Thomas Dolby on the tube - She Blinded me With Science

[RJADVids]

Amazing that they actually played this live. Fairlights and PPGs :-) Love it!

[owenmcghee1]

I am not that bothered about the cost of the instruments but LOVE these comments,

All from people that love innovators.

[Stationlightyears]

Haha - Simmons drums! I had a couple of Simmons kits, when they worked they were great, but getting them to work sometimes was a trick, used to carry a soldering iron and repair kit to every gig! Still got my SDS400 brain in a box somewhere. Great tune, remember watching this at the time, was a big fan of the Tube, thanks for posting! :-)

[jazmanjef]

Tony Banks used a Synclavier on the 'Mama' ablum by Genesis; you can hear it on the song Mama in full force. Yeah, Fairlights were hugely expensive at the time Dolby cut this.

[52vegeta52]

i love that 'mmmmm' he does at 1:11

[ruffian1868]

John Holmes on guitar......wow !

[potatoman122]

i love this song

ha ha hes smoking at a performance

[jezzyby47]

Great upload, i've never seen this Tube set before.

[baierc]

guy dancing at 1:25 is awesome

[Kevexation]

@baierc He certainly is!. I remember watching this when it was on. I'd just got into Electro and Poppin', and thought "WOW!- it's so funky that even the B-boys can't help but dance". I've been a Dolby fan since....

[miriamcanales]

Hey! what happens in 1:16 minute? Why we can´t hear his voice in the microphone???

[brunswickfs32]

he look high

[miriamcanales]

Yeah, and I want to know what he's smoking on stage :)

[brunswickfs32]

She Blinded Me With Science - HOMER COCKTAIL

[IDSTARTAREVOLUTION2]

This song doesn't sound as good live without Magnus Pyke doing the 'Science!' parts.

[jezzyby47]

? That is a sample of Magnus Pikes vocal he's playing on the Fairlight CMI.

[ads1066]

this footage badly needs the scary dude from the brit band--Sparks. along with Howard Jones--a major synth' holocaust would occur :)

[jezzyby47]

The brit-band Sparks are American!!!

We can't lay claim to that genius i'm afraid.

[3dcandy]

Fairlight, originally a missile defence computer. google it, available in several versions, all of which can be beaten by any humble pc these days...

synclavier is another sampling keyboard, probably best known for the fm synthesis sound at the start of micheal jackson's beat it.

[nutster9000]

Missile defence computer? Ha ha ha, thats brilliant, did The Art of Noise, Trevor Horn and Especially Gary Langan who was the man who bought the Fairlight into the UK from Australia where it came from, help with the ending of the cold war or something. Maybe Gorbachev was influenced by Paul Hardcastles n-n-n-n-n-19 stuttering. I can just picture it, 'Mission control we have an incoming - alert, alert, depress the barking dog sound effect .....NOW! Yesssss we've got one over on them darn commys.

[prsjoe]

The Fairlight that Thomas is playing , correct me if I'm wrong , is over $ 100,000 !!! Neil Young used one on the " Trans " album . Apparently it can reproduce any sound known to mankind ,( again correct me if I'm in error ! ). Thomas Dolby was and still IS way ahead of his time . A GENIUS !!!

[pauleyh]

your wrong the fairlight he used cost 30,000 usd the most expensive one cost 45,000, you must be tlaking bout the synclavier thats the one that reproduces any sound frank zappa had a system that cost over a million dollars

[jezzyby47]

The Fairlight also reproduced any sound. Fairlight and Synclavier are both samplers. Just like the Akai S900 of the time, albeit with less sampling time. You paid the big bucks back then for the amount of sampling time. Ram is cheap nowadays but it wasn't back in 1982.

[jezzyby47]

Fairlights cost approx £22000 back in 82 and the Synclavier cost approx £250000. The only real difference was the amount of sampling time they had. Ram was very expensive back in 1982. I had an Akai x7000 sampling keyboard in 1985 that had 4 seconds at v poor quality or 0.8 seconds at reasonable quality. You can buy birthday cards with more sampling time now for £4. 3 years earlier in 1982 only rich rockstars could afford those sampling monsters.

