Interview: The Family

0:35 [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. What is up everybody? Welcome to Funktopia Live. I am your host, Mr. Christopher, and this is my mighty co-host, Mr. Michael Bland. Man, yes. Listen, you you Oh, yes. You thought you could get rid of us. I We last week we even

1:22 said, "Just get comfortable. We'll see you at the celebration, right?" It was like, "Okay." All right. So, you never know what you don't know, man. Till you know, you don't know it. Yeah. Just just kind of uh Yeah, it's you know, it is what it is. Uh welcome to the pre-show. This is where we kind of let you guys come in, get comfortable, and get situated and say hello to all of our fine Funktopian friends. Uh we kind of got a little bit of uh action all over the map. And uh tonight we have a very very very special show where we have the family that's going to be joining us at the 8:00 PM hour right at the top. All five members. And of course, there's more members than that that are going to be playing on stage at the celebration. So, we'll find out exactly who's going to be filling in those little duties and whatnot. And uh and of course, we have some questions for uh the mighty band, the family. Man,

2:08 uh lots of people in the in the mix. You want to say hello to the some of these fine folks, Mr. Michael? Well, let's see. I hadn't even bothered to look at the comments. Who do we got out there? I feel like it's romper room every week now. I see. I see Andre. I see Christa. I see Christina. I see Joe. Susie, Nicholas. What's going on, y'all? Hey. All right, man. Man, it's g Yeah, it's going to be it's gonna be a lot of fun tonight. I was actually looking forward to as as mentioned, you know, this is celebration week, and once again, if you're just joining us, this is the pre-show. Uh so, we'll be starting the show in about 10 10 minutes from now. But uh yeah, we we had not planned to do a show and then all of a sudden things

2:55 just started coming together very very quickly and uh we had this night open so it was like oh okay all right then you fly you flying to Minneapolis tomorrow. Yes I will be there. Yeah my my flight leaves Atlanta at 12:15 and uh going to be just taking it all in and having a good time. Normally my u as I shared before one of the things that I normally do is fly in get the rental car skip do the skip the counter doesn't matter whether it's Alamo or Herz I always choose the one to skip the counter because I don't like getting off that flight then standing in line for a half hour for them to like come on man so uh and then I will typically either grab lunch depending on when it is or go down to Paisley Park and do the walk from Lake Park to Paisley Park and uh

3:44 and film it. Do it live and let everybody kind of chill. How many people out here in the chat room are going to be at the celebration? Whether or not you're going to be Let us know whether or not you're going to be at the celebration itself at Paisley Park or if you're going to be just in Minneapolis just taking it all in because there's a lot to do. And uh very cool that the estate allowed folks to just really participate in some of the main chunks of things that uh are going on, including the launch party, including the uh including the show on Friday night with all four of the bands. That's pretty significant. They really did increase the accessibility. Yeah. Yeah, man. Absolutely. And uh you know I will let you guys know we are uh for those who don't know we actually have you can support us here at Funkotopia uh on

4:32 Patreon we have you can support us on on you can do it what you want to do onetime donation that's cool at Funkotopia cash app dollar signf funktopia and if you are a member of patreon at patreon.comfunktopia you get access to all kinds of cool things you know we we share information early we release files to you folks uh early before the general public. And on top of that, we have a lot of special events if you're a Patreon supporter, including one that I'm only sharing right now for you pre-show people. Other folks that join us later will have to wait until the end. But this Wednesday at noon, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, it is in honor of Prince. where we'll be playing all of Prince's music in chronological order starting Wednesday at 12 PM and it takes 4 and a

5:20 half days to do it. Uh it's pretty ridiculous and if you've never done it before, you need to experience it. It's very cool. It's something we normally do during Thanksgiving, what we call Prince Giving, but this time around we're doing it again. We normally do it here during Celebration Week and it's called In Honor of Prince this time around. And again, you have to be a Patreon supporter in order to get the password and get access to this show. Now, you can download the Funct Up app. It's very, very easy to do. And matter of fact, it is a free app to get. And on top of that, what's really cool is that you get two ASCAP licensed radio stations with it. A 247 funk station, which is gives you all the old school classics like Ohio Players and Parliament, Funkadelic, uh obviously

6:05 Prince and all the Prince related bands and whatnot. just all the funk stuff that you could possibly absorb. And we have a 247 print station. But if you are a Patreon supporter, you have access to a third radio station called Uptown Plus that kind of digs a little bit deeper with the dance mixes and some of the really, you know, bite that he put out, MPG Music Club, things that he made publicly available that aren't too available right now, but you can do that. patreon.comfunktopia and you'll get access to that third radio station and this which happens starting on Wednesday at 12 PM gonna be doing in honor of Prince going to be playing all of his music in chronological order which is pretty awesome. That's very very cool and I know a lot of people are excited about that. I have that. Uh yeah, it's

6:51 uh and oh yes, thank you very much uh Man Ray. We're actually going to bring that up because uh we unfortunately yesterday was yesterday or the day before yesterday uh Pepe Willie passed away and uh he was actually the man man behind the curtains for the mighty 94 East sessions and obviously that was very very early that was pre4 you and uh if you become a member of Patreon you will see you'll get to hear those early sessions. You'll get to hear all the 94E sessions, including the Luring Park sessions as well. So, all that early stuff from Prince will be there. So, we're going to you can pay homage to Pepe at Wednesday at noon when we kind

7:38 of go through some of that earlier stuff and some of the stuff that he was uh working with with Prince and that uh yeah, it's it's crazy. Uh he says four hours of Purple Pleasure. Four days, not four hours. Four and a half days. Four and a half days. Not four hours. It's 4 and a half days. It It is so ridiculous. I I wish I could find that sheet because at one point in time I had um I'm making a mess. At one point in time, I actually had a sheet that had all of the letters, like how many songs that he had uh per letter. And it was it was like insane. S was obviously the biggest. Um, and X was primarily the the

8:23 uh there was like a bunch of them. But anyways, it is going to take four and a half days to get through his music in chronological order and it's going to be pretty awesome. Starts Wednesday at noon. Become a member of Patreon at patreon.com/funktopia. But if you do not have that Funk Up app, download it. It's free. You can get you already have two awesome radio stations. just go to your Apple store or Android or whatever and uh take it in. It's going to be pretty amazing. So, um you're going to get 24/7 funk and 247 prints as it is, but not that other stuff. So, yeah. Yeah. Um man, this is going to be a very very fun week. Uh fun month. Uh I'm looking forward to getting into Minneapolis and hanging out with all you fine folks. There's a lot a lot of good. I I did go to Tennessee uh over

