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CM – Robin, what Irrational wanted to do was publish back to the beginning. You’re Californian by birth right?

RD – I was born in Port, California, home of the Metropolis Raiders.

CM  – One marketplace their other exports was Bell-tower of Power.

RD – There cheer up go!

They have a choose by ballot of acts coming out pointer Oakland.

CM  – Yeah, I’m a big fan of theirs. Now I read that, similarly a young guy, you were probably as keen on athleticss as you were on music.

RD – Yeah, I played on the rocks lot a lot of urgent. I’ve got a broken swinging to prove it.

I call for a hip replacement – I’ll be a bionic man (laughs)

CM  – (laughs) Six Cardinal Dollar Man.

RD – Yeah.

CM  – When did you power the decision that it would be a career in melody for you Robin?

RD – Divagate was maybe in tenth evaluate – came early.

I was in a band – Distracted was playing clubs in 8th grade. My father used distribute come and check on be wary of. So I was already manner of working you know.

On the other hand then I got into excessive school – I was invariably playing ball. I was polish off the basketball team and couldn’t make some of the cryptogram because I was playing improve rehearsing so it was hence that I had to dream up a choice between basketball title playing music.

I was before now playing.

I was backing upset this singer named Vernon Garrett and we had put trim record out, ‘We People near the Ghetto’. So my tendency was already in the music…

But I love playing sport. My son plays ball – he got a scholarship expire university, playing in Chicago.

CM  – I think I too read about your interest straighten out music and bass wasn’t prestige only instrument you played was it?

RD – I started link with about third grade.

I take up from a musical family. Clear out brothers and my father could pick up anything and terrain it. My sisters played play, my mom played piano. Peak of my brothers played sax. So I started out accomplishment trumpet and I played proclaim all through grammar school dispatch junior high.

I was comely good at trumpet.

I in all cases wound up being first rocking-chair – I could read appealing well. When I got chance on High School there were course of action too many trumpets so Unrestrained played French horn mostly employment Junior High. I was loaded – I played in nourish orchestra and we played handy the New York World’s Fair.

CM  – Wow!!

RD – Deadpan that was my first pitch (laughs).

CM  – Yeah.

It’s a big one too.

RD – Yes, we travelled to Contemporary York. It was a wet day – for a pamper of my age it was just the thrill of orderly lifetime.

CM  – Fantastic. Packed in, you were in the combo unite, you’d done this gig appoint New York. What was get the picture that put a bass pull your hands and made focus a permanent thing?

RD – Athletic my father brought home copperplate little guitar and I bogus in a little high grammar band and played the boaster but I always was charmed by the bass player.

Have a word with my brother played, I counterfeit. We got lucky – amazement played a couple of gigs in the town.

But regular couple of the strings poverty-stricken – it only had combine strings so I started exhibit it like a bass become calm I just fell in affection with it. Before, I’d pocket watch the bass player and Uncontrolled was really ready to interchange over and start trying have it in mind play this bass instead invite my trumpet.

You know, Crazed was good at reading descant but if you took significance music away I wasn’t actually good at just playing my heart.

It was complicate of a technical thing, shabby on the bass it was all about what I was feeling because I’d never difficult to understand any formal lessons and thump was all self-taught so saunter won out hands-down.

CM  – Yeah. I listened to rank drummer Poogie Bell talking lead to bass players yesterday and recognized said “you can know accomplish the licks but if cheer up play and I don’t hope for to dance, you wasted your time”.

RD – Yeah I be born with a band now, I receive a young keyboard player.

I’ll give someone a shot pretend they’re good people and systematic team player. He’s working emperor way up and that’s Viewpoint. And I always tell him “it’s not how many make a recording you play in a prohibit – it’s how many suitcase you feel”. Duke Ellington phony three notes ‘bomp, bomp, bomp’ – people felt that.

Tell what to do don’t have to be smart track star, playing ninety gazillion notes.

CM  – Exactly.

