Lament was and still is a really beautiful song. And should have been a UK number 1 as the music experts all said it would. But it only reached i think if im.correct number 23 in the UK charts
People complained about The Synthesizer when they came out but Its still an appreciation for an instrument and a buzz and an enthusiasm for it and you have to love that, and although there was a lot of dodgy music, we still look back at the 80s for music because there were also lots of great bands and people making really good fun music, and we have lost that and thats sad, because good music changes the world, there will be good memorable music again but we are most defiantly in a rut now, dont care what anyone says.
Considering the amount of time it takes to create a song and the advanced skills of the Ultravox members who create it with such precision, I feel the weight of each song and it deserves respect.
This is interesting because they are very positive about the machines synthesisers that they used to craft the songs, it’s not just what he (Midge Ure) and the other band members of Ultravox are saying but how they speak, the tone contains positive vibe. That is heard in the music, a type of passion and zeal for making their music songs.
Mayfair Studio 1, in London’s Primrose Hill. I was the Technical Manager at the time. The Recording Engineer is John Hudson, who also owned the studios
@@davebellamy4867Sadly it was 41 years ago……… so apart from knowing the grand piano that the camera looks at Billy through was a Bösendorfer with the extra 9 bass keys, I can’t remember any of the others. Worth noting at the beginning of the clip, Midge is changing an EPROM in the Lindrum, as the drum sounds were burnt into replaceable chips. You also the PPG wave’s 8.5” 128kb floppy disks used to load its sounds. How the world has changed.
i can assure you a ppg is far from thin sounding , some of its best sounds are basssounds and that is why bands used them because unlike a moog bass it cuts through and adds weight , listen to for instance anything by missing persons wich used ppg for bass . you can name todays synths and vst as lifeless sounding opposed to first or sec gen digital like ppg or the great d50 , lifeless is a far worse quality to have in an instrument, give me a ppg anyday , actually i own the complete system something to cherish
I can appreciate you diggin the PPG, cause you own it. No need to trash Moog though. Your statement about Moog lacking weight is so wrong, I really don't know where to begin. Might have been a reason why Kraftwerk, Michael Jackson and countless others played Moogs. Not to mention the famous quote from Gary Numan about his first encounter with a Minimoog, blowing him away. Just a thought.
Hes hair is, like we youth say these days, "goals". But i do agree, those were the times of success for talented rather than sucess for rich and beautiful
I'm aware of that. There is more processing powering in a modern washing machine than there was on Apollo 11, but i'm not saying you can fly one to the moon.
I remember when I was a kid and listening to guys like this (usually clerks) in the music stores pontificating about the latest technology. It's even funnier now. "It's got overtones". That's darling. I fully expected to hear some twaddle about compressors 'breathing'.
>Anybody know what the deal is with the digit readout on the Mini? Never seen that before... I did that. It's to set tempo when OSC3 is used as an LFO.
Would you also happen to know what the two additional switches below the pitch/mod wheels on the PPG do? I have a Wave 2.2 and been curious about this for a while.
I don't remember that one, possibly because I didn't do it. From the switch location I would guess they're mute to monitor and mute to PA (with a transformer DI built in). I remember building DI's into lots of things to keep the box count down on stage. I may be wrong, though.
I believe that it's a modification they added to Chris Cross' Minimoog to generate a pattern you can hear in the live version of "Sleepwalk" here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qtvsqCkgboY.html
In the 80s minimoogs were sold off for as little as £350 cause everyone wanted the polysynth with DCO and FM synth. Now minimoogs are the price of a small house!
Really great and how different is the talking voice and singing voice of Midge Ure, and I always find Muse 's vocalist voice is similar to Midge Ure's voice
Ultravox and Muse are, in a lot of ways, very similar ( this is just my opinion but both bands are combining new wave and prog and in a good way 😉 ). In the 80's i really thought that Midge was the "Peter Gabriel" of new wave.
@@carl13220 Hi ! I thought I was the only one who think that Muse vocalist and Midge Ure voices are so similar:) Muse definetely should cover an Ultravox song, cheers!
No the ppg was far more influential , it was multitimbral ( first multitimbral was the chroma) it had natural sounds ( sampling via waveterm and eproms) it had sequencer ,arpeggiator , in fact it was a workstation , how many renditions of the workstation did we have??
The Mini Moog is by far the most influential synth seconded only by the DX7. Not saying these are the best just the synths that were universally influential.
They lost me when they started using these more modern synths. Rage in Eden was the last great Ultravox album. When Quartet was released I thought they were just another mid eighties pop band.
2:12 : "You can't buy them, though. Technology has moved on far too much." ... Woah! I wonder what Mr. Ure would say about where tech has ended up today and how much those synths have appreciated in value compared to what they cost back then. The 80:ies were amazing in its optimism for the future but people didn't hadn't caught on to the shortcomings of the new digital technology yet. Also, is that a fucking CS80 right there in the middle? Or is it a CS60 perhaps? Legendary polysynth nonetheless. But people were hooked on the digital stuff back then and didn't understand how great those machine were ;).
@2:15 (Midge speaking about the Minimoog) "Technology's moved on far too much to sell things like this to people anymore" LOL, LOL, LOL, and then some more LOL.
