From Douglas Wolk Sent Mon, Jul 5th 1999, 17:17
From Douglas Wolk Sent Mon, Jul 5th 1999, 17:17
Solenoid wrote: >So, like, does anyone really know if that rapper's delight bassline was >copied by Queen for "another one bites the dust" or was it somehow the >other way around?... seems like Sugarhill was one year previous to the >queen track. enquiring minds (mine) want to know (for a long time)... As someone suggested, the originator of that bassline was the incredible Bernard Edwards, on Chic's "Good Times." The Sugarhill Gang appropriated it note-for-note a couple of years later; the Queen bass line belongs to the same general family, but appeared later still. The Chic catalogue (and associated records like the Sister Sledge and Diana Ross albums that the Chic Organization wrote and produced) have probably the best playing of any records that came out of disco--they've been sampled left and right over the last few years, and no wonder. Douglas