Veteran Saxophonist Mekiel Rueben on new album

The Chicago born native became interested in music at the early age of eight yrs. old. Mekiel is influenced by the community, culture and sounds of his hometown Chicago to a fruitful life in the Caribbean. As a young man, he was drawn to music. He understands the power of sound and his performance speaks to fans across the musical spectrum. Mekiel Rueben’s first single from 10th album release SOMETHING LIKE THAT “Boney Kirk”! A Tribue to Boney James and Kirk Whalum! Tune in

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
To the street. Up ya thing?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
She said, well all right everyone, alright, alright, welcome everyone

(03:39):
to Lady Dva Live Radio.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Here, welcome, Welcome, Hello, Michael, can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I can hear you? Very good.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
That is great, that is great. Welcome everyone to my
followers and listeners. I have a friend with me, michl Rubin.
He is with me here to present his new album.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Is that right, Michel, that's right, Lady Lady Diva.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's all right.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Welcome everyone to Lady Diva Live Radio. This show has begun.
Now I will give an introduction of you, Micheale. Now,
Michel is a Chicago born native. Hello Chicago out there,
and he has always been interested in music since at
the early age of eight years old. Now Michel is

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influenced by the community, community, culture and sounds of his hometown.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Chicago to a fruitful life in the Caribbean. Now, as
a young man, he was drawn to music.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
He understands the power of sound and his performance speaks
to fans.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Across the musical spectrum.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Now, Mical Rubens first single from tenth album release something
like that. And also we will also be listening to
Bernie Kirk, which is a tribute to Bonnie James and
Kirk Whalen.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So everyone, I thank y'all for listening.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
If you have any questions for Michael Ruben or questions
for me, please go ahead and take a text in
the chat line and we will begin. So, Michale, Michale, McHale,
how you doing.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm doing so good?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
So good?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, doing good.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
You stand like you've been doing good because we've been talking,
and we've been talking.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I feel like I'm just right next door to you.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
So I finally got you on the air, and it's
been like since what twenty nineteen or twenty twenty one, Yeah,
and I really liked that song and a lot of
folks are still playing it's for twenty times.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
Every year, yeah April twenty you know, yes, yes, yes,
they pull up Michael, they pull up your music, Michail
Ruben or twenty times.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
So yeah, people still love that.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
So as we are going along in the show, I
would like to ask you before I play the song. Uh,
Bonie Kirk, what made you do? A song tributed to
Bonie James and Kirk Wheeler.

Speaker 7 (06:35):
Those guys always ad married then sound you know, Bonie Kirk,
Bonie James rather I've always ad married sounds.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
It's it's it's smooth.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
And then Kirk Wadam has like a more spiritual sound
when you're listening. Yeah, it's more it's when he's when
he's when he sing on his saxophone, it's more like
someone singing yes it do. And then Bonnie James he's
more technical and gives you a nice uh. He has
a lot of licks that he likes play. Yes, he

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come back to a lot of themes and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
So yes he do. You know.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
So those that's what I like about both of those artists.
You know, they some of my top people I like
to listen to every once in a while.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, well I'm gonna play Bernie Bonie Kirk. It's
just different, you know, instead of saying Bonie James and
Kirk whalam.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
So I want to thank you for this song.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
I'm gonna play it you staying at hot seat, McHale, everyone,
I'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
The can.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Don't come.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Say yes that's Bony Kirk by Michal Rubin Everyone. That

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is off of his new album something like that, something
like that. So as we move along with this show here, Michel,
are you still with me.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, yes, yes, I'm still.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Here, all right, So as I want to ask you
about your travels, events and other projects.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Now, I know earlier the last year you was.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Doing a lot of traveling and a lot of events.
So what's going on this year? Do you have any
upcome man events you want to talk about?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Well, you know, right now, I'm living in the Virgin Islands,
the US Virgin Islands, Saint Croix, so I do a
lot of local gigs. Now I haven't been doing much touring.
So right now, from November to about May August, May,
probably between i'd say between November and and say August,

