Rick James

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:15 am

A minute or so into the video, out comes the 4001.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=506_1180758143

rickboy88 · Post by **rickboy88** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:36 pm

soelectric · Post by **soelectric** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:21 pm

THE STROKES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuvX_X7Rlw

brian_l · Post by **brian_l** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:45 am

I wonder if Rick James used a Rickenbacker bass to record the famous basslines to "Super Freak?" Does anyone know?

lyle_from_minneapolis · Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:12 am

Didja know he was in a band with Neil Young long before Buffalo Springfield? That always was hard for me to picture, but it's true.

brian_l · Post by **brian_l** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:53 am

He was also in a band up in Canada called the Mynah Birds, with John Kay in his pre-Steppenwolf days.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:02 am

Actually, that was the one with Neil Young. Not John Kay, but two other members of the future Steppenwolf...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mynah_Birds

brian_l · Post by **brian_l** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:08 am

Oh, that's right, I kind of forgot that Nick St. Nicolas and Goldy McJohn (aka John Goadsby) were in the band and not John Kay. I must have confused them with Sparrow for some reason. You might remember several years ago when VH1 did a Behind The Music on Steppenwolf, they actually interviewed Rick James.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:17 am

Hmm...did they ever open for these guys?

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:56 am

tommy chong!

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:22 am

My hero! Good eye, Phlemmy...

(I'm reading the "I Chong" at the moment...)