I think its because tech advanced alot around then. Like people are nostalgic for the good ol' days of hacking (around the 80's) or the space race. It wasn't the "pinnacle", but sure as f*ck it was fun to see people like Wendy Garcia doing tech advances in music or just playing like Commodores and such.
Yesssssss 💯 I remember watching the midnight special with a bunch of hippies in Wilton CT in 1974 I was a little black kid I didn't know that this group put out kick 🦵🦶 ass jam wow 😲😳
Never thought to watch them - too much nose-to-the-grindstone action, growing up in a hellish environment… (Would have been severely punished, because I wasn’t *perfect.* )
You can’t call yourself a music fan if you can’t appreciate the level of awesome here. Regardless of your favourite genre, this one will get you moving.
This was a time when musical groups played musical instruments and created really terrific melodies. The Commodores were very talented musicians and had many hits. Unlike today's mediocre, untalented singers, and groups.
@@stevencoardvenice I'm not sure what you mean and I don't think this is the right term here ...anyways, it's just not as captivating and groovy as other Disco Funk, maybe I prefer the stuff that came a bit later. Oh and btw, you totally could've not been a douchebag if you hadn't posted that reply! Sorry, couldn't let you off without that ; )
Don’t know why it matters that you’re white, lol. We are just people man. Black, white, we are all just humans . Race is a construct. There’s different cultures, but we are one race , humans. Love from North America to Ireland . Hope things are well🫶🏾
Soul Train: The hippest trip in America. On Saturday morning, after cartoons, I stayed glued to the TV to watch American Bandstand, then Soul Train. I probably saw this performance. Thanks for the memories.
I'm 66 and White. I Pooh-poohed this back in the day, along with anything else that wasn't The Who. Now I'm getting a realization of just how good the music was back during my youth, many gems passed by.
Funny you would make this comment. Back then, I'll be 65 next month, I would listen to this along with Parliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Mandrill, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix Jeff Beck and believe it or not; I even had Lynerd Skynerd's Pronounced in my collection!
@@Uptown59 That’s some serious flavor - same in my house as a kid plus Wes Montgomery through Edvard Grieg; I eventually became a music teacher and still play guitar everyday ( I go back and learn these killer songs!)
Dimefan91 You're looking at it the wrong way. I look at old girlfriends on facebook that I thought looked good in those days and I'm going, what was I thinking? BUT, in those days they looked good, I looked decent, we liked the way we dressed and we thought we were cool and we had a blast. Personally, I think EVERYTHING was better than and absolutely the music was better.
Dimefan91 It can look kind of silly now, but truth be told, I appreciate how bands from that era ('74-'80) wrote and played great songs, bothered with costumes, dance steps, and showed a lot of love and creative spirit. When you compare that to the average 'artist' these days, with sagging pants, t-shirts and baseball caps, cussing and mumbling and barking, those 70's performers begin to look real admirable!
This is one of my favorite performances of all time!!! The Commodores were excellent!!! I am a Lionel Ritchie fan and most people don't realize how good of a keyboard player he was before he got huge notoriety as an excellent vocalist!!!
I was 16 and I loved this song also much! I saw Lionel Ritchie with Mariah Carey in concert in Seattle a few years ago, it was Amazing! My favorite Commodore song is Zoom.
I was 12. My cousins had the 45. We used jam that tune all day. Around the same time as William Devon- Be thankful for what you Got. Stairway to Heaven and Rock The Boat (Hughes Corporation).
I think I was like 12 and Im 56 now...I truly say the 70s was a epic decade for music. Havent been a decade like that decade in writing and performing the songs...true bands that played the instruments
This song was produced in Muscle Shoals Alabama by the great team of Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey! After hearing this, Motown made Ivey and Woodford the first white Motown members. Unfortunately, in the Mid 80s, Latoya Jackson and her Entourage came to Wishbone to record. One night, something in the studio caught fire and the studio was almost completely destroyed. It was eventually re -built and local artists put it to great use.
