French documentary about Peter Gabriel demonstrating his new toy - The Fairlight CMI. He also talks about the song The Rythmn of the Heat which used the Fairlight extensively.
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@muzixco12 жыл бұрын
This dude was way ahead of his time, a true pioneer.
@beekay59143 жыл бұрын
Rhythm of the Heat is as good as anything he ever did. Superb. I don't like his stuff after 1986, except for soundtracks, but the quality of his early work has earned him an exalted place. He is a genius, even if his muse has faded somewhat. I wish he would live forever.
@SIE44TAR4 жыл бұрын
I saw Peter Gabriel at the Music Hall in Houston in 1982. What an absolutely amazing experience. The acoustics in that place were like being in a studio and with a 2,200 seat capacity it was an intimate experience the likes of which I’ve never had since. I still remember everyone singing ‘Biko’ after the show on the way back to the parking garage. www.setlist.fm/setlist/peter-gabriel/1982/houston-music-hall-houston-tx-bd2ed8e.html
@MarkLynskey3 жыл бұрын
...its January 2021 and I'm watching Peter Gabriel from 1982 trying to smash a Tv in a scrap yard....god bless the internet....I was 3 at the time.
@ajd62615 жыл бұрын
For some reason, that crazy laugh he does at 2.33 has had a profound effect on me! It just comes out of nowhere. It sort of sums up Gabriel. He's calm, calm, calm and then mental! The animal within. Hahaha
@Danimal15779 жыл бұрын
Awesome piece of music-history. Thank you for finding, uploading, and sharing :)
@snavs4204 жыл бұрын
This has one of my all time favorite Peter Gabriel quotes: "There's been many great songs which have had really appalling lyrics, but there have been no great songs which have had appalling music."
@VintageSoundsNumber114 жыл бұрын
The sound of the air in the pipe : EXCELLENT ! The sound of the glass being crashed : ABSOLUTELY AWESOME ! E-mu + Fairlight keyboards used to rock !!!
@LinxAudio15 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage. PG is a great musician and forward thinker. Respect PG!
@eyepatchplease17 жыл бұрын
Look at his smile when he first plays "Mummy" on the keyboard; he's like a little kid!
@benriner9 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
@RosePetal1712 жыл бұрын
Kate Bush's "Toy" as well. I understand now how she got all those amazing, unique vocal sounds.
@rhythmfield17 жыл бұрын
In its time this was truly groundbreaking stuff. My friends and I were obsessed with the 'Security' album that came out of this experimentation -- very exciting. Wow! Thanks.
@kidneystoner8811 жыл бұрын
"So i pull out my phallic symbol here"....he's hillarious 3:04
@tx38512 жыл бұрын
I was incredibly fortunate, as a teenager on the late 80s, to work at Real World Studios....Whilst I took a different path; the words and wisdom of PG stay with me....Especially in my own music....
@ladymelde17 жыл бұрын
Fantastic clip. Peter was so ahead of his time.
@MattSingh112 жыл бұрын
'There is no Fairlight on the record'- No Jacket Required (sleeve notes), Phil Collins (1985).
@pyry-pekkajaala46843 жыл бұрын
Great video!! Thanks for the upload
@pbarc55213 жыл бұрын
Awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing this!!
@VenjaMusic13 жыл бұрын
Great interview!
@vanrose98574 жыл бұрын
The TV smash would’ve been easier if you would’ve used ... your sledgehammer!
@JoeyGrace3 жыл бұрын
LOL!!!!! GOOOOOD ONE ;-) I see what you did there......
@moribund1417 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Great to see an innovator like Gabriel at work when digital sampling was all so fresh.
@sanmiguelito6417 жыл бұрын
That was great,i never seen this before,thanks for posting
@Chavvvvvvv17 жыл бұрын
J'adore Pete Gab' et le Fairlight, merci ! Cette vidéo est géniale, je viens la voir régulièrement...
@wind8418 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot, very interesting video of Peter. :-) take care.
@holydigital3 жыл бұрын
A visionary!
@kpfeif18 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff. Thanks for posting this. As a huge Gabriel fan and a Fairlight junkie, it offers the best of both worlds.
