Speaker 2: the dressing room and he goes and nobody's really reacting
Speaker 2: to him, and he just kind of goes, what are
Speaker 2: you guys doing? And Morris says, got something to show you, Prince,
Speaker 2: And so Jerome goes and brings out this wardrobe thing
Speaker 2: and unzips it and Morris like flips it and the
Speaker 2: thing comes off and he goes, I got a new Presley.
Speaker 2: Prince literally goes, ah, I created a monster and ran
Speaker 2: out of the room. Swear to God, Swear to God.
Speaker 2: He did. He created him last year. He did. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what were those Okay?
Speaker 1: So I know by the time that what times it
Speaker 1: came out, you guys were and maybe assuming a better place.
Speaker 1: But in the very beginning the first album, were you
Speaker 1: guys like I just want to know what a working
Speaker 1: class musician was into and doing between eighty one and
Speaker 1: eighty two, Like, were you guys driving yourself to the gigs?
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you read Maurice White's autobiography,
Speaker 1: but I'm shocked at even up until Spirit they were
Speaker 1: like driving themselves to the gigs.
Speaker 2: They were, you know, station wagons to the gigs and
Speaker 2: that stuff. Well, we did. We definitely did the station
Speaker 2: wagon thing. There's no doubt about that. We did, but
Speaker 2: not by the time, by the time we were actually
Speaker 2: touring with Prince. No, we had a tour bus, and
Speaker 2: you know, we were making our little one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars a week after they a week Yeah what
Speaker 2: is Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is a working class musician make in eighty one
Speaker 1: on that tour? Like, were you guys at the top
Speaker 1: level or no?
Speaker 2: We were, No, we were well below the top level
Speaker 2: because we we were like I say, we would get
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty dollars a week in a in
Speaker 2: a check and for that it was in mine per
Speaker 2: dim Yeah. Well and we get per diem too, so
Speaker 2: I guess it would add up to two fifty a week.
Speaker 2: So that if that changes anything. I mean, my my
Speaker 2: check after taxes was one hundred and seventeen dollars. I
Speaker 2: still have, I think my check stub, you know, my
Speaker 2: original check stub. But no, we were going broke and
Speaker 2: it probably you know, for me at the time, I
Speaker 2: was living at home anyway, so I hadn't moved out,
Speaker 2: and I didn't have any kids. I didn't have any responsibility.
Speaker 2: It was really tough on Terry because Terry, not only
Speaker 2: Terry drove a school bus, you know, and and was
Speaker 2: making really good money doing that. But also because when
Speaker 2: we were gigging his flight time and we're like I say,
Speaker 2: we were like doing our own gigs and do outing,
Speaker 2: and yeah, we were doing really well. I mean as
Speaker 2: a bad I mean, Terry took a huge pay cut,
Speaker 2: probably the biggest out of anybody had a young son
Speaker 2: at that point in a house. I mean, Terry was
Speaker 2: always very like responsible from like an early age, like
Speaker 2: he was already living his he was like an adult
Speaker 2: at an early age. So for him, yeah, it hit
Speaker 2: him really bad, like it messed his credit up, you know,
Speaker 2: it messed him out rat Oh, yeah, it totally messed it,
Speaker 2: totally messed him up. And and even I remember the
Speaker 2: second year we had an ultimatum, like it was in
Speaker 2: I think it was San Dieg. I think we were
Speaker 2: in San Diego and we had we were all sharing
Speaker 2: rooms at that point in time, except for except for Morris,
Speaker 2: and I remember Terry said, man, we got two gold albums.
Speaker 2: They had bumped us up to two fifty a week,
Speaker 2: and then Vanity, Yeah, Vanity six was giving us another
Speaker 2: one hundred a week or something like that at plus
Speaker 2: per diem. So everybody was saving the per diem to
Speaker 2: buy a VCR or whatever. I mean, you know that
Speaker 2: was the hot thing back in that day, was save
Speaker 2: up for a VCR, right. But we but everybody was
Speaker 2: getting you know, at that point in time, he getting
Speaker 2: on everybody's getting on everybody's nerves. So it was like,
Speaker 2: you know, Terry said, man, we need our own room.
Speaker 2: So he went to management at the time, and there
Speaker 2: was this lady named Jamie Shoop, and Jamie shop was like,
Speaker 2: she was our tour manager. Not Alan, No, okay, Ali
Speaker 2: came along after us after yeah. Yeah, So Jamie was amazing,
Speaker 2: took great care of us. She I mean as best
Speaker 2: she could. I mean, because it was it was Prince's thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was no doubt about Prince ran it.
Speaker 2: But she looked out for us the best she can.
Speaker 2: And she said, listen, she said, if you guys, you
Speaker 2: guys should have your own rooms, I'll advocate for that.
Speaker 2: Let's have a meeting whatever. So we told everybody, here's
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do. We're gonna have a meeting in
Speaker 2: San Diego, and we're basically going to say if we
Speaker 2: don't get rooms, we're quitting the tour. That's the thing
Speaker 2: right now, Jesse. For some reason, we said don't tell anybody,
Speaker 2: but Jesse for some reason went behind our backs and
Speaker 2: told management or told Prince or told somebody. So when
Speaker 2: we got everybody in this room, we thought, you know,
Speaker 2: we had the upper hand. We're gonna spring this on them.
Speaker 2: We walked into the room and Prince was like, so
Speaker 2: you guys are going to boycott. Huh, We're like going.
