This is not as bad as I thought it might be. I LOVE the dated 60's sound, and it serves to remind me that Rick had been around for a while, lol. Quite a history behind this song, AND this group.

I can imagine that Rick would want to SLAP me for just now getting around to listening to this, lol. May he be resting peacefully, still miss him (...and just a little bit more after hearing this).

PDogz said:

This is not as bad as I thought it might be. I LOVE the dated 60's sound, and it serves to remind me that Rick had been around for a while, lol. Quite a history behind this song, AND this group.

I can imagine that Rick would want to SLAP me for just now getting around to listening to this, lol. May he be resting peacefully, still miss him (...and just a little bit more after hearing this).

I saw his Dave Chappelle interview and he reenacted slapping Charlie Murphy, it was a HARD slap so yeah it's best you would've kept that to yourself.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

This is not as bad as I thought it might be. I LOVE the dated 60's sound, and it serves to remind me that Rick had been around for a while, lol. Quite a history behind this song, AND this group.

I can imagine that Rick would want to SLAP me for just now getting around to listening to this, lol. May he be resting peacefully, still miss him (...and just a little bit more after hearing this).

I saw his Dave Chappelle interview and he reenacted slapping Charlie Murphy, it was a HARD slap so yeah it's best you would've kept that to yourself.

As in: What did the hand say to the face?

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

I saw his Dave Chappelle interview and he reenacted slapping Charlie Murphy, it was a HARD slap so yeah it's best you would've kept that to yourself.

As in: What did the hand say to the face?

Nah, just smack him. According to Rick, all he said was "come here" and then SMACK!

"What? He gon' smack me back? I'm Rick James, he's Charlie Murphy."

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

As in: What did the hand say to the face?

Nah, just smack him. According to Rick, all he said was "come here" and then SMACK!

"What? He gon' smack me back? I'm Rick James, he's Charlie Murphy."

Don't know why people in his inner circle put up with Rick, lol. He must have been incredibly charismatic (well... we KNOW he was, lol).

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

Nah, just smack him. According to Rick, all he said was "come here" and then SMACK!

"What? He gon' smack me back? I'm Rick James, he's Charlie Murphy."

Don't know why people in his inner circle put up with Rick, lol. He must have been incredibly charismatic (well... we KNOW he was, lol).

Yep.

Plus Rick was high when he did all that. I doubt he slapped people sober lol

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

Nah, just smack him. According to Rick, all he said was "come here" and then SMACK!

"What? He gon' smack me back? I'm Rick James, he's Charlie Murphy."

Don't know why people in his inner circle put up with Rick, lol. He must have been incredibly charismatic (well... we KNOW he was, lol).

They were on his payroll so they put up with it...

oh and nice tune too

did i read the label right...1966?? ....wow

funkpill said:

oh and nice tune too

did i read the label right...1966?? ....wow

Yep. Rick at 18.

Neil Young from CSNY was in this group also.

MickyDolenz said:

Neil Young from CSNY was in this group also.

They were signed to Motown too... how's that for irony. They were supposed to break soon, but Rick's Navy A.W.O.L. caught up with him, thus the band went bust.

mrpunkfunk said:

MickyDolenz said:

Neil Young from CSNY was in this group also.

They were signed to Motown too... how's that for irony. They were supposed to break soon, but Rick's Navy A.W.O.L. caught up with him, thus the band went bust.

I don't think Berry Gordy would have done anything with them, even if Rick was available. They would have been just another ignored act.

And here's the other song "It's My Time", sounds like they were going for a Stones sounding song.

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

I'm going to play a six degrees of separation type game...

Rick James ran to Canada, and got himself into a bar brawl. The two guys who broke it up would be known as Bob Dylan's (of course, you could prob. find some venues in Minneapolis that Dylan and Prince have both played starting out, even if the names changed a decade later) backup band The Hawks, then would go on to call themselves The Band. They helped him out in finding a band to join, introduced him to Bruce Palmer, and wound up being the Mynah Birds. Bruce also met Neil Young, who had known from another band (The Squires), and brought him in.

The Mynah Birds while Neil was in only lasted 6 weeks, but enough time to record an album and a couple of singles, unreleased until Motown's box set last year.

Odds are Neil never said much about Rick because it was too short to comment on it, and maybe they've said hi at random award & industry events.

After Rick left, Neil and Bruce high tailed it to LA and helped form Buffalo Springfield.Some of the other members of the band would go on to be in a band called the Sparrows, and then became Steppenwolf.

Berry Gordy must've liked Rick enough to keep him on the payroll for decades.

Rick James, once he finished doing his time, wound up working as a staff songwriter and producer for Motown, and worked with a group called Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers. Bobby Taylor had started out in Seattle, and happened to know a certain guitarist that we've all heard of - Jimi Hendrix, who would join them on stage from time to time. The guitarist in that band? Tommy Chong. And because Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers were Motown recording artists, they decided to hire an opening act that had their interest and were blown away - the Jackson 5, and then brought them to Detroit to audition. The group more or less disbanded, and Bobby Taylor would produce the Jackson 5's first album.

Supposedly Stephen Stills, Rick James, Jimi Hendrix, Dallas Taylor and Buddy Miles had a jam session that's on tape somewhere. It's possible because Motown had moved to LA in 1969-1970.

And he did write a book a while back...