@@rickblackers88 Yes it is, I never checked it out because the cover is so bleak compared to the other records, but just listened after watching this video and what an experience 👀
He doesn't get the props he deserves I like nile Rodgers from chic but Nile can't play like your uncle....I see Nile copied when he made good times go to the 17 minute mark of this video...good times guitar 🎸 part copied
OK. Thanks for the triage advice. I broadcast on publi radio since 1983. Never heard of him so add to boolean search words" wah wah" hopefully wastson comes up with the random wah wah pedal musicians talking gear. Watson b berry funky.. I. Keep. Searches. Open. Ended. Keeping. It. Real. (IKSOEKIR]). Just to find tracks I'm not looking for. Wahx2's song. @14.50 Approx
I want to say thank you to your uncle. I received many things from his images and sounds. From this moment on, my life is about to change. What a wonderful food for the soul.
Herbie H. played at Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2022, great concert, the audience were thrilled and excited. As the concert was at the end and the musicians was about leaving Herbie H. turned around and said " oh, yes, and there is this" and the concert ended with an extended version of Chamelon. Thank you mr. Hancock.
As a late millenial I've only discovered Mr Herbie Hancock last year and I can't believe that I'm going to see them next month at the Melbourne Jazzfest!! can't-freaking-wait!!
The Danish video team deserves respect. pre/post vid production was phenomenal The way they recorded and controlled the video feeds for this live event - astounding.
Yeah I frequently see old video's from the 60's 70's from danish tv, they knew what they had and I love the people who are responsible for filming and recording music so I can enjoy it many years later.
@@tyleralden1854The technique is called chroma key. The background is blue so they filter out all the blue footage and overlay two or more cameras. The technique creates unwanted artifacts in the blue patterns of Paul Jacksons shirt😊
Saw HH at the Odean, Birmingham , UK many years ago. Was REALLY hoping to see Harvey Mason but he used Alphonse Mouzon (another great drummer btw). Paul Jackson broke a string and changed it whilst still continueing to play some complicated piece. What skill !
I couldn’t of imagined what it actually felt like to be there and experience it in real time I’m a young dude and I’m amazed by all of the older music/musicians
This 1976 live TV production in Denmark was ahead of everyone's time. Especially the audio mix. The true test of great audio production is when you can selectively listen to, and follow, any ONE instrument and hear EVERY nuance. Everything is crystal clear. Every player has an equal voice and no one is lost or covered up. This makes for a truly unique listening experience. So glad I discovered this. Thanks for sharing!
This is a sound recording studio with cameras brought in. Those are expensive German microphones everywhere. It may possibly be a post-production mix too instead of live-to-tape. There is great Danish TV Led Zeppelin footage of their '69 tour...when they still had something to prove. A great live recording and video with kids sitting right up close to the band...
Yes, this seems ok, but in the 80ies danish television was notoriously terrible at live music. To the point of danish bands insisting on doing playback, because they knew the sound would totally suck.
@@Trk-El-Son TV stations by their nature are multimedia centers and are never proper sound studios. I played in several as a boy in the 80s and it was a mono mix of a handleful of live mics for a 8 piece band. But these same news broadcaster rooms did a ton of 80s music videos and were hired to do live video and sound for broadcast in the 70s. The Zep Danish TV show sounded pretty good but it was an anomaly, for sure..
No. It is not a great mix at all, very substandard with mistakes all over the place. Wah wah is too loud and distorting half the time. Bennie Maupins sax too low or jumps in too loud then disappears again. Levels are jumping all over the place. The tone is peaky and crunchy, not warm and full and present in the best 70s way like Musikladen's. The bass is weak. The drums weak and dull. The mics are too far from many things giving them too much in direct room sound. etc etc, poor audio production. The gold standards from this era are the Musikladen/BeatClub ones by far. Most of those have everything...warm big sound, proper levels, present direct sound that is not harsh or washed out with room sound distance, perfect mix, proper compression. Leave it to the germans and their mics and gear (neumann, telefunken, etc). The music and performance is great. The visual effects behind the time. Chroma Key was more an earlier 70s thing, a relic of the earlier psych era, which had been mostly left behind, but the danish were behind the times and didnt get the memo on that. Still great to see and some of my fav tunes. The audio no tho.
giving a masterclass on funk guitar...which always sounds so easy and smooth....but wait till you practice and want it to sound as fluent as with the great ones...hard work, man
Been on youtube since it started in the mid 2000s, and in that whole time I've never had a video I come back to as much as this one. And I only found it like a month ago! This is just such a badass performance, it hits every note for me in presentation, style and talent, I love the 70s analog video effects, I love every musician's intensity and joy... just the perfect live show.