Speaker 2: We like all looked at each other. Then we all
Speaker 2: looked at Jesse, and Jesse's like, what, you know whatever,
Speaker 2: We're like, okay. So Terry at that point was just like,
Speaker 2: you know, listen, dude. He said, I can't. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't. I got a kid, I got you know whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2: I can't. You know, I can't do this. And I
Speaker 2: remember Prince he said to Terry rock stars shouldn't have kids. Wow,
Speaker 2: never forget that. I'll never forget that to this day.
Speaker 2: And uh anyway, so Terry, so Terry walked up. Terry said,
Speaker 2: Terry said quit. Terry said, Terry said, I remember going
Speaker 2: into it. He said, I'm always gonna have enough money
Speaker 2: to get a bus ticket. If i can do nothing else,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have enough money to get a bus ticket
Speaker 2: to go home. And so he had his you know,
Speaker 2: fifty dollars or whatever the heck a bus ticket was.
Speaker 2: He had it, and he said, that's it. I'm out
Speaker 2: of here. Well, of course, Jamie came to the rescue
Speaker 2: and talked to Prince and said, Prince, come on, these guys,
Speaker 2: you know, they can have their own rooms. It's what's
Speaker 2: not what's the big deal. It's you know, it's three
Speaker 2: more rooms a night. What's the big deal? And anyway,
Speaker 2: Prince was so Prince was said, okay, fine, they got it.
Speaker 2: But if it wouldn't have been for Terry doing that, right,
Speaker 2: because because for Terry it was serious. It wasn't like
Speaker 2: a you know, a grand standing type thing or anything.
Speaker 2: It was like serious, like Terry, Terry had real life
Speaker 2: and real responsibilities. And for nineteen eighty two, what would
Speaker 2: have been fair.
Speaker 1: Market share for what, you know, what tickets were back then,
Speaker 1: what the gross was for these shows? And I know
Speaker 1: everyone's on this tour, so I know it's vanity and
Speaker 1: yeah there are people and you guys and your people
Speaker 1: and the revolution and printing his people, I'm sure the
Speaker 1: staff and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: What is fair for that time period? Honestly, quest So
Speaker 2: I don't know I don't really know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that because you know, we were and tour
Speaker 1: support wasn't a thing like Mo Austin and those guys weren't.
Speaker 2: Like I think Warner Brothers. Yeah, I think Warner Brothers
Speaker 2: definitely supported the tour. I mean because all three records
Speaker 2: were all Warner Brothers records. I mean, you couldn't actually
Speaker 2: have a better situation. Yeah, right, you know, they were
Speaker 2: all records. But the other thing was we weren't making
Speaker 2: any We made any royalties on the time records. All
Speaker 2: we made was the salary, So it wasn't like it
Speaker 2: was an advance against royalties. And remember back in those days,
Speaker 2: if you had a gold record, you were doing pretty
Speaker 2: well because you know, the money flowed. I mean, the
Speaker 2: royalties were pretty good.
Speaker 1: So when they would open a budget, that wasn't split
Speaker 1: with you guys, like it was just like we just
Speaker 1: paid regular salary.
Speaker 2: Just played a regular salary. We never we never were
Speaker 2: royalty artists individually. Morris was, but the rest of us weren't.
Speaker 2: Was there a big difference between you guys and the
Speaker 2: Revolution when it came to that, Like financially, I never
Speaker 2: knew what the Revolution made quite Honestly, I never did.
Speaker 2: We never, we never really dealt with it. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they were making more than us, you know, but so
Speaker 2: what point does.
Speaker 1: The idea of moonlighting even come into your you know,
Speaker 1: your brain light and its moonlighting and thing like we
Speaker 1: need to make our own money and get our own publishing.
Speaker 2: Or just like, no, hey, we want to express ourselves. Yes, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it wasn't. It wasn't a money thing ever. It was
Speaker 2: so so the way that went down was Terry. Once again, Terry,
Speaker 2: And if I don't say it enough during this interview,
Speaker 2: thank God for Terry Lewis. I mean, I swear to
Speaker 2: God that brother in my life has just been a
Speaker 2: godsend in every possible way. And but Terry said, I
Speaker 2: can't remember where we were at. I want to. First
Speaker 2: I was thinking it was Houston, but it wasn't Houston,
Speaker 2: but it was somewhere and we were kind of ending up.
Speaker 2: The tour was kind of beginning to end up, and
Speaker 2: we were and Terry said, I'm going to go to
Speaker 2: la after the tour, and everybody was like, what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do in l A t And he said,
Speaker 2: he said, man, he said, I'm just gonna make some
Speaker 2: demos and try to get some songs placed and just
Speaker 2: do some stuff. And everybody was like why, and he said,
Speaker 2: because they need us out there, and everybody said, man,
Speaker 2: you're crazy. And so Terry said, well, who wants to go?
Speaker 2: Somebody wanted to come with me, and everybody's like, man, no, man,
Speaker 2: I'm saving up from my VCR man. And literally that's
Speaker 2: what everybody said. And I looked at Terry and I said,
Speaker 2: well I'll go. Terry said okay, and I said, but
Speaker 2: where are we going to stay? He said, I don't know,
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. Said where are we going to
Speaker 2: get equipment from? I don't know, We're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 2: I said, where we gonna get a car from? I
Speaker 2: don't know. We'll figure it out. And I trusted that
Speaker 2: brother because that was the brother that when the girl
Speaker 2: broke up with me and when I was a drummer
Speaker 2: and he told me I needed to be a keyboard player,
Speaker 2: got me into the band. And I just trusted because
Speaker 2: he because he had made decisions before and twisted my
Speaker 2: arm to do things. And I'm like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: he doesn't need to twist my arm on this one.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go on faith on this one. And
Speaker 2: so when the tour ended, we went to La Uh.
