May 23, 2025 • 46 mins
The world's biggest selling reggae group, with more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, UB40 is an English reggae and pop multi-cultural band orginally formed in Birmingham, England. Jimmy Brown stopped by the show to talk about the upcoming Relentless Tour and lots more on the UB45 record which out now across all streaming platforms! Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, this is Jimmy Brown from the world reninned
group you B four T and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
And welcome inside the Backstage Pass and of course countdown
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Music Royalty. I almost want to take my crown off
and give him a bow. Here. World renowned group out
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there too. They've done it all in reggaetone and I
tell you, man, I just love this group so much.
And please to have him here on the backstage past
today it's Jimmy Brown of the group. But you be
forty Jimmy. How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm doing very good, thank you. Yeah, we're having a
great time here. Been to some great weather in Birmingham
lightly which is where I'll call him from, and I've
been doing a lot of gardening getting ready to go away.
So yeah, it's been having a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I mentioned to you guys were reform back in nineteen
seventy eight, and of course set British reggae sound that
you guys have had said then to love it so much,
the new album will get to you'd be forty five
across all the digital streaming platforms. But talk about just
you know what it takes, you mean, to have longevity
in this business. Nothing comes easy in music when it's
called the music business. For that reason, you guys have
been doing this for a long long time, and crowds
(02:16):
again simplely come out. You guys sold over one hundred
million records you know in your career. Just talk about
the longevity of the band and the chemistry and what
it takes to make this thing kind of kind of tick,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, people kind of ask us, you know what,
what is the secret for two longevity? And really in
the end, if we knew what that secret was, we
could put it in Abutland, sell it and we'd be
multi billionaires, you know, we'd be rich and the musk
so I don't, I don't know. It's a miraculous thing.
Really we did it. We did our first show back
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in nineteen seventy nine. We got up on stage on
somebody's birthday, a friend's birthday and we got a good response,
and we just carried on doing that and they got bigger,
bigger and bigger, and we're still selling our arenas, we're
still getting it records, and you know, we're going to
carry on doing it until until we drop us a
(03:09):
both or until people stop coming, you know. But as
to why we've lasted longer than virtually any of the
other band that can think of, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know, it takes a lot of stamina, a lot
of dedication, and more importantly, camaraderie in the band, and
of course getting along and being on the same page.
You're going to have your disagreements. Of course, you're going
to have to collaborate with each other. Talk about the
chemistry with the guys, because this is kind of like
your family throughout the year when you're touring too, right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, well, I mean there were six original members that
go all the way back to when we were at
school together from the age of eleven. You know, we've
known each other really that long, you know. And yeah,
out of the six, we've still got four of us
that are still part of that nucleus, even though we're
an eleven piece band. There's four of us that are
(03:58):
you know, the found of the band, and yeah, we
I don't know, we genuinely like each other.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We're not like a lot of other bands where we
don't where they don't travel together, they don't stay in
the same hotel, they don't even talk to each other
until they get on stage, you know, a lot of
herety jacks. I think I like that. But we genuinely
like each other, you know, we genuinely enjoy spending time together.
And when these musicians get together, they make this sound,
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you know, and it's a chemistry thing. And we say
difference if we have with the people involved. So we
like working together, have done. We've recorded a twenty five,
twenty six studio albums, so you know, we we we
think that, well, we're together, we are successful, so there's
no reason why we should fight against that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know. Yeah, chemistry being very important, there too, no
doubt about it. You know, looking back, we talk about
this and menually the longevity and the keys to kind
of staying in it too. But there are also a
lot of challenges that maybe fans don't see. First of course,
a lot of that's behind the scenes, and I guess
unless they read sometimes rumors on social media, which I
don't advise people not to do out there. Like I said,
gets your news from a good source out there. But
(05:10):
talk about some of the challenges that maybe fans don't
see out there going through this thing in the music industry.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I mean, the music industry has changed so much.
You know, we've we've been actually forty five we're in
our forty six year now, and there's been a lot
of changes. You know, when we first started, a hell
of a lot of money swilling around the music business.
You know, you didn't have social media, you didn't have computers,
you didn't have you know, all that stuff that's really
(05:39):
still over. You know, you still sold hundreds of thousands
of records. You know, even if you weren't a record
you could still sell a hundred thousands of records. That's
not the same anymore. So we've been through that transition
of the music business where it's gone from you know,
a few people selling a lot of records a lot
of people selling a few records, which seem to be
(06:01):
the way it is now, you know, but it's been democratized.
You know. It means that people that you know, bands
now have the access to the means of production and
the means of distribution through computers, through social media, through
all all those things that it developed over the last
thirty thirty years or so, so in a ways democratize
(06:23):
the business, you know, But then in other ways it's
harder to make a living I think in the music businis.
But for us it's about kt on stage and doing
it live. And I don't think that's changed in that
a thousand years. You know, you turn up, you set up,
you editain people, you break it all down, you get paid,
you move on. You know, that's what it's been like
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for many thousands of years. I think, so that hasn't changed.
And that's a good thing for us because first and
foremost we're a live band. You know, we find it
more difficult to compete maybe on with records, but we've
play live and that's what we do and that's what
we enjoy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, and that's the beauty. So those the people spend,
you know, a good amount of money to come buy
those tickets and show up at the concerts, and of
course you know, you're truly included. I love going out
watching live music at all the different venues out there too,
and just watching the art I call it say artists
sometimes and just artists out there doing their thing out there.
And we're on the creative arts business. And you know,
here do you guys do something I can't do when
it's a fan appreciation out there too. At the same time,
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it's like, you know, that's why we pay those money
for those tickets to show up and see you guys,
you know, rock it out, do your thing at place
and place of great music. And you never know what
somebody's going through when they come to these type of
shows because they do this for an escape. You know,
music is an escape for them. I always say music
is therapy here. So you guys performing on stage and
getting somebody out of a bad mood or a tough
work week or going through a life you know, a
(07:46):
life challenge or something like that too. Music kind of
soothes sues those fans, right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, we got a gracious jump in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We turn people on and send them home happier than
they were when that came, you know, and then we
get paid for it. What a beautiful job to have,
you know that we try to. I mean there's also
that interplay between us and the audience. You know, we
love to get people singing and dancing. You know, we're
not We're not like a laid backband in that way,
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you know, even though the music obviously isn't like heavy
rock or anything, you know, but we've dynamic and we
expect people to be up dancing. We don't like seeing
people sitting down in the seats. We wanted to be in.
People who don't want to dance, we want to get
them up. And the people that we get up, I
think they appreciated by the end of the night. They
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maybe weren't expecting to be having such a good time,
but then by the end of it that we've had
a party and it works every night, you know, so well,
what a beautiful job to be able to have with
a luckish people in the world.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I love it too. Out there again, the album is
that You'd Be forty five, The ultimate edition is out
there across all the DSPs. We're going to play a
track from it right now, from You Be forty it's
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Speaker 4 (09:23):
I thought this would be easy. I thought you would
understand there's not leftive for two of us.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Don can say just get out. Let's just go and
find a better basic call at home.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Cause everyone around he looks away. We have to faceline
with something wrong.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
We're not getting to take whatever.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Came to the show. So when you tell me go
back home, remember this is the.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Only home I've ever known.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Darling.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
If we should leave now, we not let the biggest
swin now be really giving him After rober Week, zach
By Short the same words we've had to survive.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Let's get down, Let's just go find a better place.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Car home, cause everyone around here looks away.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
We have to faceline with something wrong.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
We're not getting to take what your then he just
wan he came to the show. So if you tell
me go back home.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Remember this is the only home I've ever known.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
God, this would be easy. I thought you would understand.
