Matt, my friend! It's time to record an album of this kind of music! This is a real miracle! We are really waiting!

After 40 years of playing the piano you made me buy my first analog synth. And now I want a Vintage Vibe. Following your channel is starting getting expensive. 😂Everything you do is musical, tasteful and just wonderful to listen to.

The voicing slider is such a brilliant invention which brings so much. Almost so obvious that one wonders why it wasn’t thought of sooner. (I do seem to recall some kind of mechanical mod from the Dyno days which one operated with one’s knee, but can’t remember what it is right now.) When I owned a Rhodes, I found it a shame that revoicing was such a long process and impractical. Bravo Vintage Vibe! I hope this becomes an option on all the builds, not just the signature models. Great video as always, Matt. Thanks!

OH MY GOD THAT VOICING STICK IS GENIUS!

These sounds take my breath away...

Awesome! Don't forget to release the full jam sessions please!

It's a beautiful instrument. Congratulations! Sixty years in this planet and always there is a place in any song for this piano. Rhodes sound is forever.

Jason Kay is so blessed to have you onboard. These vids have put you right up there with my favs (Herbie, Stevie, Patrice Rushen, Greg Philinganes, Dwele, and the late great Toby S.).

Congrats Matt! No one has championed the Rhodes experience more in this day and age. With the variable pickup (sounded like you could get into Wurly territory); active pre amp and that red paint job this is a '70s time machine. You guys sound sweet.😎

Absolutely wonderful! Sounds heavenly. Love Vintage Vibe, those guys have passion and generosity that’s unmatched in the business. Congratulations Matt! Moog it’s your turn now, release a signature MJ black matte finish model D with ivory keys!! Haha

Fond memories of spending a couple hours with a screwdriver dialing in the tone of my Suitcase 88. Tried out all of those tones but didn't have to think twice about where I wanted it. Right where you had it for Living in the CIty. Harmonic and growls, even without saturation, when you hit it hard. Very cool feature to control it with a slider.

This is lovely. You get such a beautiful sound from the Vintage Vibe. This to me is the THE sound of the 70s. The Moog sound is very nice too, that woozy Boards of Canada feel. Thanks for sharing this

Damn! That thing sounds so beautiful! Congrats Matt! I like the Rhodes MK 8 also. But the VV has a certain character that I like. Just a matter of choice! I just wish VV would make a 88 key version. I played a MKII suitcase 88 model and never look backed. I can see a 88 key version with midi/usb interface. Vintage Vibe is the shot!😌🎹❤️👍🏾

My favourite keyboard artist: love him!!!!

The drummer and bassist are both excellent! Locked into the groove, the precision of the drummer is criiiiiisp dude!

its so comforting of a sound. unreal instrument.

i love that lonnie liston aesthetic with that phase and rain like chord movements. absolutely amazing.

Incredible Video as always and what a WICKED Jam session !!!!!!. Said it before and i don't mind saying it again... Rhodes and Minimoog combo is just too DEADLY !!!!!!. Don't think there's anything more beautiful !!!!. Bless you Matt and thanks again !!!!

Vintage Vibe pianos are incredible. The sound is somehow soft but still aggressive, it can be both dark and light. What they have done is created a very beautiful sounding and beautiful looking piano.

I am just so mesmerized by this.. I've never been so satisfied by the sound of an instrument

Hey Matt! I really enjoy your videos. You are a significant source of inspiration for me with regards to writing music as well as finding good instrument sounds. I really appreciate your work! All the best from Germany

You got me going “WOOOOOO” and making a stank face Matt! I’m going to own of these someday…. That variable slider is a game changer!

WOW!!! Congrats Matt!! That's super-dope! ✌️

That tremolo is like ambrosia for the ears.

Just came across your channel . Enjoyed you playing and love the sound of the keyboard.

I wish this last two minutes were the beginning of a 20 minutes song... Perfect sound, magic chords, like watching clouds not alone in a summer sky.. Thanks for all of this heart's landscapes travelings

Best sounding instrument probably ever. Despite my playing ability not being able to justify the price, and keys not being my main instrument, I feel like the value is really there for the quality VV puts out. Something to aspire to. Congrats on the signature version and love the channel!

Dope sound! Best regards from Argentina

Matt so happy for you! You made me fall in love vintage vibe from your first video of the piano on the channel. I’m saving up for one for when I graduate college and I may have to go with yours. Love that you stuck with that killer orange!

Wow!!! Beautiful sounds. I have never heard of the piano. I might need one of those

OMG Matt. The sound of the sweeping is just incredible!!! I think you just nailed the ultimate tine piano. Congrats

So so cool. The innovations make such sense and most importantly sound awesome. Nice one Sensei Johnson ✊

Massive Congratulations to your fantastic signature Matt Johnson Vintage Piano!! EPIC! It sounds amazing & looks even better!

That is one heck of a trick Matt!