Speaker 2: Terry sold his car, I think, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: we bought uh some Viking ship. We bought uh. We
Speaker 2: bought uh you know in the classifieds. We bought a
Speaker 2: task cam, a little four track tape, a little microphone.
Speaker 2: I had this little Cassio keyboard with a little drum
Speaker 2: machine built into it. He had his base. And there
Speaker 2: were some people we knew from Minneapolis that had a
Speaker 2: house that they were renting a house out there, and
Speaker 2: they had one bedroom in the house and it was
Speaker 2: smaller probably in this little area we're sitting there. We
Speaker 2: had enough room to put two cots in there, and
Speaker 2: that's where me and Terry bunked. We didn't have a car,
Speaker 2: so we would walk to there was a California, yeah,
Speaker 2: but but but the eighties, in the eighties, well, here's
Speaker 2: the funny thing, though, we the only places we went
Speaker 2: because we we do our demos at home, right, So
Speaker 2: we'd do our demos at the crib. So we'd sit
Speaker 2: at the crib all day. They'd go to work, the
Speaker 2: people who we were staying with, and we'd all day
Speaker 2: be in like the bathroom and stuff to get reverb
Speaker 2: and stuff and be making our little demos and stuff.
Speaker 2: And then we would walk. There was a place called
Speaker 2: Golden Bird Chicken that was on Losienega Avenue. Best chicken
Speaker 2: ever to me, and you could get a four piece
Speaker 2: for two ninety nine. Because we didn't have any money,
Speaker 2: so we'd go get the two piece the four piece
Speaker 2: rather for two ninety nine. That was our one meal
Speaker 2: of the day. And then when the people got home
Speaker 2: at night, they'd all make milkshakes or whatever, so we'd
Speaker 2: have a milkshake at night. And that was That was
Speaker 2: basically the way we lived. And it was funny because
Speaker 2: oh and we didn't have any clothes. We had our
Speaker 2: time clothes, so like we're in ninety degree weather, but
Speaker 2: we got these suits. And the police used to the
Speaker 2: police used to stop us, right, We'd just be walking
Speaker 2: and the police would stop us and they go, everything okay, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: and we'd go like, yeah, everything's good. And they'd look
Speaker 2: at us and they go, you're not from here, are you?
Speaker 2: And we'd be like, no, how could you tell you know?
Speaker 2: And uh, But they never messed with us, really, and
Speaker 2: it was cool, and that was kind of our thing.
Speaker 2: And then eventually, you know, we hooked up with some
Speaker 2: girls that had cars, you know, right, I found a
Speaker 2: girl that had a Porsche. It was cool, you know,
Speaker 2: so we figured it out. But but that was what
Speaker 2: we were doing. And of course the word back in
Speaker 2: Minneapolis is that we were out there starving to death,
Speaker 2: and you know, we're starving to death and they're nuts
Speaker 2: and they're crazy, and you know, that was kind of
Speaker 2: the thought process.
Speaker 1: How much downtime did you have because I figured, at
Speaker 1: least until the time that you guys were dismissed, that
Speaker 1: there was no downtime, like you're always rehearsing.
Speaker 2: We had, we had, Okay, so that was between so
Speaker 2: the first tour was eighty one into eighty two. We
Speaker 2: think we were done in April of eighty two, so
Speaker 2: we had between April and probably June or July before
Speaker 2: we started rehearsing for the next tour and stuff. So
Speaker 2: it was never where he's like, where are you guys,
Speaker 2: I'm doing? Oh yeah, no, that was good. That was
Speaker 2: a good Onefinitely. Definitely, it definitely turned into that were
Speaker 2: you guys given a general rule that you weren't allowed
Speaker 2: to like, yes, it wasn't a general rule, it was
Speaker 2: a mandate. Basically, did mars enforce these rules or was
Speaker 2: it just like Prince said, Zoe, this was Prince No,
Speaker 2: this was princes had This was not Morris. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I really Moore said something that rehearsal
Speaker 2: one day that was so for us, very empowering and
Speaker 2: very enlightening. I don't know how everybody else took it,
Speaker 2: but he said that this thing ain't gonna last forever.
Speaker 2: Whoa And he said that I suggest everybody figure out
Speaker 2: what it is that they want to do out of
Speaker 2: this and start working towards it. He said, I don't
Speaker 2: know what everybody else is doing. He said. Now, he said,
Speaker 2: I'm taking acting lessons because he said, I want to
Speaker 2: learn to actually, you know, do I want to be
Speaker 2: a to be able to act? I want to be
Speaker 2: able to do stuff?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Was this before this, before Purple rain? This is yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is going into the into the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine tour. Okay, so and he so he said that,
Speaker 2: and then he said, uh, he said, you know, he
Speaker 2: pointed in me and Terry and he said, Jimmy and
Speaker 2: Terry producing records. He said, I don't know what the
Speaker 2: rest of y'all are doing, but y'all need to figure
Speaker 2: it out. So he knew, he knew, you know, he
Speaker 2: knew what it was going to be. So that was
Speaker 2: very encouraging to us. And well, Terry and I used
Speaker 2: to do. I mean, we spent a lot of money
Speaker 2: doing it, but and I have no idea where we
Speaker 2: got the money from quite honestly now that I think
Speaker 2: about it. But Prince used to we would rehearse during
Speaker 2: the week, and we would we rehearse, you know, Monday
Speaker 2: through Friday or whatever. When we would get done Friday,
Speaker 2: Terry and I would hop like the last flight to
Speaker 2: LA and you know, we had booked a couple of
Speaker 2: you know acts at that point time. We were doing
Speaker 2: a group called Reel to Reel for Leon Silvers. We
Speaker 2: were doing Climax for Dick Griffy at Solar, so we
Speaker 2: had a couple of things going right. So we would
Speaker 2: fly and we do, you know, twenty four hour lockout
Speaker 2: at the studio, right, which we didn't know. So we
Speaker 2: do twenty four hour lockout, but then we would work
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. We didn't know that. It just meant
Speaker 2: that nobody could come into studio after you, right, So
Speaker 2: we drive the engineers. He'd be like, what time do
Speaker 2: you think we're going to end tonight? We said, we
Speaker 2: got twenty four hour lockout. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: He was like, no, but that doesn't mean you were.
