I was at this weird buddhist convention in Hawaii at age 10 when I heard Depeche Mode for the first time in early 80's on a car radio cassette player. The car was jam packed with buddhists jamming to DM headed to Waikiki Beach. After returning home I begged Mom to goto mall, went to The Warehouse (a place that sold music) and got the cassette Construction Time Again. And that was the beginning of my torment by Metalheads beating me up for being a "mod." :-P
In ‘85-‘86, I had the biggest allowance, so it was my job to always have D batteries for me and my friends boom box! We would skateboard our fly ramp and listen to Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell album, The Violent Femme’s first album Violent Femmes, The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollucks and Black Flag as well as The Cure. First the chicks in the neighborhood would hear the music and come watch us skate and finally dudes in the neighborhood would show up. A lot of them were into Judas Priest, Metallica etc. but they didn’t bother us cuz they couldn’t do what we were and we gathered all the girls. Man those days were great! It was like the sun would never go down! Such innocent fun. Adults would come out to tell us to turn the music down, only to end up watching us and see all the neighborhood kids just having innocent fun and not hurting anyone or property. Whatever happened to days like that?!?!
I have similar stories going to buy CDs from the Warehouse. It was so amazing waiting for release day. Then buying concert tickets from the stares as well...Love your story though. Buddhist convention in Hawaii en route to Waikiki?
The Vince era, with no Vince. Not sure what would have happened if Gore had not had Alan to transform his works into the masterpieces we heard from 83-95. Not many bands lose one musical genius and stumble into another one.
If you listen to Martin's demos nearly everything in the final song is already there. Alan just helped give them a polish. Granted he did become more involved in their final sound with the later albums but all the melodies and component parts were still already written by Martin
The interview at the end is the greatest I've ever seen ^^^ "Your new song New Life, what is it about." "We don't know, Vince wrote the song but he left the band."
Pretty obvious question. He should have replied "It's about my past", as a joke :) / Pregunta bastante obvia. Debió responder "Se trata de mi pasado", como una broma.
Vince didn't like performing in front of audiences. he was much more comfortable in the studio writing, cutting tracks and so on. he was the mind behind Yazoo when he " moved out" from Depeche mode and after that joined Eraser.
The were so cute when they were young with their Keyboard Synths. Playing their adorable little melodies.☺️ This footage is so rare! Thanks RUclips! The Depeche Mode’s!
What a fantastic interview 🤣 But who would have expected back in 1982, that DM would become the biggest band ever, with the most sophisticated arrangements, deepest lyrics and best live performances? I salute you Martin, Dave, Andy, Alan and Vince, for making my life...Greetings to all the fans.
The band was ahead of its time, at some point time caught up with them, but that's pretty much the best music I've ever heard. This band shaped my youth, I had so much fun, videos like this are a treasure, I love it.
Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2150pm 30.5.22 wow how they rused... i have buggered off to listen to proper muzak - via vinyl.. no worries, though, it's depeche...
@@sturdeehouse Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2114pm 9.6.22 ah.... my next door neighbour once feigned depeche mode love. the only reason he got into it was due to my playing the band's guff of a saturday night... ah!!!! i like the way the band kindda did an about turn and decided on a rock schtick finale. it's heavier stuff suits me. though, again, i feel the likes of einsturzende neubauten (sic) may have had some subconscious influence on it... no; you really dont get a say in another person's musical journey - it's strictly personal. you bunch of censorious nerds!!!! all the electro kiddies have seen the light and kindda now attempt to oust the pillars of virtue ie: those who stood fast to the guitar and drum and bass combo - as predicted in 1979/80-ish... what kindda era do the band look comfortable within - as, let's face it, the band has seen off electro pop, new wave, indie, madchester and fuck knows what this era is to be noted as... it's kindda done it's own thing and that's cool by me. you either enter into it's world or keep it at arm's length. as i say the more heavier the depeche mode composition the better.
Depeche Mode playing on following synthesizers here....Andy Fletcher on a Moog Source, ML Gore on a Yamaha CS-5 and a Palm Products GmbH Wave 2 and Alan Wilder on a Roland Promars Compuphonic MRS-2....thanks for a great video...
Plenty of VCOs to go out of tune with the tape! It really stands out at the beginning of See You. I guess the heat of the studio lights will have had something to do with it.