9:10 the weekend because my friend has a cabin up there and um I we just said we'll just go up there, let the kids play and stuff and do their things. I'm not kid, they're all you know, older teens and but um you know, but then taking the mountains and just kind of just just vibe out a little bit, just kind of relax. Yeah. So, uh yeah, it's going to be a good time. We're going to have a really uh it's going to be fun. And this week is going to be packed. It's going to be packed full of stuff. Um I I believe that I also have a press pass access this year to celebration. We'll see when you get there. Yeah. Uh I I Yeah, I I got the email indicating that they were yet, man. I don't know. But I got the email from Why would they

9:57 hook you up? It's a damn good question. Be careful. Don't drink nothing while you're on the premises. Oh, no. I would I don't drink anyway, so it doesn't matter. I mean, but I do drink, but not I got to be in like Not at Paisley Park, I guess. No. Well, I don't I don't They do they serve uh I don't even do they serve alcohol at Paisy Park? I think they did it. I know. When Justin Timberlake did his thing there, they had uh Okay. Yeah. I don't think they normally do. Yeah. So, uh Yeah. So, I will be they indicated via email that there would be a uh a a press pass. waiting for me and they uh everything was all good. Uh but but there was supposed to be a follow get your pass. Step right in this room. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So what's Do I have to put on the handcuffs? What's happening here?

10:42 Exactly. This just takes a second. Don't swear. It just makes it worse. All right. Well, let me tell you something. We have an amazing show for you tonight. We have the entire family that's going to be joining us uh at the top of the 8:00 hour. And I kind of wanted to prep a little bit with uh I kind of wanted to prep a little bit with a little a clip from a show from First Avenue. So for all you fine folks that are here, now we're not we're not doing the entire show. I just took a clip. Uh and and I wanted to make sure that it wasn't the clip that was on the album. That was the other thing, too. Because I wanted to make sure that you guys can kind of get a little bit of a feeling and just kind of, you know, we got to watch that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We we'll see what how this is all going to play out. Oh, yes we will. All right, everybody. Let's enjoy this

11:28 clip and then we're going to bring in the family. Yeah. Sit back. Sit back and relax. Listen to the A track, baby. Just can't stop. You just can't stop. You just can't stop. You just can't stop. [Music] What? Hit me. Heat. Heat. N. [Applause] [Music]

12:21 Justice. Justice. All right. Hitman. [Music] Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop. Just can't stop.

13:10 [Music] Jack. [Applause] stop. Wait now. You of all people said should know I got a limousine waiting outside right now. Oh, you all been on onion on this too, huh? Well, I know what y'all need and I know

13:56 what you need, too. Down. I need I think that's going to happen [Music] though. Sing it. Sing [Applause] it. Sing it. Sing it. Loud. Louder. I can't hear you. Louder. I need it. Yeah, I like it. Thank my All right, y'all. Ask for this. I'm going to get in here. Time the secret.

14:41 [Music] Somebody, somebody clap your hands. Clap your hands. Somebody Somebody clap your hands. Clap your hands. First Avenue. First Avenue. Clap your hands. Clap your hands. First Avenue. First Avenue. Clap your hands. Clap your hands. [Music] [Applause]

15:27 I was mesmerized, man. Flies could have been flying in my mouth, man. I was really was Man, that guitar was spanking me. Oh, man. That whole powers on bass. I forgot, man. He showed me that whole concert way back then. Mikey, I got I got the whole show on VHS, bro. Then we'll bring it over, man. Well, you thought you were free from us this week. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled in. Tonight, we are honored to have one of the most iconic bands that came out of the Paisley Park world. And when the album hit the store 40 years ago in 1985, they proved to be a formidable act that would ultimately set the bar for

16:14 other purple bands that you would have to acquire. I mean, you had to hit this level, man. I mean, for sure. Oh, yeah. It's it's an honor to welcome the entire band here on Funkotopia Live. All five purple legends under one roof tonight. And I will go ahead and bring them in. Let's start with St. Paul Peterson and Jelly Bean together. Yeah. Oh yeah. Fellas. Fellas. Fellas. Look at them right there. Look at them. Oh yeah. What's up? How you guys? How y'all been, man? Hanging, baby. Me and you snuck into my wind and fire show the other week, man. I heard they did. They they they threw somebody out and gave you their gave the table to you. Them two hools taught me out in the lobby. Tried to get out.

17:01 Oh, I said Jelly was here. Yeah. My goodness. And next in the green room where we're going to bring in is the one and only my sax player himself, sexy man, Mr. Eric Lee. Now he's right. He's studying his baseball schedule. Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. We got to hurry up. I got a game in a few hours. In a few hours. Yeah. And then of course we have to welcome the one and only Jerome Bettton in the house. Absolutely. Man, look at you lounging. All right. And then the beautiful and talented

17:47 Susanna Malfoy in the house. Oh yeah. my car. Oh my gosh, look at all these beautiful, beautiful people. Let's just say I I guess the most important question to ask about this show that you guys are going to be doing at the celebration is, will there be pajamas? Eric, are there going to be pajamas? You got your robe ready? Is that a no? Eric's asleep. Eric. Eric. These I look them up. These are my pajamas. These are my pajamas.

18:33 Let's go. Let's go. Mets. Yeah. Mets. What else is wrong with you, Mets? You just You just put something on my mind. Maybe I should bring a pair of pajamas. There you go. Oh, man. So, so it it's it's phenomenal because, you know, you guys were kind of pushed into doing uh F Deluxe. You're still doing F Deluxe. So, that's that's phenomenal. Uh you're going to be performing as the family at the celebration. When you heard the news that you were going to be doing this this event, uh how similar will it be to your performance that you did a few years ago? Are you going to be kind of focusing on the homage to the album itself or or what's what's the uh what's the plan?

19:19 You want to answer that call? Can you guys hear me? Actually, yes, we can hear you. Great. Thank you so much. Okay. Yeah. Paul, you I just didn't know if that Well, do you want to answer that? I can uh I can I can take that. You know, we've got, as you know, there are three great old school bands from back in the day. It's us, Jesse, and the time, of course. So we, you know, to pack that many people into one evening and with the two other acts as well, our shed is our set is shorter. And so we're we will be focusing on the hits, but we're also uh you know, equally excited about playing our original music from F Deluxe because,

20:04 you know, we're really proud of that record and uh it's it's fun to play. So, we you're gonna get a little smattering of all, but don't worry, you're gonna I mean, it is the 40th anniversary of the record, so we'll be playing it. Yeah, I'm I was that was my next question is whether you're going to be sprinkling in some stuff from from uh from Gaslight or What about AMC? We don't we don't sprinkle. We bring it on. Didn't say Sprinkle is for baking a cake. Didn't he didn't he say? I wasn't paying attention. So, all I know is you just made Eric Leeds mad. Don't make Eric Leeds mad, man. I don't I don't I don't sprinkle.

