Do you incorporate any moves live as que’s to the band like he used to do?
No. I don’t have time to think about that and I guess I try not to do that because I’d be doing my shows too much like him. I think Binky [Griptite, guitar and MC] does that and Lee Fields does that too and sometimes the band watches me and might like the way I do something or I might say “break it down.” I think it depends on the song and if I have too. Sometimes I know what the drummer is gonna play so I might dance to it. I try not to know that I might be doing something from someone. I just like it to be a spur of the moment thing. I might be on the stage and get a James Brown attack. Since James died last year, I really want to do, “This is a man’s world.” I want to sing the whole song from the top. Well, my next question was about the Lou Reed tour prior to this recent one. But we don’t have to go into that though. No, well, the Lou Reed tour in June, that one was cancelled, but the one that I did here at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn for four days and then did a recording of it, and the
