Tony Visconti and Daphne Guinness - What's In My Bag?

[@blnkrbbt]

That's Roger Manning from Jellyfish/Beck's band at 8:29 not Wendy Carlos lol

[@amoeba]

Argh! We apparently fell victim to a persistent internet joke. You are correct! That photo at 8:29 is in fact Roger Manning, not Wendy Carlos. Our sincere apologies to both of them.

[@mytjomoon7638]

I fucking KNEW that was Roger Joseph Manning. Glad to know I'm not crazy. Thanks.

[@KowankoMusic]

In fairness, Roger had a pretty androgynous look when that photo was taken.

[@danielmelo7146]

Tony Visconti is a legend.

[@emmaduncan2991]

I believe he producen Bowie's "scary monsters, one of my fave records!

[@emmaduncan2991]

oh look, this is what happens, when I comment before watching the entire episode!

[@andyq9669]

@@emmaduncan2991 don't worry, we've all jumped the gun before with KZbin comments. You were, however, impressively quick off the mark as it was one of the first things he mentioned....

[@sexobscura]

... at liking ker-rap

[@sugarspun4216]

I could listen to him all day long

[@boebrown9332]

Tony should be on every episode just sitting on the couch giving background info on everyones picks

[@JohnDoeTheGoodGuy]

He bullshits a lot though. Some things he says are either false or don't make sense (saying that SPLHCB was recorded in 9 months when it wasn't, saying that 180g vinyl automatically means that quality will be excellent with no surface noise, etc...) He talks a lot and sounds knowledgeable to people who know little to nothing about music, but a lot of stuff he says is nuts to people who pay attention to details.

[@benjaminmitchell5345]

Agreed gotta get the remix of Sgt Pepper now!

[@greenvelvet]

I would gladly give up my turn to Tony

[@D34DParadise]

I could listen to Tony Visconti spouting music trivia all day.

[@abelisraelcruzayuso4682]

Ditto! Great profile photo, btw

[@D34DParadise]

Abel Israel Cruz Ayuso Thanks!!!

[@happyhippythevinylguy]

Me too!

[@goopah]

@@D34DParadise It looks intriguing to me, but my monitor displays it way too small. What is it?

[@D34DParadise]

goopah It’s a picture of the cover of the single ‘Bela Lugosi’s dead’ by Bauhaus

[@bibibratx]

I worked for Daphne in her Ireland home years ago, and I don't think she knew then I was such a big fan of hers. It's a fascinating life with big collections of art/music/fashion, and being around was mind blowing to me. Her assistant asked me if I could do her hair for her, and I just froze for few seconds. Good days!

[@liketheroman]

where in ireland did she live?

[@Sektion9]

Tony Visconti is a repertoire of musical knowledge.

[@MikeIsNexciting]

Alongside Tony's wealth of knowledge, as everyone's pointing out. It's really cool how they're talking and discussing their picks to each other more often than to the camera/audience. Really cool, a very natural discussion, for two people who are on camera for a show.

[@michaelwilson2340]

This is like getting several musical history lessons! Excellent choices! And you can never go wrong with The Velvet Underground. And that photo of Tony sitting in the studio with Marc Bolan, Tony looks a bit like Nick Drake.

[@sabrinasjourney]

huh?!

[@RidgeRunner10]

I could sit and talk to Tony Visconti for hours - his experiences and love of what he does is phenomenally interesting. Thanks Amoeba - this is one of your best episodes.

[@BernsteinOmega]

Such a wonderfully informative episode!

[@nicksimms3771]

Tony is such a cool guy! He’s such a legend, having worked with everyone from Badfinger , to Bowie, to Gentle Giant, yet he remains such a nice, humble guy!

[@rekwon666]

Sing Me a Song is the best song penned for a tv show opening ever. Bolan is a legend. Underappreciated

[@wualaguala]

This selection may be interpreted as dull in others amoeba's guests, but not in them. Mutual apreciation at its finest...plus, Daphne Guiness hair is everything!

[@cedricjoshuapayne]

What a great episode!!

[@hangar18coleccionables]

Daphne guinness what a beautiful woman

[@regmunday8354]

Part of the Guinness brewing empire.

