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

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

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  • @robburdlow4301
    @robburdlow43015 жыл бұрын

    Midge was absolutely beautiful back then.

  • @artslave

    @artslave

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still is!

  • @SPAZZOID100
    @SPAZZOID1008 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jean-louispech4921

    @jean-louispech4921

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @videosuperhighway7655

    @videosuperhighway7655

    9 ай бұрын

    And now Waldorf M which is a PPG 2.3+

  • @henridornancourt9786
    @henridornancourt97863 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mikew4001
    @mikew40016 жыл бұрын

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

  • @davidcraig897
    @davidcraig8972 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

    @erickgabriellimadacosta182

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah they reached at the number 22 in UK Charts

  • @Legslarsen.

    @Legslarsen.

    25 күн бұрын

    @@erickgabriellimadacosta182I’d forget the charts. Lament is a fabulous song, the sounds are perfect for the lyrics. To me it was musically interesting that a lament was a traditional musical form. I immediately gravitated to it’s depth of emotion, the vibe, the tempo, it was all a perfect song. Ultravox was always a wonderful part of that era.

  • @erickgabriellimadacosta182

    @erickgabriellimadacosta182

    25 күн бұрын

    @@Legslarsen. for sure I Feel that when I heard from the first time you know it's interesting that Song did make the same successful as Dancing with Tears in My Eyes but I always love Ultravox also.

  • @Harumi-jr6hz
    @Harumi-jr6hzАй 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.

  • @fordprefect80
    @fordprefect803 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Gibson1976uk
    @Gibson1976uk8 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

  • @MrJETCITY
    @MrJETCITY12 жыл бұрын

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

  • @carriersignal
    @carriersignal2 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
    @paulboulter7823 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk38 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

    @snuppssynthchannel

    7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @josie3674
    @josie3674 Жыл бұрын

    These guys are brilliant & their music is outstanding

  • @retrosound72
    @retrosound722 жыл бұрын

    The Minimoog 15 years old...✨🙌😁

  • @rciscon
    @rciscon11 жыл бұрын

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

  • @akie64
    @akie6410 жыл бұрын

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

  • @payt01

    @payt01

    3 жыл бұрын

    I bet you have the behringer D by now ;)

  • @adieuparis33
    @adieuparis337 ай бұрын

    Lament est un chef d'oeuvre . Ultravox groupe culte

  • @D-osOrg
    @D-osOrg13 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ALEClovesGENIALMUSIC
    @ALEClovesGENIALMUSIC13 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing !

  • @soundadapter
    @soundadapter8 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic very interesting Thumbs up Greeting Frank

  • @Ruediger_Hasenpusch
    @Ruediger_Hasenpusch4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TDMXJAPAN
    @TDMXJAPAN10 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Dolores5000
    @Dolores50003 ай бұрын

    I love him ❤

  • @menswear2112
    @menswear211212 жыл бұрын

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

  • @batphink2655
    @batphink2655 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic band all of them great musicians!

  • @mcosgrove91010
    @mcosgrove910106 жыл бұрын

    So awesome.

  • @shookstylez
    @shookstylez8 жыл бұрын

    synthasizARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  • @goldiloxx53
    @goldiloxx53Ай бұрын

    The space invaders jumper though! 🤩

  • @idabrohjem2202
    @idabrohjem22027 жыл бұрын

    that voice......

  • @POLSET2
    @POLSET27 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mjtaylor26
    @mjtaylor262 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.

  • @peters7949
    @peters79495 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

    @davebellamy4867

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @peters7949

    @peters7949

    5 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.

  • @ExtendedVersion
    @ExtendedVersion11 жыл бұрын

    OUTSTANDING :-)

  • @MFitz12
    @MFitz1212 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.

  • @djm9937
    @djm9937 Жыл бұрын

    4 brilliant Musicians !

  • @zacdior9402
    @zacdior94025 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge

    @sirandrelefaedelinoge

    Жыл бұрын

    John Foxx's electric Underpants

  • @MarkoDeLaVoota
    @MarkoDeLaVoota3 ай бұрын

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

  • @2sing
    @2sing3 жыл бұрын

    Lament, j'adore

  • @Craigevansagain
    @Craigevansagain8 жыл бұрын

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

  • @uyauabing
    @uyauabing10 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dwtime

    @dwtime

    9 жыл бұрын

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

  • @AlainRaes67

    @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

    @dwtime

    8 жыл бұрын

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

  • @spurv

    @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.