To those not in the know, eg Americans, "See You" was incredibly important as it was the first single to be released without Vince Clarke and written by Martin Gore. Had it flopped, it might have spelled the end of Depeche Mode. Fortunately, it reached No. 6 in the UK charts. Again, this was follwed up by "The Meaning of Love" which reached No. 12 in the UK, then "Leave in Silence" at No. 18. The drop-off in chart success with the other 2 singles was most likely due to fans already having bought album which those songs were on. Though "12 remixes were very popular back then, which helped push the song up the charts.
See You is such genius! It's such a crazy amazingly good use of synths! It's like the textbook perfect use of synths song... I can't get over how much that song has stuck with me over the years and I can play it note by note in my head at any time... I think you're right. If they had not made that song their future could well have been very different! And I love this performance for many reasons, but also because you can see that while they have the songs mostly written and beautifully performed, that they later added and changed parts to what the recordings became. This is an important performance and any true DM fan ought to see it / hear it!
l bought this on vinyl 45 rpm disc about 81 /82 !! l was so happy l had collected enough pennies from my dad's beer bottles by taking them back to the pub and finally had enough money ( with some pocket money ) to buy it . Just played it on the record player over and over !!
A very young and relatively inexperienced DM here but very much proving they could cut it as a live band. Impressive. Alan Wilder really helped them grow I think.
Yeah, first song i heard is his two minute warning live version, never heard anything like it before in 1984, so advanced still feels the same (so now you have an idea how young i am)
True story but during the Some Great Reward tour I saw them at the Beacon Theater in NYC in 1984 and Fletch played the keyboard part to Somebody by himself (with Martin singing of course).
@@ultramet So many questions. Where was Alan? How come this never ever happened again? How come this goes completely against all the evidence we have of Fletch's extremely meagre musical ability?
Depeche Mode changed drastically after their first album Speak & Spell which is when Vince Clarke left the band. You can see the originating spirit evolving in Yazoo and later Erasure.
@@phaandorpertwee6981 Curiously, though, I think I also hear the beginnings of Depeche Mode's later sound in some early Vince-penned songs, as well, such as "Ice Machine" and "Puppets".
This is a nice live set; they look like they are having fun. Congrats to the audio engineers on the day - much better quality than a lot of comparable concert recordings from this period..
It’s crazy to think that just 6 years later they would absolutely blow the bottom out of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena at the 101 concert, which I was lucky enough to be at after standing in line for 3 days at Ticketmaster 🤣👍🏻
This band turned me onto synthesizers and synth pop. Years later I am still trying to write and play like this. Very bold to be an unconventional band like this and especially ground breaking. Love their sound.
Alan: I will play this clearly important melody and sing. Martin: I will play this clearly important melody and sing. Fletch: I will lay all ten of my fingers on the keyboard at the same time. I may be playing a note, I may not.
Jesus Christ he is so cool and genuine. His answer to her question "Do u think synthesizers/drum machines can or will replace guitars & reg music equipment?" He was dead on. "No" he said.... 10yrs later Gahan would be living in Los Angeles really into early-mid 90s Alternative Rock explosion. He loves Janes Addiction. But which all led to August 95 overdose. I'll never forget it....I just turned 18yrs old June 95. Graduated HS that May.... We had a drug fueled/crazy Summer of 95 with great music everywhere. We were headed dwn to a State Fair in Sedalia' Missouri passing a blunt between two cars going down 50Hwy... I just got my piece of paper hit acid...Put it on my tongue and immediately on one of the many great alternative radio stations then the DJ said "Dave Gahan has passed/died of an heroin overdose." I was drinking a new 20oz plastic Sprite bottles when I heard and reacted shockingly that my tab fell into my Sprite. I made my friend put on my "Violator" cd and I drank the Sprite......oh what a night. "End of Golden Age boys" (Was happy hear nxt day he was not dead..)
what a great energy they had at that time! I´m happy that i came across this video, thank you for sharing! Depeche Mode - authentic from beginning on.... beautiful
I don’t know how I came across this gem of this vintage footage of DM. These early songs are by far the best ever! Thank you for sharing this. It’s truly a gem of a find! Those synths…❤️!!!
Alan Wilder instantly making a noticeable difference to DM's sound despite not being an 'official' member of the band without whom i suspect DM may have lasted a further one or two years. Love Dave's open honesty; 'So what's the meaning behind the song 'New Life'?' - 'We don't know - you'd have to ask Vince' [smile]
It is amazing that DM were able to have 2 musician geniuses. First Vince then Alan. Once Alan left DM was never the same. They never rekindled that cult like magic.
