Did you know there is a Fairlight iPhone and iPad app released by Fairlight! Quite cool being able to sample and produce music like the greats of music did all those years ago! You can also buy a 30th anniversary CMI re-release! google fairlight 30a
The entire Fairlight Library is now available as donation ware for Kontakt 4. 30 disks + extras. Really worth checking out if you got the urge to produce older tracks.
i remember doing the same kinda thing -- shoe squeaks, water sounds, spinning coins, et al -- with my Ensoniq EPS back in 1990 or so... GOOD TIMES !!!! ..and seeing Pete do it now, in hindsight, really brings it all back for me! (and others too, i imagine..) Guess it's time to go power up my keyboards and remember why i started doing this to begin with!! ^_^
@keykrazy0 Yup... those were the days. i went from an ESQ-1, then Mirage, EPS, EPS-16+, and then an ASR-10 (which I have three of). Ensoniq brought sampling into the hands of every man!
more telling than his watch, I think, is the fact that he chose the word mummy, as a ex public school attendee, mummy why did you leave me get molested by those beastly older boys.
I have the soundtrack to that interview on a Genesis Interview CD I got 20 years ago! Great to actually see it! Thanx for sticking it on YouTube! I love this kinds stuff! You're a Star!
If you can create a drum pattern that is truly unique and interesting,why is it wrong for someone like a Phil Collins to use various drum machines to make that pattern come alive?!Oh for a Peter-Phil album,just them, all percussion,acoustic and electric!!!
...and with that I will say I will take a bullet for any such mental case like him...clearly u got to be a mental case to be able to see such clarity as he does in a world filled with distructive low resonating ignorance...u know...the "normal" way of thinking.
The sound of the air in the pipe : EXCELLENT ! The sound of the glass being crashed : ABSOLUTELY AWESOME ! E-mu + Fairlight keyboards used to rock !!!
Uh..sorry dozer, I still happen to get a lot out of Cupid & Psyche '85. So deny me my pleasure? It doesn't sound like much of anything else that came out during the same period, exception: it was mixed on the same SSL boards prevalent at the time. Gartside's breathy (and heterosexual) lyrics were quite different than something ABC would have put out. Human League were much more rough around the edges. Hell, I'm not going to list every 80's band. Who knows what you had been listening to.
I truly doubt that the Fairlight's "demise" can be attributed to a Korg M1, (sold millions, but a flash in the pan - never used anymore, even in Legacy edition) and the Roland JV1080. The Roland JV1080 is indeed a workhorse in the music studio but doesn't come close to the capabilities of the Fairlight CMI! Two completely different beasts!!!!! Don't get me wrong, I love my 1080, but please, it sounds awful to compare it to an 80's vintage Fairlight....they're totally different!
@thelurker25 It's a 5 and 1/2 inch floppy disk. It used to be the only medium that we could keep our data on. Back in the early and dark ages of digital audio....
Perhaps it was a big old 8". I'm going to have to watch this again. You should see the optical disks they used for the Synclavier. They looked just like a Laserdisc (remember them? I still have some Laserdiscs and a very good LD player). I also noticed that they used cartridges in the Fairlight, as well as floppies.
WHAT'S OBVIOUS HERE WAS THE ATTEMPT OF CREATING NEW SONORITIES W/ NOISES, . ;. TO THE ONE WHO MADE A PARALLEL W/ JM JARRE IT IS CONSTANT RESARCH VERSUS A 'COMPOSER' NOT VERY NOVATIVE;
BETTER SCRUTINIZE ON WEB FRENCH CREATOR OF CRAZY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (Cosmophone, Percuphone ETC) W/ HUGE UNHEARD SOUNDS PATRICE MOULET. ex-member of ALPES (VOCALIST CATHERINE RIBEIRO : Pete. co-wrote 'au creux de ta nuit" for her!
NOT TO DIE"IDIOT LEND BOTH EARS TO THIS... GENUINE GENIUS!
PURE CREATIVITY !! the first artist who ever use the failight the second was jean michel jarre ( juste because it was deliver to peter gabriel first !). now if lisa gerrard was in the video then you would have a kind of dead can dance type of music !
...there is nothing 'contrived' about 'World Music.... the West making a concerted effort to show appreciation to traditional and new developments from music from around the world. Gabriel has pioneered Western multi cultural appreciation - whilst Collins has merely exploited it. Hence the reason, why Mr Collins is in tax exile in Switzerland ( great British bloke !!!) and has been sued by virtually all of the jazz musicians who worked tirelessly for him over the last 10 yrs.
peccato che a quel tempo tu non fossi ancora nato. se hai potuto divertirti a fare quelle che tu stesso definisci cazzate (non le sperimentazioni di Peter) lo devi alla disponibilità di strumenti elettronici a basso prezzo: se non fosse esistito il Fairlight i tuoi giocattoli non esisterebbero. La tua testa fa cagare come il tuo italiano.
