Nile Rodgers & Chic @ Zénith, Paris, 26 Juin 2024

 Nile Rodgers & Chic @ Zénith, Paris, 26 Juin 2024

Excellent concert Best Of, groovy à souhait du Guitariste/Producteur NILE RODGERS

Un Zénith plein à craquer accueille la première partie Kimberose de manière fort polie. L'ambiance monte d'un cran lorsque Nile Rodgers se dirige sur scène à 21h00 pétantes au son d'une musique très disco.
Le ton est donné pour la soirée. Une version courte de "Le Freak" ouvre le show puis Nile va passer en revue une partie de sa longue carrière au service d'autres artistes en introduisant chaque titre par une petite anecdote. On passe de CHIC à Sister Sledge puis David Bowie, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, Daft Punk, Beyonce, Madonna.. la liste est impressionnante. (voir la setlist complète plus bas.).
Beau Light-show avec de belles projections sur l'écran géant. Des pointures s'activent derrière lui avec comme toujours deux très jolies chanteuses. Nile a la voix un peu éraillée mais comme il ne chante pas trop ce n'est pas gênant. Le public dance et chante pendant près de deux heures et semble apprécier cette prestation de qualité sans être non plus transcendante.

A noter:  Sheila en invitée sur "Spacer" et la tenue Chanel assez originale de Nile Rodgers.

Belle soirée Funky et groovy en compagnie d'une légende.

 

 

 

SETLIST

Le Freak (Chic )

Everybody Dance (Chic )

Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (Chic )

I Want Your Love (Chic )

I'm Coming Out (Diana Ross )

Upside Down(Diana Ross )

He's the Greatest Dancer (Sister Sledge)

We Are Family(Sister Sledge )

Like a Virgin(Madonna )

Material Girl(Madonna )

Modern Love(David Bowie )

CUFF IT(Beyoncé cover)

Get Lucky(Daft Punk cover)

Lose Yourself to Dance(Daft Punk cover)

Lost in Music(Sister Sledge)

Notorious(Duran Duran )

Spacer(Sheila & B. Devotion cover) (with Sheila)

Thinking of You (Sister Sledge)

My Feet Keep Dancing

Chic Cheer

My Forbidden Lover

Let's Dance

Good Times
Encore:
Le Freak (Long Version)

 

ARCHIVES:

 Love Rocks NYC @ Beacon Theatre, New York City, 08 Mars 2024 with NILE RODGERS

Chic feat. Nile Rodgers + Antibalas @ Jazz à La Villette, Paris Sept 10 2013

 Nile Rodgers @ Fnac Store June 2013

Chic Feat Nile Rodgers @ Elysée Montmartre July 2008

Nile Rodgers @ Fnac St Lazare, Paris June 25 2013

Nile Rodgers @ Fnac St Lazare, Paris June 25 2013, 12:30 to 2:00PM

 "Sugarhill Gang" guys coming into Nile's studio threatening him with guns (far right)

Very interesting Master Class with Nile Rodgers from CHIC fame and guitar player or producer of many great records (for Madonna, Bowie, Jagger, Earth Wind & Fire.. and recently the n°1 album of French duet Daft Punk).
The audience asked questions and Nile answered with always a smile and some funny stories while journalist Olivier Cachin was doing the translation
- Working with Daft Punk: album recorded a year ago, he was supposed to play on only one song, then they asked for another one and another one...
-Working on the next album from Etienne Daho.
-Working on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album: It took them 2 weeks to record and master it.
-Working with low budgets: White musicians always had big budgets for their records whereas Black musicians always had low budget so they had to make things quicker.
-Sugarhill Gang and copyright infringement : interesting story on how he listened to the song for the first time in a club and was NOT pleased when he heard his parts on the song and that after tracking who it was they discovered that they were not credited and not getting any money.So they sued them and latter had 4 guys with guns threatening them in the studio. Everything was settled and contracts were negotiated and SugarHill Gang went to see them with a case full of cash...

As it was a Master Class he played some guitars and told us how he was playing on CHIC records with the different guitar parts... very interesting

Then there was a signing session

 Nile signing my "Let's dance"