Speaker 2: I said, no, we got it for twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: We're working twenty four hours. Terry'd be asleep on the couch.
Speaker 2: I'd be working that I fall asleep and Terry would
Speaker 2: be working. Oh man, no, we were. I mean it's like,
Speaker 2: come on, man, we're trying to get this done. So
Speaker 2: that was the way we would work, and then we
Speaker 2: would catch a plane back to be back in time
Speaker 2: for Monday rehearsal. So Prince got wind of what we
Speaker 2: were doing. Who's nitch Jesse? And so all of a
Speaker 2: sudden the rehearsals would start going longer and longer. Then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there'd be a Saturday rehearsal, or
Speaker 2: there would be are we are we rehearsal tonight? No,
Speaker 2: and there's no rehearsal tonight. Okay, cool, We're gonna hop
Speaker 2: a plane and then we're literally on our way to
Speaker 2: the airport. Oh yeah, there's a rehearsal that kind of
Speaker 2: thing would start happening. So it was a lot of roadblocks,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of thrown in front of us at
Speaker 2: that point. And yeah, out of that. So it was
Speaker 2: it was an interesting time. But no, we were doing it.
Speaker 2: We certainly weren't doing it for the money because we
Speaker 2: weren't making any money. But we were doing it just
Speaker 2: because we had a love of music and we didn't
Speaker 2: feel what we were doing sounded like the time, because
Speaker 2: one of Prince's concerns was that, you know, don't give
Speaker 2: away the time sound. And it's like, well, but you
Speaker 2: are all the time sign So what we're doing isn't
Speaker 2: the time, I mean, you know, And so there was
Speaker 2: a lot of that. I remember. We we got blamed
Speaker 2: for Leon did just keep on loving me. Prince swore
Speaker 2: we did that record. We said, Prince, we weren't even
Speaker 2: in the studio when that record was done. We still
Speaker 2: swear that we did that record, right.
Speaker 1: He told me a story like you know, they're hid
Speaker 1: behind Leon Silvers, but I know it was them, Like
Speaker 1: he still believes that that's them.
Speaker 2: We didn't. Actually a matter of fact, it's funny we
Speaker 2: heard that record. I think the first time we heard
Speaker 2: that record was on the radio and we loved it.
Speaker 2: I mean we were because we were Leon Leon Silver's
Speaker 2: disciples man. We love Leon Silvers man, and we heard
Speaker 2: that record and we were like, oh, hell yeah, we
Speaker 2: love this, this is great. And were we never heard
Speaker 2: it before? We weren't in the studio. I mean, he
Speaker 2: took how approach you like, listen to this? Well, you know,
Speaker 2: it's funny because we did. When we did we did
Speaker 2: a record called can You Treat Me Like She Does?
Speaker 2: For Real to Real and a very obscure record. But
Speaker 2: the demo of that song, Terry's playing the bass very
Speaker 2: much like the time, and uh, Leon always called it
Speaker 2: the patent bass, like when you're patting something, because it's
Speaker 2: really it's more of a percussive thing than actually playing notes,
Speaker 2: so it's just boom, you know. Terry calls it boogaloo bass, right.
Speaker 2: So Leon always called it the patent patent bass, like
Speaker 2: you're patting the bass. Right. So when we did the
Speaker 2: demo of the record and Leon heard it, he says, oh,
Speaker 2: he said, because he always scratched his beard and he
Speaker 2: always talked like this, and he'd say, yeah, he said,
Speaker 2: I like that. I like that record. He said, we're
Speaker 2: going to do that record. I'm like real to real,
Speaker 2: and we're like, okay, great, Leon, cool. You know, So
Speaker 2: we went in and did the track. So as we're
Speaker 2: doing the track, Princess in our mind talking about don't
Speaker 2: give away the time sounds so now so Terry like
Speaker 2: is watering down the bass part now right, So now Terry,
Speaker 2: Terry's just going boom, you know, he's just kind of
Speaker 2: doing like that. So we turned, you know, we did
Speaker 2: the track and we said, okay, here you go, Leon,
Speaker 2: and he goes what happened to the patent bass? And
Speaker 2: we were like, no, that's the way we do it,
Speaker 2: just like that. No, I heard the shits on the
Speaker 2: demo and he was patting the base different than he's
Speaker 2: doing it. So either you guys can do the pattern
Speaker 2: on the bass or I'll go in and do it myself.
Speaker 2: And so we were like, oh shit, okay. So we
Speaker 2: went in and I think I think Leon Terry did
Speaker 2: kind of add a little bit to it, but never
Speaker 2: wanted to give the whole thing away. But I think
Speaker 2: Leon did go in and you know, put a few
Speaker 2: little pats of his own there. But nah, I mean
Speaker 2: we really were conscious of that of not. We didn't
Speaker 2: want to give away the time sound and I think
Speaker 2: and and by the way, when we were producers, that
Speaker 2: was the same thing we did when we started producing.
Speaker 2: We we would do one act and then the next
Speaker 2: act we'd be like, no, we're going a whole different
Speaker 2: groove or drum machines or keyboards or whatever to try
Speaker 2: to keep everybody. You know, how did you.
