I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.