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I'm gonna be working in the Virgin Islands, the US
Virgin Islands. Sometimes I put a quartet together, a group together,
do local gigs. But most of the time I've been
doing a lot of solo acts in the hotels and stuff.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
And I do.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
A lot of solo acts because it's been kind of challenging.
The musicians are a lot of great musicians in the
Virgin Islands, but organizing musicians it's kind of challenging there.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Okay, all right, well, thank you for that information, mister
Bobby Bond. Asking you again what is about Chicago that
we should know that would want him to visit the city.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Let me tell you so I saw that.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
I saw that, and I'm a sell bobby if you're
listening to me, and let me tell you something. I
haven't been. I haven't been in Chicago and so long
as living there. So when I left Chicago as a teenager,
I left a long time ago. So I couldn't tell
you anything about Chicago much. But I can tell you
about the US Virgin Islands, Saint Crow right right, and

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where I spent a lot of my time because I
see I went to the Virgin Islands as a teenager
and then I.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, sir, I understand, yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
And I can tell you about Saint Croix now if
you come down to Saint Croix. Used to be playing
all the time, right, you know, because I do, like
I said, I do solo gigs and then I do
Group of the Eggs, and so you know, I have
a great repertoire songs. So I just go and play
and enjoy myself on the solo gigs and do a
lot of weddings and stuff like that. So it's been
an easy, easy, uh for me down there, you know.

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So I can say, I come up here and I
get a few gigs every once in a while, but
for the most part, until I start doing again, I'm
working in the Virgin Islands, and it's it's pretty steady
from uh from November to August, right.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Right, right, No, the wedther is not that bad.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
I was getting ready to say that, Yeah, I say that, yeah, yeah,
well I'm able to look looking but uh that that's
that's The weather is nice.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
You know what it's like hurricanes. It's like earthquakes. You
have no control over them.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Come on home now from.

Speaker 7 (15:00):
You know, and so if one come and you survive,
you just get to live another day and enjoy the moments.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
But I don't. I don't.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
I don't worry about because somebody just text me and
ask me about Oh is that hurt? Are you in Jamaica?
Somebody called me the weather? How is the weather? I said,
the weather's fine. I'm in Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
All you in Las Vegas?

Speaker 9 (15:21):
Okay? I said, yeah, I'm in Las Vegas. Now I
believing Tuesday? He said, oh, I said, the weather's great.
And even I call my friend this one and he
said the weather He said, Michadley, what is great.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
So so uh uh the weather is great in the
Virgin Islands. Now it's just cloudy and lorraine.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
You know, so far.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
I can't predict the future, but so far, you know,
and uh, and my people they've been telling me that
everything's going good down there, So I don't I don't
like if you live in fear, fear gonna happen, I
don't worry about it.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
You know, those are uncontrollable things that come around, right.

Speaker 7 (15:59):
But but yeah, for the most part, the US Virgin
Islands is good.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
It's a nice place to visit.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
You e would get a chance to come down to
Saint Croix while I stay at and like I'm playing
almost every weekend and I and then if I.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Start traveling down that way, I will be looking for you.
I'll be asking everybody where are you at?

Speaker 7 (16:22):
Yeah, you know, And then like I said, I joined
different people who have put you know, people that's doing things.
I go and hang out with them and we do
sets like that, because you know, it's like staying busy.
And so when you're staying busy, you know, you know,
you keep the chops up, you know, And the US
is kind of challenging sometimes to put it to go
and move around and get gigs. You have to, you know,

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if the guy, if the mindset of the musicians is
not trying to put a show together and they just
hustling money. So you got different different types of musicians,
right right, So so uh and everybody need to get paid,
so it's not like it's you know, pay people, but
when you're trying to do you got to put show together,
when you're trying to make up.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
He said, thanks me for the warm forecast.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
I guess he's gonna make a move down there.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
Yeah, you gotta come and enjoy your time, man, you know, yeah,
it'll be the best thing for you to do is
spend the money while you can and enjoy your moments
in life while you can.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
That's right, That's right. That's what's up.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
So let's talk about some other projects besides this new
album or you just concentrating on this new album right now,
So tell me what's going on.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Well, you know, I was continuing to write tunes, but
I realized that I have I have ten hours right
now on Spotify and all of that music.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know, I'm getting people to.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
To go and check out some of my old music
because I got some nice music that I yes you do,
and yes you do, and a lot of you who
haven't really got into what I'm doing, the music that
I've created over the twenty five thirty years, they don't know.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
And then I have this project, it's called Rescue nineteen ninety.