Speaker 1: Avoid the Dick Griffy pitfall? Because you guys could have
Speaker 1: easily been just still our house producers?
Speaker 2: Yep? Did he pursue you guys at all? Sort of
Speaker 2: the Well, the reason is one man, Clarence Savon. Clarence
Speaker 2: Savon didn't allow that to happen. Now, when we went
Speaker 2: to see Clarence, there was a lady named Dina Andrews
Speaker 2: who was an A and R person that sold our records,
Speaker 2: and she, pardon me, she was the one that actually
Speaker 2: introduced us to Griffy and she also knew and and
Speaker 2: by the way, all of these songs we were doing
Speaker 2: back then were all based on one demo tape that
Speaker 2: we did at the house and high Hopes was on
Speaker 2: their SOS band I saw called when You're Far Away
Speaker 2: that we ended up doing on Gladys Nyne and the
Speaker 2: Pips a song called the only one that we did
Speaker 2: on Dynasty, which was Leon's. Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: As matter of fact, the keyboard on there is that
Speaker 2: original little Cassio keyboard because because Leon said, man, keep
Speaker 2: that keyboard sound just like you had it, I said, okay,
Speaker 2: So like literally climax we did for Dick graphy real
Speaker 2: to real we did Dick, not for I mean for
Speaker 2: Leon Silver's Yeah exactly, and and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2: So anyway, but all of these songs were all on
Speaker 2: that same demo tape, and everybody just heard different songs
Speaker 2: they liked. Dick heard, you know, wild Girls. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 2: heard wild Girls and said, oh yeah, wold Girls. That
Speaker 2: wild Girls. We like that. You know, he still a
Speaker 2: copy of you know, Terry probably does. He probably does.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have it, but I bet you
Speaker 2: he does because he still got the four track you
Speaker 2: know that we did all that stuff probably in his
Speaker 2: room somewhere. Yeah, he's got no, it's not here. It's
Speaker 2: not he's got it at his house, but it's not here,
Speaker 2: but he's got it definitely. But anyway, so that was
Speaker 2: that was the whole thing. So everybody had their own
Speaker 2: different kind of things that they liked. But what happened
Speaker 2: with Clarence was Dennis said, I'm gonna introduce you to
Speaker 2: Clarence Avon because Clarence had wanted us to do he
Speaker 2: We had done High Hopes, but we didn't produce it.
Speaker 2: We just wrote it right, So Clarence wanted to hear
Speaker 2: what it would have sounded like if we produced it.
Speaker 2: So he had the demo. So we, you know, Dinah
Speaker 2: set up a meeting. We went to meet him. Clarence
Speaker 2: called us the two thugs because we walked in with,
Speaker 2: you know, our hats and our suits and stuff, and
Speaker 2: he said, who are you two thugs? You know? So anyway,
Speaker 2: he listens to the he said, he said that High Hopes.
Speaker 2: He said, I like that record, he says, you know,
Speaker 2: and we said, well, Clarence, he said, it's cool, but
Speaker 2: the way it came out, but you know, he said,
Speaker 2: what's the difference in the demo? I said, we put
Speaker 2: the chili sauce on the demo. He said, oh, you
Speaker 2: did chili sauce. I like that. Okay, let's hear that
Speaker 2: we put it in and he said, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: like that. I like that. He said, okay, so I
Speaker 2: want you to do two songs on the next SOS
Speaker 2: band record and we said okay, cool, Yeah, we're down,
Speaker 2: you know whatever. So he said okay, he said but
Speaker 2: here's the thing. He said, now, y'all's manager is negotiating
Speaker 2: your fee. And when he said that, our first thought
Speaker 2: was oh man, So we were like, okay, Clarence, well
Speaker 2: we can you know, we can get the budget down, man,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever you you know want to do. And
Speaker 2: he said, get the budget down. She ain't asking enough money, y'all.
Speaker 2: Y'all are worth more than that. And we were like, oh,
Speaker 2: we was representing you at the time. Dina andrews, Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: she was like our kind of de facto but she
Speaker 2: but she worked for Solar but yeah, but she was
Speaker 2: moonlight and I guess you could say, you know, representing
Speaker 2: our affairs and uh. She had also got introduced us
Speaker 2: to a guy at Warner Brothers Publishing and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think of who it was or Warner Chapel, I
Speaker 2: can't remember his name, who was going to give us
Speaker 2: a publishing deal. Right, So Clarence had seen the publishing
Speaker 2: deal and Clarence said, if y'all signed this publishing deal,
Speaker 2: I'm never speaking to YouTube again day. And we were like, wow,
Speaker 2: what's what's the problem with the with the deal? Clarence
Speaker 2: and the deal was something like it was like I
Speaker 2: don't know one hundred and I don't know it one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy thousand dollars for three years or something
Speaker 2: like that, right, which at the time he thought, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm like, are you kidding me? Taking us
Speaker 2: one hundred fifty dollars a week? Yeah? Right, We're like, oh,
Speaker 2: come on, man, that's great, he says. He said, well,
Speaker 2: let me just break it down for you, gentlemen. So
Speaker 2: he said, so you got one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So first of all, you know you're gonna split that
Speaker 2: in half because there's two of y'all, in case you
Speaker 2: didn't understand that there's two of you. Okay, So now
Speaker 2: maybe you have you know, eighty five thousand dollars. Now
Speaker 2: Uncle Sam's gonna take his fifty percent. And now you
Speaker 2: got forty thousand dollars and three years for forty thousand.
Speaker 2: That's fifteen thousand dollars a year. What are you gonna
Speaker 2: do with that? We were like, uh, well, he said, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: he said, I guarantee you your first runty check will
Speaker 2: be more than that total three year check, mark my words.
