“It wasn’t sexual but musical as a motherf–ker,” he wrote. James and Mitchell developed a close friendship. He fled to Toronto, where he became friends with hot local musicians including then-unknowns Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. His “kinky nature was there early,” he wrote.Ī pot smoker, heroin user and burglar by his early teens, he joined the Navy Reserve at 14 or 15 - he lied and said he was 18 - to preemptively avoid the draft, and began drumming for local jazz groups.īut between drugs, women and music, he couldn’t remember to attend his twice-monthly Reserve sessions and found himself ordered to Vietnam. He grew up fast, losing his virginity at age 9 or 10 to a 14-year-old local girl. She would take young James on her collecting route, and there, at the bars she worked, he got to watch the likes of Etta James, Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
James and his seven siblings were raised by his single mom, who ran numbers for the mob in Buffalo. In short, Rick James lived a super freaky life, as detailed in his new, posthumously published autobiography, “Glow” (Atria Books). When he was through,” James recalled, “he said to me, ‘Ricky, meet Jim Morrison.’” Stills “gathered up bandages and gauze and took care of the guy, who remained passive throughout the ordeal. James, fearing the mystery man would bleed to death, woke Stills, who responded, “Oh, f–k. He seemed hypnotized by the flow of his own blood, saying things like, ‘Isn’t the blood beautiful? Isn’t that the deepest red you’ve ever seen?’” See the padlock symbol shown by most browsers when you checkout.Rick James was crashing on Stephen Stills’ couch sometime in the late ’60s when he “awoke to see a young dude sitting on the floor in the lotus position, stoned as a motherf–ker,” with “blood dripping from his wrist. It is 100% safe and secure to order from us as we have been independently verified by GEOTRUST and your data is transmitted using 128 bit encryption with 'Extended Validation SSL' achieving the highest level of consumer trust through using the strictest authentication standard.We reply to emails in minutes and hours, not days.We're always on the phone to answer questions and help with any orders, Monday through Saturday.Check out thousands of independent 5 star reviews about us.
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