Love and respect to Leon Michels and his drummer Homer. I remember being blown away by Sounding Out the City when I was a teenager in 2005. My friend and I split the cost of the CD, and we only bought it because the dude at the counter at Lou's Records said it ruled. We treated his recommendations seriously. We were getting into funk, but we had no interest in soul music, prior to buying the album. We were blown away, and promptly burned the CD for all of our friends, lol. I have many good memories sitting in traffic in Los Angeles as a teenager, crawling along a packed freeway at 5 mph, the summer sun beating down on us, my friend in the passenger seat, the two of us getting stoned while we blasted Sounding Out the City. We'd listen, wordless, and occasionally point out new graffiti we liked on each overpass. Didn't have a care in the world. The album has always been, in my mind, associated with the image a strand of smoke gently unfurling in the afternoon sun, like from a stick of incense. That's Sounding Out the City. I still come back to it to it all the time. and btw... why is this interview only being posted now?
Nice memories! Yeah, pretty much everything they put out from Truth & Soul to Big Crown is🔥. When I did this interview with Leon I had been working freelance for the NYTimes and had wanted to do a multimedia feature about Lee Fields for them, but I never could crack the Arts section there and it didn't end up going anywhere. Then I started focusing on my Latin soul/boogaloo feature documentary We Like It Like That (PBS) and this footage just sat. Last year, after I started using TH-cam as a home for my archive I knew this would be an interview I'd have to finally post. Better late than never I guess...
IT'S MUSIC THAT COMES FROM DUDES LIKE THIS THAT MAKE ME VERY GIDDY AS TO WHY I DIGG FOR VINYL. ANY AND ALL GENRES ARE FAIR GAME TO DATE! THE ALBUM WITH BLACK THOUGHT IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!! IT'S LIKE ONE BIG 45 ON A 12" INCH RECORD....SALUTE TO YOU DUDE...LOVE AND TOO DAMN MUCH RESPECT!!!!!!
Love and respect to Leon Michels and his drummer Homer. I remember being blown away by Sounding Out the City when I was a teenager in 2005. My friend and I split the cost of the CD, and we only bought it because the dude at the counter at Lou's Records said it ruled. We treated his recommendations seriously. We were getting into funk, but we had no interest in soul music, prior to buying the album. We were blown away, and promptly burned the CD for all of our friends, lol.
I have many good memories sitting in traffic in Los Angeles as a teenager, crawling along a packed freeway at 5 mph, the summer sun beating down on us, my friend in the passenger seat, the two of us getting stoned while we blasted Sounding Out the City. We'd listen, wordless, and occasionally point out new graffiti we liked on each overpass. Didn't have a care in the world. The album has always been, in my mind, associated with the image a strand of smoke gently unfurling in the afternoon sun, like from a stick of incense. That's Sounding Out the City. I still come back to it to it all the time.
and btw... why is this interview only being posted now?
Nice memories! Yeah, pretty much everything they put out from Truth & Soul to Big Crown is🔥. When I did this interview with Leon I had been working freelance for the NYTimes and had wanted to do a multimedia feature about Lee Fields for them, but I never could crack the Arts section there and it didn't end up going anywhere. Then I started focusing on my Latin soul/boogaloo feature documentary We Like It Like That (PBS) and this footage just sat. Last year, after I started using TH-cam as a home for my archive I knew this would be an interview I'd have to finally post. Better late than never I guess...
IT'S MUSIC THAT COMES FROM DUDES LIKE THIS THAT MAKE ME VERY GIDDY AS TO WHY I DIGG FOR VINYL. ANY AND ALL GENRES ARE FAIR GAME TO DATE! THE ALBUM WITH BLACK THOUGHT IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!! IT'S LIKE ONE BIG 45 ON A 12" INCH RECORD....SALUTE TO YOU DUDE...LOVE AND TOO DAMN MUCH RESPECT!!!!!!
Awesome interview! Please upload more live Lee Fields thank you!
someone plz tell me is he the male voice in brooklyn baby?!
Help, that's exactly why I'm here
Yes he is
@@OfficerGrimes09 but I've heard that it could also be Seth Kaufman
@Sacha.B_53 Seth Kauffman said he played a bunch of stuff on the record but he also said that those background vocals were not his but Leon michels
MUSIC WITH 'IMPERFECTIONS"!!!!! THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING.
Dude makes great records
legend
He's indoors but he needs two coats? Is *that* the secret?
🤔🤔🤔
🤣I think the heat at their studio was out that wintry day in Brooklyn 🥶
@@muddysciencehow do I get permission to rhyme over some of his beats at open mics?????
U BAD BRUTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!