YMO - LIVE GREEK THEATRE '79 - PT1

4th August L.A '79

Anybody who owns 'Public Pressure' will instantly appreciate this

Hideki Matsutake (Logic System) is perched behind that 'Techno Spaghetti' console (Moog III) behind takahashi-san!

I was expecting 'Cosmic surfin' after the intro (just like the cd) so must be an alfa edit

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Music

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• ymo
• yukihiro
• takahashi
• ryuichi
• sakamoto
• haruomi
• hosono

[cdssmac]

Outstanding!

Brits of a certain age might remember The Old Grey Whistle Test. They showed Cosmic Surfin' from this very video. I was blown away and they've been firm favourites ever since. I introduced my 14 year old daughter to YMO (when she was 12!) and she loves them too.

These guys still rock even today. Thanks so much for posting this.

=:~)

[ymo1965]

Thanks so much for your great comments. I do remember the old grey whistle test appearance. They did release a dvd of whistle test performances. I did look ages ago to see if ymo were featured but didnt see anything concrete. If anyone can confirm they're on the dvd, it would be worth picking up.

All the best :]

[atomtomtoma]

Is this the concert from 'Public Pressure'?

[ymo1965]

It is indeed :) but you'll notice if you've heard PP, that the song after this intro is behind the mask and not cosmic surfin'

[atomtomtoma]

Ah, I'm going the other way round, I wanted to see what I'd be getting if I bought PP (if it's even available for sale anywhere). All I've heard from the album is Cosmic Surfin' so far

[ymo1965]

If you look at my other video 'YMO - Arrive in London' you'll hear 'The End of Asia' as background music. That is also from public pressure, but where PP's version had no guitar, the video version does. There was a dispute with record companies and they edited /removed the guitar out for PP. Good album btw :)

[ajittffcure]

What separated Yellow Magic Orchestra from Kraftwerk and The Human League and those early electronic bands was that they had more complex musical sensibilities rather than just the atmospheric elements.

[SobmicSSBB]

Haha, that drummer is awesome.

[rb1a1ba]

On the version of Live at Greek Theater '79 that I downloaded, it starts with this exact version of Behind the Mask but then launches into an amazing version of La Femme Chinoise before Cosmic Surfin' - anybody able to solve this mystery for me, that is, why is La Femme Chinoise on my copy/not on this copy?

[KaeruKerokero2008]

excellent!!! :-)

[googooAAA]

まさに天才集団

[qwest7200]

これNHKのラジオで聞いた。

[illmasta]

Funny thing is, the sequencer that Matsutake is working on back there had no memory or save function, so while the band is playing one song, he's programming the next one during it!

[taideomou]

@amgi55 ラッシュっていつの何処のラッシュ？たぶんgeddy lee’s Rush ですよね？カナダの。幻の武道館？日本では全然知名度のない…。­うーん、比べるのはかなり違うでしょうね。特にここに居るYMO­メンバーは日本の奇跡の時代の代表と言うか、この時代に信じられ­ない世界的音楽家が一気に出て来たんですよ。筆頭はアッコちゃん­、いや教授？いやいや香津美さんの危機迫るソロは…じゃ細野さん­や幸宏どうなるのよ、みたいなw 兎に角これを超えられない、超えてない日本のいまの現実をしっか­り…

[taideomou]

Vietnamファッションなんて考えたらUS人は完全に混同す­るだろうしまだ戦争の記憶も真新しいし結構ぎりぎりラインかもし­れない。いずれにせよThey are A Top Notch Musicians in JAPAN at that time , and all of them is still, Original YMO are three -Dr, Ba, Key-. Most popular person is Key-R.Sakamoto., .needless to say ? hahaha...

[nishikujo2009]

坂本龍一がヤバいほど若い

[822318]

ＬＰの中でも大好きだったライブ版が見れるとは感激です。

司会者のセリフからと懐かしいばかりです。

ＹＭＯのお３人様も凄いですが、見れば見るほど矢野さんの才能も

彼らの大きな力になったのではと実感しております。

[auntyena]

I still have the 1st YMO album in mint condition ! Yeah !