Midge Ure / Ultravox in the studio recording Lament - Minimoog & PPG Wave interview 1983

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TheAudioMystic

13 жыл бұрын

Ultravox in the studio recording Lament and demonstrating the Minimoog & PPG Wave.
1983

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@robburdlow4301 5 жыл бұрын

Midge was absolutely beautiful back then.

@artslave 2 жыл бұрын

Still is!

@henridornancourt9786 3 жыл бұрын

So cool to see THE actual Minimoog that played all those beautiful bass parts !!

@SPAZZOID100 7 жыл бұрын

"Technology has moved on" And here we are and NEW MINIMOOGS are being made.

@jean-louispech4921 6 жыл бұрын

now we have cheap clone of minimoog for everybody :-)

@videosuperhighway7655 8 ай бұрын

And now Waldorf M which is a PPG 2.3+

@mikew4001 6 жыл бұрын

The shape and the sound of the voice, in strong lone tones ... 😄

@davidcraig897 2 жыл бұрын

Lament was and still is a really beautiful song. And should have been a UK number 1 as the music experts all said it would. But it only reached i think if im.correct number 23 in the UK charts

@erickgabriellimadacosta182 8 ай бұрын

Yeah they reached at the number 22 in UK Charts

@fordprefect80 3 жыл бұрын

Midge Ure was in an episode of Filthy, Rich and Catflap (from about 1987) for anyone who's interested.

@Gibson1976uk 8 жыл бұрын

Buying a Moog Sub37 is one of the best things I've done in life :) I just love analog! Rich, warm and powerful

@carriersignal 2 жыл бұрын

The Minimoog, old back then, old now, and I'm betting it will be old in the future, but still sought after and as valuable as ever.

@paulboulter7823 Жыл бұрын

Man of 2 worlds ,beautiful song on ❤the Lament album

@MrJETCITY 12 жыл бұрын

Midge ... 2nd guitar player for Thin Lizzy on tour in '79.

@retrosound72 2 жыл бұрын

The Minimoog 15 years old...✨🙌😁

@irishelk3 8 жыл бұрын

People complained about The Synthesizer when they came out but Its still an appreciation for an instrument and a buzz and an enthusiasm for it and you have to love that, and although there was a lot of dodgy music, we still look back at the 80s for music because there were also lots of great bands and people making really good fun music, and we have lost that and thats sad, because good music changes the world, there will be good memorable music again but we are most defiantly in a rut now, dont care what anyone says.

@snuppssynthchannel 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but i think it only can go upwards from now on! ;)

@josie3674 Жыл бұрын

These guys are brilliant & their music is outstanding

@akie64 10 жыл бұрын

I'd love a mini moog, the sound Midge gets when demoing it is superb!!

@payt01 3 жыл бұрын

I bet you have the behringer D by now ;)

@rciscon 11 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's Lament, from the album, Lament.

@Dolores5000 2 ай бұрын

I love him ❤

@Harumi-jr6hz 18 күн бұрын

Considering the amount of time it takes to create a song and the advanced skills of the Ultravox members who create it with such precision, I feel the weight of each song and it deserves respect.

@adieuparis33 6 ай бұрын

Lament est un chef d'oeuvre . Ultravox groupe culte

@TDMXJAPAN 10 жыл бұрын

It is a very interesting movie on knowing the sound construction of Ultravox. How nice!

@soundadapter 8 жыл бұрын

Fantastic very interesting Thumbs up Greeting Frank

@batphink2655 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic band all of them great musicians!

@menswear2112 12 жыл бұрын

God I wish I played in that band, I would giggle like a school girl

@D-osOrg 13 жыл бұрын

lament ! hahah ! brilliant share ! thank you so much sir !

@Ruediger_Hasenpusch 4 жыл бұрын

Pre-Lament! :) One of her best Songs!

@mcosgrove91010 6 жыл бұрын

So awesome.

