This is the kind of video that affirms just what a great platform KZread is. Two people at the top of their game talkiing about a topic in a way that just wouldn't get air time on TV.

A Gary Barlow Masterclass hosted by the one and only. Pure Golddust!

Love the Barlow, great to hear from him

Gary- LEGEND

One of the best YT sessions Christian. GB is a top geezer! Never knew he was such a tech head! Class

Great interview, two musician friends talking about the business, that was priceless thanks both!

Great interview with Gary, just what I needed to start my Sunday...

Makes me appreciate Gary and his work even more; Thanks for doing this!

Absolutely superb chat, cant believe he started off with the ST!

So good. So many little golden nuggets from Mr Barlow in there! Thanks again for doing this and sharing.

Back in the day I had a chance to write a couple songs with Gary when he was hanging out in LA... still some of my fondest memories from that time period. Enjoyed hanging out with you both for this vid.

More Gary please! That was fun :)

Thanks for this Christian and Gary. RESPECT!!!!!

Fantastic. Excellent and extremely truthful interview.

Bloody Hell!!! That was good. Could have listened to that chat for hours.

I can’t lie and say I’m a fan of most of his music, but as a human I love him! I agree with so many of the things he said too - especially about people not caring so much about actually being good anymore, and just wanting quick routes to success.

Excellent interview and conversation!!

Thanks for giving the Evergreen Voyager a shout out, Christian! Excited to hear your thoughts on it next week. It's the biggest project I've attempted and my upcoming projects are definitely smaller in scale. It's fun to create a rich and massive project every once in a while. Thank you again for hosting it even though it is a bit of a mammoth! I promise it's worth it. - Kady

Excellent interview thank you!

Top bloke, Gazza.

Great insights 👏🏻

The abiding memory I have of Star Wars is travelling on the bus with my late father to the Odeon Nottingham in the summer of 1977 - I was 10... I love the film but especially love the film as it reminds me of my old man... simple as that, oh and my Blue Nile recommendation for anybody interested in "Because of Toledo" from the album High... Paul's use of language and story telling on that track makes me cry... simply stunning piece of music

Simply brilliant.

Thank you for taking the time to try out my Pointillism Guitar, I had a lot of fun making it and seeing on here was the cherry on top - one of the more exciting things to happen to me in a while. Really insightful episode as well.

I just tripped over this..............brilliant

Great episode and lots of fun, Gary is a great guy, genuine character. Really enjoyed it. (p.s. the hair looks great!)

What a great fella!

Great chat getting to really enjoy your videos, keep up I the good work!

What a pleasure to spend the evening in the company of two true gentlemen. Thank you for letting all of us listen to your conversation! Christian; you mentioned Talk Talk just briefly there... Was there ever a band more deserving of a NFTW listening assignment? (Probably preaching to the choir when it comes to your viewers, but still.) Would _really_ like to hear your take on Spirit of Eden and/or Laughing Stock.

@peterjames-stephen

4 жыл бұрын

Pål Brekke Spirit of Eden is my favourite all time album!

@palbrekke9455

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterjames-stephen As I suspected - the Christian Henson viewers have impeccable taste! :-)

What a great video! Gary Barlow seems wicked!

Great interview, Gary knows his stuff and has great insight!

Wayhay, go Jo!!!!! So excited to take part in Audio Artemis.

The whole of the Blue Nile's album Hats is perfection. Beautiful, late night sounds that invoke rainy city streets (and that Edward Hopper painting, Nighthawks). There's a current band called Paper Kites whose most recent album has a similar mood to Hats. Both incredible.

Yup. This is my favorite corner of the internet.

great video... thank-you...

Star Wars 35p at the Curzon in Urmston. My first time going to the "pictures" to see a "film". Amazing.

I loved Tron when that came out in the cinema, colors were hand painted and the sounds very unusual for the time. Clockwork Orange is good too, plus the music.

Wonderful thankyou.

Thanks Christian and Gary....Fascinating interview. thank you so much for sharing

What an absolutely lovely man!