Speaker 7 (18:11):
I put this album together over thirty five years ago,
and it was an unreleased project and it's got some nice,
nice tracks on it, and I'm considering releasing it next year.
As I happened, yeah a lot. I got some vocal
tracks that I'm doing. It's really funk nineties R and

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B style, oh, really solid drum tracks. I had a
friend I had met. I don't know how I met
the guy, but I met him doing I think at
the studio, and his name was Danny Zlonk. He moved
from Los Angeles back to Wisconsin and I was going
by his house for about a year and we created

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this album, you know, Rescue. I did an album vinyl
of it for the tracks, but they was that's nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Nine, right right right.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
But but I'm looking telling you, I really, for one thing,
I really feel.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Good about this project, and I once I get it mastered,
I think it's going to really leave an impression because
it's like it's old.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
But like a guy told me, good music don't go old.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Show, don't you have no expiration date on it?

Speaker 7 (19:29):
No, because we still bump to some of those songs
that came out in the nineties. Yes, we do, some
of the songs that came out in the eighties, Yes
we do.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
You know, do I know?

Speaker 3 (19:40):
I do too, right?

Speaker 4 (19:42):
So and you groove on them.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
So yeah, when those sounds and those sounds will never
go away. And when something I done it away that
really touched the soul of a human, then you know,
that's what that's what the music is about, because you
put the music out there to touch the of the human.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
So, as we're talking about eighties and nineties music, Mikhale,
what do.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
You think about the R and B industry in music
right now today?

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, it's hard to say, because you know it's I
listen to a lot of R and B. I don't know.
I listened to it the new the new.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Kind of music starting from twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
twenty twenty four and this year.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Who do you think what you have been hurt hearing
in the R and B music.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
It's kind of hard for me to say because I
listen the more smooth jazz. Okay, okay, because I don't
listen to a lot of R and B tunes that much.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Okay, if I'm in the in the airport, of course,
on the elevator, you know, of course at a party,
oh come on, you know.

Speaker 7 (21:04):
And you know what, I don't go to a lot
of clubs unless I go to here band right right,
So I'm not into, like, you know, just dancing in
the clubs all the music.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
But don't some of your eighties or nineties smooth jazz
have some vocals in it?

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yeah, so you like that though, right, I like?

Speaker 7 (21:27):
I like vocals, matter of fact, you know, you know,
that's why I got the guy Philip what's his name?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
God, I just I can't.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
I feel so losty, I'm sorry to throw me to
throw you out, No, no, Kanita feels he He did
the vocal tracks on one of the tracks back Home
on this new album, and he did the vocal tracks
on another album, on the Mister album. He did a

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vocal tracks on that.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
I wish these good times could last forever. Uh he
did those tracks, so, like I said, I have I
have him doing some vocal tracks. And I understand what
you're talking about with the R and B circuit, but
I was just doing those songs. I wrote them a
long time ago, and we put an R and B
spin on them so they can have some kind of flare.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
But other thing.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Okay, Well, I want to ask you when you think
the new project will be coming around when when we
see it.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Well, I'm gonna be working on it. When I get
back to the Virgin Islands, I'm gonna stop working on it.
So it's already the album has already been recorded. It's
just a matter of remixing, yeah, getting it mastered, and
I don't have to record nothing.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Everything it was.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
I recorded it in a at Paramount Studios in Los Angelus,
and uh and uh, you know Danny, he did he
we well, we did.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
We did a MIDI.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
Uh. He brought all his equipment to the studio, his computer,
and we hooked it up and hooked up all the
tracks and we dumped and put a sink signal to
the tape and we we dumped all the tracks. One time,
dumped all the tracks and then after we dumped all

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the tracks from his computer.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Then I had all the tracks on two inch tapes.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
That was back in the day in the eighties when
we was using two in state the twenty four tracks
right right studio.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
So we was doing that, and so after he dumped them, then.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, hot hand.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
But anyway, after we dumped the music and then uh,
and then I transferred it the pro toos and I've
had it in pro Tools for probably the next stelf
you know, uh.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Uh, I've been using I've been uh.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Anyway, I gotta transfer to the pro tools, and now
that I can mix it in pro Tools, it's much better.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
It's just it's just great.

