My parents took myself and my sister to see The Matt Berry Project in '78, they were playing in Sydney, Aus. By then Matt just sat behind his keyboards and didn't try to interact with the audience. Even as a kid, you could see the tension between Matt and Rich, the concert lasted a few songs but then Matt just walked off stage. Sad end for such a talented band :(
@@mikkihesson3509 I think you're confusing The Matt Berry Project with the actor/musician Matt Berry. TMBP started in 1969, with Rich joining on bass in '72. I still have their first LP
@@jersmont1309 this is the same guy(s). this IS matt berry, the one and only. (ooowee dr. rick sanchez himself * fans self *) richard ayoade is ALSO a modern actor. there was never a band called the matt berry project in the 70s. you are what is called a liar mon frère. or maybe just a troll that will never veer off course. same difference. idc but either way, no. all of these guys make loads of shows that are made to LOOK like they were made decades ago, when the majority of them were made in the early 2000s.
I had the privilege of hearing them in 1982. They were doing a live VR concert for MTV, this was a good thirty five years before it existed in its current form now.
Malcolm Armstrong It played at mine. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Apart from my uncle Thorvald, who's a farmer. He contracted Dry-eye from his dairy herd.
or maybe even a sense of gaining something (an empty room mayhaps) with a sprinkle of light suffering. True ying and yang stuff. The Matt Berry Project's magnum opus.
My parents used to play me this song to go to sleep to when i was a baby in the '80's. Such fond memories that can stick with you from a mostly pre-coherent age... life's a real trip.
why are ppl acting like this was actually a song back then? bc matt berry was BORN in 1974, dont think he would have been touring then. richard ayoade was born in 1977. those are the two main ppl in this video.
@@SlaughterEngine yeah, ok. its not like you dont have the tools to find out for yourself right in front of you. check out garth marenghis dark place both of these guys starred in that too, bet you think that was actually filmed in the 80's as well. (hint: it wasnt. it was made in 2004) this was made around the same time.
@@SlaughterEngine ok ill give you that, but you have to concede that reading something never fully conveys satire like this. you have to CAPITALIZE for inflection. hardy har you might be surprised how many ppl say stuff like this seriously lol ive loved matt berry for over a decade tho. gmdp!
Hilarious thing about this is that in a few years time people are actually going to believe this is archival footage of the Matt Berry Project filmed in 1974.
What are you talking about? I saw MBP on their reunion tour in '87 at the Forum. They were still in pretty good shape actually. The whole crowd popped pretty loud when Rich got out his double guitar cause we knew what was coming next.
The intro riff sounds like the solo to "Follow You Follow Me" by Genesis but it's clearly a nod to the Old Grey Whistle performance of "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter Group and prog rock in general.
I first heard this while sniffing space particles back in 84 whilst driving to a happy eater on the A127 in the back of a lawnmower basket with a wheel missing .great times
I feel you. The only way I could truly process my mother's demise was by hiring a mariachi trio play "You S*xy Thing" at her funeral. I'm sure you get me.
I remember MTV had Sean Paul on and interviewer asked what made his new album special. He went on to talk about his best friend that had just died and how he expressed his pain and suffering in the new album, then they featured his new single Temperature. Also Logic "Who can relate? Whoo!"
I used to have a signed copy of the live at the De Montfort Album, I left it at home when I moved out years ago (my mum says that she never threw anything of mine out but it’s not there). It was a limited edition copy and had a gatefold sleeve with a cover by Patrick Woodroffe, I used to listen to it on magic mushrooms on headphones so watching this brought back a lot of memories. probably be worth money now.
This is hilarious (and good prog)! I 've still got some Allan Parson's Project albums from back in the down when, and this tribute/parody is brilliant.
I couldn’t get through the opening bars of the song. Too beautiful, nay emotional. Maybe one day I’ll be able to pluck up the emotional fortitude to finish.
