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Oh yes, a fabulous bass player.
Let's give it up for the band.
It's Andre Mali on the trumpet.
Come on Dexter Payne on the saxophone.
Kim Stone on the bass.
Jay Forrest on the drum and vocals.
Names that Mr. Lionel Young has played with include Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy
Page and Mr. Plant, Living Color, Linda Ronstadt, Homesick James.
Oh I was very impressed with that.
You got a list man, you got a list.
All right, we're in for some great music from this band.
Homesick James was the best of all that whole list.
I bet, I bet.
Some stories there.
He was a great musician.
All right, I'm counting on you to give them some love and appreciation for their beautiful
set of music coming your way right now.
It is Bluestodo TV here on a Thursday night at 88 Keys and the Lionel Young Band.
Give it up ladies and gentlemen.
You got some applause coming your way.
Oh freedom, oh freedom.
All right.
Oh freedom, oh freedom.
So good.
Oh yeah.
That's right.
Oh, you know how I feel now.
I said no crash and boom, babe.
Love's got me insane.
I said no crash and boom, babe.
Love's gone down the drain.
Well, I'm done with you.
I'm done with me.
It's never gonna be the same.
Can't blame me darling for everything that's gone wrong.
No, can't blame me darling for everything that's gone wrong.
That's why now pretty baby, Lord we just can't get along.
I said no crash and boom, babe.
Drive out me insane.
Yeah, crash and boom, babe.
Love's gone down the drain.
Well, you're done with me.
I'm done with you.
I'm done with me.
Yeah, let it plain to see.
You're done with me.
It's never gonna be the same.
Bye bye.
Thanks.
Well, I tried and I tried and I tried to do the thing that's right.
No matter how hard I try, all you want to do is fight.
Hey, you was wrong.
You know you was wrong.
You was wrong.
You was wrong little girl.
Thank you.
Well, you ought to see my baby.
You know that girl, she's so fine.
She loves me in the morning and every night.
She's always on my mind.
She's got sugar coated love.
Yeah, sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby.
I don't mean maybe she's mine.
Well, I don't have to worry about money.
I don't have to worry about clothes.
I don't have to worry about anything.
She's my baby.
She's got sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby.
I don't mean maybe she's mine.
Well, you can take your pick of the other.
Take any one you choose.
Take all the rest.
Cause I got what I can use and that sugar coated love.
Yeah, sugar coated love.
She's a real love baby.
I don't mean maybe she's mine.
She's got sugar coated love.
So sweet.
Right off my feet.
Hey, how's it go?
What are you guys doing?
We're trying to have a show here.
What is this?
What is going on?
We're from Houston, Texas.
It never hurts to ask your mom.
They're from Houston, Texas, the home of Archie Bell and the Drells, ladies and gentlemen.
If you ever change your mind.
Oh, about leaving, leaving me behind.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know I'll always, I'll be your slave.
Till I'm buried deep down, so deep down in my grave.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know I tried to treat you right, but you stayed out, stayed out that night.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're a true Jewry, yeah, money too.
But that's not all I do for you.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know I laughed, when you laughed.
But you know I only hurt myself.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you ever change your mind.
Oh, about leaving, leaving me behind.
Oh, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it on home to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Here's some blues.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
You're playing with my mind, babe.
Always accusing me of doing something wrong.
Said you're playing with my mind, babe.
Always accusing me of doing something wrong.
I can see your lights on, baby.
I can't see, I can't see nobody home.
Now here come your mother-in-law.
You know it's the same thing every day.
You know, ever since we've been married, babe.
You tried to drive me away.
Now you're still accusing me, babe.
Always accusing me of doing something wrong.
I can see your lights on, baby.
I can't see, I can't see nobody home.
This is Steve Thorpe, ladies and gentlemen. How about it?
How about it?
When I come home a little late, you know you accuse me of being out
messing around. You know that's not true, baby.
When I come home a little late, baby, you know you accuse me of being
out messing around.
I can't see your lights on, baby. I can't see, I can't see.
I can't see, I can't see nobody home.
How about it?