There's nothing left it for the two of us. So
Darling can take.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
My hands and let's get a Let's just go find
a better place, car home, because everyone around here looks away.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Baseline with something wrong, We're.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not getting to take what your belly when he came
to the show. So if you tell me go back,
remember this is the only home I've.
Speaker 11 (12:06):
Needed to take what job?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Then he just only he came to the show. So
when you tell me got back home.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Remember this is the only Homa no no, no.
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called Hold the Umbrella, which is your summer anthem song.
Back here with Jimmy Brown, you'd be forty talking a
(14:20):
little bit of that, and of course the Relentless tour
we're gonna get to here a little bit kicking off
in August in Atlanta, Georgia. So I mentioned the song
Jimmy Home. Fantastic. What a way to kind of start
the record on the record that you be forty five, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Mean that was written by a new well same news
thing that's been with us about four years, about fifteen
years ago. Now, our old singer left to go solo
and we carried on and we've enjoyed the similar amount
of success over the years. And we got a new
(14:56):
guy who's young, you know, hard for singers. They've voices go,
don't they. You know, I mean, I'm a dramma. I
can play forever, you know, until I'm one hundred years old.
But singers they can lose their voices, you know, So
we like having a young singer. He's half our age,
and he contributed the song and it's about you know,
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people coming to a strange land and how how they're
welcomed or not welcomed, as the cast may be. He's
specifically Irish and about Irish people coming to England and
what they had to put up with. And it's you know,
we've always been kind of political in that way, you know.
We we we have a mixed band. You know, we
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believe in multiculturalism. Uh. You know, my brother is black.
You know, he's not my obviously blood brother, but we're
brothers together in a band, you know, We've been brothers
since we're eleven years old, and we believe in promoting
that and that's what album is about, you know. It's
about people different parts of the world getting together and
cross culturalizing and creating something out of it. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I mentioned that tour which is coming up there starting
August seventeenth and Atlanta, Georgia. The Relentless Tour is going
to be exciting because all the way through to Las
Vegas too, coming up there through October fifth at the
Encore Theater at Win Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is going to be fun and again just another
cool tour. You guys have had many in your career,
the entire band has, for that matter, and of course
(16:29):
four time Grammy nominated What You Never Take for Granted
out there too. But this tour has got to be
exciting for you guys to hit some different cities and
make some new fans, right Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I love touring America. They're great audience. Americans like to
make noise, you know, that's part of the culture, you know,
and that means I had your best audiences to play too.
And it's great because you know, in some places you
might want you might end up doing a mattinade like
Japan for instance, You're do an afternoon show and you
know you're not going to get the same kind of
dynamic response from the audience. You will maybe later on
(17:01):
when everybody's had a drink or whatever, you know, But
American audiences daylight to make noise from day one, from
the first song, you get this enthusiastic response. So I
love playing the States. It's one of my favorite countries
to play. It's set up for being on the road.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We love.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're road warriors, you know, we we I think we
did twenty five thousand miles the last tour we did
on the road, you know, which is further than the
circumference of the earth. You know, all on the road,
but Americas sets up for day It's a big country
and it's one of my favorite places to tour, and
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. In August seventeenth.
Think you can check out more information there too at
the website out there too at the same time, which
is a you be forty dot Global looking forward to
that too as well. For all the tour dates and
things like that. If you have any questions. You can
always DMUs will direct you in the right situation, but
you should have any questions out there. Again, that website
is you'd be forty dot Global too. Connect the band
two on social media out there. You know I mentioned
(18:02):
four time Grammy nominated too. I love this. One of
them was actually best Reggae album combined eleven plus years
on the UK album charts, all those great hit singles.
You know, anything Grammy when I used that word, and
I have a lot of Grammy singer songwriters and of
course the Grammy nominated and Grammy Award winners on this show.
You know, just being mentioned in that sentence Jimmy as
(18:23):
a band it's saying Grammy nominated has to be mind
blowing too, right, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know, we're in the city boys from Birmingham. You know,
we we had a dream of becoming a reggae band,
that we become the biggest reggae band in the world
and still are, you know, And so we're kind of
humble really, you know, become mumble background, working class background.
Really there was not much future for us. So eventually
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being in a band that becomes Grammy nominated not once
but a few times. You know it's I mean, it's
a dream come true, isn't it. You know, so we're
living in a dream and really appreciate living the dream,
and and that is probably the best. The biggest testament
to success is actually, one day we may win the Grammy.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let's see it very much will likely happened to you.
I'm going to put my for what my two cents
is worth right there, I'm going to say, you know what,
just stamp it for the approval. Hey, talk to me
about you mentioned the record too out through the ultimate edition,
which the tour is going to you guys are going
to play a lot of these songs. But I loved
that classic hit food for Thought. I love that one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
First record we haven't released. Yeah, it was a phenomenon
for us. Really. We were touring with Chrissy Hind and
the Pretenders because she gave us our first big break.
She was touring and she had number one single and
her number one album in the UK, and she decided
that she wanted us. We were making a bit of noise,
(19:49):
playing small venues around London and around Birmingham, and she
came up, came to a gig and said, would you guys,
it's like to come on to her. It was already
sold out. They didn't need anybody to sort of bump
up the chicken sales, you know. So she gave us
an opportunity. She gave us a chance, and we released
that record Proof of Thought, while we were on that
(20:11):
tour with Christy, and by the end of the tour
it was a hit record, which was fantastic phenomenon really
for us. And then we really we rebooked that old
tour with us headlining, and we never looked back after that.
So we were always going to be grateful to Christy
(20:32):
for that leg up that she gave us in the
early days.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No doubt too. I love that Promises and Lives record
you guys put out, love it. I can't help falling
in love with you. In nineteen ninety three and go
back there. I was thirteen years old. I missed my
youth now, Jimmy looking back on it too, because time
does fly. Looking back, I said, thirteen years old listening
to reggae music, Like, what are you doing? I said?
My parents are educating me on just great great classics
out there too, no matter what genre, I said, I
want to host a own music show one day, you
(20:57):
keep believing in that it's going to happen. Well, they're
looking down them in going you know what, Hey, it's
here now, no doubt. That's such a great song out
there too, mention one of those hits that really, you
know again, catapulted you guys in a way that is
kind of where you're at right now as far as
your legacy that will live on. That's just such a
great song and it gets people up, moving and dancing
the shows right.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, I'm not giving away too many secrets, but we
finished the show with that tune. It's become a big
anthem for us. And funnily enough, we were asked to
do we buy the producers of Honeymoon in Vegas with
Nicholas Cage, the movie where they had various artists doing
Elvis tunes, and we did cut up for in Love,
(21:36):
but Bono did a version as well, and they took
the Bono version and rejected our version, but it ended
up getting picked up by the producers of Sliver. I
think it was the movie with Sharon Stone and he
became a phenomenal worldwide it for us and a much
(21:57):
bigger than the Bono version. Actually which was I thought
it was ironic, you know, but we yeah, it's it's
a big, big end to the night and everybody sings along.
It's a it's a big tune, and we're really grateful
it was such a massive worldwide hits and that's a
big album for us, promises and lives of that biggest
(22:17):
selling an album.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think I love that song so much, Like I said,
live on and stand the test of time, no doubt.
Another one that was out there too was I Got
You Babe if You're remissive. But I didn'tsk you about
this one too, just another great song.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We well, obviously we knew Chris ye for that was
a few years after we had gone on tour with her,
and she'd invite us on tour with her and we
always remain friends, we still do. And we said, wow,
what about well Eric Singer said he was his idea.