I just love how they all look alike they stumbled upon the motherlode of invention and seem to think that all other music that has or ever will be made is rendered moot. Like they killed music with their immense skills and ego.
It was the summer of 73 when I rotated out of the front lines of WW2. Found myself in the Austro-Hungarian city of Prague. I was walking down the cities enchanted cobblestone streets when suddenly I heard the most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my life. I follow this sound of the angels until I find myself standing outside a small pub. I enter the pub and I am instantly hit with sonic auditory bliss of the Mathew berry project. I only had a three day pass and I spent those three days listening to the divine. Hearing the divine themselves play their heavenly instruments made me realize that all of the carnage and heartache I went through fighting for the world's freedom was worth it if it meant these angels could continue to play on God's green earth.
Personally I think this sort of maudlin introspective stuff should just be kept private. Yes it's beautiful but isn't it polluted somewhat by being so public? I appreciate the desire to share but really, this belongs to you Matt. And Fraser.
A man having a somber moment of grief before he realizes that he's just become the sole inheritor of his father's estate.
FATHER!!!!!
@@arielargueta1734speak PRIEST
@@arielargueta1734UNHAND ME PRIEST
Jon Hamm?
@@JohnMcGarry-sh1bz "TOAST YOU BLOODY IDIOT - I TOLD YOU NOBODY COULD RESIST HIS CHARM AND CHARISMAYYYY!"
I like that he'd never really thought about suicide before, despite presumably already writing Suicide Parts I-III
I first heard this in ‘75 when I was just 15. Still breaks my heart 47 years later.
My parents took myself and my sister to see The Matt Berry Project in '78, they were playing in Sydney, Aus. By then Matt just sat behind his keyboards and didn't try to interact with the audience. Even as a kid, you could see the tension between Matt and Rich, the concert lasted a few songs but then Matt just walked off stage. Sad end for such a talented band :(
this was not actually filmed in 1974. he was BORN in 1974. and the other guy, richard ayoade was born in 1977.
@@jersmont1309 oh really? he was performing shows at such a young age as 4? bc matt berry was 4 years old in 1978.
@@mikkihesson3509 I think you're confusing The Matt Berry Project with the actor/musician Matt Berry. TMBP started in 1969, with Rich joining on bass in '72. I still have their first LP
@@jersmont1309 this is the same guy(s). this IS matt berry, the one and only. (ooowee dr. rick sanchez himself * fans self *) richard ayoade is ALSO a modern actor. there was never a band called the matt berry project in the 70s. you are what is called a liar mon frère. or maybe just a troll that will never veer off course. same difference. idc but either way, no.
all of these guys make loads of shows that are made to LOOK like they were made decades ago, when the majority of them were made in the early 2000s.
Actually takes me back to my own successful suicide attempt in '83. Masterful stuff.
You can really feel his pain...
Or his joy.
😆😆😆😆😆
his pain sublimated into this
😆
Thank you for being so brave, Matt. Every time one of my family members commits suicide I come listen to this.
A touching tribute to a lost brother
Truly a musician's musician.
BROTHEEER!
@@Paul-lf1bq SPEEAAKKK PRIIESTT
I'd rather have a touching tribute to a lost brother than a lost tribute to a touching brother *shudders*
Have a beauty day
I have arranged for this song to be played on a loop at my brother's funeral... it would have been what he wanted.
Lol!
It's what he will want
My dad loved these, he cried when I showed him this. He used to roadie for them in 75. He was away a lot.
Thanks for sharing. My mum was a caterer for Vinegar Joe so I know what that feels like.
I first heard this in ‘47 when I was just 75 years old. Now, almost six minutes later, it all feels,like a fever dream.
I had the privilege of hearing them in 1982. They were doing a live VR concert for MTV, this was a good thirty five years before it existed in its current form now.
I had a slightly different experience.
