Rick Rosas

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Rick Rosas
Los Angeles, California
Instrument(s)Bass guitar
Websitewww.rickrosas.com/Rick_Rosas/RTBP.html

Rick "Rick the Bass Player" Rosas (September 10, 1949 – November 6, 2015) was an American musician, and one of the most sought after studio

Ricki and The Flash. The band was composed of guitarist Rick Springfield, drummer Joe Vitale, and keyboardist Bernie Worrell, backing up Meryl Streep
, as "Ricki", on vocals and guitar.

In 2014, Rosas joined Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their European tour, following Billy Talbot's inability to tour due to a stroke. This makes Rosas the only bassist to have played with three of Young's major bands, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Crazy Horse.

Life and career

Rosas was born in

Everly Brothers. His first band was Mark & the Escorts
, eventually recording an album for A&M Records as Tango.

He met Joe Walsh through drummer Joe Vitale in the early 80s and played on Walsh's 1985 album The Confessor. He also toured with Dan Fogelberg in 1985. In December 1986, the Walsh band joined Albert Collins and Etta James for a Jazzvisions taping called “Jump the Blues Away.”

Rosas met

MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year for 1989. [1]

After disbanding the Bluenotes, Young retained Rosas for a power group that recorded an EP,

Grand Ole Opry House, Heart of Gold.[2] He would play on Young's next album, Living with War and the subsequent 2006 "Freedom of Speech" tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,[3] that resulted in the film, CSNY/Déjà Vu and concert album, Déjà Vu Live
.

Rick Rosas played on Young's next album, Chrome Dreams II which saw the release of the 1988 Bluenotes track "Ordinary People". He also provided backing vocals for the track "Dirty Old Man". He toured with Young's electric Band throughout America, Europe, and Asia for nearly three years, playing material from nearly every phase of Young's catalogue. A concert film, Neil Young Trunk Show, directed by Jonathan Demme, captured a 2007 performance in Philadelphia. In one scene Young praises Rosas’ musical abilities saying, "Rick can play anything!" Another Young album, Fork in the Road was recorded during the tour, which ended with a Hyde Park performance in London with Paul McCartney joining Young onstage for a cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life".

Rosas (outer left) with Young and his band in Toronto in 2007.

A year later Young invited Rosas to participate in the reunion of the

Bonnaroo music festival but a planned fall tour was cancelled.[4] While touring with Pegi Young & the Survivors, Rosas got the call from Neil Young to fill in for Crazy Horse bassist Billy Talbot, who had suffered a mild stroke a few weeks before their 2014 European Tour, making Rosas the only bassist to have played with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Crazy Horse.[5]

Throughout his career he remained a close personal friend of Joe Walsh, often appearing as a guest guitarist with Walsh when their schedules meshed, and appearing frequently in radio interviews in the various cities Walsh's tour would take them.

Rick Rosas passed away while at home, on November 6, 2015, in Agoura Hills, California from pulmonary hypertension with cardiac arrest.[6] He was 65.[7][8] The 2015 film by Jonathan Demme, Ricki and the Flash, in which he appears, is dedicated to him. Rick is survived by his longtime partner/wife, Elizabeth.

Discography

with Neil Young:

with Johnny Rivers:

  • 1998 Last Train to Memphis
  • 2001 Back at the Whisky
  • 2004 Reinvention Highway

with Jerry Lee Lewis:

  • 2010
    Mean Old Man

with

Ron Wood
:

Equipment

  • bass guitar

Filmography

Video and television appearances

Notes

  1. ^ McDonough 2002, p. 24–32.
  2. ^ Varga, George (February 23, 2006). "The right chemistry: Demme, Young 'were on the same page' for 'Neil Young: Heart of Gold'", The San Diego Union-Tribune, p. ND.
  3. ^ "Neil Young review". Thrasherswheat.org. August 2005. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  4. ^ Andy Greene (2012-02-27). "The Buffalo Springfield Reunion Appears To Be Over | Music News". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2012-05-05.
  5. ^ "Rick Rosas Dies". Ultimateclassicrock.com. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  6. ^ "Rick Rosas dies at 65; longtime studio musician". Los Angeles Times. November 8, 2014.
  7. ^ "Rick Rosas". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
  8. ^ "Local Obituaries : Rick Rosas". Los Angeles Times. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 2014-11-09.

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