She says it was her idea, but I'm not quite
sure who was selling the truth there. But it just
(22:51):
seemed like a no brainy you know that the two
voices working really well together. Chris has got a perfect
voice for that, for that tune, and that of course
Jonathan Demi is no longer with us. Directed the video
that we did It's Shouting Jones Beach and that was
a phenomenal hit for us as well. We've had several
(23:14):
massive worldwide hits and it's kind of tempt us going.
I think that's part of what has given us that
longevity is we kept having these big sort of commercial hits,
and that was one of the biggest for us.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Weday what we're going to play one of the biggest
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You keep me rocking.
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Speaker 2 (30:07):
And backer Jimmy Brown on the backstage past the drummer
for You Be forty Again. The u B forty five,
forty fifth anniversary record is out there too, some of
those reimagined classics two setting that tone for that forty
fifth anniversary of the world renowned best selling a reggaeton
band of all time. So I believe this was on
I mentioned eighty three, if I'm correct on the year
nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's actually a Neil Diamond song. And we had no
idea that it was written by Neil Diamond because we
knew the original reggae version, not the original obviously, the
reggae version from about nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy maybe
seventy one, and it was a big hit because I
come from an area where a lot of people from
the Caribbean came to live in the late fifties early sixties.
(30:51):
They bought the music with them and it was around us.
That's why we play reggae, because we were surrounded by
the music because we come from in any city area
where it was a lot of immigrants from from Jamaica particularly,
and we heard that coming out of people's houses and
added the cars and you know, and it was a
great record and we thought, well, mak a controversion. We
(31:12):
found out later that it was written by Neil Diamond.
We had no idea, but it was at first massive worldwide,
kind of number one. Actually in America it was a
hit five years after it was a hit round the
rest of the world. That record company didn't want to
release it, but a radio station took it up, got response,
(31:33):
and now the radio station took it up, then another one,
and then eventually the response was so big that the
record comedy apt to release it and he went to
number one. So it was a genuine popular it was.
We didn't market in any way. It was just a
genuine you know, like a viral hit. But you know,
(31:53):
back in the days of radio rather than computers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I said, viral man. Once it goes viral too, like
I said, the fans know what the like. It keeps
it going out there too. And like you said, record
company had no choice but to release it too. When
the fans that listen to radio out there, they get
those surveys all the time, you know, what are you
listening to? And of course the demographics and things like that.
The little cards they fill out too, and they love
some ub forty no doubt about it too, with that
being one of your massive, massive hits out there too. Hey,
talk to me a little bit about I'm gonna go
(32:18):
back to your record called for the Mini, which was
one of my favorites in twenty nineteen, I believe when
that came out, to a lot of great body of
work on there, which was always fun. Broken Man was
one of my favorite ones off that record too as well.
You have a called Moonlight Lover, good body of work
there too for that record for the Mini, Right.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, a lot a lot of its original stuff, you know.
I mean, obviously we're known for that cover versions for
the many He's got a few cover versions on it,
but generally there's a lot of our own, you know.
Broken Man was a perfect example of that. That's how
Percuchionist singing that. He's got a husky kind of Marley
Es voice and he just really suited that tune. And
(32:57):
you know, we we like to go roots. You know,
we're not we don't see ourselves really as a pop
reggae band. We see ourselves as a reggae band. You know,
we obviously have pop influences, but then so do a
lot of other reggae artists, you know, but we like
to get heavy sometimes and that's one of those tunes
that I think it's got a lot out of weight
and depth to it. And you know, we're not always
(33:19):
looking for chart success. We're looking to make up what
we think is a good record and a dynamic record.
And I'm very proud of Broken Man. It's one of
my favorite tunes. Sounds great live.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
By the way, I can't wait to see you guys live.
I've never seen the band live. We got to change
that at one of these points when you come on
this US tour, we'll have to make our chance to
fly in there too as well, take some pictures and
some video and give our own thoughts back on the
live show. One of my favorite things to do, and
go out there and cover live music too. You know,
we're talking about collaborations, and so many great artists that
you guys have collaborated with in the business. I'm seeing
(33:51):
that more of that being a norm in the industry now,
with different genres crossing over and mentioned like Gary Lavaux,
Rascal Flats at Acon collaborating on this kind of beach
tune called holding Up. I think this is a good
thing for the industry. You guys throughout the career, in
the forty five years of the band have done a
number of collaborations. Jimmy, what are some of your favorite
ones that the band is collaborating with other artists of
(34:11):
other genres of music.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, well, I mean, obviously, Chrissy, I'm just trying.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
To remember it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's been a long time, you know, and we did
get very i mean, one of the things we do enjoys.
We've become quite friendly with the artists we collaborate with,
and Robert Palmer was a very good friend. He's no
longer with us, sadly, but we did Bob Dylan tune
(34:38):
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. That was a massive hit.
I'm not surely he was released in America, but certainly
around the rest of the world. It was a really
big hit for us. And we got very close with Robert,
you know, he used to come and hang out with us,
and you know, we in the early days, we worked
with the police, you know, Sting, Stewart, Copeland, and we've
(35:01):
got to know them really, really well. We toured with
them quite a lot, you know, in the States and
around Europe, and uh, yeah, we I'm trying to think
the others. It's been been a long time, you know.
And we've also collaborating with a lot of foreign artists,
French artists, German artists, Australian artists, you know, we've worked
(35:24):
with uh. I'm just trying to think of the Jamaican artists.
There's a Black Hero and Quebecca Pyramid and and yeah,
various uh uh the great crooners, Dennis Brown, John Holtz,
Gregory Isaac's all these great Jamaican crooners.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
We we work with them quite extensively and thoroughly enjoyed
because they're are heroes. They're the people that turned us
on to the style of music in the first place.
So to collaborate with your own heroes and to be
writing for your own heroes, it's just you know, I mean,
you have to pinch ourselves that we're not dreaming, you know,
(36:08):
and we still do really because we're still selling nights,
we're still getting a great response, we're still selling records.
So it's a phenomenal thing to be part of, you know,
And we do wake up every day thinking how grateful
we are and certainly big tworking for Earlyban, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
What you love to do, that what you have to
do too. Hey, I mentioned you know, we do a
lot of country artists here on the program too, because
obviously spend a lot of time there in Nashville being
a country music podcast out there too, and of course
all genres of music. I love it all. I love
this album Getting Over the Storm. This was kind of
a cool thing where that connection with reggae and country
is kind of more pronounced and maybe more than fans
(36:48):
kind of might expect out there too. At the same time,
but this was a very cool album. Jimmy had a
good feel for it. Midnight Rider was also leading off
that particular record. I loved the one called the actual
title track Getting Over the Storm too, at the same time,
crying time. This is like Rey Game meets country, right.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah. Absolutely, we we wanted to We didn't want to
do anything hers AT's about it. You know, there are
definitely country music fans in the band, but we we
wanted to make a reggae album, you know, we we
haven't tried, but we did want to include some other
aspects as well. So we got a still guitar player,
(37:26):
really good still guitar player to guest on the album
as well. Forgotten the guy's name. I'm terribly if they
ever meet him, I'll apologize to him. But he's really good.
And uh yeah, we wanted to we wanted to make
a wanted to make a serious record. We didn't want
it to be on serious. We didn't want it to
be you know, like I say, herzats or you know,
(37:48):
we're not definitely trying to make it commercial or anything.