[@terminator882]

beautifully rich

[@calwiggums3319]

For a really interesting read, check out Tony Visconti's autobiography. Such fascinatingly wild stories! I sincerely thank the folks @ Amoeba for always making my bleak humdrum Mondays bearable by putting such hard work into creating these "WIMB" episodes. I really appreciate all the knowledge I learn watching each week. Peace & Jah Bless

[@markwardel6751]

So great...Dear Daphne and Tony Visconti...these two should have a regular series,

[@johnr8820]

Loved Tony's knowledge...he's a total music nerd just like me! I love studying the stpry behind the music just as much as listening to it! Beautiful taste in records.

[@wartimemodels]

“Scary Monsters” is my favorite Bowie album as well. “Teenage Wildlife” is a miracle.

[@jeffmugrage6991]

LOVE this episode! Have you guys ever contacted Brian Eno for a video?

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

That could be a ten part series.

[@francisdaly1757]

And Danny Lanois

[@roxysimmons]

@@AnthonyMonaghan haha

[@captop12]

Mr. Visconti's knowledge of recording/production is invaluable insight.

[@thisdudemanbro]

Tony looks remarkable for his age.

[@eatablelove]

Yes, at least 10 years younger!

[@livingabstraction2206]

Probably says a lot about Tony that he doesn't really spout off much music trivia about working on electric warrior, while Daphne gushes about the album. I guess it kind of shows how deep down for as much talent as Tony has he can be a very humble and down to earth guy

[@imdanhoover]

possibly my favorite..could listen to Tony talk all day..

[@Bodyknowledge77]

This video contains magical music and anecdotes...:-)

[@d3a1990]

This is amazing! Tony’s stories are incredible

[@angelcred967]

this clip is full of amazing stories !! i love all the records that both chose

[@MatchesMalone1183]

I had no idea who Wendy Carlos was or how she made the music for Clockwork Orange. Not that I'd count myself as an expert on Kubrick or anything obviously. In any case great knowledge from Visconti; Carlos seems like a legend and I'm glad to know of her. As for their picks, well they are obvious, but they're obvious for a reason, that being they're all great pieces of art.

[@regmunday8354]

Wendy was born Walter Carlos in 1939, underwent sexual reassignment in 1972 but continued recording work as "Walter Carlos". Besides 'Clockwork Orange' she also scored 'The Shining'.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

Visconti is so underappreciated.

[@chrishayes4053]

Could listen to Tony all week! Amazing

[@michaeldrechfachs1547]

Read the thumbnail as Guiness Visconti first, but yeah Thank you for this sitdown with two legends

[@vcr210]

Love Daphne!

[@rattymaxreilly5147]

When Tony picked up Scary Monsters And Super Creeps my heart melted. Oh, and when he pulled out Velvet Underground I remembered David Bowie covering White Light White Heat on his Glass Spider tour, and how Bowie wrote Golden Years for Elvis, but got turned down.

[@EdwinMontesinos]

8:38 It's lovely to see Visconti this excited.

[@djbryanladd]

I could listen to Tony Visconti for hours. He's a legend. Tanx.

[@connorodonnellarchibald2213]

Fantastic choices 👍🏻

[@LeighWinspear]

Thankyou amoeba, glad I took a punt on this one and was enthralled and interested throughout their historic teachings. Two classy tutors and fanatics that we sure learned a lot from.......................;)

[@bartlettohio]

Tony was married to MARY HOPKIN[Those Were The Days] and Mai Pang...the girl that John Lennon left Yoko for ! The stories he could tell ! He was also the "original" bass player for Bowie's Spiders From Mars. He is too modest about HIS studio production work. Listen to Ziggy Stardust and focus on the drum and guitar sounds ! No one has ever done it better !

[@luckygitane]

He didn't play on or produce Ziggy, though :/

[@bartlettohio]

@@luckygitane Right you are ! Ken Scott takes credit for that one ! I'm lucky to have all of TV's STRAWBS and Gentle Giant LP's on vinyl ! Oh, and I was a student of Walter Tevis who wrote the novel " The Man Who Fell To Earth" who was my English Prof. at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1972-73. A student lent him a copy of "Ziggy" and he loved it !...and said..."That guy must have read my book "...after hearing it ! Cheers !

