What I was doing in 1995

[YoPappee]

Can't wait to see your float at this year's Pride.

[babytog]

Cool haircut....I'm jealous.

[101balletfreak]

How long was your hair

[salvadory]

i must say the older and wiser gainsey is a big improvement but then again i used to wear my hair like daniel ash of love and rockets and thought a d50 was great so youre forgiven

[GoreyOr]

What happened to the rest of the footage?

[Spaghettaboutit]

Wow, I got news for you, you miss spelled your name and need to add this info to your Wiki page that talks all about how you are an American poet and memoirist, also how you are way older. Just thought I'd let you know.

wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Mark_Doty

[AutomaticGainsay]

@Spaghettaboutit Yes, the stresses of poetry aged me quite a bit since 1995. ; ) I misspell my name a LOT. ha ha ha

[eastperson]

"frame by frame" that is impressive : 0

[cprostudio]

lol, peter andre meets the cure

[fauvejaundice]

you rule

[AutomaticGainsay]

@fauvejaundice No, YOU rule.  : )

[TheGodParticle]

I'm going to have nightmares now...

[Mikemaniax]

Holy Shit it's Chris Crocker! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!

[AutomaticGainsay]

@Mikemaniax Chris was 8 when when I wrote this song, but he was 10 when I made this video. Plainly, he was inspired.

[SailorSaucy]

Damn, this made me want to lose mh self control... then I worked that body and it all turned out alright. 

[AutomaticGainsay]

@SailorSaucy Ha ha, excellent!

[SailorSaucy]

@AutomaticGainsay

But honestly I love your synth videos... your MS20 demonstration made me pine with nostalgia for my MS10 which I had to sell. But it was that, or get evicted. Sad times.

[AutomaticGainsay]

@SailorSaucy Oh, wow... that is terrible.  I am VERY sorry. I've had two MS-10s (actually, at the same time for a short time... which was SO AWESOME), and I loved them. I actually, as weird as this may sound, prefer the MS-10 to the MS-20. So, I feel for your loss.

[cprostudio]

90s synth glam! this is hilarious man!!!

[BrokenChair88]

This is one of those song's that's so bad it's good. !

[RoyalBlue43]

As I understand it, they didn't have this technology for consumers when I was five years old, so I assume you found away to record your acid trip or something?

[guitarmh11]

Oh man, lasso-ing the garage out frame by frame. Gotta hand it to ya, that's mighty tedious. Was greenscreening an option then?

[AutomaticGainsay]

@guitarmh11 Not for the average computer user, and certainly not for me! I couldn't afford that sort of technology or software!

[audiotrax2000]

Good stuff, very ambitious. I was thinking it was more like the 80's :)

[DangBoogie]

i felt like i just dropped acid and hallucinated going back into the 90s

[totozft]

Arf ! coolllll

[LimpBizkitFan4Lyf]

Dats some sick autotune.

[samokunzo]

Respect.



[chrisarnt]

Damn!

[toxto]

Amazing.

[AutomaticGainsay]

@toxto Thank you!

[AEpooptube]

this is so incredibly 90's in that it is so random..like most of the 90's. i love it.

[AutomaticGainsay]

@AEpooptube Thank you for recognizing it as 90s. A lot of people seem to think it sounds 80s, but it definitely did not sound 80s when I wrote it!

[YofterMofter]

@AutomaticGainsay It definitely sounds 90s, but you did look 80s to me... which kinda reminded me of Limahl. Thanks for posting it!

[peasant2general]

.... speechless... wtf?? I did not see that one coming. definitely a very big change in 13 years...

[AutomaticGainsay]

@peasant2general ha ha ha ha : )

[TehW00terMan]

Pretty funny how this reminds me of Backstreet Boys and Nine Inch Nails... how did you do that?

[AutomaticGainsay]

@TehW00terMan Ha ha, thanks! I really wanted to combine more hardcore industrial sounds with pop.

[mipmipmipmipmip]

do you have the video in higher quality? It's pretty neat :)

[qwertysklay]

My god.. it sounds like a primitive version of autotune...

[AutomaticGainsay]

You're right. Actually, it wasn't so primitive. It was the "vocoder (sic)" function of the Digitech Studio Vocalist, which allowed you to play, via MIDI, the notes your voice sang. I used it even before Cher made AutoTune famous.