In the 80s when some of my friends were getting into hip-hop, they thought I was odd for collecting HERBIE HANCOCK cassettes. I still have my cassette and CD collection by the way, in 2023.
You weren't. One of my favourites from the mid seventies. HH gave a concert in Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2022 at the DR koncerthal, great concert.Still got HH LP'es.
@@michaeldsee Man, I wish I had more to share! 😐 I hope there still exists a preserved copy of the Soundstage episode with the Headhunters and Return to Forever. That’s pledge drive material! Same for the Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert episode with Herbie and co. It would be great to see them made available some day. And who knows what else is sitting in other archives.
The most incredible deep communication jam of all time period. These gentlemen are so accomplished individually, and they all came together under a well defined structure by a great genius.
Can see where Watson earned the Wah Wah moniker. His pedal playing is next level. Such musicality and expression with it. But always tasteful. Never heard anyone play it like he does.
Yeah my uncle was that dude and from 19 years old being a Funk brother up until his passing, Unc was always recording and still has music on the radio. I hear him and his influence everyday! RIP to the GOAT!! Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson!!
I got to the fusion party a little late; by 1975 the Headhunters got my attention. Funky fusion at its finest. His earlier work on Man-Child and Thrust never get old. Herb(ie Hancock) is my fusion drug of choice. Love the creative cinematography. P.S. thanks for uploading this. American TV in 1976 would have never considered airing something like this; only the Danish and other European cats appreciated this.
I was about sixteen and went out to a place named Labyrinth in Beverwijk (Netherlands). There they played “Thrust”. I was totally blown away by this music from outer space. Been a Herbie Hancock fan since then.
Never ever ever have been more impressed by such beautiful dedication to skill and craft. These gentlemen created the most perfect moment at that time in 1976, not to mention danish. Beautiful video.
Nice, Wah Wah is incredible. I practice Buddhism with HERBIE, this is 4 years after he chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. I didn’t know that Wah Wah and Bennie were so incredible. Can’t stop moving!
@@xRickAstleyx Yeah, and while they were not vintage, they were damn well heavy - as was the gear to keep them steady, the mics and stands and XLR cables to play, monitor and record them, and the ballasts and other riggings required to steady them.
This is so far ahead of its time the future and the past don’t even exist anymore. A gift from the music gods and H.H. Of course. Tremendous production for the technology of the day!! TO COOL FOR SCHOOL 😎
Herbie is laying down some SERIOUS clavinet licks here, no? So blue! So soulful and gospel-like! And, yes, Wah Wah and Paul Jackson are grooving like no one else!
The band is one of a kind, but the recording sound and film artwork is amazing for its time. 100 thumps up for the danish TV and sound crew - amazing 👍 Wished there would be more recordings in this quality.
@@guillaumedelautre611 At 14:53 we see Herbie take his place at the keyboard that plays in the minds of gentle people, the Rhodes Suitcase Eighty Eight. 😌
@@guillaumedelautre611 2129 is a rhodes sound. cp70 sounds nothing like that. it is under the clavinet, where they often were in this day 33:05 straight ahead, while he plays the yamaha to the left of it
A most brilliant performance. Smart Camera angles from sharp Danes show the supreme tightness in all positions. Delicate & delicious it just gets better as geniuses synchronize together.
The '73 Chameleon album was my introduction to jazz fusion and completly shaped my taste of music. Those guys are so F U N K Y, maybe even better than in the studio. Paul Jackson (R.I.P.) formed me as a bass player 🙏, he's so groovy 🤩, what a legend!
