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Alabama-born Ronald LaPread, whose Facebook page pictures him with the King of Pop, moved to New Zealand after falling in love with a Kiwi he met on a flight. LaPread now lives in Remuera,...
4 de sept. de 2020 · Ronald LaPread. (b. September 4 th, 1950). Bass guitarist who came to prominence in the American funk & soul band, The Commodores. Commodores are an American funk/soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s.
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. Keyboardist Milan Williams exited the band in 1989 after allegedly refusing to tour South Africa.
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.
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.
8 de jul. de 2017 · 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.
