I fucking love early gary numan. those first few albums are so fucking innovative and great. they sound futuristic. gary acts like he didn't really do anything really new, but he did. those early albums. REPLICAS, PLEASURE PRINCIPAL, TELEKON. are fucking classic. brilliant music
Gary Numan best android/human being ever! So humble and down to earth. That's why we humans love him.... greetings from Mexico, State of Guerrero !!!!!!!
Fox theatre San Diego 1980: my mom took my friend and I to see teletour. We were both 11 and had been hooked on Cars since we first heard it on a jukebox at a local burger joint. After Gary Myrick's set finished and intermission was over 3000 people started screaming as This Wreckage started pounding out through a room shaking array. You cant imagine the impact visually and sonically that had on us. It was a light rig that rhat even by today's standards would be impressive. Experiencing those keyboards loud as f..k was life changing.
Listening to a little clock radio in long beach CA. On a gloomy overcast day, Suddenly "Metal" came on. I thought it was the weirdest, coolest thing I'd ever heard and made me take that huge risk, with my $7.98 and plunked it down on The Pleasure Principle. The rest is now history as I eagerly anticipated every release, loving replicas and "First album", as well as the later released "The plan". Every album has a feel. A mood. An aura, if you will and I was, year after year, never disappointed...
Gary said "Are friends electric" was an accident. He overlapped two songs by mistake and one of the songs even had a wrong note that worked better than the note intended. That is just awesome! His influential sound was discovered not created.
Gary Numan was a breath of fresh air to what was going on in the late 70's and paved the way for the so called new style of music (new wave or the beginnings of alternative) that was to hit at the start of 1980. Gary sounded like no other which made music goers very curious and him a Pioneer.
Saw Gary in Pittsburgh a few years back at Altar Bar. Great show. Perfect mix of current material and his hits. The venue was kind of small and intimate which was so cool. So later in the set, the crowd and the venue got quiet for like a split second before the next song and I yelled out "ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?!?!?" Gary smiled and said " Be Patient" The crowd laughed too! Such an awesome moment! He ended up playing "Friends" as one of the encores. :)
Going to see him in May 24, he is doing a small tour ( of the back of a larger one) of the Pleasure principle and replicas album! NME magazine said in the 80s ‘ Numan will never influence future bands’ Kanye West Dave Grohl ShirleyManson Garbage Franz Ferdinand Marilyn Manson Sugar babes Nine inch Nails To name but a few, I will just leave this here..
First time I ever saw Gary Numan on MTV singing Cars I thought How futuristic the music was. It was as if we hadn't even arrived where he was coming from at that time ..... We weren't even there yet . I still think we haven't caught up to him yet
I’ve been influenced by so many bands of so many genres but where my heart has always laid is the synthesiser and if one person always was THE driving inspiration in the changing face of electronic music was Gary Numan. Love his down to earth persona and his absolute drive to prove his critics and his peers wrong. The press back in the 80s were so caustic with him but you look at the broad spectrum of bands that have been influenced by him ever since !!!!
7:05 Life changing moment for me. Once I heard 'our friends electric' I was from that moment to this, not only a GN fan, but a lover of all things synth (hence LFOVCF). I loved his stage persona, it resonated with me.
I remember staying over my buddy’s house and they had cable. Anyway. I remember seeing Numan’s video Cars. I was a fan right away. I think it was before MTV
thank you Gary for what and who you are , and rather yet for staying what you have always been , without changing with the times for time sake , you are a great man , a great artist with a great mind , congratz on your marriage you cought yourself a real looker m8 , keep doing what you do best , be yourself !!!!
