Awww, I’ll be 43 in June. I remember watching. Crazy how swift time moves but the things you can remember from that age.

Wait that's your dad as a kid on Sesame Street that's so awesome 😎😎😎

Not many can say they visited Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street ! 😮

Wish him a happy 44th from us.

That is so wonderful! Has he talked to you about this? What does he remember about it?

Great story! ✌🏼

Awesome story. Herbie seems like a genuinely cool dude.

How old were u when you saw this video ? Tv composer sounds oddly specific for a child ambition ☺️

@@rinky_dinky I got the impression he was attributing where he ended up to the inspiration from this Sesame Street episode. Not that it necessarily instilled a drive to become a TV composer, but rather drove him to make music in general.

Awesome story! Thanks so much for sharing!

Yes ~ the old Sesame Street was much better than more recent years.

For sure - what you said reminded me of the Dick Cavett show and how he and his guests would have natural conversations and interactions. It's too bad it isn't like that anymore.

@@SomebodyPickaName Dick Cavity was great. Tom Snyder was like that, too.

It was a different time then, sit for hours reading a book, listen to music. No distractions like cell phones, Internet. You could take a longer time to think about solutions to problems, visit a library, ask your dad or mom.

Right. Back then they took kids seriously. Today they just show infantile shows like Teletubbies and Spongebob and whatnot.

And Tatiana Ali from Fresh Prince..

@@pharoahanderson6675 same person, fool

@@pharoahanderson6675 That’s who they were talking about, Tatiana Ali played Ashley Banks on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

@@TundieRice He was making a joke.

oh I thought she looked a lot like her!

Nice. I played with Wah Wah briefly auditioning for Maxwell’s first tour. Being a hard core Herbie fan I was star struck. ( I didn’t get the gig) But Wah Wah was very nice. He changed the direction of Herbie’s sound. Herbie never used guitar until Hang up you Hang ups.

Wah Wah Watson is a LEGEND

Your uncle played on all my favorite Herbie albums. His funky 70s stuff was the best. And when he added Wah Wah it was even better.

@@kevinr.3542 Thanks Kevin and you are right!!!!

that was just to load his first sample :p

Sampling was very exciting back in the 80s!

I learn from the internet that the sequencer had a 65-page instruction manual, and because it was a computer system there were at least nineteen revisions of the software, so I imagine he must have spent ages getting up to speed. He has a degree in electrical engineering though.

For sure 🤩

@@AshleyPomeroy I understand it sounds like a lot but it's really not. My synthesizer manual is thicker than the Bible. 300+ pages.

Because stars are grown in Hollywood. The world elite’s won’t just let anyone become a “star.”

i reckoned that little girl looked familiar before she even said her name!

@@jazznotes3802 She was never a star. People in that field who start at a very young age tend to continue in that direction. Therefore they land more jobs in the acting field as they get older. Some become popular enough that you recognize them throughout their career. This idea that there is an elite secret group that only allows certain people in is like an old wives tale. You see people progress, in any field by the way, because they work at it long and hard.

@@arrjee9474 Would be great if what you say was true, but unfortunately it isn’t. Just because you lack the knowledge, don’t let it blind you. Do the research!

@@arrjee9474 Of course with exceptional talent an actor can make it big, but elites are certainly brushing shoulders with each other. Makes it a lot easier to do anything when you have those connections.

In the Sydney northern beaches suburb of Fairlight, adjacent to the also legendary suburb of Manly.

@@geofftefl I bought a vintage Manly Wormald footy jumper last Friday at an antique centre.

Yep. Stevie and Theo Huxtable... "Jammin' on the One"

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush were prolific users of the Fairlight in the UK too

@@FozziesRandomReviews yep. I can’t think of 2 albums that employ it better than Gabriel’s Security/IV or Bush’s The Dreaming. There is a short BBC documentary here on KZfaq that shows footage of Gabriel in his home studio using it

Fat Albert Rotunda is one of my fav jazz albums of all time.

name a single person who knows herbie as an electronic musician rather than a jazz musician

@@ahoimeboy6063 joe

@@ahoimeboy6063 Hate to burst your bubble, but I'd be willing to bet that if you polled people about who Herbie Hancock is, most people wouldn't have a clue unless they saw the Rockit video in the 80s. It's sad, but that's reality.

You could say a similar (but opposite) thing about Miles. He's obviously associated with cool jazz and hard bop, but he was also doing wild things with fusion and a more electronic sound later in his career.

I ❤️ watching old clips of Sesame Street Rather watch old school clips of Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV and Ghostwriter than watch the new stuff they have now

Right. Back then they took kids seriously. Today they just show infantile shows like Teletubbies and Spongebob and whatnot.

