Ohio Players Love Rollercoaster, Fire Live 1975
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Love Rollercoaster and Fire (2:40) are performed by Ohio Players. The funk, soul band's two biggest hits were live (not lip-sync) on Rock Concert December 17, 1975. "Fire" reached the top of both the R&B and Hot 100 pop chart in February 1975. "Love Rollercoaster" also peaked at number one on both charts in January 1976.
Ohio Players classic band lineup is Marshall "Rock" Jones - bass guitar, James "Diamond" Williams - drums, William "Billy" Beck - keyboards, Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner - guitar/lead vocals, Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks - trumpet, Clarence "Satch" Satchell - saxophone, and Marvin "Merv" Pierce - trumpet.
The Ohio Players were definitely funky, but also jazzy, and all with a tight, sophisticated, groove on their arrangements. Not to mention rhythmic quirkiness, along with Leroy Bonner’s unique vocal style.
Yeah I agree. Pretty sophisticated stuff. Ultra tight band. Horns give the knockout punch. Everyone equates funk with Sly Stone. Such a misnomer. OPs stand the test of time
Are they still alive?
@@rufikobzor8897 Sugarfoot, Marshall Jones, Satch, Pee Wee are dead. Diamond, Billy Beck still alive. Not sure about Merv...
Almost all good funk has jazz fundamentals. Fusion of course is the obvious example, but funk was born from jazz.
Nothing says "The Seventies" like an oversized funk band with a dancing horn section. RIP Sugarfoot.
They dead?
@@rufikobzor8897 The guitarist/singer with the huge afro is no longer with us.
RIP Sugarfoot. Do we think he's channeling a little Sly Stone here?
That singer breathe live and is funk.. epic live performance.. mind blowing
Let's start a "Fire!" And get The Ohio Players inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!”
Say it child.😎
Good luck on dat brutha.
Way past time! They should have been inducted over a decade ago. With or around the same time as EW&F.
Whatttttt!!!!! They not. Fire...Cool
I think they’re all dead ☠️.
I saw them live at American University outdoors sitting on the grass when I was in college in the 70s, and never will forget it. That was the music of the time and I still love funk more than anything.
They could have sang.. "Mary had a Little Lamb".. and the music would still have been soul genius!
The cream of funk is this. Perfect song. Nowadays we have to listen rotten songs of fake bands.
Fake bands = computers.
With stolen samples from these guys and others
This song doesn’t have 2% of modern song mixing board magic. Does not need it!
Always got to be someone bitching about "music nowadays". People who don't know shit about music, and don't have a clue about the music of today.
@@ffjsb yes thanks!! my thoughts exactly
A lot of time and dedication goes in to producing such an extravagant stage show! Great Musicianship!!
Always amazes me how good these dudes sound live. Bad-asses one and all. Loving that Mosrite double-neck guitar too.
Best black music of any era in my opinion... Funk music out of the 1970s was the best dance music ever
Back when pop stars actually had to have at least enough talent to play an instrument.
Enjoying at most here
Miss this stuff.... Wow
New Zealand
this soul and funk paved the way for everything else, had there HONEY album on vinyl back in the day loved 70s soul
These cats were cool they could jam
TrueeeeeeeeE
U kannst Fake live performanCe
Just LOVE these guys!! Embarassed to say that this love affair goes back a horrifyingly long time!! About 50 damned years!!
Best live version of fire. Best selection, up there with EWF. Diamond on drums...no word. Sugerfoot, Satch, and rest just a super tight band
And them horns!
Pure genius !!!!
I was 15 when this came out. Music was amazing in that era. The bands were amazing. Both the funk and rock bands.
No doubt about
Back in the day when you held the cassette recorder to the tv!
Memories.
I was 4, this is ingrained in my memory.
you not lying soooooo true 70's was the bomb
Great song ❤️😊
Those bass lines are funk-tastic!! If I had a quarter of their talent, I’d be doing alright.
Thank you Beavis and Butt-Head and The Red Hot Chili Peppers for leading me to the original artists! These brothers are funky, soulful, insanely talented and amazing! LOVE seeing 10-12 guys in the band! Deeply appreciate this era of music!
Me too mate
KillinnnnnnnnnnN
These cats are throwing down!
The dancers coming out was icing on the cake.
What’s that style of dancing called?
When music was really played!!!!
I Love Leroy Sugar Foot Bonner ❤️🎶🎶🔥🔥🔥
Marshall Jones is the soul of this song 🔝🔝🔝
He WAS underrated. He steady and funky in one swirl.
Possibly the best funk/soul band ever? Definitely has the soul and Funk that would make James Brown proud.