Even decades later, you just might not feel you have got enough, dear Blackstonepros. This is the effect of The Commodores and a lot of artists of The 60s and 70s era.
The cool thing about this wonderfully talented music is that it knows no color. I’m a 60 year old white dude and I was raised on Motown, Soul, and Funk. James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone, Commodores, The Jackson 5, and the list goes on. Nothin’ but the best! I have also been a drummer my entire life and there is nothin’ more fun then to be in the pocket playin’ a tasty Funk groove. I can’t dance worth a shit but I guarantee I can make you git up offa dat thang!
If you were my generation you could have gone raving. I'm 40. You would love it. It's all funky techno, house, disco and funk, all night long til 7am while you're wired on MDMA. Listen ua-cam.com/video/AVChgeZBP4Y/v-deo.html This track is from 1999
Its the year -014T and we are excited about this new concept called mass we hear it introduces a whole new dimension of possibilities especially in this thing you are going to call music, sending psychic vibes from the primordial hive mind -Xzorp342
Thank you for posting this. I miss growing up in the 70's. Probably the only era when you had multiple Funk/Soul groups performing that were at least 5-10 brothas deep. They would stay together for years too. We'll never see it happen again.
Hoy soy 50 años viejo, era yo un niño cuando sonaba esta melodía..muchos de los jóvenes en el video que bailan ahí son 70 años viejos...EL INEXORABLE PASO DEL TIEMPO.
i'm a white middle age man and i agree with you 100%...and since you're into funk i can suggest you to listen Betty Davis (yes she was the wife of Miles at the end of the 60's)..she's the real deal, the queen of funk, the first before many others..you can't go wrong with her..good vibes to you and keep funkin!
Absolutely funky guys. This was such a great era. I was only a kid when this first came out but I remember soul train and the commodores. That’s for sure. 👍👍
This was the first song I ever heard from The Commodores before I was old enough to even get my learner's permit. I was a fan of late sixties and early seventies rock but this really grabbed my ear. Had the Sly Stone funk down. Loved the percussion (loved drummers who played double bass drums) and the keys. Proud they were from my home state too. I wish that Lionel would have done his solo projects but kept up his presence in the band. I was thrilled when they hit it huge again with Night Shift, but who knows where they'd be if Lionel would have continued on with them?
Man this is some great Old School Funk! That Rubber Band Bass sound he is getting is awesome! Lionel Ritchie tearing it up on the Keyboard! Great Stuff!
Por fin encontré este tema.... Desde el año 1978 ..lo escuchaba...en aquel entonces era un niño de 12 años y este Temazo era la Cortina Musical del Programa de Televisión , "El Festival de La Una", de Televisión Nacional de Chile......lo busque hasta estos años... Siempre quise saber como se llama y a quien pertenece esta joyita... A mis 54 años.... Puedo descansar en Paz....jajaja.... Saludos desde Santiago de Chile.....
Impresionante ritmo y fuerza que nos contagiaba allá x los 70 una banda que nos dejó grandes éxitos y los bailabamos juntos con nuestros amigos en la juventud saludos a todos los que vivieron esa época hermosa desde Uruguay
In Brazil, in the city where I'm from (Porto Alegre), it was used by a local radio station as an opening for a 6pm radio show. Takes me back 20 years and I feel like I'm in my dads car again.
Que sonzeira da zorra,tempo bom que não volta mais ! A dança também fazia parte dos anseios da alma ! Todo mundo alegre sem pensar em nenhuma maldade !
