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08-06-2004, 02:21 PM
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CNN is reporting that Rick James was found dead in his LA home today. Although Rick had some problems during his life, he was a tremendous bass player. RIP Rick James |
08-06-2004, 02:27 PM
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08-06-2004, 02:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I really hate to hear this news. I just saw Rick James on BET a month or so ago and he looked fine for whatever that is worth.  |
08-06-2004, 02:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | Keep the low end rumblin wherever you are Rick. |
08-06-2004, 02:33 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Nordy Basses, Schroeder Cabs, Gallien Krueger Amps | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: las vegas. nevada | | | a true funk pioneer and funky ass bassist- God bless his soul... rest in peace, Rick. |
08-06-2004, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: San Diego, CA | | | i just posted a thread about this in off topic a few minutes ago.. the same time you did! hah.. anyway that's really sad. he had some cool lines and one heckuva crazy life |
08-06-2004, 02:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Daytona Beach Florida | | | Wow what a shame. RIP |
08-06-2004, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New York,NY | | | "I'm Rick James, Bitch!"
Damn! What a shame...
~S~ |
08-06-2004, 06:01 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DEVILMAN "I'm Rick James, Bitch!"
Damn! What a shame...
~S~ | What an epitaph.
RIP Punk Funk. |
08-06-2004, 06:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New York,NY | | | Brad,
Listen up, it wasn't meant at ALL to be de-meaning. The quote was from the "Dave Chappell Show" where Rick was interviewed about some previous incidents in his "glory days", & Dave re-enacted them. I thought it was a great skit, funny & still keeping all the characters involved cool with each other & ALL true.
Anyway, I remember listening to "Superfreak" for the first time when it came out & loved that Ric sound(bought the same one shortly after, sorry I sold it).
Definetly "before his time" & a pioneer to the funk/rock era...
RIP Rick...
~S~
PS: I didn't know there was such a "well received" thread in the "Off Topic" sect...
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08-06-2004, 07:53 PM
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08-06-2004, 08:14 PM
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Rogue luthier employed at Knooren Handcrafted bass guitars | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Netherlands | | | I remember Rick James more for "Glo" because that was the song he also "performed" when doing his cameo on The A team.
I recently saw that episode again and I thought to myself: he's the only one who makes using a white Gibson explorer bass look cool. Remember, these were the eighties where your guitars had to be shocking pink or puke green.
I nailed the sound of "Superfreak" by using a set of flatwounds on my Rickenbacker, selecting the neck pickup and using a Boss Octaver. It's the octaver that does the trick.
Nevertheless he will be missed, was a great funkateer he was.
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08-06-2004, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by DEVILMAN it wasn't meant at ALL to be de-meaning. The quote was from the "Dave Chappell Show" where Rick was interviewed about some previous incidents in his "glory days", & Dave re-enacted them. I thought it was a great skit, funny & still keeping all the characters involved cool with each other & ALL true. | FWIW: epitaph = 1) An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. 2) A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
I don't think Brad took your epitaph negatively.
RIP Rick 
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08-06-2004, 10:18 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by JRBrown FWIW: epitaph = 1) An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. 2) A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
I don't think Brad took your epitaph negatively.
RIP Rick |
You're right, I didn't. I also didn't want to use a smiley because I couldn't think of an appropriate one.
Rick clearly had a sense of humor about that phrase, judging from what appeared to be his willing participation on the Chapelle Show. I could actually see that on his headstone.
I read that Dave might actually play Rick in a movie, based on the same vibe as the sketch. Wonder what'll happen with that now? |
08-06-2004, 10:19 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DEVILMAN Brad,
Listen up, it wasn't meant at ALL to be de-meaning. The quote was from the "Dave Chappell Show" where Rick was interviewed about some previous incidents in his "glory days", & Dave re-enacted them. I thought it was a great skit, funny & still keeping all the characters involved cool with each other & ALL true.
Anyway, I remember listening to "Superfreak" for the first time when it came out & loved that Ric sound(bought the same one shortly after, sorry I sold it).
Definetly "before his time" & a pioneer to the funk/rock era...
RIP Rick...
~S~
PS: I didn't know there was such a "well received" thread in the "Off Topic" sect... |
I didn't take it that way, D. Simple misunderstanding. |
08-06-2004, 11:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New York,NY | | | Brad,
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm glad you got a little humor out of it(even though it's played out)!
cheers,
~S~ |
08-08-2004, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Between here and there | | | May he Rest in Peace... a great influence!!!
Long live the "Superfreak"!!!
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08-08-2004, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: giant fan in bronco country | | | [singing] I'm in love with Mary Jane she my main thing!!!
rest in peace, say hi to jaco, john, and noel for me.
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08-09-2004, 04:37 AM
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08-09-2004, 05:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Pakistani compound | | While out of town I heard this bad news. RIP brother Rick.
Thanks for you talent, your music, whether fast or slow. you will be missed! 
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