Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.