Raymond Jones en vidéo
Posted: 03 Jan 2007, 20:03
Toujours ce toucher de piano si élégant, dommage que les CHIC men n'aient pas eu l'idée de lui produire un album, Raymond Jones sait également composer de jolies mélodies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIGAWKDYPLc
Son regard un peu désabusé sur sa participation à CHIC et des infos sur Barry Johnson (le second bassiste de New CHIC) qui ne connaissait pas Le Freak !
"I was on wikipedia and somehow ended up on the page for the group Chic. From there it was a quick jump to the CHIC TRIBUTE site (which reminded me I STILL haven't received a copy of Darryl Easla's book which I was interviewed for grrrr). In any case, there was this footage that I couldn't stop on the main page of Nile Rodgers and his band performing as Chic in Switzerland. I saw the musicians come onstage and one kat kind of looked like me when I wore glasses. I thought, "Man how eerie." It was my buddy Omar Hakim who had shaved his dreads off (which wasn't a bad thing as his hair had thinned a bit over the years. A casualty of middle age. Something I know all about LOL). I never thought we looked like each other (and I still don't) but on that footage, it reminded me of American Bandstand 1979. Then I saw another musician I worked with in NYC, Barry Johnson on bass. I had hired Barry to do a gig with me in NYC a few years ago (which ultimately he was unable to do) and I was trying to show him what I had done to (or with) the CHIC song Le Freak. He had no idea that was the song we were playing until we were done with it (not even while we were playing it). I heard the band play Everybody Dance and I just felt how far I am from that music. Doing the thing with Norma and Luci was fun and the Tony Tribute was great but wow, I am really not in that space otherwise. Just an observation."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIGAWKDYPLc
Son regard un peu désabusé sur sa participation à CHIC et des infos sur Barry Johnson (le second bassiste de New CHIC) qui ne connaissait pas Le Freak !
"I was on wikipedia and somehow ended up on the page for the group Chic. From there it was a quick jump to the CHIC TRIBUTE site (which reminded me I STILL haven't received a copy of Darryl Easla's book which I was interviewed for grrrr). In any case, there was this footage that I couldn't stop on the main page of Nile Rodgers and his band performing as Chic in Switzerland. I saw the musicians come onstage and one kat kind of looked like me when I wore glasses. I thought, "Man how eerie." It was my buddy Omar Hakim who had shaved his dreads off (which wasn't a bad thing as his hair had thinned a bit over the years. A casualty of middle age. Something I know all about LOL). I never thought we looked like each other (and I still don't) but on that footage, it reminded me of American Bandstand 1979. Then I saw another musician I worked with in NYC, Barry Johnson on bass. I had hired Barry to do a gig with me in NYC a few years ago (which ultimately he was unable to do) and I was trying to show him what I had done to (or with) the CHIC song Le Freak. He had no idea that was the song we were playing until we were done with it (not even while we were playing it). I heard the band play Everybody Dance and I just felt how far I am from that music. Doing the thing with Norma and Luci was fun and the Tony Tribute was great but wow, I am really not in that space otherwise. Just an observation."