If I don't make sense, blame the double d of nyquil.
Rickey was a "sports fan" about music, culture, and anything else that was the topic. I mean that in the way that Matos above described better. He was passionate and engaging about all of this, but you never felt intimidated by his passionate rhetoric. I'd say the same for all my Seattle peeps actually, but Rickey's delivery was unique. So many stories he had yet to tell. He could have lived to be 400, and that still wouldn't have been enough time for him to tell them all.
I also remember him at David Ritz speech at EMP 2008. Rickey was the de facto Marvin Gaye-ologist of our bunch. Even if someone else knew a little more, I didn't know a bigger Gaye fan. So I'm glad he got to see Ritz (writer and close acquaintance of Gaye) before this. He will be missed tremendously, especially at EMP 2009.
I'm still trembling when I see posts of his less than two weeks ago, like talking about "aqua boogie" on the ILM thread about Jet magazine 1979 picks. "why?" I pound on my bed. :(. But I know someday these posts will be whst they are -- testament to his sweetness and greatness.
Many heartfelt hugs to higgs, Morley t, rev, matos, Jen m, Charles my partner who met rickey once, and all of rickey's family and friends.
― System Jr. (Mackro Mackro), Friday, 20 February 2009 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
this is truly horrible news! christ, i was hoping against hope that this would turn out to be yet another tasteless joke thread, but no such luck. i didn't know the guy myself but really wish i had gotten the chance to now; he was my main man on the Whatcha Listening to thread.
condolences to friends and family.
this is the last exchange we had on ilm (man, what i wouldn't give to take the past two weeks back...):
Unknown Session, Duke Ellington
The Raincoats
Thanks for repping, Hurting and Kenan!
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, February 2, 2009 11:28 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I sort of forgot I had a copy of On the Rise here, then idly looked at a big stack of LPs in the living room, so:
"Just Be Good to Me," The SOS Band
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:02 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Just as I was starting to think "Greatest record ever?" about that nine-minute track, I found this 12-inch:
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"/"There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:10 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Then (I was discouraged by you!):
"Wheel Me Out"/"Hello Operator . . . I Mean Dad . . . I Mean Police . . . I Can't Even Remember Who I Am"
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:18 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This makes me wanna take a drive, but the car I "have access to" isn't equipped with a record player:
Little Feat
"I haven't made sense in so long, I almost quit tryin'."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:34 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I sure don't owe that record anything; I've gotta so much pleasure out of it and I think I paid a buck for it in Philly one time.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:37 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*gotten
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:37 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I also listened to "Red Guitar" by Loudon Wainwright III, a song no one ever talks about, before this.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:41 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OK, just Side One of the Little Feat. If that's punk rock of one sort, this is it of another:
Of Human Feelings
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:51 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol, ur durnk?
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:55 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes! How'd you know?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 12:58 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings (Chuck's da man! bought cheap!)
xp
lucky guess.
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:59 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Wow, I've got so much Chuck, but not that box. That's sweet, would fit well in my condition.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:01 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Heh, Ronald Shannon Jackson ends one track on the Ornette with about a bar of "Funk #49."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:04 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Side Two of Another Green World. If I stay awake long enough, then there'll be a Blood & Fire sampler CD called Dubwise & Otherwise 2. Otherwise, 'night.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, February 6, 2009 1:11 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
R.I.P Rickey
― Ioannis, Friday, 20 February 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
five years pass...