3:41....Dave's mike sounds like it's possessed or something for a moment......Having quite some experience with running sound equipment, I can say that with all certainty I have NEVER experienced anything like THAT while running sound.
@@Anglovox The band had an Eventide Harmonizer which was a primitive digital pitch shifter, you can see them messing with it making Dave's voice sound weird on "XTC at the manor". I suspect either it got clicked onto the wrong setting by mistake, or they were still playing "make Dave sound like Ted Heath" ;)
Did you catch that "NATO" lead into Bob Dylan?: A hard "REIN" is gonna fall.... might be the play on Dylan's words. Andy had crazy racing horse eyes. He was my favorite thoroughbred pony - and I remember how awkward 1982 in L.A. felt for me back then at age 19, sophomore year... and I thoroughly understand his jitters. The panic and malaise of the hamster wheel and comedown after walking 'round ten feet tall... I prefer that he survived the barn stable fire to live and race another way - he had more control of the reins in the studio where he could get it right - with out the demands of live stage - the never ending live performance tour for a house full of pseudo-punk yanks (actual thugs). It was a dangerous place... like Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet . The touring scene was perilous in the early 80's - a real grind. Playing a robotic groove in new wave venues mosh pits, filled with pissed "Repo Man" Brat Pack, Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebies gulping generic beer, and begging for blow would burn people out, Big Time. Reminiscent of the return of the thin white duke, Andy Partridge was like the Man Who Fell to Earth. He sweats like George Carlin hosting SNL after the pilot episode the week before (you'll know when you see it). Its just feels like the his pants (and the barn) are on fire - and he's on stage all wild eyed and has to piss like a race horse. But I digress.... This German TV gig - and thus the cold war NATO joke (thud) was less than two months before their US tour's Hollywood Palladium gig On 4 April 1982, XTC were scheduled to headline a sold-out show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. I had those tickets! We saw the opening act. and waited and waited and waited.... A real barn burner - likely caused by optimism's flames.
I would challenge anyone, anywhere to name a single entirely post-Y2K band(as in artists/musicians actually writing, singing, and playing real music....all without benefit of samples, drum machine, or auto-tune), one, even ONE, that's is on the order of the talent, creatively exciting, lyrically literate, musically competent, and class as XTC......because I can't think of a single one even close.
Music is not a competition. You don't have to be the best, to beat records, to play with or without, you just have to be honest, sincere, creative ant hope you'll find an audiance.
It's too bad XTC themselves don't do "real" music according to you, considering they've done tracks with drum machines. And read up on the making of the songs Greenman and River of Orchids from the album Apple Venus Volume 1, where the "orchestra became a glorified sample, cut and pasted together" and Andy and the producer "did a lot of work [in Pro Tools]". If you disregard music that is made by those means, you're doing yourself a giant disservice.
Actually they have used a lot of samples over the years...and the orchestral bits on A/V are real strings for the most part mixed with samples...string sections are hugely expensive to hire...and usually on a union clock...and some of those string sections are tricky
Totally agree with his message, back in '82 and now! Unbelievable, clever guys😍
That first line from Colin & Dave at 3:41 is surely a WTF moment.
3:41....Dave's mike sounds like it's possessed or something for a moment......Having quite some experience with running sound equipment, I can say that with all certainty I have NEVER experienced anything like THAT while running sound.
ya i thought WTF just happened? Did Dave's Satanic alter-ego briefly pop out? lol
@@Anglovox The band had an Eventide Harmonizer which was a primitive digital pitch shifter, you can see them messing with it making Dave's voice sound weird on "XTC at the manor". I suspect either it got clicked onto the wrong setting by mistake, or they were still playing "make Dave sound like Ted Heath" ;)
Love the intensity of Terry Chambers here.
Awesome!
Tremendous
Did you catch that "NATO" lead into Bob Dylan?: A hard "REIN" is gonna fall.... might be the play on Dylan's words. Andy had crazy racing horse eyes. He was my favorite thoroughbred pony - and I remember how awkward 1982 in L.A. felt for me back then at age 19, sophomore year... and I thoroughly understand his jitters. The panic and malaise of the hamster wheel and comedown after walking 'round ten feet tall... I prefer that he survived the barn stable fire to live and race another way - he had more control of the reins in the studio where he could get it right - with out the demands of live stage - the never ending live performance tour for a house full of pseudo-punk yanks (actual thugs). It was a dangerous place... like Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet .
The touring scene was perilous in the early 80's - a real grind. Playing a robotic groove in new wave venues mosh pits, filled with pissed "Repo Man" Brat Pack, Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebies gulping generic beer, and begging for blow would burn people out, Big Time. Reminiscent of the return of the thin white duke, Andy Partridge was like the Man Who Fell to Earth. He sweats like George Carlin hosting SNL after the pilot episode the week before (you'll know when you see it). Its just feels like the his pants (and the barn) are on fire - and he's on stage all wild eyed and has to piss like a race horse.
But I digress.... This German TV gig - and thus the cold war NATO joke (thud) was less than two months before their US tour's Hollywood Palladium gig On 4 April 1982, XTC were scheduled to headline a sold-out show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. I had those tickets! We saw the opening act. and waited and waited and waited.... A real barn burner - likely caused by optimism's flames.
Fucking awesome!!!
Who disliked this?
Tough audience
I would challenge anyone, anywhere to name a single entirely post-Y2K band(as in artists/musicians actually writing, singing, and playing real music....all without benefit of samples, drum machine, or auto-tune), one, even ONE, that's is on the order of the talent, creatively exciting, lyrically literate, musically competent, and class as XTC......because I can't think of a single one even close.
Music is not a competition. You don't have to be the best, to beat records, to play with or without, you just have to be honest, sincere, creative ant hope you'll find an audiance.
It's too bad XTC themselves don't do "real" music according to you, considering they've done tracks with drum machines. And read up on the making of the songs Greenman and River of Orchids from the album Apple Venus Volume 1, where the "orchestra became a glorified sample, cut and pasted together" and Andy and the producer "did a lot of work [in Pro Tools]". If you disregard music that is made by those means, you're doing yourself a giant disservice.
Actually they have used a lot of samples over the years...and the orchestral bits on A/V are real strings for the most part mixed with samples...string sections are hugely expensive to hire...and usually on a union clock...and some of those string sections are tricky
@@marcades9611 I get that....My point IS that the "music industry" has all but completely depleted commercially-produced sound of ALL "artfullness."
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