Maurice was a bit disappointed that he couldn’t have the Energetics - who he was crazy about – he advised us and mentored us, then he was motivated to get his own group. Maurice at the time actually wanted to take us on & manage us and get us a record deal, but our current manager wasn’t having it because of how much he had invested in the group until that point. Then the Johnson Brothers aka Maurice Starr & Michael Jonzun of the Jonzun Crew connected us to Tommy Boy Records through Arthur Baker. It was those funds that sustained us until we got our deal with Atlantic. Even our manager at the time had exhausted his funds that he was investing in the group.
So when the album didn’t do well Atlantic dropped us and we were on the verge of giving up and throwing in the towel. It did take us to various parts of Switzerland, Berlin, Germany and throughout all of the provinces of Canada, and it allowed us to perform our own music versus doing cover songs and that’s a beautiful thing. The album sold about 50,000 copies in various markets so it didn’t do too well, and that didn’t allow us to remain on the label and do another project. The Energetics Down To Earth album was disco-ish, but disco was fading out and the techno & rap was beginning to emerge on the scene as the new genre for the decade. It went from Soulful R&B to dancing and disco mania then from disco to techno & Hip Hop dance music. But JayQuan, music at that time was going through a few transitional changes in genres. HJ: Well they actually released it regionally and test marketed it. It is my honor to speak with Herb Jackson of The Energetics & Planet Patrol. Michael Jonzun informed me that Planet Patrol formerly went by the name The Energetics, and that they were a very important part of Boston’s Soul music history. Luckily in 2007 I had the opportunity to interview Michael Jonzun of the Jonzun Crew (MJ is a Bostonian like Planet Patrol, and was also label mates with the group), and I asked if Planet Patrol was just a random group of guys singing on the those tracks.
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Even their 1983 full length lp didn’t have the group pictured on the cover, and there was no biographical info anywhere on the lp. If I had been fortunate enough to catch Planet Patrol perform on Soul Train in November of ’83 some of my questions would have been answered, but only some because with no music videos by the group, and not many outlets that aired music videos featuring Black artists in existence yet, I still had questions concerning the origins of this group. The record was credited to Planet Patrol as the artists this time, and released on the same label as Planet Rock – Tommy Boy Records. Play At Your Own Risk gave new life to Planet Rock and was blasted from every boom box, passing car & house party and it received heavy airplay on urban radio.
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