Thomas Dolby on the tube - She Blinded me With Science

Thomas Dolby performing 'She Blinded me with Science' on the tube circa 1984.

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[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 !!!

[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.

[RJADVids]

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

[templarseries]

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

[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! :-)

[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.

[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

[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.

[ruffian1868]

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

[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....