amazing soundtrack, great dissection of it :)

I love the Bully OST the best vibes Shawn Lee is awesome

One of my absolute favourite composers - hard to believe that the same man wrote "It's gonna rain", Different Trains, Desert Music...and Music for 18 Musicians, You Are Variations, various Counterpoint works. Mr. Reich has really evolved his art. I can't believe Steve Reich is 87 here! Wonderful interview with great questions.

love the man

Great video! At 7:00, I see no3 in parentheses. I was wondering what that refers to?

Fascinating stuff! I can really feel your frustration that you couldn’t figure out that background noise, haha

i love the adams family gremlins mood

Great callout about the soundtrack embodying the dichotomy of the delightful absurdity and the dark underbelly of the game. Probably my favorite game soundtrack of all time, and quite possibly the most distinct ever.

😮🎶

why does the interview have horrible droning electronic music playing loudly over the speech?

In light of our current predicament, this line from the text of "The Desert Music" always stuck with me: "Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish." --William Carlos Williams

Yo this video deserves way more attention! I absolutely love the Bully soundtrack. I've made a few tracks in GarageBand just messing around and Shawn Lee's composition style in Bully has been a big influence.

Anotzer radiohead song that might be inspired by jazz is sail to the moon which reminds me of skating in Central Park by Bill Evans and Jimm hall

Marvellous!

Danke für diesen wunderbaren, bewegenden Film.

38:52?

what a fantastic short doc. Loved the lounging cats and pup! The mule was a nice photo as well. Don't be too hard on yourself, still glad you shared the photo's of the telephone poles...and they were interesting to look at, I had never seen Hydra telephone poles before...so thank you, now I can say I have. LOL. Cheers! Or should I say...OPA!

Many thanks for the video and for the world of 1960's Greece that it brings back to my memory (I am 4 years younger than LC). I remember visiting Hydra in the early summer of 1964, the year I left Greece where I was born and raised, for the wonderful world of Berkeley, California, that was even more inspiring than the Hydra of 1960's. LC, George Johnson, Charmian Clift, were unknown then among Greeks, and I didn't find out about them till I emigrated to Canada in the 1970's, where I still live. It is too bad that LC did not engage with Greece while living there. These were the years that Greek poetry and music soared, fuelled by the country's turbulent politics and the efforts to get rid of the stifling post-WWII rightwing climate and the wounds of the civil war. Dear L:eonard, as a fellow Montrealer that I was for 20 years, I feel affection for you, but your music and poetry leave me cold. Too much introspection brings what we saw in the Hydra group, divorces and suicide and children growing up in sigle parent families, and very little impact on the society where we live. In contgrast the Ballad of Mauthausen, written by a Greek poet and playwrite amd put into music by Mikis Theodorakis, continues to stir up my 86-year old soul many decades after I heard it for the first time.

Cult of personality is a blatant rip off of Led Zeppelin The Wanton Song.

I always wondered why I liked ping pong orchestra so much I was bopping my head back as a kid to his music

Perfect little video which encapsulates exactly what I felt having just spent 4 days there. I loved sitting at Douskos tavern imagining LC there with his friends (and you can see photos of him there on menu and inside restaurant which is still going with same name). Finding all the little places was special and made the visit very emotionally engaging…especially reading about what happened to the characters after they left the island.

Me being from the country I am in, my school music teacher told me I couldn't play guitar when I picked it up lefty naturally. I was 10, wasn't exposed to western rock music nor guitarists. I just accepted it. Cut to 12th grade and my cousin told me left-handed guitars are a thing, and I got one. It's been such a long and amazing journey ever since man, learning about music in general, it's made me discover and appreciate so many varieties of music, artists and communities, guitar-related or otherwise

This guy's got great hair.

A Love story... Leonard-Music-Hydra ! Oh ! and Marianne ! A Greek friend, Demetrios Maniates.

Thanks, for this interview.

The day the Deadman ever leaves this earth, we have to honor him with that piano version of his theme song 💯⚱️

He be stealing his ass off, just like WCW 🤣 Can't deny he should be in the HOF though.

Very enlightening. Thanks for opening my eyes and giving me different areas and musicians to explore.

More great stuff Albert. Keep at it!!

I remember back in high school the first time I heard dark was the night. It was in a vsauce video. 'Twas changeing.

great video!

Good!

As a left-hander, I was taught how to play as a RH. I obviously don't know what benefits, if any, that I would have missed out on. My teacher was also a left-hander and often said, on a gig and or in pinch you can always use someone else guitar.

would love the full interview

I believe the bass playing was influenced by Serge Gainsbourg's music as well

Bert this is incredible !! perfect questions for such an interesting man = wonderful interview !!

Woaw this song had an history before CM Punk, didn't know it. 😅

So he wrote for Roman Reigns

nice

Wonderful video. Just returned from my first visit to Hydra. Just magical. I devour everything Cohen and that ‘bohemian’ era. Would like to see a little of George Johnson’s book before I buy it as it’s expensive. Any ideas? 😳 thank you sincerely xxx

Great work Albert. Love how it flows. You clearly know your stuff, I could see this on a BBC Arts programme.

Nice 🔥 I've always also loved Kurt Angle's theme which was made by Jim, it fit Kurt Angle like a glove

Wish you spoke about randy ortons theme Lovely video

Excellent video

Some say he was overrated, some say he copied too many other pieces of music, but something he was able to do was use entrance music to tell the audience who is coming- and how you're supposed to feel about it. His most brilliant idea is he used a simple sample to start so many wrestlers' themes. The Undertaker's gong Stone Cold's glass Rock's "If you smell" Razor Ramone/Mic Foley's car crash Bret Hart's guitar screech And so many more

Awesome interview! I love what I've heard of Reich's music and this just makes me want to listen to more - both his music and others he's mentioned. Africa/Brass sounds particularly interesting.

Can we just all acknowledge how remarkably switched-on and youthful Steve Reich appears in this interview- the man's 87!!!!

Brilliant video Albert! A fantastic piece of work about the great Steve Reich.

Great stuff. Really interesting to hear Steve Reich's inside knowledge of his work.

It's annoying that this is genuinely just really good, congrats! :D