But we just loved those songs and uh, you know,
on the other hand that we did with Robert Palmer
a few years back, and also for every Mind didn't
Vince Gill song I think is a beautiful, beautiful song,
(38:10):
you know, and we love songs, and there are so
many great songs in the country genre. It was there
were so many to choose from. But I'm proud of
the album. I don't think you've got to release in America,
but I think we're still we still think they may
that may get released at some point, and I think
(38:31):
I think I'm quite proud of you. I think we
did a decent.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Job's a great job. Bright I said we're reggae's country
because I think again, I think it's a great crossover
now too, and the different genres of music doing different
things and just a little bit of kind of varieties
of spice of life out there. There's a little something
for everybody off that record, getting over the storm for you.
Before you get all the music available across all the
digital streaming platforms, you guys could check out the big
(38:54):
dates coming up for the Relentless Tour coming up there,
starting August seventeenth in Atlanta, Georgia and going all the
way through our over fifth at the Encore Theater when
Las Vegas at Las Vegas, Nevada. Out there too for
information or connect with them, you be forty dot global. Alright,
let's have a little fun, Jimmy to kind of close
the show here too. When you're not doing music or
on the road touring with the boys playing the drums,
what are some things you like to do for hobbies
(39:16):
in like downtown?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Downtown is all family for me. I've got a big family.
Uh been my wife from before the band started, so
I had nearly fifty years. So it's all family. While
I'm at home, I don't have time for anything else.
Got kids, got grandkids, you know, my kids are grown up.
When I've got grandkids now, and I've got one of
my grand grand grandson at the moment staying with us,
(39:40):
his mom and dad, and I've gone away for a
few days. And you know, one great thing about having
the success that we've got is I've been able to
afford to have, you know, a functioning family without compromising
too much with the you know, with uh, without any
you know. It's always been a pleasure not a chore,
(40:04):
you know, because I've been able to look forward to
get the best thing for my kids, you know, which
which has been a bonus of the success of the band.
But yeah, I love movies. Movies. I watch probably one
or two movies every day.
Speaker 12 (40:18):
I like.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I like to anyway, when they get the opportunity, I'll
watch Harvard Does and that one after the other one.
We're on the road, you know, on the back of
the boss with a big television, and you know, I
love all that. So yeah, it's mostly family and that's
and we're a big family. All our families know each
other and they're all really friendly, all the different generations.
(40:40):
And it's really funny they've all got ages because obviously
this is when we've been back off to you know,
so we've got load of kids that are all like
twenty years old and then twenty five years old and
then forty years old, you know. And that's because we
were on the road and all came back at the
same time. But yeah, that's what means more to me
(41:01):
than anything really is family.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I love it too in that family time is so
precious too, because, like I said, you got to take
advantage of every moment you can because you lose that.
I've got a daughter now. We all stay busy, to
no doubt. She just turned five years old, and you know,
I'm gonna drive it about four hours to see her
coming up this week. And they had to leave last
night for some things for the family, like high school graduations,
things like that. But those those little things that you
feel like sometimes you can never get back, those are
(41:24):
the most important ones to cherish and take advantage of
in life, because life is so precious there too. I
want to ask you about food here too, because I
love talking about food here with artists on the show
has become a theme now for us too. Do you
like to cook your own meals, eat out, combination of both?
What do you like to do?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I don't cook much, I must admit. We do eat
out a lot. Me and the wife. You know, I
don't cook. She cooks. She's a good cook. We mostly
eat kind of you know. We like Jamaican food, we
like Indian food, we like Chinese food. You know, it's like,
you know, really England is a great place for spicy food.
(42:04):
You know, there's strong flavors and you know there's competition
that who can take the heaviest spices, and you know it's, uh,
we're into all that. So yeah, I mean it's and
also it's it's family as well, you know that that's
an excuse for getting together sitting around. I me here.
Now we've got a big table that holds about ten people,
(42:24):
you know, and when we get together, it's full, and
everybody mocks in. Everybody does a little bit, cooks the vegetables,
cooks the meat. You know, different people have got different
jobs laying at the table, and it's it's beautiful to
be able to do that. So it comes hand in handry, family,
doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Food?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It's always yes, good times right there. All right, So
when I get over to London one of these days,
I'm getting over to Europe, and I've got to just
enjoy this because it's it's so beautiful. Love it. So,
I mean, I know, like you know, Buckingham Palace and
other sites to see. But is there like one thing
that maybe I don't know about that I have to
do when I travel and take my family to London
or to England day, I've I've got to do something
that maybe I just don't know about it, or like
(43:03):
what's all over television or in magazines. Is there is
like a site or a tour I go to take
or something.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, well, you've got to get out of London to
see the real England.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean, London's great, but I tried to avoid going
to London. The real England is out of that I've
got from the Midlands and it's got some of the
most beautiful countryside. It's also got a lot of real
history as well. You know. You can find buildings that
are a thousand years old, you know, and you know,
a beautiful countryside in a summer's day in England is
(43:36):
the best country in the world as far as I'm concerned.
But I want to avoid the wet weather and the winds.
I'd sin to go somewhere else, you know, but summers
for the one or two weeks that we get good Son.
Although it's got better lately. I think there's no more
beautiful place. Ireland. My wife has got Irish roots. It's
(44:01):
a beautiful country. You should go to Ireland. Really, Scotland
is beautiful as well. It's rugged, it's cold, but it's
the people are warm. So I say, get out of
London and you go and see Scotland, go and see Ireland.
You go in to the Midlands, you know, and you'll
see real, real British then, and you'll meet real British
(44:24):
people who love Americans. As soon as they hear in
an American accent, they'll be all over here. They'll be saying
where you're from, and would you like to have a drink?
And so I recommend it, you know you should.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
My Texas accent is going to give it away. Whatever.
People like that, it'll be.
Speaker 16 (44:39):
All immediately, yes, yeah, yeah, again You Be forty Out there,
the forty fifth album, You Be forty five is out
across all the digital streaming platforms, the ultimate addition to
commemorate the band.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Four time Grammy nominated out There for all those great
Reggaeton hits, and of course out There the Relentless tour
kicks off August seventeenth and Atlanta, Georgia over fifth through
that date Encore Theater at Win Las Vegas and Las
Vegas Divanna for more information to connect with them, You
be forty dot Global out there tour a great great
contributions to music. Jimmy, appreciate the time here on the backstage,
(45:13):
past my friend. Looking forward to doing this again. Best
of luck on the tour, safe travels. God bless you
and the family and appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Thank you for having me on. It's been a real pleasure.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Thanks a lot, mate, You got it man, Jimmy Brown,
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(01:26):
there too. They've done it all in reggaetone and I
tell you, man, I just love this group so much.
And please to have him here on the backstage past
today it's Jimmy Brown of the group. But you be
forty Jimmy. How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm doing very good, thank you. Yeah, we're having a
great time here. Been to some great weather in Birmingham
lightly which is where I'll call him from, and I've
been doing a lot of gardening getting ready to go away.
So yeah, it's been having a good time.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I mentioned to you guys were reform back in nineteen
seventy eight, and of course set British reggae sound that
you guys have had said then to love it so much,
the new album will get to you'd be forty five
across all the digital streaming platforms. But talk about just
you know what it takes, you mean, to have longevity
in this business. Nothing comes easy in music when it's
called the music business. For that reason, you guys have
been doing this for a long long time, and crowds
(02:16):
again simplely come out. You guys sold over one hundred
million records you know in your career. Just talk about
the longevity of the band and the chemistry and what
it takes to make this thing kind of kind of tick,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, people kind of ask us, you know what,
what is the secret for two longevity? And really in
the end, if we knew what that secret was, we
could put it in Abutland, sell it and we'd be
multi billionaires, you know, we'd be rich and the musk
so I don't, I don't know. It's a miraculous thing.
