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A hangover saved Rick James from being a victim of the Charles Manson murders

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Rick James Escaped the Manson Murders Because of a Hangover

One of the wildest Rick James stories in the new documentary Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James is how he avoided the Manson murders.
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One of the wildest Rick James stories in the new documentary Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James is how the then-struggling musician avoided the Manson murders that killed the pregnant Sharon Tate and the guests at her Cielo Drive home — including James’ friend, Jay Sebring.

The doc, now out on Showtime, understandably doesn’t go too deeply into the crimes, which have spawned countless other films. On Aug. 8, 1969, Charles Manson’s followers broke into the home Tate shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski. They murdered her, Sebring, Tate’s unborn baby, and Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent.


Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood offered one alternate reality of what happened on that terrible night. Bitchin’ invites us to imagine another. And the 2014 Rick James memoir, Glow, goes into far greater detail. The book was completed after the singer’s 2004 death by author David Ritz, who appears throughout Bitchin’, directed by Sacha Jenkins.

Rick James arrived in Los Angeles in the late ’60s after a brush with fame while living in Toronto. He and Neil Young had scored and lost a Motown Records contract with their Toronto-based blues-folk band The Mynah Birds. (Yes, that Neil Young — you can read that story here.)

Young was one of the first people Rick James met up with in Los Angeles, reuniting with his old bandmate at Young’s “log cabin” up in the Hollywood Hills, as James explains in Glow. He soon made many other friends in Young’s circle, including Stephen Stills, Young’s bandmate in Crosby Stills, Nash and Young.


One night, James recalled, Stills didn’t want to take his girlfriend, a woman Young nicknames “Perfect,” to a fancy party, because Stills was “fed up with that Hollywood crowd.” So he asked James to take her instead. (This was a mistake, James explained later — Perfect later hooked up with Sebring, and eventually with James. But again, that’s another story.)


The party’s host was Jay Sebring, a celebrity hairstylist and friend (and former boyfriend) of Sharon Tate.


“Jay saw that me and Perfect were the ideal party people and a week later invited us back,” James recalls in Glow.

This began a close friendship.
“In my early California adventures, Jay was probably my most loyal and supportive friend,” James says in the memoir. Sebring often visited James and his ladyfriend, Seville, and never failed “to leave us with a little weed or cash to cover that month’s rent. He was a cat you could talk to — a big-time music lover and a super-hip patron of the arts.”

One afternoon, James says in Glow, Sebring came to his home and invited him to a “big party” that Sharon Tate was hosting at her and Polanski’s home on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon. But James says he was so hung over that he went back to sleep. Later, Seville reminded him about the party.

“She really wanted to make the scene,” James recalls in the memoir. “I did too, but my temples were throbbing. Usually a couple of aspirins are all I need. In this case, though, the headache wouldn’t go away.”

James eventually mustered the strength to “put some party clothes on,” but then his headache returned, he went to lie down — and he missed one of the most horrific murder sprees of all time. He recounts in the book how he woke up the next morning or the morning after, went to buy some coffee and milk, and saw the Los Angeles Times headline “Sharon Tate, Four Others Murdered.”

He was devastated by the loss of his friend, and shocked that he had almost attended the same get-together.

“I loved Jay. It was only the headache that stopped me,” he recounts in Glow. “Why? Why would I get a headache at that moment? Why was I spared when a good guy like Jay wasn’t?”

He called his mother, who told him: “God spared your life for a reason.”
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It was strange about Charles Manson, he claimed there would be a war between the blacks and whites. And the blacks would kill all the whites. Him and his followers would be in the bottomless pit during the war. After the blacks kill all the whites they would not know how to govern themselves and him and his followers would come out of the bottomless pit and the blacks would chose him to be their leader also since they do not know how to govern themselves.
Charles Manson is thinking like the positions that whites built for themselves. If we elect a black mayor, or governor, or even black president they got to support a white reality or they will get rid of them.
2 whites cannot create a brown less known a black. But 2 blacks can create every other race their is. How was life before other races were grafted from them? During the 60's was a glimpse into that. We were wearing the natural and proud of it. Also we was calling each other brothers and sisters as though we was one black family. We would call ladies we admire mama for what ever the real reason was. It was almost like waking up from a dark sleep but that is when the government pumped drugs into black communities to put this to an end. The whites that really rule the world were frightened during this time because they actually felt blacks were about to wake up.
It is strange that after the massacre in Jonestown every government official involved in Jonestown got promotions and raises and bonuses. When Mike Brown was killed the officer got a million dollars. With T. Martin case Zimmerman got a million dollars. Both were in the position blacks are suppose to be in to them which is helpless and unarmed. The 13 families that rule the world and are trillionaries seem to have obtained their wealth by how much they did to master, dominate, and genocide the black race. Joining the enemy has almost become a part of life and success right in our face without us recognizing it.
 

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