Tremendous tune. It most def still stands the test of time. I saw Tackhead in Glasgow 1989 - superb. Saw Keith Leblanc 19990 at King Tuts. The place was rammed, sweat dripping off the walls. He came on wearin a crash helmet! Sensational! I saw Gary Clail at the Reading Festival later that year, he was a late addition. Magic stuff. Great memories :)
I saw Tackhead at the old 9:30 club in DC. They were 3 hours late, but I heard Keith's soundcheck part way through, so I waited. So worth it, even with short term hearing loss.
this is incredible...had the internet been around then i would have known, BUT...i am sure i had a better childhood without it. The internet, not the song! 54 years old and SERIOUSLY GROOVIN HERE IN WV
Word. i can drop this gear to newcomers and blow their minds and shake their asses and then blow synapses again when i tell them how old it is. i'm 35 yrs deep in the music industry and still to this day one of the greatest things i ever saw & heard was Keith doing a 20 min drum solo with Adrian on the mixing desk...like a Fats Comet / Tackhead tape time / Major Malfunction live megamix. It was a quad system and they span the sound round the room on the 4 speakers and i fell over ! By Gort... i've got goosebumps thinking about it. In brotherhood, lemme point you to Cabaret Voltaire's new release on Mute... i think you'll like it, Scott.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhds6KtWZHE.html
Agreed, On-U-Sound record label nights showcasing new bands, and old were the best. Also, not forgetting the Mega Dog nights if you were in the UK, ahh those were the days!
Maybe off topic, but not... I was lucky enough the fact in 89' they made it to Australia... Back then, the world was a different Place. I discovered "Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System" "Tackhead Tape Time" luckily because of a Review on, I think, "On the Street" or "The Drum" , Both of which where published weekly .. The only way to get any OS info, Besides yourR ecord import store I Recorded that from the LP onto cassette , and it didnt leave my Walkman for a year... Every day to work on the bus and train. (an hr to get there) Id continually listen,....Over and Over. Just like Tackhead was not really in the sphere of "commercial" they obviously gained a world wide audience .. They were all there, Right in front of me, at a venue in Sydney. I still dream of That wall of Trace Elliot Doug was moving air through.. wow... .And then , He stomped on that Moog Taurus Pedal I didn't know was there... Adrian Was fingering the desk, Skip funking rhythm , and Keith triggering , In your face Perc Samples from a real kit.. (I think?) Farking the Shiznit,.
have so many cassettes of BNW from back in the day. I would record it while I slept and then in the morning take the cassette to school and listen to all the new music :-)
@@hermask815 A guitar is electrical and very much completely soulless as a DAW. There is absolutely no difference. I hope you understand this, mate ;) Of course the idea counts.
@@SteveAstronaut It´s just two different flaves of how you could develope sensual ideas / concepts around the topic of making music that touches souls or kicks ass... I admire all of those wicked drummers, especially that Red Snapper-mate (Richard Thair?) for being open to "analog playing" AND "digital triggering". I have once seen him drumming a real drumset which had filter-pedals and a lot of other cool things that usally drummers stay away from... There are no limits. People might be jamming along with drumming-KIs kind of very soonish ... ;) Btw.: You can already jam along with a virtual "drummer" using the mostly underated JAMSTIX-software - the drummer-AIs are called Jimmy and Johnny and Pete and so on... And why not having two drummers? One artifical one, jamming along with the real fleshy original human person and then they're good friends and the artificial one says things like >>mate, I wish I could understand and feel what it is to be in a human body. Tell me more about this "girls"-thing. And "drugs". What is this "drug"-thing?"
We, luckily, had a local radio station, where on Sunday afternoons, a very switched on chap (DJ) with excellent taste would spin some gems... Steve Barker ~ Radio Lancashire ~ On the Wire... You can now find him on Saturday nights... I think??? :)
On a early morning in 1985 I woke up for my paper round. It was around 5:00. This song was playing on my alarm Radio, tuned on the BBC World Service. It took me a year to find a copy on vinyl (ah, no Internet... those days) Anyone who can explain the meaning of the title to a non-English speaking person? It was the start of a huge Adrian Sherwood vinyl collection :-)
rockin on the Part Time Punx radio programme till 6pm (pst) today. An old Adrian Sherwood mix on WAX TRAX records! "I'm convinced our time is desperatley short!"
ewannos right - when you're fed up, harassed and so on you might say ' Eeh, I'm at the end of me tether' which is how you'd say it in the North of England. It's an almost comical phrase ordinarily, but this track gives it an air of real desperation. A tether is a piece of rope that you'd keep a goat or a pig or donkey tied to, which would try and pull and get away but couldn't.
There are numerous samples, and it's unclear where almost all of them come from.One sounds like William James and another like Malcolm X, but I have never tried pinning them all down.
It's Billy Graham. The original version of Human Nature was also a long Billy Graham vocal but had to be redone by Gary Clail as On-U couldn't get clearance to use the original samples.
There are a few Tackhead albums, but this period is one of the most industrial sounding. Keith LeBlanc (the drummer) has quite a few releases that mine this vein though. Major Malfunction and Stranger than Fiction are masterworks.
