Plz dont sing. You are totally destroying the song… 😢

Thanks Vaughan great video 😊

I love and appreciate you saying you were in tears after you met him. I could relate to how you felt ❤️‍🩹

People are too hard on his voice, I think it's sexy ❤

I met Neil Tennant twice. Once at a Blur gig in 1994 and then in 1999 in Cardiff after a PSB gig with Chris Lowe.

Great video Vince I never knew this story. I met Martin Gore in Santa Barbara as he lives here in California. I have a couple of friends that sees him regularly. I live in San Luis Obispo California which I'm 2 hours away from Santa He has a couple of hangs he usually goes to here. A friend of mine is friends with his wife as well too.

Your piano & vocals are beautiful, i reckon even martin himself would be jealous of this. Well done my friend!

I live in deepest Devon, but would often swing by the shop whenever I was in London. A great shop/company, and it’s a shame it closed

Cool

What`s up with the left hand middle finger?

Thanks for the blast from the past mate (although i’m not sure I wanted reminding 😆) All those memories came flooding back, We were like the modern day sweat shop labor but we didn't realise until later, the days before minimum wage. I call it character building because I now know what red flags to look out for in many aspects of life. But really I think it was all about the people, it was a good crowd for little while. Other memories are Maria screaming in Spanish, the fridge stacked with loaves of bread and milk to keep the battery chickens fed on toast and tea, tramp turds and discarded needles in the alley along with the occasional dead body, The huge caged trolley to ferry stock up from the warehouse every morning, the smell in the loopstation from the drains where the River Thames water level would rise and push toxic water up. There’s a really good view of that area around the Astoria (as it was) in the opening scenes of the movie 28 days later. it got re-developed because they dug a huge hole where the Astoria was to do all the building works for the expansion of the tube station. I actually still live just a few miles away but never venture there if i can help it.

Cool, thanks VG! I met him 1990 at a club called Hard Club in London. The music they played was very industrial, and I remember they played 'Kaleid' that night. Strangely, he didn’t have a bodyguard with him. I also saw him once again in Stockholm, completely drunk, but this time he had a bodyguard who was almost carrying him. I met Fletch at the bar during the Yazoo concert at Hammersmith Apollo in 2008. He was wearing a trendy jacket that looked like a orange life jacket. At that same concert, I saw Andy Bell outside-I guess he was there too. He was wearing a colorful cap and a vibrant outfit, which I clearly remember.

I just realized Vaughn joined Mesh in 2023...I still can't understand how Mesh hasn't taken off in the states..Mesh is what depeche mode should still be

I met Martin Gore along with Dave Gahan and the late Andy Fletcher, in 2005 at Tower Records. Adorable human. Very nice and lovely man. All three were very gracious, kind and generous with their time. I cherish that memory 🥹🥹❤️❤️ Martin Gore is the best song writer and what a fantastic singer. Wow 🤩

What an amazing experience Vaughn. You told the story so vividly. I was totally captivated listening so I can only imagine what it was like for you spending over an hour with him. I'm sure he was touched by your parting words.

Nice way to end the video by singing World in My Eyes!

Amazing how things move on. Back in ‘97 I bought a load of gear from Turnkey. It was a very busy place to visit, loads of people playing on keyboards and no one seeming to buy anything. 😂 I bought an Emu ESI 32 with SCSI Drive, the blue Yamaha CS1x which I still have and use for live, near field monitors and a Mackie Mixing desk. A good commission day for someone 😊

I have watched and enjoyed your video accounting your encounter with Martin that day a couple of times. I loved the energetic commentary and lively , poignant recollection. And here were are getting a visual of the day itself. Love it. Many thanks for this!

I have been following this account for years and it feels like Vaughn is a friend but it felt even more that way in this video, like you brought me for a small tour of London. I would like more videos like that! You could, for instance, visit Basildon (I know that has been done before in a documentation though). Cheers.

Man I loved that store. Having also grown up in South Africa, I used to see the Turnkey ads in Sound On Sound magazine. I could barely even afford the magazine, let alone buying new synthesizers in SA and they looked so much cheaper in the UK. I used to pick up second gear cheaply as everyone was chasing digital which was way out of my league. Roland System 100m, Korg Mono/Poly and Roland TR-808. I had them all back then for only a couple of hundred Rand each. So you can imagine going into Turnkey for the first time in late 1988 when I relocated to the UK was something I will never forget. Now if Martin Gore had been in there that day too I think my head would have exploded.

