From: Gregory J. Chamberlain
Re: The Dukes Of September

Hi Bob,

I was pleased to hear you mention Lee Michaels.

I am probably one of the only people who has had the priviledge of hearlng Lee Michaels, modern day.  I first met him around 1994 when I was the official videographer of the China Club Monday Night Pro Jams in LA.  I had video monitors atop the speakers and he liked the handheld camera work I was doing enough to befriend me.  I had no idea who he was.  He invited me down to his crib in Venice where he had a wall of speakers in his then living room of the building right next door to Hama Sushi in Venice.  The music he played me was quite literally magic.  I immediately wanted to dance and did so, around his living room, while he jammed on his keyboard to a drum machine (that actually did have soul when he played to it) and he sang his ass off.

It did not take long for me to figure out that he was THE Lee Michaels.

When he began returning to China Club in the weeks, months and years that followed, he was always asked to play by Alan Kaufman and Rudolph, but preferred dancing with his enterouge of girls he brought into the club.

Lee Michaels is still at "it" for real, and is constantly writing and singing daily.  I know he would like to play live again, but has so many other entrepreneurial projects going, it will take an invite from the right person or party to get him out of his musicial shell.  He will blow minds when he emerges, seriously!  Someone should have him open for a big act.  It would most likely be the talk of the town, in a very good way, afterwards.

From: Lee Michaels
Subject: dukes of sept.

.hi…. a friend greg chamberlain… fowarded your recent article mentioning my music & the dukes of sept…… i was pleased & surprized when i heard they were performing one of my songs in their show…  it was also nice to see that someone remembers those songs you mentioned … thank you …..nice meeting you ..smiles…