Just decided to learn piano at 55, can acoss this chanel. I love the old school vibe it was like listening to a concert absolutely brilliant

I absolutely ADORE your music Matt! Your piano playing is just so damn groovy, I can’t sit still 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎹🥁💃🏻 Great stuff Matt👍🏼👍🏼❤️ Thanks for all the terrific tutorials and videos, I truly have learned sooo much, and got totally inspired by you🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Please please keep making your wonderful videos and posting ok🌹🎹✨💃🏻💕❤️🥰 Love from BOMBAY, INDIA 🇮🇳❤️🙏🏼✨

Your music, as always, is a balm for the soul. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic sessions- This is for sure one of the best music channels here on youtube.

Georgeus 👍sounds great,and you make it also sounds like that 😀

That is awesome Matt, I love your work with Jamiroquai. I'm trying to work out the keyboard part for Black Capricorn Day right now to cover it with my band! I have an old Mark 2, 54 note Rhodes which I'm currently messing around with, changing the tone bar grommets and re-voicing, etc. It's doable, but yeah takes a long time! That slider on your Vintage vibe to adjust the voicing it just awesome!

I do find the mark 1 to be the best, personally. The immediacy of the tonebar angle placement, thats great!!

Fabulous!!

The best thing - you’re positively beaming with delight during playing! VV could not wish for a better endorsement.

Wow! What an amazing instrument - although both myself and my dad have both owned Rhodes pianos, and still absolutely adore the sound, this takes the concept to a new dimension - I absolutely love it! Thanks!

That's just gorgeous. ❤️🧡💛

We need an album of this because THIS WAS MUSIC! Well done sir!

With all due respect to the Rhodes Mark 8, that appears to be a wonderful recreation, if you want true innovation and an improved tine piano, Vintage Vibe is the way to go. While the new Rhodes company in England professes that there is only one Rhodes, all they really did was purchase the rights to the name. As Matt says, don't just by the name, listen and play them. The guys at Vintage Vibe have been restoring Rhodes pianos for over 20 years. Their wealth of knowledge from dismantling and rebuilding all versions of the Rhodes piano is what led them to building their improved version. They have cut weight, size, improved the action, refined the tines, added innovations like the "Variable Voice Control" that Matt demonstrates here, "Duel Capstan Action, and improved electronics. Plus unlike the Rhodes Mark 8, VV offers many different models. You can buy an entry level VV Piano starting at @ 6K American Dollars. Full disclosure. I do not work for Vintage Vibe and I don't own one. I have bought many parts from them however, to keep my 40 year old Mark II Rhodes going strong but I have played a Vintage Vibe Piano and hope to one day own one. Don't take my word for it. Just look at all the heavies in the industry now touring and recording on a Vintage Vibe piano.

Matt, what a joy to hear you play. Thank you! And please consider recording a new album of this absolutely fantastic music!

I listened to the whole thing, and then just sat gazing out of the window for what seemed like ages. Thanks Matt you lifted me out of a hole. Absolutely brilliant. Album please!!

Beautiful instrument! I can definitely see one get lost for hours just enjoying noodling on it.

Great 😀 the electric piano has a good sound 👍👍👍 greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

You just posted one the best videos of 2022: beautiful instrument, beautiful sounds, beautiful band 👏👏👏

yep that is a gorgeous looking and sounding machine , love the color

Fred diLeone mastery at it's finest! The new mod is not only spectacular, it's REFRESHING. It's about practicality and it's for REAL musicians. It's not about having a preamp with 100000 questionable effects, that will sound the same for everyone. In a car, we would care about having a more performing engine, not about green neon fog lights. Loved the demo, simple, effective and it finally shows what you can do with such a piano in a small ensemble. Cheers, Matt!

This thing sounds amazing

Oh Matt that slider is just magic! So much tonal variety. And you show it off so well. I've got a 1980 MkII that I adore, but I wouldn't mind something modern (and more reliable!) VV have made something very special here!

Matt, that's just awesome! Congrats for the signature model and lots of thanks for the music!

Woahh, that’s INSANE! The sound of a rhodes is my favorite sound ever, but the one thing I didn’t really like about rhodes pianos is how you are stuck with only 1 specific sound. That slider changes everything! So cool🔥🔥 Maybe I will buy one in the future if I have enough money :)

Matt on an electric piano w/ moog & arp all day!

Wow awesome work Matt !!! a massive Congratulations 🥳🙌🏻🎹Your Signature on a world class piece of musical art, it’s beautiful… loved the grooves, round of applause everyone 🥂🎹🙌🏻😎

Watching your videos has inspired me to spend more time at the keys. Thank you

Congratulations and the Matt Johnson logo is just right. That second jam Niice

Could listen to this beautiful sound for hours!

Hey Matt! So so SO glad you got one of those. You absolutely deserve it! Cheers

Thank You Matt for your great, inspiring Music! I had a Rhodes years ago and I loved the sound, but whenever I wanted to change the sound, I had to do a lot of work with screwdriver to change the 70+ tone bars. Great work of Vintage Vibe.

