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STORIES FROM THE PARK<\/h3>\n
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Spotlight: Jerry Hubbard JR<\/h3>\n
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DREAMS DO COME TRUE \u2013 THE JERRY HUBBARD JR STORY<\/em><\/h1>\n

HOW A YOUNG BOY WITNESSED THE BIRTH OF THE MINNEAPOLIS SOUND AND WAS DETERMINED TO BECOME A PART OF IT<\/h3>\n

Interviewed by writer: Tony Kiene <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It would be no exaggeration to say that Jerry Hubbard has a rather unique perspective on The Minneapolis Sound. While just a youngster he had the privilege to observe its very origins as some of the older kids from his North Minneapolis neighborhood started to fashion what would ultimately become a musical revolution. Born Gerald Edward Hubbard, Jr. in 1965, Jerry came into the world at Mt. Sinai Hospital in South Minneapolis, the same location Prince Rogers Nelson was born in June of 1958.<\/p>\n

Music was central to Jerry\u2019 life from the very beginning. His father, Jerry Hubbard, Sr. \u2013 whose musical contemporaries included the fathers of Prince (John L. Nelson), Andr\u00e9 Cymone (Fred Anderson, Sr.), and Jimmy Jam (James \u201cCornbread\u201d Harris) \u2013 was considered the premier guitarist in the vibrant Twin Cities jazz scene. A member of the celebrated Bobby Lyle Trio (along with his brother Gene Hubbard), Jerry, Sr. also played with the legendary Richard \u201cGroove\u201d Holmes among other greats.<\/p>\n

OVER NORTH WITH SONNY T.<\/h2>\n

Growing up in a musical home on the North Side, Jerry, Jr. was quick to take notice of the older kids who were putting bands together. As Jerry notes, \u201cThere was Grand Central with that original line-up of Prince and his cousin Charles Smith, Andr\u00e9 and his sister Linda Anderson, Terry Jackson, and the very recently (and dearly) departed William \u201cHollywood\u201d Doughty. Of course, there were also bands like Flyte Tyme, (which at the time included the likes of Terry Lewis, Cynthia Johnson, Jellybean Johnson, and David Eiland) and The (original) Family which featured the one and only Sonny Thompson. <\/p>\n

Since his father was a local legend, \u201call those teenage cats were generous\u201d and treated Jerry with respect. \u201cEven though I was just a kid, they\u2019d sometimes let me hold one of their guitars or a bass just so I could see what it was like.\u201d As one might suspect, even then, Prince was the most mysterious of the bunch and thus, kind of hard to get to know. Yet while they were all cool, it was Sonny that ultimately became something of a mentor to the young Jerry.<\/p>\n

\u201cSonny was over to our house all the time back then,\u201d Jerry recalls, \u201cHe was so accomplished at such a young age that my father took him under his wing.\u201d Thus, Jerry acknowledges it was natural that Sonny would fulfil a similar role in his own development. \u201cI started on the drums. But when I saw Sonny on the bass it was over for me. I had to play bass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially, when Jerry\u2019s father bought him that first bass, he was a little disappointed. It\u2019s not that he didn\u2019t appreciate his father\u2019s gesture, it was just that he\u2019d been hoping for a Fender Precision or something like it. But, Jerry Sr. insisted, \u201cLet\u2019s try this one first.\u201d Sonny, who was visiting one day picked up the \u201ccheap bass\u201d and proceeded to play the hell out of it. A stunned Jerry shouted, \u201cWow, I didn\u2019t know it could do that!\u201d Sonny assured Jerry that it\u2019s not the instrument, but that the person playing it that counts. Jerry heeded Sonny\u2019s advice to keep practicing and from that day forward, he \u201cloved that bass.\u201d <\/p>\n