Man I love these kind of stories :) thanks for retelling!

That’s where I first heard of the fair light too. It’s amazing that her song Running Up That Hill just became one of the biggest modern-day hits ever and was made and released decades ago on this synth. So cool that her music is getting recognized by the newer generation. That’s like the definition of timeless music

@@chandeleerjet5637 Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer is a classic Fairlight piece worth checking out.

Damn near every record made between circa1983 and 1988 or so had a Fairlight on it. The ubiquitous "orchestra hit" sample that you heard everywhere back then came from the Fairlight.

Tatiana Ali from Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

@@bobbo11357 the same!

on german wikipedia its listed that she "performed" with herbie on sesame street

Au moins, ce sample ne l'a pas traumatisée.

Nor that Jim Carrey was the Cpu / synthesizer operator.

I knew when those kids came into the room, one of them had to become famous.

@@drumatic haha

Thanks for that bit of trivia. I love Deathwish movie and the soundtrack. 👍

Watching 'Maria' now reminds me of how much I used to love watching her back then. I still feel the same way.

That's the coolest trivia I've heard in a long time! I loved the original death wish never knew my fave pianist was part of it.

Like a sniper and a spotter haha

Me too I dont give rid of my gear I work hard for it

Amen,60,got my 1st synth at 16(still have it and 33 more) and still remeber watching this with my younger sister in 1983.... Herbi,edgar&rodgerinfunced me alot

😂

Nothing simple about learning an instrument. These days, people just use the monitor.

@@Art-zs6sl Electronic music production is extremely complicated and takes years of hard work before you can make anything good. But it's easier now than it was when EDM started blowing up in the late oughts/early 2010s, because back then, we didn't have nearly as many resources, but people were complaining that "that's not real music, you just press play on a computer". In reality, there's composition, which involves knowing all about music theory from voice leading to arrangement; there's mixing and mastering which takes years of practice to do well; there's TASTE which can only be developed individually through years of exposure to different kinds of music; and then there's the "it" factor of having all the technical skills and taste, and also being able to be true and original AND marketable. Electronic music production is not as complex as composing classical for an orchestra, but it's a lot closer to that than just playing an instrument is.

@@St0ckwell lbozo click button instant music

@@7cleverboys Yes, music exists at the click of a button. You can click play and hear Coltrane or Bach or Van Halen or Stormzy or Hawaiian folk music or hillbilly covers of famous songs. Why is that supposed to be a bad thing? Or are you insinuating that electronic music is made with a single click? If you're really brain damaged enough to believe that, then why not put your money where your mouth is? Post your crypto address. I am giving you one week from the time that I'm writing this to create one electronic music song. If you can make a good product with no knowledge of it because it's that "easy", then I will send you 1000 USD, no further questions asked. It's so easy, you can do it in a few clicks! So you really have nothing to lose. Go ahead and nut up or shut up there big guy.

So true. I wouldn't know where to begin trying to record onto tape with no DAW.

@@bcj842 You should try it sometime. It's quite liberating. I put the recorder in the insert loop of my console so I can start building the mix, while the band is recording, without affecting what's being recorded. If they goof up a section, just rewind a few seconds and punch in a correction.

I make music every day without a monitor. Thank goodness.

Limitations breed creativity! I haven't done much recording out of the box myself, but I do have a Tascam 4 track Cassette Portastudio that I use often for its cool distortion (feeding it boosted signals) and simple mixing. One of my favorite artists, Mid-Air Thief, uses tape (cassette?) re-recording per track from his DAW to get really nice slightly saturated slightly lofi textures

I read recently about a band who had to cancel a concert because their laptop died on them. Pathetic.

DUDE. Big same. I'm not sure if I saw this when it was new (I woulda been 2) or a little later but I know I was no older than 4 or 5 and I still remember my brother and I being captivated by how spacey it sounded hearing her name looped on the synth and we used to reference it for months afterward.

Whose

80s kids

rofl

It was the first

The Apple of samplers? So overpriced, lacking in features or third party support and manufactured with slave labour?

Emulator, Synclavier, and Fairlight. Sounds like the recipe for a timeless hit.

It’s price tag was quite something too

It’s still is

I thought the first Jane Child album was the bomb! 😁

@@Sinjinator Oh yeah! It was! To me, Still is!😌🎹❤️🎶👍🏾

And Sesame Street is now in its 50s!

AND STILL LOOKS GORGEOUS 😍

Likely the same computer you're using to read this.

Even Via a simple mobile phone now

Yeah, Like Casio CFX-400.