This jam here is freaky, funky and over the top. Michael most definitely wasn't afraid to let his freak flag fly.

Slingshot-Taken from the album Slingshot(1981).

I think this song and the album its taken from are underrated. Bedtime story is a good piece of 80's dance music.

Bedtime Story-Taken from the album Bedtime Story(1986).

This song reminds me of Oh Baby, by The Time.

In my humble opinion its one of the best slow jams ever.

Take Care-Taken from the album Slingshot(1981).

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10,9,8,7,6,.... 3,2,1 ANDY!!!!

Big fan of MR. Henderson's, this man should have an "Unsung". I prefer Henderson's ballads and mid-tempo stuff.

JoeyC said:

Michael Henderson 3 pack.

He has a 6 pack.

Cinny said:

JoeyC said:

Michael Henderson 3 pack.

He has a 6 pack.

He had a 6 pack, you haven't seen Henderson lately, uh? Henderson always made me laugh because he thought he was soooo hot/fine. Most times of the time that's not very attractive but he managed to pull it off.

TD3 said:

10,9,8,7,6,.... 3,2,1 ANDY!!!!

Big fan of MR. Henderson's, this man should have an "Unsung". I prefer Henderson's ballads and mid-tempo stuff.

Yeah i can just imagine what a Michael Henderson Unsung episode would be like.

As far as Michael's sex appeal. He sometimes cracked me up with his 'unique' moustache but he managed to pull it off... I ain't mad at him.

Also, i think Michael's ballads are somewhat under appreciated. He's mainly known for his Bass playing and his funk jams but his slow and mid tempo stuff is slammin as well. He most definitely put a lot of emotion and expression into his singing( on his slow jams).

Anyways here's annother slow jam of his that i like.

What I'm Feeling. From the album Wide Receiver(1980).

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TD3 said:

Big fan of MR. Henderson's, this man should have an "Unsung".

He gave an interview last year on a TV show and basically talked about his background. It's in this thread, reply #85:

http://prince.org/msg/8/3...?&pg=3

MickyDolenz said:

TD3 said:

Big fan of MR. Henderson's, this man should have an "Unsung".

He gave an interview last year on a TV show and basically talked about his background. It's in this thread, reply #85:

http://prince.org/msg/8/3...?&pg=3

Gosh damn! Michael is 6'6 tall ? Wow.

Also that Minnie Riperton interview was nice. She was a beautiful woman. I miss her, Richard Pryor and Sammy Davis. Tragic.

Thanks mickey.

Yeah, Henderson's a tall drink of water... when he was with Miles, he came down to Rainbow Beach (in Chicago) and played some basketball. I wanted to strangle Ms. Davis during her interview, damn did the woman do just a little homework on her subject .

TD3 said:

Yeah, Henderson's a tall drink of water... when he was with Miles, he came down to Rainbow Beach (in Chicago) and played some basketball. I wanted to strangle Ms. Davis during her interview, damn did the woman do just a little homework on her subject .

Yeah she did kinda seem a lil unprepared.

As for the videos.

^^I guess the program is some kind of local show, but the Wide Receiver story was kinda funny.

What, no Andy yet??

HuMpThAnG said:

What, no Andy yet??

I don't think he comes here much as there are no funk, disco, or Whitney Houston threads.

The Red Light is Off: A Chat With Michael Henderson, 7/16/05

"It never stopped, says Michael Henderson, electric bassist, referring to his career after six years with Miles Davis from April 1970-December 1976. "I've played with just about everybody on the planet—Snoop Dog, LL Cool J, Carl Thomas, Mobb Deep. I've been having a great time."

This is a man who has nearly 50 platinum records. Miles Davis plucked him out of Stevie Wonder's band when he was 19. But, he says, he was already "a hardened criminal of music at 13. He'd played in Detroit with the Motown session musicians who'd later come to be called the Funk Brothers. He was with Stevie Wonder for five years (including an appearance on Ed Sullivan's show in 1967), and at the same time backed Aretha Franklin. There were also dates with The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, James Jameson (they recorded together on Marvin Gaye's "You're the Man from 1972), Earl Van Dyke (called the father of the Motown rhythm section) and others.