My friend just sent me this and I’m watching the whole thing. I love everything about this from all those keyboards, man named Wah Wah, the bass god with the funky shirt, those early blue screen efffects, the pure harmony and magic of all those wonderful instrumentalists working together. Magical just magical baby Edit: almost forgot to mention the sax! My Lord!
I love that they at least TRYED things back then. Even if some of it looked .... uhhh... interesting.... but this doesn't matter at all bc they went wild with it!
These men are one with there instruments and were born to jam together when I James this on my stereo in the 70 s or old school 70s headphones always magical
No kidding. Most brilliant jam. Perfectly structured. Herbie Hancock, what a composer. There’s never been anything like this to be recorded for us to marvel at
the time in that thing .. i got all the records i could lay my hands on from the players i got to know through Bitches Brew then and Headhunters just freaked me out completely i was a young middle class white boy living in the south of Germany and smoked a lot during this time - i thought i lost it all together trying only to follow the beat in that music. The funk phenomenon was unknown to me you see. Some ride i can tell you that. But even today i'm still floored by this pulsing mosaic - i can follow the beat by now but what does that get me? Anyway the joy hasn't changed a bit. This band is so ... well the appreciative adjectives and more expression are here already. No need to repeat them. It is very pleasing to find such a lot of voices who show themselves moved by the experiences of the impact of that sound. I guess 'smoking hot' and 'incredibly tight band' say it better after all ..
At age 13 or 14 in the mid to late 80’s, I listened to Secrets on my Walkman intensely while delivering newspapers. I was a strange child I guess, and I am still fine with that to this day. Still love “rediscovering” this album even to this day. Classic for me
this is the typical case of music from the past passing through the present and going straight into the future herbie is now a star and you know that when you become a star (by merit in his case) you no longer have the creative vein as when you need to establish yourself, herbie continues to be an unparalleled pianist and composer, but the music he makes is aimed at personal affirmation rather than the creative quest excluding a unique and beautiful album dedicated to the music of joni mitchell the river beautiful and full of music equal to poetry Also wonderful are the images with the superimpositions of faces and instruments with refined framing, very forward for that era
@@Phazers thank you as you say, I simply expressed my thoughts in a world today that only shoots out judgements, thoughts, even if conflicting, can and should still be expressed and when one remains within the enclosure of civilisation, every thought, even if discordant, is right to be there
thank you very much indeed for sharing this wonderful period film, a relic of a civilisation that unfortunately no longer exists I am not at all nostalgic in any area, but the creativity that was concentrated in that period, I think it can hardly be repeated today, maybe there will be other artistically relevant things (and there are) but the creative spirit that was there in the years of this film where musicians and artists in general lived a wonderful freedom and state of grace, I think it could hardly be possible with today's world
Though this is one of my favorite live recordings of Herbie's (always love the Wah Wah Watson addition), The VIDEO EDITING is funking LEGENDARY...I need more live recordings done like this!!
Yes! I really appreciate Gentle Thoughts as a piece of ‚Secrets‘ since it’s one of the more approachable tracks. Some other ones require a lot of attention to really enjoy.
1. Hang Up Your Hang Ups (from Man Child, 1975) 00:00
2. Gentle Thoughts (from Secrets, 1976) 14:28
3. Spider (from Secrets, 1976) 24:37
Yes, thank you. I’ll add this to the description. 👍
Secrets is a masterpiece of good taste
@@rickblackers88 Yes it is, I never checked it out because the cover is so bleak compared to the other records, but just listened after watching this video and what an experience 👀
@@ronaldo.araujo herbie and bennie are a potent combo.
He doesn't get the props he deserves I like nile Rodgers from chic but Nile can't play like your uncle....I see Nile copied when he made good times go to the 17 minute mark of this video...good times guitar 🎸 part copied
Wah Wah Watson is the reason why we put www on the internet before every search, never forget that...
gold comment
😆
OK. Thanks for the triage advice. I broadcast on publi radio since 1983. Never heard of him so add to boolean search words" wah wah" hopefully wastson comes up with the random wah wah pedal musicians talking gear. Watson b berry funky.. I. Keep. Searches. Open. Ended. Keeping. It. Real. (IKSOEKIR]). Just to find tracks I'm not looking for. Wahx2's song. @14.50 Approx
@@bohoCIRCUS333 , ahahah!!! Are you serious?!
