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Beata Tomaszewska that was my first Erasure video on the channel 😎👍

If the first...... Congratulate Vaughn !!! I don`t know

Great Story Adam....Thanks for sharing. It probably happened in the best possible way...They often say "Don't meet your heros".

Thank you for sharing that with us Adam!! VG:-)

Asger Khan Interesting, I had not heard that bit of wisdom before. It absolutely rings true however, as your hero probably could never live up to the esteemed and romanticized place you hold for them.

He is indeed !! VG 🎹👍😎

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She also has one of the best male voices ever. ;)

I thought Vince Clark's best work was with Alison Moyet

Goodbye '70s has aged.... in 2017 I wanted a re-release with Goodbye '17s

Maybe more of a "Sliding doors" moment with these "What ifs". It was a more direct effect of one person leaving and another substituting him. A big change. The butterly effects is more of a subtle little change that seems like nothing, but in a chain of events it will change history in a big way.

I'm more in the Wild camp (I find it to be Erasure most diverse album) but I get what you're saying. Chorus has some amazing tracks on it.

You're welcome Martin !! VG:-)

"Never Never" was written by Vince on his own, and yes, it is quite a brilliant song. My understanding is that The Assembly was intended to be multiple one-off collaborations between the two members, Vince and Eric Radcliffe, and as many singers as they could recruit. Eric co-wrote the B-side instrumental song "Stop/Start" with Vince, and produced the songs. They didn't get very far because they couldn't recruit all the singers they wanted, so Eric focused on production while Vince realized that he needed to start a new regular band (something he wished he could avoid at the time). Feargal Sharkey and Vince would have made a great duo, and I don't know why they didn't decide to team up on a more permanent basis, but it is possible (my speculation) that Feargal, who had just left his longtime band The Undertones (which broke up) over creative differences, wanted to begin a solo career, which he did in short order after his guest stint on The Assembly, which turned out to be sort of a stepping stone for him.

@@rbrtck I actually prefer the b-side "Stop Start" It's a great instrumental.

Leanne thank you!! Great to meet you and welcome to the community. VG :-)

Agree! These three albums are great, especially 3*(I say) !

i love them all the way up to Tomorrow’s world

Hello Michael and thank you for your support as always !! VG:-)

Spot on mate

Cheers Mark !! VG:-)

Thank you as always Beata!! VG:-)

Scott Mullins thanks for your kind words my friend !! VG🎹👍😎

Awesome Ryan!! Let me know what you think of it once you've played it !! VG:-)

I just got my Neutron and have the Odyssey already ordered. The pro one is definitely next up. Behringer is killing it.

Thank you Ben and welcome to the channel !! VG :-)

Thank you and welcome!! VG

Cheers Annabella!! VG:-)

Interesting thank you Steve!! VG:-)

Thank you for your kind words James !! Happy that you liked it !! VG:-)

Right. It's always a treat when Vaughn uploads.

Vince composes on Logic, as well, and ultimately it is all converted, part by part, to CV-Gate and his analog synths. Whenever Vince has brought multiple analogue synths on tour, which he doesn't always do, he tends to bring his Jupiter-8s or anything that has a digital memory. He'll bring synths without memory and program them live, too, but doesn't usually go through the trouble these days. Usually it's just his Mac, Logic, and a tiny MIDI keyboard for him to peck on occasionally (plus backup samplers and, as a last resort in case of massive equipment failure, full recordings of all of the backing tracks). As for Moog equipment, he still has a Minimoog, and I could swear that I saw a Moog Source in his current basement studio in Brooklyn, but he sold his Moog Modular some years ago. It was just too unstable in its tuning, and he felt that its sound didn't add anything unique to his ensemble. In general, every piece of equipment in his studio is only there if it gets used a fair amount. He used to collect, but has gotten over that phase, and now only keeps a few memorabilia from Depeche Mode's early days, just to have them. Everything else that doesn't get used gets sold now. Another equipment note is that contrary to common belief Vince does use a few digital synths, such as the Roland JP-8000 (analog modeling), Roland D-50, Korg M1, Casio CZ-101, and Clavia Nord Lead (only the rack-mount version now); there are a few others that I'm not able to recall at the moment. Oh yeah, his PPG Wave 2.2; there are a few more. Additionally, two of Erasure's albums, _Nightbird_ and _Light at the End of the World_ , were performed entirely on soft-synths, since at the time Vince didn't have all of his analog synths set up in a usable studio. He had just moved to the US to live with his girlfriend/fiancée/wife, some of his synths were damaged by a flood, some of them had to be converted for use in the US, and designing a whole new studio space was just too much at the time, so he went ahead and used soft-synths for two full albums. And they still sound great, although they do sound subtly different in a way: too digital-perfect, if you will. Vince has been very happy to have everything all properly set up since then, since he doesn't just prefer how analog synths sound, he enjoys working with them much more than soft-synths, as well.

That was his old studio in Maine. His studio is now in Brooklyn in the basement of his home

Well, it was a few hundred feet away, and there is sometimes a lot of snow in Maine. Martin Gore thinks this is weird, but it made perfect sense to Vince, for whom home is home and work is work, I guess. As for traffic jams, it's more likely that a fallen tree would block his path, because his studio was basically in a forest.

@@sunilsolanki That's true, although if he had more land, as he'd had before, he'd prefer to build a studio that was separate from his home. That's the way it was with his homes in Surrey (a separate copper "igloo" known as 37B) and Maine (a cabin in the woods called...The Cabin). Unfortunately, this is not possible at his current home, so the basement will have to do.

Yes Ian , he did offer that song to DM but they turned it down. I could imagine Martin singing it though. VG:-)

Thank you Alexis !! Lots of love to you too!! VG:-)

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Thank you Carl !! Appreciate that my friend !! VG:-)

Exactly, Vince hardly interacted with Alison during the entire Yazoo period, poor thing. Andy Bell is fine but Vince and Allison's work on Yazoo is amazing on so many ways. I always wonder what could have been. I thought Alison was male for quite a while before learning more about the band. In many ways she has such an incredible voice.

She wasn't happy that if Vinces mother didn't like the song he wrote he would bin it

I own Mick McNeils Yamaha DX7 the one you can see on top of the piano during the Live in Verona gig. He’s a great player

Thank you George , I will cover them eventually !! VG:-)

@@VaughnGeorge thanks you very much!!! Greetings from Greece!!!

Hi Ian !! This a brilliant post thank you !! A good read !! Thank you!! VG:-)

I'm a huge Midge Ure fan, and was awestruck when I met him,but Billy Currie deserves 90% of the credit for the synth sounds of Ultravox and about 70% for Visage synth sound with the founder of Visage getting 20% more. Midge Ure is fantastic but that wasn't his contribution to that.

ambidex - to be honest, being a huge Midge and Ultravox fan, I think Midge contributed more than you think to the songs. He produced the first 2 Visage albums, so had a huge influence on their sound. Billy is a virtuoso, but with Midge, they formed a perfect partnership. Listen to any of the tracks Midge produced for other artists around that time and they all have that Ultravox/Visage sound.

@@MO0DMAN I'm a huge Midge Ure fan too and he's awe inspiring. I just didn't feel like the original statement gave Billie Currie the credit he deserved. They were a great combo! I did not know Ure produced the first two Visage albums.

Thank you Martin!! VG:-)

Can't say I have no!! VG:-)

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