Lionel Richie was perhaps the main songwriter for the Commodores and he was great at it, but Milan Williams is responsible for writing this funky tune here...RIP, Bro!! 👍🏾
I remember hearing this instrumental a long time ago, played on our local radio station here in Asia. It was played as the opening and closing theme for a certain music programme which according to my memory was 'Now Music USA'. It was fantastic and I really liked it. But at that time I never knew that this was by The Commodores because I thought they played only songs and not instrumentals. This was a very outstanding rendition of keyboard artistry indeed!
this song was used as the intro to a weekly music video show in New Zealand called 'RTR' aka 'Ready To Roll' back in the 80's. aahh childhood memories... and what a kick-ass tune!!
por fin encontré este temazo...después de 43/años......Recuerdo k era la CORTINA MUSICAL DEL FESTIVAL DE LA UNA DE TVN CHILE.... EN LOS AÑOS 1978/1979....GRACIAS POR EL RECUERDO...
Today's music can't touch even 10% of what this music was. We've lost a huge part of American culture once the Internet came around. Makes me so sad. Remember black people who weren't rappers? Such a good time to be alive.
@@ChristopherMHeaps Everybody knows this... every black person I know can rap and play drums!!! and at the same time. They are just really bad at skiing and bobsled
70s sounds were so free and fun. Marvelous time and music. It was the decade of my childhood. What other time would have an Abba song as the school bell? 😆😆😆
This is one of those songs that was so iconic in the 70's. But from my childhood, I rememeber it more for hearing it during commercials, or commercial breaks, or tv shows, or something. It wasn't until I was grown that I found out that it was actually the commodores who made it LOL How crazy is that. It's not the sound that I associated with the Commodores.
I can remember this hit when it first came out I was working in a discoteque. Dance floor packed up as soon as the first chords went out from speakers... Almost 50years ago...it cannot be...my goodness
Lionel Richie was the shit - so many disco funk bands, but he knew what music sounded like and nailed it on a bunch of tunes, this one being my favorite
Good music that made you dance even when you didn't feel like it. I am looking at those outfits back r than. We thought they were cool. Well that was my young generation and we had fun. Commodores forever.
Back when musicians were magicians & gave life to instruments
Being a musician for over 35 years and an record collector of all genres from 50’s-90’s, I really feel 70’s Funk was the pinnacle.
I agree.
I think its because tech advanced alot around then. Like people are nostalgic for the good ol' days of hacking (around the 80's) or the space race.
It wasn't the "pinnacle", but sure as f*ck it was fun to see people like Wendy Garcia doing tech advances in music or just playing like Commodores and such.
Disco is up there too.
@@KuroNekoExMachina i think it was..no better music
I agree.
I miss Soul Train and The Midnight Special. 70’s was a great time for music lovers.
Me too
That’s for sure - the BEST!!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Yesssssss 💯
I remember watching the midnight special with a bunch of hippies in Wilton CT in 1974 I was a little black kid I didn't know that this group put out kick 🦵🦶 ass jam wow 😲😳
Besides American Bandstand there was also Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and Supersonic. Liked watching them all.
Never thought to watch them - too much nose-to-the-grindstone action, growing up in a hellish environment…
(Would have been severely punished, because I wasn’t *perfect.* )
The music of the 1970s is truly timeless.
Damn right! When music was made by musicians!
You can’t call yourself a music fan if you can’t appreciate the level of awesome here. Regardless of your favourite genre, this one will get you moving.
I don't know, I love Disco Funk and groovy Soul but this one doesn't really get me at all.
This was a time when musical groups played musical instruments and created really terrific melodies. The Commodores were very talented musicians and had many hits. Unlike today's mediocre, untalented singers, and groups.
@@DerEchteBold you're not a member of the human family if you're not feelin the breakbeat at @1:51.
@@stevencoardvenice
I'm not sure what you mean and I don't think this is the right term here ...anyways, it's just not as captivating and groovy as other Disco Funk, maybe I prefer the stuff that came a bit later.
Oh and btw, you totally could've not been a douchebag if you hadn't posted that reply!
Sorry, couldn't let you off without that ; )
mas musuca
As a 10 year old white boy in the suburbs, I would watch Soul Train and it always looked like everyone was having the kind of time I wanted to have.