😆 😂 🤣
Excellent 😂😂
Wah Wah is my uncle! Melvin Ragin is real name! He has played on everybody hit records!!!!! Miss you Unc and I know you somewhere funking it up!!!!!!
Wow!! Everyone should know about him and his pioneering playing and sonic signature. 🙏
Watson was a rhythm guitarist Supreme. Never missed a stroke, always on point. Funky, like Pops feet, but in a good way
@@dlxinfinite7098 yes!! His timing was perfect! It was the secret sauce!!!!!!!
I want to say thank you to your uncle. I received many things from his images and sounds. From this moment on, my life is about to change. What a wonderful food for the soul.
wow props to your Uncle WAWA. Never heard of him and never heard anyone like him.
Respect to everyone watching this. You all know what a good time is 💛
Damn right missy. Cheers.
¡Salud!
Right On!
straight up
❤
Herbie H. played at Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2022, great concert, the audience were thrilled and excited. As the concert was at the end and the musicians was about leaving Herbie H. turned around and said " oh, yes, and there is this" and the concert ended with an extended version of Chamelon. Thank you mr. Hancock.
As a late millenial I've only discovered Mr Herbie Hancock last year and I can't believe that I'm going to see them next month at the Melbourne Jazzfest!! can't-freaking-wait!!
😊
you know how some pockets have a smaller pocket inside them? yeh, that's these guys right here
underrated comment
Got me a chuckle! 🫡
@@-in-the-meantime... underrated recognition of an underrated comment
this isn't pocket this is pants
Excellent observation
The Danish video team deserves respect. pre/post vid production was phenomenal
The way they recorded and controlled the video feeds for this live event - astounding.
Seriously impressive production. Anyone know how they overlayed multiple video feeds, removing the background from the player in the foreground?
@@tyleralden1854aliens did it... they told me...
Yeah I frequently see old video's from the 60's 70's from danish tv, they knew what they had and I love the people who are responsible for filming and recording music so I can enjoy it many years later.
I was looking for this!!! Agreed 👍
@@tyleralden1854The technique is called chroma key. The background is blue so they filter out all the blue footage and overlay two or more cameras. The technique creates unwanted artifacts in the blue patterns of Paul Jacksons shirt😊
6:35 the call n response between herbie n Paul is exciting to watch
Exactly man. It took me a couple times to catch that but it's just beautiful!
Paul Jackson is a bad mother!! One of the most UNDER RATED bassists ever!!
Saw HH at the Odean, Birmingham , UK many years ago. Was REALLY hoping to see Harvey Mason but he used Alphonse Mouzon (another great drummer btw). Paul Jackson broke a string and changed it whilst still continueing to play some complicated piece. What skill !
Since when? Every Bass player knows of him.
Wah wah‘s fun of playing is absolutely infectious. 😍
Herbie takes these little magical sneaky, delicious, diminished chorded tickly notes...nobody can do this. A pure magician and alchemist!
Its because of performances like this why i say the 70s was a golden age for American music!!
I couldn’t of imagined what it actually felt like to be there and experience it in real time I’m a young dude and I’m amazed by all of the older music/musicians
This is literally the best thing I’ve seen on TH-cam in years. Funkin RIGHT!
This 1976 live TV production in Denmark was ahead of everyone's time. Especially the audio mix. The true test of great audio production is when you can selectively listen to, and follow, any ONE instrument and hear EVERY nuance. Everything is crystal clear. Every player has an equal voice and no one is lost or covered up. This makes for a truly unique listening experience.
So glad I discovered this. Thanks for sharing!
I agree a real piece of artwork all the way around.
This is a sound recording studio with cameras brought in. Those are expensive German microphones everywhere. It may possibly be a post-production mix too instead of live-to-tape. There is great Danish TV Led Zeppelin footage of their '69 tour...when they still had something to prove. A great live recording and video with kids sitting right up close to the band...