[@stuartwray6175]

james mcbride Ziggy: produced by Ken Scott, bassist Trevor Bolder, drums Mick (Woody) Woodmansey, guitar Mick Ronson. Mick was a gifted arranger and producer.

[@DKentization]

I love the Glyn Johns story...perfect.

[@happyhippythevinylguy]

That David Bowie album is my favorite buy him. I first got it when i was 14. Lol

[@friendlier]

It's nice to know that glamorous people can also talk about music with such wonderful nerdy passion like the rest of us.

[@tomjamison5934]

TONY!!!

[@willfitzpatrick1107]

Brilliant! And no one has enough Lou Reed in their collection.

[@troygaspard6732]

Tony has worked on so many of my favorite records.

[@carloroca1531]

I love seeing these and people that have been in the music industry forever still glow when they find a gem! (see the Buddy Holly Record and Tony's reaction)

[@djpaulywood]

Amazing how much good music is out there - I have over 10k vinyl and I still find new music without buying a new record - but I always want more!

[@juliohernanz5871]

Electric Warrior was the first album I ever bought too.

[@wadeharten6600]

I'm sure Tony has a 1000 stories to tell. I could sit and listen to all of them.

[@AndrewInCanada99]

Nice to see Tony talk about his favourite bands like The Velvet Underground, Buddy Holly, Elvis, etc. some people/bands on What’s In My Bag talk about music so passively but he really gets excited! It’s almost contagious

[@moss8head4u]

What an absolute joy x

[@suicidalpepsi]

Clockwork! viddy well choice.

[@whitneyhouston5038]

Essential choices.

[@ARIZJOE]

I met Daphne at her cousin's Pickering Forest House. She had been shooting a video with Steve Strange in Ireland. He had also been involved in video for Tony's pick, "Scary Monsters." I loved "Clockwork Orange," but I believe that mainly owed to Kubrick's encyclopedic knowledge of classical music. Daphne's cousin helped with the filming of "Barry Lyndon." I had a good conversation with Daphne's father, Lord Moyne, about their neighbor in Cadaqués, Spain, Salvador Dalí. My native Cleveland had had the largest collection of Dalí in the western hemisphere. The Guinness family is very artistically oriented.

[@67psych]

This is my favourite episode ❤❤❤

[@ronaldschuurman81]

Wow great taste. Tony Visconti is a Hero

[@Rickinthebleachers]

Love this episode. Intelligent discussion.

[@fungifago]

Tony Visconti *did more than people think* !!!

[@alekskrakoew8584]

Watching this every once in a while

[@heavysoulbrutha]

That was excellent!

[@mattmurray517]

Visconti is a brilliant producer. Legend.

[@matthewbenge7112]

Daphne! Love that she was at Amoeba! She's such an interesting woman.

[@robertbeckerbecker1354]

YESSS! Came here to hear him talk about Bowie!

[@mikeohagan2206]

that info about clockwork orange. priceless. this one is the best of them all.

[@timinno]

Tony doing his thanggg

[@bensirach3586]

11:52 I didn't know Dylan was so funny!

[@FastusMusic]

That would be a great desert island record collection right there! But it was W. Carlos "Switched on Bach" that introduced America to the synthesizer back in '68.

[@raderke]

her picks were all in my collection back in the day....but remastered

[@squinkque]

I'm reading Tony's autobio right now & it's freakin' amazing.

[@Youlikeadream]

This is so good! Can you contact MGMT for the next video? They are records collectors!

[@zoebraun2206]

Easily the best episode of What’s in my Bag!

[@richardmurphy9006]

Wonderful to hear daphne speak and I'm a Guinness drinker glorious pint in Dublin

[@fiinkygirl89]

This was amazing. I love how they talk about their love and how the growed as a person from an album and from people they met. I could watch it forever. Oh BTW if you could get eminem on here that would be iconic

[@parker11965]

So educational brilliant people

[@technodroog]

"Pepper" took from December to late April to record, so it's, maybe, a 6 month album not 9. But Visconti is allowed to make any mistake he wants, the dude's a production legend

[@MQSeven]

Guinness? thumbs up gurl

[@a.tapes_]

okay quick question. tony says sgt peppers was recorded over 9 months and daphne says "oh wow". so as someone who has no idea about record producing, is that a long time or a short time for a record?

