Andy Newmark

He's doing a little Boz Skaggs, too, in there.

I just want to point out that one of the drummers on this could potentially be either Andy Newmark or I think Ed Green is on some stuff, too.

All right.

And bass is potentially George Chocolate Perry.

Very funny.

But, uh, 'cause what's funny, you saying how he remembered you from, um, from the Bowie sessions and yet, 'cause you got Andy Newmark, um, who w- he was on those Bowie sessions as well, right? Uh, 'cause it's funny, 'cause I've talked to Andy about working with Lennon and, and he said it was funny because he, he said it was fabulous, but, like, he f- took him about four days before he remembered his name.

He said it was an incredible thing of just having John Lennon refer to you as drummer.

Go, [laughs] "Okay, drummer, could you play that?" Okay.

And for me, personally...

Andy Newmark, when I spoke with him, he said he didn't like this thing that people did when they talked to him about, oh, you were great and such and such.

And to him, everything is just a gig.

You know, it's just work.

So in the days before digital delays you had to sort of tweak a knob and it was never precisely right But with a digital delay you could type in 344 milliseconds save So every time you called up that memory, it will be exactly right.

It could not be Wrong in any other way.

So we're playing away And I'm there in this rehearsal studio with, you know, childhood heroes, people that I'd grown up listening to, like Andy Newmark, Mel Collins.

You know, these were the big boys as far as I was concerned.

There's Jacques Deschanet that played drums for Miles Davis from Bitches Brew.

There's Greg Errico and Andy Newmark.

So we've got two Sly Stone drummers.

And Greg Errico also played with Carlos Santana, which is incredible.

Yeah.

I mean, I love, I just saw Andy Newmark.

I haven't seen Andy, haven't really spoken to him much in the last five years, but you know, he is my absolute brother, always will be.

There's nothing I wouldn't do for the guy.

He is on a plane going back to London.

And so, I'm like, "Are we gonna, you know, are we gonna lose a date?" Now, Andy Newmark, who is this legendary session drummer, is gonna fly in, which how they got him into Lansing, Michigan I'll never know.

But anyhow, Peter hands me, um, a cassette tape and says, and I didn't have a cassette player in the car, but I had this, you know, little boombox, "Play this for him." So from the Lansing Airport to the MSU Auditorium, probably 25 minutes, played the tape.

He goes, "I got it." And [laughs] I was just, you know, simply amazed, you know.

Well, I...

It was lovely to see my dear old pal, and in fact old Rock On Tour, um, Andy Newmark up there with Willie Weeks.

Willie is just...

I mean, what a groove he laid down.

What, what, what tracks has he played on? What would people know?

Well, uh, lots of, uh, uh, lots of, um, uh, Do- Don- Donnie Hathaway.

He played on Ronnie's first album with Andy Newmark, who-

Yeah, I always loved the story of that, which is that, uh, he g- you know, the two of them, Andy's telling the story that...