Mi dichiaro sconfitto. Non seguiranno altre repliche. Concertista ed insegnante a 13 anni? Io per pubblicare il primo vinile ho dovuto aspettare i 16: faccio musica (composizione, arrangiamento, basso fretless, chitarra, voce, tastiere, programmazione, fonico di studio) da 30 anni... Se questo è il rispetto che hai per artisti come Gabriel ed lo insegni pure ai tuoi allievi forse era meglio se ti davi alla pesca sportiva. E se suoni come scrivi... Tanti auguri per la tua professione.
Hello Vasiliki666 -- I agree with you about Peter Gabriel. He's absolutely brilliant. I love his innovative approach to music. I like artists that are bold and unique. Peace2U, Kim
...whilst I think that he has focused his concentration on developing other world music, he inspires me and whenever I am looking for ideas I take out one of his albums. The last temptation of Christ, is truly the work of a genius. What do you think ?
ok now that its dirt cheap to go out sample real things around, you need to go do it. these people were all ahead of their time. listen to what he got out of blowing air into a pipe. priceless original.
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Peter Gabriel can go eat dog vomit.. God his music sucked and was nothing more than a musical "periodical" for the 80's.. Thank god we've all done wiped our asses with it and flushed it down the toilet.... I'm currently wiping my ass with Brittany Spears.. You??
I can respect your opinion, there are musicians I don't like. I don't see why anyone's feathers are ruffled. If you've recorded any of your own music that you feel offers something that everyone will like, please enlighten us. I'd hate to think that I was missing out on anything you've done that might surpass Peter's recordings.
its all a question of...TASTE! Some people...don´t HAVE Taste. Sorry... your lines proof it! GENESIS...without PG... is ABBA! Thats (may be) the Reason why those Zeros had an Album started with "ABA" in the Title...Gabriel WITH Genesis... sounded like it should be. Period.
For some reason, that crazy laugh he does at 2.33 has had a profound effect on me! It just comes out of nowhere. It sort of sums up Gabriel. He's calm, calm, calm and then mental! The animal within. Hahaha
Blimey, he looks so young. Look at the pretentious bald old twat now -doing his gigs on a daft two-wheeled scooter. Fascinating stuff tho, I love watching vintage electronic music demonstrations. The invention of the Fairlight (and the Emulator) really was a defining moment. LOL "phallic symbol". Aw you're alright really PG -even though you did bugger all when they drove a bypass through Solsbury Hill.
Very interesting, I'm no fan of PG but it is plain to see he knows what he's doing, very much aware and alert for such a young man! What you see him do here is exactly what sampling is all about, making your own sounds, feeling the texture, mood and emotion they create.
i'd still be superhappy having a fairlight and that screen. the sampling seemed very fast. i dont get why theres not more vstsamplers that actually sample - not just load samples.
Thanks for this - I recall seeing a doc on UK TV after PGIV (one of my fave albums). Wonder if this is the same. Some talk of record company rejecting it. JC!
It's not really about music, it seems he was just astonished by its sampling abilities. I didn't listen much to Gabriel when he started on that World Music business.
Interesting, saw Gabriel right after PG4 was released and he was quite powerful/psychotic/interesting. Thomas Dolby also did a lot with the fairlight.
It's easy in 2007 to look back at 1982 and poke fun... we'll all do the same to hair styles clothing and dance in 2027 when we look back at today.
To minimize the impact of Peter Gabriels solo work and his influence on both popular music composition as well as experimental music is short sighted and niave.
Interesting comment. I don't hear a lot of PG influence in today's music..certainly not pop music. Are there indie type artist copping this sound? I occasionally hear a cover of IYE (like we need ANOTHER one). Honestly, I think this music was a product OF the times, not ahead of it. I LOVE PG3&4, but he lost me after that. He had one good idea (the world music/pop fusion) and has beaten it to death the last 20 years. Still can't believe he took TEN YEARS to make "UP", I expected more.
I thought UP was a big of dog as well. I wanted lots more and didn't think it was worthy of his previous catalog.
PG's affect on music I believe is more related to his abilities to be inventive as we see here with his sampling. Also his production techniques have be copied and many are still used today, pumping an entire mix with your compressor, the gated reverb (yes flogged to death and not heard much now - thx)
PG's soundtrack for the Last Temptation of Christ is brilliant and the style has shown up on other soundtracks and songs... sorry no reference ;)
The dense production on the Security release and the lack of cymbals through out the songs did provide a specific feel that has been replicated.