Yes, this seems ok, but in the 80ies danish television was notoriously terrible at live music. To the point of danish bands insisting on doing playback, because they knew the sound would totally suck.
@@Trk-El-Son TV stations by their nature are multimedia centers and are never proper sound studios. I played in several as a boy in the 80s and it was a mono mix of a handleful of live mics for a 8 piece band. But these same news broadcaster rooms did a ton of 80s music videos and were hired to do live video and sound for broadcast in the 70s. The Zep Danish TV show sounded pretty good but it was an anomaly, for sure..
No. It is not a great mix at all, very substandard with mistakes all over the place. Wah wah is too loud and distorting half the time. Bennie Maupins sax too low or jumps in too loud then disappears again. Levels are jumping all over the place. The tone is peaky and crunchy, not warm and full and present in the best 70s way like Musikladen's. The bass is weak. The drums weak and dull. The mics are too far from many things giving them too much in direct room sound. etc etc, poor audio production. The gold standards from this era are the Musikladen/BeatClub ones by far. Most of those have everything...warm big sound, proper levels, present direct sound that is not harsh or washed out with room sound distance, perfect mix, proper compression. Leave it to the germans and their mics and gear (neumann, telefunken, etc). The music and performance is great. The visual effects behind the time. Chroma Key was more an earlier 70s thing, a relic of the earlier psych era, which had been mostly left behind, but the danish were behind the times and didnt get the memo on that. Still great to see and some of my fav tunes. The audio no tho.
This band was and is absolutely incredible. Wah Wah Watson is so slept on but real ones really know!
That is so true!
giving a masterclass on funk guitar...which always sounds so easy and smooth....but wait till you practice and want it to sound as fluent as with the great ones...hard work, man
Just thriving in the pocket
I dont know how his neck could take the whiplash tho
I definitely know cause that’s my uncle! RIP Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson!!
Been on youtube since it started in the mid 2000s, and in that whole time I've never had a video I come back to as much as this one. And I only found it like a month ago! This is just such a badass performance, it hits every note for me in presentation, style and talent, I love the 70s analog video effects, I love every musician's intensity and joy... just the perfect live show.
In the 80s when some of my friends were getting into hip-hop, they thought I was odd for collecting HERBIE HANCOCK cassettes. I still have my cassette and CD collection by the way, in 2023.
You weren't. One of my favourites from the mid seventies. HH gave a concert in Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2022 at the DR koncerthal, great concert.Still got HH LP'es.
I'm curious as to whether they still work
Who has good ears gets into the funk thing
Props to the camera man gettin hot shots…great production and a Sublime performance indeed ❤
Totally agree. The chromakey quality and artistic layering make it especially good.
Except for the reverse image on Herbie’s keys that my brain can’t stand. 🤣
@@Phazers Any other similar videos? I love this production style.
@@michaeldsee Man, I wish I had more to share! 😐
I hope there still exists a preserved copy of the Soundstage episode with the Headhunters and Return to Forever. That’s pledge drive material! Same for the Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert episode with Herbie and co. It would be great to see them made available some day. And who knows what else is sitting in other archives.
@@filippobuccianelli4606 they did not hang the heavyweight camera above Herbie, they used a mirror. This is the cause of the mirrored keyboards.
I was born in the wrong year and wrong family. When I hear Hancock my mind, body, and soul oh man they do they do the dance!!!
Not so bud. You are family here. Big love.
I swallowed a bug 😅
this is one of the best things I have seen in my entire life. absolute peak Herbie.
The call and response between herbie and the bassist around the 7 minute mark 🫨 I could watch this stuff all day
The most incredible deep communication jam of all time period. These gentlemen are so accomplished individually, and they all came together under a well defined structure by a great genius.
So well tecorded.
Was a time when TV channels produce this cain of long concerts, all this is gone, what a shame friends.
50 years later and it is still fresh! Jammin' dey ass off!
5000 years later and it is still as fresh as a newly plucked pear.