COMING OF AGE<\/h2>\n

Although he saw him around a lot and even remembers Grand Central opening for his father once at North High Field, Jerry was never formally introduced to Prince until the summer of 1977. \u201cI was on my way to North Commons Park. When I walked into the gym there were a lot of older dudes already there, including Sonny. So, I said \u2018Hi.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cLil\u2019 Hubb,\u201d responded Sonny as he made his way over, \u201cYou know Prince, right,\u201d to which Jerry replied \u201cNo, I mean not really.\u201d Sonny then calls Prince over and says, \u201cThis is Jerry, you know his dad is Jerry Hubbard, Sr.\u201d Prince smiles and remarks, \u201cOh yeah, that\u2019s cool. How you doin\u2019 man?\u201d As Prince made his way back to the court, Sonny mentioned that Prince just signed a record deal and was about to record his first album. Jerry \u201ctripped out\u201d and thought to himself, \u201cWow. A kid from my neighborhood is making a record. Someday I\u2019m going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

By this time, Jerry had started to play with a couple bands that performed at school dances, house parties, and the like. He often sought Sonny\u2019s advice on how to become a better musician and kept asking when Prince\u2019s record was going to drop. Sonny promised, \u201cBe patient. It\u2019ll be out soon.\u201d And then, in April of 1978, there it was; Prince\u2019s debut album For You.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt blew my mind,\u201d proclaims Jerry, who at the time was all of thirteen-years-old. \u201cI knew Prince was good, after all, I\u2019d seen him play. But listening to this album, it was clear that this dude was something special. He was so cold.\u201d As Prince continued to \u201cblow up,\u201d Jerry followed his every move. In January of 1980, after seeing Prince on American Bandstand, Jerry decided to \u201cget serious\u201d about music.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs exciting as it all was, it was also frustrating\u201d reveals Jerry, \u201cI wanted to be out there myself, but I was still too young.\u201d Determined to make his mark, he began gigging with some older musicians and eventually Jerry joined up with The Stylle Band from Rock Island, Illinois. <\/p>\n

Having recently located to the Minneapolis at the behest of fellow Rock Island native Jesse Johnson, the group featured future Mazarati guitarist Craig \u201cScreamer\u201d Powell. The Stylle Band also included Craig\u2019s sister, the late Sheila Rankin (who later joined the Andr\u00e9 Cymone project The Girls) and brother Bryan Rankin (who went on to play drums for Andr\u00e9, Alexander O\u2019Neal, Sue Ann Carwell, and others).
\nWhile his time in The Stylle Band was relatively short-lived, it was still pretty wild for a sixteen-year-old kid. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been allowed in any of the venues had I not been in the band,\u201d laughs Jerry. \u201cBut I wasn\u2019t shy on stage. I\u2019d run out into the audience, jump off speakers, tables, whatever. It was intense.\u201d <\/p>\n

ARE YOU JERRY HUBBARD?<\/h2>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before others either took notice of, or heard about Jerry\u2019s playing, something he\u2019d learn in a rather amusing moment on the street. He recounts, \u201cI was just riding my bike over north when out of the blue a car pulls up and stops. My initial thought was \u2018What in the world?\u2019 Then, this guy jumps out and asks \u2018Are you Jerry Hubbard?\u2019 Of course, I say yes and he comes back with \u2018I hear you are one bad bass player.\u2019 He tells me that his name is Alexander O\u2019Neal and wants to know if I\u2019d be interested in auditioning for his band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry took down the South Minneapolis address where the audition was to be held, and shortly thereafter he was the newest member of the Alexander O\u2019Neal Band, which Alex put together after Prince dropped him from The Time. With Alex, Jerry recorded a few singles, including \u201cI Wanna Get to Know Ya,\u201d and \u201cDo You Dare,\u201d and the band had little trouble selling out local venues. <\/p>\n

Jerry, still only seventeen, continued to hone not only his playing, but his energetic stage persona as well to the delight of crowds throughout the Twin Cities. And, among those frequently in the audience were none other than Prince, Morris Day, and Jesse Johnson. By now, it was the spring of 1983 and Terry Lewis, Jimmy Jam, and Monte Moir were no longer with The Time. Word reached Jerry that Prince and those guys were looking for bassists and had their eyes on him.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later at a club in White Bear Lake, Jerry ran into Jerome Benton, who said \u201cHubb. I need your number.\u201d Jerome played coy about it and wouldn\u2019t tell him why. He simply reassured Jerry that \u201cI have you on file.\u201d Jerry hoped that the rumors he was hearing were true, but after a couple months went by without a call, assumed the worst.<\/p>\n