Really we did it. We did our first show back
(02:48):
in nineteen seventy nine. We got up on stage on
somebody's birthday, a friend's birthday and we got a good response,
and we just carried on doing that and they got bigger,
bigger and bigger, and we're still selling our arenas, we're
still getting it records, and you know, we're going to
carry on doing it until until we drop us a
(03:09):
both or until people stop coming, you know. But as
to why we've lasted longer than virtually any of the
other band that can think of, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know, it takes a lot of stamina, a lot
of dedication, and more importantly, camaraderie in the band, and
of course getting along and being on the same page.
You're going to have your disagreements. Of course, you're going
to have to collaborate with each other. Talk about the
chemistry with the guys, because this is kind of like
your family throughout the year when you're touring too, right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, well, I mean there were six original members that
go all the way back to when we were at
school together from the age of eleven. You know, we've
known each other really that long, you know. And yeah,
out of the six, we've still got four of us
that are still part of that nucleus, even though we're
an eleven piece band. There's four of us that are
(03:58):
you know, the found of the band, and yeah, we
I don't know, we genuinely like each other.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We're not like a lot of other bands where we
don't where they don't travel together, they don't stay in
the same hotel, they don't even talk to each other
until they get on stage, you know, a lot of
herety jacks. I think I like that. But we genuinely
like each other, you know, we genuinely enjoy spending time together.
And when these musicians get together, they make this sound,
(04:26):
you know, and it's a chemistry thing. And we say
difference if we have with the people involved. So we
like working together, have done. We've recorded a twenty five,
twenty six studio albums, so you know, we we we
think that, well, we're together, we are successful, so there's
no reason why we should fight against that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know. Yeah, chemistry being very important, there too, no
doubt about it. You know, looking back, we talk about
this and menually the longevity and the keys to kind
of staying in it too. But there are also a
lot of challenges that maybe fans don't see. First of course,
a lot of that's behind the scenes, and I guess
unless they read sometimes rumors on social media, which I
don't advise people not to do out there. Like I said,
gets your news from a good source out there. But
(05:10):
talk about some of the challenges that maybe fans don't
see out there going through this thing in the music industry.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, I mean, the music industry has changed so much.
You know, we've we've been actually forty five we're in
our forty six year now, and there's been a lot
of changes. You know, when we first started, a hell
of a lot of money swilling around the music business.
You know, you didn't have social media, you didn't have computers,
you didn't have you know, all that stuff that's really
(05:39):
still over. You know, you still sold hundreds of thousands
of records. You know, even if you weren't a record
you could still sell a hundred thousands of records. That's
not the same anymore. So we've been through that transition
of the music business where it's gone from you know,
a few people selling a lot of records a lot
of people selling a few records, which seem to be
(06:01):
the way it is now, you know, but it's been democratized.
You know. It means that people that you know, bands
now have the access to the means of production and
the means of distribution through computers, through social media, through
all all those things that it developed over the last
thirty thirty years or so, so in a ways democratize
(06:23):
the business, you know, But then in other ways it's
harder to make a living I think in the music businis.
But for us it's about kt on stage and doing
it live. And I don't think that's changed in that
a thousand years. You know, you turn up, you set up,
you editain people, you break it all down, you get paid,
you move on. You know, that's what it's been like
(06:45):
for many thousands of years. I think, so that hasn't changed.
And that's a good thing for us because first and
foremost we're a live band. You know, we find it
more difficult to compete maybe on with records, but we've
play live and that's what we do and that's what
we enjoy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, and that's the beauty. So those the people spend,
you know, a good amount of money to come buy
those tickets and show up at the concerts, and of
course you know, you're truly included. I love going out
watching live music at all the different venues out there too,
and just watching the art I call it say artists
sometimes and just artists out there doing their thing out there.
And we're on the creative arts business. And you know,
here do you guys do something I can't do when
it's a fan appreciation out there too. At the same time,
(07:25):
it's like, you know, that's why we pay those money
for those tickets to show up and see you guys,
you know, rock it out, do your thing at place
and place of great music. And you never know what
somebody's going through when they come to these type of
shows because they do this for an escape. You know,
music is an escape for them. I always say music
is therapy here. So you guys performing on stage and
getting somebody out of a bad mood or a tough
work week or going through a life you know, a
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life challenge or something like that too. Music kind of
soothes sues those fans, right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, we got a gracious jump in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We turn people on and send them home happier than
they were when that came, you know, and then we
get paid for it. What a beautiful job to have,
you know that we try to. I mean there's also
that interplay between us and the audience. You know, we
love to get people singing and dancing. You know, we're
not We're not like a laid backband in that way,
(08:15):
you know, even though the music obviously isn't like heavy
rock or anything, you know, but we've dynamic and we
expect people to be up dancing. We don't like seeing
people sitting down in the seats. We wanted to be in.
People who don't want to dance, we want to get
them up. And the people that we get up, I
think they appreciated by the end of the night. They
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maybe weren't expecting to be having such a good time,
but then by the end of it that we've had
a party and it works every night, you know, so well,
what a beautiful job to be able to have with
a luckish people in the world.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I love it too. Out there again, the album is
that You'd Be forty five, The ultimate edition is out
there across all the DSPs. We're going to play a
track from it right now, from You Be forty it's
a leadoff track from that record at Home or with
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Speaker 4 (09:23):
I thought this would be easy. I thought you would
understand there's not leftive for two of us.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Don can say just get out. Let's just go and
find a better basic call at home.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Cause everyone around he looks away. We have to faceline
with something wrong.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
We're not getting to take whatever.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Came to the show. So when you tell me go
back home, remember this is the.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Only home I've ever known.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Darling.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
If we should leave now, we not let the biggest
swin now be really giving him After rober Week, zach
By Short the same words we've had to survive.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Let's get down, Let's just go find a better place.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Car home, cause everyone around here looks away.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
We have to faceline with something wrong.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
We're not getting to take what your then he just
wan he came to the show. So if you tell
me go back home.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Remember this is the only home I've ever known.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
God, this would be easy. I thought you would understand.
There's nothing left it for the two of us. So
Darling can take.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
My hands and let's get a Let's just go find
a better place, car home, because everyone around here looks away.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Baseline with something wrong, We're.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not getting to take what your belly when he came
to the show. So if you tell me go back,
remember this is the only home I've.
Speaker 11 (12:06):
Needed to take what job?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Then he just only he came to the show. So
when you tell me got back home.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Remember this is the only Homa no no, no.
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Back here with Jimmy Brown, you'd be forty talking a
(14:20):
little bit of that, and of course the Relentless tour
we're gonna get to here a little bit kicking off
in August in Atlanta, Georgia. So I mentioned the song
Jimmy Home. Fantastic. What a way to kind of start
the record on the record that you be forty five, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Mean that was written by a new well same news
thing that's been with us about four years, about fifteen
years ago. Now, our old singer left to go solo
and we carried on and we've enjoyed the similar amount
of success over the years. And we got a new
(14:56):
guy who's young, you know, hard for singers. They've voices go,
don't they. You know, I mean, I'm a dramma. I
can play forever, you know, until I'm one hundred years old.
But singers they can lose their voices, you know, So
we like having a young singer. He's half our age,
and he contributed the song and it's about you know,
(15:20):
people coming to a strange land and how how they're
welcomed or not welcomed, as the cast may be. He's
specifically Irish and about Irish people coming to England and
what they had to put up with. And it's you know,
we've always been kind of political in that way, you know.