I can't comment much on today's pop music... there's none that I really find interesting enough to want to listen too. Though I do hear shades of PG in Radiohead... and bands of this caliber.
Fairlight was the world's first sampler I think, and a highly advanced synthesizer. Absolutely adore it. You could also boot MS DOS on it since it was a computer as well.
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How to make crap with a Fairlight. Third World skiffle music. What a prat. The best Fairlight work was Scritti Polliti. Working with him must have sucked.
Scritti Polliti are another lame 80's band forgotten in the ash heap of that period. They never got beyond sounding just like every other cookie cutter synth act from that period.
Gabriel, by contrast, has continued to pave the way and influence others to do the same.
Gabriel is a bit of a prat. His solo stuff is pretty good but his strength was with Genesis. Genesis became shite when Hackett left. As far as Scritti - their sampling & other work w/the Fairlight was oustanding.
I agree that Genesis without Peter is just worthless pop, but even the worst Phil Collins-fronted Genesis music is more memorable that Scritti. Even in the electronica and darkwave scenes nobody talks about them. It's either Depeche or Gabriel.
Genesis is a rock group. Scritti was, and IS, a array of things. People stick to what they feel safe with. No offence to them, but i'd go for Scritti first. I'd imagine "nobody" in the "electronica" and "darkwave" Scene talks about them, The two genres a rittled with cookie cutter groups and sounds.
An "array of things". Well, let's say that this is so.
None of those things are something that could have ever overshadowed the grounds breaking work Gabriel did in pop music at the time of this video. What Scritti did then was poop.
@larkydozer Complete Bull! Cupid & Psyche '85 is just as incredible to listen to today, as are all of Peter's records, including Security. Scritti set the standard for high-tech New York-based studio-sequenced wizardry. Dave Gamson is a synthesizer god - as well as a hell of a musician, arranger and songwriter.
"Cupid and Psyche" is just gay friendly party music that sounds dated, like so much of the other music of the period which it's indistinguishable from.
I love Peter's music. Was this at his recordings for the fourth album? And i wonder why his eyes always looked like he was a depressive insomniac back then.
watched this at the time and got into PG from there pg4 was awesome and well ahead of its time,kate bush got a fairlight shortly after for the dreaming album another awesome albulm of the 80s.............
Oh, this is just fantastic. :)
Lexcoaster 1 month ago
3:54 awesome
MichaelKhanTV 4 months ago
Gabrielese! YES!
MrNickjones26 4 months ago
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I sampled my Sons' voices into my EPS 16+ back in 1990, for use in 'I Fantasize', a song I wrote days later.
This takes me back there, and to the 80's when I first got the idea, upon learning what the Fairlight system was... Cool!
myklmusic 5 months ago
Did you know there is a Fairlight iPhone and iPad app released by Fairlight! Quite cool being able to sample and produce music like the greats of music did all those years ago! You can also buy a 30th anniversary CMI re-release! google fairlight 30a
lross86 6 months ago
The entire Fairlight Library is now available as donation ware for Kontakt 4. 30 disks + extras. Really worth checking out if you got the urge to produce older tracks.
vstman 6 months ago
Fairlight CMI from Australia ... Noice!
Jeansieguy 9 months ago
Great interview!
VenjaMusic 11 months ago
Where's the video of PG chasing a monkey around with a shock stick, that would be funny.
RobotronZone 11 months ago
i remember doing the same kinda thing -- shoe squeaks, water sounds, spinning coins, et al -- with my Ensoniq EPS back in 1990 or so... GOOD TIMES !!!! ..and seeing Pete do it now, in hindsight, really brings it all back for me! (and others too, i imagine..) Guess it's time to go power up my keyboards and remember why i started doing this to begin with!! ^_^
keykrazy0 11 months ago
@keykrazy0 Yup... those were the days. i went from an ESQ-1, then Mirage, EPS, EPS-16+, and then an ASR-10 (which I have three of). Ensoniq brought sampling into the hands of every man!
SonicMMM 10 months ago 2
@SonicMMM Still have my ESQ-1 in the closet! Now we can get the Fairlight on an Ipad for $50!
daikuone 7 months ago
I remember my old computer with those floppies! Nice.
crazymetalfingers 11 months ago
Thank you for this video. PG is God
josracer 11 months ago 2
more telling than his watch, I think, is the fact that he chose the word mummy, as a ex public school attendee, mummy why did you leave me get molested by those beastly older boys.
yakacm 1 year ago
at 3:30 we see he's wearing a casio calculator watch, the sign of a true geek :)
quaxk 1 year ago 2
awww floppy discs!
skitch88 1 year ago
He is wearing a computer watch!
felchty 1 year ago
I have the soundtrack to that interview on a Genesis Interview CD I got 20 years ago! Great to actually see it! Thanx for sticking it on YouTube! I love this kinds stuff! You're a Star!
