RU-vid is THE TRUTH.....where else can you be watching one thing and then go look up THE THING that the OTHER THING was referencing and then WATCH IT?!?
What a legendary rivalry between Prince and Rick James. Prince forms The Time, Rick forms Process and the Doo Rags. Prince forms the Vanity 6, Rick James forms the Mary Jane Girls.
+Flann Flynn oh yes I saw that episode of Rick James I have no clue about Rick James doing a parody of Morris Day until I saw that clip now it makes sense why Rick James and Prince hated each other
Clearly Prince won that battle. The Time were much more successful. Whereas I didn't even know about this group until Mike Judge's "Tales from the Tour Bus" told me about Process & the Doo Rags. 😂
@@JBSauce Actually the two groups are nowhere similar. All you have to do is clean out your ears and listen. Both groups were very talented and I like their music. Actually Rick James always loved acapella groups and decided to put together a group. Where do you think the idea of Prince's various girl groups came from? Rick James sharing his plans for putting together a girl group while talking with Prince's manager. The Purple One was quick to put out his own girl group soon after. Their rivalry and hatred for each other went beyond music.
If you read Rick's book, Rick claims he told Prince about his plans to create such groups when they were touring together and felt that Prince stole the idea from him.
@@artopuikkonen Actually Rick had told Prince's manager who in turn told Prince. Rick learned to not make that error again. The music business is cutthroat.
This album came out in the 80's when I was stationed in Germany in the Air Force, it was after Purple Rain. I only say that because you no doubt saw process make a Morris Day look in the beginning. This song and most of the album was in heavy rotation in the clubs in Germany. I still play it and most of the songs are on my iPod.
totally agree! Motown had a group named Dynamic Superiors in 1972-76 who had the best stage presence that would make Doo Rags look silly. "Shoe Shoe Shine" and "Leave It Alone" were their top ten singles. The group was to be Motown's followup to the Temps. All this interest, just saying for fact conversation.
That’s my boy on the left Stacy (RIP) we used to play sports in our hood back in The Kenfield projects Buffalo NY. I remembered he and his siblings will be singing on the stoup almost every night when we were young and they all have beautiful voices! I was not surprise when I learned that he was going to be singing in a group for Rick James because he’s always had that light and he was funny as a m’fka!!!
I still love "The Bells". These brothers could harmonize! They use to walk around the Langfield projects, and we loved 'm. I wish they would've made more records.
oh, i thought you was talking about "The Bells" song by The Originals, Marvin Gaye's vocal group at Motown 1969-70 superb harmonizing group. Hit big with "Baby I'm For Real" but maybe this was before your time. Check them out on youtube.
Rick James’ back up band The Stone City Band (who recorded their own albums) were much more comparable to The Time (a self contained band) than Process & The Doo Rags, who were created more in the vein of harmony vocal and choreographed step groups like The Dramatics, The Temptations, The Manhattans, The Dells, Planet Patrol and The Force M.D.’s and the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced group, Solo.
I recently purchased the albums Too Sharp and Colorful Changes on cd. I absolutely love old school music. I've been a Rick James fan since I bought Bustin' Out Of L7 on cassette back in 1979.
nah chief. this wasnt it. like at all. they was sposed to be an answer to The Time? Going up against Prince? Morris Day? Jimmy and Terry? Jerome? Jellybean? Rick was on one for this.
Rick should've had them on some Temptations shit, because they can harmonize and got steps...but to push them as a bootleg version of The Time was incredibly STUPID.
Precursor to five heartbeats in hindsight,Rick James wanting a Temptations,Stylistics,Delfonics with funk wasn't happening when this came out, however very adventurous on Rick's part
@@jakep714 Day can't sing and Process weak as tenor , that's my drift on it. MJ girls are singers and Vanity?hmm. Just keep it real, RJ and Prince case closed
Damn Rick James should had stone city band compete against the the time lol Rick James thanks for teaching me to worry about me n be innovator don't worry about the next person success prince win damn rick
Michael Jackson would not have touched Rick James with a 10 foot pole. Don't get me wrong, Rick James is only 2nd to George Clinton as the baddest funk master to ever walk this earth. He could write, produce, talent scout, and play a mean ass guitar. But Rick's attitude and work ethic were poor. And then there were the women and drugs. Rick James was way too rough for Michael's image in the 80s.
@@ironroad18 Exactly, MJ was the biggest star in the world, working in RJ's cast offs, I don't think so and yes the drugs and sex would have scared him off - too much time partying and not enough making music like Prince and MJ.
Rick James had Prince OCD issues. He insisted on replicating everything Prince achieved. Timing is everything. It was said that Rick James had already began the process of putting together the Mary Jane girls, to get music released in 1983. Prince beat him to the punch, with Vanity 6 in late 1982.
That wonderfully conceived Tour Bus tales bought me hear. These guys were supposed to be Rick Jame's equivalent of The Time. They weren't even close. The Time was an actual band. And they are STILL performing and are STILL funky. Even though Prince wrote most of the music for The Time, you wouldn't even know most of those amazing songs were written by Prince because he was so good at being his own genre...Jungle Love, Cool, 777-9311, Get It Up, Jerk Out...etc. This song by Process and the Doo Rags sounds exactly like a Rick James song that someone else is singing.
Mainly to upstage the much more talented Prince, Rick had them, Teena Marie, a singer from the Parlets, the MJ girls and also gave Eddie Murphy a hit - it was all an attempt to be Prince.
Prince was the opener for Rick James during the Fire It Up Tour in 1980 and by all eyewitnesses accounts Prince blew Rick off the stage and basically stole the tour. Prince opened up for the Rolling Stones a year later in 1981 for only a few dates during a break from his own Controversy Tour which he was already headlining. The Rolling Stones audience was very hostile and abusive. They didn't know what to make of Prince. The point is that Prince did not join Rick's tour after being removed ftom the Stones tour. That Tales From The Tour Bus episode got a lot of dates and details wrong and was clearly biased from the Stone City Band's point of view.
Had this come out in 81 or 82 it would have worked and the gimmick possibly more accepted..sadly by 85 the music buying community just wasn't feeling it. They had potential just too late to the scene
I have not seen this since they came out. I think they would've been more successful had Rick not made them a copycat Time group. That was an automatic red flag. The irony of all this is Morris Day was videotaping Prince's performance while Prince was opening up for Rick
Rick James only produced Teena Marie's first album Wild and Peaceful and they collaborated on two more songs "Fire and Desire" and "Happy" Teena Marie joined Rick James onstage for "Fire and Desire" during the Street Songs Tour but that was it. People have this misconception that Teena was Rick's protege like Vanity was to Prince when in truth Teena was a mulit-talented artist and songwriter/producer in her own right. Her career took off after her and Rick's relationship desolved and when she sued Berry Gordy and got emancipated from Motown, She really became successful. Rick stated that he hoped her first album after leaving Motown would fail. The album "Robbery" blew up and became a huge crossover hit in 1983. It was her most successful album up to that point.