@@DxModel219 You are so right buddy..When Wilder left they missed the musical spark that made them write exciting and inspiring melodies that required a proficient keyboard player to execute. That is the essence of the traditional Depeche Mode..Clarke left but Wilder replaced him..Wilder left..replaced by no one. Shame
@@markp4767 I stopped following DM after faith and devotion because after that their albums were just not the same. And the funny part was I never knew Wilder left until 2 years ago. It explained so much and I went through a period of “grief” even though it happened 17 years ago!! I can’t imagine what people were going through at that time when they heard that Wilder left the ban. One thing that stood out on their songs afterwards was you only hear Dave’s voice and if their was background harmonies it was just Dave… When it Wilder was their you heard the whole band singing together. Like the beginning of Shake the Disease you heard them all singing together and that was really special that’s missing now. They are just not as inspiring.
@@DxModel219 ultra is up there with any album with wilder . Boag , Ing , Home, useless , sister of night,. Bloody brilliant but their very best post wilder and sadly that’s it .
I finally got to see DM live in Santa Barbara and it was well worth the wait. That was maybe 8 year's ago but feels like yesterday. Such a great live band and my favorite since the 80's but I was a little too young to see them then.
I love seeing them so Vanilla here…in suits, minimal make-up and no crotch-grabbing, Elvis-moves coming out of Dave yet lol. I could see them playing the wedding circuit with this vibe.
Well.... what a blast that was from my past, at 12 yrs old I was a MASSIVE DM fan, and still love them, one of the few bands I pre order albums from without hearing any of the tracks, never dissapointed.... was a time I had most of their back catalogue too (Vinyl). Great video. 👌👍👏
He used to play a lot if not all the synth bass live in the early days. Since mid-eighties he started to play less and less. But nowadays he still plays the synth bass line in songs that they play very often like Just Can't Get Enough, Black Celebration, Stripped, Photographic, Home or Never Let Me Down Again.
You can see they got better and better and as synths progressed in sound so did they.. Dave´s dancing and energy really give the band a polish..... thank god Dave moved and grooved like he did that was an an essential ingredients imo
@@hansjrgenfrederiksen4065 Well, he and Vince were the first members (as No Romance in China), and he helped Vince persuade Martin to join them (now as Composition of Sound) since Fletch and Martin had been best friends since they were small children, so I suppose you're right. Vince was the original mastermind, but without Fletch, Depeche Mode (which the band became when Vince got Dave to join, with Dave suggesting the new name) might well have never been. You might say that Fletch has remained in the band primarily because the others are eternally grateful, and Martin is a loyal friend. Otherwise, to be frank, there is really no reason for Fletch to be in any band.
Not so indisputable, IMHO ... Once i used to think exactly like You But as i'm getting older, i realize that at the end of 70s Kraftwerk, just like belgian band Telex, made electronic-avantgarde music which ALSO became pop-dance ... Synth-pop bands of 80s made the "reverse process" : they played "conventional" pop-dance music with synthesizers and drum machines and so that pop-dance music ALSO became electronic ... the difference is very big and i think that the first process (the one made BY KW, etc) has an higher level, from the artistic point of view ... Well, DM were somehow "borderline" indeed and in any case they were very good at the time (the first album with Vince Clarke is great, too). But in the 90s, (my favorite decade indeed, when the heritage of Kraftwerk was collected ) DM to become some kind of pseudo-rock-electro-blues band ... :-( ...
@@MagDiSante I totally agree with you, but in many DM tracks those characteristic sounds of Kraftwerk are felt, I am not saying that they sound the same and less harmonically, but the way to use those sounds.
@@_officerK Thank You for Your kind answer :-) ... DM fans are usually very aggressive and show no tolerance, ehehehe ... I think You're right, indeed; as i wrote, DM were really great at the time and they were not a simple "synthpop" band, they were something more and there was an "avant-garde" component in their music, too ... Even Vincent Clarke wanted to experiment with sounds, he didn't want to produce "simple pop" music ... I expected DM to "evolve" in 90s, following the electronica of that decade (which is my favorite, as i wrote) and keeping their trademark at the same time ... But as i told, they chose a different path and i stopped being their fan : when i listend to "i feel you" for the first time, i immediately thought : "oh oh, End of line, guys !!!" ... Meantime, i fell in love with Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital. the drum'n'bass style, all the "intelligent techno and house stuff", etc ... I have to say that Pet Shop Boys did much better in the end ... they "updated" their sound but they also maintained "consistent" with their origins !