Speaker 2: And we said, okay, Clarence, we're cold, we're with it.
Speaker 2: So we never never signed a deal. Clarence gave us
Speaker 2: a SOOS band deal, and of course that led to
Speaker 2: the ill fated recording session of Atlanta that we all
Speaker 2: know about. So but that was the thing. And by
Speaker 2: the way, Clarence was absolutely right. Our first royalty check
Speaker 2: was uh, probably right around that number, just for I
Speaker 2: think just for the first like sos name, so for
Speaker 2: one song. Yeah, what was was?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 2: Just be good? Yeah? So he was right. So that's
Speaker 2: how we didn't get into the Dick Griffy thing, because
Speaker 2: he didn't allow that to happen, he said. And the
Speaker 2: other last little thing he told us when we met
Speaker 2: with him, he said, think about this, gentlemen, what are
Speaker 2: you going to be doing seven years from now? And
Speaker 2: we said we're gonna be making hits and he said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: he said, I don't mean that. He said, right now,
Speaker 2: you got me, you got Barry Gordy, got Lonnie Simmons.
Speaker 2: You got Dick Griffy, right, you know where the guys
Speaker 2: are in the industry. Who's going to be the next us?
Speaker 2: He said, that's who you need to That's what you
Speaker 2: need to start looking at. You need to start identifying
Speaker 2: talent and then helping them out. And he says, if
Speaker 2: you ever come across somebody who you think is talented,
Speaker 2: they're in a screwed up deal or whatever it is,
Speaker 2: you would introduce him to me. And we said, okay,
Speaker 2: And you know who we met l A l A
Speaker 2: Read He was in the deal yep, because he was
Speaker 2: in the deal and he was and they had that
Speaker 2: in the contract as nobody else did. They had that,
Speaker 2: They had that contract. And we met him and knew
Speaker 2: him and face were doing stuff together and he said,
Speaker 2: can you introduce me to Clarence And we said absolutely.
Speaker 2: We called Clarence. We said, Clarence, we got somebody for you,
Speaker 2: just like you said, and the rest is history there.
Speaker 2: So Clarence Clarence is the funk whisper. Yeah he is,
Speaker 2: he absolutely is, He absolutely is.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, the first time, I I mean, I love
Speaker 1: Sussex Records, but I didn't know that he was.
Speaker 2: They ahead of it or even taboo.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I remember he was one of the first
Speaker 1: people you thinked when you got your Grammy, your producer
Speaker 1: the year, Yes for your Grammy. So how okay, I'm
Speaker 1: playing wilfully ignorant here. The day that you got fired,
Speaker 1: I mean, was that mid tour or did you that
Speaker 1: was between tours? So so what had happened was of
Speaker 1: course obviously the whole snowstorm happened. We missed the gig
Speaker 1: in San Antonio.
Speaker 2: We went to say, you're sitting on the plane as no,
Speaker 2: the planes, they weren't letting people on the plane. There
Speaker 2: was literally no I'm from Minnesota. What time was the flight?
Speaker 2: Flight was like first thing in the morning, like seven
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, like just when even then, and
Speaker 2: think like maybe we rent a car. We did think
Speaker 2: of that. We thought of every possible scenario. We booked
Speaker 2: ourselves on any flight leaving. We booked ourselves on it.
Speaker 2: You could do that in those days. And literally we
Speaker 2: were booked on like ten different flights and they all canceled,
Speaker 2: and they all canceled. Literally. Then we thought, well, can
Speaker 2: we get the rent a car back drive to an
Speaker 2: airport that's open. But once again, now you're not dealing
Speaker 2: with it's not ways and you know and and and
Speaker 2: Siri and what's the closest airports that's opened, Siri? And
Speaker 2: it's none of that. You know, you had none of those,
Speaker 2: you know, the ability to do that. So but no,
Speaker 2: all of those possibilities. We were like, take a flight
Speaker 2: to anywhere we can connect and get to San Antonio.
Speaker 2: So we had the whole day to figure it out.
Speaker 2: And so literally for eight hours. And of course we're
Speaker 2: in the Atlanta airport. Everybody been in the Atlanta airport.
Speaker 2: It was one of the first airports with totally separate
Speaker 2: terminals for everything, where you had to take the train
Speaker 2: to get to each terminal. We were up and down
Speaker 2: on the train, up and down like what's taken off?
Speaker 2: Anybody taken off? Anybody? It was It was probably the
Speaker 2: worst day of my life, I would say, because we
Speaker 2: had never missed a gig. I mean you just as
Speaker 2: a musician, the show must go on. I mean I
Speaker 2: remember Terry, there was a gig we had. Terry had
Speaker 2: stitches and stuff and was bleeding and gotten in a
Speaker 2: car accident, still showed up and did the gig. You know,
Speaker 2: we actually we were opening for uh maybe it was
Speaker 2: a cam it might have been a cameo we were
Speaker 2: opening for or something. But he showed up. I mean
Speaker 2: he was like, where's Terry? Always at the hospital, but
Speaker 2: he's on his way. It's like, okay, cool, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like you just don't miss a gig man. So
Speaker 2: that was crazy. But we figured out we were going
Speaker 2: to miss it when we got into town. It was
Speaker 2: really funny because I actually went to the club afterwards
Speaker 2: and everybody was saying, oh many, y'all were great, y'all
Speaker 2: were great. I felt so weird. I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: going home, man, this is this is too weird. So
Speaker 2: when we got back to La we just figured, you know,
Speaker 2: because we were still making our little check, a little paycheck, right,
Speaker 2: so we got you know, we would go by the
Speaker 2: accountant's office, and I figured we're going to go get
Speaker 2: our last check, right. So we walked into the account's
Speaker 2: office and everybody was like, hey, how you guys doing. Oh,
Speaker 2: here's your checks. Okay, we'll see you next week. We
Speaker 2: were like you will, okay, cool, all right, So we
Speaker 2: took our check right. So we did that for the
Speaker 2: next couple of weeks, three weeks you know, just went
Speaker 2: in and got our check and whatever. And I'm like going,
Speaker 2: I don't think they know we're fired. That's weird, you know.
