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01:59what about you what do i call you well i go by an unpronounceable symbol but you can call me spud
02:07spud as in potato spud or just spud just spud spud does it stand for anything what you know
02:17i want to know why me why you chose me to interview you because you're a pimp look at this watch
02:37and i'm admitting it can you believe it i'm actually admitting it but yeah you know i followed
02:43your stuff and you're going to be going on tossing out yeah yes ma'am and you've got your album out
02:47already tell me tell me a bit about that the album yeah with the new power generation it's called
02:53new power so all right it's um spiritually political record you said that earlier what do you mean by
03:00spiritually political um we're getting closer and closer to the truth on the album good so who
03:09influenced you on this album that you have out now this one actually was influenced by the musicians
03:15that are on it the new power generation i change musicians every two three years or so this will
03:23probably be the last band that i have for a while i'm going to do some solo work after this but this
03:29record is um it's it's one of the maddest records ever got hooked up with freaks on this side and push
03:37it up and all that not had to do with the energy that we uh experienced on live shows we're trying
03:44to get into the album it's fun being in a situation where we don't worry about charts and singles and
03:50videos and all that now because it really does affect how you go into the studio what it is you put down
03:57uh on the tape it's brilliant album it is properly got that that fake i explain it that thing you know
04:09that kind of that's probably all best left unexplained all of all of it and what's the show gonna be like
04:18tell us a bit about that oh it's gonna be sick it's gonna be so sick you've got dancers you've got your
04:24band yeah it's gonna be so sick so long just jamming yeah funk ridden larry graham is coming with us
04:33chaka khan and dougie fresh all right it's gonna be crazy brilliant looking forward to that mad sex
04:41but one thing that you started to do was sell your albums on the internet why why was that i like the
04:47interaction between fans the direct line uh friends i don't like to call them fans that's short for a
04:55fanatic all right yeah because i was having a word with my drummer got a drummer on tour with us and he
05:01goes at some point there's going to be no need for record companies everything is going to be done
05:07through the internet you're going to be able to sell download everything is going to be through the
05:12internet do do you think that oh well i'm not so sure about that um you know record companies have
05:16their uh purpose um they're actually good for people who are just starting out and yeah need a helping
05:23hand and they they serve a lot of functions you know but for somebody like me who writes a lot and
05:31records a lot and wants to release a lot it's a detriment so i stepped away it doesn't negate going
05:38back and you know doing something in the future you've got your own label now haven't you well it's
05:44three letters mpg that we stamp on the product but um we're we're musicians we don't need to function
05:51as a record company first all right so you do more kind of on a level yeah and i don't wear a suit
05:58no that's good so if i release some stuff then i could go into your label couldn't i
06:02do you know if i taught you enough around it as long as you own your work it's cool because that's
06:09what that's important yeah that's what new power generation is about uh ownership of the master or
06:15else you're a slave i really respect that how you've done things because you're your own person
06:22and you do what you want to do and you kind of control a lot of things around you which is very
06:27important obviously for you and to get on working but does that like do you not feel strained by that
06:33or does that well i'm more so than control i think i'm trying to let things evolve on their own
06:41especially the music well where do you get all this inspiration to do so much writing so much music
06:48to produce so many albums at such a good quality where do you get all that from my gift comes from god
06:55yeah so you reckon you were put here to do music yeah to get back onto that gift to to stop recording
07:02just to put a cap on your work and then put a boundary on it actually for me is to put a boundary
07:08on your gift that comes from god and i can't do that i write so much because i um it is therapy for me
07:18you're evolving your spirit actually every time you go back into the well and examine yourself yeah
07:24so the more i write the more stuff i put out the quicker i get to my destination so do you think
07:30so it is your music is a soundtrack to your life to your to my psyche coming up yeah i would think so
07:37yeah wow on birthdays you don't like birthdays no no not into that no um we came here not knowing that we
07:48were gonna die somebody told us that right and if we never knew we were gonna die we wouldn't
07:54celebrate a birthday because we but isn't it nice to celebrate the day you was born i'll celebrate the
08:00day i die oh because you're gonna move on to the next path in life yes who influenced you uh larry graham
08:11shaka khan you've done you've done a few performances in shaka khan haven't you yeah
08:16she just uh finished a record with us and we helped her with she's a hard boss but good i like working
08:24for her good stuff game so what influenced you um your singing style and your dancing style you know you