1969atam 1 year ago
mommy!
MrKeyboarder100 1 year ago
If you can create a drum pattern that is truly unique and interesting,why is it wrong for someone like a Phil Collins to use various drum machines to make that pattern come alive?!Oh for a Peter-Phil album,just them, all percussion,acoustic and electric!!!
ksjoyjespeace 1 year ago
great video!
MrKeyboarder100 1 year ago
OH SHIT! THE BEGGINING OF "SAMPLING" SOUNDS
thiagotecnico 1 year ago
Awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing this!!
pbarc552 1 year ago
omg floppy disks
zwartepiet412 1 year ago
Love Peter Gabriel, and the Fairlight CMI! This video combines them all to make such a nirvana!
VinylLad 1 year ago
heavy inspiration
AmazinRetropolis 1 year ago
Did anyone catch when he call the light pen "phallic symbol"?
3:04
michaeltgrace 1 year ago 12
@michaeltgrace Sure¡! Even non-English speakers like me ;-)
BilisNegra 1 year ago
I wish I had my own personal technician in my studio!
svenghoulieil 1 year ago
Peter Gabriel was a mental case.
...and with that I will say I will take a bullet for any such mental case like him...clearly u got to be a mental case to be able to see such clarity as he does in a world filled with distructive low resonating ignorance...u know...the "normal" way of thinking.
keybobrob 1 year ago
...pq adoro peter gabriel...
raqbeol 1 year ago
The sound of the air in the pipe : EXCELLENT ! The sound of the glass being crashed : ABSOLUTELY AWESOME ! E-mu + Fairlight keyboards used to rock !!!
VintageSoundsNumber1 1 year ago
Eccentric artist right from day one. I admire him for that.
ajittffcure 1 year ago
PG rules!
riojp 1 year ago
mummy! hehe totally cool
rouncer81 1 year ago
man those were some floppies back then
alen209 1 year ago
i love the count in as he is recording..
phlizmo 1 year ago
hahah later it s called sampler
justinlecktschimmel 1 year ago
WOW ALL THAT TO NOT MAKE SHOCK DA MONKEY
oiyabastard 1 year ago
THose Poor TVs lol
dj2bklyn 1 year ago
@ 4:01 is PG playing a Yamaha CP-80?
MsDiesIrae9 1 year ago
Uh..sorry dozer, I still happen to get a lot out of Cupid & Psyche '85. So deny me my pleasure? It doesn't sound like much of anything else that came out during the same period, exception: it was mixed on the same SSL boards prevalent at the time. Gartside's breathy (and heterosexual) lyrics were quite different than something ABC would have put out. Human League were much more rough around the edges. Hell, I'm not going to list every 80's band. Who knows what you had been listening to.
pacific707 1 year ago
"Gay-friendly" - I like that. Is that anything like "Fred friendly?"
pacific707 1 year ago
@FairCityFourEver Not exactly washed up - it remained too expensive to purchase.
pacific707 1 year ago
worse? no..just different.
There is nothing wrong with writing a catchy pop song...nothing at all.
MARANTZamp 1 year ago
most fairlight users really didn't use the sampling capability...except for peter
MARANTZamp 1 year ago
yes they are 8 Inch floppys
ascentuk 1 year ago
holy shit, look at the size of that floppy disc!
Putaspellonyou 1 year ago
and then along came the Synclavier...........
bobmuse40 2 years ago
I truly doubt that the Fairlight's "demise" can be attributed to a Korg M1, (sold millions, but a flash in the pan - never used anymore, even in Legacy edition) and the Roland JV1080. The Roland JV1080 is indeed a workhorse in the music studio but doesn't come close to the capabilities of the Fairlight CMI! Two completely different beasts!!!!! Don't get me wrong, I love my 1080, but please, it sounds awful to compare it to an 80's vintage Fairlight....they're totally different!
pacific707 2 years ago
thats a funny disk!
thelurker25 2 years ago
@thelurker25 It's a 5 and 1/2 inch floppy disk. It used to be the only medium that we could keep our data on. Back in the early and dark ages of digital audio....
pacific707 2 years ago
Those look like 8" discs not 5.25".
