Live at the Budokan (Chic)

Infobox Album
Name = Live at the Budokan
Type = Live album
Artist = Chic


Background = Orange
Released = February 23 1999
Recorded = April 17 1996
Genre = Disco / Funk / R&B / Jazz / Samba
Length = 66:53
Label = Sumthing Else
Producer = Nile Rodgers
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://wm08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:gjfixq8jld6e] |
Last album = "Chic Freak and More Treats"
(1996)
This album = "Live at the Budokan"
(1999)
Next album = "A Night in Amsterdam"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = live


Lower caption = Re-release with alternate cover.

"Live at The Budokan" is a live album by American R&B band Chic, released on Nile Rodgers' label Sumthing Else in 1999.
The album contains the concert at Tokyo's Budokan on April 17 1996 that was to be the very last performance by fellow Chic member Bernard Edwards who passed away the following day. The concert was a celebration of the Chic legacy and featured an all-star line-up with guest appearances by Sister Sledge, Slash from Guns N' Roses and Steve Winwood and was released three years after its recording, in unedited form including the spoken introductions by both Edwards and Rodgers.
The concert was released on DVD in 2006 and the "Budokan" album has been re-issued as "Chic In Japan" and "Live In Japan".

Tracklisting

#Bernard Introduction - 1:09
#Band Introduction - 0:33
#"Le Freak" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 5:14
#* Performed by Chic & Slash
#"Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)" (Intro) (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 0:31
#"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 7:04
#"I Want Your Love" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 6:17
#Sister Sledge (Intro) -0:12
#"He's the Greatest Dancer" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 4:37
#* Performed by: Chic & Sister Sledge
#We Are Family (Intro) - 0:22
#"We Are Family" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 10:06
#* Performed by: Chic & Sister Sledge
#"Do That Dance" (Oliver, Ramtulla, Rodgers) - 3:24
#Good Times (Intro) - 0:15
#"Good Times"/"Rapper's Delight" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 7:12
#Stone Free (Intro) -0:21
#"Stone Free" (Jimi Hendrix) - 4:22
#* Performed by Chic, Steve Winwood & Slash
#"Chic Cheer" (Edwards, Rodgers) - 14:20
#Backstage - 0:23
#Bernard #2 - 0:31

Personnel

* Bernard Edwards - bass guitar, vocals
* Omar Hakim - drums
* Slash - guitar (tracks: 3 & 15)
* Nile Rodgers - guitar, vocals
* Gerardo Velez - percussion
* Philippe Saisse - piano
* Richard Hilton - piano
* Bill Holloman - saxophone
* Mac Gollehon - trumpet
* Christopher Max - vocals
* Jill Jones - vocals
* Sister Sledge - vocals (tracks: 7 to 10)
* Sylver Logan Sharp - vocals
* Steve Winwood - vocals, organ (tracks: 15)

Production

* Producer - Nile Rodgers
* Recorded By, Mixed By - Gary Tole
* Recorded live at the Budokan and mixed at Wonder Station Studios, Tokyo, Japan.
* Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York.
* Mastered By - George Marino