Speaker 10 (24:17):
You know.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
You can fat en up things and use different uh
what they call them. I can't even think of it.
My mind as a little blank right now. But that
was a nice That was a nicet. That's something like that, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
It sounds like a good thing to take a break off.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Okay, So I want to ask you about something like
what inspired you to do this album? Because this is
the tenth album release, So what inspired you? What kicked
you in the button made you want to get out here?

Speaker 3 (25:01):
And do some new music.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, I thought about some that I heard a guy
I just mentioned these people, they're great.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
I heard this preacher named John Maxwell, and he said
that he writes books and when he writes books, the books,
when he write a book, it extends his life. Every
time he write a book, that extend his life. So
when he said that, it said, wow, So, uh so
I write, I write and record music to extend my life. Okay,

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That's how I do, because, uh he said, when he
was before he died, he wanted to be still writing
a book because he writes books. And so he said,
every time he write a book, that extend his life.
Because every time he write a book, somebody read his
book after his presence, and just listen to my music

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after my presence.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Right, that's how they do. That's how folks do.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
So I can still listen to mild Dave, Miles Davis,
you know, Prince, I can still listen to Prince. You know,
I can still listen to Michael Jackson, you know, and
their legacy will go on forever, right so you know,
so just doing that, you know, these people the music
that I create, it's like the people that I've mentioned

(26:28):
you know, you can be able to pull them up
twenty years from now after they demise, and they still
they still enjoyed what they have created. And that's why
I write music, so it can you know, it's not
I enjoy writing it and put producing it.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
But one of the things that when I heard that
from John.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Maxwell and his adio his audio book called White Winner's Winning,
it made me think about that, and it made me think,
that's why I started extending my music. Just you know,
once you put it out there is in the public domain,
in the nast, it'll be on YouTube or whatever platform
you have, and y'ah're trying to.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Feel it be out there forever, right, That's right, And
that's just.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like my podcast shows.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
They're out there on the internet, and the internet does
not does not delete nothing sore.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
So can I ask you a question at hell what
you think about my platform? You think I should continue
after ten years?

Speaker 4 (27:34):
That's gonna be a decision that I wouldn't tell you
not to do it.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
But you know, everybody helped make them decisions based on
their their situation and the economics that can help them,
you know, because you know, sometimes everybody make decisions based
on time and economics, you know, and if you have
the time and economics then and you can work with it.

(28:01):
If one of them is lacking, sometimes you want to
reevaluate the situation. But uh, you know, it depends on
the people that you want to bring to your platform,
that you feel that they need a chance. You know,
some people don't understand that you get opportunity in all
kinds of ways. You know, a lot of a lot

(28:22):
of our people, they used to getting things without putting
any effort into it, and then when those things are
are not there anymore, they start calling it foul. But
but it's sometimes the lack of their intuition and what
they want from themselves. Some people don't have it, so
they blame other people. So I ain't gonna blame nobody.

(28:44):
If you want to continue your show, you should continue
your show. And if you feel if it's not valuable,
it's not like it used to. Like I say, when
I met you, you was you was in a different platform.
Yes it was, it was different.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
So yes, it was easy. It was easy Black black
blog talk radio. It was very easy. But they shut
their doors January and I had to hurry up and
figure out what to do next. In order to continue.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
And then as I continue, then the economics the ratings
was going down.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
I like blog talk radio. That mess me up.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Well, so yeah, no, So now folks see that I'm
on a different website. They're not comfortable with that. And
you know, I can't do everything to make everyone comfortable.
You're just gonna have to eat. If you want to
keep up with me, you gotta do what you gotta
do to keep up with me. But anyways, that's according

(29:53):
if you want to listen to a live show. But
if you can't make it to the live show, my
show is distributed worldwide on all major platforms. So I
believe people understand that they'll just catch me when the
show is distributed.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I can dig that. I can dig that.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Now as far as the ratings go, I'm not gonna
break when I'm back just to raise my ratings. I'm
not doing that no more. I'm just letting all the
listeners know that. But thank you, Michael, thank you. So
what I want to do is ask you about she
just find the extended version for steppers.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
What made you want to do that?