LightweightProducer 2 years ago
Perhaps it was a big old 8". I'm going to have to watch this again. You should see the optical disks they used for the Synclavier. They looked just like a Laserdisc (remember them? I still have some Laserdiscs and a very good LD player). I also noticed that they used cartridges in the Fairlight, as well as floppies.
pacific707 2 years ago
WHAT'S OBVIOUS HERE WAS THE ATTEMPT OF CREATING NEW SONORITIES W/ NOISES, . ;. TO THE ONE WHO MADE A PARALLEL W/ JM JARRE IT IS CONSTANT RESARCH VERSUS A 'COMPOSER' NOT VERY NOVATIVE;
BETTER SCRUTINIZE ON WEB FRENCH CREATOR OF CRAZY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (Cosmophone, Percuphone ETC) W/ HUGE UNHEARD SOUNDS PATRICE MOULET. ex-member of ALPES (VOCALIST CATHERINE RIBEIRO : Pete. co-wrote 'au creux de ta nuit" for her!
NOT TO DIE"IDIOT LEND BOTH EARS TO THIS... GENUINE GENIUS!
Feerique
feericka 2 years ago
What?
pacific707 2 years ago
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it was amazing for it's time.
i recoded some stuff back in the 80s. the band i was with at that time, used a fairlight cmi which belonged to producer Trevor horn of the Buggles.
the orchestral string sounds of the fairlight completely blew us away.
for those people that could afford the £60.000 price tag it was well worth it.
a friend of mine sold his old fairlight for £2000.
personally i think he should have kept it, but he needed the money.
curszondax 2 years ago
if the drummer stops playing the song dies
korgpadude 2 years ago
Great video
spol07 2 years ago
PURE CREATIVITY !! the first artist who ever use the failight the second was jean michel jarre ( juste because it was deliver to peter gabriel first !). now if lisa gerrard was in the video then you would have a kind of dead can dance type of music !
thank for this video !
godslave666999 2 years ago
Awesome footage.
PG is a great musician and forward thinker.
Respect PG!
LinxAudio 2 years ago 25
i wonder what album he was recording at this point?
skitch88 1 year ago
@skitch88 I believe it was the one with San Jacinto. Peter Gabriel IV, I think.
jbannon01 1 year ago
The Phil Collins Lesson: "Shut up and play the drums."
MitchTenderness 2 years ago
...there is nothing 'contrived' about 'World Music.... the West making a concerted effort to show appreciation to traditional and new developments from music from around the world. Gabriel has pioneered Western multi cultural appreciation - whilst Collins has merely exploited it. Hence the reason, why Mr Collins is in tax exile in Switzerland ( great British bloke !!!) and has been sued by virtually all of the jazz musicians who worked tirelessly for him over the last 10 yrs.
Vasiliki666 2 years ago
tax exile? sued by musicians? where do you get your information? FOX NEWS?
please stop with your psycho babblin.
World music WAS bullshit then and now...
MARANTZamp 1 year ago
queste sono cazzate da ragazzini,io le facevo a 11 anni e nemmeno lo conoscevo a Peter Gabriel...
erflaz 2 years ago
peccato che a quel tempo tu non fossi ancora nato. se hai potuto divertirti a fare quelle che tu stesso definisci cazzate (non le sperimentazioni di Peter) lo devi alla disponibilità di strumenti elettronici a basso prezzo: se non fosse esistito il Fairlight i tuoi giocattoli non esisterebbero. La tua testa fa cagare come il tuo italiano.
stevepaselli 2 years ago
voi Fans siete la razza peggiore,io cmq nella vita faccio il concertista e l'insegnante di pianoforte hehehe.
erflaz 2 years ago
Mi dichiaro sconfitto. Non seguiranno altre repliche. Concertista ed insegnante a 13 anni? Io per pubblicare il primo vinile ho dovuto aspettare i 16: faccio musica (composizione, arrangiamento, basso fretless, chitarra, voce, tastiere, programmazione, fonico di studio) da 30 anni... Se questo è il rispetto che hai per artisti come Gabriel ed lo insegni pure ai tuoi allievi forse era meglio se ti davi alla pesca sportiva. E se suoni come scrivi... Tanti auguri per la tua professione.
stevepaselli 2 years ago
he's a weird fucking guy man.
VercettiVice 2 years ago
He is a genius.
Vasiliki666 2 years ago 3
Hello Vasiliki666 -- I agree with you about Peter Gabriel. He's absolutely brilliant. I love his innovative approach to music. I like artists that are bold and unique. Peace2U, Kim
hojofan 2 years ago 3
...whilst I think that he has focused his concentration on developing other world music, he inspires me and whenever I am looking for ideas I take out one of his albums. The last temptation of Christ, is truly the work of a genius. What do you think ?