I just discovered this guy named Gary Numan, and his songs are so intriguing that I had to read everything about him.. He's a bit like Blade Runner - the science fiction that was thrown away as trash many years ago only to be rediscovered many years later, picked up from the trash cans where it layed and re-appreciated by a new generation of people - it always makes me smile when such a thing happens.. Many years ago I watched a video tape called Blade Runner and the visuals never left my mind, I wondered why there's no other movies able to conjure up a future like this or is it just too dark for general consumption. I feel the years after Numan's glory years moved into a brighter but drier, less imaginative spaces .. people like Bowie, Kate Bush and Numan was an emblem of the past .. these days kids like to hear singers singing about the usual human emotions like love and pain, having a good time at a party, rapping about sex etc. Science fiction topics, dark topics, weird topics stay at the fringes of the music industry unlike in the past , occasionally a Gorillaz or a Royksopp gets the attention but most are just encouraging girls and boys to sing with nasal clarity and emotional exuberance at singing competitions and make them into aching Adeles and screaming Katys.. long gone are the days where boys hide in their rooms imagining they r aliens or strange characters singing odd tunes and tappin away at machines looking for odd sounds which may emote a special human emotion.. The environment these days to me is worse than a dystopian future setting- boredom and lack of imagination stagnates my mind into a hellish death zone .. So I'm glad there r still discoveries to be made from today's trash cans full of yesterdays' throwaways ..
SANITIZED, INC. More than one, actually - back in the early years of his career, he was hugely influenced by dystopian science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs and it shows in several of his early lyrics
@@pigknickers2975 indeed. I always tend to feel like a kid again when watching and commenting on these videos. My big brother had a "Hits of the 80s" album on his record rack, and Cars was included, of course. The keyboards from Cars were the first synth parts I ever learned to play on any keyboard, and it was on a Farfisa that my oldest brother owned. I owe a lot of my musical creativity to my oldest brother, but also a lot to Gary Numan.
Loved it in 79 and 80s, brilliant lyrics and new sounds for a bunch of teens getting high on weed. The whole Android thing is still futureistic and his songs are still great to this day. I'm still frightened by the liquid engineers,.lol
He only sounded “that way” in the mid nineties to try and stay relevant and emulate some of those bands. Manson and such garbage music that was pop at that time..
Saw mr numan in at the Brighton centre for the first time in the 80s and he was allsom I still seeing him in Newcastle bandits 2020 and I'm still mad about him I'm nel58 myson has now levein his music and he 3o😎😎😎🤗
I like his 70s-80s stuff enough. But Splinter and Savage are 2 of the best albums ever. Imho. I'm more into Exile - on forward. He got a lot darker. But "Down in the Park" is one of my favorites... So I guess I just love it all.
The doc gets things wrong right off the bat, Tubeway Army was signed in 1978 and their first LP came out in 1978 not 1979, the second LP Replicas came out in 1979 followed rapidly by Pleasure Principle also in 1979.
Can anyone tell me how I get in touch with Gary Numan (Webb)? I've ALWAYS been a huge fan of G N & Tube Way Army. I've done a few covers of his stuff with keyboards & singing & I'd love to send them on to him & indeed meet him but music to me is just purely a hobby. Cheers from Rich
@@adrianlarkin9588 YOU are silly not to admit it at least it is obvious that Bowie took advantage of the fact Marc Bolan died that young he was lucky.. .I really have enough of people comparing Gary to Bowie this is not fair they're completely different!I never liked Bowie ..
Not a wig.. He was pretty open about his hair transplant work. It may have had assistance in the initial relocation, but it's all his own. That's actually why he wore a hat during the She's Got Claws era, while his scalp was healing from the plugs.
I love his music, but if Gary really wants a new career, he's going to have to be a little less boring. Maybe he should lay down in front of the pope mobile.
He's already a billion times more popular and successful than you, just so you know. You could achieve 1% of his fame by being killed by Trump's Limousine. Gary Numan is the absolute icon of anyone who likes E-pop or Nine Inch Nails. Shove off.
Gary Numan was a breath of fresh air to what was going on in the late 70's and paved the way for the so called new style of music (new wave or the beginnings of alternative) that was to hit at the start of 1980. Gary sounded like no other which made music goers very curious and him a Pioneer.