@guynamederik7 жыл бұрын
Ha floppy disks! Damn thing is bigger than my head..... Ahhhh love the 80's
@1969atam13 жыл бұрын
I have the soundtrack to that interview on a Genesis Interview CD I got 20 years ago! Great to actually see it! Thanx for sticking it on KZbin! I love this kinds stuff! You're a Star!
@GrzegorzBojanek17 жыл бұрын
He looks so young and innocent... and yet, his voice is so powerful. Amazing. One of the best vocals on this planet...
@jacomix7117 жыл бұрын
this is amazing!!!!
@agumonkey11 жыл бұрын
Powerful live set at the end
@wrldonwill4 жыл бұрын
Pete was ahead of his time.
@Lexcoaster12 жыл бұрын
Oh, this is just fantastic. :)
@f.d.32894 жыл бұрын
Wow. Guess I'll have to put old Peter Gabriel onto the list. Thought he was just another 80s pop act, but this video clearly shows he's a fucking music freak. Thanks a lot for uploading this gem!
@Eric_In_SF2 жыл бұрын
80s? He was on his third or fourth career by then. And already a musical genius performing for 20 years. You need to read up a little. In the late 60s and 70s he was in Genesis. One of the most pioneering and experimental bands all the way up into the 90s. Then he had his own solo career from the mid 70s to the 80s that was Filled with world music and lots of avant-garde synthesizers. He’s composed for films and all this other Stuff and has had a completely diversified intensely artistic career. But I think most of the people I know know him as a true artist and visionary I’m not really from that song that was a big pop hit.
@StopDropandLOL10 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@cortezforever15 жыл бұрын
I like that sampler better than the ones today.
@trevor_mounts_music Жыл бұрын
interface is lightyears better than most of the stuff that came afterwards 😂
@YvoVideo3711 жыл бұрын
Fabuleux documentaire sur la naissance d'une chanson par un des précurseurs des samples, j'adore le côté bricolage et découverte, rien que pour le rire de Peter ... et la destruction de la TV c'est passionnant !!
@ginal.f.34628 жыл бұрын
Nice information. Looks like fun.
@TheCorrectAnswer5612 жыл бұрын
Haha yes I heard that. I love how he says it in an otherwise seemingly serious interview and without cracking a smile either.
@godslave66699914 жыл бұрын
PURE CREATIVITY !! the first artist who ever use the failight the second was jean michel jarre ( juste because it was deliver to peter gabriel first !). now if lisa gerrard was in the video then you would have a kind of dead can dance type of music ! thank for this video !
@MrKeyboarder10013 жыл бұрын
great video!
@jazzmanb44517 жыл бұрын
watched this at the time and got into PG from there pg4 was awesome and well ahead of its time,kate bush got a fairlight shortly after for the dreaming album another awesome albulm of the 80s.............
@NormDPlume-mc5dh3 жыл бұрын
If you can only have one Kate Bush album it should be "The Dreaming". Her masterpiece IMO.
@keykrazy013 жыл бұрын
i remember doing the same kinda thing -- shoe squeaks, water sounds, spinning coins, et al -- with my Ensoniq EPS back in 1990 or so... GOOD TIMES !!!! ..and seeing Pete do it now, in hindsight, really brings it all back for me! (and others too, i imagine..) Guess it's time to go power up my keyboards and remember why i started doing this to begin with!! ^_^
@hojofan15 жыл бұрын
Hello Vasiliki666 -- I agree with you about Peter Gabriel. He's absolutely brilliant. I love his innovative approach to music. I like artists that are bold and unique. Peace2U, Kim
@raqbeol14 жыл бұрын
...pq adoro peter gabriel...
@zaiterentertainment11 жыл бұрын
So true i had one loved it
@garyliddon8 жыл бұрын
I love Brian Pern, he's amazing!
@12x1LPE10 жыл бұрын
Such a long time ago!
@joorchampi33467 жыл бұрын
Genius!
@KeelyBurnMusic12 жыл бұрын
I want one of those things, the Fairlight CMI or whatever- do you know how fun that would be?! also, I could listen to Peter Gabriel talk about music forever. It's nice to see him working in the studio.