Speaker 7 (30:39):
My friend John, before he passed, he said, Mick, I
am that's a nice tune, but you know, you gotta.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Have it where they can step to it, you know.
And I was still I was still trying to learn
because I think be remixed again. But that's what he
told me.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh man, it's the jam.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
It's a jam, because when he first heard, they said, man,
that's too short. Make you need to you need to,
you need to, you need to make it longer.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, it's long. It's pretty long.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Yeah, and I think is about four and a half
minutes almost, because I think I think it's about four
minutes long with the extension. So they they say, when
they're on the floor, step and they have to, you know,
they want to be able to groove. So I put
that the little base and yeah, back and forth groove.
I just did some editing and did that so it

(31:37):
can have some kind of flare to it where they
can just groove.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
But like I said, it's still it still needs to
be remixed again.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
But like I say, I'm thinking about doing a uh
Anathology album, you know, about twenty of them tracks of
all some of my grad students, then throw a couple
of new tunes on there. Okay, And that's one of
the projects that I'm because there for the release. It's
not you know, when you got materia already, it's easy

(32:05):
for you to just put some out there, you know,
especially music that you know people haven't really heard, because
you can hear about an artist, but you go back,
you know, like when I discovered Bob Mally, my lord.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I was going to find anything by Bob may know.
I know so, but yeah, I think if you do,
you're saying something about your platform.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
I think, uh uh blogtok radio had a nice platform,
but I would probably seek out that type of platform again,
if you want to have more inner action with your
audience where they don't have to go through a lot
of loops and hoops to get to hear what you're doing.

(32:53):
Because the ratings going down because of accessibility.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Yeah, you know, long distance phone calls is out and
it's in expensive, and if I go to a website
to call, Yeah, so a lot of websites are exiting
out that out and so there's a link that turns

(33:21):
into a connection.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Not a phone call, but it's like a phone call.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
But you're just tapping in a link that will connect
you live on air. And if people don't understand how
to use their phone they're just lost. If they don't
know how to get into the apps, the internet, live radio, podcast, whatever,
et cetera, et cetera, you're lost. People need to get

(33:47):
into action and quit being lazy and just get into
a different type of type of action. And I know
it takes you out of your comfort zone, but hey,
sometimes you gotta get out of your comfort zone.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
Right, Yeah, you ain't you want to, you know, you don't.
You don't step out. You know, it's like being in
a circle, never going outside that ring.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
So you Yeah, So I'm the kind of person that
will will get into things and turn it into something.
I'm a creator, I'm a entrepreneur. I will do some
different things. And if I have followers, followers will catch
up to me. You know, they will catch They will

(34:33):
find a way, they'll.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Catch up to me. And then I got new ones
and then it's just more. But you know what, it's
all good. So while we're still talking, I want to
ask you.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
About the song Bumping in the Caribbean. Now, is that
a new one on the new album?

Speaker 10 (34:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
I think that's on the Chances our album.

