Rick James (Ric content)

[Denis]

He may have been a complete weirdo but he had good taste in basses...
STILL, this is a great song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYHxGBH6o4M

[Hornisse]

Our band used to play that one.  We do "Give It To Me Baby" which is from the same record.  It's funny how when I start playing the main line (before the drums even come in) people start yelling.  I love a song that starts off with a bass line.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXzDMRFWkk

[Denis]

Haha, that's sweet, Robert!

[Highlander]

Believe it or not, he was in a band in the sixties called the Mynah Birds (iirc) that had some guy called Neil Young on guitar - even recorded some stuff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crm7gqK0OeY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29oJCS2r20

If you watch carefully you'll see the late Bruce Palmer with an EB0

Not the most brilliant of material but some of the earliest NY material out there... other stuff can be found by looking...

[godofthunder]

WTF I have never heard this stuff before.....................Rick James and Neil Young Had you not shown me this I never never would have believed it. Kenny you are truly amazing.

[Highlander]

I trawl deeper than you'ld believe...

Rick James was caught draft-dodging (iirc) and that meant Bruce Palmer and Neil Young ended up heading for the West Coast, and the rest is history, so to speak...

(and talking of trawling, finally found that stuff I was looking for so hopefully heading your way this week... )

[Hornisse]

Still my favorite Rick James song off of his first solo record "Come Get It!" back in 1978.  The bass part is super smooth.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkqhtl5AW0

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Rick James was caught draft-dodging (iirc) and that meant Bruce Palmer and Neil Young ended up heading for the West Coast, and the rest is history, so to speak...

Rick James was a Navy deserter.

[uwe]

Wow! I had no idea. But I like Rick sings on those sixties recordings. Live, he was certainly more than just a disco act, his band funk-rocked and at their best had nothing to fear from Mothers Finest in their prime.

[bobyoung]

Believe it or not, he was in a band in the sixties called the Mynah Birds (iirc) that had some guy called Neil Young on guitar - even recorded some stuff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crm7gqK0OeY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29oJCS2r20

If you watch carefully you'll see the late Bruce Palmer with an EB0

Not the most brilliant of material but some of the earliest NY material out there... other stuff can be found by looking...

I like it a lot especially the second tune, and technically it sounds as good if not better than most of the other stuff from 1966. Rick James sounds very good.

[ilan]

Thanks Bob, that's a neat bit of trivia. Sounds really good.