As a 3yo tabby cat in the 70s I agree.
Awesome.......as a white man from Ireland, I consider 70's funk to be music for the ages never to be bettered.
I agree, my Ireland brother
But you've the Cranberries... 😂😂😂
Don’t know why it matters that you’re white, lol. We are just people man. Black, white, we are all just humans . Race is a construct. There’s different cultures, but we are one race , humans. Love from North America to Ireland . Hope things are well🫶🏾
Como hombre blanco de España, confirmo tu opinión al 100%. THE BEST .
Top of da mornin' n Top of da Charts, I tell ya so it is, ...... ❤
Soul Train: The hippest trip in America. On Saturday morning, after cartoons, I stayed glued to the TV to watch American Bandstand, then Soul Train. I probably saw this performance. Thanks for the memories.
God, I loved that show! Don Cornelius got fucking screwed, too!
Uncle only agrees with the dear Sylvia that this is one of America's archival gems ... even if America is yet to see it !!!
Same here brother, that was my Saturday morning too, cartoons in the morning, noonish American Bandstand and Soultrain, thanks for reminding me. 😎
'Winks and welcomes', dear D Hudgens.
i wasn't around until a few years after this, but i too watched sat morning cartoons and then bandstand and soultrain.
I'm 66 and White.
I Pooh-poohed this back in the day, along with anything else that wasn't The Who.
Now I'm getting a realization of just how good the music was back during my youth, many gems passed by.
Did you also realize that whipping a microphone around and breaking a guitar doesn't good music make?
Funny you would make this comment. Back then, I'll be 65 next month, I would listen to this along with Parliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Mandrill, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix Jeff Beck and believe it or not; I even had Lynerd Skynerd's Pronounced in my collection!
@@User0000000000000004Eso era solo para llamar la atención.
La música era lo que importa.
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No.
@@Uptown59 That’s some serious flavor - same in my house as a kid plus Wes Montgomery through Edvard Grieg; I eventually became a music teacher and still play guitar everyday ( I go back and learn these killer songs!)
48 Years Later. This Jam is Like Wine 🍷 it's better with Age.
70's was the best period for music!
Great music, but the clothes.... and the dance moves (like the guy in the front at the beginning)... but it's the 70s so it gets a pass =)
Dimefan91
You're looking at it the wrong way. I look at old girlfriends on facebook that I thought looked good in those days and I'm going, what was I thinking? BUT, in those days they looked good, I looked decent, we liked the way we dressed and we thought we were cool and we had a blast. Personally, I think EVERYTHING was better than and absolutely the music was better.
TotalDesignZ You've made me a believer =)
Dimefan91
Then my work here is done :)
Dimefan91
It can look kind of silly now, but truth be told, I appreciate how bands from that era ('74-'80) wrote and played great songs, bothered with costumes, dance steps, and showed a lot of love and creative spirit. When you compare that to the average 'artist' these days, with sagging pants, t-shirts and baseball caps, cussing and mumbling and barking, those 70's performers begin to look real admirable!
This is one of my favorite performances of all time!!! The Commodores were excellent!!! I am a Lionel Ritchie fan and most people don't realize how good of a keyboard player he was before he got huge notoriety as an excellent vocalist!!!
Milan Williams was amazing as well and did a great job writing this one.
He also played the saxophone on Brick House...
Pretty sure this performance is mimed to a prerecorded track, possibly the studio album version.
Williams is playing the claivnet parts here, right? Yeah, I know it’s synching but still. . .
This is the actual album track they are miming to.
In 1974, I was 14 years old when this song was released.
I was 10
who gives a cr*p?
Same age. The 70's was unbelievable
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I was 21 when this song came out and now I am 71 thank God for good old disco music 🎶 🎵 🙌
Me too.
