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Gary Numan.
Interesting Documentary.
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Numan and Devo were pretty influential for me as a kid.
Cars by Gary Numan and Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division are the reasons I got into synths and keyboards as a kid. Hugely influential on me.
Ooh Thanks for this
Unfortunately cannot watch now. But i'll dive in tomorrow or monday
Cheers 😊
What a great doco!
Takes me back to a bedsit in London in 1979 and TOTP on the tele.
Are Friends Electric comes on and my Cornish girlfriend says “ Corrr…I’d give him one “..
I felt like I was getting a glimpse of the future from this alien dude who was transmitting from the frontline of Thatcher’s Britain. There was a stark sterile coldness being tapped into by Numan, Ultravox , Foxx, Vince Clarke etc that was like a panacea for the raw vitriol of punk as the 80 s loomed and the New Wave had its day .
Its wonderful to see the story of how Gary’s musical journey has unfurled and the acknowledgment by his peers of the influence ha has had upon them and their music!
Love is early and later music. Really great stuff!
Thanks very much for posting this. I also grew up on the edge of LHR airport in the 1970s and was also really into synths at that time, so I found the segment about him possibly being “inspired” by the aircraft noise interesting. My dad worked in avionics for BOAC / British Airways at the airport and I remember nagging him to build me a Transcendent 2000 kit from the magazine “Electronics Today International” (1978) but sadly that never happened. I finally got to make my own synth sounds when I bought an iPad 3 when it first came out. 3 iPads later, I’m still having fun. “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Cars” were the first songs I attempted to recreate with it.
After watching this, I looked up Gary Numan on Wikipedia and I’m amazed to read that I’m the same age, grew up in the same village (as it still was in those days, although it was expanding rapidly due to the growth of the airport), and even went to the same school at one point. Our paths must have repeatedly crossed for at least a couple of years but sadly I’ve no recollection of knowing “Gary Webb”.
Thinking back to those times of unusually hot weather (1976), fast-rising fuel prices and industrial unrest (sound familiar?) I’m so impressed that he had the talent, creativity and self-confidence to overcome all those barriers to be who and what he really wanted to be. I followed the unimaginative careers advice of my teachers and ended up in a safe, humdrum career in computer programming.
It’s only now, all these years later, that I’m getting to do what I really wanted to do all along. Finding out how our lives briefly crossed makes me wish I had known him then, and also that I could talk to him now to try to compare and understand how our experiences in our formative years have made us the people we are today.
I think largely because of his political views, back then he was pilloried by his contemporaries and the press, certainly musical press.
I don’t think that came up very often until his first retirement. I seem to recall the negative press being mostly criticism of his music and persona at first, despite his huge popularity.
The political thing (as far as I recall) came from one newspaper interview in which he gave his opinions, and it snowballed from there, but honestly I think it was an excuse for the press to add to their existing dislike of him.
Does anyone know f there is a better copy of this anywhere? Watching a 2022 documentary in 240p just sucks!
@sch Looking at it it’s from Sky Arts.
I’m seeing Gary Numan next weekend. Really looking forward to it. This show was canceled 2x due to Covid.
Yeah, I tried their site and found no link to it, nor any way to purchase etc. I might try to reach out and see if they reply.
FOLLOWUP:
Just spent a futile few minutes trying to make contact, only to be thoroughly thwarted by their robot assistant dialog. Unable to get anywhere from their presented options, and quite impossible to get to a human. Damn!
Good post that
As a scruffy little oik (me not you) who was born in West Middlesex Hospital and started off living under the same flightpath, I remember first hearing/seeing Are Friends Electric? on the OGWT and being captivated/nonplussed/thrilled by the sound.
Well that's quite the iPad he's got his hands on. 🙃👩🏻🚀
Absolutely one of my heroes, and I've only gotten into his music several years ago.
Thanks for your reply! I too was born in West Middx Hospital. First couple of years lived in Isleworth, then a had few happy years out near Windsor, but mainly grew up in Stanwell - at the other end of the village judging by GN’s primary school! Went to the same grammar school. Weird seeing the letter from our old headmaster in that video. Got me thinking about some of the other teaching staff too. Finally escaped at 30 to the far north of England, but I seem to remember you’ve gone even further. I think it may have been OGWT for me too - either that or getting the Carlos “Switched On Bach” LP.
All the best to you.
I love him. Are Friends Electric really got me way deeper into synths after only dabbling with them. Hearing that punk energy with synths opened a lot of doors for my creativity
No shit. What is that thing?
Also, is that little odd animal that makes a few appearances a cat?
Jokes aside, we really got a peek behind the curtain of his personal life.
He's using the Raven MTZ system from Slate Technology: https://www.slatemt.com
Interesting coincidence that his eldest daughter is Raven!
Yes, it is a cat.