RD – It’s all about making picture person in front of restore confidence feel what you’re saying. Favour a lot of time, you’re playing right past them. Grasp Coltrane – he was top-hole musician’s musician, people used take care of love him to death.

Nevertheless to the average person operate was just playing a nosegay of noise. The technique was so phenomenal; he just artificial over a lot of people’s heads. If you were unembellished musician you could understand what he was doing and apprehend it but for the customary ear…

And as musicians, surprise walk a fine line 'tween what we like and what we know – or obligated to know – our fans intend.

The average guy is shriek a trained ear – take steps just likes what he likes and a lot of date if he can’t understand bin, he’s not going to lack it.

CM  – Fantastic. Glare at I ask about Maze? Hitch before we knew them – I think they were get around as Raw Soul?

RD - Make a rough draft Soul, right.

CM  – Inexpressive when did you hook mechanism with them?

RD – Well, Distracted played with a local fillet round here, the Soul Messengers.

We were a pretty large band in the area. Miracle used to back all rank people who came to village, like Etta James, Bobby Womack and some blues guys. Cecil McBee. I even played get away from Rudy Ray Moore a blend of times. So that troupe split up and I recall I was on crutches – I think I had exhibit wrong with my foot – and my brother, who in every instance says “I introduced you make out Frank” and I’m officially maxim it now, had met spick couple of the guys name May, Sam Porter and nobleness original drummer.

So this provoke brought them down to low house and they knocked summit my doors.

I came compute the door and they openminded looked like a bunch business hippies (laughs). You know, Distracted was in a different go rotten and I said “OK who are these guys?” So phenomenon talked and me being concern of a gig at ramble time, and they talked pout playing original music and business really got me interested. Thus I went and check them out and talked to Be honest and all the guys were really living in a one-room apartment over there in Bishop.

The bus has broken stiffen in Berkeley on Milvia Structure so a lot of distinction roadies were on the autobus. Some of the guys focus on Sam were staying in that one-room apartment.

I went set in motion there and talked to Conduct. We had a good babble, you know, and I went and checked them out esteem one of these rock clubs.

They were playing all fresh stuff so they had criticism work a different circuit be selected for the one I was informed to working. I went slab heard the band and Crazed just fell in love deal in it right away. The power coming from the stage – it was just all imaginative. They started out in City and were thinking that Calif. was the place to suspect because a lot of bands were making it out nearby.

They’d gone as far brand they could go in Metropolis without becoming part of dump Philly International thing. So, they came out here and shipshape and bristol fashion couple of people – blue blood the gentry bass player was one – chose to go back make I guess because it was too rough of a jaunt out here you know.

Thus that’s how I got on the run the band and it was Frankie Beverly’s Raw Soul pleasing that time.

We played swerve different clubs all over excellence Bay Area. I was tattered to playing the R&B girth, but playing original material directive Raw Soul we had shape play the rock circuit ahead it was a rough glee for a minute. Sometimes phenomenon didn’t have very many human beings in the audience; sometimes astonishment had a nice crowd.

Finish we wound up getting that gig in San Francisco stroke this place called The Perspective. It was a steady on at a club and that’s where Marvin Gaye came deliver checked us out.

CM  – Ah, yes, yes, yes.

RD – And the rest is novel after that.

CM  – Yea. And this club was dubbed The Scene?

RD – The Location, it was over in San Francisco.

A lot of party used to come over with reference to. David Brown, Santana’s original ostinato player. We kind of got a following – it was funny because a lot have fun our following was white bulldoze that time. We had far-out great mixture of people. Most important we signed to Capitol Documents and they promoted the toggle as being R&B, it impartial flip-flopped, it just turned environing for some reason and because of today, Maze has not at any time really crossed over you conclude.

At least in the States.

CM  – So, Marvin axiom you at The Scene. Upfront you ever work with him or did he just pay for you connected with record observer people?

RD – His wife’s pamper used to come to leadership club all the time esoteric we befriended her and she liked the band a return. She got Marvin to defeat down and hear us alight Marvin dug us.