EXACTLY
Most def
✨💫 Their syncopation was off the chain ⛓ one of the best to ever do it!
got to see them live in 1976
iIs too bad the bassplayer isnt viewed more. This is great funk tho
Great breakdown of the legend. Larry N, it really was just that at the time. A lot of good stories and conversations in my circle back then.
Glad you enjoyed it
Back then it was a magical experience to see bands like that perform. Style, flamboyance and pizazz.
Ohio. The funk. The proper funk.
Talk about Bring It!
The truth
Straight outta Trotwood. WDAO radio WE Dominate All Others. I grew up on the Ohio Players, Sun, Slave, Zapp, Lakeside etc. Funk chromosomes in my DNA. Walking down the street watching ladies go by, watching YOU!
Gettin' a 70's groove on, Ohio funkadelic style. OH-!
This was a treat to watch, as I sit at work with nothing to do. As a kid I loved this group. They need to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame now - immediately - yesterday.
These dudes always brought the ruckus.
To be honest I learned “Fire” from various media (ahem Hell’s Kitchen) but upon seeing videos the song performed live I was already blown away by these guys. I mean these guys are pure talent, no autotune whatsoever.
The 70's, when bands had dancers that PLAYED INSTRUMENTS!!!
Before Britney Spears these cats in the 70's were rocking crop tops with abs.
Who's here Post Election 2020 USA it's a crazy ride.
🎢.
Weeeeeeeeeeeee
No one ass fuck you're the only one. Great useful comment there.
I finally learned how to do those dance moves after all these years, and no clubs are open! (LOL)
To all the rappers sampling music, this is how it’s done. Learn an instrument.
You said it man! This is the music I grew up on and to this day it sounds as fresh as ever.
I TOTALLY agree with you on that
Will never happen they're not musicians
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
The thing is, many rappers and hip hop artists, from the past to present, were / are also musicians (Questlove and The Roots), vocalists (Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill) or play some instrument (Anderson .Paak, Andre 3000) or played some instruments at some point (J Dill, Flava Flav of P.E., others). Also, sampling is used little differently now. Actually, I think that it's really dope that old school rappers used or sampled parts of the music on which they grew up or what their elders listened to. Comments like yours are really so tired at this point. I mean, I think it's very foolish to proclaim or argue that all rappers and hip hop artists did not nor do not have musical talent.
My idol James Diamond Williams on them drums! I practiced this record and skin tight till it wore a groove in the record
Van Halen got alot of stuff from these guys.. double bass black dot drums..those big drum kits were being done right here before heavy metal days..I see alot of influence, these guys were great..
Very well could be, I recall EVH mentioning that one of their early phases before DLR was playing R&B and disco. And The Ohio Players were musicians' musicians, tight as a tick. Sugarfoot was a hoot, ever since high school when they had a few hits I cannot help but grin over Sugarfoot's yow-yow chatter vocal fills between lyrics.
@@theparalexview785 yes I clearly remember that too, evh talking about them covering their material in their lineup..will def have to checkout Sugarfoot Im not familiar with them..
Louie Belson was using two bass drums with Duke Ellington in 1940
Maybe they will get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after all of them have passed away. What BS the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is.
F the rhf ... It's bs they don't need it
I'm from that era,lol.Took real men to go on stage with outfits like that!!!😂😂😂
I vividly remember watching the original broadcast of this performance in Kirschner's Rock Concert in 1975,. Unforgettable.
When Black was Black ... I Love these Guys
Damn these would burn down any concert that band was so great there are no words to describe how great they were. How they're not in the RHOF is a travesty. They've got bands in there that couldn't equal this talent on any level.
Youngstown Ohio Boys!
I'm from Youngstown and would like to tell the world, that anybody who loved 70's Funk made it to the Y-town area to get their groove on!
Ohio has produced a wealth of Great musicians throughout the years.
As a matter of fact, if you were famous in the music industry, you played Youngstown Ohio!
Stanbaugh Auditorium, Powers Auditorium, Agora Ballroom ect.
Youngstown still produces superior musicians to this day.
Long live Funk!
Long live Youngstown Ohio!
Dude, I grew up next door in Leavittsburg. Ohio players and Parliament in 75!
The band was formed in dayton Ohio not Youngstown.
The Galaxy in Canton and Donnie Iris
I was 11 years old when this song was released being that I was so young I never went to a Ohio Players concert at age 59 now I know what I have missed the Ohio Players could have took their talent anywhere in the music business that includes jazz blues rock and roll and yes you can put them on the list of one of America's best soul Funk Party bands
that bass player kills it ... they all kill it
Black power, so good ... Fire. Good times!
Fetch me my Brim ,Platform shoes, wide collar sends me way back.
I'm here for the Mosrite.
