Sunday, November 29, 2009

RICKY LANCELOTTI

2009 11 29

from Rick (John) Edwards:

I accidentally found your web site, and was very sad to see that Rick died.

We called him Rick Lancelot. My nickname was Rick too. I though about him from time to time, but didn't know where he was. I used to play bass in a band with him and my brother (Rob Edwards - guitar). We played in clubs in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. Rick also played with my brother in Sky Oats for the movie called Pacific Vibrations.

Here is a picture of the band. Rick has the furrball hair. Rob is the tall one. Jim Keltner is the drummer (wall next to right) .

Rick liked to do Elton John songs, but we liked things with more driving beats.

For a while we called our band "Universal Rundle" after the name of the toilet maker we read off from the toilet in the restroom of the Players Bar in Manhattan Beach. I remember at one point Rick, in jest I think, suggested calling ourselves the Nazis. He was pretty funny and a pleasure to be around.

-- Rick (John) Edwards

3 comments:

  1. My Name is Shannon Rose. My Youngest brother is the son of Rick Lancelotti. His name is Pasha Nanda Lancelotti and he was born in 1969 to my mother SeZann (CeZann was her stage name)and Rick. My mother would take us to Ricks Grandparents (Grandmama and Grandpapa)house when I was young. They were great and I learned to cook spaghetti from Grandmama and how to make a whistle from an apricot seed from Grandpapa.
    Rick and my mom were together off and on for years. They never married and my mom raised Pasha pretty much on her own. Pasha is also very musical talented and has written many unpublished songs. He looks a lot like Rick. He is a now massage therapist in LA.

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  2. My Name is Shannon Rose. My Youngest brother is the son of Rick Lancelotti. His name is Pasha Nanda Lancelotti and he was born in 1969 to my mother SeZann (CeZann was her stage name)and Rick. My mother would take us to Ricks Grandparents (Grandmama and Grandpapa)house when I was young. They were great and I learned to cook spaghetti from Grandmama and how to make a whistle from an apricot seed from Grandpapa.
    Rick and my mom were together off and on for years. They never married and my mom raised Pasha pretty much on her own. Pasha is also very musical talented and has written many unpublished songs. He looks a lot like Rick. He is a now massage therapist in LA.

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  3. Shannon and Rick, just add my vote to millions of others who were just blown away by Rick's work with Zappa; Fifty/Fifty and Montana and Planet of My Dreams especially

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