Then one summer day, he gets a call from Jesse, who asks, \u201cAre you interested in the bass gig with The Time?\u201d Jerry, who was still playing with Alex replied, \u201cYes. Of course.\u201d Jesse instructed Jerry to learn all Prince\u2019s bass parts from The Time\u2019s first two albums, which he quickly absorbed.<\/p>\n

There was a whisper around town that Prince was getting ready to make a movie and Jerry anxiously wondered what all this might mean for him. The only problem was Jesse never told him that he actually had the job. More time passed without another call and Jerry resigned himself to the fact that \u201cIt\u2019s just not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

WHAT TIME IS IT?<\/h2>\n

That November, Jerry, who was still living at home, heard his mother calling him early one morning \u201cJerry. There\u2019s a call for you. It\u2019s Prince.\u201d Jerry\u2019s first instinct was, \u201cOkay. It\u2019s how early? This has to be one of my friends is playing a joke on me.\u201d When he picked up the phone, the voice on the other end belonged to Jesse, who right away said, \u201cSomeone wants to talk to you.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next thing I knew,\u201d recollects Jerry, \u201cPrince is asking me \u2018Would you like to join The Time?\u2019\u201d Almost as quickly as Jerry could say \u201cyes,\u201d Prince was asking \u201cDo you have any suits?\u201d Fortunately, the attire in the Alexander O\u2019Neal Band was quite similar to what The Time wore, so yes, Jerry had plenty of suits. \u201cGood,\u201d uttered Prince, \u201cGet them and come to this address.\u201d Now Jerry just had to find a way to get there.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a young dude in the \u2018hood. I had no car, no money. I resorted to knocking on doors to find a ride.\u201d When he arrived, Jerry didn\u2019t expect to see a full Hollywood production. \u201cThere were trucks, equipment, lights, and wires everywhere. I didn\u2019t realize I\u2019d be walking right onto the set of Purple Rain,\u201d which had just started filming days before.\n<\/p>\n

When he arrived, Jerry was greeted by one of Prince\u2019s bodyguards who told him \u201cWait here for a minute.\u201d After several minutes passed, Jerry began to fret that he\u2019d be told to go home and his dreams would be crushed. Then, through all the noise, he heard a voice he recognized; it belonged to Rocky Harris.\n<\/p>\n

Rocky was one of those guys that treated Jerry so well back in those early days. It turned out Rocky was the first one selected to replace Terry Lewis, but now for some reason was being let go himself. \u201cI couldn\u2019t see him, but I could sense what was happening. It made the whole day bittersweet,\u201d muses Jerry. \u201cRocky, God rest his soul, was a great dude.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

After Rocky left the set, someone motioned for Jerry to come over. \u201cI walked in and I couldn\u2019t believe it. Am I really here,\u201d Jerry asked himself? \u201cEverybody was there. Morris, Jesse, Jellybean, Apollonia, and of course, Prince.\u201d Prince eventually noticed Jerry and walked up to say, \u201cIt\u2019s good to have you here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

It was the next thing out of Prince\u2019s mouth that caught him off guard. \u201cWhat do you shave with,\u201d asked Prince. A puzzled Jerry, who at that moment realized he must be showing a little five o\u2019clock shadow replied, \u201cUh, you know, Magic Shave,\u201d to which Prince said, \u201cOkay. Just wear your beard then.\u201d After filming several takes of the Apollonia 6 warehouse audition scene, Jerry\u2019s first day on location complete.
\nAs the production moved from the warehouse on Flying Cloud Drive to First Avenue, things were good for Jerry. \u201cI felt as though I was fitting in really well. I was from the same place as most of the guys and I played like them.\u201d Plus, about a week in to his tenure, Prince came up to Jerry again and said, \u201cMan. I really love your playing. Happy to have you here.\u201d<\/p>\n