  • @incaroads001
    @incaroads0015 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'.

  • @rococolesyeux
    @rococolesyeux4 жыл бұрын

    😍💕

  • @Shalebridge
    @Shalebridge11 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Coppertunes
    @Coppertunes12 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.

  • @matelot95
    @matelot9512 жыл бұрын

    Midge looking like an East German third division footballer!

  • @prophetate
    @prophetate10 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JulesFox
    @JulesFox6 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

    @isabelveidt655

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Bad hair"???

  • @anttitheinternetguy3213

    @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

  • @Synthesis1979
    @Synthesis19798 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

    @craigbroadfoot1851

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @spoinkel
    @spoinkel10 жыл бұрын

    dat accent!

  • @carl13220

    @carl13220

    7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @roygwinn2
    @roygwinn210 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

    @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

    @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

    @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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6iq1dN8m8rIn7w.html

  • @madmac66
    @madmac663 жыл бұрын

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

  • @noelmurphy406
    @noelmurphy4063 жыл бұрын

    Lamenting from the off 🙏

  • @bigblockelectra
    @bigblockelectra12 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Coppertunes
    @Coppertunes12 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ceecoursian
    @ceecoursian12 жыл бұрын

    I guess they were working on Lament

  • @synthof
    @synthof4 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

    @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

    @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!

  • @McSynth
    @McSynth Жыл бұрын

    "laying down the tracks.." 🙂

  • @nlondonex
    @nlondonex9 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MFitz12
    @MFitz1212 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.

  • @alleykat6273
    @alleykat62733 жыл бұрын

    Im interested on what mods that minimoog has

  • @stocchinet
    @stocchinet6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Vuduman
    @Vuduman12 жыл бұрын

    opens up the Linn Drum!

  • @ThePlopsta
    @ThePlopsta5 жыл бұрын

    3:05 till 3:10 is peak Partridge!

  • @Johnsormani
    @Johnsormani2 жыл бұрын

    The Mighty ppg wave

  • @HatredPrime
    @HatredPrime6 жыл бұрын

    Midge looks like Edward Norton.

  • @s.kxx1956
    @s.kxx19564 жыл бұрын

    Poor minimoog it was old then and its old now !

  • @CatoMinor
    @CatoMinor6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cnfuzz

    @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

    @tonycowin

    11 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.

  • @hasbullabelgianfanpage
    @hasbullabelgianfanpage3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheAudioMystic

    @TheAudioMystic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Title track to the album : Lament

  • @liebstmohnbroetchen
    @liebstmohnbroetchen13 жыл бұрын

    What year is it from?

  • @azynkron
    @azynkron2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Electrickbreadstick
    @Electrickbreadstick12 жыл бұрын

    0:41 INVADERS SWEATER GODDAMN

  • @tomahzo
    @tomahzo2 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

    @JamesCorbettMusic5000

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ni5ei
    @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.

  • @AndyVonal
    @AndyVonal7 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gasolineandwine

    @gasolineandwine

    6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cnfuzz

    @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

  • @les7118
    @les71183 жыл бұрын

    what song on 0:52¿

  • @vindicator2011

    @vindicator2011

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lament...from the album Lament

  • @ilysvengeance
    @ilysvengeance7 жыл бұрын

    *goes on ebay

  • @Kneichion
    @Kneichion2 жыл бұрын

    Shame about the sound wobble on the video

  • @wrmusic8736
    @wrmusic8736 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @guiltseeker

    @guiltseeker

    2 ай бұрын

    It was Relative then so I get that!

  • @jayc2469
    @jayc24697 жыл бұрын

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

  • @WAZA___

    @WAZA___

    4 жыл бұрын

    @jay Does it matter!

  • @Gerald_Daniel
    @Gerald_Daniel2 ай бұрын

    What dialect is Midge Ure speaking here?

  • @elrrosengarten6717

    @elrrosengarten6717

    Ай бұрын

    Scottish accent

  • @Gerald_Daniel

    @Gerald_Daniel

    Ай бұрын

    @@elrrosengarten6717 Thank you!

  • @MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa

    @MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa

    28 күн бұрын

    @@elrrosengarten6717Fae Glesga?

  • @meredithhopkins1411
    @meredithhopkins14113 ай бұрын

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

  • @GNeuman
    @GNeuman3 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.

  • @lynnleistinger927
    @lynnleistinger9273 жыл бұрын

    John Foxx was the real Ultravox.!

  • @MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa

    @MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa

    28 күн бұрын

    John Foxx is an alien in disguise.