You Know How To Love Me
All this week whilst doing seven days of Twelve Bar sales in Tokyo I have been talking to various people around the planet about music. It all started when I had to ask my girl Catzie from Dork Mag in Illadelph who was behind the classic track Weekend Girl which she has playing on her My Space homepage. She proudly informed me that it was the S.O.S Band – I really should have remembered that I know - and it just so happened that whilst we were chatting she was in a room with my brother from another mother Anwar (who is shortly going to be opening his store Custody in Philly) who was watching old Jodeci videos on MTV.
This led to an in depth discussion about New Jack Swing, Uptown Records and for some reason Jaheim (I think I am the only Jewish guy in the world who has all his albums apart from whoever it is that owns his label) and later in the day I found myself talking to my girl Amelian in Las Vegas about New Edition, Bobby Brown and Jermaine Dupri. At the same time I was chatting to my sister in Sydney about Wajeed from the Platinum Pied Pipers playing Chaka Khan during his set in Tokyo last week and to my old friend Dan in London about a D’Angelo and David Sanborn cover of Bill Withers’ “Use Me” that he had found on You Tube and sent through to me.
As un-profound as it may sound, it really does continue to amaze me that the one thing that brings everyone together is music which, as I sit here in my hotel room typing this blog entry at 1.30 in the morning, helps keep me inspired to keep pushing Twelve Bar forwards and I promise I do actually do some work from time to time.
On a less serious note, the tune that is blowing my mind at the moment is Phyllis Hyman’s You Know How To Love Me. It’s bigger than everything I’ve talked about this week so make sure you check for it as soon as possible and, if anybody wants me to send them an MP3, hit me up at appreciation@twelvebar.com.
More in the morning – I am getting back on this by dope demand.
This led to an in depth discussion about New Jack Swing, Uptown Records and for some reason Jaheim (I think I am the only Jewish guy in the world who has all his albums apart from whoever it is that owns his label) and later in the day I found myself talking to my girl Amelian in Las Vegas about New Edition, Bobby Brown and Jermaine Dupri. At the same time I was chatting to my sister in Sydney about Wajeed from the Platinum Pied Pipers playing Chaka Khan during his set in Tokyo last week and to my old friend Dan in London about a D’Angelo and David Sanborn cover of Bill Withers’ “Use Me” that he had found on You Tube and sent through to me.
As un-profound as it may sound, it really does continue to amaze me that the one thing that brings everyone together is music which, as I sit here in my hotel room typing this blog entry at 1.30 in the morning, helps keep me inspired to keep pushing Twelve Bar forwards and I promise I do actually do some work from time to time.
On a less serious note, the tune that is blowing my mind at the moment is Phyllis Hyman’s You Know How To Love Me. It’s bigger than everything I’ve talked about this week so make sure you check for it as soon as possible and, if anybody wants me to send them an MP3, hit me up at appreciation@twelvebar.com.
More in the morning – I am getting back on this by dope demand.
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