[cactusleaf]

DAMN! This really, really kicks some ass. DAMN! I want to listen to it again.

[gordonjcp]

That holds up pretty well, you know. I bet it would chart these days. You only had to wait 15 years...

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, thanks!

[kwakky]

it's weird, because you seem so intelligent, intuitive and tasteful in your other synth demonstration videos, but...what the fuck is this? how could this have ever seemed worth doing, watching, or listening to? and you said you were 28. please tell me you were on some serious drugs at this point.

[AutomaticGainsay]

I guess it depends on your tastes. This song sold a lot of CDs, and nearly got me a recording contract with Geffen. The song was recorded without loops, and without a computer. Every sample was hand-sampled from actual synths, drum machines, and electronic drums. The guitar parts were played on a guitar by me. I even sampled the vocal samples by hand from movies. It's easy to look at it from a modern perspective, but I would encourage you not to.

[ootheca]

@kwakky. erm it was the 90's, take a look at anything that came out of manchester around that time and tell me if you think that was "worth doing".. give AG a break babez, im into it.. ****

[singinglawnchair]

I wish I could shoot lens flares from my index fingers. =P

[AutomaticGainsay]

Well, I can teach you to do it, but it takes years of training. And super powers. : )

[peterlaz1]

wow thats freakishly bad

[crazytimeshow]

wait how did you get autotune back then lol

[AutomaticGainsay]

Digitech made a device called the Studio Vocalist back then. It was designed for harmonizing, but also had a function they erroneously called a "vocoder." What it basically did was allow you to control the pitch of your voice via MIDI. I wasn't autotuning, I was playing the notes I wanted my voice to sing! I was also singing along with that part, too, though. : ) I also did this before Cher. I invented the autotune sound... and boy do I regret it. ; )

[ootheca]

@AG that sounds like some weird old technology, so were you using your voice as the carrier and the modulator?

[AutomaticGainsay]

Look up Digitech Studio Vocalist, I think they even still make it or a newer version. All I did was sing ( or even speak) into the thing while I played the notes I wanted via a MIDI synth, and the device did the rest! It was meant to be a harmonizer, so it was already designed to alter the pitch of the input audio... it would just use MIDI to define the target pitch, and alter the frequency of the input to match.

[pmsan29]

Like boy george without the dreads or something

[GaxAngel]

I'm not a big fan of the lyrics tbh... But the actual music was good.

[3z3three]

damn you were pretty lol

[AutomaticGainsay]

Thank you. : )

[kingklabe]

Sorry man but if I end up in hell this will be playing on a loop.

I promise to behave myself from now on!

AMEN

[AutomaticGainsay]

I could only WISH to be so lucky as to play in Hell.

What plays in Hell is Mini Moni's AI-IN.

[DivantiInternational]

Ahhh...the terpsichore years!  I gotta show this to cory! :)

[Joeey]

gayer than wearing a pink tutu in the weightroom

[AutomaticGainsay]

Thanks for your unique perspective!

[UnchainTheNight1]

um, he is the "girl"

[ShrCanIt]

нишутя! папацански

[plukx]

I suppose retrospectively the question is : Did you make her yours? And did it cost you your self control?

Especially enjoyed the end. And, in view of the somewhat

cyclic tendencies of musical trends, I would keep this track somewhere safe and be ready to whip it out in July 2015. You'll probably make a shit load of cash.(ie more synths!more videos!)

[Kadadj]

Yeah, you remind me of bruno, so thats gay in that manner.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Bruno is so much prettier than I was.

[Kadadj]

Noo, Im amazed by how much work you did on this video, dident they have greenscreen at the time?

[AutomaticGainsay]

Well, they did... but I didn't.

[dfhawk000]

sorry is a good song do you have a download link

[AutomaticGainsay]

Not yet!

[dfhawk000]

no offense but you look gay

[AutomaticGainsay]

You should apologize to gay people everywhere for insulting them like that.

[DudeJoshCrunk]

this song makes me want some pie :D

[COMPACTASS1]

what, being gay?

[AutomaticGainsay]

Good one!

[clearmenser]

(Bt + Prodigy) / Run DMC

[sweatersocks]

DUDE you totaly beat Akon and Tpain by about 10 years.