Vasiliki666 2 years ago 2
I like that sampler better than the ones today.
cortezforever 2 years ago 3
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Gabriel is good solo, but not as great as the critics like to claim.
His voice is hard to take after 5 minutes.
Phil's voice is easier on the ears.
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
....yes, and Collins is resigned to the 'Where are they now' basket
Vasiliki666 2 years ago
that might be your opinion, but collins is easier to take than peter's shril voice, and contrived "world music".
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
Peter Gabriel is the GENIUS of rock.
Cimbarius 2 years ago 3
lol the phallic symbol! omg.
astralentity 2 years ago
Yes Daniel Balavoine a french singer have to buy the fairlight in 1985...Just Balavoine in france have utilisated the fairlight machine
ParadoxSedan 2 years ago
Presque le seul .....Jean Michel Jarre l'utlise dès 1981
Papal57 2 years ago
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a genius with a very annoying voice
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
A clown who think he's a genius who happens to have more voice than ingeniousness.
Only liked him when he went new wave. And I prefer Prog rock much more than New Wave. Go figure.
einarabelc5 2 years ago
whats the difference between fairlight and emulator
duranasty 2 years ago
about £15,000 (in the 80's)
robertbowen 2 years ago 2
that's fucking awesome!
oddn 2 years ago
3:31 Reloj calculadora muchachooooooooo!
Louismi 2 years ago
And all that toxic material coming out of that TV tube. PG's gone Heavy Metal deep inside, possibly.
sircvs 2 years ago
Great - I'm sure he and Oldfield could have had a great chat then...
felsner1 2 years ago
ok now that its dirt cheap to go out sample real things around, you need to go do it. these people were all ahead of their time. listen to what he got out of blowing air into a pipe. priceless original.
Ureallydontknow 3 years ago
...Kate Bush did a might good job to with the sampling, and I know she credits PG for making her aware.
Vasiliki666 2 years ago 3
Genio!
Zyon51 3 years ago
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Peter Gabriel can go eat dog vomit.. God his music sucked and was nothing more than a musical "periodical" for the 80's.. Thank god we've all done wiped our asses with it and flushed it down the toilet.... I'm currently wiping my ass with Brittany Spears.. You??
krishotsaucemiller 3 years ago
Did it ever occur to you that most people wtaching this actually like Peter Gabriel?
nicck 3 years ago 7
Well I don't know all his music. But what I know is GOOD.
Keijz74 2 years ago
I can respect your opinion, there are musicians I don't like. I don't see why anyone's feathers are ruffled. If you've recorded any of your own music that you feel offers something that everyone will like, please enlighten us. I'd hate to think that I was missing out on anything you've done that might surpass Peter's recordings.
nodestudio 2 years ago 3
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Peter is a good artist, but his voice is very annoying.
Genesis was better without him.
R
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
Genesis was better quitting.
einarabelc5 2 years ago 2
Genesis was better without gabriel...and was (and is) one of the best bands in music history.
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
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Genesis sounded much better WITHOUT Gabriel...
fo sure.
MARANTZamp 2 years ago
its all a question of...TASTE! Some people...don´t HAVE Taste. Sorry... your lines proof it! GENESIS...without PG... is ABBA! Thats (may be) the Reason why those Zeros had an Album started with "ABA" in the Title...Gabriel WITH Genesis... sounded like it should be. Period.
KidSX 2 years ago
For some reason, that crazy laugh he does at 2.33 has had a profound effect on me! It just comes out of nowhere. It sort of sums up Gabriel. He's calm, calm, calm and then mental! The animal within. Hahaha
ajd626 3 years ago 3
Blimey, he looks so young. Look at the pretentious bald old twat now -doing his gigs on a daft two-wheeled scooter. Fascinating stuff tho, I love watching vintage electronic music demonstrations. The invention of the Fairlight (and the Emulator) really was a defining moment. LOL "phallic symbol". Aw you're alright really PG -even though you did bugger all when they drove a bypass through Solsbury Hill.
BaddaBigBoom 3 years ago 2
its salisbury not solsbury
SAFEBOSSDJS 3 years ago
Incorrect it *is* Solsbury Hill -it's near Batheaston in Somerset. Salisbury is in Wiltshire -google the song title.
BaddaBigBoom 3 years ago 2
how about i google your face!
SAFEBOSSDJS 3 years ago
...only if I can sit on yours ;-)
BaddaBigBoom 3 years ago 3
OMG! Is this actually a serious response from somebody???
"Climbing up on Salisbury Steak, I can see the gravy....nice."
pacific707 2 years ago
Sorry - I suppose that's more of an american dish - the Salisbury Steak, that is.....
pacific707 2 years ago
My God, you are a small creature. Tell me; what grand things have you yourself achieved? They must be massive, I am sure.
ludvik 3 years ago
Well, for a start, I've bothered to offer up some videos on Youtube ;-) We are all small creatures my friend.