20:52 Whatever Eric does, he does it fully and full tilt. All the way. This is true. I'll I'll bring the cake. You can bring the sprinkles. We bring the Bring the sprinkles. So, uh, the last time that Eric was on the show, um, we were talking about the release of the the family album. I remember the, um, I mean, I remember the album dropped and seeing it in the record and the displays were were everywhere. And, you know, now that we're talking about the 40th anniversary of this album, my my question for anybody that kind of wants to answer, do you remember the first time that you saw the album out in stores back in 1985? Like, was it at a record store? Or were you, you know, do you remember where you first saw it,

21:37 Jerome? I seen it. I seen it at uh what we called Paisley Park at that time because, you know, Prince shared a lot of uh the stuff that we were headed into with me. And at that point, me, Jelly Bean, had been involved in a bunch of picture taken. So, uh, I thought it was great, but you know, and it was great. And, uh, it's it's classy now. It's a classic. Yeah. This Oh, look at that. I I went to I went to the bathroom on that picture. I was peeing for 10 years. Yeah. I was I was I was constipated at the

22:25 time. Oh lord. Where's Jerome? He's still in the bathroom. Uh oh, we we we lost Susanna. We lost Susanna. Hopefully she'll be back here in a second. Yep. The the the the Christmas issue of Ebony magazine up in the back. Just the big one. No, but it was it was a it you know every time we were were privy to seeing our folk our our pictures and photos and publications and everything they were the largest public publications in the world. So you know um this is true after a while you become numb to it but it still has a special place in your in your in your heart. Yeah. Yeah.

23:11 Oh man, I can tell you that because it was, you know, Susanna and myself singing lead and on the cover, it was it freaked me out. I was when I saw that in the record store, I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] this is happening. This is real." Just quickly, my phone overheated because I'm in a hot car. So, so did half the audience, you know. It's okay. Hey, but you but you look good. You look good. That's all that matters. I'm surprised to a cooler place. So, yeah, LA. Sorry. I'm so unprofessional, but you know,

23:56 like here we are. I'm surprised it doesn't happen all the time with you. All the heat. Well, it's a different kind of heat now. comes from the inside. It's that time, you know, it's that that year of my life. I don't know. You'd have to be a woman to understand that. Never mind. No, no, we as a Yeah, we understand. Be woman adjacent, but I heard all about it in my own life. There you go. So, also Eric, when you were on the show, I asked you about, you know, the whole situation with the family being allowed to use the name again as opposed to F Deluxe, and you were like, I don't know what happened. Does anybody here know what happened as far as like the lightening up of of the the usage of the

24:43 family name, or is it just because it's attached to the celebration now or uh you know, does anybody have any idea what the story is? we were just we just are the family and we felt that it was time to bring that back and we're being embraced for it. So it was really kind of a um a great transition. We are honoring you know F Deluxe as well but you know we have always been the family and the fans know us as the family. Agree. Um, and so we're, you know, and now that Jerome is with us this particular at this time, it's really important that we embrace that name, too. So, it it just felt the right like felt very right and nothing has gotten in the way of that. You know, the the the estate's pretty happy about it as

25:29 well, at least so far. I think it's been good. I think that they let us use it back is that they should have, you know, we deserve it. And um I hope they continue to make good decisions like this. Well, all right. Well, show I'm sorry. Eric said something, but I didn't hear him. Go ahead, Eric. They're calling the shots. So, it's like, you know, we're think we might be up to Lux again. Oh, all right. Well, yeah, because that was actually a follow-up question was, you know what, Paul, when I talked to you yesterday, I think it was, you were mentioning the fact that uh, you know, Susanna is actively writing uh, some stuff. So, when it gets released, would it be F Deluxe or would

26:16 it be like the family? I mean, would it I mean, I mean, either way, we're gonna we're gonna, right, we'll be we'll release it as the family and if we get a call, we'll change it back to with all the business in place. Well, yes. It's easier to to to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission, I'd say. Yeah. Isn't that what they say? Except as you just told everybody. I want to change speeds. Y'all just came back from Europe, right? Not too long ago. Yeah. How was that? Was it as as as great as it they made it look online or Yeah, it was off the chain, Mike. It was off the chain, baby. Yeah. Tell tell them about it, Bean. It

27:03 It was great, man. It's just great. You know, this is family, man. So, you know, it was just good to get uh get out there and play in front of the people and and let them hear these songs again, you know. I got you. Who I didn't couldn't see who who ended up drumming with you guys. Uh we use Candy's drummer. Okay. And and Mike, he can tell. He's young. He's done with them young guns, man. He Okay. Awesome. All of her whole band is bad as hell, man. That's what I want to hear. Yes. Yeah. They all play. They all can play. They were um they they were pros. They showed up. They knew everything. Yeah. Because I came in hot. I literally finished my gig on Easter Sunday. Flew overnight. Went to the sound check. Yeah. And we did the gig. And they were great. They

27:49 were great. All right. Audiences were unbelievable. Audiences off the chain, man. And you guys sound good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, what's the band lineup for the se the full band lineup for the celebration? Eric. Eric, Mr. Lee, Eric, Eric, I'm I'm sorry. I'm having some technical difficulties. All of you are coming in and out. Oh, seriously. I'm I'm getting half the conversation. It's It's breaking up. All of you are breaking up on my computer. So, I don't I don't know what's up. Yeah. Uh, well, the the audio I'm missing every other word that's being spoken by any of you. Oh, boy.

