This little clip made me cry just now because I was fortunate enough to meet Alan in Toronto just a week or so later at the Recoil after party!! he was soooooooo nice and sincere! Made lots of eye contact with me and I got to touch his shoulder and he shook my hands 3 times! He also put his arm around me once!!!!! FYI for those who have never shook his hand....his hands are freakishly soft. Like silk! NO LIE!!! LOVE U ALAN!!!
@wattage20076 жыл бұрын
It's my lifetime's ambition to meet this great man.
@romeonarcizo9 жыл бұрын
Everybody knows that when Alan left DP their music change forever.The best albums of DM was when Alan was in the group
@dannyfairclough727 жыл бұрын
jeshkam are u on drugs?
@Violator6557 жыл бұрын
*A Broken Frame* in that album he already was in the band (unofficially).
@ash23neuro6 жыл бұрын
But he wasn't involved in studio work, only live. They wanted to prove to themselves that they were able to record without Clark.
@josephhoward18585 жыл бұрын
My fave was SOFD, and Ultra - right at the time of his departure. The band did change, but did quite well.
@jeshkam5 жыл бұрын
@@dannyfairclough72 what?
@WALES11545 жыл бұрын
What a lovely bloke. So down to earth and hasn’t let the fame go to his head. DM were never as good after Alan left
@Doobie19753 жыл бұрын
I always thought Alan was the coolest, most down to earth member of DM and he's definitely someone who I'd love to meet, I also wanted to meet Dave but hear he isn't very friendly to his fans.
@DxModel219 Жыл бұрын
looks pretty friendly here…
@c.cristina51199 ай бұрын
My fave Mr Wilder
@rocketqueen98876 жыл бұрын
From what I've seen on videos he seems like such a sweet person... I wish I could meet him one day.
@sergeygolovin27606 жыл бұрын
For me DM was never the same after Alan Wilder left. He knew how to deliver a great sound and could turn even a simple song to a fabulos track. For example "My Joy"!
@mr.nativewhitey63978 жыл бұрын
AMAZING ALLEN....You can tell he is a sweet person...
@evelyncastro26324 жыл бұрын
Alan is my favourite person in the World
@vincevirtua10 жыл бұрын
Seems pretty open to telling his feelings to random fans. Fair play to him.
@bandit2179 жыл бұрын
Vincecouk only if they're positive feelings, though. as far as I've seen and read, he was very respectful of not saying anything bad about martin or fletch (he always liked dave) even while they were not speaking and going through their worst times. he was always, and still is, a class act
@miinfl7143 Жыл бұрын
@@RothkoWaterhouse that's not how royalties work
@kennethvalbjoern Жыл бұрын
Yes, Alan is very adorable 😀I still listen to the genious Recoil-stuff and the old DM-stuff from especially Violator. Never get tired of that.
@RaysFerDays7 жыл бұрын
Everybody loves Alan... I admit he was brilliant at taking the songs martin wrote and layering all those synths and beats to make Dm great.... that said, Ultra is one of their best albums.
@JM-51506 жыл бұрын
G.ray a lan Wilder didn't play or contribute to Ultra.
@Hirnlego9996 жыл бұрын
Nope, but he likes it.
@mickadatwist16206 жыл бұрын
exactly. Ulra to me is the last pure DM album
@JM-51506 жыл бұрын
Tim Simenon, was the producer for ultra, if not for him it would have been horrible. Mark Bell produced Exciter, he was a genius that's where bjork got all her techno from. Ultra was an awesome record so was Exciter after that turned in to shit with the exception of 6-7 songs I think
@ash23neuro6 жыл бұрын
Talking about Ultra check how many people were involved to record it. Band was broken and without help from outside DM would be finished and Gore would record solo album. Gahan was unable to sing, Flatcher was mentaly instable.
@r4gg3dt1g3r5 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a wonderful experience! Thank you for sharing that and this clip with us. :)
@birgitweigelt88068 жыл бұрын
Alan is the missing peace of DM.
@alonzoartz7 жыл бұрын
Birgit Weigelt depeche is good without Alan
@yeppoyou4 жыл бұрын
yup. just good. with alan they were amazing.
@rikimarudonchelie12292 жыл бұрын
@@yeppoyou more like a mediocre band to me nowadays.