This is funk, not disco. 👍🏾
@@floydthompson9332that's what I was thinking 🤔 as well 😉
@@floydthompson9332- this
@@floydthompson9332 Funky disco or disco funk, take your pick.
The Commodores were the opening act for the Jackson Five at the at the Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia circa '72 or 73, a blessed witness..
Lucky. I am from Norfolk, Va and would not be born until 1975.
As a 14year old in 1974 this was the favourite at the school disco
May 2021 and this still fills a dance floor, love it.
I was 16 and I loved this song also much! I saw Lionel Ritchie with Mariah Carey in concert in Seattle a few years ago, it was Amazing! My favorite Commodore song is Zoom.
I was 12. My cousins had the 45. We used jam that tune all day. Around the same time as William Devon- Be thankful for what you Got. Stairway to Heaven and Rock The Boat (Hughes Corporation).
Boogie Nights introduced this classic to me when I was 17 in 1997.
Hmm I see that's nice tho
I think I was like 12 and Im 56 now...I truly say the 70s was a epic decade for music. Havent been a decade like that decade in writing and performing the songs...true bands that played the instruments
And they get paid for their artwork. Thank you SAMPLING
Lionel Richie was so young here, great video
Go Lionel! Love this song!! I was in 4th grade for it.
70s kid watching Soul Train every weekend. Yeah!!
Machine Gun is the debut studio album by the Commodores, released on July 22, 1974, on Motown Records
1978 бест класс
This song was produced in Muscle Shoals Alabama by the great team of Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey!
After hearing this, Motown made Ivey and Woodford the first white Motown members. Unfortunately, in the Mid 80s, Latoya Jackson and her Entourage came to Wishbone to record. One night, something in the studio caught fire and the studio was almost completely destroyed. It was eventually re -built and local artists put it to great use.
11 out of 10 on the Funk-o-Meter
Though we can debate should we so choose, we only understand and remain silent about that 'funk-o-meter', dear Conallk.
oh funk yeah
Smashed the funk-o-meter into pieces.
the one on the keyboard is Lionel Richie?
Yeah
Can you possibly hear this tune and not get a little happier? Pure, distilled fun. The Commodores could really funk it out in those days!
rocketman63 YES INDEED
They can still 'funk it out' even today, dear Rocketman63.
And if you are indeed so dense, try African Music Machine - Black Water Gold. ua-cam.com/video/M03yw6ILcgo/v-deo.html
When I was a kid they use to play almost all there stuff on the radio. I'm a hard rock guy but these guys kick ass💪🎸
Truth
1:47-1:52 Lionel laying down that blast-off effect on the keys, followed by that awesomely timed whistle blow-is everything.
It’s my spirit animal and I literally CAN NOT. Chefs kiss.
I knew it! I'm here thinking "I know him from somewhere"🤔....
😂🤣😂🤣🤯
Its not live. Its Memorex.
Yeah was gonna say, this is clearly playback.
@@vapeymcvape5000 here's a real LIVE performance :D ua-cam.com/video/p0f2S4WwwRk/v-deo.html
14 people dislike this song? I let my girlfriend listen to this song for the first time? 9 months later my daughter was born! Thanks Lionel!
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Why is everyone on UA-cam so hung up on dislikes Jesus everyone doesn't like everything
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Lionel Ritchie is the cure to infertility?
Castor Troy Lionel Richie didn't write Machine Gun, Milan Williams did.
Senior year in High school 1974! That Jam was HOT!!!
Well this clip seals it. There's been no better decade of music and fashion than the 70s.
FACTS... and soul brother Don Cornelius was the coolest black man alive.
@@strictlynorton For sure
Loved it in Boogie Nights. Pre Lionel lead singer times.
When I used to go to discos as a young teenager, this was one of the few tracks they would play twice. We couldn't get enough.
Don Cornelius is one of America's greatest success stories...He struggled and became a legend...Bravo Don...
He looked like he wasn't feeling well in this presentation...