[cograilfan]

@prsjoe The Fairlight he used cost about $20,000 dollars. Though still quite expensive for that time. It could reproduce and sound that it sampled. It analyzed waveforms. A waveform must be sampled first, and stored on a 7 inch floppy disc, then loaded onto the main computer.

[mfitz1969]

@cograilfan Thumbing through my collection of old Keyboard magazines starting prices for a Fairlight Series IIX back then were about $25,000. Thomas has the double-keyboard model which would be a bit more. The later Series III Fairlights (1986) were a totally new instrument operating at 16 instead of 8-bits and ran $40-100k. Remember, those are 1980's dollars! Tony Banks Synclavier BTW did not have sampling, it was essentially just a hugely expensive DX7 that sometimes worked.

[templarseries]

@prsjoe See video on SAMPLING on my channel - it is one among many with that ability.  Though I suspect the others are cheaper!

[CoachinVegas]

loved the 80's!!!

[InfoSecNomad]

Bak wen Science was kool to the masses - I miss those dayz...

[dermotoblong]

yeah airwaves,europa great early 80s music

[TPEKHH]

if anyone has White City please please upload it

[the486kid]

haha.. he actually pulled it of in this clip.

[walls777]

WTF!!?!??!???

[aacccc]

Did you know he s a successful businessman now producing ringtones?.

[trogdorrules]

So awesome. Thomas Dolby, you are the best!

[TheGodParticle]

Put that cig out!

[TheGodParticle]

Did i say he's mad

[TheGodParticle]

Yeh, he looked like he had a cig on the go. I think he's a little mad. I think he lives in LA now writing etc, good song tho...

[mrdo82]

I find it kind of humorous that Dolby vocalizes the sound effects.

[kira10107]

is he smoking!

[astrowars12]

the best shit there is my friend....wasn't his best ever single "Dopehead"?

[livesey25]

coolllll!dont make em like they used to

[p6ulo]

francislalan. Listen to the albums and a get a life you cock. This guy is a genius.....You cant base an opinion on one youtube posting.

[adehelpplz]

i still think 80's hav the best kind of music

[potsnacher]

mobb deep sampled from this

[Demonas66]

WTH is this O.O

[gascobb]

and enhanced my life with chemistry!!!!

[cyberbeer65]

Mine too....

[francislalan]

I'm a total 80's fan (I'm finally doubting about that fact..) but this SUCKS more than a huey lewis and the news track (I didn't ever imagined it was possible)

RU-BI-SH

[backstrokin]

Check it out! At 1:40-John Holmes on guitar!Beleive it!

[ladyloca67]

still like it

[livinst]

THIS VIDEO IS A SCIENCE.

[livinst]

EXELLENT WITH SCIENCE.

[livinst]

EXELLENT VIDEO,WITH SCIENCE.

[Schraes]

what a groovy track; thanx for the vid!

[Flur1]

Love this,Magnus Pike RIP.

[pierstheoneandonly]

Ah yes, live synth-pop. Excellent, creative use of the pitch wheel/stick in this track. Remember reading he bought a PPG as soon as he got a record advance. Up till then his main axe was a JP8.

[Tazz77]

Cool clip.  Thanks for posting.

[JohnH108]

The Fairlight CMI was very cool. I wanted one but could not afford £65000 LOL

[boeingVSairbus]

That's a young Thomas Dolby.. Great performance!

Thank you BrusselZuid for adding the video

[MartyO1]

Excellent. I used to watched the Tube all the time, but I don't remember seeing Thomas Dolby on it. Thanks for posting the vid.

[ruiushi]

Lol sweet!

[mpc764]

Superb!!!

[SpaceIntruderDetecto]

Solid Gold! Thanks!!!