This was actually recorded at Assembly 2002 where mr.Hubbard had a seminar about the old days. It was broadcasted @ Assembly 2003. This video was filmed by me and if you're interested, I have the complete video with better quality straight from the original miniDV -cassette on my channel.
lol at the blank look on the other guys face as he stares on in awe thinking "I have no idea what you are talking about, but you are fuckign awesome!" lol
1kb worth of code for his smallest score! I've written sentences longer than that. Man he must have been brutally efficient. He's the musical genius of my childhood.
God this awakes so many old memories. I still remember loading games for 40 minutes on my old C64 just to listen to the songs from the games. Isn't it Radix - I realize I hear in the background in the end of the video? Yet another brilliant musician from 8-bit cult.
Just to echo someone else's comment here. I'd trawl through all the C64 games at my local HMV and see who did the music for the game. If it was Rob, I'd buy it even if the game was crap. I'd then load the game up and just listen to the music. How many buy games nowadays just for the music composer? Not many I bet. I know I don't.
Rob Hubbard was an inventor, someone who literally opened up the doors of perception for me when I was a 13 year old. It's still incredible how he linked programming skills with musical ones and came up with a whole new sound on the C64. I used to tape his stuff and listen to it on my walkman back in the days while everyone around me thought I was nuts. Thanks, praise and admiration is all I have for this guy. Sadly, too few people know how influencial and important his work was.
I do the same thing, I record video game music and put it on my iPod and I get laughed at for that. Jeroen Tel taught me hex code, so he is my mentor for music composing.
What a real opportunity to have learned from the master, and wasted. Guys look like idiots, "what the hell is this gut talking about?" I know what he's talking about, I programmed the C64 when I was a kid and learned interrupts and all the shit he's talking about.
He was one of the first, and the biggest composer of music for computer games, back in the 80s. Come to think of it, since then, I don't know of anyone that became as famous as Rob was back then. One should remember Galway, Daglish and some of the other fellas too. :)
The man is a legend, I will never forget or stop listening to many of his classic game soundtracks. Warhawk, Lightforce, Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse for the C64 are just 4 that spring to mind which are all awesome.
I still remember the name of this guy from 20 years ago because his music were incredible and he had some of the best music in some of the best games. This guy is a legend of early video games.
No exaggeration to say that this man sparked my interest in music as a child. He is a genius, king of the basslines and so much more and it is unjust that he will likely never get the recognition he desveres. However, it is rewarding to see how many other people on You Tube feel the way I do.
@3cheekymonkeys Hell yeah. My friends were listening to Wham and stuff when I was a kid. I was listening to tapped music from my C64. Hubbard was always a favourite! The guy is a living legend in my book.
a genius! should still be working in computer music (hope he is) and should have been a millionaire if there was any justice in the world. He wrote so many good tunes - the ABBA of computer music ;-)
C64 music and especially Rob's music inspired me to write music myself. Becoming good (as in being one with a keyboard/guitar) does takes years of practice and experimenting, to a point when you can write something that is technically and musically good (and outstanding). Everyone can write music, but being a master of the art (and creating an art-piece) is the ultimate pleasure. Nice video..
celebrity?? if they conentrate on " celebrity" they are morons they should go fuck off and listen to the fucking kaiser cheifs.. if they were into the music they would know who he is... numerous groups did digitized stills of him on demos( tex (atari st) fairlight (c64) etc).. sorry for the rant :(
I wonder if he realises what a musical inspiration he is. He talks about how he practically had to go about getting the music into the machine, but not about his inspiration, how he touched his listeners. He touched me profoundly!
there is an interview with tim follin on here also. Matt Gray did some nice music, but Hubbard + Tel aren't the only people I rate.. Galway + Follin for me are on the same level =)
jazz , ah a member vibrants =) . I met JCH years ago in London, nice bloke and humble. The demo scene has loads of talent also, often over looked and there are serious amounts of people who do great things also. I like Odie's and skywave's work a lot (slight bias) you would know it from turbo charge by system 3 =) .
It conjures up all the mystery of a post-war spy fim and all the incredible dynamism and ambition of one of the great classical compositions. It doesn't matter how much technology has increased since the C64 or how many orchestras you get to play on your latest game, you will not beat something created on a C64 if you're not a genius composer, just as so many musicians today struggle to better what was created in 1960s studios by the greats.
I've grown up with computers and consoles since the ZX Spectrum 81k. Manic Miner was my first introduction to a brilliantly surreal game including an integral, memorable, score. Monty on the run will have been my second. I do not overuse the word genius. Rob Hubbard's score is genius (and indeed the game is, which is some combination). And I don't mean 'for the Commodore 64'.
