{"id":1890,"date":"2023-12-21T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:40:12","slug":"music-chic-appreciation-part-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/music-chic-appreciation-part-42\/","title":{"rendered":"music: CHIC appreciation part 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Great to see Jack Stratton acknowledging the Titans of funk R&B, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (RIP) of CHIC, in his Don’t Steal This Groove music production video<\/a>. He recreates their chucking guitar sound and clear bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’ve been listening to Sister Sledge (try “Thinking of You” (below) and “You Fooled Around<\/a>” before playing their hits) and… CHIC is on another level. Tony Thompson (RIP) is a rock drummer beast that Nile and ‘Nard kept on a tight leash, his feel can’t be matched by a drum machine, then they often brought in Sammy Figueroa on percussion (the tubular bells on “I Want Your Love<\/a>“, the sleighbells on “You Fooled Around”, the congas on “Thinking of You”!!). Rob Sabino’s sparkling piano is \ud83d\ude18 on all those tracks and of course the killer “Spacer<\/a>“; the piano fills on Vulfpeck’s “Disco Ulysses<\/a>” are a sweet homage). Then CHIC could hand the chords to Nile’s rhythm guitar OR Ray Jones\/Andy Schwartz on electric piano OR the neutron bomb weapon, the CHIC strings. And behind the lead singer, the twin female singers and the unheralded Fonzi Thornton singing those insistent choruses. As football commenters say, “So. Many. Weapons.” All while leaving more space than today’s 100+-track stems on a DAW, with that fabulous honeyed warm sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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