This song is incredible. I've watched this 5 times in a row. Can't get enough
Even decades later, you just might not feel you have got enough, dear Blackstonepros. This is the effect of The Commodores and a lot of artists of The 60s and 70s era.
I have you beat. Playing it for who knows how many straight times. Bad ass tune.
Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
@@govtom4 this song Reminds me of Boogie nights
The cool thing about this wonderfully talented music is that it knows no color. I’m a 60 year old white dude and I was raised on Motown, Soul, and Funk. James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone, Commodores, The Jackson 5, and the list goes on. Nothin’ but the best! I have also been a drummer my entire life and there is nothin’ more fun then to be in the pocket playin’ a tasty Funk groove. I can’t dance worth a shit but I guarantee I can make you git up offa dat thang!
If you were my generation you could have gone raving. I'm 40. You would love it. It's all funky techno, house, disco and funk, all night long til 7am while you're wired on MDMA. Listen ua-cam.com/video/AVChgeZBP4Y/v-deo.html
This track is from 1999
I agree with you! I even had my non American mom to love these songs through out my years of growing up
I could listen to this song all day long, I am 80 years old and can't sit still when I hear it.
These years 50's - 70's, natural and beautiful ...! What kind of people and the music was, and the music was excellent ...!
1974 - This song is EPIC!
2020 - This song is EPIC!
This is SoulTrain !
3000-This song is EPIC!
As 'epic' as your words make it and even more so, dear Quanchai-of-Purananda.
I'm from year 3036, still epic.
Its the year -014T and we are excited about this new concept called mass we hear it introduces a whole new dimension of possibilities especially in this thing you are going to call music, sending psychic vibes from the primordial hive mind -Xzorp342
70s truly a golden age for American music
4 sho
So glad that I got to enjoy it! Best dancing music!!!!!
and movies...
Bohemian Rhapsody is from UK, so it's both of them
golden age for music worldwide
Loved watching Soul Train! Commodores = Kings of Funk n Sou! Who else remembers when Lionel Richie was a member?
Thank you for posting this. I miss growing up in the 70's. Probably the only era when you had multiple Funk/Soul groups performing that were at least 5-10 brothas deep. They would stay together for years too. We'll never see it happen again.
So true😢
R I P Milan Williams. A very underrated (perhaps understated is a better word), ROCK SOLID Keybordist. He held The Commodores down!!
How did he die?
Tell more truths of this kind, dear Lonnie-of-Bannister.
@@rissaceehart4076 cancer
Hoy soy 50 años viejo, era yo un niño cuando sonaba esta melodía..muchos de los jóvenes en el video que bailan ahí son 70 años viejos...EL INEXORABLE PASO DEL TIEMPO.
I am an old white man yet even I can recognize serious funk when it's being laid down in this fashion.
Yo! You go head now!!
It pure funk that hit you hard keyboard funk back in the day I love it!! Where did it go??
i'm a white middle age man and i agree with you 100%...and since you're into funk i can suggest you to listen Betty Davis (yes she was the wife of Miles at the end of the 60's)..she's the real deal, the queen of funk, the first before many others..you can't go wrong with her..good vibes to you and keep funkin!
Hey I all ready know pure funk Betty Davis
All so listen to a band call funk inc
Love it! Grew up with Soul Train in the 70's. Great show and they could not even come close to duplicating it today.
This one blew my mind up to now. I was a teenager that time. I went crazy well done commodores. It still sounds great
Absolutely funky guys. This was such a great era. I was only a kid when this first came out but I remember soul train and the commodores. That’s for sure. 👍👍
There's so much funk in this track it didn't need any lyrics.
So succinctly put and only agreed with dear Patcom 101.
