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4 de sept. de 2020 · Learn about Ronald LaPread, the bass guitarist who played with The Commodores, a funk and soul band that had hits like \"Easy\" and \"Nightshift\". Find out his biography, band history, and discography on WBSS Media.
Then LaPread left in 1986 and moved to Auckland, New Zealand. Reynolds departed for Earth, Wind & Fire in 1987, which prompted trumpeter William "WAK" King to take over primary guitar duties for live performances.
The owner of the boarding house where two people have been found dead was the bassist for funk-soul band the Commodores and counted Michael Jackson as a mentor. Alabama-born Ronald LaPread,...
Ronald LaPread dejó el grupo en 1986 para irse a Nueva Zelanda. Milan Williams, por su parte, abandonó la banda en 1989. Así el grupo abandonó por completo sus raíces funk y buscó escenarios más comerciales.
10 de mar. de 2020 · Commodores bassist Ron LaPread's stellar Motown pedigree shines through in this live performance of his song Rock You, surrounded onstage by New Zealand beauty aspirants in the late Eighties.
When Ronald LaPread came home to Tuskegee recently, he was so warm and gracious it was instantly clear that his legendary status has not changed him. As the bass player for The Commodores , his creative energy produced those opening licks on “ Brickhouse ,” an R&B classic that was released in 1977, exactly 40 years ago.
On Ronald LaPread of the Commodores: I've known Ronald and the Commodores since the group first auditioned for Suzanne De Passe at Lloyd Price's Crawdaddy Club on Broadway in NYC in 1970. As close as we all were, I had no idea of the details of the sad and poignant love story that Ronald lived through not long after.