Who knew, Gary Barlow is a original gearhead from 1982! (lots of cursing was funny too) New Subscriber, Thanks for fascinating interview guys!

The hairstyle actually looks good, if one can call it a hairstyle! Roll with it! Another cool video contribution, thank so much for your generosity.

Thank you for checking out my piano, Hyundai U852, a very surreal moment for me. Apologies for the spelling mistake I meant “Latter” not “later” I spelt it wrong

I grew up with all sorts of John Williams music as a kid. Having shootouts and light saber duels out back while my Dad filmed us to the Meco Star Wars disco album! I was kinda shocked when I first heard Korngold's "The Sea Hawk" a decade or so ago. Not only was the big brass there but those sweeping string/flute swells. Either way Williams was my first composer hero. Then came Elfman ;) *hint hint* future guest/score to discuss? Thanks for continuing these weekly episodes. Can't wait for next week!

Thanks for featuring my Rolling Piano. Sad to see you didn’t find the secret pad hidden in the interface!

Hair or lack thereof looks fabulous. So young 👍🏻

I am now a week behind in your "program" but wouldn't miss it! I see parts of myself in every guest and they're comments. But this one... yah, I'm off the road (for how long?) with a successful Eagles Trib. Act. Concerned about the live performance future for my bread and butter. Thanks for helping to keep many of us sane and inspired with this creative time at home.

Really interesting interview. Gary Barlow seems like a really humble guy despite how obviously successful it is which is really nice to see and you can tell how passion and excited he is still by music and audio in general. I liked the Star Wars discussion too. I've been listening to a podcast called The Art of the Score which is amazing. My only problem with it is they only release a podcast once every two months but they analyze film scores and they have quite a few episodes on John Williams and the Star Wars scores in particular. The original movies are still okay at least in terms of the production and creature designs but the score really elevates those movies. I thought people in the comments here might like the podcast though if they hadn't heard it before. This channel is great too. Btw, I had never heard of The Blue Nile. I just listened to them now, thanks for the recommendation. It does have a Talk Talk vibe that sounds like what I think we're their last two albums, Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden. A band that I love said the Talk Talk Laughing Stock album was an influence which you can hear but is more like just a general vibe than a direct descendent are a band call Labradford especially Mi Media Naranja which also has echoes of Ennio Morricone, particularly his western scores

Takes me back to the first year of A Level Music Tech in 1993. Atari ST running CLab and a 4 track Tascam which only recorded on three tracks 🤣.

Great interview as ever thank you Christian! By the way, if you search "Star Wars Despecialized Edition", you can find fan reconstructed versions of the original Star Wars films. Well worth checking out!

Thanks to all of you! Bytheway: Gary has a beautiful way of seeing & speaking about music & songwriting. Legend!

Excellent chat guys. :)

Awesome

Two of my favorites people talking about composition and production. I can't thank you enough, I can tell this is one I will rewatch many times over.

great Tutorial

Metro, The Guggenheim Grotto etc. All these great bands with extremely amazing timeless top level compositions, production and musicianship... didn’t make it out of a really small group of listeners. The idea that great music will at some time rise up through to recognition and success is just a little naive. So much fantastic music - and not just niche - gone - almost never heard - lost in the annals. Great interview though. Two extremely charming, erudite humans. Thanks for that:) Oh! Success is a very subjective thing. Having made music for over 50 years and never really being that successful am one of the most successful people in my life... because I make music that I love every day:) And can live from it:))))

As a book publisher, I can confirm that I also proofread anything I read. It is a curse ... great interview with GB! Delighted at his messy Mac desktop!