@miinfl7143 Жыл бұрын
@@yeppoyou This.
@delicande13 жыл бұрын
bello, bello, adorable!!!...si regresa a depeche un sueño hecho realidad..............
@jasonklein93467 жыл бұрын
Alan was critical to Depeche's best music. I wish they would make music with him again.
@SOLOLULA2 Жыл бұрын
Alan Wilder Adorable!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💯💯💯💯💯💯🌹🌹🎶🎵🎶🎵
@davesdevotee852610 жыл бұрын
LUCKY YOUUUUU!!!:-Dthanks for sharing with us:))
@salozmen2911 жыл бұрын
Seems like a real nice chap.
@perrysafer13 жыл бұрын
Great video... Wow. I'd love to meet him & chat for a few minutes. I'm sure you'll cherish that for the rest of your life. Again, great stuff.
@SOLOLULA2 Жыл бұрын
Alan Wilder DM FANTASTIC!!! FOREVER !!!💯💯💯💯💯💯🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
@sarawarete11 жыл бұрын
Yes, Alan he is not only Slick, he is just like silk, so nice. I wish I was there, love Seattle, what's more. That's sure your are a lucky teenager, but I'm not complaining finally, waiting for the warm up in Nice :)
@rosalbarubio434912 жыл бұрын
DAMN!!!YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!!!HE IS SO LOVELY!!!!
@rosalbarubio434912 жыл бұрын
YES!!!BRING HIM BACK!!!ALAN!!!ALAN!!!ALAN!!!
@javsc13 жыл бұрын
alan sos un maestro, depeche nunca volvera a tener la magia que vos sabias darle a la banda
@Atoodark13 жыл бұрын
I Love you Alan
@easytigeruk1234567895 ай бұрын
With flech gone (rip) and both dave and martin clean for many years now it seems like the perfect moment to come back. Momento Mori was a brilliant album I can`t honestly say that about the last few DM albums. but now is the time. Dave said that Alan is not interested but I hope the management, mute, j.k baron, d.miller all ask. can you imagin the next pos last album and tour with Alan in there. wow wee.
@HennerBoBenner13 жыл бұрын
WOW thanks for posting!
@Chris-pv2ht8 ай бұрын
I wish Alan could come back to the DM fold even if it was for just one tour or even produce an album for them.
@masoho32313 жыл бұрын
i like he very much! thanks a lot!
@smartalec88556 жыл бұрын
Alan was the architect of DM's sound. They need him back so bad. Depeche is my favorite band of all time, I've seen them live 8 times starting on the Black Celebration tour, but I have to say they have gone down hill ever since Alan left. Their last 2 albums absolutely suck in my opinion.
@JM-51506 жыл бұрын
Spacevic 66 amen to that. Can the drummer and get back to basics.
@IggyWhite5 жыл бұрын
Everything after Ultra sucks, actually.
@rswpt5 жыл бұрын
Ultra was the last good album by DM, now with the heavy metal drummer and all, since Mr. Wilder departure with a the only exception being Ultra (thank you for saving it, simenon) all their albuns have been a disapointment for the fans of the good old days of black celebration, music for the masses, violator and songs of faith and devotion..
@TaraTheAndroid Жыл бұрын
Did you say that in 1997? No, because Ultra is perfection.
@smartalec8855 Жыл бұрын
@@TaraTheAndroid Compared to Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator or Songs of Faith and Devotion? Ultra is a good album with some truly great moments especially Home. But not consistently great. A really good record considering the state of the band in 96.
@mattlatourette5135 ай бұрын
I wish he didn’t quit
@Sebastian_Roth5 жыл бұрын
They need to reunite .. instant success
@hanzaa25058 жыл бұрын
i felt ever since Alan Wilder left DM their sound has not been that good to me. Their pinnacle albums, IMO, were SoFaD and Violator. Alan was basically the composer of all the music and I LOVED his sound. I'd rather have had fletcher leave...he does NOTHING except raise both his hands at the concerts.
@abbyboyone7 жыл бұрын
Hanzaa look, fletch puts a lot of effort into raising his hands LOL
@omgsolikevalleygirl7 жыл бұрын
Martin wrote the songs, but I think Alan was the one spending most of the time in the studio with the right feeling for sounds and dramatic sonic development of the tracks. DM definitely misses a lot now that he is gone, their music is now so simplistic and liveless. Just compare the 101 movie to they way they sound live now. I can't believe how much they have changed.