[AutomaticGainsay]

@sweatersocks Yes, I did... and it's not even Autotune, it's a Digitech Studio Vocalist played via MIDI keyboard.

[KitsuneDarkStalker]

I like this. ^-^

[snickerdoodle69420]

Looks very 97ish to me and some of the effects remind me of 89-90.

haha good stuff

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, thanks!

[flannelking]

This reminds me of prodigy, republica, and atari teenage riot

[krishotsaucemiller]

DAMN!!!!!! LMAO

[ModularNick]

The video reminds me of Down In It by NIN

[toggomusic]

how long did it take to make

[AutomaticGainsay]

Weeks of daily work!

[toggomusic]

wow its great

[malcolmyoung86]

Wow. I mean... just wow...

[AutomaticGainsay]

Thank you for your cogent analysis!

[TunnelAllstars]

you know basshunter or not? listen-like-basshunter first part

[nekrobot]

dAyUm!

i fell off my chair and died after i watched this.

but i'm ok now.

[cdragotta]

This is 95, but the look is very 87.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Hmm. I don't see it. Anyone else see 87 in this?

[cdragotta]

Missing Persons. Human League. Gary Neuman. (The last two are more of a hair/eyeliner thing.) I think of 95 as the decline of heavy heavy grunge, post Cobain, STP, Alice in Chains, etc. You've got this Max Headroom video processing, it's all upbeat and bubblegum.

[gummybits]

I see 95 to 98, i see midnight vultures, i see the film hackers, i like the stuff your doing now better, i see alot of Beck influence, am i right?

[cthulufunk]

I think it's the pants. Do you still have them? They're the most awesome pants in the world. Throw a codpiece in there and it'd be pure Cameo/Larry Blackmon. You've aged well, I bet they'd still fit.

[AutomaticGainsay]

See, that's the thing. The pants are baby-blue vinyl... no one was wearing vinyl in 1987. : ) They are, however, covered in a sort of very wide fishnet, so I could see them being mistaken for something else.

[skinnypuppy1]

was this your band or somthing? I love to hear old analog synths are you making music now???

[AutomaticGainsay]

This was what I was doing when I wanted to do popular electronic music. None of this music contains analog synthesizers.

[lyokofans]

It is amazing a little perfomra 6300 was capable of doing some cool video effects like that back in the day

[cthulufunk]

Holy shit, you were in Information Society?  ;)

[AutomaticGainsay]

Embarrassingly, they were passé by the time I did this. ; )

I would have WISHED to be in INSOC about 6 years before this, though. : )

[mooghammondb3]

Chris Crocker?

[AutomaticGainsay]

Chris Crocker was what... 2 that year? Suck it.

[mooghammondb3]

Aye, mate. Just kidding, sorry to offend. In fact I'm a bit of a vintage synth nut myself; a big fan of your videos as well.

Cheers

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, I know! I recognize you! I just meant to say that Chris Crocker was imitating ME. ; )

[Kittehpx]

this is some fucked up shit dude!!

[AutomaticGainsay]

agreed.

[winecheesery]

gross

[wehat]

Honestly, my favorite of everything my dad did with dog creek digital.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Hey, thank you very much!  Your dad made all of it sound good... I am truly indebted to him.

[DaanDobber]

Damn.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, best comment ever. : )

[pdecarlo]

This is amazing!

[Sakrecoer]

forgot to add the credits for tit and the ":D"

[Sakrecoer]

... wish you did.....

[lesingemonotone]

Scary stuff! Brave...:)

[autumngrief]

wow thats gay as fuck

[AutomaticGainsay]

Eloquently put.

[xzn1989]

Damn! Vocoder style!

[AutomaticGainsay]

the only analog part of the song. ; )

[NR92CP]

When I think about how the nineties were, this is really cool.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Thank you!

[phensley1]

is this a joke?

[AutomaticGainsay]

It was a different world when you were 7.

[phensley1]

its awful

[AutomaticGainsay]

: )

[RavishingLauren]

This makes me think of puppies on fire, dancing.

[huerequeque1]

How old were you?

[AutomaticGainsay]

I was 28.

[ReapearingDoubleChin]

A suprising resemblance to chris crocker.