So, my hero too. I was singin' his tunes all my life. I was played his tunes with my band also, before PPOT. Commando and Sanxion was my favs. Thanx 4 this video.
Some people wonder what it would be like talking to Bach or Vivaldi or Beethoven if they were alive or had a time machine to go back, well, here is a future genius that's on tape. In about 1 to 2 hundred years or so, I guarantee Hubbard will be on par with those past composers while those in the current fad (PussyCat Dolls, Madonna, Timbaland, etc) will have long been forgotten....
i always remember when my friend had a commodore 64 the first thing what amazed me was the music.i think the game was skate or die with the guitar piece.
You know what? I know he is a legend! I still listen this stuff on MP3, classic stuff. Although I have no idea what he is talking about. Who cares, he is a genius.
The Messiah !!! Thanks for posting. I've never seen the man interviewed except in mags. The word Genius is used too often but Robb Hubbard 'IS' a GENIUS !!
Rob is great! i can't think of any tune he made for the c64 that i don't love! I feel nostalgic every time i hear his tunes.. That's something i dont think i will feel in 15 years about today's game music.
what year is this interview from? I love his music on commodore and Road Rash
ShoegazeNukeDeployed 1 month ago
love rob and his tunes! specially Zoids.
matrello 2 months ago
the youngsters behind have not the slightest clue of what rob is talking..lol.
tatsujincorp 3 months ago
I used to tape record his music through a tv speaker at my mates, then play it back to people at school.
54spatula 4 months ago
thank you man for Command high score music, IMO is the best music ever in C64
gabrielirlanda 4 months ago
he is a legend
Synthematix 4 months ago
Such a nice patient man - questions about what you know is boring.
djspesh82 6 months ago
we miss such gentle genius artists with so low requirements !
caincan111 6 months ago
What a LEGEND!! This man should of got paid so much more for his creative work he did on the C64 / SID!!!
Cruiseblackpool 7 months ago
A living legend
MattyMacPhotography 8 months ago
And yeah, the guys look "a bit" spaced out :D I wondered about it myself at the time too.
ttcaven 9 months ago 10
This was actually recorded at Assembly 2002 where mr.Hubbard had a seminar about the old days. It was broadcasted @ Assembly 2003. This video was filmed by me and if you're interested, I have the complete video with better quality straight from the original miniDV -cassette on my channel.
ttcaven 9 months ago 9
@ttcaven
! really good quality !
curritmotrance 8 months ago 5
Disney should let him do his own, alternative, sound tracks to the two Tron films.
BlimGlim 10 months ago 8
lol at the blank look on the other guys face as he stares on in awe thinking "I have no idea what you are talking about, but you are fuckign awesome!" lol
BabylonWhore666 11 months ago
1kb worth of code for his smallest score! I've written sentences longer than that. Man he must have been brutally efficient. He's the musical genius of my childhood.
ProgrammedForDamage 11 months ago
You can still see he's quite enthusiastic towards talking about all of his techniques. It's great to hear his opinions on his own work.
ristarsky 1 year ago 3
God this awakes so many old memories. I still remember loading games for 40 minutes on my old C64 just to listen to the songs from the games. Isn't it Radix - I realize I hear in the background in the end of the video? Yet another brilliant musician from 8-bit cult.
pecket 1 year ago
Just to echo someone else's comment here. I'd trawl through all the C64 games at my local HMV and see who did the music for the game. If it was Rob, I'd buy it even if the game was crap. I'd then load the game up and just listen to the music. How many buy games nowadays just for the music composer? Not many I bet. I know I don't.
Yoofaloof 1 year ago
He's not their hero. He's OUR hero.
Yobotistan 1 year ago 4
When i think of the C=64 i think of Rob Hubbard. TY 4 the Vide0 :)
70R4N 1 year ago
I got 1KB free in my autopilot. The motor is buzzing differently when I change throttle. What music can I put in it?
krbosak 1 year ago
great vid, so funny when he goes on about the amstrad and the 512 bytes of memory and everyone laughs, i grew up with the amstrad and his music
what a legend
mrbedford 1 year ago 2
Rob Hubbard was an inventor, someone who literally opened up the doors of perception for me when I was a 13 year old. It's still incredible how he linked programming skills with musical ones and came up with a whole new sound on the C64. I used to tape his stuff and listen to it on my walkman back in the days while everyone around me thought I was nuts. Thanks, praise and admiration is all I have for this guy. Sadly, too few people know how influencial and important his work was.
zyancalikola 1 year ago
I do the same thing, I record video game music and put it on my iPod and I get laughed at for that. Jeroen Tel taught me hex code, so he is my mentor for music composing.