@davidgahan-ks5jh6 жыл бұрын
Hanzaa he was not the composer off all their music rather than collective effort
@josephhoward18585 жыл бұрын
I recall hearing that Fletcher succeeded in keeping the band together several times. I would be curious how much he contributes on stage.
@rswpt5 жыл бұрын
@shadow0106 i would say instead of 'progressing' they degraded in wilder's absense, being the sole exception at Ultra thanks to the producing genious of Tim Simenon, a huge DM fan since a kid, if it was another? it would have been a crash and burn like all the rest.
@mariaeugeniagonzalez419 Жыл бұрын
Lo amo!! ❤
@AndreaAnd-gg4ye7 ай бұрын
¿Qué lugar es..?Parece un "despacho" de alimentos...un bar?
@astrix90333 Жыл бұрын
Mulkadesas!😂Varu apskaidrot! 🧐No Varda ALAN’s ir Radusies MATES ALIANSE! Vispasaules Dziva in Vienota LEGENDA! 🌞
@hirsh017 жыл бұрын
Dave Gahan is behind the bar !!!
@omgsolikevalleygirl7 жыл бұрын
waa already 7 years ago. Hope he's OK
@wattage20076 жыл бұрын
Sadly it appears he's retired from making music :(
@1pseudo11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely right.
@marianaroble59847 жыл бұрын
no se podria hacer un petitorio a nivel mundial de parte de los fans para que vuelva alan??
@viktorraldugin27807 ай бұрын
Если бы он был подвластен нашим желаниям...
@thesynthfloyd10 ай бұрын
Alan just saved the 80s
@bumfarto111 жыл бұрын
I couldn't get to the signing but my mom had a friend who was a cleaner at that HMV and managed to get a copy signed for me. Played very carefully once, and once only.
@abbyboyone7 жыл бұрын
i believe that alan is a classically trained musician, which means he knows how to read and write music. i think he was a threat to martin and dave who also wanted to write some of the songs.
@markmccoy89046 жыл бұрын
On the money ..... Martin was jealous of Alan’s musical talent !
@shannonhutton68796 жыл бұрын
What even. If you read the albums you would see that Martin wrote a ton of their songs.
@Garylpool15 жыл бұрын
@@shannonhutton6879 Yes we know Martin wrote the songs but he provided them as demos for Alan and the then producer to work on. Musically Martin provided the 'skeleton' of a song and Alan would then take Martins idea and and add 'flesh' to it to change it from a demo to a complete song, look what he did to Martins slow demo of Enjoy the Silence and speeded it up and is now considered one of DM's best. It was documented that when the band got back together after Alan left that they suddenly had to face the huge amount of work Alan did (and now they would have to do it). Sadly they were not adult enough to admitted it and carried on with a 'we will show Alan we don't need him' attitude that over the years has shown to be detrimental to the bands music.
@rswpt5 жыл бұрын
Actually dave was wilder best friend inside the band, and they never stopped being close friends, even after wilder left the band.
@Garylpool15 жыл бұрын
@@rswpt We know that. But I could imagine that attitude of 'we don't need Alan' was mainly Andy Fletcher's. Just out of interest, as i don't know, has Alan Wilder ever played on any of Dave's solo albums?
@tori702213 жыл бұрын
I
@robd21845 жыл бұрын
He’s a clever bloke
@eelponna31458 ай бұрын
I wonder what it would sound like if Alan and Vince Clarke got together to make an album?
@BloodyandEnchained12 жыл бұрын
man i gotta stop drinking
@bonifaceo11 жыл бұрын
You are all in love with Alan and this guy cant have a different opinion?! For you all maybe Martin's the bad guy and Alan the brilliant one... all starts with Martin demos. [Almost] ALL!
@CommunityGuidelines7 жыл бұрын
Calm down, Martin.
@rocketqueen98876 жыл бұрын
+M. Woofington lmao
@milendee10 ай бұрын
Agreed
@mattbelinski77608 ай бұрын
Weird how the guy just kept baiting him to say something negative about Martin and he just kept talking through it and saying things like how great Mart was doing.