A NEW BEGINNING<\/h2>\n

A few months after filming on Purple Rain was complete, Jerry and the rest of the fellas began rehearsing for the Purple Rain Tour. \u201cI think we were out at the other warehouse out on Highway 7,\u201d he recalls, \u201cThe Time along with Sheila E. were supposed to open on the tour.\u201d However, things were pretty tense from the beginning. \u201cMorris was almost never there, so Prince ran the rehearsals. If for some reason Prince wasn\u2019t around then it was Jesse in charge.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\tWhen The Time officially broke up and Jerry learned he wouldn\u2019t be part of the tour, it was \u201cdevastating.\u201d Yet Prince would soon throw him and some of his other brothers in The Time a lifeline. As Morris and Jesse made the move to go solo, Prince tapped Jerry, Jellybean, Jerome, and St. Paul Peterson for his first new project on Paisley Park Records. Along with Susannah Melvoin and Eric Leeds, the four holdovers from The Time now helped to make up The Family, with Paul out front.\n<\/p>\n

Wanting to spend as much time observing Prince as possible, Jerry often stayed behind after rehearsals. \u201cOne night early in the process I asked \u2018Can I hang out with you,\u2019\u201d says Jerry, \u201cAnd Prince was like, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s start putting this album together.\u2019\u201d Prince then summoned Susan Rogers who brought a bunch of tapes over to the studio in St. Louis Park. Prince started playing one of the tapes and said to Jerry, \u201cWhat do you think of this?\u201d The song was \u201c100 MPH.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\tFloored by the track, Jerry instantly got \u201cthe ugly face,\u201d adding that \u201cPrince had it too.\u201d It was so funky, Jerry had to ask \u201cWhere did that come from,\u201d to which Prince wittily replied, \u201cJust a little something\u2019 I\u2019ve been working on.\u201d Prince played three of four more tracks, including \u201cWonderful Ass,\u201d which Jerry found a little bizarre, but he liked it nonetheless. On another occasion, the two men stayed in the studio and jammed all night with Jerry on drums and Prince on the bass. As Jerry continued to learn from Prince, he couldn\u2019t wait to start work on The Family\u2019s album.\n<\/p>\n

\tEven though Jerry was getting along well with Prince, he was still painfully aware that you never knew what kind of mood he might show up in. There was one time at First Avenue where Jerry was talking to his cousin Pierre Lewis. Pierre himself recorded a few times with Prince, both on his own project The Lewis Connection (which included his brother Andr\u00e9 Lewis and Sonny Thompson) and as a member of Pep\u00e9 Willie\u2019s band 94 East.\n<\/p>\n

\tAs Jerry tells it, \u201cPierre and I were actually talking about Prince and everything that I was doing with him. That same moment Prince walks into the club. Pierre was like \u2018There he is, go talk to him.\u2019\u201d Jerry, not knowing what to expect and certainly not wanting to be embarrassed, decided to play it cool and pretend he didn\u2019t notice Prince. As he and Pierre continue to converse, Prince walks by, then stops, turns and gives Jerry this huge hug. \u201cI was shocked,\u201d laughs Jerry, \u201cHe was so nice.\u201d After chatting for a moment or so, Prince moved on, and Pierre also taken aback, says, \u201cWow cousin. I didn\u2019t know the two of you had it like that.\u201d Jerry, thinking to himself \u201cdidn\u2019t realize it either.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

THE REVUE OR THE FAMILY?<\/h2>\n

While Jerry was waiting for things with The Family to take shape, he heard from another good friend; Jesse Johnson. Jesse\u2019s pitch was simple. \u201cI just signed with A&M and I want you to come play bass for me.\u201d Jerry was torn. \u201cWhat am I going to do,\u201d he thought. As always, Prince had a multitude of things that required his attention. With Purple Rain, he had the biggest album and film of 1984. Plus, the tour was scheduled to kick off that November in Detroit.<\/p>\n

\n\t In the end, it came down to which album was going to be released first, so Jerry made the decision to join Jesse. Nevertheless, the idea of having to tell Prince tormented him. Jesse, sensing Jerry\u2019s anguish told him, \u201cJust hang tight, nothing\u2019s happening right this moment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

A short time later, Jerry, who was still on the payroll of PRN Productions, went to the mailbox to get his check, which reliably arrived every Friday. When it wasn\u2019t there, he called Paul Peterson to see \u201cwhat was up?\u201d To Jerry\u2019s complete surprise, Paul explained, \u201cPrince found out you were going to play with Jesse.\u201d To this very day, Jerry wonders how Prince could have possibly heard. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even official yet. But somehow he already knew.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In retrospect, at least Jerry didn\u2019t have to tell Prince. That said, he always hoped that Prince didn\u2019t hold a grudge. After all, Prince was one of his heroes. And to Prince\u2019s credit, he didn\u2019t hold that grudge.<\/p>\n