Doommaster1994 1 year ago
Rob Hubbard is the Steve Vai of video game music (specifically C64 music).
Doommaster1994 1 year ago
The Guru of C64 Music
SniperM42a666 1 year ago
What a real opportunity to have learned from the master, and wasted. Guys look like idiots, "what the hell is this gut talking about?" I know what he's talking about, I programmed the C64 when I was a kid and learned interrupts and all the shit he's talking about.
Simpson654 2 years ago 2
@Simpson654 True
CerebralTantrum 1 year ago
Legend, didnt realise he was a geordie too!
A1260T 2 years ago
HAIL TO THE GOD!
MattSid86 2 years ago 3
The man that got me into electronic music
AbsurdistLover 2 years ago 3
Thanks for this. It's always great to get little bits of wisdom on his work process of back then. Just a charming and nice guy on top.
chevkoch 2 years ago
this man is a God Genious and indeed U can hear it in his music, there is not room in that poor little SID to deliver what he´s doing with it.
Mrikuru 2 years ago
Amazing musisican, Awesome programmer.
NESMASTER14 2 years ago 2
good programmer, great musician
mirabilis 2 years ago
It goes without saying that any game Rob Hubbard was involved in was sought after,but on the C64 the games were must haves!
He really pushed the C64's SID chip to the point you felt it must have been overheating!!
A great musician and technical innovator.
nikamota 2 years ago 4
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Rob Hubbard...
It was worth getting a 64 just to listen to his music. Genius!
Oxy151268 2 years ago 10
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@Oxy151268 "Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak,
Rob Hubbard...
It was worth getting a 64 just to listen to his music. Genius!
You forgot Prokofiev.
Just saying.
nikamota 1 year ago
he hasn't changed much (except lost a bunch of hair :P) wonderful man...
ieatflood 2 years ago
He was one of the first, and the biggest composer of music for computer games, back in the 80s. Come to think of it, since then, I don't know of anyone that became as famous as Rob was back then. One should remember Galway, Daglish and some of the other fellas too. :)
MatteusNova 3 years ago 2
The man is a legend, I will never forget or stop listening to many of his classic game soundtracks. Warhawk, Lightforce, Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse for the C64 are just 4 that spring to mind which are all awesome.
BigGsHouseofFun 3 years ago 2
I still remember the name of this guy from 20 years ago because his music were incredible and he had some of the best music in some of the best games. This guy is a legend of early video games.
kralux 3 years ago 37
No exaggeration to say that this man sparked my interest in music as a child. He is a genius, king of the basslines and so much more and it is unjust that he will likely never get the recognition he desveres. However, it is rewarding to see how many other people on You Tube feel the way I do.
3cheekymonkeys 3 years ago 74
@3cheekymonkeys
Totally agreed, i bought below par games especially if i knew he had written the music for it....he should be as famous as John Williams et al.
ethan38 1 year ago
@3cheekymonkeys Hell yeah. My friends were listening to Wham and stuff when I was a kid. I was listening to tapped music from my C64. Hubbard was always a favourite! The guy is a living legend in my book.
TheSerenityVortex 1 year ago 3
@3cheekymonkeys He is one of my heroes. Such an example of sheer genius. Humble and immensly talented!
theeltea 1 month ago
@3cheekymonkeys
To this day I find it incredible that he fitted the whole symphonic six minutes of Monty on the Run into a handful of kilobytes.
TitanFind 3 days ago
a genius! should still be working in computer music (hope he is) and should have been a millionaire if there was any justice in the world. He wrote so many good tunes - the ABBA of computer music ;-)
ooeyb 3 years ago 10
Haha I really had no idea his Hull accent was as strong as mine, what a legend.
alternativejoe 3 years ago
You can take the boy out of Hull, but you'll never take the Hull out of the boy. Legend.
TEEMAN75 3 years ago 3
C64 music and especially Rob's music inspired me to write music myself. Becoming good (as in being one with a keyboard/guitar) does takes years of practice and experimenting, to a point when you can write something that is technically and musically good (and outstanding). Everyone can write music, but being a master of the art (and creating an art-piece) is the ultimate pleasure. Nice video..
conradhw 3 years ago 9
celebrity?? if they conentrate on " celebrity" they are morons they should go fuck off and listen to the fucking kaiser cheifs.. if they were into the music they would know who he is... numerous groups did digitized stills of him on demos( tex (atari st) fairlight (c64) etc).. sorry for the rant :(
MrMiister 3 years ago
just watch all those retarded kids behind him..atomrolf!!!!
tatsujincorp 4 years ago 3
think they know who rob is?