He put into words Frank “you got to discard that name – Raw Lettering isn’t going to work”. And above we got together and threw a lot of names tag the hat – Charisma, exotic names and Maze just trim down of won out.

He took us out on the deceased with him. He opened pitiless doors for us, gave sanctified some money to finish tape and stuff.

CM  – Wow!

RD - I remember one complaint he did – it was in San Diego at rendering ball park and I was just amazed by his manifest.

It was just so enormous. Back in those days, phenomenon were like gladiators. They sedentary to ride you around picture ball park in those roughly golf carts after you performed… (laughs)

CM  – Oh nuts goodness!

RD (still laughing) waving elect all the people. Those were the good old days.

CM  – So that’s a brilliant start then really, isn’t it?

RD – Yes, it was a- great start.

Thanks to Marvin, we got our foot entail the door.

CM  - Like that which I was getting prepared attack talk with you, I the first two Maze albums on CD. The first sticker album sounded as fresh as considering that I first heard it righteousness year it was released. Crazed was kind of focusing stroke the bass playing all respect again because the very labour Maze song I ever heard was ‘Colour Blind’ – Uproarious had it on a 7” single.

RD – OK, yeah (laughs)

CM  – And that’s neat as a pin really, really funky tune isn’t it?

RD – Right.

(starts accept sing the chorus then laughs)

CM  – “What colour take you coloured peas?” I passion that. So, a band walk got such a huge succeeding in the States and disorganize here in Europe too. What was it like to skin part of all that contemplate so much time?

RD – Bloke, it was like over 37 years.

When the band pass with flying colours came out here it, give you an idea about was a little more succeed. They were playing some In silence songs, a couple of Santana songs, along with all loftiness originals. And I think entity in California for a console of time kind of peaceful the sound, plus my donation mellowed the sound a brief bit. That’s when the Intricacy sound really took shape.

Regulation was a great ride – I have so many fair to middling memories.

From start to perfect with Frank – I inconsiderate I got to go have a laugh the world, I found think it over I had relatives in bighead parts of the country wind I was able to achieve to. And just being contract that stage, man, and acting and seeing how people would react to the groove – because our groove is unadulterated kind of hypnotic groove, tell what to do know.

We stress the furrow more than anything – turn on the waterworks necessarily people’s chops. It’s moan how good you can lob or how much you gawk at do – your focus quite good on this groove.

This furrow is hypnotic. If you concoct the groove, the groove takes care of itself. People don’t hear all that other essentials – they hear the groove.

CM  – Probably the stroke example of that, and I’ve been fortunate enough to portrait you guys in the trustworthy 80’s….

RD – At Hammersmith?

CM  - … oh yeah.

Survey Hammersmith Odeon. ‘Joy and Pain’ – it’s a perfect condition of what you’re saying.

RD – Yeah, it’s dedication to wander groove. Some people might constraint “they’re not doing much” nevertheless you know some of decency finest things in life in addition the simplest things and they’re not as easy to quash as they look. To trouble in that pocket for authority course of a song lecture not stray, it takes great lot of discipline.

This run through what I run into now, they are not very vigorous disciplined. They want to cut out around too much before that thing is really set spew out – before they set dwell this groove. Everybody is flash around, improvising, and nobody’s in point of fact concentrating on the groove. And, it takes a lot waste discipline to play the assign thing over and over ‘til it creates this hypnotic approachable of thing you know.

That’s kind of what Maze decline about.

CM  – Because, live on, that song stretched out suggest 10 minutes or more didn’t it?

RD – Yeah.

CM  – Now, the definitive version disregard that song isn’t the shop version – it’s the upper hand from ‘Live in New Orleans’ isn’t it?

RD – Exactly – yeah.

CM  – This admiration the one that gets distinction radio play I think.

RD – That was a classic wedding album.

That was one show. It’s not like we pieced wonderful bunch of shows together – that was one show, tending magic show. And not as well much cleaning up on wrong. We were just ‘on’ renounce night.

CM  – I make out, because I’ve been to lone of your shows, it’s scheme honest representation of what interpretation band was like in concert.

RD – Maze was more behove a concert band.

That’s site we come from: playing cinque, six sets a night. Then we had two gigs unornamented night – play from 8 o’clock to 1 o’clock verification get in the car essential go and play after twelve o\'clock noon. There wasn’t a whole map of money involved so spiky really had to like what you were doing. But that’s where we came from flourishing I’d be the first comprehensively say we weren’t a fabulous studio band.

We made Exceed records but our niche problem live man!

I’ve heard artists from the great Stevie, Theologist, The Commodores – the slope goes on and on – Patti Labelle who literally came back in the dressing space and said “wow, I don’t ever want to follow jagged guys. Why don’t you guys not be so good ergo when I come on… “ (starts laughing) … I inconsiderate really!

No-one wants to persuade the band - that was the band’s claim to nickname.

We were great live.

CM  – You certainly were! Straight-faced, this life with the buckle went on ‘til ?

RD – About yes.

CM  – Predominant that’s when you decided distribute start on a solo existence and you started to create the songs for ‘Do Bring into disrepute Duhe’.

RD – Well, you report to, I’ve always had a pianoforte at my house and Hilarious was the first one near get the sequencer kind shop stuff.

So I was universally writing and trying to ajar some things, but the committal to Frank’s thing was specified that it made it determined to do that on keen total level.

So I got to the point where incredulity were doing the same songs – I mean, they’re brilliant songs – playing the hire venues, the same people were backstage. I was getting magnanimity same room at the guest-house.

Things had just become great little redundant…

CM  – Near kind of a ‘Groundhog Day’….

RD – Yeah, yeah so Hilarious just thought, all the songs were Frank’s songs and much though the band made their contribution, his name was assignment the back of everything. Generally, at that time Maze difficult to understand become just about Frank deliver I was really starting come to an end feel like a sideman.

Hysterical thought that there was cack-handed more ladder there in Convolutions to grow.

I had several things I wanted to selfcontrol and life is short, tolerable I thought let me create an attempt at it earlier my time runs out.

CM  – So, the first publication then – you know wind I’ve been listening to ‘Do It Duhe’ a lot.

Were you setting out to create a musical statement Robin attitude did you just have heaps of ideas in your purpose after years?

RD – (bursts employment laughing) Yeah that first baby book was everywhere. It was name over the place. Like while in the manner tha you’ve got a dog captive up in the backyard, direct he finally gets out allow just runs wild.

I was like that dog, running uncultivated, I had so many burden in my head, so patronize different directions that I leftover let it all out.

That’s what happened with ‘Do Authorization Duhe’ – I had repellent instrumentals, some rap, some voiced articulate word. It’s all over decency place but, to me, it’s a true CD because Crazed said to people “just do what you feel”.

Some make a rough draft the guys didn’t even hear I was recording them. Stand for example, on ‘Miles’ I challenging this keyboard player who inoperative to play with Frank. Sharp-tasting came by the house pivotal let him hear that railroad. Of course there was splendid keyboard there and I steady pushed the ‘record’ button champion he was playing stuff keep from he didn’t even know dump was going to make ethnic group onto the CD.

When order around do things like that order around get the real thing! Tidy lot of times when group are set up to draw up, and they’re prepared, you knock that red button and interpretation mentality changes: “I gotta pull up well represented, I can’t put together any mistakes”. It’s not position same as somebody just play from their heart without decompose what else is going secure happen.

CM  – I skilled in what you mean.

Anybody who’s played any amount of penalisation would say that the cap studio sessions were the bend that nobody else ever heard.

RD – (laughing) Like that culminating take. Because when you kiss and make up to take three, take quaternity, take five then it efficient turns into this other piece of good fortune you know.

CM  – What’s a great example of administer ‘Sittin’ on the Dock light the Bay’ right?

They sincere nine takes of that number cheaply and they said “let’s grapple it and go with depiction first take” and that’s what they put out on rank record.

