Soooooo much💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

It caught me out seeing him singing Never Let Me Down.😢 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Yeah!

Alan is Alan,Vince is Yazoo.

That's nonsense. Martin was the genius. Alan was just a decent pianist. They could have found another one

If you listen to Martin's demos nearly everything in the final song is already there. Alan just helped give them a polish. Granted he did become more involved in their final sound with the later albums but all the melodies and component parts were still already written by Martin

Yeah, they were really lucky with Alan joining them, too bad he seems to retire, Recoil is excellent)

Construction Time Again my love album

Cool story 👍👍👍

In ‘85-‘86, I had the biggest allowance, so it was my job to always have D batteries for me and my friends boom box! We would skateboard our fly ramp and listen to Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell album, The Violent Femme’s first album Violent Femmes, The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollucks and Black Flag as well as The Cure. First the chicks in the neighborhood would hear the music and come watch us skate and finally dudes in the neighborhood would show up. A lot of them were into Judas Priest, Metallica etc. but they didn’t bother us cuz they couldn’t do what we were and we gathered all the girls. Man those days were great! It was like the sun would never go down! Such innocent fun. Adults would come out to tell us to turn the music down, only to end up watching us and see all the neighborhood kids just having innocent fun and not hurting anyone or property. Whatever happened to days like that?!?!

I have similar stories going to buy CDs from the Warehouse. It was so amazing waiting for release day. Then buying concert tickets from the stares as well...Love your story though. Buddhist convention in Hawaii en route to Waikiki?

Heck yeah, da warehouse

Alan played more notes in one minute than Fletch played in his whole career 🤣

"New Life" sounds like "Airwaves" from Kraftwerk.

@@lionelalias4561but cooler

You can dance to Kraftwerk

in Deutschland wird nicht getanzt😂

Pretty obvious question. He should have replied "It's about my past", as a joke :) / Pregunta bastante obvia. Debió responder "Se trata de mi pasado", como una broma.

Vince left so Alan could join. Thus, the “new life”. 🎹

Lol

Vince didn't like performing in front of audiences. he was much more comfortable in the studio writing, cutting tracks and so on. he was the mind behind Yazoo when he " moved out" from Depeche mode and after that joined Eraser.

I' guess, some of the sounds came from tape, especially drums.

True story but during the Some Great Reward tour I saw them at the Beacon Theater in NYC in 1984 and Fletch played the keyboard part to Somebody by himself (with Martin singing of course).

Shame,.... his career sometimes looked like a big sumpathy vote. Ive seen him dancing quite a lot,.....shiddt technique on synth.

it's an illusion, don't panic

@@ultramet So many questions. Where was Alan? How come this never ever happened again? How come this goes completely against all the evidence we have of Fletch's extremely meagre musical ability?

@@maddogUK69 what do you mean "where was alan"?

absolument je suis d'accord avec toi

В этом 1982 году - они уже были великими!

Thats pouring it on a lil too thick discoStar, too rich- but yes they Dep.Mode were big and smart.

@@Dazed1512 Yes, They are the biggest band ever for me. 42 years and still going strong.

Полностью поддерживаю

Я когда слушаю как Дэйв поёт. Я чувствую то как сильно он волнуется

Fletch was playing the bass line on JCGE-! A monophonic Moog Source … on other songs he was fingering chords 🙃🙋🏻‍♂️

The guys _were_ so young, Dave especially looks like a kid!

So that Rose Bowl was as big as it looked

@@josephhiggins8143 the Rose Bowl is massive, it's capacity is 90,000 people.

Wow, what a great story, thanks. That means that they left their hard feelings behind and in good terms now. Did Alan dance or sing along?

@@irchieirchie he played 2 songs with Depeche Mode on stage... And at our party he was chatting away with Martin... His wife is really lovely too

@@michaeladolph7134 thanks for your answer 🙏 could you please tell me where and when it was? (Hope to find a video)

@@irchieirchie 2009 Royal Albert Hall in London. Teenage Cancer Trust Concert

@@michaeladolph7134 thank you!

Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2150pm 30.5.22 wow how they rused... i have buggered off to listen to proper muzak - via vinyl.. no worries, though, it's depeche...

What time do you think they actually fitted in? What year?

@@sturdeehouse Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2114pm 9.6.22 ah.... my next door neighbour once feigned depeche mode love. the only reason he got into it was due to my playing the band's guff of a saturday night... ah!!!! i like the way the band kindda did an about turn and decided on a rock schtick finale. it's heavier stuff suits me. though, again, i feel the likes of einsturzende neubauten (sic) may have had some subconscious influence on it... no; you really dont get a say in another person's musical journey - it's strictly personal. you bunch of censorious nerds!!!! all the electro kiddies have seen the light and kindda now attempt to oust the pillars of virtue ie: those who stood fast to the guitar and drum and bass combo - as predicted in 1979/80-ish... what kindda era do the band look comfortable within - as, let's face it, the band has seen off electro pop, new wave, indie, madchester and fuck knows what this era is to be noted as... it's kindda done it's own thing and that's cool by me. you either enter into it's world or keep it at arm's length. as i say the more heavier the depeche mode composition the better.

@@brody5211 Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 0431am 16.7.22 what was a hard read....?

Plenty of VCOs to go out of tune with the tape! It really stands out at the beginning of See You. I guess the heat of the studio lights will have had something to do with it.

Fletch has the most modern synth. OK, Wave2 was state of art too.

That's some cool synth knowledge you have :-) PPG Wave 2 was an expensive piece of kit for sure

@@martin-mi3cg Wave was designed with good intentions but its sound was crap, always so unpleasant. Thats why it was abandoned so soon.

Playing the following synths...

Sus dedos vuelan 🤯

and here he is playing live bass?

Very first concert I ever saw... June 1986, Black Celebration tour. Indelibly etched in my mind, all these years later.

Точно !!!

Hell yeahhh

Yeah, first song i heard is his two minute warning live version, never heard anything like it before in 1984, so advanced still feels the same (so now you have an idea how young i am)

Agreed

Absolutely. They were lucky to have him in the band cause he made that paradigm shift to what is known as DM's signature sound

He was the connecting part , whitout him there had never been any DM !

@@hansjrgenfrederiksen4065 Well, he and Vince were the first members (as No Romance in China), and he helped Vince persuade Martin to join them (now as Composition of Sound) since Fletch and Martin had been best friends since they were small children, so I suppose you're right. Vince was the original mastermind, but without Fletch, Depeche Mode (which the band became when Vince got Dave to join, with Dave suggesting the new name) might well have never been. You might say that Fletch has remained in the band primarily because the others are eternally grateful, and Martin is a loyal friend. Otherwise, to be frank, there is really no reason for Fletch to be in any band.

Wow! Smashing!

I just saw you commenting on a Yazoo video Margis,what superb taste you have sir.😀

@Lyric Rodney Definitely, I've been using InstaFlixxer for months myself :)

Depeche Mode changed drastically after their first album Speak & Spell which is when Vince Clarke left the band. You can see the originating spirit evolving in Yazoo and later Erasure.

@@phaandorpertwee6981 Curiously, though, I think I also hear the beginnings of Depeche Mode's later sound in some early Vince-penned songs, as well, such as "Ice Machine" and "Puppets".

Yeah, they just want us to have fun. It's adorbs.

They were the very first band I ever saw. 1986, the Black Celebration Tour, Tower Theater, Philadelphia. I was 17. It felt like a dream