From loving Parliament to competing with Prince to struggling with drug addiction, here are 10 we things learned from Showtime's new Rick James doc 'Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James.'
is surprisingly heavy on explanation and talking heads — long on tell, short on show — and sometimes pedantic in a way that seems at odds with James’ party-starting music. The analysis can be frustrating; do we need the quote “Rick James’ grooves were groovier than most?” The rapper Big Daddy Kane shows up to claim that “James’ style of funk wasn’t like” other great groups that got their start in the 1970s, including the Gap Band, Con Funk Shun, and the Ohio Players.
This might lead to a fruitful discussion of distinctions within R&B, but he refuses to elaborate any further, leaving listeners wondering about potential differences, especially since acts like the Gap Band made ferocious funk records ”) as hard-bitten as anything James did. T he film also includes strange animated sections to replace scenes for which there are no photographs or footage — the inclusion of a PG animated orgy scene is a head-scratcher. “He wanted the fame, he knew how to get it,” she says. “But he didn’t know how to turn it off.” Here are 10 takeaways from the film.David Ritz, music’s go-to biographer, appears frequently throughout. In Buffalo where James grew up, Ritz explains, he “absorbed” two different styles.
James watched as his mother and the other woman started to brawl. “In those days, you didn’t call this bureau for sexually abused children,” James says. “If you caught something like that going down where I grew up, you beat the person down.”As the Vietnam War raged during the 1960s, James joined the Reserves in an attempt to avoid active duty.
As the Mynah Birds, James’ and Young’s group successfully auditioned for Motown and cut four songs. Recording in Detroit,
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