Occupation: Keyboardist Birth: April 19, 1944 Death: June 24, 2016
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other….
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves..
I talk by playing, not by words..
The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew..
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was tit….
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts..
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments..
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days..
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame..
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me..
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston..
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge..
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me..
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent..
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way..
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be..
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist..