The Importance of Creativity

We were just trying to create a little microcosm of the music we grew up with. On our first record we had Wayne Kramer from the MC5 playing guitar. Marcus Belgrave, a great jazz trumpeter who at the time was playing with Charles Mingus. He played trumpet on Larry Fratangelo from George Clinton's organization. And it was meant to amalgamate all those sounds and create the vibe of that period. And I didn't know what I was doing man. We were just doing anything they could. When you have no bread to work with, you have to rely on creativity. You can't just hire David Campbell to come write some strings to fill up the bridge and