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It also appears on the Fever 105 soundtrack CD, in addition to the game's first trailer.

It appears in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, on the in-game radio station Fever 105.

"Summer Madness" has been used in various media: As of 2018, over 145 recordings had sampled it. In the early summer of 1996, Epic Records, a division of Sony Music, reissued and re-released the song as a CD and cassette single. It has subsequently become one of the most sampled R&B compositions of all time. It reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 36 on the Hot Soul Singles charts. " Summer Madness" is an instrumental tune that was released in 1974 by Kool & the Gang on their album Light of Worlds. COPYRIGHTS RESERVED BY COPYRIGHT OWNER.This audio/video is used on. Ps : if anybody actually was involved in one way or another with this song, and reads : man, you've made so many people happy with this!I was 18 in 1974 the best music ever and enjoyed and traveled with different bands on a few occasions.Met many great people that I would love to reach today to see how things went for all of the underdogs who moved and readied the equipment for them and got the stages ready.WOW what fun.Side two of US single "Spirit of the Boogie" Kool and the Gang- Summer Madness (1974) (Long Version)NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. Then just douse the whole thing in EMT 140 plate reverb. Probably U87 or 414 overheads, 57 on snare, 421s on toms, re20 on kick. Most any mono synth from the early/mid 70s can do the glide effect.ĭrums are almost certainly the usual. Always assumed they were Arp Solina string ensemble but that may not have been available yet.

The string chords that fade in are the Mellotron according to liner notes. That's all he's doing, over and over again. Fret the B and high E strings at the 7th fret, then slide up to the 9th. It sounds cool because the guy is playing "fourths". The guitar part is played on the neck pickup. The bass is probably DI (tone knob is 'open'). then for 2nd chord play: B,C#,E,F# and then for that little variation at the end of the loop switch that F# to G#. Play these notes for the first chord: A,C#,E,F#. The two chords that alternate are F#m7 and C#m11. It's just a standard 70s studio recording. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Princes Summertime. Ps : if anybody actually was involved in one way or another with this song, and reads : man, you've made so many people happy with this! Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang - discover this songs samples, covers and remixes on WhoSampled. That song must have been responsible for many babies born : ) I imagine how everybody would play the song and feel so cool about themselves when bumping the song.

2 It has subsequently become one of the most sampled R&B compositions of all time. I'm in my twenties and I wish I had been 20 in the summer months of 1974, right around when Light of Worlds (of which "Summer Madness" was a part! and on side B!) came out. Summer Madness (instrumental) ' Summer Madness ' is an instrumental tune that was released in 1974 by Kool & the Gang on their album Light of Worlds. nice) ?Īll right, thanks everybody, I really appreciate it. Tape (anybody noticed how the tape noise doubles and triples as soon as the other instruments kick in, in addition to the e.p. Now let's get to the point, the nitty gritty if you will, because we're on gearslutz after all :ġ) What were the instruments used on this :Ī - Electric piano : which model ? what amp ? what guitar pedal (?) ?ī - (sweet sounding) Electric guitar (or what is it exactly?) that's panned hard to the right : again, what model of guitar, and more importantly what effect did they put on it, for it to sound so godly ? (It starts at 00:11)

I'm not even going to go on a rant about incredibly good that record sounds and feels. I'm surprised there is not a single thread (or did I miss something, though I did use the holy search function) specifically on the equipment used on this ULTRA classic song :