Funkmaster Sugar foot
Cool baby
NO MATTER WHAT STYLE OF MUSIC, 70S FUCKIN RULES.
yep. when people say disco sucks I tell them they're listening to the wrong disco bands. got to get funky with it.
The 70's had the BEST music. Next to Parliament/Funkadelic (and possibly EW&F) was there ever a cooler 70's Funk aggregation than the Ohio Players? Nice tribute to Sly & the Family Stone there near the end and the pop & lock dancers was cool too!
So true & only people that were actually experiencing the Funky Ness know what it was like, WAR, EWF ,REAR EARTH ,BROS, JOHNSON TO NAME A FEW, BUT YES MUSIC WAS MAGIC!!!
OHIO PLAYERS! MY YOUNGER DAYS! THE O.G.- REAL ORIGINAL THANG!
2:23 sugarfoot!!! Smile, he had funkiest fro ever, the band is Tight, the 70’s when black bands were REAL!
Super singers and musicians put the funk in pop music! With a band! Thank you
When I was a dancer, My name was "DIANA LOVE" in the 70"s, 80's & 90's I I traveled throughout the states & had "Love Rollercoaster" on one my tapes & also "Fire". It was fun times.
Better days allright.
New Zealand
Lap dance
30 years of dancing. You’re one hot mama. Livin life.
Goooood choice
Love the Ohio Players, from the UK. Lovely rendition of Love Rollercoaster and Fire!
Pure showmanship!👏🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🥂🍾
remember the rumor that during the version you heard on the radio that there was a scream that was allegedly someone being murdered in the studio :) Great stuff ! As a teen I never thought there was black or white music, it was just awesome tunes
Yeahhhh...Love these guys !!!! Keep the 70’s Funky Disco 💃🏼 🕺🏽 Alive Forever 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜💖💝
More funk please
My college days at OU were amazing. Friday nights there would be a party at the Alpha house. Man it was the happening place people jammed pack inside the house converted to a black fraternity house. The place was dark with a little light shining from area where the deejay was all they needed. And the Ohio players, Commodores, BT Express, Temptations, and unforgettable Earth, Wind, and Fire. It was all about the bands back then almost 50 years ago… That’s what time will do to you if you stick around long enough and nobody cares. But your music was memorable like Stop on By by Rufus.Chaka Khan. That was a time when the guys stepped across the room for a dance with the ladies rejected or not it was a challenge.. Oh yeah back to the Ohio Players those album covers probably people still have those albums and kept them from all those years. What a memory of some the greatest music, cause I want to know how you feel? Remember? Brothers Johnson, Thunder Thumbs and Lightening Licks. We were the cool generation and now a lot of those artist who created the music are gone but will never be forgotten cause it was the 70’s. LB Dec 1, 2022.
L.b. = Leroy Bonner
The song has a persistent urban legend, that during an instrumental portion of the song, a high-pitched scream is heard (between 1:24 and 1:28 on the single version, or between 2:32 and 2:36 on the album version). This was Billy Beck, but according to the most common legend, it was the voice of an individual being murdered live while the tape was rolling. The "victim's" identity varies greatly depending on the version.[3][4] The supposed sources of the scream have included an individual who was killed at some prior time, her scream inexplicably recorded and looped into the track.
Another version says that a girl has fallen off the roller coaster and was screaming to her death. Another version tells of a rabbit being killed outside the studio whose scream was accidentally picked up by the band's recording equipment - highly implausible, as professional recording studios are soundproof. The most widespread version of the myth, however, tells that Ester Cordet, who appeared nude on the Honey album cover, had been badly burned by the super-heated honey used for the photo shoot, which occurred simultaneous with the recording session, and her agonized screams were inadvertently captured on tape.[3][4] Jimmy "Diamond" Williams explained that the scream was nothing eerie or disturbing:
There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Riperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, "Did you kill this girl in the studio?" The band took a vow of silence because you sell more records that way
BS
I remember this! The story I heard was that the woman was in the room next door to the recording studio. In retrospect, it makes no sense, but at the time I believed it.
At any rate, this band was good!
I remember that big hoax.
@@larryn2682 You didn't read any of that did you? In the second sentence he clearly states that it was Billy Beck and then goes on to explain the conspiracy theories.
I remember, as a kid ,that very story about the "murder" . I listened for the scream ..... when I heard it , it scared the hell out of me and I ran out of the room .....
Thanks for explaining
U 4 Alarm Child!
Funken Badd Asss Band I grew Up listening to as A Kid performance is better then the Records They Just need to Take it easy on the Caffeine LOL we don't Have Funk Like That No More 🤩
Can’t say I’ve seen a two bell trumpet before where one has the Dizzy bend.
I watched Don Kirchner's Rock concert religiously when it was popular in the 70's. GREATNESS. Such as diversity of styles that were brought into your living room...
