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Bernard Edwards - The Bassist for Chic

#21
When I first started playing Bass I was into Bernard Edwards(like a crack head ) pulse,feel,groove,smoothness and how his tone sounded so great in the mix just as much as I was into Louis Satterfield,James Jamerson and Chuck Rainey and he was a very talented Producer as well.
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"Louis Satterfield"

Oh Ya...................



There's a name I just don't hear enough of on this board.He's The Man! One of my favorites. The Getto,I play Dirty,,,,Mabye some Earth wind and Fire bass (rumurs)...........:bassist:



Aj
 
#22
Bernard is one of the most melodic yet tasteful funk players. He never plays an extraneous note- it's all deeply vital to the overall song. Plus, it has to be said, Nile Rogers is the king of funky guitar and Tony Thompson was a super powerful drummer (relatively small guy, too).I've been playing a lot of gutar gigs lately- a bit out of my league, actually- and whenever I don't know what to play, I ask myself "What would Nile do?"
 
#29
JAUQO III-X said:
When I first started playing Bass I was into Bernard Edwards(like a crack head :)) pulse,feel,groove,smoothness and how his tone sounded so great in the mix just as much as I was into Louis Satterfield,James Jamerson and Chuck Rainey and he was a very talented Producer as well.


If you want to check out a killer live record check out Chic live at Budokan.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000I8LB/102-8374499-9556113?v=glance&n=5174
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I'm STILL !!! rocking that joint til this day
 
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#34
The man was one of the coolest bass players ever to grace the earth. His bass lines are, in the main (except Everybody Dance), relatively straightforward, but I can guarantee no one can play them with the same touch, tone and feel as the late great Bernard. There was something special in his fingers. Check out Sister Sledge (We Are Family, Greatest Dancer, Thinking of You, etc.) and Diana Ross (My Old Piano, Upside Down, I'm Coming Out) tracks.

A true giant of bass, and surely one of the most sampled players of all time. He deserves a nice article in BP.

So nice to see a thread dedicated to him, rather than one of the usual suspects!
 
#35
It's good to see a Bernard Edwards thread! especially one that was started by a N.E. Ohio guy:)
As cliche as it may sound, Good Times is the song that made me want to try my hand at the bass.
Before I started playing bass, I'd probably heard Everybody Dance hundreds of times and not thought much about it. I gained a whole new respect for that song, and for Bernard Edwards after I started playing.
I'm still a newb, and I'm sure it will be years before I can even approach Bernards level (if ever) but I do enjoy fumbling through some of his lines.:bassist:
 
#36
etb67 said:
It's good to see a Bernard Edwards thread! especially one that was started by a N.E. Ohio guy:)
As cliche as it may sound, Good Times is the song that made me want to try my hand at the bass.
Before I started playing bass, I'd probably heard Everybody Dance hundreds of times and not thought much about it. I gained a whole new respect for that song, and for Bernard Edwards after I started playing.
I'm still a newb, and I'm sure it will be years before I can even approach Bernards level (if ever) but I do enjoy fumbling through some of his lines.:bassist:
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I've been listening to Bernard Edwards for twenty-nine years and I still learn when I really study him. The same is true for any master of the instrument.
 
#37
bernie is the man, he's one of the guys that made me wanna play, the film clips to le freak and dance dance dance (yowsa yowsa yowsa)..just the style that man had...the grace he had on that sexy stingray.....i little while ago i got sister sledge greatest hits live, it aint bernard or nile but is still awesome, tony "tnt" jones on bass, he's great too, bit more flashy....i saw a nile rogers and chic live at montraux jazz festival 2004 dvd the other day, and a george clinton p-funk at the same...i might have to get both of them


i read somewhere that bernard never changed the strings on that ray, he didnt even know what they were, they just came with the bass and he never changed them
 
#38
You guys ought to check out David Bowie's "Let's dance" album which was produced by Edwards and Rodgers. Most of the bass duties are handled by the amazing Carmine Rojas with the very notable exception of "without you." where Edwards lays down the groove with his Stingray and MAN, that is by far the best bassline from the whole album.

Carmine Rojas on the Title track of "Let's dance"
 
#39
etb67 said:
It's good to see a Bernard Edwards thread! especially one that was started by a N.E. Ohio guy:)
As cliche as it may sound, Good Times is the song that made me want to try my hand at the bass.
Before I started playing bass, I'd probably heard Everybody Dance hundreds of times and not thought much about it. I gained a whole new respect for that song, and for Bernard Edwards after I started playing.
I'm still a newb, and I'm sure it will be years before I can even approach Bernards level (if ever) but I do enjoy fumbling through some of his lines.:bassist:
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thanks man. i see you are a "ohio player", where do you live at in ohio?
 

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