WEBVTT - QLS Classic: George Clinton Part 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.160 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.400 What's Up Everybody, It's unpayvill the Team Supreme. For this 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.080 classic episode of Quest Love Supreme, we're speaking with the incredible, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.960 the One, the Only, George Clinton, the parliament Funkadelic. Last 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.160 week we reissued part one of this conversation. Now in 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.200 part two, did a deep dive and asked these sorts 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.919 of rappit ble fan questions that make QLs week. This 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.080 was taped in mid twenty twenty during those early days 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.520 of the pandemic, so Team Supreme was still learning how to. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.160 Get along virtually and in general. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.840 But the quality of the conversation is amazing. Make sure 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.200 you check out all our interviews with Booty Collins, Larry 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.880 Blackman cameo and the late George Brown cool Gag. QoS 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.640 loves bringing you that phone and it gets no better 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:38.600 than George Clinton. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.519 You mentioned Boosie. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:46.879 I just wanted to ask you since we had him 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.080 on the show and he told some awesome stories about you. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.400 But one of the stories he mentioned. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.400 Was something involved y'all creative process in the was it 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.560 the Bermuda triangle? He said that you used to do that, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.399 but he never knew why that place and to like 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:05.479 be creative, can you please? 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.520 You went fishing in the Bermuda Triangle. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.200 Yeah, yeah, you know that. We was the only one 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.280 after the Mothership connection, you know. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.440 You know the whole thing was we went to Bemani 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.360 and to hang out and the number one Bemani Road 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.440 and everything I saw all of the fish advertisement. Mister 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.640 Wiggerdworm was a lure that was collecting information for the 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.840 Motivooty affair. Wow, he didn't know what we were talking 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.959 what I was doing. You know, I was just gathering 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.160 the topics, you know, from that topic and. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:43.839 It all came together pretty good. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:45.200 You know, we was on a roll. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.840 You had no fear of drowning and the Bermuda Triangle 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:49.200 at all. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.240 Oh, I mean, it's all I need to fear. That 0:01:54.320 --> 0:02:00.680 gent everywhere we wanted. He tells you that we saw spaceship. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.080 He tells you something happened to. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.200 Yeah, he told us about this. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.399 Now that's for real. I mean we drove up there 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.320 from Detroit after finishing the album, got there with and 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:14.560 went by Gary's house. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.040 It was like ten o'clock in the morning. Now we 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:17.760 just got there. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.680 We saw a light that looked like laser, you know, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.919 or light, but it was a straight being and I said, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.160 you see that? He said, what was it? 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:27.320 Now? 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:28.000 I don't know. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.960 Five minutes later, we get off the highway be going 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.359 down the country road. The same light sounded like two 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.160 blocks in front of us, right through the trees. That 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.480 hit the ground and sparked like like you know, electricity 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.680 on the right side, then on the left side the highway, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.120 and the third time it hit the car right on 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.280 the driver's side where I was sitting. It beat it 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.160 up like you know, mercury out of the thermometer, you know, it. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.720 Beat it like oil and water, you know. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:03:00.000 That consistency, and rolled right off the car. What the hell? 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.720 And at that time that what's. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.880 Weird about it that we didn't realize this for years? 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.440 The street lights was going off. Now I remember the 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.000 first time we saw this light. The weird thing was 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 that you saw light in daylight right right, and you 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.680 can see you can see a street of light in daylight. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.280 That was the weird to stay. But when this when 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.360 it happened, when we hit the car, the street light 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.200 was dimming, A car had its lights on the back 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.679 of us. I looked behind us and by the time 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.120 we turn around, the street was completely dark. Our head 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.800 lights was getting dark. We had to drive like five blocks. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.120 What's going on? We got five blocks and you can 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.120 look back to your left you can see street lights 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.280 on again. And as we pull up it but by 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.280 this time it's nighttime. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.000 We don't realize this. I don't. We don't talk about it. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.520 I realized this for years. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.640 My daughter said, what yelling like, y'all seen the ghosts? 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.560 She said, give me, kids, I'm getting ready to go 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.240 to bed now. That should have let us, you know, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.400 you know, let us know that ten o'clock in. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.640 The morning, she's going to bed at seven o'clock at night. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.440 We did not realize that for years that that had 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:12.840 taken place like that. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.240 That time he last and. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.760 I called boots of them? What time did we get there? 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.760 When we was coming from the student and he remembered. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.440 And then when I told her what the barbarella? What 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:28.320 was she doing? She's going to mean that same thing, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.120 I said. We never thought about that for years. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:32.600 That's crazy. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.599 Trendy chemical substances. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.400 What people about it. We had just come across the border. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.960 We had just come across the border into Canada, so 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.960 we didn't have no trending chemical substance. 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.600 You have Canadian trendy chemical. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.000 Had Yeah. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.800 Really believe that we are the only beings of this 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.880 level in this entire galaxy. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.279 No, but the fact that George Clinton's all aliens means 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.280 everything is perfectly correct in the world. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:18.400 I I believe everything he's saying. He thought I see 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.200 them before he did. He saw them. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:27.279 They're there. Let me ask you, so, what is what 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.600 drew you to? I mean, you know, next to sun Ray, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.880 I don't know any other black figure in music that 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:44.200 deals with oh, with the exception earth Fire, that deals 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:50.240 with afro futurism. And you know, I'll say that, And 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.760 I'm glad you brought it. And Hendrix, Yes, yes, absolutely, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.440 Jimmy Andrew and the and the thing is is that 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.920 I'm glad you you brought up the UFO story because 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.320 it's like, even in preparing for this interview, I know 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.840 that with you with like at the time in seventy six, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.960 seventy seven Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.680 I tried watching Star Wars. I'm famous for falling asleep 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.320 during Star Wars for the I'm sorry, it's just a 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:24.280 film that you know, dog, I've yet. I've seen Star Wars, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.279 but I've not gotten through one. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.479 Concurrent, like that's of everything. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:36.120 But how are you able to get into because I 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.640 think Richard Prye once brought up the fact that, you know, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.080 a lot of black people aren't into science fiction because 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.760 we rarely see ours, like we're not painted in the 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.480 future and a lot of this production. But you were 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.240 our vision of an Afro futurist society. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.360 So what what brought that on? 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.960 Like what made you not just want to make people 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.160 shake their ass and dance like most people, Like most 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.680 people live in the present, I feel black music, whereas 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.240 you're talking about I think, I think Star Trek. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.480 I think Star Trek. I was addicted to that by 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.080 the time I saw Star Wars. That was like a 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.840 cowboy and western movie that was like for kids, but 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:18.560 I liked it. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.840 It was for kids, but already was into the mother Ship. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.160 Theories and the sci fire that that Star Wars had 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.360 more stories. So I was always into that. And when 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.360 it came time to make a record, I want to 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:39.160 do a funk opera. When that's when we started thinking about. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.760 First we did Chocolate City, and one time I saw 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.240 put black places where they weren't ordinarily seen. That was 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.680 that was the cool thing to do. So the next one, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.000 I say, put them in out of space. You didn't 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 see no black people, nobody but Aurora, see was the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.120 only one you saw out there. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.320 But what about you see this dude out there on 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.920 the spaceship riding. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.040 There like it's a Cadillac. That's all of a sudden, it's 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.640 a place to be, you know. Mothership connection, that worked, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.560 you know, So then the Clones is the weirdest one. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:13.720 Now you want the story. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.920 Clones was the second one after Mothership. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.080 I got on a train. I got on a train 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.720 in Dallas, Texas. There was a book on this train. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.160 This is the first day this train is running at 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.480 Dallas between terminals, the very first day. The book is 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.160 on the on the seat. Nobody's on the plane train 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.440 for me. I picked up the book and Steve Swanson 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.679 has docked on spaceships over fifteen hundred times, blah blah blah, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.240 but he could never get used to these trains at 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.160 the Dallas Airport. So I'm thinking this got something to 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.520 do with this train, and there, you know, so I 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.280 tak it. I'm reading it. I gets off the train 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:01.319 in Portland, Oregon. Every book stand that saw had the 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.720 book and that it was called The Clones. I thought 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.240 it was the way I went to the library, and 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.960 that's about what his cloned. And they told me it 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.200 was protected by the freedom of information. Now, when they 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.120 told me that, my whole you know, I got nosy 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.880 for really now I almost to know, and that's what 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.080 the whole Doctor Funkenstein. They gave me a book called 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:28.880 Dr Moreau. Okay, Doctor Moreau. That was the closest they 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.040 can give to me without you know, going on. And 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.319 they said I could get a book called The Charot 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.320 of the Gods. Already got that book. And when I 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.800 read that book, that was all my albums from then on. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:47.719 Clones uh funking telekey and motivated, all of them was 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.640 going in that same direction of all those theories. You know. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.920 Yeah, I assure you that Smokey Robinson was not doing that. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.800 What he did, know, what he used to do. He 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.240 used to take kids books and do all the nurses 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.800 on the nurse around the rap songs from them sound right. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.120 It was just it was another version of that. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.120 Though, speaking of which I know, I know that you 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.600 are a massive fan of sly Stone. I have two 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.760 questions about Sli and I've been you know, as of 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:30.120 this recording happyeople later birthday. You just celebrated your seventy 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:35.360 ninth birthday, and usually around your birthday time, I'll spend 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.800 a month while I'll do nothing but dive into the 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.520 p funkology of your work, so especially Quarantining. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.360 I've probably watched at. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.440 Least at least ten of the concerts between seventy six 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.720 and the mid eighties, like at least four times each. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.520 I have a question though, about the p Funk Earth 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:04.199 tour now knowing what role Slide plays in your life 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:10.040 as a mentor. You you've definitely been on record about 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.840 how witty his songwriting was, and his and his arrangements 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.000 and whatnot. But you know, at that time during the 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.280 p Funk Earth tour, you know, the torch has definitely 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:26.760 been sort of passed and you're clearly now the alpha. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.080 Or the leader. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.680 And you know, in nineteen seventy six, I think that's 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.920 when his heard you Miss Me while I'm Back album 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.960 was out, which you know, right creatively. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.319 That he didn't do that. He didn't do that, and 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.160 somebody else did that. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.200 I get it, I get it. I get it with 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:45.720 a wink. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.520 But I want to know, how do you think that 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.000 was psychologically? 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.880 Because the thing is is that usually. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.360 When you're when you're when you are a maverick of 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.920 that level that he will, usually you're supposed to have 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.440 a really good history's showing that you can have a 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:10.800 good eight to fifteen year run where you're clearly the leader, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.640 like jay Z has had a fifteen to. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.240 Twenty year run Prince had. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.320 You know, I'm gonna obsess some Prince fans as far 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:23.880 as the genius level like he's had that Street Slye. Yeah, guy, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.840 I'll give him from a whole new thing to about 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:32.840 small talk. So maybe seven eight years, but clearly, in 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:39.280 nineteen seventy six, here's the person that should be a 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.720 maverick and he's kind of like in depth to you, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.000 like he's in an opening position, and I know that 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.520 that was your hero. Do you think that psychologically that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.680 messed with him a little bit? That it should have 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.760 been in reverse, like you were the new kid on 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.200 the block and he should have been the person that 0:12:58.440 --> 0:12:59.440 should have been the episode. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.439 It may have, it may have, but at that time 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.120 we were you know, we were doing other kind of 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.280 drugs into that at that time, and you didn't. You didn't, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.000 you didn't have to contemplate like that. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:15.200 You know. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.760 It was less trending for sure, you know. And it 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.800 was hard to actually, you know. And he was undoubtedly 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.080 that motherfucker. All the ship that he had done, he 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.520 may have felt a little bit. He'd tell you, he'd 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.480 tell you, in a minute, you headline this time, let 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.120 me headline, now you headline next week. You know it's 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.160 not on the stage, but just in socializing when you 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.600 have to be the start, he'd asked you, and let 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:43.720 me be the start right here. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.600 Really, you know, you don't know, No, he's that. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.800 Kind of real everybody know that you're doing letting me 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.360 show time here and let me look good. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.480 And you know it's some funny ship. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.680 Because you have to say, yeah, you can, but don't 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.600 do me harsh, because he can do your ass harsh 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.840 when he wanted. Yeah, so you have to say I'm gonna. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.960 Be starting next week and he left. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.000 I love motherfucker to know how to get his But 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:11.439 you know. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.400 First of all, I just want to clarify because the 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.560 thing is, this is about the fourth time you mentioned drugs. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.800 But I almost feel like for you it's more of 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.360 an enhancer. No, but I don't see it in that. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.400 David Roughing sort of doubt like. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:31.720 Was it was. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.880 I was about the right. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.160 I think for you it's more like a creative juice 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.800 thing than it was. Or either that or you just 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:39.560 hit it well. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:47.360 I hit it well, man. I thought that I was 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.840 too too, but I hit it well. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.960 But I was going through because I wasn't doing what 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.440 I wanted to be doing. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.360 So I mean, I couldn't get out of that. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.880 I was satisfied with my own self, but it really 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.400 wasn't when you look back at it. It took a 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.760 long time for me to just say no, let me 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.760 come up and do a medicaid pro Let me get 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.440 that and do That's hard to do when you get 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.600 caught up in fighting for the rights and make music 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:14.440 at the same. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.240 Time, you can lose your energy. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:18.600 You know what I'm saying. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:19.760 You can get ciphers. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.320 So but let me ask I'm not advocating. I'm not advocating, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.160 but let me ask you if you were let's say 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.080 half clear. Okay, let's say that whatever whatever you've done 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.280 between the stuff with Timothy Leary all the way to 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.600 you know, I saw the Chelsea Clinton Chelsea Clinton crack 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:38.400 pipe story. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.880 Damn you you've been watching a lot of it, Dude, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.200 your whole life hold on Clinton's make. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:48.920 Especially. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.280 Okay, you tell the Chelsea Clinton crack pipe story? 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.520 Clear, clear that up? Man? 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:03.800 Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry, Okay, tell the story? 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.280 Well which one did you? 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:06.840 So? 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.600 Basically, Chelsea Clinton goes to a first p funk show 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:16.360 and you know, his last name is Clinton, her last 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.480 name is Clinton, and they're like, hey, guys, take a 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.880 photo together. And George was sort of on the spot 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:29.400 and had a pipe in his hand, and he decided, yo, perfect, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.600 it's not going to look cool with a crack pipe 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.720 next to the first daughter. So he hit it, but 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.600 he had to hide it by fisting the crack pipe, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.080 which was burning his hand. