Fast and Furious With Raphael Saadiq    I read that you are
greatly influenced by album covers. How does the visual inspire
your music?  Oh, 100 percent! I guess because I grew up buying
vinyls and looking at albums while I was actually playing the
record. If you can't go to the concert you play like you are at
the concert. I didn't have toys as a kid. I didn't play with
toys that much, so vinyls were my toys. I used to write my name
on my sisters and family records so I could take them and play
with them as toys. From rock bands to punk bands. Everything!
For me that's the whole swag of...the album cover. You can read
into those personalities with album covers and wonder what they
are like traveling together and being on the road. I can hear
Motown, I can hear Queen like that. I can look at the album
cover and start imaging what's going on during their tour.  Do
you have a particular favorite album cover?  My favorite is a
Dramatics cover. As you open it up there is each member in the
band. Each have ten pic