Ah yes, the War days
I heard this song first in 2341, when I had the lead role in the Star Wars moveiaieh
That feeling when you have your own room.
Heck yeah, the top bunk bed is all mine now!
Such a touching tribute.
I think I will have this playing at my funeral.
Malcolm Armstrong It played at mine. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Apart from my uncle Thorvald, who's a farmer. He contracted Dry-eye from his dairy herd.
When I'm dead just throw me in the trash
I played this at my own funeral, it was a real hoot.
This is magnificent. You can really feel the sense of loss and dark suffering. Mind blowing.
His room will be so full of emptiness, with poor Matt only to experience it.
or maybe even a sense of gaining something (an empty room mayhaps) with a sprinkle of light suffering. True ying and yang stuff. The Matt Berry Project's magnum opus.
Richard Ayoade's impression of Bob Harris is spot on.
"Whispering" Richard Ayoade
Would that make him Richard Harris??
What astounds me is how much Rich Fulcher looks so natural as a 70's rocker playing a double-necked guitar. :)
Mama Cass!
@@pastylegs Your comment made me laugh out loud
First class Moogmanship. The man's a legend.
Is that a word? It is now.
is he actually playing? impressed if so...
@@mrrolandlawrence he can play loads of instruments
I read that in Alan Partridge. "First class moogsmanship there from the Matt Berry Project. And now, soft rock cocaine enthusiasts, Fleetwood Mac"
That’s not a Moog...
They must have had a sale on double neck guitars over at A Fuckload of Double Neck Guitars Planet.
Ain't prog without
@Tony Imbierski Mike Rutherford Style
YOU'RE a double neck guitar!!!
This song got to #3 in the charts in the Norwegian zone of Antarctica. Stayed there for nine weeks.
Cool.
My parents used to play me this song to go to sleep to when i was a baby in the '80's. Such fond memories that can stick with you from a mostly pre-coherent age... life's a real trip.
why are ppl acting like this was actually a song back then? bc matt berry was BORN in 1974, dont think he would have been touring then. richard ayoade was born in 1977. those are the two main ppl in this video.
@@mikkihesson3509 Lies. Thumbs down.
@@SlaughterEngine yeah, ok. its not like you dont have the tools to find out for yourself right in front of you. check out garth marenghis dark place both of these guys starred in that too, bet you think that was actually filmed in the 80's as well. (hint: it wasnt. it was made in 2004) this was made around the same time.
@@mikkihesson3509 please re read the first sentence of your first comment and think really hard about whose video these comments are on.
Cheers.
@@SlaughterEngine ok ill give you that, but you have to concede that reading something never fully conveys satire like this. you have to CAPITALIZE for inflection. hardy har you might be surprised how many ppl say stuff like this seriously lol ive loved matt berry for over a decade tho. gmdp!
Edgar Winter would approve ❤
Damn! Matt fkn jams on a keyboard! I can dig it.
Take that, Ray Purchase!
I have often considered taking my own life, just so as they could play this at my memorial service.
Hilarious thing about this is that in a few years time people are actually going to believe this is archival footage of the Matt Berry Project filmed in 1974.
Mostly Americans
Shit, dudes, I believe it now!
hey, in the colonies we know what an Ayoade is: he's in our cartoon programme.
What are you talking about? I saw MBP on their reunion tour in '87 at the Forum. They were still in pretty good shape actually. The whole crowd popped pretty loud when Rich got out his double guitar cause we knew what was coming next.
Rex Mundi This is so true lol !
This is one of the best things that ever happened to me.
That's quite a good piece actually.
Berry does a good prog-rock
He’s a good musician and you can check out some of his albums, like Music for Insomniacs, on TH-cam.
I think he wrote much of the music for the series.
I keep coming back to listen to the track. The sketch is pretty funny but the music is just great.
No. No, it isn't.
When I’m reflecting on loss, grief, despair….the musical instrument that best captures the full range of emotions has got to be the vibraslap
Matt is literally a bloody genius
this breaks my heart. he is so good at communicating his feelings.