I bought my Rhodes Stage Piano in 1972. I gave it to my best friend in 1999 when I moved to Vegas.It's still working. I no longer had a need for an EXTREMELY heavy instrument that only had ONE SOUND. I've been using a Kurzweil ever since. I would consider this model because I can change the sounds. It's a real pain if you're a gigging musician to haul around something as heavy as a Rhodes when the audience you're playing for (and people listening to your uploads on Spotify and KZfaq) can't tell the difference. I want to know how much does this unit weigh? If it's heavy,I can see it staying in the studio,but it ain't going to the gig.

I want one 🥺🔥🔥🔥

Rhodes to the left, Wurly to the right...Aw heck, I’ll be writing music until the morning light 🎵

Thanks for that Jam!

Your videos and playing never fail to inspire and impress. I’m glad you got a signature model! :)

As we say in Argentina "I'm very door handle", it only works for argentinian speakers. 😁 Oh, and by the way, FIRST!

hot damn thats one funky jam!

Oh wow - I'd say this is one of the best sounding Electric Pianos I've heard - the performer might have to do something about it too lol

Sounds like heaven. I wish I could have one, one day.

ANOTHER TIME MATT STRIKES AGAIN AMAZING PLAYER AND LOVELY FEELING WITH SUCH A GREAT SOUND

Reminds me of a 2022 version of Bob James, this is the type of music that I long to master the style of

Nice keyboard. OOh Stevie Wonders Living In the City sound was so good. Wish I was performing again, but the pandemic pretty much stopped live performance here in Reno, NV, I own a Korg Digital Grand (left to me by my late mom) and a Roland XP 80 with many of the sounds you have but not full size keys. Anyway if I had money for more piano lessons I'm 68 and retired now ) I would get your signature keyboard , but for now I accompany myself with piano, with my trumpet and flugelhorn so I just have to be happy with just watching and listening to you to hear your sounds. Love your playing btw. Thanks so much for sharing. It actually made me get up and accompany you with my clavinet sounds and keyboard sounds.

I am waiting for the album....

Luuuv the piano but man the playing! You need to release stuff like this! Awesome vibe and timing with you and the band!

Your VV signature piano looks and sounds gorgeous, Matt, and the variable voice control is a brilliant innovation. I very much enjoyed my brief ‘taste’ soon after you received it. I look forward to hearing what you do with it, hopefully live as well as in the studio. Regarding comparisons with the Rhodes Mk8, I agree with your notion that buyers should choose the piano that sounds and offers functions that best suit their personal taste. With all that’s going on in the world, we don’t need another ‘war’! There’s room for both, and I would argue that the player makes as much difference to the eventual ‘sound’. I’m lucky that over the years, thanks to Bill Dunne, Tim Wallhead and Dan Goldman, my Dyno modified Mk1 is still going strong, although I would like it to gracefully retire to my studio before it completely collapses :) I’ll then be looking for a younger model…😉

Thanks matt for sharing with us your knowledge. It very rare for famous band members to share/ have a youtube channel dedicated to music education. Cause many amongst jamiroquai fans are musicians too actually. Or became musician

Thank You for this. I follow you with a big happy Smile. The way you relate to music and instruments is lovely. And of Course I would love to get this instrument in my home studio! Fantastic!💥🎶

The sound of Heaven right there. Nothing beats that sound imo.

I'd pay for a sample pack full of these jam sessions

Wow wee Matt - what a totally awesome vibe. Sounds utterly epic - should be part of any keyboard players arsenal! Amazed at how easy it is to change the tone without having to spend 2 days with your toolbox and the top off of the Rhodes! Cheers for sharing!

Utterly gorgeous sounds...!

That’s a killer feature, Matt.

Totally beautiful!!!. So smart!!!

Congratulations!! I hope you get to compare this to the new MK8 one day

siempre lo mejor, gracias Maestro!

Simply Beautiful!

That variable voicing thingie has blown my mind….. after watching Billy Preston in the Beatles doc Get Back I was lamenting that my 78 MKI didn’t have that funky early MKI sound.

its all gold! thank you for sharing your awesomeness!

I SO want to buy my wife a Vintage Vibe!! This is a killer electric piano!! Sounds fantastic! Love the jam with a live band in this video! I’m a guitar player and love watching your channel. The VVMJ sounds killer with the mini moog!!

I love the tones of this instrument - but could neither afford one - NOR want to lug one around - nor deal with all the setup and unreliability issues - so.. Matt - how about either a custom crafted Kontakt library ( non-free ) or better still.. liaising with either AAS or Modaart to produce a truly emulated version ? I really love these tones! Maybe liaise with Yamaha (like Chick Core did on MONTAGE ) or another biggie so we can have this in a stage keyboard? Make my day :)

Thank you for sharing more wonderful sounds and music. I love watching your videos. That sound slider, that's a very interesting addition, especially when you moved it all the way to the right and only the harmonics remained. That said, I think I'm mostly a middle of the Rhodes person.

I miss Acid Jazz.. love your videos Matt

I love it so much. Congratulations are in order

Congratulations Matt. Beautiful vibes 🌻

Great sound of vintage synth piano 😍🔥 🎹