Yes, thank you. I’ll add this to the description. 👍

Secrets is a masterpiece of good taste

@@rickblackers88 Yes it is, I never checked it out because the cover is so bleak compared to the other records, but just listened after watching this video and what an experience 👀

@@ronaldo.araujo herbie and bennie are a potent combo.

He doesn't get the props he deserves I like nile Rodgers from chic but Nile can't play like your uncle....I see Nile copied when he made good times go to the 17 minute mark of this video...good times guitar 🎸 part copied

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Wow!! Everyone should know about him and his pioneering playing and sonic signature. 🙏

Watson was a rhythm guitarist Supreme. Never missed a stroke, always on point. Funky, like Pops feet, but in a good way

@@dlxinfinite7098 yes!! His timing was perfect! It was the secret sauce!!!!!!!

I want to say thank you to your uncle. I received many things from his images and sounds. From this moment on, my life is about to change. What a wonderful food for the soul.

wow props to your Uncle WAWA. Never heard of him and never heard anyone like him.

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Seriously impressive production. Anyone know how they overlayed multiple video feeds, removing the background from the player in the foreground?

back then they were just keyboards

@@xRickAstleyx EXPENSIVE keyboards.

As a former road crew member, I hear ya.

@@xRickAstleyx Yeah, and while they were not vintage, they were damn well heavy - as was the gear to keep them steady, the mics and stands and XLR cables to play, monitor and record them, and the ballasts and other riggings required to steady them.

Worth it for that sound and that cool over head shot

That is so true!

giving a masterclass on funk guitar...which always sounds so easy and smooth....but wait till you practice and want it to sound as fluent as with the great ones...hard work, man

Just thriving in the pocket

I dont know how his neck could take the whiplash tho

I definitely know cause that’s my uncle! RIP Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson!!

Take a look to level 42 live ....😂

Saw HH at the Odean, Birmingham , UK many years ago. Was REALLY hoping to see Harvey Mason but he used Alphonse Mouzon (another great drummer btw). Paul Jackson broke a string and changed it whilst still continueing to play some complicated piece. What skill !

Since when? Every Bass player knows of him.

Sorry but no Rhodes here. Herbie plays a Yamaha CP 70

@@guillaumedelautre611 erm- Herbies playing a Rhodes Suitcase 88 for all of this performance! He swaps onto the CP but lots of Rhodes here.

@@guillaumedelautre611 At 14:53 we see Herbie take his place at the keyboard that plays in the minds of gentle people, the Rhodes Suitcase Eighty Eight. 😌

@@guillaumedelautre611 2129 is a rhodes sound. cp70 sounds nothing like that. it is under the clavinet, where they often were in this day 33:05 straight ahead, while he plays the yamaha to the left of it

My mum's old boyfriend had Rhodes. The action was f**ked but it still sounded beautiful. One of my all time favourite instruments.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qMtzopB2y8_ZdGw.html Was on TV in October of 76 a month before this on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert..

So true. They were/are just more hip to many styles. Was race a factor too? Hummmm

​@@MultiSkyman1really?weak..

Totally agree. The chromakey quality and artistic layering make it especially good.

Except for the reverse image on Herbie’s keys that my brain can’t stand. 🤣

@@Phazers Any other similar videos? I love this production style.

@@michaeldsee Man, I wish I had more to share! 😐 I hope there still exists a preserved copy of the Soundstage episode with the Headhunters and Return to Forever. That’s pledge drive material! Same for the Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert episode with Herbie and co. It would be great to see them made available some day. And who knows what else is sitting in other archives.

@@filippobuccianelli4606 they did not hang the heavyweight camera above Herbie, they used a mirror. This is the cause of the mirrored keyboards.

Yeah my uncle was that dude and from 19 years old being a Funk brother up until his passing, Unc was always recording and still has music on the radio. I hear him and his influence everyday! RIP to the GOAT!! Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson!!

@@djcoolcliff so cool Wah Wah you uncle. A Black Master of music.

@@scotaiena4066 Facts and Thanks!!!!!! RIP!!!!

it’s sublime! never heard anything quite like it either.

You weren't. One of my favourites from the mid seventies. HH gave a concert in Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2022 at the DR koncerthal, great concert.Still got HH LP'es.

I'm curious as to whether they still work

Who has good ears gets into the funk thing

I couldn’t of imagined what it actually felt like to be there and experience it in real time I’m a young dude and I’m amazed by all of the older music/musicians

Head Hunters was the album that did it for me too!