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.320 And that photos in People magazine. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.760 Wow, they know? 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.320 Did the Clintons know the real story behind? 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:53.920 Okay? 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.280 I just mean I just didn't know if you had 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.520 actually interacted with them, No, they didn't know. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:58.160 They didn't know. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.120 Then her and holler Field gave me a birthday cake 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:01.840 on the stage. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.840 Well wow, and while we own drugs that you actually 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.600 doing the bump on the the munch colar color the 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.000 placebo versus placebo syndrome, where like, uh. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:19.120 Is that you? 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.160 It looked it looked pretty convincing. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.160 Yeah, it looked pretty convinced. No, I didn't do that, Okay, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:27.520 I was. I was. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.640 I was pantomiming, though, Okay, don't. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.800 I don't even know if you know the first time 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.040 I ever smelled secondhand smoke? 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:37.880 What kind of. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.160 Yeah, the sea word, Oh yeah, that's your state. Yeah 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:44.159 it was. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.160 It's like a skunky type thing. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:48.800 Yeah. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.640 I walked into George's room one second and I took 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.439 with the second hand smoke, and I thought I was 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.280 going to die. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:58.639 I ran to everyone like. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.320 So how did you get clean? 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:05.639 George? 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.639 Like, how how did you? Because we looking at you now, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.119 I mean you look you yes, yeah, how did you? 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.880 How did you get clean? What was that process? 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:14.080 Like? 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.800 I got a good wife first of all, that was 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:17.600 a good help. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.560 But after you know, I got sick one time, and 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.240 it don't take me one time to get sick. Yeah, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.639 cause I thought I was superman, I guess, but I 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.120 got sick one time and then I realized, damn you 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:36.439 you're seventy two years old. You seventy two seventy one rate, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.640 and I said, no, you got you got a lot 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.919 of work to do. You get I came out. I 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.000 never looked if what you realize you have enough time 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.040 to rest. Been in the hospital a couple of days, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.720 and you realize you have enough time and the rest. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.040 It's gonna take a long time to get this ship 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.760 straighten out. The legal business. That's what got me going. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.639 Once I started getting on the mission of trying to 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.040 get my legal business, I started thinking about the airs 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.600 and who I'm gonna leave, what I'm gonna leave. I 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.879 got to get these copyrights straight So from then on 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.560 that took up all my energy. And once I did that, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.760 I started feeling good about myself. And then when I 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.440 started making records again, like I said, shake the Gate 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.359 and I wrote the book, all of those was part 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.879 of my plan to be on this movement until I 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.960 get the copyrights back, And that started feeling like nineteen 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.680 seventy five again. When I started that. You know, when 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.479 I Midigate Fraud, I was really really proud of that album. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.159 Noord it was yeah, just the fact that it was 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.919 we got a new album from you, and it sounded current, 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.920 but it didn't sound like you were pandering, like trying 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.639 to do it kids, trying to catch up. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.320 There it was, but it was still you. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.520 That was the hard thing, the balance that being up 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.840 to you know today and what we were about. But 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.560 I had my grandkids in the group, so they know, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:12.080 they know what's going on today, they know what was 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.840 going on with us. So they helped me bridge the 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.159 things and I can put the concepts in it, and 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.080 they helped me bridge it with their friends, you know, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.280 and we got such a crew now they was killing 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.800 before the pandemic thing happened. We just playing with the 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:33.119 Chili Peppers. Ninety thousand people in Australia and it was 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.000 like damn, it was like the mothership was landing. And 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.520 that happened for a whole year and a half. For 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.640 the last two years. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.359 I was going to ask you about producing the Chili Peppers, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.600 because you produced them, how did you. 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.960 Land Bricky Styly? Yeah, and the party plant. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.480 They were they were you know, they wanted to be 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.840 Funky Deli. They you know, they put their work in 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.560 so it's easy to work with them. You know, they 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.080 was already for Caadelic fans and they knew what they 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:03.880 wanted to do. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.760 But they wanted to do it punk. They wasn't trying 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:07.400 to be sick. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.520 They could actually play slick music, but they went out 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.920 of their way. They played some really good they make 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.200 erase it. They wanted it to sound like punk. They 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.080 was kind of like Garcia them, you know, they didn't 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.200 want to learn it no better. I mean, plead them. 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.480 They actually like jazz music, right, They wasn't trying to 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.760 play it, you know what I mean, Hey, hello, he 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.720 could actually really play, but he went out of his wave. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.760 Yeah, he went out of his way to No, you. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:37.680