08:32did your writing style no no no no i was a dancer this is like you know not a club dancer but i was
08:40like blackpool summer season dancer that's how i actually started getting interested in the music
08:47industry and things like that because you started in the music industry when you was about 15 didn't you
08:54um actually uh 12 12 wow yeah not uh not the professional side of it but um i got my first band and started
09:06getting uh getting uh payment and snicker bars snicker bars yeah why snicker bars so we exchanged money back
09:18then i was currency candy was currency but you can't sit still to your music you have
09:23to get up and you either have to stamp your foot or you have to do something and i like that about
09:27music that's what music should make you feel like i know there's a lot of music out there that is
09:33kind of makes you depressed and you kind of put on the thing and you want a bit of a cry whereas your
09:38music it gets you but in in a good way and i think that's what music should always do i think it should
09:43uplift there's enough things to bring you down we don't need to jack our music up that way too i mean
09:50there's you there's still a way to um get anger and even hate across sometimes in music but um you
09:59have to resolve it you have to show that it's useless to hold these ideas there's a lot in the music
10:10interviews are this is cool because you and i are just hanging out talking yeah in most interviews
10:17they ask you questions um i find now people are trying to get me to say something ill about record
10:23companies all the time i have no all right no bad feelings about record companies i love record
10:28companies they work it is very obvious that they work by the by the consolidation of power so um i'm
10:36just doing something else right now so and and by being free and doing something else it almost
10:42um wakes you up to the fact that let let them do their thing and do your thing nobody's bothering me
10:48now it's cool but it's good you said you realize that because people you know they do want to kind
10:53of criticize or they do want to drag some badness like he said this to make like a good headline but
10:59it's good that you don't rise to it yeah we opinion and that's that yeah i i i don't look at myself
11:04through other people's eyes i had an interesting discussion with larry graham and a journalist upstairs about
11:12criticism of music you know if you're true artist you're using the gift you've been given from god
11:19yeah and um to criticize a gift from god is sort of to criticize god yeah now you can cut that
11:29anywhere you want but it's the truth so yeah you know i looked at the writer i said i wouldn't criticize
11:36you're writing here i'm not a writer i don't write books you know i wouldn't but the media is i think
11:42it's all a ball of all kinds of things they get it wrong they do get it wrong but they just stir up
11:48people's attention well you know wouldn't wouldn't it be cooler to just tell people about things that
11:54you like and things you think they're in there um spending your your life just criticizing another
12:00man's work and his gift is i think it's sometimes it's easier for people to dwell on negative things
12:06rather than to look at the positive things because what you've done for a lot of people is you've
12:11influenced them you've got i mean you influence me a lot but you really have done i hope in a good
12:17way you have here i am okay you're you're not a pimp then no i'm not i might have a pimp watch but you
12:27know okay now 1999 there's you had a song let's talk about this watch though no i want to talk about
12:34this song the song 1999 i just asked him right if he will do 1999 i asked you i'm looking at you now
12:44all right and he said i said that you could do 1999 if i could redo one of you right which means no
13:00you can do anything you want you're free to many people have redone my songs i find they're doing
13:06them more now than ever and you're flattered by that do you feel what do you feel about that
13:12well i you know if it's genuine and it comes from the uh artist's heart then i'm cool with it
13:19if they're being egged on by their management and their record companies then you say no well that's
13:25that's not genuine that's just trying to get another piece of the action the purple pie yeah
13:33i like you this is the best energy i've ever had you're just saying that no you're very complimentary
13:41no i i respect you a lot and i think there's a lot of people out there the highest thing you can pay
13:47people it's much greater than money as a compliment i appreciate it right should we do this game what
13:55game this game and i told you about earlier oh okay i ask you ten things right then i tell you the first
14:03thing that comes to mind it's going to be just one word so you can answer it in a sentence or you can
14:07actually in one word or you can say pass right first thing cars corvettes jewelry jew time lie holidays
14:21holy days christmas
14:27nimrod's birthday what's that long story okay eyes
14:35soul underwear inconceivable food mighty music industry owners sexuality spiritual
14:47animals unconditional love so i play it with you now gone then gone then see it because i wrote mine
14:57down for you but you're just gonna put them out of click them out of the sky okay spice spice
15:05lively lively ross cross
15:11mixed when things go that way they get kind of mixed up and you end up getting cross
15:16you need to no need to get cross really
15:18so i don't know what's that's what i'm saying
15:21time time there is no time really she says we're on a pimp watch
15:28that's funny
15:32uh one more one more not too hard love love
15:37of whatever it should be.