@@MagDiSante I'm not that type of fan, I know how to recognize the good and the bad of each band, I agree with "I feel you", in the same way I don't think it's a "bad" track, but it's like they lost a bit of his grace, I love the bands you mentioned, I have a couple of vinyls of each one, the beauty of electronic music is that it is very wide, I listen to all kinds of subgenres, taking advantage of the occasion I recommend that you listen to Jon Hopkins, he is a very interesting artist.
They took the world by storm, i notice at their beginnings they were always question why this why that. And he always , answer “well, we just want people to enjoy our music and have fun no real deep meaning or meditation just enjoy”
@@rsanders15 tape could have MIDI time control data recorded onto it to synchronize with drum machines etc but I think in this case they pre-recorded the drum machine and sequenced synth parts to tape then played along.
@@MrMe4444444 of course, I meant the system for embedding a timing stripe on one of the tracks of the tape machine (which presumably could've been used to generate a voltage signal for sequencing drum machines and synths of the time). The MIDI compatible ones soon followed.
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I was at this weird buddhist convention in Hawaii at age 10 when I heard Depeche Mode for the first time in early 80's on a car radio cassette player. The car was jam packed with buddhists jamming to DM headed to Waikiki Beach. After returning home I begged Mom to goto mall, went to The Warehouse (a place that sold music) and got the cassette Construction Time Again. And that was the beginning of my torment by Metalheads beating me up for being a "mod." :-P
Construction Time Again my love album
Cool story 👍👍👍
In ‘85-‘86, I had the biggest allowance, so it was my job to always have D batteries for me and my friends boom box! We would skateboard our fly ramp and listen to Depeche Mode’s Speak and Spell album, The Violent Femme’s first album Violent Femmes, The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollucks and Black Flag as well as The Cure. First the chicks in the neighborhood would hear the music and come watch us skate and finally dudes in the neighborhood would show up. A lot of them were into Judas Priest, Metallica etc. but they didn’t bother us cuz they couldn’t do what we were and we gathered all the girls. Man those days were great! It was like the sun would never go down! Such innocent fun. Adults would come out to tell us to turn the music down, only to end up watching us and see all the neighborhood kids just having innocent fun and not hurting anyone or property. Whatever happened to days like that?!?!
I have similar stories going to buy CDs from the Warehouse. It was so amazing waiting for release day. Then buying concert tickets from the stares as well...Love your story though. Buddhist convention in Hawaii en route to Waikiki?
Heck yeah, da warehouse
The Vince era, with no Vince. Not sure what would have happened if Gore had not had Alan to transform his works into the masterpieces we heard from 83-95. Not many bands lose one musical genius and stumble into another one.
Yeah!
Alan is Alan,Vince is Yazoo.
That's nonsense. Martin was the genius. Alan was just a decent pianist. They could have found another one
If you listen to Martin's demos nearly everything in the final song is already there. Alan just helped give them a polish. Granted he did become more involved in their final sound with the later albums but all the melodies and component parts were still already written by Martin
Yeah, they were really lucky with Alan joining them, too bad he seems to retire, Recoil is excellent)
RIP Andy, you will be missed but never forgotten 🌷🌷🌷
Soooooo much💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
It caught me out seeing him singing Never Let Me Down.😢
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
The interview at the end is the greatest I've ever seen ^^^
"Your new song New Life, what is it about." "We don't know, Vince wrote the song but he left the band."
Pretty obvious question. He should have replied "It's about my past", as a joke :) / Pregunta bastante obvia. Debió responder "Se trata de mi pasado", como una broma.
Vince left so Alan could join. Thus, the “new life”. 🎹
Lol
Vince didn't like performing in front of audiences. he was much more comfortable in the studio writing, cutting tracks and so on. he was the mind behind Yazoo when he " moved out" from Depeche mode and after that joined Eraser.
How I wish there was such a thing as a Time Machine. DM are eternal ❤
It's insane the voice coming out such baby face Gahan!
hahaha... I thought the same!! Just incredible talent these guys were / are! RIP Andy Fletcher :(
The were so cute when they were young with their Keyboard Synths. Playing their adorable little melodies.☺️
This footage is so rare! Thanks RUclips!
The Depeche Mode’s!
Yes, so lovely and young with Dave's voice so deep and atractive❤
Dave's dancing is always the definition of cool
Seriously! I love when he just finds that moment to dance away! So cool!
Всем привет из 2021!!!! Почти 40 лет прошло, но восторг!!!