Can see where Watson earned the Wah Wah moniker. His pedal playing is next level. Such musicality and expression with it. But always tasteful. Never heard anyone play it like he does.
Yeah my uncle was that dude and from 19 years old being a Funk brother up until his passing, Unc was always recording and still has music on the radio. I hear him and his influence everyday! RIP to the GOAT!! Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson!!
@@djcoolcliff so cool Wah Wah you uncle. A Black Master of music.
@@scotaiena4066 Facts and Thanks!!!!!! RIP!!!!
it’s sublime! never heard anything quite like it either.
I got to the fusion party a little late; by 1975 the Headhunters got my attention. Funky fusion at its finest. His earlier work on Man-Child and Thrust never get old. Herb(ie Hancock) is my fusion drug of choice. Love the creative cinematography.
P.S. thanks for uploading this. American TV in 1976 would have never considered airing something like this; only the Danish and other European cats appreciated this.
th-cam.com/video/reCo-EfiuD8/w-d-xo.html Was on TV in October of 76 a month before this on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert..
So true. They were/are just more hip to many styles. Was race a factor too? Hummmm
@@MultiSkyman1really?weak..
I was about sixteen and went out to a place named Labyrinth in Beverwijk (Netherlands). There they played “Thrust”. I was totally blown away by this music from outer space. Been a Herbie Hancock fan since then.
Never ever ever have been more impressed by such beautiful dedication to skill and craft. These gentlemen created the most perfect moment at that time in 1976, not to mention danish. Beautiful video.
Nice, Wah Wah is incredible. I practice Buddhism with HERBIE, this is 4 years after he chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. I didn’t know that Wah Wah and Bennie were so incredible. Can’t stop moving!
Gentle Thoughts is my favorite track on the album Secrets. Which I still have on vinyl.
Props to Herbie’s road crew for lugging all those heavy ass keyboards to this taping. 😂
back then they were just keyboards
@@xRickAstleyx EXPENSIVE keyboards.
As a former road crew member, I hear ya.
@@xRickAstleyx Yeah, and while they were not vintage, they were damn well heavy - as was the gear to keep them steady, the mics and stands and XLR cables to play, monitor and record them, and the ballasts and other riggings required to steady them.
Worth it for that sound and that cool over head shot
the stars aligned for this one. incredible
I'll be sixty four this year but still love funk when it's played great like this.
I'm 50 this year and i love funk when it's played the way it was played around the time when I was born.
Phenomenal. On every front including background team. Humanity peaked in the 70's.
I do believe that too. All over the world, from Turkey to Brazil, music artists were in their BAG
The timeline got jacked. Never should have activated CERN.
I come back to this every few months
He’s above the law
Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson has to be the funkiest human to ever walk the earth. He is a magician of sound!
This is so far ahead of its time the future and the past don’t even exist anymore. A gift from the music gods and H.H. Of course. Tremendous production for the technology of the day!! TO COOL FOR SCHOOL 😎
Herbie is laying down some SERIOUS clavinet licks here, no? So blue! So soulful and gospel-like! And, yes, Wah Wah and Paul Jackson are grooving like no one else!
2:26 - whatever Melvin “Wah Wah Watson” Ragin is doing right there is COOL!
You can tell herbie had utmost respect and admiration for wah wah. What a legend
Herbie is talent in a generation.
The band is one of a kind, but the recording sound and film artwork is amazing for its time. 100 thumps up for the danish TV and sound crew - amazing 👍
Wished there would be more recordings in this quality.
¡SUBLIME! ¡Wah-wah Watson es mi héroe! Super-funktastic band...Muchas gracias
Por favor , me dizer o nome desse guitarrista ai ?
@@luizantoniodemouramoura5133 Wah-Wah Watson, aunque su verdadero nombre es Melvin Ragin...
@@enriquehernandezhevia6817 grato
@@enriquehernandezhevia6817 koo
The fine James Levi. This is one of the best live recordings ever. There is nothing like this tightest performance ever
Amazing!
NOTHING sounds like a Rhodes 🎹♥️
Sorry but no Rhodes here. Herbie plays a Yamaha CP 70
@@guillaumedelautre611 erm- Herbies playing a Rhodes Suitcase 88 for all of this performance! He swaps onto the CP but lots of Rhodes here.