Speaker 2: So then we were at this Whispers concert. Did you
Speaker 2: know you were fired? Though we were told we were fired. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were told we were fired. Matter of fact, who
Speaker 2: told you you? Rent?
Speaker 1: Prince told us, So he is confrontational. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: get my management to tell you.
Speaker 2: That over at a dinner too or something where like
Speaker 2: Prince and Morris were sitting together. It wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a dinner. It was what happened was and this is
Speaker 2: so damn movie storybook time. Okay, we had, you know,
Speaker 2: we're ready to mix the SOS band songs and we
Speaker 2: had ended up doing just be good to me, but
Speaker 2: also did tell me if you still care also in
Speaker 2: a subsequent session. So we're like ready to go. We're
Speaker 2: like got the time booked at Larabie Studios, right, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna mix with Steve Hodge. Way, we know Steve
Speaker 2: Hodges from looking at the liner notes, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we need Steve Hodge at Larabie. That's the combination that
Speaker 2: we need right to mix the record. That's all we
Speaker 2: didn't know, but that's what we figured. So we got
Speaker 2: the time booked. That day, we get a call from
Speaker 2: Prince meet me at Sunset Sound at six thirty and
Speaker 2: we were like damn. So we kind of looked at
Speaker 2: each other and we said, well, we're supposed to be
Speaker 2: mixing the SOS bad record. Well we got to go.
Speaker 2: We have to go to Sunset Sound. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: like it was obvious to it was no choice. It
Speaker 2: was like, no, the time is our priority, you know,
Speaker 2: the SOS thing. We can wait and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: So we went. When we pulled up the accountant was there,
Speaker 2: a guy named Fred Moultrie. He was there, and we said,
Speaker 2: we're getting our We're getting fired. Like we knew the
Speaker 2: jig was up, right, You instantly knew. We just knew.
Speaker 2: We just knew that what So we said, hey, what's
Speaker 2: up Fred? And Fred had this high voice and he said, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: how you doing. Have a good session? Y'all have a
Speaker 2: good session. We were like, okay, cool, all right, well
Speaker 2: maybe not, you know. So we go into this little room,
Speaker 2: kind of this little sitting room right adjacent to the studio,
Speaker 2: myself Terry, Jesse Morris, and Prince, just the five of us, right,
Speaker 2: And Prince goes, I told you guys not to produce
Speaker 2: other records, and you did, so you're fired. And room
Speaker 2: went silent for a minute. And then I got up
Speaker 2: and I said, okay, cool, and I got up and
Speaker 2: walked out the door. So Terry stayed in there for
Speaker 2: a little while, trying to reason with him, like yeah,
Speaker 2: Terry was like, come on, mane, well Terry, you know,
Speaker 2: Terry was great because here's the one thing. First of all,
Speaker 2: Prince couldn't bullshit Terry ever. You just he's just usually
Speaker 2: he's just not the cat you do it with. And
Speaker 2: that's what Prince liked about Terry so much. He knew
Speaker 2: he couldn't do you know, oki dok on him, like
Speaker 2: like he would just tell him straight, like Prince, you
Speaker 2: suck right now or you He would just always say
Speaker 2: that yeah he could. Yeah, oh absolutely, Oh yeah. They
Speaker 2: used to get in, They used to get in these
Speaker 2: five six hour conversations about stuff about about life and
Speaker 2: religion and you name it. And and because Prince would
Speaker 2: have all these philosophies and he'd do all this stuff
Speaker 2: and it would be like and he talked, and you
Speaker 2: when he talked, man, he had this way of kind
Speaker 2: of like it was like drinking the kool aid. Man.
Speaker 2: It was like, right, no one ever challenged the morning.
Speaker 2: Nobody challenged him. And Terry would always go like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: well that's what you think, but here's what I think,
Speaker 2: and would come right back at him. And I think
Speaker 2: Prince always appreciated that with Terry, and Terry was really
Speaker 2: the leader of the time. I mean, Morris was the
Speaker 2: lead singer, but whenever there was a decision to be made,
Speaker 2: Morris would always go, Terry, what do you think? Okay, right,
Speaker 2: So Terry was that dude. So Terry, Yeah. So Terry
Speaker 2: tried to reason with him a little bit and just
Speaker 2: kind of go like, come on, man, would you why
Speaker 2: would you do that? We're not giving away the sound
Speaker 2: like you say, we're doing you know so and so,
Speaker 2: you know whatever. Anyway, about ten minutes later, Terry comes
Speaker 2: out and he says, Okay, well, what do you want
Speaker 2: to do now? And we looked at our watch and
Speaker 2: I said, well we got time. Yeah, we got time
Speaker 2: at Larabie. Let's go to Larby and missus right, So
Speaker 2: we walk into Larabie and we had never even met
Speaker 2: Steve Hodge before, and so we walk in and he goes,
Speaker 2: you guys, me Tarry, Yeah, he says, I'm Steve and
Speaker 2: I said, hey, Steve, nice to meet you. How you
Speaker 2: doing no good? And Steve goes, what's wrong with you guys?
Speaker 2: And he said something wrong and we said, we just
Speaker 2: got fired from the time and he said. Steve said hmm.