Imagine all this talent slid into some solver cowboy boets
This captures rather well the feeling that prog rock was starting to jump the shark in 1974 before its decline, haha.
lol yeah 1974 was like the last hurrah.
I thought that was 1977
@@neonfrootMaybe. There were solid prog albums all the way up until the end of the 70s, they just weren't as groundbreaking by that point.
I love Richard Ayoade's face.
Eve Elizabeth Lee I know, like he's really diggin it
Looking on approvingly!
Its such a perfect parody that its is indistinguishable from real thing.
An accurate representation of the universal song everyone has in their head.
Holy fuck you know about it too?
@@ulture I guess!
Thing is, I genuinely like this track :-)
I wasn't born then but my parents still play this tune now all the time. Takes me back to my childhood❤
This brought tears to my flies.
Wow just listened to the vinyl version for the first time in 50 years still trippy..
had a solid make out session in my boyfriend's Pontiac GTO 350 in 74. This song was on the radio. Never forgot that moment.
The double-necked guitars are such a fucking good touch. I've got the Snuff Box DVD somewhere, a friend bought me it. So good, so under rated!
I committed suicide myself last year and this song got me through it. Thankyou.
The intro riff sounds like the solo to "Follow You Follow Me" by Genesis but it's clearly a nod to the Old Grey Whistle performance of "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter Group and prog rock in general.
Ayode is definitely mimicking that geezer (cheeser?) who used to host OGWT.
Ah yes, now I see the striking resemblance.
@@theshamanarchist5441 Whispering Bob Harris
@@DaleRC75 Yes shit.
I first heard this while sniffing space particles back in 84 whilst driving to a happy eater on the A127 in the back of a lawnmower basket with a wheel missing .great times
So soulful, the dark depths to loss are so inviting
My own brother passed when a piano was dropped upon him from a great height; This piece really hit home.
He's now has climbed the ivory tower
Ohh my face hurts that was so funny
I first heard this at the age of 9 when I was 25 years old.
That piano intro is killing it. This is why I love prog rock.
The embodiment of every band I listened to in the 70's as a kid. Well done guy!
Too often do I see people claim to be mourning and yet they don't have even a single snare drum on them.
or a good tambourine/cowbell
what are they thinking!
I feel you. The only way I could truly process my mother's demise was by hiring a mariachi trio play "You S*xy Thing" at her funeral.
I'm sure you get me.
I am in love with Matt Berry.
That is all.
❤❤❤
I remember MTV had Sean Paul on and interviewer asked what made his new album special. He went on to talk about his best friend that had just died and how he expressed his pain and suffering in the new album, then they featured his new single Temperature.
Also Logic "Who can relate? Whoo!"
Saw them live in 1976 at the 'Dog and Lumbago' club in Nehw Yahhk Citaaaay.
Is that Bob Fossil on bass?!!!
This still brings me to tears, even decades later. Miss you bro
I used to have a signed copy of the live at the De Montfort Album, I left it at home when I moved out years ago (my mum says that she never threw anything of mine out but it’s not there). It was a limited edition copy and had a gatefold sleeve with a cover by Patrick Woodroffe, I used to listen to it on magic mushrooms on headphones so watching this brought back a lot of memories. probably be worth money now.
I was looking at at guitar shop window in Denmark St... He stood next to me and had a look too. Little did I know I was standing next to greatness.
This is hilarious (and good prog)! I 've still got some Allan Parson's Project albums from back in the down when, and this tribute/parody is brilliant.
I couldn’t get through the opening bars of the song. Too beautiful, nay emotional. Maybe one day I’ll be able to pluck up the emotional fortitude to finish.
I just love how they all look alike they stumbled upon the motherlode of invention and seem to think that all other music that has or ever will be made is rendered moot. Like they killed music with their immense skills and ego.