MrMiister 4 years ago
Fucking punch that middle part haired fucktard.
fordgt90 3 years ago 3
I wonder if he realises what a musical inspiration he is. He talks about how he practically had to go about getting the music into the machine, but not about his inspiration, how he touched his listeners. He touched me profoundly!
niansenx 4 years ago 7
Rob Hubbard - Commodore 64 God!!!
doughbakesworld 4 years ago 3
I would love to see a interview with Matt Gray, up there with Rob Hubbard imo.
For his work on the last ninja 2 sound track alone.
I think the guy is overlooked, cant find any info about him on the web!
djsmithy 4 years ago 4
there is an interview with tim follin on here also. Matt Gray did some nice music, but Hubbard + Tel aren't the only people I rate.. Galway + Follin for me are on the same level =)
cosine303 4 years ago
I personally put drax up there too... his melodies are sooooo outtttt
jazzpsalti 4 years ago
jazz , ah a member vibrants =) . I met JCH years ago in London, nice bloke and humble. The demo scene has loads of talent also, often over looked and there are serious amounts of people who do great things also. I like Odie's and skywave's work a lot (slight bias) you would know it from turbo charge by system 3 =) .
cosine303 4 years ago
He's the Man!
tjohanne 4 years ago
The people standing seem spaced out. Do they care, or are they worried about how cool they look or something? What the fuck is up with that?
a1mint 4 years ago
It conjures up all the mystery of a post-war spy fim and all the incredible dynamism and ambition of one of the great classical compositions. It doesn't matter how much technology has increased since the C64 or how many orchestras you get to play on your latest game, you will not beat something created on a C64 if you're not a genius composer, just as so many musicians today struggle to better what was created in 1960s studios by the greats.
Picnic10 4 years ago 6
I've grown up with computers and consoles since the ZX Spectrum 81k. Manic Miner was my first introduction to a brilliantly surreal game including an integral, memorable, score. Monty on the run will have been my second. I do not overuse the word genius. Rob Hubbard's score is genius (and indeed the game is, which is some combination). And I don't mean 'for the Commodore 64'.
Picnic10 4 years ago 2
The best in the business
munnsey 4 years ago 2
Rob!! You got me interested in making music! Also made the games top notch with your music. Thank you for all that.
deviletk 4 years ago 3
This guy ROCKS
KrK007 4 years ago 2
Hull hero!! You're a legend Rob! Grz/PHF
grazeyphf 4 years ago 2
THE legend!!
simonezannotti 4 years ago 2
a master
slasherman1971 4 years ago 2
True legend.
lollerskates123 4 years ago 3
So, my hero too. I was singin' his tunes all my life. I was played his tunes with my band also, before PPOT. Commando and Sanxion was my favs. Thanx 4 this video.
magratea123 4 years ago 3
Some people wonder what it would be like talking to Bach or Vivaldi or Beethoven if they were alive or had a time machine to go back, well, here is a future genius that's on tape. In about 1 to 2 hundred years or so, I guarantee Hubbard will be on par with those past composers while those in the current fad (PussyCat Dolls, Madonna, Timbaland, etc) will have long been forgotten....
jci10 4 years ago 4
i always remember when my friend had a commodore 64 the first thing what amazed me was the music.i think the game was skate or die with the guitar piece.
madmomentsgo 4 years ago
awe anymore of that interview ?
dreamcastII 4 years ago
Delta is so good, I never get tired of it, Rob Hubbard really is a genius.
Tzorcelan 4 years ago
You know what? I know he is a legend! I still listen this stuff on MP3, classic stuff. Although I have no idea what he is talking about. Who cares, he is a genius.
kingbuxton 5 years ago
You know. He is a legend, you know... :)
DocHackenbush 5 years ago
Someone wanted to know where this was shot... seems that it was @ Assembly 2003, Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland.
ToniKoo 5 years ago
The Messiah !!! Thanks for posting. I've never seen the man interviewed except in mags. The word Genius is used too often but Robb Hubbard 'IS' a GENIUS !!
kingligger 5 years ago
An amazing musician. I still love Sanxion and Delta music on the c64. He pushed the SID to its limits. Awesome stuff.
airons1972 5 years ago
Where is this video from?
redhawk000 5 years ago
Rob Hubbard = Genius
MajorLag1337 5 years ago
Like DerSchmu, One of my all-time heroes, wonderfull vid man ! Got any more ? ;)
Torcanog 5 years ago
Rob is great! i can't think of any tune he made for the c64 that i don't love! I feel nostalgic every time i hear his tunes.. That's something i dont think i will feel in 15 years about today's game music.
getupkid76 5 years ago
The hero of my childhood. Great video
DerSchmu 5 years ago