@@arthurverbraak2500 Oh he did a couple of funky keyboard riffs. That's what funk is. 👍
Pure funk here bringing back the happy memories. God bless the comodores they were awesome. 👏🙏
That bass tone....................................wow......................... smashing it
This was the first song I ever heard from The Commodores before I was old enough to even get my learner's permit. I was a fan of late sixties and early seventies rock but this really grabbed my ear. Had the Sly Stone funk down. Loved the percussion (loved drummers who played double bass drums) and the keys. Proud they were from my home state too. I wish that Lionel would have done his solo projects but kept up his presence in the band. I was thrilled when they hit it huge again with Night Shift, but who knows where they'd be if Lionel would have continued on with them?
They simply couldn't make it without Lionel. "Night Shift" was a fluke.
I'm still keeping the vinyl record & CDs in my cupboard for years..can't dispose it, too much sentimental value 🥰🤩🥂🎸🎹
One of the BEST instrumental jams of the seventies
Man this is some great Old School Funk! That Rubber Band Bass sound he is getting is awesome! Lionel Ritchie tearing it up on the Keyboard! Great Stuff!
this is classic funk to the max! loved dancing to this in my old platform shoes.
I had forgotten that this was called machine gun, but I remembered it from the opening note. Back before Lionel started singing… Great stuff!
Por fin encontré este tema.... Desde el año 1978 ..lo escuchaba...en aquel entonces era un niño de 12 años y este Temazo era la Cortina Musical del Programa de Televisión , "El Festival de La Una", de Televisión Nacional de Chile......lo busque hasta estos años... Siempre quise saber como se llama y a quien pertenece esta joyita...
A mis 54 años.... Puedo descansar en Paz....jajaja.... Saludos desde Santiago de Chile.....
Y cortina radial del EUROPARADE con Alfonso Montealegre desde Hilversum Holanda en 1974.
I can still get down the road and catch myself trying to jam behind the wheel. This is a solid groove that will stand the test of time.
Impresionante ritmo y fuerza que nos contagiaba allá x los 70 una banda que nos dejó grandes éxitos y los bailabamos juntos con nuestros amigos en la juventud saludos a todos los que vivieron esa época hermosa desde Uruguay
They were young, talented and just starting an amazing journey. So many good songs; thank you.
What a great band. Undeniable.
In New Zealand ,this tune was used as the theme tune to ''ready to roll'' which was a pop music video show in the late 70's /80's .
We only understand where New-Z (Maori Land) was coming from, dear Morrisjvan.
In Brazil, in the city where I'm from (Porto Alegre), it was used by a local radio station as an opening for a 6pm radio show. Takes me back 20 years and I feel like I'm in my dads car again.
I'm not surprised the gentleman playing the ARP 2600 would blossom into one of the finest musicians of all-time.
www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/arp2600_fs/
Yeah, we diggeth the dear Lionel too, dear Jon Martinez.
And he played the sax
Yes, I recognized the keyboard, and the unit is behind to the right A Farfisa is seen too.
I'm pretty sure I hear a Clavinet.
The amazing skill on the instruments, the vocals, the vibe, amazing band of my youth!
Haven't heard this since about 1974!
The Commodores performed at Cebu Coliseum when Machine Gun was a runaway hit! It was one hell of a concert I will never forget!
Que sonzeira da zorra,tempo bom que não volta mais !
A dança também fazia parte dos anseios da alma !
Todo mundo alegre sem pensar em nenhuma maldade !
Back when Lionel was funky, i miss this music so much
Owwwwww!!!
Lionel Richie was perhaps the main songwriter for the Commodores and he was great at it, but Milan Williams is responsible for writing this funky tune here...RIP, Bro!! 👍🏾
Yes the pride of the Okolona MS
You can tell how much love, enjoyment and bliss they have in them by the way they play their instruments.
They are not playing here. They are 'pantomiming' to a recording.