After he left Miles, he had a hit in 1975 with "Valentine Love," his song for drummer Normon Connors on which he sings a duet with Jean Carne. In 1976, the gold album You Are My Starship, under Connors' leadership, had a number of hits including, "We Both Need Each Other," a duet with Henderson and Phyllis Hyman, and the title cut featuring Henderson. Henderson also recorded and did arrangements for The Dramatics and Jagged Edge among others.

He sounds a bit peeved when referring to press at the time Miles recruited him which referred to him as a 19-year-old session player. "How serious is Stevie Wonder?" he posits. "Stevie is as serious as Miles, maybe even more. People say that Michael Henderson was the devil that changed Miles Davis's music, but they didn't know I came from greatness in Detroit. I came up with people who worked with Paul Chambers. Look at the musicians. How serious is Motown?"

When I tell him how blown away I am by the music on The Cellar Door Sessions 1970, which chronicles a four-day engagement with Miles Davis at a Washington, DC club, he says that wasn't even the greatest moment for the band. "Any date before that would blow your hair out." He singles out a date at Paul's Mall in Boston, circulated on a bootleg recording.

Speaking of the Cellar Door gig, he says it was a little-bitty club. "We just played unabashed, no hiding anything. We went for it. It's hard, brash, outgoing, ferocious. We knew we were doing something great."

It was raining the first few nights of the gig, he remembers, and the club was not full. But, he says, those who were there enjoyed what they were witnessing. Miles, he adds, paid the band out of his pocket.

Nobody played that kind of music, he says. "In this modern age, at sessions, guys stop being creative. If they play too much they want to get paid for it. When the green light goes on, you play what you're required to play."

There was no green light for us, he says, no red light. "Guys just don't do that anymore." He offers some advice for today's musicians, at least for those with creative ambition: "A lot of guys need to forget about the red light, forget about getting paid."

Henderson reveals one more moment from his time with Miles: "When the album [A Tribute to] Jack Johnson was about to come out, I told Miles, 'They don't put our names on the albums in Detroit.' I demanded they put our names on the record 'What You See Is What You Get' from The Dramatics. The other musicians were afraid that Berry Gordy wouldn't like the fact that they were moonlighting. But I was a bad ass. I told Miles and Miles called Teo and told him to put the names on the cover." First versions of the LP include personnel credits on the front. "I raised hell. I'm a fighter. That's why Miles hired me."

He says that he's been in the studio lately with two battery mates from Miles's mid-70s band—electric guitarists Reggie Lucas and Pete Cosey. He's also touring a band called Bass Players' Ball with Ray Parker Jr. on guitar (another teenage sensation on sessions for Holland-Dozier-Holland before playing on Stevie Wonder's Talking Book and Innervisions albums, and later under his own name, Ghostbusters) and George Johnson of the Brothers Johnson on bass.

"These are not just session guys," he says. "These are session guys with million selling records."

He adds that he's recorded a lot of music that is still in the vault, including his tune, "You Are My Starship," recorded with Keith Jarrett, Al Foster, Mtume and Reggie Lucas, and "Treat Me Like a Man," which he wrote for The Dramatics, with Jarrett and Al Foster.

And, my Miles fanatic friends on the Web will salivate over this tidbit: He says he has a black and white video shot live at a gig in Philadelphia in 1970 that documents the Miles band which a few months later played The Cellar Door. "That band was more incredible each night," he says.

MickyDolenz said:

HuMpThAnG said:

What, no Andy yet??

I don't think he comes here much as there are no funk, disco, or Whitney Houston threads.

If this thread was strictly about the Sling Shot album cover,he would be all up in this thread