Rick James is not kidding when he says that he has been in the music business for a long time. His career extends way back to the 1960s, when he was in a band called the Mynah Birds alongside Neil Young (yes, that Neil Young). Rick was already a veteran here in this late 1980s interview.
I'm a big fan of both musicians Prince and Rick James they both had respect for each other . PRINCE DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH RICK JAMES it@ the way the media put it ..I've been a fan since they both started their careers in 1978 Let them both RIP .... good music is now gone because we don't have true good musicians anymore
Prince was influenced by a lot of people. He got most of his flamboyant fashion sense from Little Richard, much of his on-stage choreography from James Brown and Paul Stanley of KISS, his actual guitar playing mainly from Jimi Hendrix and Nile Rodgers of Chic, his funk aesthetic primarily from Larry Graham of Sly & the Family Stone (who later played with him), and his jazz sensibilities from his musician father. Some of these inspirations Prince admitted to outright. Others he was silent about, but they are just so obvious that he almost didn't even have to say anything. Whether or not Prince confessed to it, the Rick James influence seems to fit in the latter category.
WELL PRINCE WAS EQUALLY JEALOUS OF ARTISTS TOO... BUT WOW....VANITY WAS WITH RICK FIRST, MEET PRINCE AND STAYED....JILL WAS WITH RICK FIRST, MEET PRINCE AND STAYED.....RICK HAD A LOT OF REASONS TO ENVY PRINCE...
@@shamgarsitar1170 Drug overdose is a bit overboard in regards to Prince because he was on meds for constant joint pain so what he died from was prescribed meds from a doctor, it's not like he was partying he was taking those meds for pain which most people do and end up addicted to those meds because they have all that bs in em. Same thing with Michael Jackson, he had been taking meds for pain since his head caught fire, he was in serious pain ever since that. It has to be something done about those addictive drugs, it can happen to anybody taking that stuff for pain.
