Just to help everybody along.A Touch of Love is a 1969 British drama film directed by Waris Hussein and adapted by Margaret Drabble from her novel The Millstone (1965). I used to call myself the sixth member of the band. Especially when you’re recording with groups. They make decisions overall for the band you need another mind. I’d never heard anything really like it, so I’m like, “Do me a favor, sing me one that’s straight.” “No, no, no!” I’m like, “You got to do this, because I don’t know what to do.” So he goes “Keep me high, just a little bit.” And I was like, ”Nahhh, we’re going with the other thing!” And fortunately it all worked out. I don’t know if this is really going to be cool!” And everybody’s going, “No man! That’s it! You grassed it!” I don’t know how to judge this. Then he walked in and he started going “Keep me high, just… a little bit.” And I was going, “That is fucking crazy, that’s the craziest shit I’ve ever heard. He was the drummer, right? We couldn’t find anything that was any good as a lead. When we got to the vocals, we did the backgrounds. And when we got to “ Just a Touch Of Love,” I mean that shit was crazy. So we just put a bunch of licks together until we had our little jams, and it was very cool. OK, keep that lick.” They’d do some more, “A-hah! Great lick! That lick there, I’m telling you, that’s the lick.” They’d just be jamming and I’d go, “A-hah! Great lick! That’s a great lick. Just the two of them and the guitar player. So when we went to the rehearsal room and they said, “What are we rehearsing?” I said, “I don’t know, you guys just keep jamming.” So I had them in there for like two days. He had just come to the scene, and he was pretty good. Slave had got this new drummer, Steve Arrington. So I started going out and listening to funk records, and I remember at the time there was the Brothers Johnson “We’re gonna stomp! All night…” Chic was out with “Good Times.” I had gone back into the rock ‘n’ roll world so hard, I really didn’t know how to make a funk record. And then I’ll fix whatever’s left of theirs and I’ll make that the b-side.” I’ll do it if you let me make three new sides. And the record company was like, “We’re kind of done with you guys if you don’t get some help.” The president comes to me and he goes, “Listen man, you really got to help me.” And I was like, “Sorry, I’m over it now.” he’s the president of the company saying, “You gotta…” So finally I said, ”OK, OK, OK. And it comes to the fourth album and they went in the studio and they did all this stuff, but it wasn’t happening. So there came a time I’m in my life, doing other projects, I’m doing my rock shit and I’m enjoying my life. I’m not saying that I am what I am, but it just happened to be that way. The next two albums didn’t really do anything. So he kept talking to the and eventually they got rid of me. Anyway the way it worked was, I was telling this kid everything about this other guy, but I didn’t realize he was the guy who wanted. And then there was another guy who was in charge. So when I took over, it kind of pissed him off. But I don’t work like that, because there’s room for everybody to do everything. I think he was George Clinton’s nephew, and he wanted to be the man. There was a kid in the band, and I didn’t catch this whole thing.
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