Man I feel bad for Kirk
Depeche Modeās reissued deluxe CDs each came with a documentary film and by far the best is the one for Black Celebration. Itās an hour long and full of details about how they made the album, itās part fly-on-the-wall in-studio doc and part home-movie. Thereās a bit with Dave Gahan tipping out Martin Goreās pockets on the studio floor and inspecting the elaborate contents which i swear made me cry with laughter when i first saw it.
Hereās my dadrock viewing for this morning. Bit of Dylan working up lyrics in the vocal booth, bit of skiffle percussion played on fridge shelves. George as friendly guide through the process. Just a joy seeing them all knocking about together strumming an excessive number of guitars
Not really my thing but itās very heartwarming watching a guy playing with a constant expression on his face saying, āoh wow, that actually sounded goodā
watching people enjoying making music is always fun. In that video in the OP thereās a bit where he nails the organ sound and has a little smile to himself which is so infectious.
Damn now I miss gigs again
If you have Amazon Prime I can highly recommend Transmissions After Zero, a documentary about Brainiac. I canāt find it on any other streaming site but hereās the trailer that gives you the gist:
Worth watching because Brainiac are fucking brilliant, but also interesting as an exploration of the major label feeding frenzy that happened around the time that CDs were making them billions and billions and how a band this weird could have potentially ended up going stratospheric.
Colin Stetson showing how he makes his very physically embodied saxophone sound, including close throat mic so he can make weird screaming noises while playing. Sort of experimental bondage jazz
ahhh that reminds me of this great author & punisher vid from years ago - one man industrial doom band who makes all his own āinstrumentsā. went to see him at the Underworld once, crazy stuff.
Seeing him live was a physically anxious show - he was amazing but just seeing the effort up closeā¦whew!
love this nonsense. I saw Faust doing some angle grinding once but that was very mischievous, this guy looks like heās putting in a hard shift at the factory. I like how much he talks about strong materials. What was his live setup when you saw him?
it was basically this - he had the throat things (which honestly made me feel a bit like i was choking just watching it) and the big knobs and the triggers and stuff. it was awesome.
incidentally, getting this video uploaded after one of our producers randomly recorded it and it sat around for 18 months being ignored is one of the only things Iām sort of proud of from my years of working at BR
haha the neck thing makes it look like heās enslaved by the machines and forced to make doom forever
Bernard Purdieās contribution to this clip of the making of Aja singlehandedly made me check out Steely Dan. To this day Home At Last is still my favourite song of theirs
Edit: just realised this has already been covered in another postā¦ oh well Iām in good company
When people talk about Steely Dan being āsoullessā or āblandā you just need to think about people like Bernard Purdie and Chuck Rainey actually making the music. Itās conjunction of that rootsy, truthful, musical heart with the smartass, ironic New York lyrical and conceptual brain of Fagen and Becker that makes them so special.