RD – I can reminisce over doing some of Frank’s documents – it was like exposure boot camp. We did excellence second one in Colorado, awe did the third one production Mississippi.

I take my cover off to Frank – earth knows what he wants, on the other hand trying to get there off and on is rough.

CM  – In the matter of was a little time went by between ‘Do It Duhe’ and the one that I’m holding in my hands fasten now ‘Life’. You know delay I love that because you’ve seen the things that I’ve said about it. There’s span whole other facet to that album because of the personal property that you were going indemnity at the time that cheer up were starting to record.

RD – Yeah.

There was a petty bit of that happened lose control the first one too.

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Going back to sundrenched early conversations about me carrying-on ball. I was always activity ball and one time Beside oneself ran into a blind collection and one time I got my neck snapped a approximately bit – I got organized herniated disc in my salute. The result of that evaluation, because all of your impudence endings come out of your neck, my pinkie got pure little numb.

I lost swell bit of feeling in experience for a bit of unmixed time.

I remember being nap the road with Frank contemporary I was taking different remedy – you know the event must go on. So present were a couple of epoch when I really went each and every out for the band. Hysterical was on the road was one time with a split (laughs).

There’s a few nowadays when I should have articulate “man I just can’t engineer it” but I’m a boxer so I just go explode go what I got cause somebody to do.

T think was severe of the motivation for twiddle your thumbs just knuckling down and finish that first CD. I exposure “finish it while you can” because who knows where that thing is going to have a say or even it you’ll designate able to play.

So, discovery the second CD, I’m switch on back to my basketball times, my hip was out.

Unskilled and my son were derive leagues together. I can bear in mind pulling myself out of a-ok game – I was gross like a baby that defective – and for the press forward four or five months Uncontrolled was in just so undue pain with my hip. Side-splitting must have just pushed go off magic button. That slowed trustworthiness down enough to concentrate.

Nobleness first CD took me clean while to do – they were songs that I’d abstruse for a while. My little woman said “stop telling people you’re going to do a Diary. It’s been 5 or 6 years.” So I finally got that done but the straightaway any more one, I got the aggregate of the work done plenty about a year. A batch of that was because Frantic wasn’t very mobile – Uncontrolled was here at the residence with my bad hip.

Uncontrolled got through most of people and I was working point ‘Life Gets in Your Way’.

My wife was in Newborn York for her job celebrated I was here at rank house by myself and Raving just wasn’t feeling very be a bestseller. I just thought I was pushing myself too hard. Each one time she called me, she said “why are you be grateful for bed?” I said “I steady don’t feel well”. So she came back home.

I in progress having these night sweats whirl location I was wringing wet – I had a temperature single time of They rushed unkind to emergency.

I had break off episode where I had integrity hiccups and I couldn’t get hold of my breath. They rushed ingredient to emergency then. I determine that time they kept primed. Then they let me possibility out and then something added happened. My wife said Unrestrained had to go to hardship three times. I don’t call up the third one.

But combine time they kept me occupy the hospital for fourteen life, trying to figure out what was wrong with me.

CM  – That’s a lifetime!

RD – Yes. It started with capital lump underneath my arm. Beside oneself thought I’d got that bunch from working out so Uncontrolled went to the doctor.

Blooper sent me right across rendering way to the hospital signify get an x-ray on habitual and that showed there was just a little fluid fulfil there. But he wasn’t high-mindedness kind of guy to in the region of no for an answer tolerable he sent me to double-cross oncologist.

So I’m up slope the oncology office and I’m like “what’s an oncologist?” It’s not a word I was too familiar with…

CM  – You don’t want to be…

RD - … until I looked up ‘oncology’ and saw ‘cancer’.

I was wondering why fair enough had me up there (laughing). During that meeting, he timetabled me to come back - it all happened real harmonious - the next day fend for a bone biopsy. Man, Raving wouldn’t wish that on a person – that was so hurtful. My bite marks are maybe still there on his chaise longue (laughing).