@PilferMusic16 жыл бұрын
It's easy in 2007 to look back at 1982 and poke fun... we'll all do the same to hair styles clothing and dance in 2027 when we look back at today. To minimize the impact of Peter Gabriels solo work and his influence on both popular music composition as well as experimental music is short sighted and niave.
@-thirteen8 жыл бұрын
Nick Cave was doing something really special around this time.
@Vasiliki66615 жыл бұрын
He is a genius.
@EYTPS7 жыл бұрын
The CMI was a fantastic tool that God gave us, love the 1980s fun
@BaddaBigBoom7 жыл бұрын
No, some hard working and innovative Australians gave it to us. But yes, 80s fun.
@EYTPS7 жыл бұрын
BaddaBigBoom Australians are Gods then
@BaddaBigBoom7 жыл бұрын
Maybe ;-)
@jonnydieffen17 жыл бұрын
wow,expression......
@woofiedog316 жыл бұрын
Interesting, saw Gabriel right after PG4 was released and he was quite powerful/psychotic/interesting. Thomas Dolby also did a lot with the fairlight.
@DarkMoonDroid11 жыл бұрын
That "floppy"!!! LOL Yes, Gabrielese! Def, they communicate more! It takes a paragraph or more to express what a sexual grunt communicates. Thank you for "The Rhythm of the Heat". That will always be the standard for me of his greatness.
@Vasiliki66615 жыл бұрын
...whilst I think that he has focused his concentration on developing other world music, he inspires me and whenever I am looking for ideas I take out one of his albums. The last temptation of Christ, is truly the work of a genius. What do you think ?
@griffineagle710 жыл бұрын
is that what pete yawns when he wakes up in the morning ,,aaaahhhhhhhhhheeeeeeoooooooooo >:-)
@BaddaBigBoom7 жыл бұрын
Yep, and the drums kick in from afar through the dawn chorus :-)
@annother33507 жыл бұрын
Mummy!!!
@JohanBrodd13 жыл бұрын
The entire Fairlight Library is now available as donation ware for Kontakt 4. 30 disks + extras. Really worth checking out if you got the urge to produce older tracks.
@CassisLips17 жыл бұрын
his voice is unique
@pacific70714 жыл бұрын
@thelurker25 It's a 5 and 1/2 inch floppy disk. It used to be the only medium that we could keep our data on. Back in the early and dark ages of digital audio....
@berniebleak4 жыл бұрын
5 1/4 wasn’t it? I remember the little hole puncher to cut a square piece out of each corner so the sides wouldn’t be write protected
@thiagotecnico13 жыл бұрын
OH SHIT! THE BEGGINING OF "SAMPLING" SOUNDS
@JurisDocster17 жыл бұрын
When will we call Pete, "SIR Peter Gabriel" ??????? I'm ready for it.
@renajsh18 жыл бұрын
Blss you for posting this. This is liquid gold for a PG nut like me! Your karma has definately leaned towards the good side.
@MarsHottentot16 жыл бұрын
Think about all of the cutting edge stuff we have today that we'll be laughing at 30 years from now. Fairlight rules.
@TheWinkler17 жыл бұрын
I agree that it's fabulous to see him talk about the process that went into a song like this. I'm torn, though, whether I like the English version or his German version better; guess I'll just have to like them both the same :-)
@hatchetinhead14 жыл бұрын
I wish I had my own personal technician in my studio!
@AKMAC8211 жыл бұрын
Nice floppy! Those were the big boys, too!
@psysword9 жыл бұрын
True that
@MrNickjones2612 жыл бұрын
Gabrielese! YES!
@nicck17 жыл бұрын
i wish he'd kept what he did on 4.00, the kind of yell. it was amazing and part of the start is cut on the finished song disapointingly. i still love the song, though , it is amazing
@DarkMoonDroid11 жыл бұрын
Good Lord. It's the sound of a swan.
@ERGERTERIC4 жыл бұрын
Sacré Peter 😉
@SleepMeditationandAffirmations4 жыл бұрын
This my folks is how you make a hit song LOL
@pacific70714 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was a big old 8". I'm going to have to watch this again. You should see the optical disks they used for the Synclavier. They looked just like a Laserdisc (remember them? I still have some Laserdiscs and a very good LD player). I also noticed that they used cartridges in the Fairlight, as well as floppies.