We we we have a mixed band. You know, we
(15:42):
believe in multiculturalism. Uh. You know, my brother is black.
You know, he's not my obviously blood brother, but we're
brothers together in a band, you know, We've been brothers
since we're eleven years old, and we believe in promoting
that and that's what album is about, you know. It's
about people different parts of the world getting together and
cross culturalizing and creating something out of it. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I mentioned that tour which is coming up there starting
August seventeenth and Atlanta, Georgia. The Relentless Tour is going
to be exciting because all the way through to Las
Vegas too, coming up there through October fifth at the
Encore Theater at Win Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is going to be fun and again just another
cool tour. You guys have had many in your career,
the entire band has, for that matter, and of course
(16:29):
four time Grammy nominated What You Never Take for Granted
out there too. But this tour has got to be
exciting for you guys to hit some different cities and
make some new fans, right Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I love touring America. They're great audience. Americans like to
make noise, you know, that's part of the culture, you know,
and that means I had your best audiences to play too.
And it's great because you know, in some places you
might want you might end up doing a mattinade like
Japan for instance, You're do an afternoon show and you
know you're not going to get the same kind of
dynamic response from the audience. You will maybe later on
(17:01):
when everybody's had a drink or whatever, you know, But
American audiences daylight to make noise from day one, from
the first song, you get this enthusiastic response. So I
love playing the States. It's one of my favorite countries
to play. It's set up for being on the road.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We love.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We're road warriors, you know, we we I think we
did twenty five thousand miles the last tour we did
on the road, you know, which is further than the
circumference of the earth. You know, all on the road,
but Americas sets up for day It's a big country
and it's one of my favorite places to tour, and
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's gonna be a lot of fun. In August seventeenth.
Think you can check out more information there too at
the website out there too at the same time, which
is a you be forty dot Global looking forward to
that too as well. For all the tour dates and
things like that. If you have any questions. You can
always DMUs will direct you in the right situation, but
you should have any questions out there. Again, that website
is you'd be forty dot Global too. Connect the band
two on social media out there. You know I mentioned
(18:02):
four time Grammy nominated too. I love this. One of
them was actually best Reggae album combined eleven plus years
on the UK album charts, all those great hit singles.
You know, anything Grammy when I used that word, and
I have a lot of Grammy singer songwriters and of
course the Grammy nominated and Grammy Award winners on this show.
You know, just being mentioned in that sentence Jimmy as
(18:23):
a band it's saying Grammy nominated has to be mind
blowing too, right, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know, we're in the city boys from Birmingham. You know,
we we had a dream of becoming a reggae band,
that we become the biggest reggae band in the world
and still are, you know, And so we're kind of
humble really, you know, become mumble background, working class background.
Really there was not much future for us. So eventually
(18:47):
being in a band that becomes Grammy nominated not once
but a few times. You know it's I mean, it's
a dream come true, isn't it. You know, so we're
living in a dream and really appreciate living the dream,
and and that is probably the best. The biggest testament
to success is actually, one day we may win the Grammy.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let's see it very much will likely happened to you.
I'm going to put my for what my two cents
is worth right there, I'm going to say, you know what,
just stamp it for the approval. Hey, talk to me
about you mentioned the record too out through the ultimate edition,
which the tour is going to you guys are going
to play a lot of these songs. But I loved
that classic hit food for Thought. I love that one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
First record we haven't released. Yeah, it was a phenomenon
for us. Really. We were touring with Chrissy Hind and
the Pretenders because she gave us our first big break.
She was touring and she had number one single and
her number one album in the UK, and she decided
that she wanted us. We were making a bit of noise,
(19:49):
playing small venues around London and around Birmingham, and she
came up, came to a gig and said, would you guys,
it's like to come on to her. It was already
sold out. They didn't need anybody to sort of bump
up the chicken sales, you know. So she gave us
an opportunity. She gave us a chance, and we released
that record Proof of Thought, while we were on that
(20:11):
tour with Christy, and by the end of the tour
it was a hit record, which was fantastic phenomenon really
for us. And then we really we rebooked that old
tour with us headlining, and we never looked back after that.
So we were always going to be grateful to Christy
(20:32):
for that leg up that she gave us in the
early days.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
No doubt too. I love that Promises and Lives record
you guys put out, love it. I can't help falling
in love with you. In nineteen ninety three and go
back there. I was thirteen years old. I missed my
youth now, Jimmy looking back on it too, because time
does fly. Looking back, I said, thirteen years old listening
to reggae music, Like, what are you doing? I said?
My parents are educating me on just great great classics
out there too, no matter what genre, I said, I
want to host a own music show one day, you
(20:57):
keep believing in that it's going to happen. Well, they're
looking down them in going you know what, Hey, it's
here now, no doubt. That's such a great song out
there too, mention one of those hits that really, you
know again, catapulted you guys in a way that is
kind of where you're at right now as far as
your legacy that will live on. That's just such a
great song and it gets people up, moving and dancing
the shows right.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, I'm not giving away too many secrets, but we
finished the show with that tune. It's become a big
anthem for us. And funnily enough, we were asked to
do we buy the producers of Honeymoon in Vegas with
Nicholas Cage, the movie where they had various artists doing
Elvis tunes, and we did cut up for in Love,
(21:36):
but Bono did a version as well, and they took
the Bono version and rejected our version, but it ended
up getting picked up by the producers of Sliver. I
think it was the movie with Sharon Stone and he
became a phenomenal worldwide it for us and a much
(21:57):
bigger than the Bono version. Actually which was I thought
it was ironic, you know, but we yeah, it's it's
a big, big end to the night and everybody sings along.
It's a it's a big tune, and we're really grateful
it was such a massive worldwide hits and that's a
big album for us, promises and lives of that biggest
(22:17):
selling an album.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think I love that song so much, Like I said,
live on and stand the test of time, no doubt.
Another one that was out there too was I Got
You Babe if You're remissive. But I didn'tsk you about
this one too, just another great song.
Speaker 13 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
We well, obviously we knew Chris ye for that was
a few years after we had gone on tour with her,
and she'd invite us on tour with her and we
always remain friends, we still do. And we said, wow,
what about well Eric Singer said he was his idea.
She says it was her idea, but I'm not quite
sure who was selling the truth there. But it just
(22:51):
seemed like a no brainy you know that the two
voices working really well together. Chris has got a perfect
voice for that, for that tune, and that of course
Jonathan Demi is no longer with us. Directed the video
that we did It's Shouting Jones Beach and that was
a phenomenal hit for us as well. We've had several
(23:14):
massive worldwide hits and it's kind of tempt us going.
I think that's part of what has given us that
longevity is we kept having these big sort of commercial hits,
and that was one of the biggest for us.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Weday what we're going to play one of the biggest
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to there. Believe this is nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 14 (24:13):
Red Red Well, go to my head, makes me fuck candy.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Still leader soon, Red Red.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
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Speaker 15 (24:56):
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Speaker 11 (25:23):
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Speaker 5 (25:39):
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Stay close, don't let me you know.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
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Speaker 13 (26:41):
Red Red Wine feel so fine to keep me rocking
all of the time.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
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Speaker 13 (26:49):
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my animal read Red me feel so sadle. Anytime I
see you go. You made me feel bad Read Red One.
