Blondie performed on The Midnight Special January 19, 1979 Follow us on Social Media: / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / tmstvshow
This may be a live performance, but there is still heavy audio engineering involved, as you the listener are listening to a compressed and cleaned up version. In a studio a lot of the tracks, one of the band members may be off key or off time with an instrument, and the engineer blends it so everything is on key and on time. Also a lot of famous artists from the 70s and 80s used autotune, its just added to blend the sound of the voice better to the track than to distort. Modern music intentionally has a robotic sound to it, but autotune can be insanely subtle and to an average listener unnoticeable
@@punklyrics1 Well no autotune is a digital technology that wasn't developed in until the 1990's. There was no digital signal procesing in the 1970's until the mid 1980's. What you are referring to are tape techniques done using manual adjustments. There was no automation until the late 1970s when major label recording studios installed automated mixing boards with motors that could move the sliders and multiple synchronized tape decks with variable speed controls. I'm pretty sure a weekly TV show taped live did not have the post-production budget for such efforts, although I wasn't on that set. You're thinking of studio produced LPs by bands like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac.
The weird thing is the amount of camera-time they're giving to the couple in the Saranwrap outfits... when they have one of the most gorgeous and magnetic performers in the world right in front of them.
I don't think I ever saw debbie harry look better than she did on this particular tv performance...unbelievably 🔥🔥. Women generally looked hotter in the 1970s than in any decade before or since.
Real people playing real music with real emotions what Rock and Roll is all about Blondie in the 70's letting everyone get a taste of the 80's music that was just around the corner Seeing the crowd trying to dance to punk is pretty hilarious great song wonderful song I love that song so much I love Blondie so much 💙🎤❤️🩹🎵💖💝🎼🌹💚❣️🎶♥️💞💯💜💘🔥🤎💛🎸🤩🥰💕💋😍❤️💓😘
It is a performance art piece reflecting the suppressed sublimated violence where our animalistic desires are pushed to consumerism and product fetishism.
I turned 5 years old in 1979🎉Sha Na Na's variety show and Midnight Special was a needed relief from all the disco shite back then. Especially from The Village People though they made an appearance on their too I think. Burt finally learned quick people wanted stripped down rock-n-roll and hard rock. Not queer boy musicians singing...
Loved this show growing up, cuz they always played live! Even at 9-10 years old, I always liked the live performances better, and there actually weren;t too many opportunities for bands to get on live TV. That's why you see clips of Bowie on the freaking Dinah Shore show, and John Lennon or Frank Zappa on Mike Douglas! And then came MTV!
Honey, I was a skinny 17-year-old gay guy wearing a denim jumpsuit with a big brass ring on the zipper, platform shoes, and a poodle perm. In Oklahoma. I'm lucky to still be alive.
The dancing is just so horrible. Go back to the earlier Blondie appearance on TMS before they stated to corrupt the whole thing. The live music is totally incredible, but you can see the unavoidable pandering to the non-fans creeping in slowly or not-so-slowly) but surely.
