Bobby, who failed to make the glee club, decides to become a drummer. "That's exactly why I want you to do it"!![6]. The distinctive sound of "I'm Coming Out" and its resulting popularity has led to Ross's song often being sampled, most notably by Stevie J, who sampled the song for rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Rodgers convinced his neighbor, producer Meco Monardo, to contract the horns for the album in return for a commitment by Rodgers to co-produce Monardo's then-upcoming album of music from The Empire Strikes Back. He said. His incisive playing on Hancock's Actual Proof garnered him an international cult following and influenced generations of drummers throughout the world. In 1997, German comedian Hella von Sinnen sampled "I'm Coming Out" for her single "Mein Coming Out", using the term "coming out" in the context of coming out of the closet, or revealing one's homosexuality. Well, as we all know, this turned out to be her biggest-selling solo album ever. The Drummer Boy Written by Tom and Helen August Peter gets teased by his football team because he's in the glee club. What sounds like a Roland 808 is the Daxdad kick drum. Samantha Jade covered the song for her disco album Best of My Love (2018). Thompson's final project was called Non-Toxic which he formed with bassist Michael Paige (Crown of Thorns) and guitarist Dave Scott; Thompson died before finishing the project's first album. The video consists of Ross performing the song with studio musicians live in concert. [1] His mother was Trinidadian and father was of Antiguan descent. Oh, now all my trade secrets are coming out! Page, Plant and Jones then invited Thompson in England for rehearsals for a Led Zeppelin reunion which was canceled by Jimmy Page after Thompson was badly injured in a car crash. She took the master tapes from Power Station and went to Motown in Detroit to remix the record. 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I said, "Nile, there are a lot of hit records with jazz saxophone solos—even some with jazz trumpet solos, but not one with a trombone"!! Diana Ross in Concert! Hope you enjoy the script. Thompson went on to join groups such as the Distance and Crown of Thorns with Jean Beauvoir (playing on their first album Crown of Thorns before leaving the band and subsequently replaced by Hawk Lopez). The song was another hit from the album, peaking at number five on the U.S. This song was also covered for the soundtrack to the 2016 movie Trolls. This song was featured in two trailers of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. He gained worldwide recognition as one of America's foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s. "Upside Down" was a monster Number-One single and "I'm Coming Out" was a top-ten single. Ez drummer works “manually” with the mouse, but when I hit the Alesis the animations show up like I trigger it, but its 90% the alesis sound coming out and you can barely hear easy drummer. September 11 and 12 at the Hollywood Bowl and yes, I'll be drumming for your pleasure! Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. What I’m doing is I’m shuffling with my feet and playing straight ahead on the top. One of the greatest entertainers of all time returns to the Hollywood Bowl for a two-night tour of her hits, which include “I’m Coming Out,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Stop in the Name of Love,” and so many more. Rock Cellar’s newest column, I’m Still Standing, continues with our interview with Emerson, Lake & Palmer drummer Carl Palmer. It turned out that when the engineer at Motown saw the track listings of Meco 1–2–3–4, he just assumed that Track 1 was THE track and never listened to the others, and so that's what is on the record. We sounded great—Nile was pleased and as I was packing up, he asked me to stay and play a jazz trombone solo on one of the tracks. This new year is going to be crazy for us. It was written by and produced by Chic members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and released on August 22, 1980 as the second single from Ross' self-titled tenth album Diana (1980). One particular night I went to a club, The Gilded Grape, and I happened to notice that there were at least 6 or 7 Diana Ross impersonators, so I went outside to call Bernard and said "you know, Diana Ross is revered by the gay community. It was written by and produced by Chic members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and released on August 22, 1980 as the second single from Ross' self-titled tenth album Diana (1980). Following the temporary disbanding of Chic in 1983, Chic's former guitarist and bassist, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards became prolific producers, and Thompson's drumming was much in demand among their clients. Three days before his 49th birthday, Thompson died on November 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, within a month of being diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer),[1] and two months after the death of the Power Station bandmate Robert Palmer from a heart attack. There's also been a cover by Marcia Hines. If you tune it correctly you can get five notes out of this drum, depending on the velocity. She thought Nile and Bernard made her sound like Chic. However, Rodgers and Monardo later mended their professional relationship and subsequent digital releases of the album credit Monardo and the other musicians. When you say, “hey, I’m not a jazz drummer, I’m a swing drummer,” there’s a difference. Drummer Chad Cromwell on His Years With Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, and Joe Walsh The first-call Nashville drummer played on “Rockin’ in the … In 2021 Nile Rodgers confirmed in a TikTok video that the song was originally intended for the LGBTQ community, and was inspired after seeing drag queens dressed as Diana Ross at a New York club, with him stating:[1]. Being the drummer for thrash metal legends Death Angel, Will Carroll was used to crowds cheering after a show. We had a great time, as the songs were fabulous—especially "Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out". Chris Young Notches 8 New R.I.A.A. 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I’m going to observe them, and I’m going to benefit from that and you’re going to benefit too, because I’m your drummer.” The Live Aid charity benefit concert in 1985 saw Thompson filling in and playing with the Power Station as well as joining the remaining members of Led Zeppelin on stage (along with Phil Collins) at John F. Kennedy Stadium. He was survived by his wife, two children, and his sister, Cookie. When I’m off the road from the one band I was in for 21 years, Toto, I got to do all these other wonderful projects both as a drummer and an engineer. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Certifications Totaling Over 7 Million Consumption Units Multi-platinum entertainer and RCA Nashville recording artist Chris Young has accumulated some serious heavy metal from the R.I.A.A. “I’m Coming Out” became a number-one dance hit, topping Billboard’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart first for 3 weeks in August of 1980 and again for two weeks the following month. The band dissolved after their second album failed to yield a hit, but Nile and Bernard joined forces with drummer Tony Thompson, and worked and recorded as a funk rock band called The Boys, which played numerous gigs up and down the East Coast. A music video was produced to promote the single. Thompson was a member of the band Non-Toxic at the time of his death. Anthony Terrence Thompson (November 15, 1954 – November 12, 2003) was an American session drummer best known as the drummer of the Power Station and a member of Chic. [7], U.S., UK, French, and German 7" and 12" single. Thompson was also a founding member of the band That Hideous Strength. In more recent times, the song was sampled in Keyshia Cole's remake of "I'm Coming Out" (featuring Iggy Azalea) for the original soundtrack of the 2014 movie The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, Leslie Mann and Nicki Minaj. The song is sampled in "Break Your Heart Right Back" from Ariana Grande's sophomore album My Everything (2014). When he then said I was the drummer in the band but I wasn’t playing on the record, I replied, “I’m going to go into the studio and watch these other drummers play my parts and I’m going to learn from them. Trombone solos have been rare on Top 40 songs in the post-big band era and especially so since the 1960s. [5] It has also been understood as "coming out of the closet" or coming out from hiding. In 1979, Ross commissioned Chic founders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to create material for a new album after taking her daughters to see the band in concert, following the success of Ross's final Ashford & Simpson-composed and produced LP, The Boss. Thompson first drummed for the group Labelle, and then for a short while was a member of the soul/disco band Ecstasy, Passion & Pain. 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