The Herbie Hancock Group on Danish TV, 1976
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ย. 2022
- Herbie Hancock and his band perform cuts from the albums “Man-Child” and “Secrets”:
1. Hang Up Your Hang Ups (from Man-Child, 1975)
2. Gentle Thoughts (from Secrets, 1976)
3. Spider (from Secrets, 1976)
This rare, well preserved (!) recording was made for Danish television in 1976.
Herbie Hancock
with
Melvin “Wah Wah Watson” Ragin
Bennie Maupin
Paul Jackson
James Levi
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
😆
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.
you know how some pockets have a smaller pocket inside them? yeh, that's these guys right here
underrated comment
Props to Herbie’s road crew for lugging all those heavy ass vintage 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 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.
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.
Respect to everyone watching this. You all know what a good time is 💛
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
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!!
This is literally the best thing I’ve seen on TH-cam in years. Funkin RIGHT!
Take a look to level 42 live ....😂
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!
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.
Maaaaaan. Everybody jammin' on here. Especially my man Wah Wah. Loving his energy.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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
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 one of the best things I have seen in my entire life. absolute peak Herbie.
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!!!
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'll be sixty four this year but still love funk when it's played great like this.
Love everything about this
Me too
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..
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.
70’s Jazzfunk at it’s finest
you know they're in the zone when they're kind of staring off and their hands are transmitting the funk from within
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.
perfect vibe to start my day
Wah Wah Watson is on it! RIP
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
TH-cam gold. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
the stars aligned for this one. incredible
The call and response between herbie and the bassist around the 7 minute mark 🫨 I could watch this stuff all day
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.
Gentle Thoughts is my favorite track on the album Secrets. Which I still have on vinyl.
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.
¡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
Wah Wah Watson is amazing!
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 incredible! I’m 39 years old. I’ve always loved funk music. I’m happy I found this. Thanks for posting.
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!!
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.
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
Classic performance!
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!
Phenomenal in EVERYWAY!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Loved Herbie since my high school jazz band teacher turned us on to Headhunters way back in ‘74..🥳
WOW!!!
Amazing performance and a super tight band. And so, so, so funky!! ;)
2:26 - whatever Melvin “Wah Wah Watson” Ragin is doing right there is COOL!
50 years later and it is still fresh! Jammin' dey ass off!
the guitar in "Gentle Thoughts" is bliss
Wah Wah playing that guitar and Herbie on the Solina is the sound of the cosmos! Amazing performance, thanks for the upload.
6:36 Look at the dialog between Herbie and Paul! Precious!
Although Paul is not shown for whatever reason…
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
wonderful. that sounds crazy at 28:00
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!
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.
What a find!
No one in this comment board saying anything about Bennie Maupin! He was waaay ahead of his time!
He’s the reason I picked up a sax his play style is out of this world man, love his solo stuff too
This is a trip. Love it!
Paul Jackson and Wah Wah are geniuses!!
a temple of music 💘
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.
damm jazz is the classical music of modern era
Music At Its Best.
Straight A!
wowww this is legendary
Headhunters Forever!!! Bennie Maupin is killing it, though it sounds as if he wasn't properly mixed. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Nonsense. what do you mean: "it sounds as if he wasn't properly mixed``.
The man who taught me what real music is.
What a joyful dude, Herbie.
incredible treasure, adds so much to the prior versions
this is so freeking good, who ever watch them live in concert are sooo lucky
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.
What can I say about this amazing performance and the audio and video that hasn’t been said so beautifully by 500+ people in these comments.
Like everyone else here, I’m especially grateful to the person who posted this video, for sharing this joyous piece of history. Thank you and bless you. ❤❤❤❤❤
The two greatest FUNK bands in the history of music are James Brown’s late 60’s, early 70’s bands with Bootsy on bass, and this Herbie Hancock Hunters band with Wah Wah Watson. No other bands in music history could lock into the greasiest, funkiest, nastiest, most creative grooves for hours and never sound repetitive, or tired, or let you wanna sit down!
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.
This is sublime.
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.
The bad-ass about this is that it is clearly a phenomenal recording. There is so much here in the visuals that lend to an already brilliant part of Hancock and Co.'s history.
The sad part is that there are so many aspects of this epoch that have become watered-down tropes for elevator music that skimmed off the heavy cream of Hancock's compositions and is now called easy listening, and smooth "jazz."
Excellent. Got both those original LPs but never heard this recording 😀👍
Melvin M. Ragin, known professionally as "Wah Wah Watson", was an American guitarist who was a member of The Funk Brothers, the studio band for Motown Records.
Wow! Thank you for that fascinating gem of information. I knew I saw his name credited on an album jacket somewhere.
I love these European videos of bands. Always finding gems
Wah wah‘s fun of playing is absolutely infectious. 😍
this is beautifull...what a performance ! the cooperation ! love it !
Fantastique musique.
Obviously after finding this (thanks to TH-cam algorithms) I subscribed and liked
🎵
Tinha um fusca aqui no Brasil que dei o nome pra ele de Herbie Hancock Che Gue Fusca
I started to dig at 7:19, when Herbie left that cheesy "clavinet sound" or whatever it is for the Rhodes and the sax solo started to build for real.
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.
Super funky jazz 💖✌️
This is WONDERFUL ✨ This music really hits me🕺😎🔥 wooooow this is so good, what a vibe !
AT 28:57 WWaaaaahhouuuuuu !!! F like FUNKY, G like GROOVE !!!!
One of the best things I've seen on TH-cam in a long time.
AWESOME!!!!!
Grooving fingers ! what a magic team, 47 years old and no wrinkle at all
20thiest or ever more listenning that heaven hit ... this song is like could heaven ever be like this from Idris Muhamad
This is PHENOMENON! ATOMIC! 5 Masters of Jazz-Funk! WHAT A DISCOVERY! And Wah-Wah Watson is definitely monumental.
Great band great music the best of funky jazz!!!