Look out a Monday night. We're getting all hot and steamy up here Dean Riker band ladies and gentlemen doing a great job
Excellent job with that set. Whoa, don't a steam off. Yes. It is a hot night
I'm gonna interview you man
We got Scott Simmons on the bass give some
Give it up for Scott great bass player Dave Jetty on the drums one of my all-time favorites
all-time favorites
Yeah, he signed my Cadillac. That's another story. But anyway Steve Thorpe on the keyboards great job
You like it loud don't you
It's smoking hot but now what let's talk about your gear first cuz you got some good stuff going on here
What's that amp? Let's start there
That is a black faced silver face
74 the flames come out of that thing
It's one of the quieter amps I have this why I brought it tonight, but what about this telecaster everything I do is fake
Oh, oh, oh, oh my leg is this is called a relic my leg the relic and it's
What year I mean that always means something
You beat that thing up
Okay, what about this one what about that one's your favorite I can tell
One story behind this they reissued these or actually this isn't a reissue it's a tribute
1960s gold top
And ever since my mom took me into the first music store when I was probably I don't know eight years old nine
Took me in to buy me a trumpet. There was a gold top sitting in the corner. You wanted one ever ever since
Finally got one because they're cheap
Oh, okay, listen up and bless in the ground for that. Well that opens up a door. What about your mom?
Is there a person in your life that opened up music for you like that? Was it mom or tell me about my aunts?
Yeah, your aunts. Mm-hmm two of them anyway. Tell me more were they piano players singers? What was going on singers?
piano players not professionally
played the radio
DJ yeah
You know ever since I was young young probably two years old I developed
my own turntable in the kitchen with mom's
Mixmaster Wow, so you were serious at home about your you know, I was I was already DJ at two
playing my own platters, I didn't wish they literally were platters
and about I don't know about four years old the piano I
my mom walked in the
Living room one day and she says I was playing sitting at the piano playing she said Dean. Where did you learn that?
And I said off the TV. I
Was listening to American Bandstand or something and I was playing part no for no
So your mom had a lot to do with you getting into music
What about guitar was there a particular person that said this is the instrument and it opened your mind up?
I just I didn't have a girlfriend. I wanted one
Okay, my brother was a big musical influence on me and he bought me my first guitar Sears Roebuck
No, it's a harmony yeah the Sears Silver Tone harmony
1295 or something, you know, they're keepers man. They're keepers
He bought me that and that's what got me started. So change your life, huh? Pretty much
Big brother change your life. It's a big brother. Yes
You also talked about a couple of record albums that changed your life the Bloomfield Cooper LP
the double life
Yeah, that was a big one. I wore a couple of those out
Did that did Bloomfield influence your guitar player? I
I don't know
you know, I was so into fusion and jazz at the time that I
Wasn't well, I never listened to guitar players anyway to learn from I early on Led Zeppelin all the typical stuff but
Yeah, exactly
later on it was
Mostly drummers
piano players and trumpet players
Which I quit playing trumpet, but that's what I listened to mostly. So do you play more than guitar?
I'm sorry. Do you play more than a guitar?
Oh drums and bass and just a tiny bit of keyboards play everything don't you?
We hate people like you just
So you're a musical mongrel as you describe yourself. Yeah
Many styles many styles many instruments
You do this full-time you guys all you guys do full-time, huh?
So what's with you Dean? I
Repair office chairs during the day. I'm gonna bust your chops on that man. You should be playing this thing full-time
I I'm sorry. Am I right?
Can I hear you say yeah
Yeah, I knew you were there pure food and drug act with Harvey Mandel and Don sugarcane Harris
I remember that
For me, okay, you're not old enough. I was recorded right here in Seattle
Okay, Smith or something no, I was at a tavern a
45th right off 45th and I find the blue moon had to be the blue moon or the rainbow the fabulous
Right. It might have been the rainbow. That had to be the fabulous rainbow tavern my soul's on fire. That that was a big one
For me, it was this it was the fabulous
Okay, so let's talk about we talked about gear. What about your songs?
You have a couple of originals you started with the silver spoon song
Mm-hmm. That's personal, isn't it?