Awesome video

Ay,VG..!Te escucharía toda la tarde..!Lástima que sólo hablo español🙄 Sos excelente periodista( además de músico),muy entretenido y simpático.Gracias x tus videos.👏 Adiós 👋 :-)

Thanks for sharing.🎉

Thanks for sharing. We had a similar alley in the downtown where I grew up in Northern California (Santa Rosa). It was just 2 doors down from a music store where I bought my first professional synth...an Ensoniq Sq-80. The alley was called 'Anarchy Alley' and often smelled of clove cigarettes and piss as well. Quite a few punk rockers would socialize there. P.S. hopefully Martin didn't stop off for a piss at your location all those years ago...😅

Thanks for sharing VG enjoyed that such a shame the store isn't still open would have been fab to see inside 😊

Chip-Pole-Lay (Chipotle). They are all over America. Big towns and small towns. Just another sad example of the Americanization of London. Great video... nostalgia trip.

Good clip Vaughn. I went to see Nitzer Ebb at the Astoria...on their Big Hit Tour. I met Daniel Miller for the second time at the gig and he was really approachable, and NE's promotion guy. I also met DM during Liverpool gigs 83, 84. I was outside the hotel in 84, and some guy called me over from Radio Merseyside, which was opposite. He asked me who the band was, and if they wanted to do an interview. So I had to go and ask Fletch and Martin if they wanted to do the interview, which they did. Good memories!

I used to be in there all the time. The last days of the old music industry. I miss those times

Wow! Talk about Some great Nostalgia (if you can only say [to yourself] in 25 years or so) what would it be like for now 🤔 ?

🥰👍❤❤❤👍🥰

10:22- I like the lady covering her face behind you. Hasn't Manchester lost all of it's historical Factory Records and gig related buildings to restaurants, stores, or apartments as well? And I remember several years ago hanging out at a small guitar shop that dealt with arrogant college students who would play the guitars, scratching them with the zippers from ther jackets and then not buying them.

Really enjoyed that video, do some more like it, please!! Could listen to you talking about stuff for hours haha 🙏

Fantastic!!!

This is a video about me watching a video about when I met Martin Gore’s body guard on Skype in a chat room with 16 other people that were prerecorded on a Wednesday after I played keyboards at the keyboard retail store, while watching Marin Gore interviews from 1998.

Come to Ireland for a gig!!

I met and spoke to Martin Gore at Front 242 gig at the Astoria, about the time of his solo album, he was really friendly and kind, unfortunately I was drunk and said he should just do the solo stuff and split up DM! 🫣🤭🙄

Hello VG 👋🏿👋🏿❤️❤️

Hello, brother! I am in Boston, USA now!!

The off topic comparison of Alan Wilder to Batman killed me! Ooooooh Alan.....❤❤❤❤

I really enjoyed this... thanks Vaughn! I also really enjoy 101. Now that Alan is gone anything live during his time in the band seems like pure gold.

Fantastic stripping down of Stripped. Very insightful and i loved your piano improvisation at the end. Stripped is probably in my top 3 songs of all time. The chords and melodies are just so beautiful, not to mention the lyrcis. The chord transition from the verse to chorus is probably one of the best ever. In fact the reason, I came across your video is because I am making a reimagined version of this song, mainly on the guitar but im definitely going to add piano and strings...

Beautiful music

he is my favourite singer ever, no more to say

A Child With The Ghost. That's my favorite Numan song.

The 2023 re-release of the Pure album (In Ear Music) is just that then? It's not the re-recording/re-mixing/re-mastering version that Gary and Ade are presumably still working on?

6:38-6:43 WROOOOOOONG!! Songs of Faith and Devotion actually start with "I Feel You"

It's a beautiful and complex discussion. music is one thing, performance is another and the pleasure of playing is yet another. I'm a big fan of anything that plays live. sequencers, synthesizers, drum machines. and despite the incredible quality I abhor the idea of ​​having a computer with a screen and trackpad when I play. but this necessarily means simplifying the songs. fewer tracks, fewer layers, less "production". Is the audience ready for this?