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Speaker 11 (27:01):
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Speaker 2 (27:03):
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Speaker 13 (27:05):
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Speaker 2 (27:11):
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Speaker 13 (27:12):
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from the start, right from the start, with all my
heart red red wine and a yet this style, red
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Let me clear of my mind, give me medical time,
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Let me clear of my mind, give.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Me red wine because your fine.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
Let me be your fine all of the time. Red
Red Winder made me feel so fine. Markeeper can res
the pan, the suite, death line, the line broke, the
monkey get choke, but can't you find.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
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Speaker 13 (27:52):
I'm gonna hold on to you, hold on to you
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not my real Red Whine. Okay, get you my mind,
wherever you may be, I surely find as surely fine.
Make no fuse, stay with us, Give a lookal time,
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Let me clear up my mind, give me local time.
Let me clear up my mind.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
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Speaker 13 (28:32):
Let me feel fine all of the time, Red Red Wine,
you maybe feel so fine monkey parcument upon the sweet
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don't Japan a little.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Worry bout Red.
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You're right from the start, right from the start, with
a love of my heart really madely personally person the
stud Red Red Why you made me feel so fine?
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You keep me rocking.
Speaker 11 (29:16):
All at the time. Feel when why feel so sad?
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Speaker 2 (30:07):
And backer Jimmy Brown on the backstage past the drummer
for You Be forty Again. The u B forty five,
forty fifth anniversary record is out there too, some of
those reimagined classics two setting that tone for that forty
fifth anniversary of the world renowned best selling a reggaeton
band of all time. So I believe this was on
I mentioned eighty three, if I'm correct on the year
nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's actually a Neil Diamond song. And we had no
idea that it was written by Neil Diamond because we
knew the original reggae version, not the original obviously, the
reggae version from about nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy maybe
seventy one, and it was a big hit because I
come from an area where a lot of people from
the Caribbean came to live in the late fifties early sixties.
(30:51):
They bought the music with them and it was around us.
That's why we play reggae, because we were surrounded by
the music because we come from in any city area
where it was a lot of immigrants from from Jamaica particularly,
and we heard that coming out of people's houses and
added the cars and you know, and it was a
great record and we thought, well, mak a controversion. We
(31:12):
found out later that it was written by Neil Diamond.
We had no idea, but it was at first massive worldwide,
kind of number one. Actually in America it was a
hit five years after it was a hit round the
rest of the world. That record company didn't want to
release it, but a radio station took it up, got response,
(31:33):
and now the radio station took it up, then another one,
and then eventually the response was so big that the
record comedy apt to release it and he went to
number one. So it was a genuine popular it was.
We didn't market in any way. It was just a
genuine you know, like a viral hit. But you know,
(31:53):
back in the days of radio rather than computers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I said, viral man. Once it goes viral too, like
I said, the fans know what the like. It keeps
it going out there too. And like you said, record
company had no choice but to release it too. When
the fans that listen to radio out there, they get
those surveys all the time, you know, what are you
listening to? And of course the demographics and things like that.
The little cards they fill out too, and they love
some ub forty no doubt about it too, with that
being one of your massive, massive hits out there too. Hey,
talk to me a little bit about I'm gonna go
(32:18):
back to your record called for the Mini, which was
one of my favorites in twenty nineteen, I believe when
that came out, to a lot of great body of
work on there, which was always fun. Broken Man was
one of my favorite ones off that record too as well.
You have a called Moonlight Lover, good body of work
there too for that record for the Mini, Right.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, a lot a lot of its original stuff, you know.
I mean, obviously we're known for that cover versions for
the many He's got a few cover versions on it,
but generally there's a lot of our own, you know.
Broken Man was a perfect example of that. That's how
Percuchionist singing that. He's got a husky kind of Marley
Es voice and he just really suited that tune. And
(32:57):
you know, we we like to go roots. You know,
we're not we don't see ourselves really as a pop
reggae band. We see ourselves as a reggae band. You know,
we obviously have pop influences, but then so do a
lot of other reggae artists, you know, but we like
to get heavy sometimes and that's one of those tunes
that I think it's got a lot out of weight
and depth to it. And you know, we're not always
(33:19):
looking for chart success. We're looking to make up what
we think is a good record and a dynamic record.
And I'm very proud of Broken Man. It's one of
my favorite tunes. Sounds great live.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
By the way, I can't wait to see you guys live.
I've never seen the band live. We got to change
that at one of these points when you come on
this US tour, we'll have to make our chance to
fly in there too as well, take some pictures and
some video and give our own thoughts back on the
live show. One of my favorite things to do, and
go out there and cover live music too. You know,
we're talking about collaborations, and so many great artists that
you guys have collaborated with in the business. I'm seeing
(33:51):
that more of that being a norm in the industry now,
with different genres crossing over and mentioned like Gary Lavaux,
Rascal Flats at Acon collaborating on this kind of beach
tune called holding Up. I think this is a good
thing for the industry. You guys throughout the career, in
the forty five years of the band have done a
number of collaborations. Jimmy, what are some of your favorite
ones that the band is collaborating with other artists of
(34:11):
other genres of music.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, well, I mean, obviously, Chrissy, I'm just trying.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
To remember it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's been a long time, you know, and we did
get very i mean, one of the things we do enjoys.
We've become quite friendly with the artists we collaborate with,
and Robert Palmer was a very good friend. He's no
longer with us, sadly, but we did Bob Dylan tune
(34:38):
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. That was a massive hit.
I'm not surely he was released in America, but certainly
around the rest of the world. It was a really
big hit for us. And we got very close with Robert,
you know, he used to come and hang out with us,
and you know, we in the early days, we worked
with the police, you know, Sting, Stewart, Copeland, and we've
(35:01):
got to know them really, really well. We toured with
them quite a lot, you know, in the States and
around Europe, and uh, yeah, we I'm trying to think
the others. It's been been a long time, you know.
And we've also collaborating with a lot of foreign artists,
French artists, German artists, Australian artists, you know, we've worked
(35:24):
with uh. I'm just trying to think of the Jamaican artists.
There's a Black Hero and Quebecca Pyramid and and yeah,
various uh uh the great crooners, Dennis Brown, John Holtz,
Gregory Isaac's all these great Jamaican crooners.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
We we work with them quite extensively and thoroughly enjoyed
because they're are heroes. They're the people that turned us
on to the style of music in the first place.
So to collaborate with your own heroes and to be
writing for your own heroes, it's just you know, I mean,
you have to pinch ourselves that we're not dreaming, you know,
(36:08):
and we still do really because we're still selling nights,
we're still getting a great response, we're still selling records.
So it's a phenomenal thing to be part of, you know,
And we do wake up every day thinking how grateful
we are and certainly big tworking for Earlyban, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
What you love to do, that what you have to
do too. Hey, I mentioned you know, we do a
lot of country artists here on the program too, because
obviously spend a lot of time there in Nashville being
a country music podcast out there too, and of course
all genres of music. I love it all. I love
this album Getting Over the Storm. This was kind of
a cool thing where that connection with reggae and country
is kind of more pronounced and maybe more than fans
(36:48):
kind of might expect out there too. At the same time,
but this was a very cool album. Jimmy had a
good feel for it. Midnight Rider was also leading off
that particular record. I loved the one called the actual
title track Getting Over the Storm too, at the same time,
crying time. This is like Rey Game meets country, right.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah. Absolutely, we we wanted to We didn't want to
do anything hers AT's about it. You know, there are
definitely country music fans in the band, but we we
wanted to make a reggae album, you know, we we
haven't tried, but we did want to include some other
aspects as well. So we got a still guitar player,
(37:26):
really good still guitar player to guest on the album
as well. Forgotten the guy's name. I'm terribly if they
ever meet him, I'll apologize to him. But he's really good.
