4/24/2023 0 Comments Kool gang. summertime madness![]() Kool & the Gang The group has many notable artists like Robert "Kool" Bell,Ronald Bell,Dennis "D.T." Thomas,Robert "Spike" Mickens,Charles Smith,Ricky West. The Bells, Brown, and Taylor were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. Kool & the Gang have won numerous awards. Kool & the Gang's first taste of success came with their fourth album Wild and Peaceful (1973) It contained the US top-ten singles "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging" The band reached a second commercial peak between 19. ![]() They have undergone numerous changes in personnel and have explored many musical styles. The track has an affiliation to the band(s) - Kool & the Gang.Ībout Kool & the Gang : Kool & the Gang formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell. It was released as part of album Spirit of the Boogie. It was Part of the song's melody was sampled in The Afros' song titled "Feel It" The full song was sampled It was released in 1975. G|-6-6-6/-4-4-4-4/-6-6-6-|ĭ|-|Ī|-|Į|-|Ībout Spirit of the Boogie (song) : "Spirit of the Boogie" is a funk/soul song recorded by Kool & It was their third single to top the soul singles chart in the U.S., and was their fourth Top 40 hit. Ps : if anybody actually was involved in one way or another with this song, and reads : man, you've made so many people happy with this!I was 18 in 1974 the best music ever and enjoyed and traveled with different bands on a few occasions.Met many great people that I would love to reach today to see how things went for all of the underdogs who moved and readied the equipment for them and got the stages ready.WOW what fun.Summer Madness (solo) - Kool And The Gang - Guitar Tabs Pista 1Į|-|-|ī|-12/14-14-15-17-|-15-14-12-12/14-14| Then just douse the whole thing in EMT 140 plate reverb. Probably U87 or 414 overheads, 57 on snare, 421s on toms, re20 on kick. Most any mono synth from the early/mid 70s can do the glide effect.ĭrums are almost certainly the usual. Always assumed they were Arp Solina string ensemble but that may not have been available yet. The string chords that fade in are the Mellotron according to liner notes. That's all he's doing, over and over again. Fret the B and high E strings at the 7th fret, then slide up to the 9th. It sounds cool because the guy is playing "fourths". The guitar part is played on the neck pickup. The bass is probably DI (tone knob is 'open'). then for 2nd chord play: B,C#,E,F# and then for that little variation at the end of the loop switch that F# to G#. Play these notes for the first chord: A,C#,E,F#. The two chords that alternate are F#m7 and C#m11. It's just a standard 70s studio recording. Ps : if anybody actually was involved in one way or another with this song, and reads : man, you've made so many people happy with this! That song must have been responsible for many babies born : ) I imagine how everybody would play the song and feel so cool about themselves when bumping the song. I'm in my twenties and I wish I had been 20 in the summer months of 1974, right around when Light of Worlds (of which "Summer Madness" was a part! and on side B!) came out. nice) ?Īll right, thanks everybody, I really appreciate it. Tape (anybody noticed how the tape noise doubles and triples as soon as the other instruments kick in, in addition to the e.p. Now let's get to the point, the nitty gritty if you will, because we're on gearslutz after all :ġ) What were the instruments used on this :Ī - Electric piano : which model ? what amp ? what guitar pedal (?) ?ī - (sweet sounding) Electric guitar (or what is it exactly?) that's panned hard to the right : again, what model of guitar, and more importantly what effect did they put on it, for it to sound so godly ? (It starts at 00:11) I'm not even going to go on a rant about incredibly good that record sounds and feels. I'm surprised there is not a single thread (or did I miss something, though I did use the holy search function) specifically on the equipment used on this ULTRA classic song :
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