28:36 What was the I can answer the question. It's it's it's fairly straight ahead. Big Rose playing the guitar. Yeah. Eric's playing the sachs. Um, Jerome playing percussion, singing. Susanna's singing. I'm playing bass. Singing. Oliver Leieber on guitar. Okay. my old buddy for Yeah. 40 years. Yeah. Kirk Johnson on the drums who sounds ridiculous. Yeah. Sounds and my nephew Jason Peterson Delair who is playing keyboards and singing and he grew up on this stuff. So, so it's full circle for him to play this again, especially at Paisley Park. So, we're man, we're so funny. We had a rehearsal tonight right at my house here in uh in Richfield and

29:23 we were threequarters of the way done. I'm singing a song and the whole house went boom blew a transformer. Rehearsal was done. Over, baby. Done. Done. Wow. Hey, uh Jerome, you're getting comments on the beard, man. They people love the beard, bro. Now, cuz you ain't gonna see it in Oh, you man. You're not going to let him just come on out. What you telling, baby, bro? Yeah, you better better enjoy it now, huh? I got I got I gota I got to garner some of my youth back. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I was just gonna ask Eric a question. I bet he won't even attempt to get back on here. No, I he may. I I I

30:09 think Yeah, he he's here. He just came just Yep. He's here. He's here. Yeah. No, I think I think we better got it better now. All right, there he goes. Oh, good. Okay. Yeah. Eric, I want to ask you a question because uh all your solos are like etched in my brain more or less. I mean, God blessed or cursed me with perfect pitch. So, when I hear something, I hear something. Um, do you do you get frustrated playing some of these? Because I noticed you will you will use the motifs from the records. I mean what is your what is your mental space when you're approaching this music when it comes to those stellar those signature horn? I am losing everything

30:56 that you're saying. I can't understand one word. Wow. Wow. No, it must be a bad connection. Um yeah. Um he was basically asking whether you know where what your head space was like as far as getting into some of these bigger more uh you know amazing some of these sack solos that you do here guys can can anyone hear me we can hear you perfect your phone yeah what the hell can anyone hear me I can hear apparently Yeah, we can hear you. Yeah. Uh maybe somebody send him a text and tell him to either switch to just Wi-Fi and

31:44 I got you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh yeah. So So what we'll do is Yeah. Just tell them to switch to just Wi-Fi here. Yeah. Yeah. Just tell them to switch to just Wi-Fi because sometimes uh my connection is like that if it's like Verizon doesn't have a good signal in here and then you know either switch directly to Wi-Fi. Oh, the other thing too is that uh Eric loves to tap his pen and sometimes when and sometimes when he Yeah. Sometimes when he does that it will like the audio will will take over because it thinks he's talking and so there there's that too. So there's a couple things going on but uh uh anyways. Yeah. So I do have a qu first off let me just go ahead and just say as far as everybody here has been on Funkotopia Live at one point but Susanna you were the only one in the group who

32:30 has not been on the show before. So, I I I want to take this opportunity to make sure to first off welcome you to this three- ring circus that is Funkotopia Alive, but also to say it really truly is an honor to to have you here. I mean, I desperately want to get you on the show because I have so many questions for you that are not family related. Uh, and I know Funktopians do too, but uh I I have to ask, how excited are you to get back on stage and do this do this family thing again? Oh, I'm I'm completely excited about it. I love these people and it's like getting back on a bike, you know? You just know how to do it. And we we have a chemistry. So, you know, and I love that cocktail, so I'm happy to be drinking

33:17 from it. I'm really good. I love it. And I don't I don't see it as sort of a a oneoff. Um it's it's always a continuum. We play together, we write together, we, you know, and we all do our things separate from that. So, it's a great adage to what what I already do and what we do together as a band and creatives. So, I just it feels great and I love these people. So, what better, you know, what better reason to go and play music with the people that you love and have a really good time with. I mean, even, you know, I mean, even though some of us don't play together often, some of us more than others. Um, but still, it's

34:02 just it's um it's it's really beautiful. I love it. I'm really happy, man. Well, I'm I'm glad and we're so excited to see all of you this far. Uh Eric is back. Uh I think he may be texting with you, Paul, maybe. It looks like But Eric, let's uh How's your connection now? I don't know. Yeah, I'm on my Wow. the laptop. You know, it's the only way I do this. So, you're going to have to bear with me. Oh, it's okay. I I as as long as you can hear us, but that may be problematic. But, uh I if you can hear us, okay. Um I think Michael wanted to wanted to ask how you get in the proper mind frame when you're coming up with some of your sack solos. I I can't. You're break

34:48 you're con constantly breaking. No. No, shoot. Come on over to my house like this. So, I'm send that question in a text to him, Paul. No, I can't. No, I can't. You're You're constantly breaking up. Every other word is is going. So, I I there's no chain of conversation that I'm hearing. Okay. All right. Um Well, well, hold tight. See you, but it's breaking up. It's like I hear every other word you're saying, unfortunately. I'm not I have no capability to put a phone and and do video on it. So, um can you do it on your phone, Eric? Oh, can you actually get on your phone and do it the way I Guys, um have a good evening.

35:33 Okay. All right, Eric. I'm sorry this isn't working out. I'm sure all It's all good. It's all good, Eric. You're fine. You're good. You're good. That's too bad. That's too bad. Yeah. It's okay. It's okay. Um, yeah. I mean, we we'll have Eric back on. Um, that's the first time he's ever experienced that because last I mean, we've had him on the show for hours and everything was good. Wait, he's waving again. Hold on a second. What I'll What I'll try to do, I'll um I'll reboot my computer and see if any, you know, might help. Okay. It might help. Yeah. Hey, see if that for the record. That's a bad but none none of you are none of you are consistent. I

36:20 mean right now being good night. Okay. Reboot. Yeah. Okay. We get it. You guys were asking a question. My wife says every day I when you guys were asking a question about his solos when when I'm when I was watching the the the Europe stuff that they did, it was like he he just pulled that right off the records. Okay. That's all right. That's what I was wondering if he's if that's, you know, and how he feels about that because he's such a he has such a wide vocabulary as a musician. I play I play with him a bunch in LP music. I know he is a very

37:07 disciplined player and he likes to he like he likes to pay homage to the solos that he's done. Yeah. Right. And when it's time to improvise, trust me, he's going to improvise. Oh, yeah. No, I He's incredible. Yeah. Yeah. He's incredible. Everybody knows. He likes He likes to to, you know, throw the not only the fans a bone by playing what they're used to hearing. Okay. But it is part of the song. It's an intricral, thoughtout part of the song that I think he honors. Absolutely. Now, great. Paul, you well, Susanna, you you had mentioned that you're writing new music. Uh, can we kind of give a little bit of an idea of like, you know, what what kind of direction is it going? Are we going to hear like a lot of more of you and some

37:53 lead more lead vocals? I mean, what I mean, kind of give us an idea of some of the stuff that you're coming up with. Um, well, the format is is it's interesting. I think that I think maybe you're asking is it going to be a format with uh different than the first record or something similar like Paul did many of the lead vocals and then the second record was supposed to be me doing more of the lead vocals but that's what the gaslight record was was to feature us both. So there's that. So this will always be Paul and I featured together as the lead vocalists. But in terms of the song the what what we do it's always about the song. Um, and it's, you know, it starts that way. And so I I I spent a lot of time, um, writing these