And uh yeah, we wanted to we wanted to make
a wanted to make a serious record. We didn't want
it to be on serious. We didn't want it to
be you know, like I say, herzats or you know,
(37:48):
we're not definitely trying to make it commercial or anything.
But we just loved those songs and uh, you know,
on the other hand that we did with Robert Palmer
a few years back, and also for every Mind didn't
Vince Gill song I think is a beautiful, beautiful song,
(38:10):
you know, and we love songs, and there are so
many great songs in the country genre. It was there
were so many to choose from. But I'm proud of
the album. I don't think you've got to release in America,
but I think we're still we still think they may
that may get released at some point, and I think
(38:31):
I think I'm quite proud of you. I think we
did a decent.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Job's a great job. Bright I said we're reggae's country
because I think again, I think it's a great crossover
now too, and the different genres of music doing different
things and just a little bit of kind of varieties
of spice of life out there. There's a little something
for everybody off that record, getting over the storm for you.
Before you get all the music available across all the
digital streaming platforms, you guys could check out the big
(38:54):
dates coming up for the Relentless Tour coming up there,
starting August seventeenth in Atlanta, Georgia and going all the
way through our over fifth at the Encore Theater when
Las Vegas at Las Vegas, Nevada. Out there too for
information or connect with them, you be forty dot global. Alright,
let's have a little fun, Jimmy to kind of close
the show here too. When you're not doing music or
on the road touring with the boys playing the drums,
what are some things you like to do for hobbies
(39:16):
in like downtown?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Downtown is all family for me. I've got a big family.
Uh been my wife from before the band started, so
I had nearly fifty years. So it's all family. While
I'm at home, I don't have time for anything else.
Got kids, got grandkids, you know, my kids are grown up.
When I've got grandkids now, and I've got one of
my grand grand grandson at the moment staying with us,
(39:40):
his mom and dad, and I've gone away for a
few days. And you know, one great thing about having
the success that we've got is I've been able to
afford to have, you know, a functioning family without compromising
too much with the you know, with uh, without any
you know. It's always been a pleasure not a chore,
(40:04):
you know, because I've been able to look forward to
get the best thing for my kids, you know, which
which has been a bonus of the success of the band.
But yeah, I love movies. Movies. I watch probably one
or two movies every day.
Speaker 12 (40:18):
I like.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I like to anyway, when they get the opportunity, I'll
watch Harvard Does and that one after the other one.
We're on the road, you know, on the back of
the boss with a big television, and you know, I
love all that. So yeah, it's mostly family and that's
and we're a big family. All our families know each
other and they're all really friendly, all the different generations.
(40:40):
And it's really funny they've all got ages because obviously
this is when we've been back off to you know,
so we've got load of kids that are all like
twenty years old and then twenty five years old and
then forty years old, you know. And that's because we
were on the road and all came back at the
same time. But yeah, that's what means more to me
(41:01):
than anything really is family.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I love it too in that family time is so
precious too, because, like I said, you got to take
advantage of every moment you can because you lose that.
I've got a daughter now. We all stay busy, to
no doubt. She just turned five years old, and you know,
I'm gonna drive it about four hours to see her
coming up this week. And they had to leave last
night for some things for the family, like high school graduations,
things like that. But those those little things that you
feel like sometimes you can never get back, those are
(41:24):
the most important ones to cherish and take advantage of
in life, because life is so precious there too. I
want to ask you about food here too, because I
love talking about food here with artists on the show
has become a theme now for us too. Do you
like to cook your own meals, eat out, combination of both?
What do you like to do?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I don't cook much, I must admit. We do eat
out a lot. Me and the wife. You know, I
don't cook. She cooks. She's a good cook. We mostly
eat kind of you know. We like Jamaican food, we
like Indian food, we like Chinese food. You know, it's like,
you know, really England is a great place for spicy food.
(42:04):
You know, there's strong flavors and you know there's competition
that who can take the heaviest spices, and you know it's, uh,
we're into all that. So yeah, I mean it's and
also it's it's family as well, you know that that's
an excuse for getting together sitting around. I me here.
Now we've got a big table that holds about ten people,
(42:24):
you know, and when we get together, it's full, and
everybody mocks in. Everybody does a little bit, cooks the vegetables,
cooks the meat. You know, different people have got different
jobs laying at the table, and it's it's beautiful to
be able to do that. So it comes hand in handry, family,
doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Food?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It's always yes, good times right there. All right, So
when I get over to London one of these days,
I'm getting over to Europe, and I've got to just
enjoy this because it's it's so beautiful. Love it. So,
I mean, I know, like you know, Buckingham Palace and
other sites to see. But is there like one thing
that maybe I don't know about that I have to
do when I travel and take my family to London
or to England day, I've I've got to do something
that maybe I just don't know about it, or like
(43:03):
what's all over television or in magazines. Is there is
like a site or a tour I go to take
or something.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, well, you've got to get out of London to
see the real England.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean, London's great, but I tried to avoid going
to London. The real England is out of that I've
got from the Midlands and it's got some of the
most beautiful countryside. It's also got a lot of real
history as well. You know. You can find buildings that
are a thousand years old, you know, and you know,
a beautiful countryside in a summer's day in England is
(43:36):
the best country in the world as far as I'm concerned.
But I want to avoid the wet weather and the winds.
I'd sin to go somewhere else, you know, but summers
for the one or two weeks that we get good Son.
Although it's got better lately. I think there's no more
beautiful place. Ireland. My wife has got Irish roots. It's
(44:01):
a beautiful country. You should go to Ireland. Really, Scotland
is beautiful as well. It's rugged, it's cold, but it's
the people are warm. So I say, get out of
London and you go and see Scotland, go and see Ireland.
You go in to the Midlands, you know, and you'll
see real, real British then, and you'll meet real British
(44:24):
people who love Americans. As soon as they hear in
an American accent, they'll be all over here. They'll be saying
where you're from, and would you like to have a drink?
And so I recommend it, you know you should.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
My Texas accent is going to give it away. Whatever.
People like that, it'll be.
Speaker 16 (44:39):
All immediately, yes, yeah, yeah, again You Be forty Out there,
the forty fifth album, You Be forty five is out
across all the digital streaming platforms, the ultimate addition to
commemorate the band.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Four time Grammy nominated out There for all those great
Reggaeton hits, and of course out There the Relentless tour
kicks off August seventeenth and Atlanta, Georgia over fifth through
that date Encore Theater at Win Las Vegas and Las
Vegas Divanna for more information to connect with them, You
be forty dot Global out there tour a great great
contributions to music. Jimmy, appreciate the time here on the backstage,
(45:13):
past my friend. Looking forward to doing this again. Best
of luck on the tour, safe travels. God bless you
and the family and appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Thank you for having me on. It's been a real pleasure.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Thanks a lot, mate, You got it man, Jimmy Brown,
you'd be forty back with more great music KYBN ninety
eight point one and of course their friends at KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine after on iHeartRadio, where
if you guys find your podcast and the sports Guys
podcast dot com, and of course Music City coming up here.
We're invading it June fourth to eighth to Nashville, Tennessee,
broadcasting Alive at the Music City Center, Gary Lavax and
(45:45):
of course a con and a host of others is
going to join us. And then Sunday, June the eighth,
at the Grand Old Opry. Yes, we're back there doing
it again for the forty third annual Sunday Morning Country
hosted by Brenda Lee. More great music coming up, Take care,
god blest us, We'll see you soon.
Speaker 17 (45:58):
Hey guys, this is now US film recording artist Kirsty
Kraus and you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past
podcast on KYBN, your Bay Area broadcasting network.
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