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holland dozier holland all these people that was huge to me and what they were singing about just resonated for me philly soul had this great symphonic sound to it and motown i mean you want to talk about it an anthem. talk about dancin in the streets that's all rock anthem you know it's a call for people to go out and dance in the streets that music resonated with me early on i was lucky enough i saw otis redding live i saw solomon burke. you know so that music was really really part of my formative years and being able now to have soul station does this band this 15 piece band of people who are really like minded all who have played with everyone from smokey and stevie to whitney euston to natalie cole to. a lot of contemporary artists and all of us who are just bent on this idea of championing that great music that somehow has been relegated to becoming the oldies or a sample on a rap song you don't need a sample for a rap song you need to hear the 4 tops you need to hear all this music and what we really put our our nose to the grindstone was to be able to do all that music with reverence and faithfully and bring it to people live and that's what we've been doing you want to hear that you know great delfonics songs blue magic all this stuff so we started playing and the response was great and we were having a ball recreating all that music and finally went into the studio and as we were in the studio i just started thinking why do just old songs let's write a new page let's seamlessly take this into yeah let's take this into the present and because it's not music that you should just be old to use it should give birth to new music so that's inshore what we did. well it's best represented like a sudden early to call xp soul station obit released on march 5th what talk to him about some of the players he's with now paul stanley and one of my inspirations i've talked in gene many times over the years and like i said i've gone said margaret girl a lump rock n roll it's been in me probably since the same time he saw the supplement but something about the ministry it turns of becoming a dead legend and so he said always are trying so like minded people have always been fond of the kiss approach to business and rock n roll talk more to paul right after this on the misnomer plus one. nuclear power plants have become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shut down of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power line with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on r.t. . is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by with. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. a folks welcome back to dennis miller plus one just talking to paul right about his father who is $101.00 now still sharp as a tack it's unbelievable any subject that i can bring up he'll just dive into and. he'll talk to me about business will talk to me about politics. all current event when i'm on tour hill i'll call me says oh you're in kansas today oh he's totally with it i try to explain to my kids most people 100 years old don't know where they are or if they are my dad if we could put his head on another body he'd be good for 200 years at what a lifespan there from from over a 100 years when he was a young man as they said in the movie. and then eventually big sons hall of fame bad let's talk about some new group put together featuring him sell multiple artists and musicians i would love to hear some of the roster and how long you know and some of the guys any new cats tell me about it was planned here it's really interesting it just the interesting thing is it just fell together and everybody feels like they've known each other forever everybody comes over to my house we we have a great time the musical director keyboard player alex alex and droning is this brilliant brilliant arranger pianist he played he was musical director for whitney used him for natalie cole christina aguilera paying cher the list goes on john papen broke our lead trumpet played with buddy rich played with frank sinatra played with the temptations. and he's just stellar sean hurley our bass player was the touring bass player for john mayer. who is our percussionist is on tour recently with chicago and he's played with with again a who's who. let's see who else i can mention. our drummer wears white face and whiskers. are. eric singer has been in kiss for over 24 years i believe and he's just a brilliant drummer who grew up playing in big bands with his dad so this is really his his. his wheelhouse i'm not going to call them backup singers because they're far from it but a crystal crystal night who's really the mama a good looking mama i had that heard her dad saying backup for jackie wilson and. yes so and his front very funny because he comes to the shows and he just loves it and he talks about me god bless him and he goes he sounds like all those guys what you know i mean who could hope for more than that. let's see lauren but i don't know yet i wonder what are more it's the 27 yankees. road you put me out there over there yeah it's really it's really the best thing about it is how much everybody loves being together and when you see the videos which are being released the 1st single comes out the 15th it's the remake of a child by the 5 stair steps and you just see the joy in the band because everybody in the band goes i mean like i said they played with everybody and to play with everybody and they go all we want to do is this all we want to do is this music so we're just