Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme Live (Top Of The Pops)

Jan Hammer performs the Miami Vice Theme live on Top Of The Pops.
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[@rossdiamondthief6627]

Jan Hammer = The only man who makes receding hair lines look cool

[@DaveCotton]

And Phil Collins.

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

@@DaveCotton I agree

[@andycollins1080]

What about Donny Benet? 😎 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ2Ym3tumrqVe7s

[@devinthierault]

Adrian Belew

[@user-ke8vk8bo4j]

a receding hairline AND keytar look cool. No small feat.

[@3minutegeardemos]

Ground breaking music soundtracking an equally ground breaking show.

[@MattGreerMusic]

Keytars and trenchcoats while playing the Miami Vice theme. Might be the most 80's thing I've seen since living in that decade.

[@Dreamskater100]

Yeah! What year was this exactly?

[@mlgl9728]

@@Dreamskater100 I think 1985...

[@くにもり]

Cool music and nice midi equipment.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Every decade back then was different. This was the 80s full blast. Nothing was like it then and it will never be repeated again. Just enjoy the memories. The single went to #1 as well as the soundtrack LP. Couldn't ask for more.

[@HenriqueAndradeNogueira]

80 the decade of decades!

[@Grolmusl]

I'm from Czech Republic.. Small little country in the middle of Europe.. We don't have too much important people in modern history (just president Vaclav Havel in my opinion).. But Jan Hammer is music treasure of this country.. His music is totally unique... As precious things in life... I wish you from here good health Honzo (Jan) in future .... Hodně zdraví z tvého rodného kraje..

[@davidrosato864]

I think Jaromir Jagr is one of the great Czechs. What an amazing hockey player he was here in the National Hockey League along with goalie great Dominik Hasek.

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

I lived for ten years in Kolín, CZ, best years of my life 🇺🇸👍🇨🇿🐎🐎🐎, I miss it, the people and the local pub 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇨🇿👍

[@codo7]

I like Jan Hammer's music.

[@petegobeckli1386]

Lubes Grolmus. PAULINA PORIZKOVA!!!!!!!!

[@yasserressay7755]

Franz Kafka?

[@kimberlyyaeger6491]

I loved how Jan hammer played with the instructormens! HE was extremely talented with the instructormen! I love the theme song from Miami vice TV show. I could hear it all day long!

[@shellyweiers121]

How can anyone not like this tune it totally rocks jan hammer is awesome

[@VJFranzK]

Rockin' the Fairlight Sampler! and the keytar which sounds like a guitar

[@denzyljoseph]

80's was the Best

[@Oemkei]

This rocks ! 80s forever !

[@adriantownsend2317]

...One of the most iconic theme tunes of a generation. Nothing beats having this as the ringtone on your phone, it still sounds cool!

[@queenbee2371]

Crockett's Theme is mine x

[@thebeardychef1426]

One of the best Police series to come out of the US!!

[@kimwhitney75]

I love that sound. Takes me back to my youth. I was born and raised in West Palm Beach, just North of Miami and I sure do miss those days. Your music is Awesome!! Wish that sound would come back . Thank you for posting. 😎🎹🤘

[@josephmayfield945]

Kim Whitney there’s a whole movement of producers who mimic that sound, check out the “retro wave” channel on here - you’ll love it.

[@DanielDavidMontoya]

It must have been amazing to live in Miami those days!. I also watched the great tv serie Miami vice. Greetings from Argentina 🙂

[@pepinillosazucarados6743]

@@DanielDavidMontoya you people are a circus !!!

[@DanielDavidMontoya]

@@pepinillosazucarados6743 why do you say that?

[@Dreamskater100]

@@josephmayfield945 Thanks- do you just type retro rave? or is there a specific link or name? R uk

[@davefox7516]

He was live, but close-ups of him pressing the keys showed the keys didn't go down. He appeared live, but the music wasn't performed live. I ❤ JAN HAMMER! - COOP

[@tomahzo]

Yeah, Top of the Pops was all about lip-syncing back then, just like many other "live" shows of the day. They didn't want to spend the time to set up a technically complicated live performance just for that short track. They have like a bunch of other artists playing one track each every show so... yeah... pretty fake. But time efficient to set up :). Regardless, Jan had nothing to prove, even at that time he was a talented and accomplished live musician despite what shows like this would have you believe :).

[@VJFranzK]

He was playing the different zones of the sampler keyboard as he would in a concert or recording session. It's just that we were hearing the pre-recorded track instead! as they did for every act on shows like this.

[@David-h4z2s]

Great stuff 👍

[@bluesguitarz]

Awsome,I can't get enough of this music.

[@verenairistunke7683]

Great Music forever,thank you,Jan!❤️❤️🙏🏻

[@James-td3lo]

Awesome by Jan Hammer

[@Peterx648]

Simplicity is the key to elegance.