Speaker 2: He said, well, I'm gonna tell you something. He said,
Speaker 2: you don't have much story about because this record you
Speaker 2: guys got here. He said, this is a hit. And
Speaker 2: he knew, he knew, he knew, and it was that
Speaker 2: should be the end of the story, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so because that was how that happened, of
Speaker 2: course not. I'm telling you. We're still picking up our
Speaker 2: little paychecks right every week, right right. So now we're
Speaker 2: backstage at a Whispers concert. We run into Lee Bailey.
Speaker 2: He's got this show called Radio Radio. So so Lee
Speaker 2: Bailey's backstage and he walks up to me with a
Speaker 2: microphone and he says, Lee Bailey, radioscope here, you're fired
Speaker 2: from the time. What's the bottom line? And he puts
Speaker 2: the mic in my face and yeah, right right, and
Speaker 2: I'm going, who are you Lee Bailey? Radioscope, I said,
Speaker 2: I said, I know. I said, we're just here watching
Speaker 2: the concert, man, but I heard you got fired. From
Speaker 2: the time, I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. Man,
Speaker 2: We're just here watching the concert, right, So I just
Speaker 2: kept saying that. Right. A couple of days later, we
Speaker 2: go to the accountant's office and we go, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: and they go, we can't give you your checks. Guys.
Speaker 2: We said, why not? I said, because you guys got fired.
Speaker 2: And we laughed and we said, we got fired like
Speaker 2: four or five weeks ago. Who told you we got fired?
Speaker 2: It was just on the radio. He's still doing it.
Speaker 2: He's still doing so. So then the epilogue, as we
Speaker 2: call it, back from the Dan August Days. Anybody Dan
Speaker 2: August fan over, everybody, budd he said, a Quinn Martin production.
Speaker 2: Anybody ever watched Quinn Martin production shows? Okay, well I
Speaker 2: got some. Yeah, I stopped it. Oh, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: I can't believe nobody in the room. Okay, So Quinn
Speaker 2: Martin was a production team did TV shows back in
Speaker 2: the day. But Burt Reynolds was on a show called
Speaker 2: Dan August. He was a detective. It was really good,
Speaker 2: great show. Anyway, they would always say. It would always
Speaker 2: say act one, act two, Act three, and then at
Speaker 2: the end it would always say epilogue, and it was
Speaker 2: always the wrap up of the show. So the epilogue
Speaker 2: of the story is Prince had jelly Bean called Terry,
Speaker 2: and as it turned out, the reason that the accountant
Speaker 2: didn't know we were fired just because we never were
Speaker 2: really fired. It was a bluff. And the idea was
Speaker 2: we were supposed to fall flat on our faces and
Speaker 2: then beg for our jobs about right. Well, unfortunately that
Speaker 2: didn't happen because just be good to me came out
Speaker 2: unfortunately for who and not for us. So anyway, it
Speaker 2: just be good to me. Everybody basically was felt like, okay,
Speaker 2: well this is a this is a smash. Whoever did this?
Speaker 2: We're good, you know, so jelly Bean. So Prince decided
Speaker 2: divide and conquer. So he called Jellybe and he said
Speaker 2: to jelly Bean, get get Terry lewis back and Terry said,
Speaker 2: and uh, Bean said, what about what about Jimmy? And
Speaker 2: he said no, he said, just just Terry. So jelly Bean,
Speaker 2: Jelly Bean called Terry and I never forget this. We're
Speaker 2: in this, We're in this little little room and we
Speaker 2: had a little three bedroom apartment, uh, with Dina, with
Speaker 2: Dina Andrews, I think, as a matter of fact, at
Speaker 2: that point, and I remember Terry getting a phone and going, hey, Bean,
Speaker 2: what's up. What are y'all doing? And so Bean's telling them, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do this movie, Purple Rain, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: do this whole thing, and you know, blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah, and uh, Terry says yeah. He says, well,
Speaker 2: he said, what about Jimmy And he said, you know,
Speaker 2: I want Jimmy back. Terry said, you every cuss word,
Speaker 2: every like if he could climb through the phone and run.
Speaker 2: Bean's knocking, and I was like, Terry, what's going on?
Speaker 2: He says, no, no, you can't. I mean, he was
Speaker 2: so pissed off. Anyway, I said to Terry, I said, man,
Speaker 2: go do the movie. It's no big deal. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere. I said, you know, make the
Speaker 2: movie sounds fun, go ahead and do it and whatever.
Speaker 2: He said, No, he'll no, he said, no, we in
Speaker 2: this together. He said, if they're not going to do
Speaker 2: that to us, you know, we're a team and you
Speaker 2: know whatever. Yeah, so that was it. So that was it.
Speaker 2: So then and that's so, that's why we were out.
Speaker 2: And then wait, wait, why are you looking at me?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why did you look at me? Mayor? Because I felt
Speaker 2: you looking at me like you can learn from this
Speaker 2: and there are some words of wisdom coming from this
Speaker 2: story about Lord, you're here with you for twenty years.
Speaker 2: You're here with me now flashback. It took a long time,
Speaker 2: like another episode of tune in. Look did you give
Speaker 2: me that? You listen? You're with me?
Speaker 3: Okay, it's what I'm taped now.
Speaker 2: I just needed it. Thank you, I love it. I
Speaker 2: love it. I'm sorry. That's what we do here. That's
Speaker 2: what we do here. It's a public service. Oh man.
Speaker 1: That's it for part one of our conversations with Jimmy
Speaker 1: jim Thank you guys for tuning in. And next week
Speaker 1: we have part two and that's when Alexander returns, Jimmy
Speaker 1: and Terry helped Janet take control and much more. Don't
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