Speaker 10 (34:59):
Oh it is, yes, Okay, Bumping in the Caribbean is
on the chances are okay, uh yeah, if I'm not
missing it.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
And she's just fine, just the regular track.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's on the chances. I think that's chances.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
Okay, Okay, So most of the songs you sent me
in from other different albums that are high ratings songs,
you know. Yeah, So I'm thinking I'm thanking you for
sending me all this music because some of this, some
of these tracks I haven't heard.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I haven't heard of them, and oh I love it.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
I love Bumping into Caribbean and in my mind I'm
dancing around like I'm in the Caribbean.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
So I really like that bumping. No, I think the
Bumping in the Caribbean is on the uh. I gotta
look at it, because you know, I putting out these albums.
I can't even I think that's on the the just
like the radio album.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Just like the Radio Hall. Yeah that album sounds real
good too, just like yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:12):
Yeah, I send you a lot of because you told me,
yes I did, Yes, I did. Probably the index them
way you can knew where the album it was from.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Okay, Well, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna play
after we sign out, I'm gonna play She's just Fine
Bumping in the Caribbean, Mellow Tuesday, and of course I'm
gonna play uh Kirk Boney and something like that.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean, Bony Kurky.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
I'm gonna get it, and then I'll play she Just
find extended version. I love Mellow Tuesday. And you got
a song something about smooth Monday, something about smooth Monday
or Monday something, Yeah, Monday's tuned out. I was posting

(37:10):
that on social media, like look at here, look at
here about about Michale.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, And I was getting everybody prepared to come on
on the show and hear you talk. And you're a
real cool person, Michaale. You are so cool.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
You are so cool man. So it's just time you're
more than welcome to give some shout outs.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
To all your supporters, your technicians, people that love you,
been helping you with your music career. You want to
give out some shout out names to come off the
top of your head, and you can't think of all.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Of them, you know what I'm saying. It's okay, it's
so you know, you know what.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
I know this one thing when you start calling names
somebody is not mentioned, and then they're gonna get me.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
So oh, let them get mad because you can't.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Can't, you can't.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
You can't help everybody, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah, so you know what I'm saying, who you?

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Who you?

Speaker 7 (38:12):
Because if you analyze the human's life, there's so many
people that plays a part in the inspiration of what
goes on.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
You know, it's not really just one person. Yeah, some
people come on at a certain time in your life that.

Speaker 7 (38:26):
Gets you to send them an inspiration, you know, yes,
you know so uh like my daughter, my lady friend here.
You know, it's just people come into your life and
they're there for you, and you know, and you have
to do everything accordingly, you.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Know, continue, continue, continue, yes, shut shout.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Out names any anyone else well, or just put out
a message to everyone.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Well, you know all my people that loves me and
knows me, and I know that, you know, like I say,
I have my most of the people I communicate with,
it's just a few people in my life is a circle,
like my friend John, my friend Austin and Saint Croix.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
All most of my friends in Saint.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Croix that I interact with, you know, Jimmy and Cassidy,
you know, these people in the Virgin Islers, and they
probably wouldn't really hit the shout out, you know. So
my thing is so many people that come into my
life that inspire the moments. And so since it's like that,
I'm not and you be, I just be so many people,

(39:41):
you know. So, like I said, I used to write tunes.
I started writing tunes in the late seventies and early eighties.
And how I used to write tunes. I used to say,
I'm gonna write this tune, and I would write it
for someone as one of my friends. Like I wrote
the song it's a writer, It's a lady friend in
the Virgin Lines. I wrote that about nineteen eighty one,

(40:02):
and but I didn't record it until later on. And
I think that's on the I forget about the Albison, the.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Miss Well, I'm gonna give the shout out names. Uh,
I thank you, you know, for them for supporting you
and oh yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna just do that. Well,

(40:30):
we're not.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Working right, So what you mean it ain't nothing working right?
What was wrong?

Speaker 3 (40:35):
I was trying to do something and it's not working.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
This Internet is something else. It is something else. I'm
telling you it is something. It is something else.

Speaker 7 (40:50):
Well, we're we're we're in a we're in a state
where you know, it's not like it used to be,
like right like right now I have to go into
a system in order to do the interview, when like before,
it was different. And like you say, they had the
eight hundred number, that.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
Was a lot.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
I can see how that could come and cost a lot.
But you know, and if if you wasn't getting a
return on it, then it wasn't a smart right, Because
that's another that's another thing I learned from John Maxwell.
He said, if you're doing something and you ain't getting
any return for doing it, why.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
The hell are you doing it? Oh hell, if you're
doing no return, why are you doing it?

