they had this one video that was played a bit on BET called "wasn't i good to ya"
i havent even seen the video on youtube yet...i don't know how the rest of the album was but that song was hot!

Oh hell no!!! WTF is this?!? Dude, this look like a mix between Ready For The World & Bon Jovi!

DA KRASH

L to R: Rick James, Micki Free, Chris Rock, Nikki Sixx, Howard Hewitt

TonyVanDam said:

i beleive they may have been a Jesse Johnson creation

Yeah, they were produced by Jesse. Jesse also wrote damn near all of the songs on the album. I'm a casual friend with Dee Dee, the guitarist. My band at the time, Amalgam, used to gig a lot on the same bill as Dee Dee's band Dirty Diapers, who's lead singer was also the vocalist in Da'Krash. Both our bands were also on the same bill as Weapon of Choice. That's Lonnie's band, brother to Norwood of Fishbone. Dee Dee went on to play in Bootsy's band for a while (lucky motherfucker!) when Bootsy went to Japan. While he was playing with Bootsy, they did a few live dates with Ice Cube as his backing band. But from my band being on the same bill with Dirty Diapers, through Dee Dee, my band got to open up for Bootsy at The House of Blues! So, I always will owe Dee for that.

blackguitaristz said:

You mean Dee Dee James???

i see copies of that lp at cheapo every once in a while.

Mazerati said:

Yeah, Dee Dee is that cat in the middle with the hair hiked up high. He's a left handed player. Anyway, there was a cool thread over in the Ass. Artists forum well over a year ago titled Mazerati vs. Da'Krash. U know, two former P proteges in Jesse and Brown Mark, who both produced and wrote the bulk of their albums. Even though Dee is my boy and all, it's not a better album than Mazerati's first album. But of course, they benifited from having a little help from P. He wrote "Strawberry Lover" although he's uncredited. And "100 M.P.H/" which of course, he took credit for. He also offered them "Jerk Out" but Sir Casey didn't feel at ease doing the original lyrics. When The Time got around to doing it, P altered the lyrics big time.

blackguitaristz said:

cool thanks for info

TonyVanDam said:

The brother who has "da" in front of him, stole one of Patti Labelle's 1980's wigs.

ThePunisher said:

You mean Motley Crue stole THAT hairstyle from Patti Labelle?!?


Man, we need to stop!

funkpill said:

Yes sir.

blackguitaristz said:

TonyVanDam said:

oh my god, that is too funny and they really do look like a mixture of ready for the world and bon jovi. good call. what did they sound like??

dancerella said:

They sounded just like Jesse.

blackguitaristz said:

Yeah, it was like Jesse did a funk-rock album--not unlike Mazarati. I thought it sounded pretty good.

sextonseven said:

It was like they were Funkadelic to Mazarati's Parliament...


If that makes sense.

I have it on cassette - I like the one cut where Jesse "cuts 'em" with some cool guitar. I think my favorite song is "Easy Come, Easy Go". That's some groove!

I dig Dee's guitar playing - to me, he sorta resembled Randy Jackson.

Anybody remember the hot young thing in the "Wasn't I Good to Ya?" video? She was In a Video Soul interview on BET, they thought so, too.