Super Freak

Super Freak

Super Freak

Written by Alonzo Miller and Rick James recorded by Rick James up in Sausalito close to the houseboat I was living in at the Record Plant then down at Motown family in L.A. with some of the Temptations singing back up. It was what he called a Punk Funk composition. But it was also a women’s rights song. Political in its own right celebrating a woman who was outspoken in her feminine power. Even if she is on the street. “The kind you don’t take home to mother” has got to be one of the nastiest most honestly funny lyrics in R&B. Rick was an all round musician playing a lot of the parts himself, But rooted in the groove with bass playing by Oscar Alston. His voice spoke for a lot of disenfranchised people even though he wasn’t that impressed with the song. He said OK coz he thought the white people could dance to it. He was from Buffalo, New York. My JukeBox brain is looping on his hook like it was the last hot lick in the world. Maybe it is,