on the keys. Levi and Danny lemelle on sax and Oscar Alston on bass were his main side kicks on projects.

Alston did most of the bass parts on rick's albums and the stone city band projects and Bobby Nunn was Rick's keyboard player,Nunn co wrote "Mary Jane" with Rick.

they were very instrumental because they were top notch musicians, however rick knew how to arrange and produce and he also knew what worked as far melody and Hook so those two worlds complimented one another very nicely.

the original stone city band stil tours.