Lionel Richie

Yeah, that's wild.

You know, and back then, all you had to play was James Brown, and you got it, you know.

So you guys covered a few songs.

We did nothing but covers, you know.

And so the beautiful part about this was there was a guy in the audience who was in a band called the Jays, which is the seniors, the greatest band in the world on campus.

And so these guys were graduating, and it was two guys that are going to stay around because they wanted to put a new band together, Michael Gilbert and Jimmy Johnson.

And the next thing we got, a couple of guys got phone calls.

Hey, can you guys stop by?

We want to talk to you about putting a band together.

Well, to get a call from them was like it.

And so we put the band together.

Next thing we know, we have a band called the Commodores.

That's just nuts.

That's just nuts.

We played every sorority house, every frat house, every campus from here to there.

And it just built from there.

Yeah.

Well, that's a whole story.

I mean, it's good, though, because, you know, we could cover everything.

You want Sly Stone?