FIRST TIME REACTION!! - Gary Numan - Me, I Disconnect From You - Deep DIve 

Checked them all out. I concentrated on the older stuff as it fits my age. I'm old school, don't get me wrong the stuff he's doing now is excellent, in fact I watched him doing Down in the Park with the orchestra and I swear I was moved to tears. Brilliant version. Your examination of Cars brought back memories. Brilliant to see the boys, Paul Gardiner, RRussell Bell, Ced Sharpley, the God that he is Billy Currie of Ultravox. They looked the Dogs Nads blew me away as a kid. Keep up the excellent work and your enthusiasm and little dances (Cars) have been noted.

@@NoConceptofTheft Thanks for rocking with us and the positive feedback.

If you revisit Gary, try "Down in the Park" by Tubeway Army. It was featured on the soundtrack to Times Square, a pretty much forgotten movie from 1980. The movie wasn't great, but the soundtrack was outstanding! If you like Punk rock.

@@dranet47 Thanks for the recommendation!

@@dranet47 I do remember watching it at the time but yes, I had forgot about this one. Good call

thanks for the feedback and sharing your journey with music. awesome story!

Awesome!

Thanks so much for all that additional context! Hope to hear from you on our video for my name is ruin.

Are Friends Electric? was number one for four weeks in the UK.

thanks for sharing that!

hell yeah! Hope you see us rocking to My Love Is Ruin too!

Thanks a lot for the info!

Definitely! It's fascinating.

Not a hit but a well known Numan and band or better yet original Tubeway Army song if you like so lol.

Thanks for checking us out. We hope to do songs that no one else does like this one.

This song is from 1979 not 1978

There does seem to be a before and after Gary Numan for electronic based music.

agreed. it's great

I did not! Would love to check them out.. got any recommendations?

@@THEDEEPDIVE Hey. Any of their early stuff. The later stuff is good don't get me wrong but I prefer the earlier stuff. "Electricity" "Messages" "Red frame white light" "Dancing" Their first studio album. oh yeah, I like "Souvenir" "Enola Gay"....actually thinking about it I like most of what they did lol. You may like them anyway. Cheers.

@@THEDEEPDIVE Thought I'd add they are a bit "poppy". Have you heard some of the early "Human league" again not the later pop stuff but their earlier work. "Being boiled" " "empire state Human" "Path of least resistance" just off the top of my head. Their first albums not the later songs. Bit more adult, if you know what I mean. Cheers again.

I read that was a big part of the debt he racked up was the amount of money he was putting into the stage production of his shows. Looked amazing.

Must have been cool to see such a ground breaking act like that so early.

​@@THEDEEPDIVE and saw him in Madrid and Barcelona this summer. And heck even better (no lights, no fx, just him)! The guy is, just...

@@PolarRed love it

hey..even Bob Dylan had a lot of years where it seemed like he lost the plot. But yes great to see Gary make a comeback. We did an episode on My name is ruin to highlight that.

@@THEDEEPDIVE It would be interesting to see what you think of one of the bands that influenced his early career, the first incarnation of Ultravox with John Foxx. Systems of Romance is their finest album, but there's plenty to like on the punkier albums. Good to see someone appreciating Gary Numan though, thank you.

@@anhistorian7255 Gary talked a little about them in his book. I'll check it out.

I imagine to him the wig is no different than the guyliner and costumes he wears on stage. It's all a part of the character.

But he isn't pretending his eye liner and clothes are real and natural@@THEDEEPDIVE

@@StrawberrySunday212 Hard to disagree with a longtime superfan! :) thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Hope you enjoy the other GN stuff we do and possibly other things on the channel.

Give the Tubeway Army album a listen to if you can. One song on it called Every Day I Die is a good track. I used to sing along to it as an 8 year old. Found out years later it was about male masturbation 😂🙈 @@THEDEEPDIVE

Agree. He should be bald and proud

I was in a car crash, or was it the war???

I forgot to type NIN (Nine Inch Nails) but they're famous enough. If any1 likes straight-edge electronic hardcore, REALICIDE is real deal!!

That sounds amazing.

@@mattjohn4731 first read of your comment I thought 'straight edge electronica? That will never work'... but then I think about the druggie/drunk rock scene that straight edge punk grew out of and it makes complete sense..

definitely.. Alice Cooper's We Are Clones is a gret example of that.

Prince called him a genius! Trent Reznor said that when they were recording their first album he listened to Telekon every day.

for sure.

Interesting enough this song is from his first band Tubeway Army and it's less rock on the album. The big change for Gary was he got to play with a moog left over from another band in the studio and became obsessed with it.

Nope not what his influence was. He liked Kraftwerk that that's it. He said he copied Ultravox with John Foxx only not Midge Ure. He mentioned the album Systems Of A Romance '78 not as dark and eerie, sweeping and powerful as his either I heard it. He also only added synths to a conventional line-up why I always liked him and the band. When acts like Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, New Order and even Alphaville had them take over. He also said he was trying to be darker and heavier he called the others bubble gum music with Synths. He was different like Richard Skinner said on BBC Rock Profile in 1981 when he Interviewed him a stylized image.

They were recording in a studio and there was a mini moog in the corner. He played about a bit liked the sound and the rest is history.

Thanks so much for checking us out. We also did My Name Is Ruin.

maaaan.. I LOVE THIS! thanks so much for sharing so much with all of us. Hope to hear from you on the other gary numan videos we did and maybe some of the other artists we featured.

@@THEDEEPDIVE I am drummer myself almost 30 years with natural rhythm check out my Gary Numan and band covers for Devo The Tubes, The Cars and so on some even live plus solos. I an art guy most what I like is related. I am ahead of a lot myself on these different subjects. I have the knowledge pretty much a film and music historians on certain decades. Movies I go back to the 1920's some even before the earliest and history of film. Women same just have certain decades I focus more on then others. Music I do some 60's. But mainly 70's-90's and some other artosts after Indie Bands and such that go against the mainstream like Deadsy. Yeah I love vintage classic movies some of the A's but more of the B's vintage classic, cult classic films the men and women behind and in front of the camera. Some of my favorite genres are Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Noir and more. Vintage non nude and nude actresses and or modes plus others. Vintage Pin-Ups, Glamour & Cheesecake stuff I like women with class, natural beauties with real talent and nice. I am like an expert and historian check out my reviews, commentaries, tributes such creations and uploads of I create to some of my favorites as Willis O'Brien (O'Bie), Ray Harryhausen, Roger Corman, Bert I. Gordon, Bill Rebane those are some of my fav film effects creators, Producer's and Director's. Some of the actresses and or models Mara Corday, Peggie Castle, Terry Moore, Debra Paget, Marla English, Julie Adams, Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson more coming more music to these are my passions guys. Also my fetish and passion for women with beautiful sexy curvy feet. I also love Military aviation and the unexplained. My favorite female singer is Laura Branigan sexy as hell and such an amazing singer with powerhouse earth shattering voice. I am on FB my posts and on my page and in groups on this stuff is unreal lol. These women and some in my life made me a man more and looking for one woman to spend the rest of my life with. I do the physical and digital media. I buy, rip, trade, scan, download and edit all this stuff I collect and such. 1902 to 2000's for movies just when you hit a certain year in 2000 whatever I have less movies and more before 2000's still quite a bit. I love B&W and the old Technicolor and such. I also grew up with Special Make-Up Effects Artists as Sr. Lon Chaney also an actor plus Jack Pierce, Rick Baker, Tom Savini, Tom Burman and Rob Bottin. Check out my channel and let me know.

I doubt Gary would agree but interesting perspective.