@shookstylez 8 жыл бұрын

synthasizARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

@POLSET2 7 жыл бұрын

"Antic Synthesizer,15 years old' On Minimoog in 1983.. :D :) ;)

@mjtaylor26 Ай бұрын

This is interesting because they are very positive about the machines synthesisers that they used to craft the songs, it’s not just what he (Midge Ure) and the other band members of Ultravox are saying but how they speak, the tone contains positive vibe. That is heard in the music, a type of passion and zeal for making their music songs.

@MarkoDeLaVoota 2 ай бұрын

antique synth 15 years old....lol watching in2024

@MFitz12 12 жыл бұрын

@DrummerFreak04 The Minimoog was very much yesterday's news in 1983. I've owned one since 1987 BTW when I picked it up for a paltry $200.

@idabrohjem2202 7 жыл бұрын

that voice......

@zacdior9402 5 жыл бұрын

Dan.. Sing.......... With tearzin my yize... Ultravox were cool here. But John foxx did good things too. Underpass!!!! Peace ✌️ out people

@sirandrelefaedelinoge Жыл бұрын

John Foxx's electric Underpants

@Craigevansagain 8 жыл бұрын

^Coppertunes, nothing beats the original classics. :) "Till my kingdom come!"

@peters7949 4 ай бұрын

Mayfair Studio 1, in London’s Primrose Hill. I was the Technical Manager at the time. The Recording Engineer is John Hudson, who also owned the studios

@davebellamy4867 4 ай бұрын

What other keyboards are there? CS80, Prophet-10?

@peters7949 4 ай бұрын

@@davebellamy4867Sadly it was 41 years ago……… so apart from knowing the grand piano that the camera looks at Billy through was a Bösendorfer with the extra 9 bass keys, I can’t remember any of the others. Worth noting at the beginning of the clip, Midge is changing an EPROM in the Lindrum, as the drum sounds were burnt into replaceable chips. You also the PPG wave’s 8.5” 128kb floppy disks used to load its sounds. How the world has changed.

@ALEClovesGENIALMUSIC 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing !

@incaroads001 4 ай бұрын

I remember when I was a kid and listening to guys like this (usually clerks) in the music stores pontificating about the latest technology. It's even funnier now. "It's got overtones". That's darling. I fully expected to hear some twaddle about compressors 'breathing'.

@JulesFox 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh back in the day when you could be a pop star, with hits in the charts, and have bad hair and be in your 30s - all at the same time! hhahhaaaaa

@isabelveidt655 5 жыл бұрын

"Bad hair"???

@anttitheinternetguy3213 5 жыл бұрын

Hes hair is, like we youth say these days, "goals". But i do agree, those were the times of success for talented rather than sucess for rich and beautiful

@ExtendedVersion 11 жыл бұрын

OUTSTANDING :-)

@uyauabing 10 жыл бұрын

What Midge referred to as the 'unheard' sound quality of the PPG is nowadays referred to as 'digital, thin and cold' ...

@dwtime 9 жыл бұрын

Actually the PPG Wave 2 is a analog/digital hybrid, not totally digital.

@AlainRaes67 8 жыл бұрын

i can assure you a ppg is far from thin sounding , some of its best sounds are basssounds and that is why bands used them because unlike a moog bass it cuts through and adds weight , listen to for instance anything by missing persons wich used ppg for bass . you can name todays synths and vst as lifeless sounding opposed to first or sec gen digital like ppg or the great d50 , lifeless is a far worse quality to have in an instrument, give me a ppg anyday , actually i own the complete system something to cherish

@dwtime 8 жыл бұрын

Missing Person's Bass synth sounded really nice live back in the day.

@spurv 6 жыл бұрын

I can appreciate you diggin the PPG, cause you own it. No need to trash Moog though. Your statement about Moog lacking weight is so wrong, I really don't know where to begin. Might have been a reason why Kraftwerk, Michael Jackson and countless others played Moogs. Not to mention the famous quote from Gary Numan about his first encounter with a Minimoog, blowing him away. Just a thought.

