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Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: Denis on November 07, 2010, 03:53:47 PM

Title: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Denis on November 07, 2010, 03:53:47 PM
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
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Hornisse on November 07, 2010, 04:38:09 PM
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://i51.tinypic.com/2m50axh.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXzDMRFWkk
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Denis on November 07, 2010, 05:54:03 PM
Haha, that's sweet, Robert!
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Highlander on November 09, 2010, 03:58:34 PM
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...
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: godofthunder on November 09, 2010, 04:02:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Highlander on November 09, 2010, 05:16:25 PM
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... ;))
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Hornisse on November 09, 2010, 06:21:16 PM
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
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on November 09, 2010, 07:52:26 PM
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on November 09, 2010, 05:16:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: uwe on December 28, 2010, 12:28:48 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: bobyoung on March 18, 2011, 07:58:44 PM
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on November 09, 2010, 03:58:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rick James (Ric content)
Post by: ilan on March 19, 2011, 01:13:42 AM
Thanks Bob, that's a neat bit of trivia. Sounds really good.