[@amoeba]

That’s a fairly long time.

[@swanstep]

Unfortunately, according to 'Revolution In the Head', Visconti is just wrong about the time involved: Sgt Pepper was mixed and done by about April 3 '67 and the first track of the sessions ('Strawberry Fields Forever') was begun on Nov 24 '66, which is 4 months + 1 week. Unheard of at the time, lots of 'big albums' since have taken much longer, e.g., Thriller took 7 months.

[@bartlettohio]

Led Zeppelin's first was recorded in one week for example...it depended on the artist and band !

[@olas591]

@@bartlettohio That was beast

[@damianoakes2592]

For the late 60's it's a very long time

[@chrisrice5673]

The Bob Dylan clip at the end sound like a Mitch Hedberg rhythm. Cracked me up

[@Emlizardo]

Tony is also an Alexander Technique instructor. I got into A.T. through taking guitar seminars with Robert Fripp. Look into it!

[@shirlee5312]

Love this series for its never ending list of music picks both unknown and obscure to me and for that it is always a learning tool to find something new and exciting to add to my collection. My general question is to anyone reading this: Does Amoeba pay for all of the records and cds that each artist picks up in their store?

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Solid.

[@friendlier]

Daphne pointing out both Embryonic Journey and Murder Mystery! A true fan. But, whoops, Tony is incorrect. Sgt. Peppers took exactly six months from the beginning of recording to its release, not nine months to record. However, it took 700 hours of studio time, enormous at the time.

[@sugarspun4216]

Scary Monsters was the first album I ever bought 😊 Hunky dory is my favourite Bowie album.

[@larscasteen]

ugh tony visconti is the coolest

[@thedarkorange9452]

I love Surrralistic Pillow. It's full of harmoy and nostalgia.

[@DannyG683]

Have you asked Bjork?

[@hashtagdag]

BEST WIMB EVER!!!

[@candysays100]

the music police are here guys, you can't be a fan unless you own a certain record and your picks have to be so subversive not even that artists responsible have heard of them

[@muncher64]

One of the better WiMBs.

[@rutwickgangurde3247]

Yo Amoeba, please can you make a new show where Tony speaks about a classic record, like he does here but in more detail? Backstories, trivia, memories, challenges etc.?

[@gpeddino]

Tony looks like he's in 50s. He's 74. Damn.

[@martynflynn8368]

Wow, I was expecting to hear a load of obscure stuff but most of their picks are in my collection/ I actually got to see Bolan and T.Rex way back in 1976 and Bowie in 83. Is Glyn Johns still alive? I reckon his picks might be interesting.

[@goopah]

I'd have to dig around to find it, but is this the same guy that produced a Thin Lizzy album at one point?

[@LucavanGrinsven]

do you buy vinyl?

[@Boudosaved]

KRAFTWERK!!!

[@j0hnny-222]

Could you guys get Lisa Gerrard and/or Brendan Perry on ?

[@andrewswatland4622]

Electric Warrior was the first album I bought with my paper round money.

[@wayneblanchard97]

A good pairing. Very nice to see the Small Faces being a choice here. 'There Are But Four Small Faces' is the American version of the British 'Small Faces', the second album with that name by the band, the first being on the Decca label (from which Robert Plant 'borrowed' the lyrics and singing style of Steve Marriott on 'You Need Loving' for use on Zep's 'Whole Lotta Love'), the second on Immediate. There is a great two-part interview with Glyn Johns on KZbin. The phasing on 'Itchycoo Park' was actually devised by one of his crew, and I believe he gives credit accordingly in the aforementioned interview. Part One: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZaVaYmGnp2NlaM

[@thawthepast]

cool

[@chrishepburn1503]

Daphne is foxxy.

[@paint1955]

That was the best WIMB!