Yes!!! That is the the perfect label(invisible) for both Junie and Rod. Big ups and congrats on your book. I Would love to know more about it.
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What a cool topic and I am enjoying reading. I am convinced this P thing somehow finds us because we are ready to vibrate at it’s frequency.
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it is avaliable…i think on Amazon. mostly it is a series of interviews including Quincy Jones, Johnny Wilder, George Benson, Patti Austin, Bob James, Michael Mcdonald, Herbie Hancock, Greg Phillinganes, Bruce Swedien, Steve Lukather and Rod himself talking about each album Rod was involved in. Rod didn’t reveal too much about his life outside of music but talked in depth about his writing process and his life in the studio.
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Awsome. Thanx.
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Cool topic indeed. Thanx again for the lyric for “much thrust”. It was a 30 plus year head scratcher. Hit me up here whenever you can: Borges12@yahoo.com. (OooBooBee)
Yeah to this day I keep that album hidden because I am STILL scared of the cover.
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Lmao!! Yeah Pedro scared all of is with that one. Great album though. The music inside helped you get over the cover art.
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OK, so goes this story.
I was in the 8th grade. I developed the habit of sneaking out of the house on the weekends to hang out with friends around the corner from the house. My friends were listening to the boom box playing all of the latest jams. To this day, I can remember the sequence of tracks. The first jam was Dance With Me by Peter Brown (classic dance jam). The second song was Flash Light. Total jaw drop. I kept asking them to play that jam again and again. I just never heard a track that insane and irresistable.
A couple of months later, I was graduating from 8th grade and big sis was going into 10th grade. I received the gift of a little radio/tape recorder and sis got a stereo system. My older sister gave us some records to break the stereo system in. One of those records was Player Of The Year by Bootsy’s Rubber Band. The cover fascinated me. Then I started reading the liner notes. The same names in that Bootsy album were the same names I saw on the Flash Light single. I was instantly intrigued.
When the school season kicked into high gear, I started hearing fast paced Funk jam on the radio. One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic. Mind you, I didn’t make the connection between Parliament and Funkadelic (probably because I wouldn’t be able to see them live for another 5 years. School grades weren’t stellar). Then, when I went to buy the single, the dude behind the counter simplified the Thang in one sentence: “Yo, Parliament…Funkadelic…same band!” Damn near felt like an epiphany.
By the time they dropped Motor Booty Affair, I was done. A devoted Funkateer for life. I spent the entirety of 1979 scouring the bargain bins for previous albums (which, at the time, were priced at $1.99-2.99). It was perhaps the greatest time to be an up and coming Funkateer. Buying the back catalog along with new releases put me in a state of total Funk euphoria.
I ain’t been right since…Go Wiggle!
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the good old days, scouring record bins in specialist stores. i soon became an avid collector of the P doing just as you described. i ended up with an amazing collection except for one LP. i probably spent more than 10 years searching for the Live Tour. i never actually succeeded in finding an original. I thought i had when i saw it and i whooped and hollered all the way home with it firmly in hand, only to discover there was a barcode on the sleeve. At least I finally got to hear the album.
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