BaddaBigBoom 3 years ago
profession, rich.. lol too easy...
MajinHS 3 years ago
"All of these sounds are stored on these floppy disks"... which now look about as large as personal pan pizzas.
But wow, to start sampling that long ago, he had to be one of the first mainstream musicians to use a sampler.
seanfanning1 3 years ago 2
Who counts to four before breaking stuff?
krazykoren 3 years ago
Anyone who doesnt want to miss the sound, whilst hitting "sample" late enough to record the whole smash before the thing runs out of memory i guess??
rondutch23 3 years ago
Makes sense to me.
Keijz74 2 years ago
Nice calculator watch!!
samoged 3 years ago
multi media man
angelicb4me 3 years ago
thanks a lot for this video, i saw peter gabriel under a knew light, and i discovered the story of one of my favorite peter gabriel's song
Famimao 3 years ago
Very interesting, I'm no fan of PG but it is plain to see he knows what he's doing, very much aware and alert for such a young man! What you see him do here is exactly what sampling is all about, making your own sounds, feeling the texture, mood and emotion they create.
totaltwit 3 years ago 5
Think about all of the cutting edge stuff we have today that we'll be laughing at 30 years from now.
Fairlight rules.
MarsHottentot 3 years ago 5
i'd still be superhappy having a fairlight and that screen. the sampling seemed very fast. i dont get why theres not more vstsamplers that actually sample - not just load samples.
youarelackluster 3 years ago
Thanks for this - I recall seeing a doc on UK TV after PGIV (one of my fave albums). Wonder if this is the same. Some talk of record company rejecting it. JC!
rockinroy555 3 years ago
It's not really about music, it seems he was just astonished by its sampling abilities. I didn't listen much to Gabriel when he started on that World Music business.
marcvanderloo 3 years ago
Good demo by Peter Gabriel!
ajittffcure 4 years ago 2
I like shock the monkey ...he was the monkey that got shocked...
fromthispoint 4 years ago 2
The monkey is the ego. The death of ego is the liberation of spirit.
minwav 4 years ago 5
Interesting, saw Gabriel right after PG4 was released and he was quite powerful/psychotic/interesting. Thomas Dolby also did a lot with the fairlight.
woofiedog3 4 years ago
Genius. So far ahead of its time. Remember "shock the monkey!"?
MontroBeats 4 years ago
It's easy in 2007 to look back at 1982 and poke fun... we'll all do the same to hair styles clothing and dance in 2027 when we look back at today.
To minimize the impact of Peter Gabriels solo work and his influence on both popular music composition as well as experimental music is short sighted and niave.
PilferMusic 4 years ago
And we'll look back at the music of 07 and say, "That sucks; let's hear something from 82."
autodrivex 4 years ago 3
You're probably quite correct! I can't imagine we'll be wanting more 2007 pop or ass shaking video's
I can't believe I spelled naive wrong :)
PilferMusic 4 years ago 4
Interesting comment. I don't hear a lot of PG influence in today's music..certainly not pop music. Are there indie type artist copping this sound? I occasionally hear a cover of IYE (like we need ANOTHER one). Honestly, I think this music was a product OF the times, not ahead of it. I LOVE PG3&4, but he lost me after that. He had one good idea (the world music/pop fusion) and has beaten it to death the last 20 years. Still can't believe he took TEN YEARS to make "UP", I expected more.
twentyonesixteen 4 years ago
I thought UP was a big of dog as well. I wanted lots more and didn't think it was worthy of his previous catalog.
PG's affect on music I believe is more related to his abilities to be inventive as we see here with his sampling. Also his production techniques have be copied and many are still used today, pumping an entire mix with your compressor, the gated reverb (yes flogged to death and not heard much now - thx)
PilferMusic 4 years ago
PG's soundtrack for the Last Temptation of Christ is brilliant and the style has shown up on other soundtracks and songs... sorry no reference ;)
The dense production on the Security release and the lack of cymbals through out the songs did provide a specific feel that has been replicated.
I can't comment much on today's pop music... there's none that I really find interesting enough to want to listen too. Though I do hear shades of PG in Radiohead... and bands of this caliber.
PilferMusic 4 years ago
Fairlight was the world's first sampler I think, and a highly advanced synthesizer. Absolutely adore it. You could also boot MS DOS on it since it was a computer as well.
x0n1c64 4 years ago
Afaik, the control side of it was in fact m68k, not x86; meaning that DOS could not be run on it. It ran its own operating system.
mrdaven 4 years ago
theyve finally perfected the sound of smashing garbage in todays rock music :)
miamigroove 4 years ago
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How to make crap with a Fairlight. Third World skiffle music. What a prat. The best Fairlight work was Scritti Polliti. Working with him must have sucked.
