Prince

I heard George talking on the phone with Prince but I couldn’t talk George into letting me speak to him. He was like, “Just keep on playing.” We were in Detroit when we did the session for “We Can Funk” for Prince. I was excited just to be in the studio with Bootsy and George doing the song for Graffiti Bridge regardless of the fact that Prince wasn’t in the studio when we did it.

I didn’t need to be in the studio with Prince because I had already met Prince that year when I was in LA at Sheila Escovedo’s birthday party. Herbie Hancock and George Duke were there, everybody was there. And then I met Prince, “P-P-P-P-P-Pri-Pri-Pri-Prince. How are-are you? N-n-n-nice to meet you.” He was really cool, he just made me chill out and relax. Another time we played in Paris and lo and behold Prince comes on stage, plugs in the microphone – next to me – and kills it. Those were the best experiences that I had.