Thank you for the music, Andrew Fletcher. Rest in Peace.
RIP Andy! What an amazing guy... They all are!
Dave has always been a doll🧡
What a fantastic interview 🤣 But who would have expected back in 1982, that DM would become the biggest band ever, with the most sophisticated arrangements, deepest lyrics and best live performances? I salute you Martin, Dave, Andy, Alan and Vince, for making my life...Greetings to all the fans.
В этом 1982 году - они уже были великими!
Thats pouring it on a lil too thick discoStar, too rich- but yes they Dep.Mode were big and smart.
@@Dazed1512 Yes, They are the biggest band ever for me. 42 years and still going strong.
Полностью поддерживаю
The sound is amazing. Dave Gahan's voice is beautiful.
The band was ahead of its time, at some point time caught up with them, but that's pretty much the best music I've ever heard. This band shaped my youth, I had so much fun, videos like this are a treasure, I love it.
Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2150pm 30.5.22 wow how they rused... i have buggered off to listen to proper muzak - via vinyl.. no worries, though, it's depeche...
What time do you think they actually fitted in? What year?
@@sturdeehouse Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 2114pm 9.6.22 ah.... my next door neighbour once feigned depeche mode love. the only reason he got into it was due to my playing the band's guff of a saturday night... ah!!!! i like the way the band kindda did an about turn and decided on a rock schtick finale. it's heavier stuff suits me. though, again, i feel the likes of einsturzende neubauten (sic) may have had some subconscious influence on it... no; you really dont get a say in another person's musical journey - it's strictly personal. you bunch of censorious nerds!!!! all the electro kiddies have seen the light and kindda now attempt to oust the pillars of virtue ie: those who stood fast to the guitar and drum and bass combo - as predicted in 1979/80-ish... what kindda era do the band look comfortable within - as, let's face it, the band has seen off electro pop, new wave, indie, madchester and fuck knows what this era is to be noted as... it's kindda done it's own thing and that's cool by me. you either enter into it's world or keep it at arm's length. as i say the more heavier the depeche mode composition the better.
@@brody5211 Depeche Mode, Live 1982 @ Måndagsbörsen 0431am 16.7.22 what was a hard read....?
David Gahan’s voice is so clear and distinct.Alan Wilder just incredible on the keyboards.Martin Gore best backup voice as well as soloist.
Depeche Mode playing on following synthesizers here....Andy Fletcher on a Moog Source, ML Gore on a Yamaha CS-5 and a Palm Products GmbH Wave 2 and Alan Wilder on a Roland Promars Compuphonic MRS-2....thanks for a great video...
Plenty of VCOs to go out of tune with the tape! It really stands out at the beginning of See You. I guess the heat of the studio lights will have had something to do with it.
Fletch has the most modern synth. OK, Wave2 was state of art too.
That's some cool synth knowledge you have :-) PPG Wave 2 was an expensive piece of kit for sure
@@martin-mi3cg Wave was designed with good intentions but its sound was crap, always so unpleasant. Thats why it was abandoned so soon.
Playing the following synths...
So Germany sent us kraftwerk incredible synth tunes. Britain said you can’t dance to that ! Here have DEPECHE MODE and the rest is history x
"New Life" sounds like "Airwaves" from Kraftwerk.
@@lionelalias4561but cooler
You can dance to Kraftwerk
in Deutschland wird nicht getanzt😂
@@vivavideo-videofilmerkorrrrrekt :-)
They were just kids! Crazy to see them so young
To those not in the know, eg Americans, "See You" was incredibly important as it was the first single to be released without Vince Clarke and written by Martin Gore. Had it flopped, it might have spelled the end of Depeche Mode. Fortunately, it reached No. 6 in the UK charts. Again, this was follwed up by "The Meaning of Love" which reached No. 12 in the UK, then "Leave in Silence" at No. 18. The drop-off in chart success with the other 2 singles was most likely due to fans already having bought album which those songs were on. Though "12 remixes were very popular back then, which helped push the song up the charts.
See You is such genius! It's such a crazy amazingly good use of synths! It's like the textbook perfect use of synths song... I can't get over how much that song has stuck with me over the years and I can play it note by note in my head at any time... I think you're right. If they had not made that song their future could well have been very different! And I love this performance for many reasons, but also because you can see that while they have the songs mostly written and beautifully performed, that they later added and changed parts to what the recordings became. This is an important performance and any true DM fan ought to see it / hear it!