Could be I'm not going there
Hanging on is useless. Most of it's most of all it's painful. That's a true
Yeah, you got some truth in there. That was that was all about that was written about two years ago in Vegas
After some stuff happened. Yeah, you spent some time in Vegas my payback. That was my payback
Come backs up
So, you know, I don't I don't care you you don't care what I don't carry a grudge
Okay
39 days that's another original. No
Okay, who wrote that one? I
Don't remember. Oh, I busted him
Mike somebody. Okay. I loved your arrangement of crossroads. Tell me how you got to that
Just through about four or five six different arrangements of it. We just actually
at rehearsal we came up with the drum group Dave did and
You know, he starts with the drummer doesn't Dave
I'm just saying without me. It's just folk music
Dave Jenny now Dave he's sitting here without your shoes on do you always play naked? No ankle down
And and why was there someone who taught you that or something? It's uh, just I grew up in Texas
It's hot and that's just one less piece of clothing
Oh
There's so many more questions I could dig into from that. Wait, are you uh, are you going to the IBC finals?
Is that what I heard?
We have advanced to the WBS finals. Yeah, it's the homish
Yeah, it's the homish. So we're going up there. Yeah, so you made the first cut as it were for the International Blues Challenge
Everybody trying to go to Memphis these days and you guys got a good chance with this band
Big show coming up on August 19th in Snohomish
James King
And the Southsiders
Raphael's gonna be there. So so how'd you get into playing the bass?
I just grew up in a musical family and that was the the chair that needed to be filled. So
Yeah, but I kind of learned by watching played in church and there was a b3 in front of me
And I'd taken piano lessons when I was six years old. So the man said watch my feet
So I'd watched his plate keys with his feet and I knew the notes. So that's how I learned the notes on the bass
The one four five four came out right in the feet there. I can relate to that
I grew up with a mom doing organ a church and the same thing. I was down there at her feet
Totally know that story firsthand. So how old were you then? Oh, I was probably early teens and
Then I played drums in high school went to college and and then here I am
So well now when did you get into this professionally? When did you know you had to do it professionally?
I'm an electrician by trade. So that's always treated me. You know, I've always had that but
Played, you know from 20 years old on I was pretty busy and then when I moved up in this area
Yeah, been very busy the last 15 years or so in this area. Yeah
You also sing Steve as well as play the keyboards and you have two
Nords over there. Yeah, two nords
I've seen a Nord before but never have I seen someone with two nords. This is the brand of keyboard
I'm talking about these are great. They sound like a Hammond organ and tell me about your your gear there
Yeah, they really do an outstanding job. They're a Swedish company
The bottom keyboard just does Hammond be three and in other organs
It does part visa the cheesy Italian organs from the 60s and it also does a really good pipe organ
but mainly be three is what people use them for and
You know the top keyboard does be three as well
but you have weighted keys for the piano and you can't play the b3 on the piano because
You have to do all these smears and these run-ups and it's just a whole nother
Action, so that's that's why I drive around so much gear to to be more authentic
Well, you do this full-time what got you into the keyboards, you know, it's funny listening to Dean's story
I've never really talked to him about that, but it's really similar my mom played
Just played by ear. We always had a piano in the house, you know five or six
I just you know picked it up kind of had a good ear for it. Wow
Never really took lessons. I just kind of always you know learned off records and back in the old days
You could check out big records from the library, you know, and I check those out and learn like, you know
Classical songs or whatever I could find
Mm-hmm way to go. Well, you got the chops never a lesson. I'm so sorry. Oh
That's right, and we both grew up in Vancouver, Washington both of you two never met until up here
But and you didn't know that about oh
What a ten-minute interview will do? That's right
Steve Thorpe on the keyboards I could ask you some more questions, but we're running out of time here
Dave jetty on the drums. I love you man
Scott Simmons on the bass you can find
Dave and Steve in the Jonathan Harris band
No, I'm sorry Dave and Scott in the Jonathan Harris country band
But this is the Dean Rikert band Dean Rikert on guitar
Guitar let's go. There's a better life Oh
What is a man supposed to do
Yes
Oh, there's a better life for me
Oh
When is a game just played to lose
Holding on for too long
What was this thing you were trying to prove
What you did was just
Most of all it's painful
There's a better life
There was a time when I knew you I remember
A day there was a dream that went away
Oh
What is a man supposed to do
When you just won't play by the rules
Night after night sitting home alone
Keep your pain warm holding the phone
You say it's not my business
I think
It's like a communication
I'm making it my business
I know
Yes, I know
Oh
Holding on is useless
It's painful
Most of all it's painful
Telling is painful
I know
Yes, I know
Oh
You