Raphael Saadiq Bonds With 'Regular Guy' Mick Jagger Over the Blues
Posted on Jun 1st 2011 by Theo Bark

AP
What was it like getting the call from Mick Jagger to play at the Grammys?When Mick Jagger called me, it was just kind of funny -- because it's Mick Jagger. You wake up and the phone's ringing and he's like, "It's Mick." You just jump right in and act like it's nothing, like, "What's up, Mick?" He's a blues guy, that's what I grew up playing, so it was kind of surreal because he's such a regular guy. Even though he's like the Holy Grail to what he does, he doesn't come off like that. That's why he's so dope, because he just walks in, hops out the car, says "what up" to the whole band real cool, picks up a harmonica and starts blowin' some Howlin' Wolf. It don't get no better than that. So, getting the phone call is funny, because it takes a British guy to come all the way to America to find me and say "let's do the Grammys," when I wouldn't have got that call from the Grammys to say "come play with Mick." Mick called me and said, "Let's go to the Grammys" and didn't tell the Grammys, just said, "I'm taking you, let's roll." So, it was kind of funny, in a way. That's how it works, but those British cats really know what the real deal is. Over here, we're kind of blind, a little bit.
That's pretty funny. Do you have a favorite Grammy moment besides that one?No, that's probably it [laughs]. I'm playing with one of the Rolling Stones and singing a Solomon Burke song. I mean, it don't get no better than that. That was it. That was the moment, unless I go back and say Michael Jackson, Motown 25. Watching it from home was probably one of the biggest things, because I grew up watching the Jackson 5, so to watch Michael Jackson with the Jackson 5 was chilling. That was a real moment in my life.
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