This song is BADASS!!!! Always dug The Commodores.....mad respect. ✌️❤️✨🎶
I remember hearing this instrumental a long time ago, played on our local radio station here in Asia. It was played as the opening and closing theme for a certain music programme which according to my memory was 'Now Music USA'. It was fantastic and I really liked it. But at that time I never knew that this was by The Commodores because I thought they played only songs and not instrumentals. This was a very outstanding rendition of keyboard artistry indeed!
One of the great instrumentals of the 1970s 🎶❤
My favorite song when I was about 9-10 years old. I used to listen to it being played many times in a day by an AM radio station in Manila.
DZBM
Thank you for the cypress apartments in the 80's. Much Love.
"30 perc alatt a Föld körül"
Gyermekkoromban ennek a vasárnapi rádióműsornak (Magyarország, Kossuth rádió) volt a szignálja ez a zene...🙂👍🇭🇺
This was The Commodores 1st single released my Motown Records
this song was used as the intro to a weekly music video show in New Zealand called 'RTR' aka 'Ready To Roll' back in the 80's. aahh childhood memories... and what a kick-ass tune!!
por fin encontré este temazo...después de 43/años......Recuerdo k era la CORTINA MUSICAL DEL FESTIVAL DE LA UNA DE TVN CHILE.... EN LOS AÑOS 1978/1979....GRACIAS POR EL RECUERDO...
Today's music can't touch even 10% of what this music was. We've lost a huge part of American culture once the Internet came around. Makes me so sad. Remember black people who weren't rappers? Such a good time to be alive.
So, you feel that today all black people are "rappers"? 😂
@@ChristopherMHeaps NOT what he said. At. All.
@@ChristopherMHeaps Everybody knows this... every black person I know can rap and play drums!!! and at the same time. They are just really bad at skiing and bobsled
70s sounds were so free and fun. Marvelous time and music. It was the decade of my childhood. What other time would have an Abba song as the school bell? 😆😆😆
Soul brothers. Amazing to know that Lionel Richie still graces us mere mortals with his presence in 2020.
and still in 2021, thank God
I’ve heard quite a few of the Commodores songs, but this is one that I’ve missed! Jam...min!! Love it!!
This was their first hit. I think.
This is one of those songs that was so iconic in the 70's. But from my childhood, I rememeber it more for hearing it during commercials, or commercial breaks, or tv shows, or something. It wasn't until I was grown that I found out that it was actually the commodores who made it LOL How crazy is that. It's not the sound that I associated with the Commodores.
Heard that tune in Boogie Nights for the first time.,never knew it was from Commodores
I can remember this hit when it first came out I was working in a discoteque. Dance floor packed up as soon as the first chords went out from speakers...
Almost 50years ago...it cannot be...my goodness
Очень люблю эту группу . Чувство ритма обалдееное
This is one of many reasons for why I love music so much!
How many people remember Ready To Roll. My first introduction to music.
Don Cornelius had an awsome tailor, always looked so hip and classy
Bring back the FUNK! They were among my favorites along with Earth Wind and Fire and Kool and the Gang. Talented musicians.
Imagino o privilégio de ter assistido isso aí vivo na época! Clássico demais!
This was ahead of its time.
Both of and indeed ahead of its time, dear David-of-Allen.
@Nobody Nobody Good music still exists. Kendrick Lamar "To Pimp a Butterfly" classic album
Bought this album brand new played it all the time . This song was kickin it
Lionel Richie was the shit - so many disco funk bands, but he knew what music sounded like and nailed it on a bunch of tunes, this one being my favorite
Lionel was great on the synth, never realized he could play soo good..
Rest in peace, Milan Williams. You brought Machine Gun to its greatest heights. GODspeed...
Used to love dancing to this at the disco way back when!
This and Billy Prestons Outa Space are classic
It looks like Lionel is doing conga drum the keyboards..😂
Ah, love that man😊
The Good Ole Days...Filled With Splendid Memories...
Good music that made you dance even when you didn't feel like it.
I am looking at those outfits back r
than. We thought they were cool.
Well that was my young generation and we had fun. Commodores forever.