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night shift

re: all the habbenings

grab your frens

So grab your friends

Get the train comin' through

Climb on board

Where you lead is up to you

it is getting hot?

Hi Q team

(can totally see 45 dancing to this with a grin)

Pack your grip, takin' you on a trip

Ain't no seats, all we got's dancin' feet

Leave your worries behind

'Cause rain shine, don't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight

Ooh Ooh

Get this train know you'll be glad you came

Hit the track party hard there and back

Leave your worries behind

'Cause rain shine don't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight

Ooh Ooh

Check out the wheels a turnin'

You know we won't stop

We got this boiler burnin'

We're keepin' it hot

=So grab your friends, get the train comin' thru

Climb on board, where you leave's up to you

Leave your worries behind

'Cause rain shine don't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight

Ooh ooh

Leave your worries behind

'Cause rain shine don't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight

Ooh Ooh

Check out the wheels a turnin'

You know we won't stop

We got this boiler burnin''

We're keepin' it hot

So grab your friends

Get the train comin' through

Climb on board

Where you lead is up to you

Leave your worries behind

'Cause rain shine won't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight

Ooh Ooh

We can ride

Rain shine don't mind

We're ridin' on the groove line tonight (repeat and fade).

>>15629351

zerodefectmachine

18.4K subscribers

Extended mix drum cover of The Groove Line, by Heatwave!

Share your love for Heatwave. What's your favorite Heatwave song? How did you hear about them? I've been playing drums to this song at school dances since it came out in 1978. I was only 14 years old, but I was already heavy into disco, rock and jazz fusion - among other types of music! How time flies! Keep the conversation going and leave a comment and subscribe! Heatwave fans rejoice!!!

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The Heatwave Story - https://youtu.be/C-k6G48114Q

SONG/VIDEO NOTES

This extended mix features keyboard whiz Rod Temperton on an expanded instrumental section. Harmoniously, you can hear Eric John's beautiful rhythm guitar chords in this section. Music to the ears.

Technically, “The Groove Line” is classified as a disco song. However, its sophisticated R&B funk sound sets it apart from most of the ubiquitous, redundant disco music of the late 70s. Instead of a dreamy jazzy intro like "Boogie Nights", Rod Temperton's genius chord progression is utterly apparent as the song begins with a synth intro that pulsates on the eighths, like a freight train in motion chugging along. I love the intro - so much so that I extended that pulsating synth then added four crash cymbal rolls before moving to the sizzling hi-hats. I also added an 808 sine wave roll-off on the first 3 kick drum hits that sounds great with subwoofers. Turn it up and wake the neighbors!

At the time, synthesizers were new and really evolving - being integrated more and more into popular music with complex arrangements using multiple keyboards. The beauty of Rod’s synth melodies and the spirited complementary vocal harmonies of the Wilder brothers was unmatched. Keith sang with an aggressively masculine edge, while Johnnie had a feather-light smooth touch. He just looks so happy when he sings! Johnnie's falsetto reigns throughout the song, handling tricky chord changes during the chorus with ease.

The drummer, Ernest "Bilbo" Berger, an underrated Jazz/Blues drummer from Czechoslovakia, is one that I list as one of my most influential funk drummers of the 70s. Here he executes a sixteenth note/semiquaver pattern on the hi-hat that keeps the song grooving. On the chorus he switches to a swing-ish 'double-tap' quarter note close/open hi-hat pattern, that I play with my left hand (open, not crossed). His 1977 Ludwig Vistalite concert toms, perfectly tuned to the notes of the song, were bright and punchy - the way I feel concert toms should sound. Barry Blue did a superb job of recording the drum track and mixing them prominently up front in the mix. I tried my best to do justice and match that tom and overall sound in this video. RIP Bilbo (December 20, 1941 † August 15, 2020). We love you.

TOM TUNINGS

Concert Toms

6" - 262Hz/C4

8" - 196Hz/G3

10" - 165Hz/E3

12" - 131Hz/C2

13" - 124Hz/B2

14" - 98Hz/G2

15" - 83Hz/E2

16" - 66Hz/C1

Floor Toms

16" - 66Hz/C1

18" - 62Hz/B1

Single Release: January 1978. B-side: "Happiness Togetherness"

Format: 7" single (4:11), 12" Extended Mix (7:28)

Writer: Rod Temperton

Album: Central Heating

Label: GTO Records

Producer: Barry Blue

Certification: RIAA Platinum

Among Top 50 biggest hits of 1978 / Peaked at #7 on Billboard Hot 100

LINKS

Studio Sound Panels

AUDIMUTE Sound Absorption Sheets

Link - http://www.audimutesoundproofing.com

Sunglasses

GATORZ Magnum, model# MAGPOL01

Polished 7075 Billet Aircraft Aluminum Frame/Grey Lens

Music in this video

The Groove Line

Artist

Heatwave

Writers

Rod Temperton

Anonymous ID: 154ea6 Feb. 14, 2022, 5:20 p.m. No.15629398 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9402

>>15629388

>This extended mix features keyboard whiz Rod Temperton on an expanded instrumental section. Harmoniously, you can hear Eric John's beautiful rhythm guitar chords in this section. Music to the ears.

>Technically, “The Groove Line” is classified as a disco song. However, its sophisticated R&B funk sound sets it apart from most of the ubiquitous, redundant disco music of the late 70s. Instead of a dreamy jazzy intro like "Boogie Nights", Rod Temperton's genius chord progression is utterly apparent as the song begins with a synth intro that pulsates on the eighths, like a freight train in motion chugging along.

>>15629351