LIVIN\u2019 THE DREAM <\/h2>\n

Even though he was no longer in the Prince camp, when The Family\u2019s album came out (a few months after Jesse\u2019s), Jerry can\u2019t forget how proud he was of all those guys (and Susannah). The one thing that struck him however, was that he didn\u2019t recognize any of the tracks. \u201cThe album was so good, but none of the songs Prince played for me showed up. It was an entirely new record. Man, he was so prolific.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Things continued to look up for Jerry as well. As the bassist for Jesse Johnson\u2019s Revue, many of his musical dreams were now being fulfilled. Not only did he play coast to coast on Jesse\u2019s 1985 Special Love Tour, Jerry soon found himself performing on American Bandstand, Soul Train, and other shows. \u201cWe did a lot of big festivals too.\u201d notes Jerry, \u201cWe shared the bill with acts like Kool & The Gang, Teena Marie, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Patti LaBelle, New Edition, Bobby Brown.\n<\/p>\n

When the band\u2019s line-up changed a bit on Jesse\u2019s second album, 1986\u2019s Shockadelica, Jerry was reunited with old friends Sonny Thompson, Rocky Harris, and William Doughty. An added plus, and another dream come true was the opportunity to share the stage (music video) and recording studio with Sly Stone on Jesse\u2019s highest charting single (#2 US R&B) \u201cCrazay.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

LOOKING BACK <\/h2>\n

In addition to his tenures with Prince, The Time, Alexander O\u2019Neal, and Jesse Johnson, Jerry contributed his talents to the careers of a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of Minneapolis Sound veterans including Vanity, Ta Mara and The Seen, Cynthia Johnson, Janet Jackson, and many others. And in 1990, Jerry inked a publishing deal with Michael Jackson.\n<\/p>\n

Later on, along with Troy Royster, Jr. and fellow Prince vets Mike Scott and John Blackwell, Jerry travelled across Japan with pop legend Utada Hikaru on the Bohemian Summer Tour. Then, in 2002, he partnered with Brownmark on the Cryptic project, which yielded the album It\u2019s Been A While. Some of Jerry\u2019s other career highlights include six years on the faculty at the renowned Institute of Production and Recording (IPR) and as a member of the Minneapolis supergroup The Truth, which was made up of alumni representing The Time, The Family, Madhouse, Mint Condition, and Prince\u2019s New Power Generation among other bands.\n<\/p>\n

When he looks back on everything, Jerry can\u2019t help but think of all those who helped make his life in music a reality. No doubt, he was well guided by his parents and the possibilities that a musical household provides. \u201cBeing exposed to those other cats in my neighborhood is why I became a musician.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Jerry\u2019s quick to point out that is wasn\u2019t only Prince, Sonny, or the guys that came out of Grand Central, Flyte Tyme, and other groups who made a difference. \u201cIt was guys like Pep\u00e9 Willie, Spike Moss, Johnny Simpson, and James McGregor, who we all called \u201cMcGoo.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Through it all, it\u2019s not lost on Jerry how much he worried it wouldn\u2019t turn out the way it did. \u201cIt\u2019s so funny,\u201d ponders Jerry, \u201cA few days before I got the call to join The Time, my mother and I drove downtown to Woolworths, which by then had moved inside the IDS Center. There were these huge trucks up and down the block, but we didn\u2019t know why.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Jerry stayed in the car as his mother went into the store. She quickly returned to say, \u201cPrince is in there shooting a movie.\u201d It was the famous Crystal Court scene with Apollonia. \u201cMom encouraged me to go inside, but instead I told her \u2018I want to go home.\u2019\u201d Not that Jerry didn\u2019t want to see it for himself, it was just that he wanted to be part of it all so bad he couldn\u2019t bear to watch when he wasn\u2019t.\n<\/p>\n

Although his mother agreed to drive him home, she first looked at her son and said, \u201cJerry. God is watching over you. It\u2019ll all work out and you\u2019ll be alright.\u201d Then Prince called. It seems as though mother knew best.\n<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

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