Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Live at 'The Old Grey Whistle Test' - 1984)
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- Performance by Thomas Dolby taken from the DVD The Old Grey Whistle Test (The Definitive Collection).
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Thomas Dolby, John Mellencamp, and Einstürzende Neubauten on the same show. The 80s was a wild time to be alive.
How far we've fallen
Totally! They need to put the whole show on CZcams!
So funky and what a fantastic voice the lady has got. Awesome
I always thought the chorus was Dolby’s voice manipulated. Didn’t realize it was
Adele Bertei
Album cover credits.
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 👍
Wait... what?? Oh wow! I never knew that! Thanks for sharing!!!!
He also wrote and played keyboards for Foreigner, notably on Waiting For a Girl Like You.
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.
❤ I love the woman 🎉she's amazing and so 80s ❤
Adele Bertei
Such a great, complex song when done live!! Incredible!!!
Love this. Fantastic performance
This is one of the best live performances on CZcams. 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.
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.
Holy Moly! And Thomas just celebrated his 64th b'day this Oct. Rock on you crazy Diamond!
A great, underrated song.
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.
I think it was a different female singer on the album version.
@@wesdoobner7521 Had to look it up but this seems to be Adele Bertei, same as on the album
@@LudvigC I knew it was Adele live, wasn't sure about the album.
Album credits.
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).
it is a synth bass line, so it was sequenced for this gig. can be played on real basses of course.
Pete Thoms (of Landscape) on trombone
I was about to ask that. Thanks, Dave!
Just love the dancing as well ❤🎉😊
This is frikkin amazing...
Little did Dolby know that he made a song that perfectly describes the world in 2024!
Bloody hell!... 40 years ago? What happened to yesterday?
that was groovalicious!
killer performance!
this is gold...! thank you for posting
Great beats touched my emotions so very deeply
Back then already.
WLIR Steamer of the Week 2-Jan-84
TIGHT
RIP Matthew Seligman who performed the gymnastics of the bass guitar on this track - not sure if he was in this video??
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.
I love Adele Bertei ♥
Amazingly clear voice! It sparkles with energy. A joy to hear.
Bring on the mushy peas.. That trombone sounds like my dad after a curry... Lol..
❤😊
Awesome performance. Dolby is sadly overlooked these days. Props to Adele Bertei.
I was hoping to see the bass player ripping that mad backbeat. It must have been pre-recorded or part of the synth machine.
To me, this is the type of 80s song that sounds messy and strange, although I am a 70/80s lover
Awesome. I always thought the high vocal part was Dolby transposed up an octave.
Would've sounded too artificial in 1984. And it's on the album credits that she's singing.
Two octaves.
El colombiano Chucho merchán en la guitarra!!!
Great sound designer and producer too - i.e "Steve Mc Queen" from Prefab sprout
So is this Thom Yorke's debut TV appearance?
He wish.
レコードの音を再現してるのが凄い
Is that Alan Wilder on the vocoder?
That's probably really had to do live but he did a great job
They're all very capable musicians and hopefully tech savvy lol
Who is the girl singing??
Adele Bertei
Like a funky cop
Do you by any chance have the performance Neubauten played?
Where is the bass line coming from? Is it just an electronic loop? I don't see a bass player.
It’s a Fairlight CMI preset so likely from a tape being played - such as the effects, and drums
Wacky and brilliant.
Hilarious that he did a little moon walk at 3:41, because he had offered this song to michael jackson, who rejected it.
Disappointed, couldn't " wrangle in that bass line Thomas?
Ive tried for year to learn it
It was programmed from the Fairlight CMI so likely very hard to do live
@@jaybowden2658 he's had bassists play it, I can play it.
@@MobiusBandwidth but does playing it on actual bass sound the same as the studio recording?
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.