@@guillaumedelautre611 At 14:53 we see Herbie take his place at the keyboard that plays in the minds of gentle people, the Rhodes Suitcase Eighty Eight. 😌
@@guillaumedelautre611 2129 is a rhodes sound. cp70 sounds nothing like that. it is under the clavinet, where they often were in this day 33:05 straight ahead, while he plays the yamaha to the left of it
My mum's old boyfriend had Rhodes. The action was f**ked but it still sounded beautiful. One of my all time favourite instruments.
A most brilliant performance.
Smart Camera angles from sharp Danes show the supreme tightness in all positions. Delicate & delicious it just gets better as geniuses synchronize together.
The '73 Chameleon album was my introduction to jazz fusion and completly shaped my taste of music. Those guys are so F U N K Y, maybe even better than in the studio. Paul Jackson (R.I.P.) formed me as a bass player 🙏, he's so groovy 🤩, what a legend!
Head Hunters was the album that did it for me too!
No one groovier! The Headhunters LP with Chameleon was and remains many people's gateway to the good stuff.
Wish music like this was still being made.
Absolutely!
Buhlacks have completely abandoned their musical heritage. It's a travesty.
This recording is gold dust... the pure musicianship is absolute 🔥🔥🔥🔥in a word Legendary! Thank you for sharing. Peace and Blessings.
This is awesome and the reason TH-cam is the only social media I can't live without. This needs to be available to be seen and heard.
4:20 dynamics! Who would ever have thought of playing quietly for a while? 😂 Jazz people playing funk. Super love it. This band is scary smoking good.
Maaaaaan. Everybody jammin' on here. Especially my man Wah Wah. Loving his energy.
My friend just sent me this and I’m watching the whole thing. I love everything about this from all those keyboards, man named Wah Wah, the bass god with the funky shirt, those early blue screen efffects, the pure harmony and magic of all those wonderful instrumentalists working together. Magical just magical baby
Edit: almost forgot to mention the sax! My Lord!
This lineup was hot fire! Legendary stuff. Paul Jackson is a personal favorite of mine. Herbie never disappointed
Love everything about this
Me too
Phenomenal musicians and super visual production , what a treasure of a showcase. Thank you
I love that they at least TRYED things back then. Even if some of it looked .... uhhh... interesting.... but this doesn't matter at all bc they went wild with it!
Phenomenal in EVERYWAY!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Loved Herbie since my high school jazz band teacher turned us on to Headhunters way back in ‘74..🥳
These men are one with there instruments and were born to jam together when I James this on my stereo in the 70 s or old school 70s headphones always magical
No kidding. Most brilliant jam. Perfectly structured. Herbie Hancock, what a composer. There’s never been anything like this to be recorded for us to marvel at
Wah Wah Watson is amazing!
the time in that thing .. i got all the records i could lay my hands on from the players i got to know through Bitches Brew then and Headhunters just freaked me out completely i was a young middle class white boy living in the south of Germany and
smoked a lot during this time - i thought i lost it all together trying only to follow the beat in that music. The funk phenomenon was unknown to me you see. Some ride i can tell you that. But even today i'm still floored by this pulsing mosaic - i can follow the beat by now but what does that get me? Anyway the joy hasn't changed a bit. This band is so ... well the appreciative adjectives and more expression are here already. No need to repeat them. It is very pleasing to find such a lot of voices who show themselves moved by the experiences of the impact of that sound. I guess 'smoking hot' and 'incredibly tight band' say it better after all ..
TH-cam gold. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
At age 13 or 14 in the mid to late 80’s, I listened to Secrets on my Walkman intensely while delivering newspapers. I was a strange child I guess, and I am still fine with that to this day. Still love “rediscovering” this album even to this day. Classic for me
Excellent comment. Don't stop being a strange child!