This is why I f*ing love RUclips. Gems like these that people upload. Amazing. Keep them coming and long love DM 🌹
l bought this on vinyl 45 rpm disc about 81 /82 !! l was so happy l had collected enough pennies from my dad's beer bottles by taking them back to the pub and finally had enough money ( with some pocket money ) to buy it . Just played it on the record player over and over !!
dave solid voice in this performance👍
My favorite Depeche Mode song..................greetings of Peru 🇵🇪...
A very young and relatively inexperienced DM here but very much proving they could cut it as a live band. Impressive. Alan Wilder really helped them grow I think.
It was just so different musically and they really were very serious about making it work in many ways. Precious.
Great to see Andy actually play
39 years, sometimes i think it Was yesterday !
01:30 - New Life
05:40 - (Interview)
09:03 - See You
13:10 - Just Can't Get Enough
God dang it, Alan killing it on the leads here
Alan played more notes in one minute than Fletch played in his whole career 🤣
Alan showing his amazing value at this critical stage in DM history. And what a difference he made as a band member.
Yeah, first song i heard is his two minute warning live version, never heard anything like it before in 1984, so advanced still feels the same (so now you have an idea how young i am)
Agreed
Absolutely. They were lucky to have him in the band cause he made that paradigm shift to what is known as DM's signature sound
Love those PPG synths, Moog, Juno sounds... Alan's keyboard agility is incredible. 🖤🖤.
Wow...young gents delivering a great live performance👍🏻
Dave is so fresh! love the way he was moving dancing at the time!
Rare footage of Fletch actually playing!
True story but during the Some Great Reward tour I saw them at the Beacon Theater in NYC in 1984 and Fletch played the keyboard part to Somebody by himself (with Martin singing of course).
Shame,.... his career sometimes looked like a big sumpathy vote.
Ive seen him dancing quite a lot,.....shiddt technique on synth.
it's an illusion, don't panic
@@ultramet So many questions. Where was Alan? How come this never ever happened again? How come this goes completely against all the evidence we have of Fletch's extremely meagre musical ability?
@@maddogUK69 what do you mean "where was alan"?
In this times, Andy did played the bass synth, and I must say with very good precision, I don't know why he stopped playing
and here he is playing live bass?
Damn, what a VOICE !!!❤😍
These guys are my favorite forever!!!!!
From... engLand
Les voix de Dave et d’Alan ont toujours été géniales ensemble 🖤
absolument je suis d'accord avec toi
Hoe can this video only have 77.000 views.... this is EPIC historic live synth performance by DM - gotta love them
Depeche Mode's early music was their best. Incredible upload. Very entertaining. Thank you.
@Lyric Rodney Definitely, I've been using InstaFlixxer for months myself :)
Depeche Mode changed drastically after their first album Speak & Spell which is when Vince Clarke left the band. You can see the originating spirit evolving in Yazoo and later Erasure.
@@phaandorpertwee6981 Curiously, though, I think I also hear the beginnings of Depeche Mode's later sound in some early Vince-penned songs, as well, such as "Ice Machine" and "Puppets".
Yeah, they just want us to have fun. It's adorbs.
This is a nice live set; they look like they are having fun. Congrats to the audio engineers on the day - much better quality than a lot of comparable concert recordings from this period..
I love their early concerts
40 years later and they more cool than modern artists
Incredible production. The guys looks so young!
The guys _were_ so young, Dave especially looks like a kid!
How brilliant! Early Depeche FOREVER when they were a Synth band XXXXXX
I met Alan Wilder at a Depeche Mode Concert a few years ago... He is such a nice guy
Wow, what a great story, thanks. That means that they left their hard feelings behind and in good terms now. Did Alan dance or sing along?
@@irchieirchie he played 2 songs with Depeche Mode on stage... And at our party he was chatting away with Martin... His wife is really lovely too
@@michaeladolph7134 thanks for your answer 🙏 could you please tell me where and when it was? (Hope to find a video)
@@irchieirchie 2009 Royal Albert Hall in London. Teenage Cancer Trust Concert
@@michaeladolph7134 thank you!
I could listen to Dave’s voice forever, it’s so pretty
Я когда слушаю как Дэйв поёт. Я чувствую то как сильно он волнуется
Fantastic. This video is gold.
live not playback impressive for 1982
I' guess, some of the sounds came from tape, especially drums.
