The Chic organisation - geniuses or what ?

wonder when box set 2 is coming out?

Did the Mathis stuff finally come out on that European/French box or whatever it was?

some of it

The Nile Rodgers book was OK. He's remarkably clear eyed about his career, and especially about his life and family. Everything from hanging with Brett Ratner's mom in Miami, and Madonna and Bowie, and of course Chic and Live Aid and all sorts of stuff. Surprisingly unforthcoming about some stuff, and if anything music is secondary to tales of growing up the child of hippie heroin addicts, doing tons of drugs, lifestyles of the rich and famous, etc. But worth a read.

isn't he too old to be the son of hippies? are we talking beatniks?

i love nile rodgers (and his music) so i'm inclined to get this book, but won't have time to read it until summer.

Nile is young! Or at least started really young. Recently turned 60; he was still in his teens when he and Bernard first hooked up. Pretty sure he calls them hippies, but yeah, I guess they were Beatniks. Black mom, white Jewish stepdad, open heroin users. He talked about how hard it was to rebel when his parents were an interracial couple in the 50s and early 60s, openly shooting junk. The rest of his extended family is rife with junkies and dealers, and a couple of products on incest (!).

I loved Nile's book. He's quite the storyteller, and he has some extraordinary stories to tell. Strongly recommend .

It does tend to bury the lead with the same sort of faux-naive rhetorical devices that clutter Peter Criss's (oddly similar) book. Stuff like (I'm half making this up):

"I'll never know why he didn't let me into the club. Maybe he didn't like my music. Maybe he didn't like the way I looked. I may never know the truth behind the incident, but at the time I didn't care, because I was rich, dating a beautiful woman and had been up four days doing coke. Also, I was sprayed by a skunk."

"He talked about how hard it was to rebel when his parents were an interracial couple in the 50s and early 60s, openly shooting junk. "

yes this would be a problem. alex keaton to thread.

JESUS CHRIST Johnny Mathis - "It's Alright to Love Me" - no Youtube - unfuckingbelievable genius how the fuck did they never put it out? Nile and Bernard = GOD

― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 16, 2012 6:31 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1B-fe27sM

still ridiculously good

they should so totally bring out that album properly. everyone seems to love it.

Noting this am that the Sheila and B Devotion LP really is Nile and 'Nard's Abba record.

What a year 1980 was for those guys.

Would totally get the Chic Org box set but there are a couple of Amazon reviewers saying it's poorly mastered, not as full sounding as it should be. Anyone care to disagree?

Love this exchange from Nile Rodgers' twitter earlier today:
Fan - When do you sleep?!
NR - On airplanes.

Doesn't sound poorly remastered to me at all, au contraire!

Why, given how protective Nile has been over his own mixes, are some of the singles in the boxed set represented only as Dmitri From Paris remixes?

love the Chic s/t so much, but have always been vaguely creeped out by the cover photo for reasons I can't explain

Never seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBKYUr9robI#!

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4145249

Anyone else off to the show at the Forum tonight with Seth Troxxler/Derrick Carter/Nicky Siano/DJ Pierre?

ME. (any idea what the set times are? i've got to finish some stuff first but i'd rather not turn up having missed chic.)

Wondering the same thing myself - sorry I can't be of any use.

My girlfriend is going to this. I am very jealous.

Didn't know this was happening :(

fyi dwight, it's nicky siano 10 to 11:30, then chic.

(and seandalai, i'm sure the masses of touts would be happy to accommodate...)

yeah I say ":(" but going to a post-last-train gig in London would require a bunch of organising and planning

that were fun, unfortunately the sound was muddy as fuck (from where I was at least) but not so much as to viciously diminish it. couldn't get my head in the right place for derrick carter so here i am home before 3am, boring bastard.

Yeah, the sound wasn't particularly good but fuck me they know how to put on a show...Dance Dance Dance as the second song was audacious, think I nearly blatted when they did Spacer, I was very drunk but I swear they played Le Freak/Good Times for about 15 minutes each and it was incredible, 'Thinking of You' was jawdropping...god, the whole thing was brilliant. I've never had so much fun at a gig before.

Nicky Siano's set wasn't helped by the sound being particularly shocking when he was doing his thing...Young Hearts Run Free playing at that volume was wicked though.

Hung about watching Derrick Carter till just before three; had never seen him before and quite enjoyed how chunky/thick everything he played was.

yeah, Good Times stretched into glorious eternity as I remember it. Thinking of You and Lost in Music were my two peaks I think, and I loved how fucking packed and hot the main floor was too, so much sweaty flesh on sweaty flesh felt just right (though that prolonged sensuous intensity was probably why I didn't have it in me to stick around afterwards).

We Are Family is aces.

I took my sister to last night's Forum show, as a birthday treat. She ended up dancing on the stage, while Nile and the band played "Good Times". Result!

Pics or it didn't happen.

Dead centre, directly behind/to the right of the singer at the start of the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuBUT9FG4U

Awesome

enjoying nile rodgers interview bbc world hardtalk right now- talking about being bowled over by roxy music's "total immersive artistic experience."

god damn this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLjyr2Sc3is

hell yeah

hot DAMN

http://exclaim.ca/images/chic_3.jpg

Nile keeps busy. Out touring the US now

Nile's touring Chic playing Original Sin in Australia in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgmdbc6rudM

Dmitri From Paris remix album finally on Spotify. Holy shit are these good.

His "Thinking Of You" remix works consistently very well with my Friday night crowd up the road, but his "Le Freak" has notably lesser impact than the original (and I've tried it several times, bah).

fuk yeah!

Lost in music/Saturday 1-2 punch from the chic boxset is all time.

How DO those productions rank?.

The Sister Sledge record is an oddity - three all-time classic singles and then... some other songs

I was going to say, don't you mean four classic singles, but then I remembered Thinking Of You wasn't a single until a remix came out in the mid 90s. Overall, I get way more out of Love Somebody Today as a whole album. Also, it has Pretty Baby which is one my favourite Chic related songs ever.

And I totally agree about your assessment Josefa. I've heard that album many times, but I can't remember anything about half of those songs.

I’d ask you to explain how Rod’s Out of Order is in the “Sound, Solid” category but ... I’m not sure I really care enough.

Don't forget Rodgers & Edwards' production on King of the World by Sheila & B Devotion, especially 'Spacer'.

In 1980 alone, they produced that album, Love Somebody Today, Real People and Diana.