38:41 songs with Paul and but these the things that we're doing right now is is all song based and then coming up with the grooves afterwards because if you've got a great song, anything can happen. You know, you can create this great groove behind it. And we could do it whether, you know, we're playing with a full band or if it's just, you know, an acoustic guitar. It's really important that the song come out and these stories be told. So, you know, it's not like I'm getting heavy-handed in any way. It's just um it's it's it'll be, you know, it'll be hopefully. I mean, we we haven't gone in and recorded it as a full band yet. Paul still has to do his thing and Eric has to do his thing. Um,

39:27 so at this point the, you know, the demos are done. It's something I did with Oliver Liieber. Um, and we went into his studio to record these things, but you know, I wrote the songs and whatever. And then we sort of had these It took a minute because I was really making this as an an an empty um canvas, but the melodic structure was there and the lyric structure was there so that Paul and Eric could do whatever they wanted on it. So, we'll see what happens. I mean, as it stands, we all know each other so well and we have a language that we speak with one another that, you know, we're trusting of each other. So, if I if I I hand this off to Paul and I tell him in my own very sort of abstract musical way. Um, he he

40:14 understands me now at this point and so does Eric. I mean, it's a very we all have different languages on how we speak and I think we've come to understand that language. So, we'll see what happens. I'm, you know, I'm completely excited about what we're what we'll do. And if, you know, if it doesn't work, we just go back to the drawing board and write again. But we'll see what happens. We want to, you know, we'd like to be able to put more music out. We'd like to be able to play more, but um states are difficult. States don't seem to, you know, respond to uh to to gigs as much as we thought we would or, you know, as much as I thought in my own mind. like, "Yeah, everyone's gonna be happy to put us in their venue." That's not the case. Um, but you know, we we're a great live band and you

41:02 know, we're we're good songwriters and just we just hope we can keep doing it. So, we'll see what happens. But the records I mean, the songs are they're they're they're see and and record them all together. Well, we No, absolutely. We certainly can't. I mean, know I pretty much I'm sure that I speak for everybody that's in the chat room here. We absolutely are looking forward to new music. I'm so glad uh it's so glad that you guys are actually doing that. Um yeah, because it's it's it's just such I do have to ask since we have um I'm super excited about it. Uh what are you doing, Paul? Oh my god. So, so no you you hold on

41:48 hold on Paul you you have to you have to put this picture up big what hold it up now come on come on don't be shy now that's a digital that's a digital painting by Steve Park of the family that we're all gonna autograph limited edition because it's the 40th anniversary we had to do the look how beautiful this is. Yeah. And we got to make sure that we have a before and after shot. So, and we since Eric is here, let's bring him back on. How you doing, Eric? Well, I'm okay. I'm We'll see what happens. Okay. Could Can you hear us better now? Time. This is As

42:34 soon as That would be a as soon as you Yeah. bring me in every Wow. Uh So crazy. Try try to do uh try to turn off the video. Hold on a second. Let's because it uh turn turn off your video so it's just audio. Maybe that will help on the bandwidth side of things. If he can hear me. Can Can you text him that, Paul? Just tell him. I can text him that too, but I wanted to make sure I keep the things flowing. Uh text support to Mr. Le. Uh yeah. No, this isn't working. Turn. I don't I don't know if it's on uh my video. All right. Yes. See

43:21 because of that. There we go. How's that, Eric? Is that better? All right. Now, what? You're good. Perfectly. Can you hear us? Can you hear us? Yeah. There you go, too. So, uh Yeah. So that that works that that works better then. Okay, great. Um, so Eric, the question that uh, Michael had and Jerome kind of helped a little bit, but Michael wanted to know, Michael, you want to re ask your question? Do a condensed version. I'm I'm afraid to start talking. I think I'm the cause of all of this. Yeah, sometimes my my my mojo gets weird. I I see we got do this question. I'm gonna try to Yes. I was just as

44:09 inquiring about I was actually wondering if you've if it was uh if you enjoyed playing uh basing your solos on what you played on the records or were you more interested in expanding uh you know and experimenting a little bit more like live? What you mean when we play it? When you play it live? Yeah. Uhhuh. I mean, you your your solos are are pretty iconic. Um, no, I I on a little bit more on the uh Oh, it's pretty much written in stone. So, I I

44:55 Well, that's so crazy. That is so crazy. It's pop music. This ain't jazz. Yeah. You know, put put it this way. Um, ma Macio crazy. Papa's got a brand new bag in Cold Sweat pretty much verbatim because that's what the party called for. Um, on certain songs I keep it pretty much to what the record was, you know. Okay. You know, more like a reading of it if if the solos add value and become part of the song rather than just a solo. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I don't also know that as far as Prince music is concerned, he was a stickler for making sure that you kind of stuck to his whatever his template was. I mean, sometimes he give

45:41 you I imagine he give you a little bit of freedom, but you know, it's got to be all over the map. No, actually, actually, no. Actually, Prince was more wide open about that. There were a couple little things occasionally, but Prince Why is it doing that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're breaking up again. Eric. Eric, if you wanna guys, I have the same doubt and and circles and your screen. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna be off and I will I thank you so much and I'll see y'all later. Thank you. Okay, Eric. Thank you, man. See you. This is crazy. Well, we tried. Yeah, we we tried. We tried.

46:27 the the other option was going to be to have him just call me on my phone uh because I have his number and then I could just patch him in and then we can just circumvent all that. But it's okay. I think he wants to join in that bad. Yeah, you're probably right. You're probably right. Um, so I I do have to ask because since uh Jellybean, both Jellybean and Jerome are here, you guys are playing at the celebration as well as the time playing at the celebration as well. Yeah. Are we potentially thinking maybe coming out on stage or doing any type of cross mixing, whatever? Whatever. Oh, dude. Tell me, why you laughing? Expecting that. He's laughing because he knows that ain't going to happen. Well, I'll be out there. You just don't

47:13 know it yet. But you don't want to say it. It's all right, man. There is no way that that that they were paying enough money for that to go down. I don't know what anybody's making, but I'll tell you just Hey, hey, hey, Chris. Chris, I'm just a drummer, man. I'm just a drummer. My bad. Let me back out of it. Chris, I'mma be with Jelly Bean Paul. Yes. and Susanna. Yes. All the fans. Oh, yes. All the fans. Uhhuh. Until we finish. That's right. And I might be I might be at at home by 12. You go. Yep. You gonna be in LAX at