@madmac66 2 жыл бұрын

Minimoog was a 15 year old antique synth back then....fucking hell what does that make it now. Really rare and expensive

@nlondonex 9 жыл бұрын

Midge Ure... just one of the reasons I wanted Scotland to go independent

@Coppertunes 12 жыл бұрын

I'm aware of that. There is more processing powering in a modern washing machine than there was on Apollo 11, but i'm not saying you can fly one to the moon.

@djm9937 Жыл бұрын

4 brilliant Musicians !

@2sing 3 жыл бұрын

Lament, j'adore

@Synthesis1979 8 жыл бұрын

In the 80s minimoogs were sold off for as little as £350 cause everyone wanted the polysynth with DCO and FM synth. Now minimoogs are the price of a small house!

@craigbroadfoot1851 3 жыл бұрын

More like the price of a small car than a house, at least where I live!

@koyaanisqatsi316 2 жыл бұрын

At the moment I see them on offer for about 10K.

@prophetate 10 жыл бұрын

I would like to point out that @2:29 you can spot a Prophet T8 under the PPG :D

@matelot95 12 жыл бұрын

Midge looking like an East German third division footballer!

@Coppertunes 12 жыл бұрын

You can get all these instruments on a mobile phone these days.

@spoinkel 10 жыл бұрын

dat accent!

@carl13220 7 жыл бұрын

Yes he sounds like Fish ( former Marillion singer ). Scottish accent !

@rococolesyeux 4 жыл бұрын

😍💕

@McSynth Жыл бұрын

"laying down the tracks.." 🙂

@HatredPrime 6 жыл бұрын

Midge looks like Edward Norton.

@roygwinn2 10 жыл бұрын

>Anybody know what the deal is with the digit readout on the Mini? Never seen that before... I did that. It's to set tempo when OSC3 is used as an LFO.

@Shalebridge 7 жыл бұрын

Would you also happen to know what the two additional switches below the pitch/mod wheels on the PPG do? I have a Wave 2.2 and been curious about this for a while.

@roygwinn2 7 жыл бұрын

I don't remember that one, possibly because I didn't do it. From the switch location I would guess they're mute to monitor and mute to PA (with a transformer DI built in). I remember building DI's into lots of things to keep the box count down on stage. I may be wrong, though.

@rciscon 4 жыл бұрын

I believe that it's a modification they added to Chris Cross' Minimoog to generate a pattern you can hear in the live version of "Sleepwalk" here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9qmptR00M3Gn40.html

@s.kxx1956 4 жыл бұрын

Poor minimoog it was old then and its old now !

@synthof 4 жыл бұрын

Really great and how different is the talking voice and singing voice of Midge Ure, and I always find Muse 's vocalist voice is similar to Midge Ure's voice

@carl13220 2 жыл бұрын

Ultravox and Muse are, in a lot of ways, very similar ( this is just my opinion but both bands are combining new wave and prog and in a good way 😉 ). In the 80's i really thought that Midge was the "Peter Gabriel" of new wave.

@synthof 2 жыл бұрын

@@carl13220 Hi ! I thought I was the only one who think that Muse vocalist and Midge Ure voices are so similar:) Muse definetely should cover an Ultravox song, cheers!

@ceecoursian 12 жыл бұрын

I guess they were working on Lament

@stocchinet 6 жыл бұрын

1:10 well it was "an old one" in 1983

@ThePlopsta 5 жыл бұрын

3:05 till 3:10 is peak Partridge!

@noelmurphy406 3 жыл бұрын

Lamenting from the off 🙏

@Shalebridge 11 жыл бұрын

Anybody know what the deal is with the digit readout on the Mini? Never seen that before...