It’s crazy to think that just 6 years later they would absolutely blow the bottom out of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena at the 101 concert, which I was lucky enough to be at after standing in line for 3 days at Ticketmaster 🤣👍🏻
So that Rose Bowl was as big as it looked
@@josephhiggins8143 the Rose Bowl is massive, it's capacity is 90,000 people.
Que manera tan peculiar de tocar el teclado tiene Alan, siempre fue un maestro !!!
Sus dedos vuelan 🤯
This band turned me onto synthesizers and synth pop. Years later I am still trying to write and play like this. Very bold to be an unconventional band like this and especially ground breaking. Love their sound.
Alan: I will play this clearly important melody and sing.
Martin: I will play this clearly important melody and sing.
Fletch: I will lay all ten of my fingers on the keyboard at the same time. I may be playing a note, I may not.
Fletch was playing the bass line on JCGE-! A monophonic Moog Source … on other songs he was fingering chords 🙃🙋🏻♂️
Amazing watching these old videos 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I love them. I love this concert.🥰 They are so young.
Young Dave😍😍😍😍😍 love
Really nice to be back in those good times of youth and music
Btw, later the same night Phil Collins and Talk Talk performed too! You can see Talk Talk`s electric drum behind the tape recorder.
Wow! Smashing!
I just saw you commenting on a Yazoo video Margis,what superb taste you have sir.😀
Jesus Christ he is so cool and genuine.
His answer to her question "Do u think synthesizers/drum machines can or will replace guitars & reg music equipment?"
He was dead on. "No" he said.... 10yrs later Gahan would be living in Los Angeles really into early-mid 90s Alternative Rock explosion.
He loves Janes Addiction.
But which all led to August 95 overdose.
I'll never forget it....I just turned 18yrs old June 95. Graduated HS that May.... We had a drug fueled/crazy Summer of 95 with great music everywhere. We were headed dwn to a State Fair in Sedalia' Missouri passing a blunt between two cars going down 50Hwy...
I just got my piece of paper hit acid...Put it on my tongue and immediately on one of the many great alternative radio stations then the DJ said "Dave Gahan has passed/died of an heroin overdose."
I was drinking a new 20oz plastic Sprite bottles when I heard and reacted shockingly that my tab fell into my Sprite.
I made my friend put on my "Violator" cd and I drank the Sprite......oh what a night. "End of Golden Age boys"
(Was happy hear nxt day he was not dead..)
what a great energy they had at that time! I´m happy that i came across this video, thank you for sharing! Depeche Mode - authentic from beginning on.... beautiful
Awesome video ! Nice to see them doing electronic music live ! Thanks for sharing this rarity !
amazing sound for a live performance.
so young and so genious....... you cant learn this! you get borned this way! awesome!
Love this live version of JCGE. So new and raw without commercial overproduction.
Hell yeahhh
Дорогие наши, милые и обожаемые во все времена..😊 ❤❤❤❤
Точно !!!
How I miss Mr. Alan Wilder!!
I don’t know how I came across this gem of this vintage footage of DM. These early songs are by far the best ever! Thank you for sharing this. It’s truly a gem of a find! Those synths…❤️!!!
Yeah the algorithm decided I could have a little of this as a treat 😸
Alan Wilder instantly making a noticeable difference to DM's sound despite not being an 'official' member of the band without whom i suspect DM may have lasted a further one or two years. Love Dave's open honesty; 'So what's the meaning behind the song 'New Life'?' - 'We don't know - you'd have to ask Vince' [smile]
It is amazing that DM were able to have 2 musician geniuses. First Vince then Alan. Once Alan left DM was never the same. They never rekindled that cult like magic.
@@DxModel219 You are so right buddy..When Wilder left they missed the musical spark that made them write exciting and inspiring melodies that required a proficient keyboard player to execute. That is the essence of the traditional Depeche Mode..Clarke left but Wilder replaced him..Wilder left..replaced by no one. Shame
@@markp4767 I stopped following DM after faith and devotion because after that their albums were just not the same. And the funny part was I never knew Wilder left until 2 years ago. It explained so much and I went through a period of “grief” even though it happened 17 years ago!! I can’t imagine what people were going through at that time when they heard that Wilder left the ban. One thing that stood out on their songs afterwards was you only hear Dave’s voice and if their was background harmonies it was just Dave… When it Wilder was their you heard the whole band singing together. Like the beginning of Shake the Disease you heard them all singing together and that was really special that’s missing now. They are just not as inspiring.
@@DxModel219 ultra is up there with any album with wilder . Boag , Ing , Home, useless , sister of night,. Bloody brilliant but their very best post wilder and sadly that’s it .
