No one can possibly understand except a life-long fan just how much this documentary-short means and resonates with us. I’ve been a fan since I was four years old and I have worn out the grooves so far down on every vinyl album that I’ve not only lost my mind with enthusiasm, but blown the headphones over and over again and let me tell you, witnessing this for the first time takes the wind out of my sails. It’s as deep of an understanding as if I was in the room and participating. It’s an amazing feeling to say the least throughout life.
Interesting anecdote. I was fortunate enough to work with Hugh on the H20 mixes at Electric Lady. I was obviously excited about getting to assist one of my engineer/producer idols. The first day he came in the two of us went up to studio C and he tells me he's kinda nervous about having to mix this record for Daryl and John!?. I said you gotta be F'n kidding me. You recorded and co produced all of the ground breaking Police and Genesis albums!!
I loved the concept of MTv when it began, didn't care for a lot of Vjays but when it was focused on the creativity of the artists and having an opportunity to see them in the creative process that was fun to watch. I would have loved seeing Hugh work the The Police, or Genesis, or Mutt Lange putting Def Leppard through the ringer with Pyromania to create that masterpiece and The Cars on Heartbeat City which was a massive record as well.
MTV was the shit back then! I remember staying up to see the first airing of MTV opening with the song "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. I thought "wtf?" then came Billy Idol White Wedding and I was hooked! They had the videos of course but also had concerts every Friday, and I would connect my television antenna wire to my stereo antenna and record them! Lol. Then there were Rock docs like this and so much more. The band members would guest VJ. Nowadays MTV is a joke! They should call it "Everything But...M(usic)TV"
Sarah Stouffer-Lerch absolutely. It's like he has the ability to focus on the end result, most of us would be lost in it and overdo everything. Very smart guy.
pre - computer production, those were the days when music had real feel,- they used to cut and glue tapes, and for each sound you needed a 100 kg keyboard -- today you can make records with an iPhone......
it is all about the message you want to be heard ...... say it ..... the words that need to be heard .... that you want to be heard .... are you sending a message ..... to some one .... that needs to hear ...... something you want to say .......what is it ..... you want to say ? listening ..... to those sounds you are talking about ..... keep it open.... that is the way to hear .....what you say ...... the high moment of the night ..... yep.... we get that ... you know we all hold us in side and hope a one will see paradise as we do .... a love to find us and be the dream we all looked for to be the one we were looking for .... if we never find that one .... do we look on...... fine another dream..... to be the one we find paradise with...... that will love us .... as we are .... give us what we want .... love to be ....... with some one .....we found different from what we were looking for to be the love ..... we hoped would be the love for us ...... in our dreams ...... that can make us happy... in love ....... because we learn to love a one that was not our dream..... of love....... we take a chance with and try to find ... us with .....
So fucked to think about the decline or utter death i should say of MTV. Its sad cause specials like this were all over MTV thats what they did when they werent playing videos talking to artists etc.. Nowadays its a joke that it should have the name MTV it plays and creates reality T.V and other bullshit to make more cash and it really has nothing to do with music anymore.
Just realized that Daryl Hall's look is a bit like Clint Eastwood. I know, what does that have to do with anything, but it was bugging me for awhile who he reminded me of with that look.
yeah daryl's the greatest rock singer,and they had a great band-and they were so accomplished at such a young age-i really hate guys like that-haha-as if there's anyone anything like them--there ain't!
When record companies where owned by single people...now, they are owned by SOny, etc. No owner, sample all the 70s, 80's songs to make it contemporary.
funny, i just recently was reminded of that blokes......anyway, thanks for this, i just don´t get what the downside of overdubbing and editing is...that´s a very part of it to me
not as pure as you might think. they used fairlights and synclaviers and midi timers as well and overdubbed like sonsofbitches. nothing wrong with that..
hes lip synching his own lyrics on that verse. Walks in the studio like " Wow that was perfect on the first go, Ive never done that, something special today..." LOL....thats what happens when you lay the vocals down before hand and then lip synch for the camera LOL....great band though. just thought that was funny...."ive never done that good..." lol
Yeah, I think I agree. He lip-synced his own track there. Daryl can knock it out in one take but this was for a Tv show and I'm sure all the work was done before they came in in the interest of time.
What makes you think that? Every consonant matched perfectly. That would have to be the best lip syncing job ever done. It wasn't lip syncing. Check out any of their live shows from this era -- there were dozens of videos online. The dude is a real singer.
lip synching the whole video LOL.....i know the original lyrics were laid down at some point which are still amazing...just corny how they lip synched and "pretended" to be recording..