47:59 about 1150. But I'm I'm coming full-fledged for what the family draws. Yes. Yeah. And we and we love you for it. Cannot wait to see you do your thing. I mean, it's it's got it's got to be weird to see you. It's got to be weird to see somebody else doing your part, though. I would imagine. I mean, it's it's I think instrumentate it's not for you. You don't It's It's a choice that's been made. You know, I'm I'm here. I could do it. All right. Okay. I'm not doing it. So, it's it's all good. Well, again, as Terry Lewis would say, have at it. Oh. Oh, now

48:47 M. Michael, is it me or do I just keep on swatting the bees nest every single time? Why you doing that, man? Stop. There's There's no there's no disrespect whatsoever. No, and I realize that. I realize that, you know, that's that's part of my legacy, so I'm I'm I'm not going to disrespect it. Yeah. So, you know, at any time I could be there and all it all it is is a conversation. Well, I think you you still get nods because I still go every single time the time comes through. I normally go and see them and it it never fails. Nine out of 10 times there was always somebody down the stage yelling at him going Jerome. And I was like, I hope you said I hope you said [ __ ] that ain't Jerome. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't. I

49:32 didn't. I didn't. All right. No, it's okay, Ro. You meant that. You meant that. It's all right. No, I I didn't mean it. But I'm sorry. You all right? Yeah. No, I Hey, you know, my personal opinion is somebody's trying to make it look like it's going to be an all, you know, like a like a a B the 10 Batman battle royal and it ain't coming off like that. Well, they should have they should have used Steve Park and paint a picture. A perfect picture. Speaking of which, speaking of which, since we had this little empty part in our stage, uh, due to Eric's technical difficulties, why don't we bring him in? The one and only Mr. Steve Parks is in the house. Hey, stand right here. How did I know?

50:23 You knew. You knew. Did I give you props, Steve? You did. You did. Absolutely. Yeah, you did. Well, and and here's what's awesome is that, you know, you guys uh have like all this really new cool uh merch on this one. This really cool merch on the Let me see if I can share this screen. I want to go ahead and uh bring this in because you have two things that I saw here that I want both of them. First is you got uh for those who want to know, it's on the scroll at the bottom right now. It's fdlux.com/store. You can get this awesome awesome t-shirt, 40 years of family, uh which is amazing. And on top of this, you get the Gaslight CD you can get, which is going to be reissued as

51:10 well. It's been out of print until now. Uh and then also this amazing family. This this is this is so cool. Steve, do you want to explain explain this? I mean, this is kind of, you know, your fingerprints right below it. Click the video. Okay. All right. Let's Let's do it. All right. Here we go. Let's see. So, Steve, explain it. Okay. Well, I mean, basically, um, Paul and I talked at one point and, you know, he's like, I don't know what what we should be doing for merchandise. I said, I know. And so, um, I love this photo when I when I that came out, when that record came out, I loved this photo. And so I just said, "All right, I'm going to try and do a painting of it." And uh you know, I changed it up a little bit and um it's digital with this little guy

51:55 right here. But um yeah, so that was that was actually it. I just decided to paint it and you know, if nobody liked it, that's okay. I did. So that was it. Yeah, that's amaz that's that's so good. It's it's it's a great So and you're saying that uh Paul, you're saying that the band will sign these before when they if people come and purchase this? So, what we're we're going to have a signing party for rehearsal when everybody gets here. So, all five of us will sign these. Uh they'll be available. You can order them right now right on the website. And we'll also have uh special pricing for people coming to Celebration. So, we want to make sure that we honor those people who actually make the track to celebration. But, it's

52:42 available. We'll sign them, send them out, and they should have them shortly. Oh, here's a shirt. Come on. You know, you know me. This is how I wrote. Here's the shirt. There you go. Yeah. Come on now. I'm stuck with the old I'm stuck with the old shirts. Oh, you've got my other shirt on. Okay. One, too. You and designed this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Susanna and I worked on those together, which was a lot of fun. I really liked I I gotta say that, and I haven't said this to you, Suzanne. I really really enjoyed working with you because I love your perspective. I love the way you come at things. I love the way you're a hard ass about things until you get it right. So, I don't make I don't always love it in the minute, but later I do. Oh, that's my my my reputation precedes me. I see. Yeah. No, but seriously. Seriously, I love the way your brain

53:28 works. Oh, thanks, Steve. Well, thank you for putting up with it and indulging me with that. It was beautiful. It was my pleasure. It's my pleasure. And it came out great. I mean, that that shirt looks great. Yeah, Susanna has always had that that artful presence. Always. Yes. She knew she knew about all the great artists and and in France and all that [ __ ] I'm sitting there like, "Okay, who was that?" Yeah. I mean, what I mean I Yeah, I asked I told Prince that we should hire, you know, we were we were looking at all those great old 30s and 40s artwork and Hor was one of them. So when I, you know, I bought this

54:13 book and I it was like this is who we should have do the family artwork and it was such a far cry like who would have even thought for a second yeah you could hire a horse to do it. We happened to be almost I think the second to the last photograph he ever took. He was 92 when he took the photograph of the of us off the album cover. He was 92. So we got the one or one or two of his last but yeah, you know, it just had this feel that felt right for us. You know, I was going to say what was funny about that too was Prince told me the story about when you guys did that shoot. He said he told me horse come over and he'd like look at it and he'd try to, you know, put it all in the frame and they

54:59 walk away from for a minute and Prince was like take the picture, take the picture. I just thought that was funny like because he had his way and and he was like let's get it done you know because you know he's like I know he he he was he was he was Prince liked to work really fast. Oh yeah. Obviously, of course, as old as he was, and he came in in a walker, and he had he had uh three assistants and, you know, two camera grips and people like handing him cameras and they were doing the setup, but it was taking a long time, you know, like and of course, like, let the man do his thing. But at one point, Prince couldn't he couldn't keep still. He was just like, "Oh, we have to like he set it up and then he literally I mean it was just like we all went he pushed him out of the way so we could take the take

55:46 a photograph to use his camera and shoot it." We were like, "Oh, oh my." But but we ended up getting great shots. Oh, yeah. Beautiful stuff. That was an amazing moment, too. I was like, "How do you push this dude off his camera?" You know what? But it's like I I got to say as much of a headache it was to deal with Prince. So th those nerves came in handy. I could see like if things were inactive, he would just he wouldn't accept it. He would he would create momentum. You know, he never wanted to feel stagnant. I could appreciate that because those were long hours for for all of us, I'm sure. You know, sorry, I was laughing because Elena says Jerome looking like a sexy

56:33 black Santa Claus. Ho ho ho. Ho ho. Who you calling a ho ho ho? I was laughing. Who you calling a ho ho? Oh my gosh. But but yeah, Susanna, you've always been just an amazing artist. I mean, um, I I guess if if if Yeah. I mean, if Dream Factory would have happened, I know some of your artwork was even being considered for that album cover. Did I remember that correctly? Yes, exactly. Yeah. Approved for that. We had a couple different versions of it, but the last one that came out, I did the artwork for that and actually um we were going to go with that, but we never released the Dream Factory. It turned

