I read something where you’re describing this as kind of like an oral movie of your life?

So, but anyway, this record, I enjoyed and I found it really, kind of interesting. Marc Allan: Yeah, it’s a much bigger city than it used to be. Rick James: They told me it’s really been built up and stuff. Marc Allan: You’ll be surprised, cause obviously you’ve been on the road for a while. Some of my family’s there, and plus I’ve always had a real good, I’ve always had a really good taste for Indianapolis. Marc Allan: Yeah? How is that? Why is that?

Naptown’s always been really comfortable for me. Rick James: Well, I don’t know, it’s, I don’t know man. Marc Allan: Yeah, I think you’ve got a couple, it seems to me, if I read the itinerary right, you got a couple of warm-up dates in LA, and then the official first date, they’re saying is October. Rick James: It could be, yeah like I said, I’m not really, really sure. Marc Allan: Oh, I thought that Chicago was after Indianapolis. Rick James: Well, for all intents and purposes, really the tour starts, I think, the first date is in Chicago at the Regal Theater. Marc Allan: Is it an accident that you’re starting the tour here? Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate it. Marc Allan: It’s Marc Allan in Indianapolis. James led his Stone City Band through an imbalanced, sporadically invigorating set in his return to action after two years in prison on a drug and assault conviction, plus years of inactivity due to drug addiction. Actually, it was both a concert and a reunion, as well as a throwback to an era when performers favored sexual innuendo (rather than outright vulgarity) and identified people by their Zodiac signs. “This is not a concert tonight this is a reunion,” Rick James announced early in his set Friday night at the Indiana Convention Center. But they sort of sound great.”Īs for the concert, it was OK. You’ve gotta like someone who says, “A lot of things I had done over the years, I can’t remember if I did ’em or not. In this interview, James, then 49, talked freely about his drug use, how prison turned out to be a good thing for him, what he thought of rap (not much), and his friendships with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. When I spoke to Rick James in 1997, he had already been a megastar, a prisoner, and a recipient of royalties for the use of his “Super Freak” bassline in MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This.”Īt the time, he was about to start a tour to promote his first album in nine years, “Urban Rhapsody,” and was in the midst of writing his autobiography, “ dating app bio for guys chicken” which eventually came out in 2007-three years after his death.

A Million Ways to Die by Rick James