[@pepinillosazucarados6743]

i dont care

[@DC-zg4ob]

The display on Jan's computer screen at the start looks like the Pip Boy from the Fallout games.

[@jongoobie7244]

Cannot beat a good keytar solo !!!

[@oxygenirani2876]

Perfect

[@johnrichtermatrix2804]

Keytar !! Fuck yeah , Miami Vice is the 🐐

[@chemicalspore]

That sound at 2:08 always sounded like a glass bottle rattling on a tile floor to me

[@ronbo11]

It probably was. The Fairlight CMI sampled any sound and you could make it musical by running it through the keyboard to change pitch, etc. Rolling pipes, breaking glass and who knows what was being played musically in 80s songs.

[@80ssynthfan48]

It could be like a "tuned wood" or udu sound. But maybe a glass bottle as you say.

[@chemicalspore]

@@80ssynthfan48 always was weird to me

[@Alexander_Stevens]

Is that a Fairlight? 🖥🎹

[@80ssynthfan48]

yes

[@tomahzo]

That was during the time when artists like Jan Hammer and Harold Faltermeyer would be booked to play their soundtrack hits "live". What an odd time that was ;). Like... Faltermeyer standing behind a bunch of keyboards performing to a backing track of "Axel F" ;D. Great tunes but how do you make compelling live peformances out of it? Electronic dance music acts of the 90:ies and onwards figured out that they needed loads of laser projectors, smoke, dancers, video walls and all kinds of effects to make this kind of performances interesting to watch but in the 80:ies it was often a bit awkward ;).

[@richardeastham1071]

Jean-Michel Jarre had worked this out by 1979, the year of his first mega concert. Synths aren't made for performance, they're made for the studio. A visual element is needed to complement electronic music.

[@tomahzo]

@@richardeastham1071 Absolutely! Or maybe feature some other instrument in the ensemble that lends itself to a more visually interesting live performance ;D.

[@richardstarkey8956]

Is that Mark Tonderai introducing this?

[@HeyouCrow]

Still hopeful., That 'The Happening' 📹 archive's have this 🎵🎤 Live-Performance at 'Rose Theatre', street eVent. ✌️

[@AliAhmed-fq5lj]

I want to wear my Italian paints and drive my Testarossa on the Maimi beach

[@wehrewulf]

Paints huh?

[@mobouge7944]

👍👍🙌🙌

[@salimcardine]

wow

[@chadwalker467]

I watch the show before.

[@JasonJones-zn2os]

Yo dawg. I hear you like keyboards. So, here's a keyboard for your keyboard!

[@the.flat.six.]

Does anyone knows the song when Crockett & Tubbs leaves after Tubbs interrogate a prisoner in Season 2 Episode 1:The Prodigal Son.

[@Fireglo]

Lmao the white host called the black host "Crockett" xD

[@Steve_Gee74]

Pity that any music album puts Crocketts theme and classes it as the Miami Vice theme instead of this

[@jane1975]

@Suggs74: Hmm, the ones that I have had with these themes have been able to separate the two tracks.

[@petegobeckli1386]

Suggs. comes with the territory.

[@svin7987]

I grew up with with Crockett's theme in radio, but i like this much better.

[@alevile2375]

Show

[@Dreamskater100]

Show?

[@Mrsilverfox27]

Noce

[@SeligTiles]

But was it really live?

[@davidbeckham3353]

I don't know for sure... but i have seen Jan Hammer live dacades ago and yes - he is able to play like we see in this clip. By the way - I'm from Germany and "Top of the Pops" was a German broadcast TV show 😎👍

[@mlgl9728]

Definitely not live...

[@MarCuseus]

Live music @ Top of the Pops??????? LOL **FACEPALM**

[@fuzzluvver69]

No, it was dead.

[@stevescooking]

No, it wasn’t live

[@laika25]

What year was this on TOTP???

[@muffs55mercury61]

I believe 1985 when this came out.

[@80ssynthfan48]

@@muffs55mercury61 yes, 1985.

[@DavenHiskey]

HAAAA HAAA keytars

[@murch7299]

So hard to look cool when you're playing a computer.

[@mrhob6355]

Wow great version , extended to the max . boss . The presenter fluffed it up at the end calling his co presenter Crockett . Embarrassing but they were never had much smarts .

[@RolexTharsus]

Dixie Peach

[@ka5269]

Yes, one of the hosts is black. Why not call him Crockett, why don't we?

[@mr_don_key]

this is not live at all..

[@antoniogarciarodriguez5741]

Number 5....IS NUMBER 1

[@anniesixx7158]

On Top Of Pops, you notoriously had to mime - But its worse when you've gone to the trouble of setting up a keyboard, computer and you're wearing a keypar and miming to what is clearly a electric guitar... this is just embarrassing - they should have just shown the video.