57:19 into Sign of the Times. Right. And a couple other things, too. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Seven other records in there, but but yeah, factory found its way somewhere else. But the the album artwork continued to live on forever. I still have it. Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's that's incredible. So, um I'm I'm curious as far as the celebration is concerned, have they annit? Where are you in the lineup? Are you the headliners? I don't know. I I'm just curious. I'm asking. I'm just trying to figure out where you're going to be in the mix. I think we're second

58:05 or third. I don't know. What is it, Paul? They got two two open two opening acts. There's two two like I don't know if they're track. They must be track shows or whatever. Two opening acts. Johnny Venus and Right. Johnny Venus and and the the young lady. Yeah. Right. Then it's the family. There it is. Yeah. Nicole. There it is. Right. Okay. And then Yeah, family. That's Jesse and then the time. Then Jesse and then the time. Yep. Yeah, I got it. So family is three out of five. Yeah, correct. That's correct. Yeah, exactly. So So how long are they giving you guys to play? An hour. One hour. Is is So is everybody getting an hour? Is that how it's working? Yeah. Okay. today. Yeah. Yeah.

58:53 Trust me, Morris. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The time will be done after hours. Do you realize this? The only one playing in two bands. Talk about a Minneapolis legend. Oh, yeah. How about that? Go ahead, Bean. You gonna be tired. And then we head to Boston the next day. So, I don't feel sorry for you. I know you don't. Boston for what? What? What do you We're in concert the next day for a private party in Boston on you, man. With with the time. With the time. Yeah. So, okay. All right. All right. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Jelly. Somebody keeps asking about your shirt. I've seen a couple people. Are those for sale somewhere? Uh, this one was this one was bought online. Uh, yeah. If you look

59:41 online, I was just at a we did a thing for CEO Green the other night. It was four girls dancing in front of me with these shirts on. I know they got them. This was Atlanta. Okay. They're either You get that shirt off one of them. I I don't think that's suitable for our for our viewers. I don't think I don't want that shirt for for that for that buyer. For that buyer, reach out to Jelly Bean and he'll make sure you can get a shirt for $45. drum roll up. And if if if he doesn't answer, you can reach out to me and I'll get you one for two. What's the extra $4 for? What? What

1:00:27 happened? I'm send something extra on it. Oh, okay. Little sir charge. That's sir charge. S I a search charge. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Jone. Thank you, sir. That's a sar. Oh my god. I am so excited to get the opportunity to to to to see you to to see all of you perform and this this new merchandise is looking unbelievable. Um I just it's it's it's pretty fantastic that I'm just glad that you guys are out there still doing it and still kicking ass and taking names and it's just such such an amazing opportunity, man. It's just Can I say something? I don't know whether we're signing or what, but no, I

1:01:13 got to say that um to get together with these guys again after 40 years I I've said this in many interviews that I've done, but I think the one thing Prince never realized is he didn't create only bands. He created a real family because Yeah. I mean, we play together all the time. Um, it's it's just incredible to to to still be on the planet to celebrate the 40th anniversary because if a lot of our friends are not and I just want to do a shout out to Pepe Willie. Oh, yeah. God rest your soul, brother. He um, you know, he was a huge influence here in the Minneapolis area. And we I mean, I I don't take anything for granted. Yeah. So being able to be on stage at Paisley Park celebrating

1:02:01 this record that Prince made with the people, the five original members of that group is not lost on me. Yeah. So we are celebrating because who knows? Yeah. When we'll get to do this again. Yeah. Hope for a long time. But you know what? Tomorrow's not promised. And yeah, you never know what can happen. So let's celebrate what we got today. Yes, sir. Amen. I hear that. Amen. And for those that didn't know, uh, yes, Pepe Willie passed away. Was it yesterday or the day before yesterday? Uh, I'm not sure. Announced yesterday. It was yesterday. It was yesterday. Yes. So, it was a big loss. For those that don't don't know, um, he was, uh, the masterminds behind 94 East brought us some of that early early prints and it was just such an

1:02:47 amaz There was so much more to him. I'm I'm so glad we got to get him on the show and and get some of those incredible incredible stories. And uh any of you guys got good Peppy Willie stories? How about you? No, he just he always showed me love, you know. That's that was the the most thing about uh Pepe. That was that was Pepe. Yeah. Yeah. He always showed me love, too. I was young whatever the hell I was doing, you know. I'm doing a museum here. I'm trying to do a you know, Minneapolis museum and stuff and he showed me love for that, you know. So just everything, you know, and and and I always realized too he played a big influence on Princeton in the early days too when we were teenagers. So Oh yeah.

1:03:32 I mean, but in since we're kind of talking about uh the museum, there's a couple of things I haven't really seen much of. I mean, normally during the celebration, you normally do your event over at the uh Minnesota Music Cafe. Yeah. Uh you normally do that annually. You're not doing that this year. I'm not doing this year, man, because it's just I got too much on my plate, man. I'm I'm in three national acts when with them and with the time and with Paul has the the St. Paul Allstars and stuff. So, it's just hard. And I'm 68 years old. Jelly bean. You working harder than you ever work. You know, my two instruments is each side of my brain, man. So, it's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so I I didn't do it this year. You know, I got a lot of guys. I got a lot of friends coming in

1:04:17 town. You know, Martin Kimmer's at the, you know, playing that got Green Room, right? That's No, no, no, no. That's Green Room. Green Room. Green Room. Green Room. Yeah. Adrian Crutchfield, who I absolutely love. You know, my musical at the Capri where I normally do my thing. He, you know, he's doing he probably this band there and stuff. And so, I I I took a little break and just concentrated on and and I wanted to do this, you know, this is my family, you know, this my fun family. I want to make sure I'm there for them. Yeah. Well, we'll take this opportunity also to to plug the museum, too, because a lot of people are going to be in town next week. Absolutely. Absolutely. Go ahead and and do a little spiel. The Minneapolis uh Minneapolis Sound Museum and stuff. I'm I'm trying to do that. I'm trying to get capital for it and

1:05:03 stuff. And uh we we we slowly crawling along and stuff, but uh yeah. You know, check it out. There's so much history. We got Huh. What's the purpose of it being just you know you know there's Paisley Prince had Paisley and had all that thing I'm trying to do this museum for all the others you know all the others that came up that nobody you know knew about when all this started on the north side and stuff you know people didn't know you know and there's a there's a whole you know trove of musicians that came from that side that you know this is about yes sir all the all the ones that you know I don't want to say that principal got or whatever there's a whole you know treasure trove of other musicians that, you know, I want people to know about that, you know, that made Minneapolis what it is. I mean, Huh. The

