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    Bernard Edwards -- incredible bass playing on Everybody Dance

    Posted by Gil Roeder on Apr 8, 2012 5:25:00 PM

    On this track from Chic Bernard Edwards lays down an incredible groove.

    It propels the piece and then get really going around 3.00 into the tune.

    Bernard Edwards formed the group Chic with Nile Rodgers,drummer Tony Thompson and singer Norma Jean Wright in the late 1970s. If you haven't heard Chic, now's the time to start listening. They were an amazing Disco band that was really a precursor to many of the newer genres like hip-hop and dan rock.

    Nile was the writer and guitar player. Tony was a great drummer, but in Chic, it was Bernard who was the awesome player in the group. And if you listen to this tune, you can hear some of the most phenomenal bass playing ever. It's a magical line unto itself.


     

    Topics: Chic, Bernard Edwards