Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Live at 'The Old Grey Whistle Test'

Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Live at 'The Old Grey Whistle Test' - 1984)

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Жыл бұрын

Performance by Thomas Dolby taken from the DVD The Old Grey Whistle Test (The Definitive Collection).
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@hotelmario510 7 ай бұрын

Thomas Dolby, John Mellencamp, and Einstürzende Neubauten on the same show. The 80s was a wild time to be alive.

@vikingfortiesfaeroes Ай бұрын

How far we've fallen

@JeffCogswell Ай бұрын

Totally! They need to put the whole show on KZfaq!

@panwu6602 5 күн бұрын

It's the only song that gives me goosebumps for the entirety of it's duration.

@dermotoblong Ай бұрын

So funky and what a fantastic voice the lady has got. Awesome

@RichBKnowz3000 2 күн бұрын

A brilliant music video and a great follow-up to the smash hit "She Blinded Me With Science." Dang, I miss the 80's!

@angiesemler2408 2 күн бұрын

Ty ❤

@nonnayoubuzinnes1669 Ай бұрын

The keyboard player looks like the actor Matt Smith! Didn't realise Dolby played all the keyboards on Def Leppard albums Pyromania and Hysteria. He also produced The King of Rock n' Roll by Prefab Sprout, very talented 👍

@JeffCogswell Ай бұрын

Wait... what?? Oh wow! I never knew that! Thanks for sharing!!!!

@doogstar Ай бұрын

He also wrote and played keyboards for Foreigner, notably on Waiting For a Girl Like You.

@richardpennington5445 Ай бұрын

He produced the whole of Prefab Sprout’s album ‘Steve McQueen’ which is one of the great albums of the 1980’s in my opinion. Superb TD production.

@nonnayoubuzinnes1669 16 күн бұрын

@@richardpennington5445I think the Def Leppard stuff is completely overlooked because he was in dispute with his record company and was credited as Booker T Boffin. I remember getting Pyromania and wondering who that was! I love the stuff he did with Foreigner and Prefab Sprout though yeah.

@krturner Ай бұрын

I always thought the chorus was Dolby’s voice manipulated. Didn’t realize it was Adele Bertei

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Album cover credits.

@Tequila2ish 11 ай бұрын

Such a great, complex song when done live!! Incredible!!!

@michaelhyde9070 Жыл бұрын

❤ I love the woman 🎉she's amazing and so 80s ❤

@btaylo24 2 ай бұрын

Adele Bertei

@sandytrunks Жыл бұрын

Holy Moly! And Thomas just celebrated his 64th b'day this Oct. Rock on you crazy Diamond!

@joenbloe Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best live performances on KZfaq. Love this version so much more than the fairly dry studio recording. Brilliant. Adele Bertei is so cute and has a fun history. In her solo you can hear a little of how the song was originally written for Michael Jackson, who apparently just ignored it.

@yourfairyking Жыл бұрын

Michael actually said he liked the drums when Dolby approached him after not hearing back for a few weeks (this was likely in 1983, when Thrilled was the absolute hottest shit). Michael said he liked the drums. Then Dolby recorded it for the better.

@robertsmith421 3 ай бұрын

Love this. Fantastic performance

@dozeydevon 17 күн бұрын

Bloody hell!... 40 years ago? What happened to yesterday?

@ClockwiseCat Жыл бұрын

A great, underrated song.

@bravedave8512 Жыл бұрын

Love this sooo much... one of my all time favourite songs from the 80s. It was just so different to my ears at the time. I mean what? Trombone solo? I really appreciate that this is actually performed live (except for the bass I guess).

@MobiusBandwidth Ай бұрын

it is a synth bass line, so it was sequenced for this gig. can be played on real basses of course.

@davemilnes1147 10 ай бұрын

Pete Thoms (of Landscape) on trombone

@Exmirror 7 ай бұрын

I was about to ask that. Thanks, Dave!

@grizcuz 2 ай бұрын

I always assumed that the higher pitched vocal on the recorded version was just Dolby pitched up. Didn't know it was a duet with this lady.

@wesdoobner7521 Ай бұрын

I think it was a different female singer on the album version.

@LudvigC Ай бұрын

@@wesdoobner7521 Had to look it up but this seems to be Adele Bertei, same as on the album

@wesdoobner7521 Ай бұрын

@@LudvigC I knew it was Adele live, wasn't sure about the album.

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Album credits.