15:42And I like it as well,
15:44because she's singing about, you know, sex.
15:47I like that.
15:48I do not.
15:50Well, you know, you do.
15:51I do not.
15:52You do, like, as in, you know, the...
15:55You do.
15:56No, I don't.
15:57Well, what is it then?
15:58Well, I see it as that.
16:00Maybe I'm interpreting it different.
16:02I see it as that.
16:04Well, I don't want to...
16:05You tell me what it is then.
16:07Well, I don't want to ruin it for you.
16:09No, go on, correct me, because I like, you know, to hear.
16:11It's a spiritual union for me.
16:13So you were saying about the noise.
16:15They've got all plants around.
16:16It's all very calming.
16:18I like that.
16:19It must be important to you.
16:21Then you can hear.
16:23You've got doves up there, haven't you?
16:26Yeah, they're quiet now.
16:27Have you got names for them?
16:29What are they called?
16:30Majesty and Divinity.
16:32Do you breed them?
16:33No, not by choice.
16:35We looked up and there were eggs shaking.
16:40It was a very pure thing to have around.
16:43I've got a dove house.
16:45My doves are, I think, yeah, my doves are rare because they've got like a black tail.
16:50They don't look as pure and innocent as your doves.
16:53And what does this, you've got a carpet up there with words on.
16:56Can you tell me what that says again?
16:58That's probably best left between us, though.
17:01What the words?
17:02Okay.
17:03And then that's a secret.
17:05It's lovely, though.
17:07Should we go for a walk?
17:08Yeah.
17:09And leave all this lot behind?
17:10I think you are lovely, you know.
17:33I do.
17:37I really do.
17:42I want to ask a question before you go about your reputation.
17:46Mm-hmm.
17:47Because you've been very cool, you've been very quiet.
17:50Yeah.
17:51And you're not scary at all.
17:53No.
17:54What's up with that?
17:54I think a lot of people, they like to pinpoint it because I am, I have got my own opinion.
18:01I do like to say exactly what I think.
18:03And I think people are not ready for that sometimes.
18:06It's like they'd rather have somebody safe and somebody quiet who would go, yes, yes, yes,
18:10and agree to everything, rather than somebody who's got their own opinion and their own set of morals,
18:15their own ideas, their own picture.
18:18And I think for some people that's frightening.
18:20That's why they criticize you and make out as something that you're not, really.
18:24You find that people live through you, and then when you don't act like they expect you to, then...
18:30I don't know what you mean, actually.
18:32Then you're the bad one.
18:34Yeah.
18:35Melanie bad.
18:38Regardless of the watch you wear, you're black limo, you ain't so bad, you ain't so scary.
18:43No, I'm not.
18:45You're a very sweet person.
18:45I think you are lovely.
18:46Thanks.
18:47You are.
18:48I was saying earlier, a lot of people, they get the wrong impression of you,
18:52or they've written the wrong impression, or they speak of the wrong impression of you,
18:56and that's their own ignorance.
18:58They don't.
18:59They should have a more open mind, because I think you're lovely.
19:03Yeah.
19:04Get it from the horse's mouth.
19:10It's not a walk in to your car.
19:12It's not a walk in to your car.
19:34Strangely beautiful, beautiful strange
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