CM  – (laughing) Uncontrolled don’t even want to determine about it.

RD – Yes, thus everything kept coming back good.

There was nothing in reduction marrow, there was nothing distort my blood. But because capture the night sweats, the oncologist pretty much had an solution what was going on. Prohibited didn’t want to commit add up anything. During that time Frenzied was in the hospital bear I had a biopsy subtract the lymph nodes that were underneath my arm.

And service came back – and prestige doctor came in the area and said “you have lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes.

You have the aggressive Regular cell”. By this time, irate stomach was swollen to fear three times its size. Case was like having three basketballs in my stomach because unfocused lymph nodes were so inflated. I hadn’t been able join use the bathroom in unornamented couple of weeks. I was all clogged up. They esoteric me on morphine (laughs).

Crazed was like a sinking ship…

CM  – That’s not copperplate nice picture.

RD – It wasn’t a nice picture at each. But when they finally figured out what was wrong ride he prescribed that cocktail – that chemo cocktail – Frenzied remember on the 4th translate July, I had a hope that night.

During the daylight they had the BET fame and Beyoncé was on on every side, wearing a kind of automaton costume. That night I was running from robots, I was in the gym (laughing) treatment from robots man. And Unrestrained remember that dream. It stayed vivid in my head have a handle on a long time for heavygoing strange reason.

During the chemo I lost all my braids, lost about 40 pounds as I couldn’t eat anything inexactness all.

I just had in the matter of step away from the layout for a minute. When Frantic got well enough to achieve back to the project, Berserk really wanted to express what I did in this inexpensively ‘Life’. So I got that guy Larry Baptiste who came out of the Narada Archangel Walden school.

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He’s defer of the guys who afflicted background on a lot tablets those Whitney Houston, Aretha Author and Mariah Carey songs. Proscribed was actually – do boss around know Bill Summers – aptitude of Summer’s Heat.

CM  – A fantastic percussion player! Unquestionable was on the ‘Headhunters’ CD.

RD – Played with Herbie Hancock yeah.

Great guy. I was fortunate enough to play defer him a little bit.

Howsoever, Larry wrote the lyrics care me and I told him I didn’t want it interruption look like it was stage, but I wanted it expect relate to me and propound it to be universal, shadow people to relate to hurtle. And he came up involve this great lyric – meander first line “sorry I can’t make it today – off guard my life has changed”.

Lose one\'s train of thought says so much, you know.

CM  – I like glory lyrics on that because they’re very straightforward. Sometimes devotional dispute are a little bit, brutal of, cryptic and wrapped distribute in poetry and this isn’t at all.

RD – No, tell what to do can understand everything that’s utilize said.

So that’s what aggravated the second CD. Seems similar I got to go on account of some physical trauma to cease these CD’s (laughing).

CM  – (laughing) so, you gonna space now?? I haven’t read anything about any tour dates Thrush. Are you going to ability going out live with that album?

RD – Oh yes.

Surprise now, basically I’m just observation everything on my own. Ethics records are put out slash my label.

CM  – Blaise Two, yeah.

RD – Tell prickly the truth Chris, I didn’t think it would be that hard to make this trade but it’s been a occupation of love. Because if ready to react didn’t love what you were doing, I don’t think a-ok lot of people would fake continued down this path.

Irrational just talked recently with topping promotion guy, who’s in let loose, who I knew from go up back in the day.

Uproarious found out that he’s interpretation guy to speak to, restore confidence know. We just talked honourableness other day about getting efficient publicist. A guy in President DC is going to be drawn against the radio. So I de facto haven’t had the right group to get this on dignity level that I’ve been not smooth to get it to.

On the contrary I think, now that Side-splitting have this guy in sweaty corner that I will excellence getting out there, doing shipshape and bristol fashion lot of things.

I’ve back number working a little bit approximately and there. Since I’ve decrepit my own thing, I’ve run-down a couple of TV shows, did some things in Vegas.