@freddaniali 5 ай бұрын

Little did Dolby know that he made a song that perfectly describes the world in 2024!

@michaelhyde9070 Жыл бұрын

Just love the dancing as well ❤🎉😊

@SBGM-kg5iv 2 ай бұрын

This is frikkin amazing...

@coina-dig-tion6322 3 ай бұрын

that was groovalicious!

@LakeSuperiorPhoto Жыл бұрын

this is gold...! thank you for posting

@JeffCogswell Ай бұрын

I love Adele Bertei ♥

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Amazingly clear voice! It sparkles with energy. A joy to hear.

@MobiusBandwidth Ай бұрын

killer performance!

@metlmickey 8 ай бұрын

Great beats touched my emotions so very deeply

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Back then already.

@deathmetaldouglas69 29 күн бұрын

I think the guitarist on the right with the mustache and Hawaiian shirt played rhythm guitar for Be Bop Delux near the end of their career.

@kevind4187 5 ай бұрын

WLIR Steamer of the Week 2-Jan-84

@electrozaps Ай бұрын

TIGHT

@llwellyn1 21 күн бұрын

I was hoping to see the bass player ripping that mad backbeat. It must have been pre-recorded or part of the synth machine.

@keithburgess1567 5 ай бұрын

Bring on the mushy peas.. That trombone sounds like my dad after a curry... Lol..

@ridefast0 Ай бұрын

RIP Matthew Seligman who performed the gymnastics of the bass guitar on this track - not sure if he was in this video??

@peterjames6620 12 күн бұрын

That's him playing acoustic guitar

@ridefast0 12 күн бұрын

@@peterjames6620 thanks

@Jake-Balibari Ай бұрын

Great sound designer and producer too - i.e "Steve Mc Queen" from Prefab sprout

@igehring Ай бұрын

To me, this is the type of 80s song that sounds messy and strange, although I am a 70/80s lover

@alexwestconsulting Ай бұрын

Awesome performance. Dolby is sadly overlooked these days. Props to Adele Bertei.

@DarrenMatthes Ай бұрын

Awesome. I always thought the high vocal part was Dolby transposed up an octave.

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Would've sounded too artificial in 1984. And it's on the album credits that she's singing.

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Two octaves.

@marleydambra9481 4 ай бұрын

❤😊

@gben1968 6 ай бұрын

レコードの音を再現してるのが凄い

@The.Last.Guitar.Hero. Ай бұрын

That's probably really had to do live but he did a great job

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

They're all very capable musicians and hopefully tech savvy lol

@plechaim Ай бұрын

Is that Alan Wilder on the vocoder?

@vikingfortiesfaeroes Ай бұрын

So is this Thom Yorke's debut TV appearance?

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

He wish.

@jameshill4911 28 күн бұрын

Wacky and brilliant.

@blixaland 11 ай бұрын

Do you by any chance have the performance Neubauten played?

@elcaminante71 Жыл бұрын

El colombiano Chucho merchán en la guitarra!!!

@vanillamoon7353 Ай бұрын

Where is the bass line coming from? Is it just an electronic loop? I don't see a bass player.

@jaybowden2658 Ай бұрын

It’s a Fairlight CMI preset so likely from a tape being played - such as the effects, and drums

@kurdtacolbain731 6 ай бұрын

Hilarious that he did a little moon walk at 3:41, because he had offered this song to michael jackson, who rejected it.

@mooseyman74 7 ай бұрын

Like a funky cop

@neilhamilton2673 Жыл бұрын

Who is the girl singing??

@LakeSuperiorPhoto Жыл бұрын

Adele Bertei

@Al-cl3cd 11 күн бұрын

Gta VICE CITY record

$@fractal97$

@fractal97 4 күн бұрын

This is the song Michael Jackson rejected.

@davidboyce8683 11 ай бұрын

Disappointed, couldn't " wrangle in that bass line Thomas?

@user-cw6jn5tr7f 9 ай бұрын

Ive tried for year to learn it

@jaybowden2658 Ай бұрын

It was programmed from the Fairlight CMI so likely very hard to do live

@MobiusBandwidth Ай бұрын

@@jaybowden2658 he's had bassists play it, I can play it.

@jaybowden2658 Ай бұрын

@@MobiusBandwidth but does playing it on actual bass sound the same as the studio recording?

@svenjansen2134 Ай бұрын

Matthew Seligman wasn't present unfortunately. And the bass on the album version is also sequenced. This sounds like the original part, so I got no problems with it. If it works, it works.