Vaughn George is a music producer, artist development coach and a reviewer of piano, keyboard and synthesiser artists. The channel also covers in-depth music production and technical analysis known as "geek talk”.
If that comeback concert had been a real concert I defo would've tried to get tickets, but a mere simulation of them? I could've just as well watched a concert DVD. Wasn't too keen on that. The first song was great, yet now it holds sad memories for me as it came out days before my mum died. So mostly I cannot listen to it
Steppin' Out is one of my all-time favorite songs (among hundreds). Joe Jackson is a great songwriter, I owned the Night & Day album way back when it came out in the 80's. Joe also was quite a diverse talent, recording a jazz album - Jumpin' Jive. Then I found out later that he started in a punk band. Wow! And then I found out he was musically trained at music school. Explains a lot about his talent. Fantastic songwriter.
Vaughn I was watching a Depeche/Alan video on your channel and this one popped up. As always this was exceptionally beautiful. Your piano renditions of our favorite songs are something to behold. You are amazing.
37:26-37:27 That's actually Fletcher saying "Crucified" at the end of "Enjoy the Silence" (on the first interlude from this album, which is called ... "Crucified")
I think the majority of youger people will accept AI music for a while until there is a trend to listen to organic music. Just think how long rap was around and you always think it must fade away. But it wasn't fading away. It could be that AI may have a long run before people in general start going back to organic music. What happened to rock music? It was the pop music for some time. Now it's mostly old people's music. AI can and it's replacing song writers now. Do producer's write songs with the help of AI? I think so. Or the list they use already pre-made chords and ideas and loops. I don't know why people call it my song when there is hardly anything they came up with. Can Taylor Swift promt AI to write a song in her style? Probably. What's the difference?
Wonderful video, beautifully explained. Re. the vocal on "I Feel You"... I have a very similar vocal range and voice type to David (though he's MUCH better than me). I would call it bass-baritone. If I sing "I Feel You" gently, the melody passes through (or close to) the transition to head voice and back again to more of a blend, which can sound a bit wimpy. However, if I sing it with more of a full chest voice belt (as David seems to), it sounds so much better, and is much easier to sing. The region D4-F#4 is real "money note" territory for Bass-baritone belting. I assume that this is why David also belts it out :)
Leave him be now, tbh it's good to hear someone has actually quit the music industry. I thought signing the deal with the devil meant you worked til you dropped. At this point bands like Oasis just look pathetic getting back together. Depeche Mode are doing just fine with Peter and Christian.
All the best with your concert(s)! I play (around) with synths myself (I love my JD-800!) but unfortunately, I play much better without an audience than with one :(
Anyone who believes they live on a ball of rock revolving at 1,000 mph flying at three, different, unfathomable speeds in different directions simultaneously at this point hasn’t done their research. NASA-Nazis and Satanists Associated.
8:14 People who believe the world is flat are relying primarily on a) that we simply can't see its curvature from our lowly perspective; and b) passages in the Bible such as those referring to "the pillars of the earth" (1 Samuel 2:8; Job 9:6; Psalm 75:3). They have their more esoteric arguments, but those two are the "pillars". All of their arguments can be defeated - but to address the case of b), they don't realize that the language used is poetic; there is metaphor in the Bible. They ignore the verses that say the earth is a "circle" (Isaiah 40:22) and that it "hangs on nothing" (Job 26:7). I have discussed such things with a pastor who understands ancient Hebrew. He says that in Isaiah, "circle" is used poetically, as well as commonly, as we do, to call the earth "circular", and that the Hebrew word can also mean a sphere. And the only shape that looks like a circle from any angle is a sphere. Job, however, is a very matter-of-fact book, describing many natural phenomena, so that "the earth hangs on nothing" can be taken as a factual statement.