Franzko787 4 years ago
Scritti Polliti are another lame 80's band forgotten in the ash heap of that period. They never got beyond sounding just like every other cookie cutter synth act from that period.
Gabriel, by contrast, has continued to pave the way and influence others to do the same.
larkydozer 4 years ago
Gabriel is a bit of a prat. His solo stuff is pretty good but his strength was with Genesis. Genesis became shite when Hackett left. As far as Scritti - their sampling & other work w/the Fairlight was oustanding.
Franzko787 4 years ago
Gabriel is a buttock? How do you know this?
I agree that Genesis without Peter is just worthless pop, but even the worst Phil Collins-fronted Genesis music is more memorable that Scritti. Even in the electronica and darkwave scenes nobody talks about them. It's either Depeche or Gabriel.
larkydozer 4 years ago
Genesis is a rock group. Scritti was, and IS, a array of things. People stick to what they feel safe with. No offence to them, but i'd go for Scritti first. I'd imagine "nobody" in the "electronica" and "darkwave" Scene talks about them, The two genres a rittled with cookie cutter groups and sounds.
ABCRE2 4 years ago
An "array of things". Well, let's say that this is so.
None of those things are something that could have ever overshadowed the grounds breaking work Gabriel did in pop music at the time of this video. What Scritti did then was poop.
larkydozer 4 years ago
@larkydozer Complete Bull! Cupid & Psyche '85 is just as incredible to listen to today, as are all of Peter's records, including Security. Scritti set the standard for high-tech New York-based studio-sequenced wizardry. Dave Gamson is a synthesizer god - as well as a hell of a musician, arranger and songwriter.
pacific707 1 year ago
@pacific707
No.
"Cupid and Psyche" is just gay friendly party music that sounds dated, like so much of the other music of the period which it's indistinguishable from.
larkydozer 1 year ago
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your talking out of your arse
stevedolby 3 years ago
Wow, I want a CMI IIx, right now ;) Jesus Christ, Gabriel seems fairly desperate to sound "weird" and "different"... "TV Smash, Take One"
Downmaster 4 years ago
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retard
stevedolby 3 years ago
The man is one of our musical geniuses. Cracks me up, though, to see the ancient computer technology now. lolol
When I started with computers, we were using 5.5" floppies. I just threw away one of those old drives.
JudiG 4 years ago
I remember the old times... one 5.5" with DOS 3.3 and another with DBase Plus or Word Star...
lol
gmansi 4 years ago
quel bonheur de revoir cet extrait des enfants du rock
25 ans après et un PG au zenit de ses créations
lonfia 4 years ago
this is amazing!!!!
andresjacome 4 years ago
his voice is unique
CassisLips 4 years ago
8" Floppies!!!!!!!!
VideoJunkei 4 years ago
GRANDE PETER
artistaglobale 4 years ago
I love Peter's music. Was this at his recordings for the fourth album? And i wonder why his eyes always looked like he was a depressive insomniac back then.
boodleboy 4 years ago
I think he wore eyeliner back in the eighties. I love you Peter!
ladySEGOVIA 4 years ago
Wow! I want one of those sampling keyboards!
skellaway 4 years ago
They were cool, but beyond outdated these days.
TeddyLeper 4 years ago
wow,expression......
jonnydieffen 4 years ago
J'adore Pete Gab' et le Fairlight, merci !
Cette vidéo est géniale, je viens la voir régulièrement...
Chavvvvvvv 4 years ago
watched this at the time and got into PG from there pg4 was awesome and well ahead of its time,kate bush got a fairlight shortly after for the dreaming album another awesome albulm of the 80s.............
boothfenn 4 years ago
Way ahead of his time. That's all I have to say.
erikakismet 4 years ago
This is really neat... and he breaks stuff!
MUTANTLAB 4 years ago
I wish I had been able to see this back in 82. It would have opened my mind to so many possibilities. My world was so small back then...
Many thanks to Artmuzz wherever he (or she?) is.
edgar2prado 4 years ago
That was great,i never seen this before,thanks for posting
sanmiguelito64 4 years ago
When will we call Pete, "SIR Peter Gabriel" ??????? I'm ready for it.
JurisDocster 4 years ago 2
He and Roger Waters are one of Engalnd great genius alive.
dietervondirk 4 years ago
Shouldn't that be two of ...? Or do you mean when you put them both together? :D
aimeethyst 4 years ago