To hear more insight into the George Lucas (Steven Spielberg and John Williams) story, everyone should listen to the Blockbuster podcast. It is basically an audio movie outlining how George and Steve got started. Check it out: www.getblockbuster.com

Lovely to see Gary geeking out

Wow this is good

Great to see Gary talking about his career, he seems like a really genuine bloke. Star Wars: 1977 my mate Pat and me walking down Tottenham Court Road one Sat evening, we come up to the Dominion. The film showing is Star Wars, we thought, what's this? Shall we go in and watch it? Yeah, why not. That night totally changed our lives lol. We came out of that theatre running down the street wielding our imaginary light sabres and blasters lol. We got to where i had parked my car, and off we drove home, i nearly drove off the road, there was a very tall office block down Tottenham Court Road and it was very late and only the top floor of the building was lit up. I thought it was the Millennium Falcon lol. The following week, we both went to the record shop and both bought the double album soundtrack of Star Wars. That was the first soundtrack score i had ever bought.

I had an Atari ST, an STe and a Stacy (laptop version). Running cubase3 (I think). happy days...

Apparently in the first Star Wars draft Luke, Leia and Darth Vader were all living together. I remember Francis Ford Coppola talking about it in an interview so the family setup was always there; Maybe he scrapped the brother sister thing and came back to it because it does seem odd now

I can see a Digitone sneaking in the back of Gary's Studio! Massive respect I never knew he was into gear like that ✌️

Elgar's Nimrod - a true classic!

Oodles of wisdom in this video. Thank you Christian and Mr Barlow

Still never seen Star Wars and probably never will - it wasn't on tv as a kid and I didnt go to the cinema till I was a teen, so I missed the moment. I knew someone who'd seen that and the Empire Strikes back 14 times each by the time we were 11 - such fanaticism put me off! Anyway, I've had the The Blue Nile 'Hats' album for about 30 years - soulful stuff. It has aged pretty well, mostly. 'From a late night train' is the ultimate break-up song...

Lucas is often credited with bringing back the 'classical score' to films...but he's also largely responsible for the 'film soundtrack' we're more familiar with - a big list of hit songs.

I reckon Christian has been watching too many movies of late, and now doing some method sampling, could he be working on long awaited Delay Lama 2020!? Lucas had those stories pinned down, maybe not written down, but he knew how they would unfold, it is classic narrative stuff in terms of themes - if you have ever studied film and story structure it is obvious. The Luke and Leia, brother & sister thing, was planned. We forgot in this prissy modern age how dark we were in the 1970/80's. Go watch The Goonies, it was a classic kids film, full of swearing, violence and sick humor. I sat down to watch it with my nephew and had to switch it off. And the classic would be, Back To The Future. Imagine pitching that today as a family film; kid goes back in time, invents music for black people and his Mum tries to get into his pants, resulting in his Mum and Dad not hooking up and screwing him into existence, creating a stupid paradox so he starts to not exist. Now, stupid non-paradox aside, no way is that getting made today - probably why they failed to re-boot it recently, too problematic. And Gary, that jumper needs to be locked down.

Regarding Star Wars, I don't understand why Dvorak's "symphony of the new world" never gets mentioned. A lot of the time I feel like I'm definitely listening to the Star Wars score. Especially the fourth "Allegro con fuoco" movement. And it's the same with a lot of other Dvorak pieces and some other corresponding Williams score. A lot more often than Holzt, at least to my ears.

Had much time to play with UAD Luna yet? Would be cool to see your thoughts

Thank you Christian for great documentary. Do use over priced Rupert Neve equipment, I've been repairing his equipment for over 40 years and I feel he is taking mick out of people.

Looking forward to next week with Harry then?

Musical enemas are a must to cleanse the mind

Can we just stop for one second... That's Gary Fucking Barlow. Regardless of professionalism.. I would have momentarily lost my shit if I was in your chair. What a guy

When I was about 17 in the late 70's I too used to go in all the music shops in Tin Pan Alley & Charing Cross Rd trying out guitars and synths. Great Days !

Allegedly George had plot outlines (in varying levels of detail) for all 9 movies in the three trilogies from very early on...

Gary Barlows desktop is stressing me out.

@rollomaughfling380

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously! Snap to grid, mate.

Gazzzzzaaaaah! Great bloke!

