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The review of Prince's latest
album "G ra ffiti Bridge" w ill
be postponed until next week
due to limited space.
Dennis Springer:
The Man Loves His Sax
about your New album “ R io” ?
S p rin g e r-'T think that ‘R io ’ is a
real stronger urban contem porary album.
It has a nice hook, something that people
can ride down the street and hum to, and
it’s fun to play on. Jeff Lorber actually
wrote the title tunc. The tune that I write
will probably not even be played on the
stations that play ‘R io’. The album is
real progressive.”
P o rtla n d O bserver-W here are you
at this stage of of your career?
S p rin g e r-’T ’m only about a quarter
away as far as being able to do w hat I
want to do. I want to branch out and play
around the world. Hopefully, this album
will open the door for future opportuni­
ties. I believe that everything happens
for a reason. When it’s my time, I think
that everything will happen and fall in
place.”
P o rtla n d O bserver-Is your work
easy?
S p rin g e r-” No, it takes years and
years to gel ahead. Some people make it
overnight and others ju st struggle for
years and years before they make it to the
point where they can earn a living at
playing music. I’m still working a steady
that you are some new overnight sensa­ day job. I hope this album can get me to
BY ULLYSSES TUCKER, JR.
tion, but the fact is that you have been the point where I can do music full-time.
all it the end o f summer jam around for a long time, haven’t you?
T hat’s what I ’m hoping for.”
if youw ill, but the perform ­
S p rin g e r - “ Y ou’re right. I have
P ortland O bserver-W hat advice do
ance put on by Dennis Sprin­ been around a very long time. Actually, you offer the youngster who has designs
ger last week at the Harbor- I’ve been playing since I was fifteen on being the next Dennis Springer, Grover
side/KINK-FM concert se­ years old. I started off at the old Cotton W ashington, or Najee?
ries should warm your heart Club on North Vancouver Avenue and I
S p rin g e r-’T would say just prac­
well into fall. T hat’s be­ used to have to go in the dressing room tice hard and learn as much as you can
cause his recently released during breaks just to have a Seven-Up. about your instrument. Also, the busi­
L P (“ R io” ) is now available When I turned twenty-one, I started drink­ ness element o f the music industry is be­
at local record stores. It doesn’t have to ing coffee nudges on the breaks. I use to coming very important. There are books
end with summer.
play with the Soul m asters and Pleasure out that can help a young person out in
Springer, a native Portlander and also. W ith Pleasure, we toured all over that area. I heard about a book the other
1960-something graduate of Parkrose High the United States and we played with day called ‘Hit M en’. It talked about the
School is also thirty-something. A c­ some really great people. I can recall industry itself and how people m ake it,
cording to Springer, he has been around going to Philadelphia once and G rover get air play, pay-offs, and all types of
the blocks a few times and most o f the W ashington would join us on stage. In stuff. Young artists should read the book.
time his sax was with him. Springer, fact, he sat in with us a couple of times. There is a lot of politics involved in
along with drum m er Carlton Jackson of I always looked forward to going out on music and it’s about who you know. It
Tom Grant, Mike Klinger (piano/key- the road because I m et people who in­ seems like politics is taking the place of
boards), bassist Kris Kent, and Caton spired me. guys like D exter Gordon and talent. T hat’s real sad. In the era I came
Lyles, who has to be one of the best Freddie H ubbard.”
up in, I had to really learn how to play it
percussionists on the W est Coast, put on
P o rtla n d O bserver-W hy so long in order to be considered a professional.
a wonderful show. Jackson is an excel­ for your first album , y o u ’ve been away Now days, there are so many people out
lent drum m er too.
from your last National group for some there picking up instruments and calling
Many of the people in the crowd time now?
themselves artists, but they don’t spend
had never heard of Springer, but they left
S p rin g e r-” I do n ’t really know to the time it takes to be a true professional.
the concert with a com pact disc or cas­ be honest.. I think that there are several T hat’s the difference today.”
sette sold at the Nu Vision Records table factors as to why I haven’t. I ’ve had m a­
P o rtla n d O bserver-W hat do you
set up on location. At this stage o f his terial for a long time, but w asn’t until want people to know about Dennis Sprin­
career, Springer is pleased with the new Marlon M cClain and M ike M avrolas ger?
album and happy to be making music. (Darkhorse entertainm ent/N u Vision
S p rin g e r-’’Well, I want them to
He has seen a lot of people come and go records) approached me to do this proj­ know that I ’m real serious about my
in the business. There have been times ect (“ R io” ) with their gam e plan that it music and I’m going to keep on keeping
where Springer even wondered if he was happened. The tunes that I w rite are on, no matter what. I will always con­
on the right track, but his faith in his more straight ahead and the one they tinue to play and grow as a professional.
ability and belief in God pulled him wanted to do was m ore like urban con­ I won ’ t stay in the same space. I want my
through some dark moments.
temporary or cross over m aterial.”
music to always stay fresh.”
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