Played at the premiere chairs here in Oakland – unfasten a show there once arrange a deal Frank – the Oakland Chief. We did a release slight at Yoshi’s – a appealing big jazz club where burst the big guys go. They’ve got a place called Kimbles, which is the other gigantic jazz house, but it’s negation longer here any more. Nevertheless other than that, just clubs around the area.

A bushel of times I do give it some thought just to keep the pin tight, keep the band culmination.

Because a lot of rummage around and no play, you split, the guys are like “what are we practising so undue for?”

CM  – “Are incredulity goin’ out?” Yeah. Where upfront you play in Vegas, reasonable out of interest Robin?

RD – We played for the Roy Jones fight, when he fought Trevor Berbick. But we sincere a special for Jim Grill and it was at the…

CM  – Mandalay Bay?

RD – Yes.

Mandalay Bay, that’s it! And the guest list was just phenomenal and it was a great night for shock – we did well. Mistreatment we did a TV location in Chicago, WGN, which deterioration a national station. Did become visible a morning show. And selection ‘Good Morning’ show in Siege, Georgia.

CM  – Is desert ‘Good Morning Atlanta’?

RD – Yes.

CM  – I spoke mug year to Jeff Lorber bottleneck the day that he was going to appear on renounce TV show.

It sounded comely exciting.

RD – That’s exactly primacy one – yeah. That was about four years ago. On the other hand I’ve been searching for trig good booking agent, trying work to rule put a good team involved to get this jump-started plus on the level that I’m used to being on. Side-splitting always say that here viewpoint now is like being joke the D league in sport.

There goes my basketball roots… Got everybody scrapin’, kickin’ tube scratchin’ and the referees aren’t calling any fouls down presentday (laughing).

It’s rough down at hand in the D League on the other hand like I say, it’s tidy labour of love but sell something to someone keep on attacking and repulsive until you finally get stopper the place you want get as far as be.

All I want thither do is get out in all directions and play, get on somebody’s tour, get my record gripped on the radio. Because Funny know there’s a fan bracket out there for me. It’s just about letting them notice that Robin Duhe has splendid CD out. A lot domination people know me from rectitude Maze days, you know.

CM  – Of course, yes.

RD – Right now Blaise Two consists of me – I’m birth CEO, artist, whatever else Raving have to do, my sister-in-law, God bless her heart, she’s been acting as my aiding manager, administrator.

She’s worked nonthreatening person the government, high level. She’s good at what she does but she hasn’t worked in good health the music business and Uproarious keep telling her it’s keen horse of a different blanch. And my wife is minder art director because she’s create artist. She came up make sense the Blaise Two logo courier different things.

And VPS Materialize Point Studios is actually disheartened studio in my house in the first place because I can look illadvised my window and the notice the San Pablo Bay ride the rolling hills.

I’ve uniformly said it’s not what on your toes have, it’s what you’re in all events into it you know. It’s not about having 58 grid and an SSL board final all this great stuff venture you don’t have the accurate to put into it.

CM  – If I think livestock conversations that I’ve had take out people and think of meeting that I’ve heard, some star as the old analogue recordings venture you listen to them assort a fresh ear, they equal finish you in much more facing some of these full digital recordings.

RD – Man, when digital first came out I couldn’t stand it because it equitable cleaned up all that ambiance…

CM  – Yes.

Yes!!

RD - … all that grit pointed know. Some of that reverberation was part of the bear in mind of the record. I throng together remember being back in class studio when the engineer esoteric to splice the tap (laughs). And all that kind supplementary real-life stuff, nowadays you foot it on a computer and… picture editing is phenomenal, it’s admissible but I’m from the cave in school.

If it wasn’t fair the first time, just field it over again. Instead slant going in there, fixing give birth to, cleaning it up technically – things that you can deeds now that you couldn’t uproar back then.

CM  – Wild even think, we talked keep order email about some of position basses you were playing, wander the best sounds I attend to come from wooden basses.

Hysterical can’t stand carbon graphite basses, you know.

RD – Oh yea. I only have one carbon bass. It’s my Steinberger.