Wow, is that how English people pronounce Hyundai? Sounds cool haha

Christian, I'm very interested in your opinion on the Roland Boutique JU-06A!

Aunt Beru: he's got too much of his father in him, Uncle Owen: that's what I'm afraid of... George definitely knew Vader was his father. Also father in German is Vater. But I sure hope he didn't think Leia was Luke's sister especially since they kiss in the next movie

@orangewiggler6838

4 жыл бұрын

Vader is the Dutch word for father.

What do you do if your son’s favourite Star Wars film is The Phantom Menace? Be relieved... my son’s favourite is Attack of the Clones!!

Gone full Phil Mitchell

I realise this is slightly off-topic for a music blog - but have you seen this fascinating documentary about how Star Wars was saved in the edit?: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXqB26-xfbyqfs4.html Good editing and a good score are what makes a good film great.

@robertsillitoe

4 жыл бұрын

Oh and thanks again for another great video.

OK so this video is great because it's got two people who I look up to. Also it made me think 🤔 about a problem maybe the community can help eachother out with. The problem is Kontakt of all things. It's great, but it doesn't half slow workflows down when projects are opened from more than one computer. Is the batch re-save option really worthwhile, when you know the file paths you set, will get messed up by projects being opened up on another machine, as suggested already? It took a long time the other day to relink samples from a huge folder of 14 thousand to scan through. All the batch re-save does is save the file paths set by the user for quicker loading time, for it to be unliked by a separate drive with the a different file path name at the beginning! I've now resorted to cloning my drive to match the exact file path names for my brother to work on some material with me. He hates the fact it can take a long time to relink samples since I've been working on it on my system. My question to the community is... "Does batch re-save help with a multi computer working environment? I'm computer savvy, my brother struggles with it, and all he wants to do is record some guitar to my stuff, without the waiting times! His computer is a mac pro 5.1, better than what I've got, but he hardly uses it because of problems like Kontakt. But I make good use of it building projects up on it. Because we don't have two computers each to use sample content with, both machines are used for the tiny business of video production with nothing out there for us at the moment. Now's the time we want to work on music, and get some releases out there without all the hassle companies cause us. I tell ya what, a Fierce Panda release years ago was a good effort at trying to make it. This time around it's not for money, just for the time machine of streaming platforms. That's how we co-exist after we've put an amen to it!

“A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!” Quincy Jones YO!

Much better head.

Your new skinhead looks great Christian. I’m going to follow you.

What an interesting guy - top bloke indeed. Always hated Star Wars. Even Lucas admitted to being bounced into making a kids/family friendly film - not his original intent. Yea Hats is an amazing album. Super-melancholic.

'Bout time you got a proper hair cut Christian :)

Great chat Christian with... as you say... "a true gentleman". Regarding Star Wars, the anecdote I've heard is that George wrote a story about 'Space Pirates', but broke it up into sections for the films as it was too long. Episode IV being the one with least armies and therefore easier to film, but still having a strong narrative. I think he worked the plot point of Darth being Luke's father in from the start as it 'balances' the Force.... Father/Son and Evil/Good... But the brother/sister connection kind of plays out in IV as Luke's a bit rubbish with The Force at this point, but knows he needs to save her... Yet after training with Yoda in V works out who his father is, but not sister... Then the reveal in VI about the sister. Seems a bit convoluted, but if your first movie bombs you don't have to explain anything... It didn't... Long live Star Wars 👍

The good news is, you now qualify to be a guest on SonicTalk!

Finally! The hair thing is revealed. You look sharp though, Christian.

Lockdown day 532: Gary wearing the Hogwarts uniform and Christian sporting the Voldemort hairstyle

Unlike your hair, your right hand grew back remarkably quickly.

53 minutes! It's 12:30am here in Singapore! Why Christian, why? Probably watch in two parts...

GB: "People don't want to know how sausages are made..." CH: "So how do you make sausages then?..."

Lucas has said he didn't know. The names were only settled on after filming was started.

No worries, the hair thing never happened. As Imagination used to sing: 'It's just an illusion...' ;)