@AeroModule16 жыл бұрын
And we'll look back at the music of 07 and say, "That sucks; let's hear something from 82."
@James-ru5ni4 жыл бұрын
Already happening... This decade had poor music, more and more people are looking back at the 80s stuff 👍
@PilferMusic16 жыл бұрын
PG's soundtrack for the Last Temptation of Christ is brilliant and the style has shown up on other soundtracks and songs... sorry no reference ;) The dense production on the Security release and the lack of cymbals through out the songs did provide a specific feel that has been replicated. I can't comment much on today's pop music... there's none that I really find interesting enough to want to listen too. Though I do hear shades of PG in Radiohead... and bands of this caliber.
@oddn15 жыл бұрын
that's fucking awesome!
@Putaspellonyou14 жыл бұрын
holy shit, look at the size of that floppy disc!
@pacific70714 жыл бұрын
@larkydozer Complete Bull! Cupid & Psyche '85 is just as incredible to listen to today, as are all of Peter's records, including Security. Scritti set the standard for high-tech New York-based studio-sequenced wizardry. Dave Gamson is a synthesizer god - as well as a hell of a musician, arranger and songwriter.
@zackworrell5354 жыл бұрын
a scientist who liked to make music
@KeelyBurnMusic12 жыл бұрын
Maybe the fourth album? I think the studio footage is of him working on Rhythm of the Heat and then the live footage is from later when it was completed. Or maybe So.
@PilferMusic16 жыл бұрын
You're probably quite correct! I can't imagine we'll be wanting more 2007 pop or ass shaking video's I can't believe I spelled naive wrong :)
@jml192215 жыл бұрын
How has music technology changed. All the fairlight technology exists now in one single app in a lap top or an ipad.
@totaltwit16 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, I'm no fan of PG but it is plain to see he knows what he's doing, very much aware and alert for such a young man! What you see him do here is exactly what sampling is all about, making your own sounds, feeling the texture, mood and emotion they create.
@Boycottdigby9 жыл бұрын
Pern!
@AdamSpade3 жыл бұрын
Kewl
@Kazilikaya10 жыл бұрын
You can GET one! The price of a Fairlight these days is < $1000.
@i_kyl33 жыл бұрын
or a smart phone
@BaddaBigBoom15 жыл бұрын
Incorrect it *is* Solsbury Hill -it's near Batheaston in Somerset. Salisbury is in Wiltshire -google the song title.
@jaggass6 жыл бұрын
Was this recorded at The Farm?
@robertbowen15 жыл бұрын
about £15,000 (in the 80's)
@EsaRuoho16 жыл бұрын
i'd still be superhappy having a fairlight and that screen. the sampling seemed very fast. i dont get why theres not more vstsamplers that actually sample - not just load samples.
@this_connor_guy11 жыл бұрын
Ok, I gotta ask, what song did he use the smashing sounds? I wanna hear that bad.
@Hot80s11 жыл бұрын
2:30 almost sounds like Joel's you maybe wrong but you maybe right intro.
@skengasaurus8 жыл бұрын
3:33 ...and turn on English subtitles.
@PierreRipplinger8 жыл бұрын
+surripere ( '~') Of course, when you bought a Fairlight chances you had no more of it.
@skengasaurus8 жыл бұрын
Pierre Ripplinger Haha, nice :)
@skengasaurus8 жыл бұрын
Pierre Ripplinger ...and you probably had to buy another one and possibly pay for damage clean-up when the thing inevitable caught fire (you may be aware that that was actually a real thing).
@PierreRipplinger8 жыл бұрын
surripere ( '~') Haha no, I never heard of any synth that caught fire. Defective or underperforming power supplies? "Crap, my 100,000 bucks synth is smoking".
@annother33507 жыл бұрын
Mummyyy!!
@PilferMusic16 жыл бұрын
I thought UP was a big of dog as well. I wanted lots more and didn't think it was worthy of his previous catalog. PG's affect on music I believe is more related to his abilities to be inventive as we see here with his sampling. Also his production techniques have be copied and many are still used today, pumping an entire mix with your compressor, the gated reverb (yes flogged to death and not heard much now - thx)
@BilisNegra14 жыл бұрын
@michaeltgrace Sure¡! Even non-English speakers like me ;-)