😂! I actually have Richard’s shirt!! Groovy!
It was the summer of 73 when I rotated out of the front lines of WW2. Found myself in the Austro-Hungarian city of Prague. I was walking down the cities enchanted cobblestone streets when suddenly I heard the most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my life. I follow this sound of the angels until I find myself standing outside a small pub. I enter the pub and I am instantly hit with sonic auditory bliss of the Mathew berry project. I only had a three day pass and I spent those three days listening to the divine. Hearing the divine themselves play their heavenly instruments made me realize that all of the carnage and heartache I went through fighting for the world's freedom was worth it if it meant these angels could continue to play on God's green earth.
Matt Berry a national treasure 👌
This is the only comedic music performance I’ve ever laughed at
You are easily pleased .
@@diptastik5651 We can never be freinds if you don’t find this funny - I’m sorry.
you should watch some of bill bailey's stuff, he's hilarious
That vibraslap really clinches it.
I killed myself 17 years ago and this still brings a tear to my eye. Just the one eye.
Sorry to hear that you lost your other eye in your suicide.
His expression at 1:08 is pure stroke of genius
Lmfao
Man, that empty room is actually a place I’d hang out 👍
No nearly as depressing as I thought it would be.
Little bit of lightweight manfred mann’s Earth band feel to it...which makes this joke work on so many levels!
Oh my god I can't stop watching this 🤣🤣🤣
As a four time survivor, i honestly would want this played if I went through with it.
This song drove me to suicide in 1975 and I've never been happier.
Beginning reminds me of "Lick My Love Pump."
In D minor perhaps? Could be part of a trilogy?
This Song helped me through some very tough times. Cant go into much detail because if you remember the 1970's.....you weren't there.
Sadly I have vague recollections. Mostly beige. Not enough recreational drugs I guess :|
@@sloddenMy memories are greem.
Your greem is my beige :/@@johnferry7778
@@sloddenYou can’t be sure of that surely.
@@sloddenAlso how have you managed to reply to my reply to a four month old comment within the hour?
Snuff Box is incredible...
Hi Steven, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?
Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango.
Rich Fulcher on double bass!
I was conceived on this number back in the day.
Didn't realise Tame Impala had been around this long
they just don't make it like they used to. this is real music!! luv from liverpool
Absolutely brilliant! Makes me think of Camel performing every time.
Its very Moonmadness!
@@campfortson4387 yeah...it is👍
So much better than the so called music we have now, wish I could go back to those days. Much simpler times.
1 of thee best songs ever!
I have been meaning to watch this show, definitely excited about it now, comedy geniuses!!
I cant stop watching this...
i too had never thought of suicide til I saw that last note.
Rich Fulcher has the best facial expressions
I could tell that a different genre of music would be played after the slow start but it still made me laugh
Personally I think this sort of maudlin introspective stuff should just be kept private. Yes it's beautiful but isn't it polluted somewhat by being so public? I appreciate the desire to share but really, this belongs to you Matt. And Fraser.
A poignant and heartfelt reflection upon the gossamer thin thread of existence from which we are all suspended.
His brother would be proud.
Oh this one brings me back! ❤🤘
this is so fucking brilliant. The looks on their faces.....SOOOOOO TOGWT.....
Matt’s goes to his brother funeral: BROTHAAAAARRR 😅
the craziest part of this bit is that it's inspired by a real song and performance: Frankenstein by Edgar Winters Group (1973)
Very few people know that Matt Berry was one of the founding members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
So somber. Really brings home how short life is. -- Unless you're a vampire.
So this is where Creme Brulee stole that hot keyboard lick from, for their monster smash 'Voodoo Lady!'
Thank god! I thought this song a bout a loved one killing himself was going to be fucking boring!
I like this. Very much. It's great. And I'm not being a smart arse. I suspect MB is a progger too.
I'm gonna tell my kids this is Rush.
Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?