"Groups like Weather Report, when they first formed, they had yet to play a concert. They would always come to hear MWANDISHI concerts. Then when Downbeat Magazine came out they were voted the number one group in the world and they had never played a concert.
We played The Troubadour one time and that was the downfall of the MWANDISHI group. Herbie wasn't making any money during all those years and the band was getting paid $300 a week. Herbie was in debt to his manager David J Rubinson $30,000. DR had just hired a new group in his stable of artists called "The Pointer Sisters." He wanted to show Herbie he couldn't make money playing with the MWANDISHI group, that he had to go commercial.
Jake D Feinberg We played The Troubadour one time and that was the downfall of the MWANDISHI group. Herbie wasn't making any money during all those years and the band was getting paid $300 a week. Herbie was in debt to his manager David J Rubinson $30,000. DR had just hired a new group in his stable of artists called "The Pointer Sisters." He wanted to show Herbie he couldn't make money playing with the MWANDISHI group, that he had to go commercial.
So he booked "The Pointer Sisters" who had never worked before, opposite Herbie at "The Troubadour." Of coarse "The Pointer Sisters" went over like a household word and we bombed because it wasn't that kind of club. That's why Herbie made his change to "The Headhunters."
*Excerpt of my interview with Eddie Henderson from Jan 2012.
*Excerpt of my interview with Eddie Henderson from Jan 2012.
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