Ep 416 Gary Numan breaks down past music, song writing, electronic music & new music coming!

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[@scatton61]

I have been a fan of Gary since AFE and was a night club DJ at the time. It was great playing this amazing tune to people who are hearing it and dancing to it for the first time. I have been a big fan ever since. I have liked just about everything he has done. Some more than others of course.

[@MasseyVF]

Always good to hear Gary's thoughts. Fascinating to get some insight into his creative process. Such a warm, humble, courageous, talented human being. And I love Gary's goth style - he looks 🔥❤🔥

[@j.dmetalhead7517]

As "celeberaties" go Gary is a down to Earth and honest man.

[@Laughingmonkeymusic]

He is a very open and kind person

[@alisonkovacs9519]

Awwww I really do love gorgeous Gary so much

[@peterrinaldi3445]

Here we go again the troll muppets making comments about Gary's hair get a grip for for feck sake and grow up either listen to the interview or don't I've tried really hard not to react to nasty messages but it's very difficult not to I'm getting pretty pissed off with people obsessing about his old music and his hair just keep going Gary and keep making the music that you love and the thousands of fans that love your sound from 1978 to 2023 your a one off an enigma and I'm not sure if you like being called legend but you certainly are to me so ignore the negative comments

[@lancegfoin9117]

His hair looks ridiculous. I have no issue with wigs or hairpieces, but it does look bad. As far as his music goes, his initial music output was better. Of course, this is just my opinion.

[@outpost31737]

Tragic 🤣🤣🤣

[@stevewebb7126]

Why is it Trolling to say what 90% of fans must really think about his wig. It's just an opinion most share but don't say .He will never read the comments anyway , he never does .

[@peterrinaldi3445]

Well there's a pattern developing here cos you Jeremy and Lance seem to have an opinion about Gary's wig or something else to say about his music so just piss off and grow up isn't this trolling if you are interested in saying anything sensible or negative

[@lancegfoin9117]

I think YOU need to grow up and accept that folks have opinions - you may not agree with them, and I don't agree with some, but you should accept them.@@peterrinaldi3445

[@sandrahartl1513]

Dear interviewer, Thank you very much for the current video with Gary Webb. I've been following your conversation and I'm surprised because I get the impression that Gary has his own way of making music and noises. What he apparently doesn't feel like doing at all is turning gibberish from the old pieces into a fan mix. Why do you as a FAN have to keep doing the same old loop? Why can't one just assume that Gary wants to lead the way in expressing his SOUL? Gary has learned that if he doesn't listen to his SOUL and makes the music that wants to get out of him, then he ends up in a period of sobriety and ARTIFICIAL. That destroys his real mental work and is not at all what he really wants! And an artificial AI is not alive. An AI has no soul! An AI is just a machine created by an animated human; it can never be better or more alive, just as its creator, the person with a heart, feels. GARY keeps doing your THING! You are brilliant at it!

[@WilliamjameswestWEST]

Genious❤

[@Dimultica]

Hopefully Gary embraces a bit of David Icke when it comes to our potentially bleak AI Future, bringing things full circle since Replicas. 🙂

[@GNeuman]

No chance...he's fully with the narrative, whole family jabbed

[@TheWillHadcroft]

An interesting chat, although I've heard most of it before (no disrespect to the interviewer---Gary relates many of the same anecdotes when interviewed). I came to Numan during those tricky middle years. A friend played me the live album The Skin Mechanic and I was blown away by it. So I have a fondness for the material that's heavy with fretless bass, saxophone and girl backing vocals (Diana Wood's performance transforms "Creatures" on the Skin Mechanic video---so much better than the original album track). Berserker and Metal Rhythm are very strong records, and quite a bit of Strange Charm is highly listenable. As for the Machine and Soul album, I feel it's a bit insulting to multi-instrumentalist Kipper, who co-produced it, to say it's rubbish and should never have been made. The title track and "Generator" work really well on the Dream Corrosion concert (a tremendous mix of old and then-new), and "Love Isolation" has to be one of the best ballads Gary has ever done. I'm really looking forward to the remake of Sacrifice, as it's my favourite of the post-1993 albums. I respect the contribution of Ade Fenton as producer, but the latter LPs all have that signature sound that he introduced with the Jagged album. I hope the new record about A.I. will be more varied musically. My favourite Numan album of all is Telekon Live 2006. Love that show.

[@Laughingmonkeymusic]

Well first let me say thanks! Its always a challenge to stay fresh to an artist and the audience. I love that time period too! I also think he does a great job mixing it together for live shows.

[@ianliverpool6623]

Gary needs to back to Drums bass guitars more, take all the dark repetitive loops out. Samey last 3 albums, I've bought everything from. 1978 and it needs freshening up

[@WilliamjameswestWEST]

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[@lancegfoin9117]

I think the reason his material has become stale, is because he focusses too much on sounds and not songs. If you compare the songs from The Blue Album (Tubeway Army) and Replicas to Savage and Intruder, there is no comparison, IMO. His guitar playing is/was actually really good (for a supposed non-musician) and so were the melodies. He says he "found his way" post 1993 but I personally think he lost his way in 1981 and never really found it again. I have everything he has released, and yes, 1995-1992 wasn't great but there are some really good tracks in that period because his song writing was better - yes, even on Machine & Soul. The production is ropey at times, but mostly the songs were better - probably why Ade Fenton keeps telling hime he needs to write better songs. Production, no matter how good, can't hide lazy songwriting. Sorry, Gary but that's what I believe.

[@outpost31737]

Numan's latest music is utter drivel and far too derivative of his heroes including NIN. Sacrifice wasn't the return to form some would have you believe. He's trod the industrial road since Pure and it's incredibly boring. Each album sounds like one song there's very little variation and his vocals are at times truly horrific. Nothing new from Numan in this interview carps on about finding new sounds, Aspergers. Yawn Zzzzz.

[@Scratiznutz]

​@@outpost31737Why are you so invested in him? It's become an addiction for you. Take up a hobby.

[@escaton74]

the fact he mentions leaving years of space between albums "so they don't sound samey" says everything about Gary's mindset in my opinion. I'm still a fan but in that regard he's living in a bubble. he may have found a formula for success - good for him - but it's been the same since two decades. Jagged was the first disappointment really cause it didn't offer anything remotely new

[@outpost31737]

Carling Premier Lager commercial saved his career not Sacrifice. Royalties paid off his 600K debt with the bank. He don't arf talk a load of pony. Interesting about mastering Sacrifice at the time he blamed our stereos. Unbelievable the lies that were told back then.

[@lancegfoin9117]

And please sort out the hair piece. Personal, I know, but for Christ's sake...

[@WilliamjameswestWEST]

Not hair piiece

[@stevewebb7126]

He needs to go back to the Exile hairpiece, that one is ridiculous, no man of his age has hair like that , it screams wig , tone it down its become a laughing matter.

[@outpost31737]

It's a wig with a few hair weaves thrown in. He looks ridiculous.

[@stevewebb7126]

@@garynumansunconvincingwig2435 Hehe .