@Electrickbreadstick 12 жыл бұрын

0:41 INVADERS SWEATER GODDAMN

@MFitz12 12 жыл бұрын

@bigblockelectra It needs a good cleaning and going through - sometimes notes hang up, and the mod wheel doesn't work. Otherwise good as gold.

@Johnsormani 2 жыл бұрын

The Mighty ppg wave

@Vuduman 12 жыл бұрын

opens up the Linn Drum!

@azynkron 2 жыл бұрын

"You can't sell them to people anymore.." Yeah.. only like 5000 Euros on Ebay

@AndyVonal 7 жыл бұрын

Oh the irony...you can't sell Minimoogs to people any more...How times change!

@gasolineandwine 6 жыл бұрын

Mostly because they can't pay for them. Lol.

@cnfuzz 4 жыл бұрын

Well you can still buy several second hand vintage minimoogs for the price of a ppg system so he still is right

@CatoMinor 6 жыл бұрын

Nowadays the analog Minimoog is still used; the digital/analogue PPG Wave (very complicated to be programmed) has disappeared.

@cnfuzz 4 жыл бұрын

No the ppg was far more influential , it was multitimbral ( first multitimbral was the chroma) it had natural sounds ( sampling via waveterm and eproms) it had sequencer ,arpeggiator , in fact it was a workstation , how many renditions of the workstation did we have??

@tonycowin 10 ай бұрын

The Mini Moog is by far the most influential synth seconded only by the DX7. Not saying these are the best just the synths that were universally influential.

@alleykat6273 3 жыл бұрын

Im interested on what mods that minimoog has

@bigblockelectra 12 жыл бұрын

@mfitz1969 does it still work well? i heard they have some problems

@Ni5ei Жыл бұрын

They lost me when they started using these more modern synths. Rage in Eden was the last great Ultravox album. When Quartet was released I thought they were just another mid eighties pop band.

@tomahzo 2 жыл бұрын

2:12 : "You can't buy them, though. Technology has moved on far too much." ... Woah! I wonder what Mr. Ure would say about where tech has ended up today and how much those synths have appreciated in value compared to what they cost back then. The 80:ies were amazing in its optimism for the future but people didn't hadn't caught on to the shortcomings of the new digital technology yet. Also, is that a fucking CS80 right there in the middle? Or is it a CS60 perhaps? Legendary polysynth nonetheless. But people were hooked on the digital stuff back then and didn't understand how great those machine were ;).

@JamesCorbettMusic5000 2 жыл бұрын

We are getting loads of good affordable clones these days. Behringer are releasing a ppg wave soon.

@hasbullabelgianfanpage 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone knows what song it is at 0'34'' ?

@TheAudioMystic 3 жыл бұрын

Title track to the album : Lament

@ilysvengeance 7 жыл бұрын

*goes on ebay

@wrmusic8736 Жыл бұрын

Calling Minimoog an antique synthesizer in 1983. And saying that technology moved on far too much.

@guiltseeker 28 күн бұрын

It was Relative then so I get that!

@meredithhopkins1411 2 ай бұрын

Billy Currie would have been great with Tangerine Dream! Higher level of musical creativity.

@Kneichion 2 жыл бұрын

Shame about the sound wobble on the video

@liebstmohnbroetchen 13 жыл бұрын

What year is it from?

@jayc2469 7 жыл бұрын

C'mon Midge, it's Moog not Moog! (*moʊɡ/mohg* )

@WAZA___ 4 жыл бұрын

@jay Does it matter!

@les7118 3 жыл бұрын

what song on 0:52¿

@vindicator2011 3 жыл бұрын

Lament...from the album Lament

@lynnleistinger927 3 жыл бұрын

John Foxx was the real Ultravox.!

@GNeuman 3 жыл бұрын

@2:15 (Midge speaking about the Minimoog) "Technology's moved on far too much to sell things like this to people anymore" LOL, LOL, LOL, and then some more LOL.