Despite disco, the '70s were the apex of pop music in terms of quality and diversity. You'd regularly hear funk, soft country-rock, instrumentals, heavy rock, psychedelia, ballads, and dance music, often on the same station and all before lunch.
You can tell by the year..the US food wasn't as toxic nobody over 150lbs in this outfits..lol
You got my vote
Say WHAT ? O.H.I.O that’s right The Ohio Players,what a great funk band
Absolutely The Best Funk Group Of The 70s
Slave, Bootsy, Parliament-Funkadelic, Cameo, Zapp, Sly and the Family Stone and Mother's Finest would beg to differ.
The standard was so high. None of those groups was an overnight sensation. They worked for years to get there. That’s why we can sit and compare them 30 to 40 years later.
They are so good but there is no best, it’s all superbly organically funky. They all combine to expand the Funk Galaxy. Just more layers of Greatness.
I’m 62 and remember this great music!!!
@Carlos, me also! Those men, still, even as a Female of my age, make wiggle around WHOOOO !! 🥵 bring out that young kitten 🙄
🔥 😂
Sugar is a badass! Two of the greatest funk jams ever!
DAMN!
Uh oh, the one dude wearing a sombrero?! He would SO be in trouble for that now. Haha. Who cares?! What a band!!! What a show!!!!!!
Nah....with those moves, he's invited to the asada for life!!🤗🤗
Red Hot Chili Peppers should be assassinated for daring try to cover this.
Pretty sure thats the Peppers way of paying a compliment...not them trying to do a better version.
Agreed.
@@MrMrl69 I should hope not, their version is so terrible I think they were trying to do it badly.
@@TheBigMclargehuge sure guy. You're into cartoons ...so yeah
Gotta luv the brass! Pump up da funk!
Ah yes...finally...just enough cowbell.
Hahaaa! Yes, you nailed it, you can never have too much cowbells!
I remember seeing this when I was 14. I loved Fire, and to this day consider it one of the great riffs. I've performed this at least a hundred times in bands, and I never tire of it.
Fun times back in the day! 👍👏
Yes it was!
Billy Beck' s voice really beautiful, underrated one, reminds me another one, that of Junie Morrison...
Thank you.😊
I love and agree with this comment!😜
I miss Afros.
And they still can't get the smell out of the building to this day.
They Stink! Clayton Bigsby
Damn!
I was a nine year old white kid who grew up in this loving where I came from. Dream Homes for life, homes.
Ok call me ignorant I just learned this wasn't a Chili Peppers song lol. Not surprised at all though this is funky AF! 💓💪🏽👍😁
Lol ive had to tell many people i kno this isnt a red hott chili peppers song originally
We will give a break this time
EWF is first but these guys are second. Throw in AWB. Then all the others fighting for fourth. I'm not wrong.
Playing the Jersey shore in Summer of 1975 in a funk band. When we played this song Fire the place went crazy with dancers
Can nowadays "bands" or groups even DO LIVE???
Those guys were the truth. Talent off the charts. Too bad one member destroyed their legacy with his selfishness. He's playing the saxophone, and made them tax department victims. But one of the greatest groups in RnB music to ever do it.
@Allen C Their legacy remains in tact tho.
That a double necked Mosrite ???
yep, a joe maphis model.
Talented musicians, no one knows how to play instruments anymore, too much work to learn and interferes with texting and video games. Rap and Hip Hop are a step backward sorry to say. I wonder the Ohio Players would say about the new Black Music?
I wonder what they would say about modern black people?
@@TheBigMclargehuge I’m gonna go way out on a limb and say that that they think it sucks. In 1992 I happened to met the keyboardist for Kool and the Gang. He was on a USO tour, when the man had a toothache, that were able to get taken care of for him. Nice dude, we talked for a while about the current scene. He was very disappointed that so very few of the current acts did not feature actual musicians.
@@michaeltaylors2456 mighty funny Sugarfoot embraced a lot of today's musicians before he passed on. George Clinton and Bootsy Collins did as well and guess what! James Brown did as well. these recognize that technology is the newest way to create music PLUS they still played instruments.
I think a lot of the older *real* musicians probably don't like the newer stuff, but they can't say it publicly because they don't want to alienate the younger generations who might pay to come to their concerts or buy their records. The sampling of their music by younger people is also a lucrative revenue stream for some of them so they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. On another subject, a pet peeve of mine is the way the media often refers to rappers as "musicians" when they don't even play an instrument.
Preachhhhhh
This song got LOTS of airplay right up 'til the collapse of disco in about 1980.
It's getting hot and hot 🔥🔥 !!! Fire .... Bump bump bump .. 🔥🚒
I miss real music