Guitarist muso question : the Nile Rodgers sound

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Duets added, also re Freak Out Festival:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6612809/nile-rodgers-chic-album-interview?utm_source=twitter

dow, Friday, 26 June 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link

Lots of younger/other artists I'd like as guests, but these are mostly people he's known and performed with live and/or on their own records, ones he's comfortable with, so (maybe occasional stage colleague Prince will get in there too? NR's still working on tracks!)

dow, Friday, 26 June 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/nile-rodgers-goes-busking-london-south-bank

Chic’s Nile Rodgers treated passersby to some of his classics beside the Thames – and kept his guitar case open for donations.

Initially unrecognisable in a wooly red hat, multicoloured scarf and camel jacket, he drew a modest crowd when he started singing Le Freak.

curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 June 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link

So no Londoners here saw him busking, I guess...

curmudgeon, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/fashion/mens-style/nile-rodgers-still-chic-after-all-these-years.html

He is helping to score Hugh Jackman’s new one-man show, and it’s going to be “insane.” Coachella called him and booked Chic to perform at the festival for the first time next spring, right around the time he is due to hit 64

...
Last month, Mr. Rodgers was on deadline to deliver tracks to Mr. Jackman, to Mr. Urban and to Stargate, the Norwegian producers behind many of Rihanna’s and Katy Perry’s hits.

curmudgeon, Monday, 9 November 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/may/18/nile-rodgers-my-greatest-mistake

The single biggest mistake of my entire life was not taking Miles Davis seriously when he said: "Write me a motherfucking 'Good Times'". We had done an Issy Miyake photoshoot together and become friends, but I still couldn't believe that he would ask me to help him make a hit record. This is a great man who changed my life – and he wanted me to help change his. The same thing happened when I first met David Bowie and he wanted a hit record: I thought he was joking.

niels, Friday, 9 November 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link

oh my god

21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 9 November 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link

o_O

i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 November 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

CHIC
@CHICorg

RT nilerodgers "Thrilled to announce that as part of the BBC’s Glastonbury Experience weekend (June 25th-29th), you’ll be able to watch the nilerodgers & CHICorg 2017 set on the Pyramid stage on BBCFOUR and BBCiPlayer. More details about the weekend … " To follow, I hope.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eat0pe0XsAAewNw?format=jpg&name=medium

dow, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link

We Are Family played on a wah pedal. I played it this way so folks can hear the voice leading and substitutions. The G11 I play as a D-9 at times pic.twitter.com/RA67DduGP5

— Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) June 20, 2020

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link

eleven months pass...

This was a surprise to me!

Attending the #funeral of a Panther’s baby. I’m the skinny 16 year-old brother on the right. Sub-section leader of Lower Manhattan Section, Harlem Branch. We were so filled with love. pic.twitter.com/qyewOg59PI

— Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) June 4, 2021

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link

love him even more now

class project pat (m bison), Friday, 4 June 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

So great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRERgcQe-fQ

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:06 (seven months ago) link

I had so much joy in the past 15m and that’s only halfway TY

BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:25 (seven months ago) link

I kind of remember reading that he never used an amp on records- just DI. Sounds like a lot of compression going in. I've gotten similar sounds with my strat and DI to an actual mic pre/ comp channel strip (as opposed to a pedal).

Delays such as the rhythm guitar on Let's Dance were a Bob Clearmountain thing, more than a Nile thing, if I had to guess.

Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Friday, 27 October 2023 04:40 (seven months ago) link

About 4:00 in this fascinating video, Niles explains the reason for using the delay like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDCPCwVNUw

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 27 October 2023 04:53 (seven months ago) link

In college, I sang with the keyboard player who busts out the impromptu Soul Glo solo

the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:06 (seven months ago) link

lmao that guy was so good!!!

oatly carmichael (m bison), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:09 (seven months ago) link

Dang that Tiny Desk concert is ridiculous - thanks for posting

Indexed, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:51 (seven months ago) link

Haha yes, that guy was totally the highlight

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:06 (seven months ago) link


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