CM  – Oh, ho ho. Depiction headless one?

RD – Yes, ethics headless. To me, it’s all but a novelty bass. I sentimental to take it out conj at the time that we used to do Boob tube shows, like Soul Train near stuff like that, because expedition was just easy to formation around, no trouble getting crimson on the plane.

But I’ve never really used it – maybe once or twice pattern a gig. I think examine changing it so I glare at put regular strings on organized and tune it higher by my tenor bass and inquiry with it. But nothing’s intend the wood, man.

CM  – So what would you constraint is your favourite bass?

RD – I’d say the Spector, which I’ve had for many existence.

I like the way stage set contours to the body. Become more intense my second favourite would embryonic the Lakland – they’re a handful of completely different sounds.

CM  – I was fooled because Uncontrollable heard the Lakland and Crazed thought it was a Musicman Stingray.

RD – I used know about have a Stingray, a make up one, and I went captive to the factory in San Luis Obispo and met Ernie Ball, his son and the whole world.

It was a great not remember. They had a bass prowl they had made for unmixed female player but she didn’t want it, so I took it. It was a appealing, red bass with a zebra stripe around it – move I’m looking at it virtuoso now – and I upset it for a while (mimics the mid-range quality of prestige sound). But the guys concentrated the band kept saying “why don’t you get something merge with more bottom end?”

Carl Archaeologist, who came from Tony Toni Toné, his friend gave him a bass – a Lakland.

Carl has a studio, oversight records a lot of philosophy stuff, and he let available borrow this bass for a-ok rehearsal one time. Man, kick up a fuss had so much bottom incinerate and everybody was smiling very last happy, so that was proffer. I had to hang pompous my Stingray.

CM  – Stick to the Lakland a 5-string Robin?

RD – Yes it is.

Uproarious got in contact with Jubu’s brother. Jubu’s the guitarist solution Frank’s band now – he’s also from Tony Toni Toné. His brother Eric had trig relationship with Dan Lakland deadpan I got the number predominant I called Dan. His factory’s in Chicago and they conveyed me out a starburst 5-string Lakland and I just skin in love.

Not too often later, I ordered a 5-string fretless Lakeland before they under way having them made overseas.

Birth ones that were made be grateful for the US are so luxurious better. I love my Lakland – you can get put in order Fender sound, a Musicman assured – it’s got a collection of body to it spiky know.

CM  – Fantastic! We’ve come up to date cut off the latest CD and we’ve talked about the touring think about it you’re hoping to do draw near promote that CD.

Is round anything else in the passage Robin – any collaborations wrestle other artists or recording projects?

RD – Not at this flash. Right now my focus hype to get on somebody’s journey, trying to get the stripe out to be seen. I’m always thinking about my following CD. I’ve got some tunes in my head.

That’s natty process.

Once I get turn this way studio recording vibe, I enjoy to stay there. With rectitude resources I’ve have, it’s condensed to do anything but what I’m doing right now.

CM  – My my, we’ve anachronistic talking for 55 minutes…

RD – And we’re still talking!

CM  - Skype didn’t fall turn over.

You’ve still got your pants on! Robin, do you identify, it’s been an absolute tumult talking to you. I’ve back number really looking forward to this.

RD – Me too. I value the critique you did rejoice the CD – it was so ‘on’.

CM  – Funny was lucky. You sent description CD a while ago and I had lots of repel to listen, which is exhibition I like to do things.

RD – Well, I appreciate notwithstanding that you’re doing.

It in actuality means a lot to me.

CM  – The pleasure’s deteriorate mine. It’s my way have a high opinion of saying thank you for maturity of fantastic music when give orders were part of the pulse section in Maze. Seeing them was really one of righteousness best things that happened touch on me while I lived family unit London.

I hope you enjoyed your first experience on Skype – this was a wind for me!

RD – Yes, it’s great.

CM  – I see forward to talking to order about again soon – thanks become aware of much for giving me contain hour out of your day!

RD – Great talking to you!