1:05:48 original family. The original family. Yeah. Right. Right. North Side family. The North Side. Those basements. Sunny Tea, you know. Yes. Cozy Bar, you know. Oh, yes. Jets, you know, the Jets, you know, this kind of stuff, you know. So, that's what that's what I'm trying to do my museum about, you know, before I leave this planet, you know, that people know about this. Oh, we have we have some extended family in the chat room also. Mr. Matt Blisson's in the house. Atlanta Bliss, man. Yet another legend. My goodness. Yeah, man. He He's Yeah, he's he's the man for sure. Yeah, it's um Yeah, he's I'm I was glad to have him on the show,

1:06:35 too. Susanna, I really have to make sure that we get you we got to get you on the show. I again I I have I I just love all of your work and that I just I have so many questions for you, honey. I I just I have to get you back on the show at some point. Okay, all good. Okay, good. I'm I'm gonna take that as a as as a maybe because that's how that felt. That felt like a maybe. Go ahead, Jerome. Respectfully, don't you look good laying there on that. Oh my god. Yeah, I know. Just Yes, you do.

1:07:21 I'm holding on to the back of the headrest. Yeah, that's that's sexy. Yeah, that's I hear you, Jerome. My arm. like what? I'm not lying down. Well, don't hate me cuz I'm beautiful. What you think, Steve? Oh, yeah. Time for a new photo shoot. Time for a new photo shoot. Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. She's beautiful. Beautiful. Um, man, I Susette, I mean, outside of the family, what are some of the things that's going on with you, by the way, since we're, you know, I want to kind of make sure

1:08:07 everybody kind of gets an opportunity to plug whatever they have going on. Oh, well, you know, I'm I'm writing, so I'm hoping that, you know, that's that's where my head is at. I'm just writing music and writing songs right now. So, hopefully that we're going to get in the studio and record that. You know, I also, you know, other things that you sound need to know about in this little arena. Um, and I don't need to plug anything. Um, I'm just living life and trying to stay um, creative really. I I'm right now it's just all about the music. So, I've got the the only thing that I'm actually really should plug is that I've got a extraordinarily talented young daughter. She's 20 and she just got signed to Warner Brothers. So, I'm thrilled about that. What? Wow. The

1:08:53 legacy continues. My goodness. Congratulations to her. really just extraordinary. She's just a a singer, songwriter, extraordinaire of of her own making and it's it's such a beautiful thing to see that these that uh someone like her is being recognized and um they're putting a lot of effort and they're putting a lot of love into her and they don't do these kinds of deals. It's a, you know, this is a kind of deal that I I haven't even heard of since like I I was coming up like in 1988. You'd get a record deal without having a record, right? So, they were like listening to songs. They thought you were great. They wanted to develop

1:09:39 you. And that's what they're doing with her. They're giving her this extraordinary like year to get this record done and signing her. And it's just a she's just incredible, you guys. She's just incredible. So, you know, I've got two really beautiful kids who are very, very, very creative and talented, and one of them's on her way. So, it's like, you can take it from here, girlfriend. So, I'm thrilled about that. Is she going under her stage name? Is she going under stage name or what? No, just under her name. Her name is L. And, you know, she's uh El Bram Hall, although I don't know if she's going to go with her last name. Last name. I don't know any of that yet. um she's just, you know, L El L Bramhal and

1:10:25 um not changing it yet. I don't even know if she's going to. I don't know what she's going to do. So, but it's just she's just this incredible she's an incredible guitar player. She's got everything that came from both sides of her family. So, she's got like me and my side of the family and her father's side of the family. Everybody are musicians and lineage, long lines of it. Yeah. But she seems to have gotten all of it. Like we all wished we had what she's got. She's just got it. She's like the dream come true. Everyone dreams of having what she's got. She's got it all. She doesn't even have to dream it. She just is it. I don't know if that makes any sense. She's just got it. So, you know, we're just shephering her and hopefully she stays on that course and can feel

1:11:13 like she she can just stay who she is and authentic and doesn't have to play into any of the [ __ ] that's out there that could that could actually possibly hurt her. So, we just all have to just, you know, you know, love her and take care of her and hopefully she's going to thrive. Does she have any any music that's publicly available somewhere that we can hear? No, she's just No, nothing yet. No, no, no. I mean, her, you know, she's got her her socials, but like No, she's that's the the beauty. All of her demos and everything that she's done, right? Warers Warers has signed her on that and she's going and her producer Tony Berg who is her mentor and he produced all of the Boy Genius stuff and so uh um Phoebe

1:12:00 Brides and it goes and on and on and on and Fion Apple and all these great singer songwriters. Um and uh wow he produced the Wendy our Wendy and Lisa third record she produc he produced um so many I mean he's been in our family forever but he he's like he's t taken her under his wings and uh he brought her to Warers and said like we have to pay attention to these kids. We've got to you know so they're they're going with this sort of idea of a legacy artist which is almost unheard of these days. Um, so I'm like, you got it. Like I'm just so happy about that and I'm doing my own thing and hopefully my kid comes to me at one point and says, you know, like, hey, like what do you think

1:12:46 of this? And do you want to like maybe, you know, it the idea that like this is what I do for a living, but like she's on her own thing. Like I have nothing to do with it, but it's beautiful to watch, but hopefully she'll at one point want to share some of it. I don't know. I you know I'm her mom so like I'm all we want to hear for sure. So he produced heroica the Yes. The the Wow. That's that's album is phenomenal. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Man. Fantastic. I mean I've known Tony forever and ever and ever and you know and my sister works with Tony all the time. They just produce records together and he uses her on everything. Um and um we've just always been really

1:13:35 close. So and and as a matter of fact when he was head of the label at Geffin Records, he uh he signed Doyle, her father, Doyle Grandpa, and that's how Wendy and Lisa produced his first solo record. And that's how I met him and we got married and fell in love and hence had this beautiful child that now is uh doing her thing. Wow. Congratulations. Congratulations. For sure. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Uh yeah. I guess we're going to give at least equal stage time. Jerome, what do you I I cannot wait to see you, man. I cannot wait to see you at the celebration. Uh what what else do you have going on? Life taking care of my

1:14:22 family. Yeah, man. Absolutely. Um dayto day waking up by the the you know, the grace of the Lord. um able to think, able to talk, able to make money, and um

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