Music videos that feature Rics

[Dave W]

Good find!

[gearHed289]

4005!

I'm embarrassed to say that I thought that song was by Jefferson Airplane.  Really enjoyed that.

And for our friend Uwe - some Brit band borrowed this theme from them...

[Rob]

I saw them open for Frank Zappa in the early 70's.  They were great!

[gearHed289]

Flaming Youth, featuring a pre-Genesis Phil Collins and some dude on a nice FG RM1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0egAOYOENw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR07qHE3mx2cKRenETr-b0Fogx3vweOhOOCkPzP8yKEkcbJGPU65rxCW1Hk

[Highlander]

Tiran Porter, this time with a Ric...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9WHaSKlgU&ab_channel=111blanandrive

[ilan]

Okay this is so creepy. He's my identical twin.

[Paul Boyer]

Looks like a '72. 4001 Mapleglo of course. Note the full-width inlays and bass pickup about ½" from the fingerboard. Although not visible in the video, it has checker binding as well. Niiiice!

[Granny Gremlin]

Okay this is so creepy. He's my identical twin.

I see it, but is it just the bassface?

[Highlander]

Okay this is so creepy. He's my identical twin.

I see it, but is it just the bassface?

That's Pat Simmons... Tiran Porter has a better complexion... 

[ilan]

That's Pat Simmons... Tiran Porter has a better complexion... 

Yes I know. I meant Simmons. In some pictures we look the same, in others not so much. Here, for example, is a doppelganger pic. We also have the exact same hair:

[ilan]

Compare. He's 61 in this pic, I'm 58, so roughly the same age.

[Granny Gremlin]

You need a mustache and he needs to part his hair neater, but yeah.

[Rob]

You need a mustache and he needs to part his hair neater, but yeah.

[uwe]

And for our friend Uwe - some Brit band borrowed this theme from them...

They sure did and never denied it! The DP guys liked the respective IABD album und heard it collectively to death. Then at one session in 1969, Jon Lord started playing the intro slowed down (a bow to Vanilla Fudge's lasting influence on the Purps), Ian Gillan improvised some lyrics over it and the rest is as they say history. Though never a single, it become one of DP's most popular songs and established Gillan's trademark passagio/falsetto.

The IABD guys und gals were aware of the steal, but rather than starting litigation (as they no doubt could have, unless ... see below!), they returned in kind and stole a song from DP (Wring That Neck/Hard Road from DP's second album Book of Talisyn) for their next album (which DP likewise accepted, they even received a letter from IABD announcing it beforehand!).

Of course, if you are a cynic with a worldweary view, then IABD's reticence in asserting their rights might have been down to entirely different reasons ... Listen here at 01:50:



Sound familiar?  Legend has it that the original writer, tenor saxophonist Vince Wallace, taught IABD violinist David LaFlamme the song (allegedly written in 1962) in 1966 at a joint gig. Initially, IABD would credit it to Wallace at their gigs (as a modern jazzer, he was someone you could pride yourself with). But come the release of IABD's debut in 1969, the band had - oops! - seemingly forgotten about Wallace's songwriting and credited the track conveniently to LaFlamme, Wallace would later reappear with at least a co-credit on IABD album sleeves.

Of course, I'm not insinuating anything. It's a great melody, irrespective of who plays it. In the end, probably some Indian snake charmer we'll never hear about wrote it. 

Some further background:

http://www.originals.be/en/originals/650

BTW: I find Wallace's treatment of the melody intriguing and very musical (it reappears a couple of times in his rendition, each time altered a little) - too bad there is no CD release of it.

PS: Herr Wallace seems to have taken it all rather hard ...

https://www.bluoz.com/iabd/vince.html

... but perhaps he also wasn't the most skillful guy when it came down to securing and  asserting his intellectual property. He died in 2012, ironically the same year Jon Lord left us. I guess the two now have ample time and opportunity to sort it out among themselves!

[ilan]