@sacrebleu16972 жыл бұрын
DM died in 1995…
@JM-51506 жыл бұрын
Tim Simenon, was the producer for or ultra. He basically crafted the sound and direction of the that album. Flood did SOFAD, along with Alan Wilder. Everything thing since has been shit, with the exception of a few on each album. I
@SLEEPLESSinGLASGOW10 жыл бұрын
Where in Seattle was this and what was it for?
@JavierDM10 жыл бұрын
Recoil's "Selected Events Tour"
@ahumanjustbeing24667 жыл бұрын
alan > dm
@alonzoartz7 жыл бұрын
a Human just Being Depeche is a very good band without Alan
@davideciot25243 жыл бұрын
Please, i'm and Italian guy. I can't understand what he said. Is there Simeone Who can write what he said?
@serlserv2 жыл бұрын
I can write it in English?
@davideciot25242 жыл бұрын
Yes please, It would be perfect!
@serlserv2 жыл бұрын
Alan:...4 years... Cameraman: Good...So, you guys get along better? Alan: He's been drinking before that. Cameraman: Oh yeah, I know. Alan:
@marguskiis771110 жыл бұрын
"He (Martin) stopped drinking 4 years ago... Now clean he is totally different person now." So, that was the reason why AW left the band. I suppose Alan and Martin hated each other for years.
@azynkron9 жыл бұрын
You shouldn't believe everything the news papers write, mate.
@bandit2179 жыл бұрын
margus kiis it was a mystery for a long time, but he pretty much came out and said so in those 2006 documentaries that came with each of their albums. he always liked dave but felt he lost his ally when he turned to heroin and was not around for SoFaD, and he thought fletch was kind of annoying but mostly just tried to ignore him. it was the tensions between him and martin, and his perceived lack of appreciation from him, that finally drove away.
@chemicalpoisons9 жыл бұрын
bandit217 Basically, it was Martin's refusal (I think) to allow Alan to express himself through the music and/or lyrics, a thing that Dave had also strongly complained about. Had Alan had Dave's support, things may have had turned out different. But, as you said, Dave was knee deep into his own problems at that time. But also, the one thing that nearly destroyed the group was the success of Violator. They were so pressed to be as successful as they were, that SoFaD was a product of mandatory work, not an outcome of a fun environment and spirit. According to them, they were _miserable_ in the recording studio of Madrid.
@bandit2179 жыл бұрын
Stephanie Louise I agree about the expression through music, but not necessarily through lyrics. Dave complained about it later, yea, but Alan has always said he was fine letting Martin write the lyrics. In fact when they "let" (i.e. Made) him write those few songs on Construction Time Again and SGR he said it made him very uncomfortable. He was much more about the musical atmosphere and production. Input which Martin, and his little yes man sidekick Fletch, was squashing more and more on SoFad without Alan's backup to help him out.
@chemicalpoisons9 жыл бұрын
bandit217 I am sorry, I was misinformed apparently, I thought Alan wanted to write lyrics as well. But yeah, SoFaD, as great as an album it was, its production through turmoil, and the hellish Devotional tour afterwards, did little to help them. Especially since, from Dave to Alan to Martin, everyone kept their opinions inside, and never sat down to solve their problems. And those problems eventually combusted. (I also assume you wanted to write _without _*_Dave's_*_ backup to help him out_, not Alan's?)
@kaylaschulz22775 жыл бұрын
She's never going to see him again
@MrJhonnyjulian11 жыл бұрын
MR arrengement
@oceane_chin3 жыл бұрын
Cool
@null14011 жыл бұрын
"Known your place"?! WHAT?!
@simoharjane7823 Жыл бұрын
hate it when people bring up old negativity just to sound stupid
@glopglop47225 жыл бұрын
Que devient Alan ? What becomes Alan ?☹
@infix908 жыл бұрын
What is this ? kkkk Laser Disc !!
@CommunityGuidelines7 жыл бұрын
I bought a laser disc player years ago SPECIFICALLY so I could watch the "Strange Too" laserdisc. :D
@M_Carter_11 жыл бұрын
you really don't get it
@davidgahan-ks5jh6 жыл бұрын
Talking about martin...hahaha....he was an input to their music but you just faded away to darkness