having a ball and it's so interesting paula last night as i was dozing i was reading a book about the sands hotel there talking about sinatra and basically come in and i always of love the lie about. you know it made me actually want to read up when somebody does charts i kind of know what that is now so really all that but i need to do not war because young quincy jones did the charts. i met him step in was. and tell basi and. doing the charts from the bad sense and sort oft over the position i was doing the arrangements they see things as an adult some of those guys over the years doing make outs like that it is a huge part of. the guy who did all of the chartering treatments the classic ones from motown was in school at the time he was a teenager ok now so yeah and sometimes he might say i can't be there you know until whatever time i'm going to finish what i'm doing so yeah it's crazy and. you know when when you think hey speaking of quincy jones quincy jones produced and in music that means directed organized as opposed to a film quincy jones produced lesley gore. really i just saw her on that show down in santa monica i forget what it's called that concert and lesley gore came out with some heavy weights and she hit the hell out of the ball that night shea did it's my party she did you don't own me one of the 1st real women's lib songs way before i am woman helen reddy but. yeah so quincy quincy's he's the real deal. you know paul when i look at the covers on the album i was just listening last week to sirius radio al green comes on the let's stay together i look at my wife and i say is it arguably or inarguably that this is the greatest rb song ever what are your thoughts on what al green could do you know there's the old saying he could sing the phone book i mean this guy is the reverend he and to this day man he he's just stellar and let's stay together crazy crazy could and we did it and that takes colonies but i have to say it it's great you know we're walking in big shadows you know these legends really cast big shadows but i really believe that this music needs to be heard and maybe with a fresh coat of paint on it it extends the life of it because the music is just stellar al green willie mitchell all the stuff that came out from those guys was just ridiculous you know you well you were yeah well that's going to be robin and berry gordy in the motown documentary which is blow my mind they're sitting on a soundboard it was funny smokey when you see such a gentle cat from far away you wonder i wonder smokey was over in the game was you play or was the you know what was it he was so cool with that documentary and when he. and barry would get to the part where you know got a little while the dogs just look at you have. made me laugh so hard that i know when glads between guys who are in the belly of the kids that's what you know that's the beauty is that commercial and to be able to look back on that for them i mean i found that that showed just something to watch over and over to know the connection between the 2 and by the way smokey wrote my girl for the temps you know so smokey was all over that scene but to have those 2 guys be able to look back at what they've created and still have that bond between each other you can't get better than that and that sort of stuff the ability stuff to meet you that is stored in the stone catalog stuff to be able to summon that up they go ok i'm on the clock let's write a song close my eyes well the whole idea is not dissimilar to the brill building in new york where you would have carole king and gerry goffin in one stall and you would have barry man and cynthia wilde in the next one and you'd have. jeff barry and ellie greenwich and everybody's competing to write the next hit song for the righteous brothers or you got to write a song for poor appear in the raiders or the animals so yeah it's a great way if you have the the talent it's a great way to learn your craft i always say you know anybody can write a song but that doesn't make you a songwriter. explain to me more what do you mean you may know why people come knocking on our what tell me what you mean i think anybody with any technical knowledge of an instrument can basically write a song understanding what it takes to craft a great song and repeated over and over is where you know that separates the boys with the men or whatever and now you want to use. writing is writing songs as is easy understanding what it takes to write a great song is or is something that you're always working at so the people in the brill building were holland dozier holland or norman whitfield all the people who were writing these great songs. marvin gaye. you have to really understand what it takes to not only write a great song not to fall into a great song but craft one and then be able to do it again and we're talking of the great i would be remiss if i didn't say on this album there is 14. station it'll be released on march 5th by the way folks originals we have some originals but there are i think there's 5 originals on there. you know what again when we started to go into the studio and as this kept evolving i just started to think we need some we need one modern song not yet that it sounds modern but a song that transitions us seamlessly into the present and i wrote one and then i when we need to and the band was so fired up and everybody you heard 'd some of my friends who were quite well known singers and songwriters and performers they've heard some of the album and go. it's seemless. one of my friends heard one of the originals