Saturday 14 January 2017

Commodores (1974) Machine Gun

The title cut from the funk six piece from Alabama, this debut release would feature some quirky pop like The Zoo (The Human Zoo) with its circus intro, also some dynamic composition like Assembly Line but is dominated by Funkadelic sized doses of dance Fonk.

Machine Gun's addictive jaunty clavinet rhythm lines are iconic and often a touch point for the 70s soundtrack with its early disco sound. The moog flourishes give it a unique brand of a heavily worn genre, the machine gun like attacks of the synthesizer operated by the band's saxophonist and lead singer one Lionel Ritchie. His contribution always centre to the band even during an instrumental bit even here its hard to deny the base for his synth which is the songs author Milan Williams memorable clavinet boogie.



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