No one groovier! The Headhunters LP with Chameleon was and remains many people's gateway to the good stuff.

Me too

I do believe that too. All over the world, from Turkey to Brazil, music artists were in their BAG

I love that they at least TRYED things back then. Even if some of it looked .... uhhh... interesting.... but this doesn't matter at all bc they went wild with it!

Por favor , me dizer o nome desse guitarrista ai ?

@@luizantoniodemouramoura5133 Wah-Wah Watson, aunque su verdadero nombre es Melvin Ragin...

@@enriquehernandezhevia6817 grato

@@enriquehernandezhevia6817 koo

Exactly man. It took me a couple times to catch that but it's just beautiful!

Excellent comment. Don't stop being a strange child!

Nah… You were the coolest kid

Secrets of childhood…

I agree a real piece of artwork all the way around.

This is a sound recording studio with cameras brought in. Those are expensive German microphones everywhere. It may possibly be a post-production mix too instead of live-to-tape. There is great Danish TV Led Zeppelin footage of their '69 tour...when they still had something to prove. A great live recording and video with kids sitting right up close to the band...

Yes, this seems ok, but in the 80ies danish television was notoriously terrible at live music. To the point of danish bands insisting on doing playback, because they knew the sound would totally suck.

@@Trk-El-Son TV stations by their nature are multimedia centers and are never proper sound studios. I played in several as a boy in the 80s and it was a mono mix of a handleful of live mics for a 8 piece band. But these same news broadcaster rooms did a ton of 80s music videos and were hired to do live video and sound for broadcast in the 70s. The Zep Danish TV show sounded pretty good but it was an anomaly, for sure..

No. It is not a great mix at all, very substandard with mistakes all over the place. Wah wah is too loud and distorting half the time. Bennie Maupins sax too low or jumps in too loud then disappears again. Levels are jumping all over the place. The tone is peaky and crunchy, not warm and full and present in the best 70s way like Musikladen's. The bass is weak. The drums weak and dull. The mics are too far from many things giving them too much in direct room sound. etc etc, poor audio production. The gold standards from this era are the Musikladen/BeatClub ones by far. Most of those have everything...warm big sound, proper levels, present direct sound that is not harsh or washed out with room sound distance, perfect mix, proper compression. Leave it to the germans and their mics and gear (neumann, telefunken, etc). The music and performance is great. The visual effects behind the time. Chroma Key was more an earlier 70s thing, a relic of the earlier psych era, which had been mostly left behind, but the danish were behind the times and didnt get the memo on that. Still great to see and some of my fav tunes. The audio no tho.

Yes! I really appreciate Gentle Thoughts as a piece of ‚Secrets‘ since it’s one of the more approachable tracks. Some other ones require a lot of attention to really enjoy.

We owe that channel many thanks!This post wouldn’t exist without theirs.

Great thoughts, well expressed!

@@Phazers thank you as you say, I simply expressed my thoughts in a world today that only shoots out judgements, thoughts, even if conflicting, can and should still be expressed and when one remains within the enclosure of civilisation, every thought, even if discordant, is right to be there

thank you very much indeed for sharing this wonderful period film, a relic of a civilisation that unfortunately no longer exists I am not at all nostalgic in any area, but the creativity that was concentrated in that period, I think it can hardly be repeated today, maybe there will be other artistically relevant things (and there are) but the creative spirit that was there in the years of this film where musicians and artists in general lived a wonderful freedom and state of grace, I think it could hardly be possible with today's world

Although Paul is not shown for whatever reason…

FACTS

To make a guess: If you're a jazzer or a funk guy - which Melvin “Wah Wah Watson” Ragin was - and Herbie Hancock says, "I want you in my band", you say, "Yes!" Even if it might involve taking a bit of a pay cut. Even if you've got to go on the road. Because in jazz or instrumental funk, it doesn't get better than Herbie, and sometimes you've just got to do good music for the sake of doing good music.

Well.. I am quite sure that this is not a recording from Danish TV. Being a danish resident I have no recollection of any TV channel with that BH logo. So maybe it is really a recording from somewhere in USA?

@@madskrogh8948 The effects look like something done for a show like Musikladen. US TV shows definitely didn't use that much chromakey.

@@madskrogh8948 Perhaps the logo was added after the initial broadcast. It may not pertain to the original broadcaster or producers.