PAVEMENT WEEK: EP3: 'LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH' & 'PAVEMENTS' w/ Rebecca Clay Cole

This week, we will be celebrating Pavement Week on Revolutions Per Movie with episodes that are Pavement to the max!!!  

For today’s episode (#3 of 5) we talk to multi-instrumentalist of Pavement, The Minders, Pedro The Lion & Wild Flag, Rebecca Clay Cole!!!  We discuss her time in Pavement and her varied musical life, and she also brought us an amazing music film pick to discuss: the Luther Vandross documentary Luther: Never Too Much.  We also talk about her involvement with the Elephant 6 scene, how her first band was the incredible The Minders, learning to sing harmonies on the fly, working with The Jicks before being asked to join Pavement, what the Denver music scene was like in the late 90s, collecting 7” records, the mysteries of a sound check, how Luther’s childhood friends (Fonzi Thorton, Robin Clark & David Bowie/Iggy Pop collaborator Carlos Alamor) remained in each other’s musical lives until his death, Luther running the Patti LaBelle fan club, his first band performing on Sesame Street, a young Luther getting his bandmates' parents to buy their jade colored shoes for their live shows, Luther embracing the Philly sound, David Bowie making Luther his vocal arranger for the Young Americans album and Luther re-writing one of Bowie’s songs, plus songs for The Wiz, touring with Bette Midler, chance encounters in creative situations, Luther being on every recording of Chic, his new wave album Busy Body, the racism in the record industry and how the media obsessed about his weight, how Luther controlled his band on stage tempo wise with such gentle ease and how Luther's vocal style came about from singing in a pizza commercial!

So it's siizzzzllliiinnnggg hot on episode #3 of Pavement week only here on Revolutions Per Movie!!! 

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