Speaker 7 (41:39):
And I said, wow, he makes so much sense because
so you do things. If you want to do something,
they don't have return and everything that you do, like
I say, you know, I have and I have my people,
like even even like I said, I have my friends here,
it's a lot of people here. You got a friend's headdresser,
then tell my friend to yell. I mean, and I

(42:02):
have my friend friend Doug here, I have friends all
over the place, you know, and you know, and so
you know, so my my life has been so much fun.
So and uh, I just I just enjoy the people
that are around me, you know. So it's been it's
been really good for me. And the people that's been

(42:22):
around me, they know who they are. And the ones
who I'm not associating with, they know who they are too.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
They do say keep your enemies close than your own friends.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Well, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
I don't know about all that, but you know, I
like my close friends and my enemies can think of
jump off the river because I know them.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
I ain't doing that. Keep my enemies closed, No, they
might get too close, too close.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
They I heard you about that a shot. I don't
keep my enemies close.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Yeah closer. Shoot don't that's that's that. Uh, watch my back.
You're gonna be watching your backs. You got enemies that close.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. So we're coming to the end
of the show.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
I would like to ask you for any words of
wisdom and encouraging words you like to give out here
to other musicians or just a message you would like
to deliver.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
Well, I got so many people who gave me advice
on the way up, and then what they told me
is like, whatever you do, it is not the amount
of years you've been doing it.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
It's the amount of hours you put into it.

Speaker 7 (43:51):
Right, So the amount of hours you put into something
that's different than the amount of years because you can
take breaks, Like I've been playing my saxophone.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Over yeah, forty forty five, fifty years, but it's a
probably hours. I don't know, because I ended up to
fifty years and hours. You see what I'm saying. Yeah,
you got three or four hours a day. Yeah, so
that's what you do.

Speaker 7 (44:18):
But I was just using that as a what the
guy told me. That's what Reggie Andrews told me. When
I met Reggie Andrews. He was the guy who wrote
this song Let's whipp It Baby by the Dad's Band.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
And I made I know when I.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
Came to LA for the first signments because his sister
invited me to Los Angeles and that's how I got
to LA. His sister invited me in so I got
to meet him and talk with him. We had a
lot of nice conversations too. He was a really nice
guy before he passed on. It was really nice him
and in Dugo Chandler wrote that song that's with that baby.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Yeah yeah right, yes it was.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Yes, So.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
All I can say is, did I tell Bobby thank
you very much? And I appreciate him sharing his time.
You know, he could have been anywhere else, but he
William was and I appreciate his present.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, he's my favorite guy.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
I appreciate his support.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Thank you, Bobby. I appreciate your support. He's shared, he
been sharing the show all on social media, so I
really appreciate it. Yeah, Bobby bind, Yeah, yeah, that's my guy.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Who's the what's the thirteen hearts? What's that? Likes?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, likes?

Speaker 5 (45:46):
You know something the website uh uh gives when my
show is popular and they give and they give you
rewards or something like that.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
So you got a lot of somebody had a lot
of gifts, yes, yes, one give collapse then got flowers
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Yeah Bobby Bonds Bobby, Yeah that's Bobby.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Yeah. So yeah, So once again, i'd like to thank
you for having me oh to share.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
I would like to thank you and.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
I would like to invite you back on the show
when you get that other project completed.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Oh yeah, you think it'll be possible.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Oh that's a that's a possibility.

Speaker 7 (46:42):
I can see things happening because there's like the Rescue
nineteen ninety album got some really great tracks old school,
but like I said, yeah, good.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Old school, don't never die. This shows we're still listening.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
To don't go there, stop it stop it, stop it,
stop it, stop it stop it.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
So I'm gonna play most of these songs the best
way I can to end the show. I want to
thank everyone for listening. Micheal you my god, you my
I'll be I'll be keeping up with you on your
new project. Any upcoming events. He hit me up on
any events that you got coming up and uh he

(47:45):
everyone follow Michair Rubin on his h Facebook social media site.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Uh, his business page as well.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
This is Lady Deva signing out.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Good night, Michel, good night, fine, thank you everyone, good
night everyone, good night.

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Speaker 1 (55:24):
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