Nah… You were the coolest kid
Secrets of childhood…
you know they're in the zone when they're kind of staring off and their hands are transmitting the funk from within
this is so freeking good, who ever watch them live in concert are sooo lucky
incredible treasure, adds so much to the prior versions
this is the typical case
of music from the past passing through the present and going straight into the future
herbie is now a star and you know that when you become a star (by merit in his case) you no longer have the creative vein as when you need to establish yourself, herbie continues to be an unparalleled pianist and composer, but the music he makes is aimed at personal affirmation rather than the creative quest
excluding a unique and beautiful album dedicated to the music of joni mitchell the river beautiful and full of music equal to poetry
Also wonderful are the images with the superimpositions of faces and instruments with refined framing, very forward for that era
Great thoughts, well expressed!
@@Phazers thank you
as you say, I simply expressed my thoughts in a world today that only shoots out judgements, thoughts, even if conflicting, can and should still be expressed and when one remains within the enclosure of civilisation, every thought, even if discordant, is right to be there
thank you very much indeed for sharing this wonderful period film, a relic of a civilisation that unfortunately no longer exists
I am not at all nostalgic in any area, but the creativity that was concentrated in that period, I think it can hardly be repeated today, maybe there will be other artistically relevant things (and there are) but the creative spirit that was there in the years of this film where musicians and artists in general lived a wonderful freedom and state of grace, I think it could hardly be possible with today's world
Wah Wah playing that guitar and Herbie on the Solina is the sound of the cosmos! Amazing performance, thanks for the upload.
Thanks for posting the full concert. The other version I watched on another channel only contained Hang Up Your Hang Ups.♥
We owe that channel many thanks!This post wouldn’t exist without theirs.
6:36 Look at the dialog between Herbie and Paul! Precious!
Although Paul is not shown for whatever reason…
Though this is one of my favorite live recordings of Herbie's (always love the Wah Wah Watson addition), The VIDEO EDITING is funking LEGENDARY...I need more live recordings done like this!!
Classic performance!
This is stunning quality. 3 of his best Jams. So glad to see Gentle Thoughts getting some love. Absolutely incredible video
Yes! I really appreciate Gentle Thoughts as a piece of ‚Secrets‘ since it’s one of the more approachable tracks. Some other ones require a lot of attention to really enjoy.
This don`t get any better - Brilliant chemistry for brilliant music.
this is beautifull...what a performance ! the cooperation ! love it !
Secrets has been my favorite from Herbie for a little while, so it's awesome to see this live! Great tunes, and the band is tight, gotta love it.
Great musicians, Herbie is so incredibility talented.
This is incredible! I’m 39 years old. I’ve always loved funk music. I’m happy I found this. Thanks for posting.
First time ever listening to this my body won't stop moving love it
the guitar in "Gentle Thoughts" is bliss
Wow! Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this in its entirety. Just sublime.
Excellent. Got both those original LPs but never heard this recording 😀👍
WOW!!!
Amazing performance and a super tight band. And so, so, so funky!! ;)
One of the best things I've seen on TH-cam in a long time.
Wah Wah Watson is on it! RIP
This vid is pure gold yo! Thank you!
This is music at its finest! I often find myself thinking about this set and 1st chance I get I come back here to listen to this masterpiece!
World class. Thank you for uploading 🙏
Wah Wah with the perfect tone.... not too clean, not too dirty...
This is a trip. Love it!
Guitar work starting at 11:45 is soooooo amazing, woah. Wah Wah killing it
Such a perfect performance. Thanks
Music At Its Best.
Straight A!
14:25 is how high music can get you, when you let it touch your soul.......................
This is PHENOMENON! ATOMIC! 5 Masters of Jazz-Funk! WHAT A DISCOVERY! And Wah-Wah Watson is definitely monumental.
Top notch performance. What incredible musicians these lads are.
This is sublime.
I love Herbie's music with all his bands. A true innovator and kindred spirit seeking to push the boundaries of music and take it further.
This is WONDERFUL ✨ This music really hits me🕺😎🔥 wooooow this is so good, what a vibe !
wonderful. that sounds crazy at 28:00
Turns insane from 30:00 to 34:00
Merci, a great piece of music and t.v. ! ✌
wow this is huge!!! Thank you for this treasure!