[ModularNick]

Looks kind of like the video for Down in it by Nine Inch Nails

[bentsynth]

you must love tinleys work.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Who?

[bentsynth]

mark tinley.

[itsemilyhansen]

ahahaha, chekcered skinny jeans!

they're back now!

[Tischhupe]

That is very 80's! Thanks! :-)

[JingleJoe]

heh this song/video allways makes me smile :)

sounds like information society if they were less evil ;D lol

[BlueManIan]

Is that Auto-Tune on your voice, or a vocoder?

[korgsynth20]

are you gay ???

[AutomaticGainsay]

Relevance?

[ModularNick]

LOLOLOLO

[fgsfds11]

obviously he is

[AutomaticGainsay]

I should be so lucky.

[itsemilyhansen]

it was made in the nineties...

[RamzGT]

EVERY FRAME

WOW. Mad respects.

[OptimusPrimus001]

WOW! so retro! crazy hair! pants-very 80's. parts of song very 80's. still interesting to watch!

[toddfawx]

This is awesome and retro :)

[SkyBluU7]

yay!!!! I love Terpsichore!!!! kudos to you for putting this up here.

: )

[dbeckster]

Dude... okay now your creepy. U look like chris crocker... I liked what you bought better. 1 star. sorry.

[AutomaticGainsay]

No, Chris Crocker looks like I did 13 years ago.

; )

[OriginalJambo]

That. Was. Rad.

[shaft9000]

whoa... looks like you had a little too much fun with the 'ole ergot there, Marc!

[aceyage]

Quite a turnaround, man :-D

[mrcat1990]

oh dear

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, this might be my favourite comment right now. : )

[myrtorp]

hahaha:D

[batfish]

The first time I seen this video I was like "aww, the corny 90's" the third time I watched it, I was like "this is pretty catchy", the 70th time I watched, I became a fan :)

[mikebaas]

freaking rad editing man

[VoltageControlled]

What synths/gear did you use for this song?

[AutomaticGainsay]

I didn't use any synths on this song, actually. It was done entirely with an Ensoniq EPS-16+ sampler. The synth/organ sounds are from that sample library. The guitar is real. Notably, some of the vocals were sung through a Digitech Studio Vocalist using its MIDI control, where MIDI pitch values are assigned to the incoming vocal information. This is NOT Autotune, and predates the Cher song which popularized the similar sound.

[synthesizeme]

wow.

[HolidayInGuantanamo]

What can I say? That was very brave. And very much of it's time. Most of us would rather leave out the embarrassing bits of our past. :P

Oh, those hateful years when dance music meant doof-doof-doof ad nauseam, and never a snare was to be heard (til Jungle and 'big beat' came along). Happyhard, gabba, trance.. aaaaieee! Never again! Thanks for sharing, I guess? ^-^

[AutomaticGainsay]

What would have been truly embarrassing is if I would have left in all of the dancing I did back when I recorded it. Wow. :)

[giddygavin]

As Krusty would say-"Fanschmabulous!"

[xEMTx]

wow, so much misguided effort. sad but im so glad its here, such a portrait of a time and type of mid 90s techno loser wannabe superstar

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, thanks for your post. Amusingly, it is the song that came the closest to getting me major label contracts!

[SkyBluU7]

jeez people are so mean to you. I work out to this album.

[loekiwesterveld]

Dude, thats gay!

[AutomaticGainsay]

Yay!

[SkyBluU7]

do mean like homosexual or stupid, because if you mean stupid you have no idea.

and if you mean homosexual.... well i dunno. lol

[trash180]

OMG...that was freaking awesome. I love how you kinda punch the camera in the face at the end. Totally sweet.

[AutomaticGainsay]

Ha ha, thanks!

[neopundis]

Sometimes I see people that look like you did then, but now... Cool!

[SkyBluU7]

yeah he can see the future. ; )

[rockyshott]

You should do more stuff like this!

[acousvnt]

Awesome! And not what I would have expected.

I posted something I did in the same time period as a video response; I hope that's not considered bad YouTubiquette. I seldom use the "response" feature, and only if it's truly relevant.

[AutomaticGainsay]

I have tried to accept it, but my inbox isn't showing it, only the e-mail!