Man,Rick had a baddass band behind him in The Stone City Band. Kinda feels like an unofficial sequel 2 "Superfreak", but that combo guitar Tom McDermott and bass Oscar Alston was tough enuff..
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girl you're cute!
you're sweet!
you're such a sexy treat..

One of my favorites. We shook many a ass to this one.

Ooom pa pa pa pa pa pa
Hoooo! don't be so hard to get

Damn,I wish they would remaster the 'Throwin' Down' CD,which isn't even in print right now!

SoulAlive said:

!

I would love if they would do like they did with "Street Songs" - remastered with the extra trax and a second disc with a live show from that tour.

vainandy said:

I got to shake my ass live to "Hard to get" at the concert for this tour! Rick James with Cameo and One Way in Oakland!!!!
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Sowhat said:

what a line up

Caramelpfe said:

And that was my very first concert (Summer of 1982)!

My second was The Gap Band with Roger/Zapp, Grand Master Flash, Goodie at the Cow palace in SF (Fall of 1982).

My third was Prince with the Time and Vanity 6 in Oakland (Spring 1983).

Rick James, Cameo, The Gap Band, Roger/Zapp, Prince, The Time....all at the top of their game in their prime during a 9 month period!

Sowhat said:

Yeah,that would be great!

Sowhat said:

Man,I live in the Bay Area and I would have killed to have gone to those shows!

SoulAlive said:

I'm assuming you're a young buck. I'm an old fart. They just don't have concerts like that anymore.

Actually the first concert I tried to go to was Prince with The Time on the Controversy tour in early 1982 at the Civic Auditorium in SF but me and my friends were too young to drive to get there.

@ the drummer

If it had been my responsibility to add a subtitle to "Hard To Get", I might have gone with "Super Freak The Sequel" or "Son of Super Freak" because Slick Rick darn near recorded a note-for-note copy of it.
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funkpill said:

CRACKIN'!!!!!
R.I.P. Slick Rick James!!!!!

Man i love Rick James but Hard To Get wasn't one of my faves

now if you put this bitch on...

Identity said:

I agree,the song is basically "SuperFreak Part 2" It's good,though.

yes sir.

Sowhat said:

a "young buck"? No,I'm probably the same age as you,lol.

Unfortunately,I didn't go to any concerts in the early 80s.My first concert was in 1986.I remember my sister and her friend went to see The Gap Band and Yarbrough and Peoples at the Circle Star Theatre in early 1983.Did you go to that show? Remember the Circle Star Theatre?

SoulAlive said:

Yes I remember the Circle Star Theatre but I never made it to any concerts there.

I did not catch the Gap Band with Yarbrough and Peoples in early 1983 but I did catch the Gap Band at the Oakland Arena in late 1983 with Jeffrey Osborne and Atlantic Starr. In fact I got to meet the Gap Band at that show. I went to High School (Hayward High) with one of their neices Michelle and she got us backstage!

banks said:

Rick was not playin' around with that one. Roy Ayers worked it out.

allsmutaside said:

you got that right... i love that song

hard to get is a funked out groove.

dance wit me is one of my favorites as well.

banks said:

B,

I am feelin' the love for Rick right now, so if you haven't seen this - pay attention.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...QUgl5qSerw

Stone City Love,

Smut