@@brody5211 yup i agree ultra not too bad but still missing that emotional sentimental touch by Wilder.
Thank you for this video
(Yes, I know, I'm 7 years late!)
I finally got to see DM live in Santa Barbara and it was well worth the wait. That was maybe 8 year's ago but feels like yesterday. Such a great live band and my favorite since the 80's but I was a little too young to see them then.
They were the very first band I ever saw. 1986, the Black Celebration Tour, Tower Theater, Philadelphia. I was 17. It felt like a dream
I love seeing them so Vanilla here…in suits, minimal make-up and no crotch-grabbing, Elvis-moves coming out of Dave yet lol. I could see them playing the wedding circuit with this vibe.
Saw them in Toronto Canada I think it was either 1982 or 1983! They were so good!! They were at Massey Hall!
OMG such brave young lads, they preempted a new age.
Какой сильный голос у Дейва, я такой сочный его вокал в живом исполнении услышал здесь впервые за все время!
The last song was perfect- different from LP version, but perfect
Well.... what a blast that was from my past, at 12 yrs old I was a MASSIVE DM fan, and still love them, one of the few bands I pre order albums from without hearing any of the tracks, never dissapointed.... was a time I had most of their back catalogue too (Vinyl). Great video. 👌👍👏
Brilliant! Thanks for the upload!
Never saw this before ... Blows my mind! Thanks 👍 Takes me back ☺️
Holy crap. Thanks for posting this, I was born in 82.
super bon souvenir
My god....This is so perfect....
Looks like Alan's hands live their independent lives 😍
The band whichmy fevorite foreever
Beutiful concert _beutiful year 1982
He used to play a lot if not all the synth bass live in the early days. Since mid-eighties he started to play less and less. But nowadays he still plays the synth bass line in songs that they play very often like Just Can't Get Enough, Black Celebration, Stripped, Photographic, Home or Never Let Me Down Again.
Many many thanks for sharing this gem 😍
They would make one of the most beautiful,dark albums of all time in 1986,Black Celebration.😘
Very first concert I ever saw... June 1986, Black Celebration tour. Indelibly etched in my mind, all these years later.
You can see they got better and better and as synths progressed in sound so did they.. Dave´s dancing and energy really give the band a polish..... thank god Dave moved and grooved like he did that was an an essential ingredients imo
The era when Fletcher earned his pay
He was the connecting part , whitout him there had never been any DM !
@@hansjrgenfrederiksen4065 Well, he and Vince were the first members (as No Romance in China), and he helped Vince persuade Martin to join them (now as Composition of Sound) since Fletch and Martin had been best friends since they were small children, so I suppose you're right. Vince was the original mastermind, but without Fletch, Depeche Mode (which the band became when Vince got Dave to join, with Dave suggesting the new name) might well have never been. You might say that Fletch has remained in the band primarily because the others are eternally grateful, and Martin is a loyal friend. Otherwise, to be frank, there is really no reason for Fletch to be in any band.
Thanks for the upload!! Awesome!!
Great sound and video hi! 👋 from Tijuana, México....
Great band still love them now 😊
Kraftwerk's influence is indisputable, fkn love DP.
Not so indisputable, IMHO ... Once i used to think exactly like You But as i'm getting older, i realize that at the end of 70s Kraftwerk, just like belgian band Telex, made electronic-avantgarde music which ALSO became pop-dance ... Synth-pop bands of 80s made the "reverse process" : they played "conventional" pop-dance music with synthesizers and drum machines and so that pop-dance music ALSO became electronic ... the difference is very big and i think that the first process (the one made BY KW, etc) has an higher level, from the artistic point of view ... Well, DM were somehow "borderline" indeed and in any case they were very good at the time (the first album with Vince Clarke is great, too). But in the 90s, (my favorite decade indeed, when the heritage of Kraftwerk was collected ) DM to become some kind of pseudo-rock-electro-blues band ... :-( ...
@@MagDiSante I totally agree with you, but in many DM tracks those characteristic sounds of Kraftwerk are felt, I am not saying that they sound the same and less harmonically, but the way to use those sounds.
@@_officerK Thank You for Your kind answer :-) ... DM fans are usually very aggressive and show no tolerance, ehehehe ... I think You're right, indeed; as i wrote, DM were really great at the time and they were not a simple "synthpop" band, they were something more and there was an "avant-garde" component in their music, too ... Even Vincent Clarke wanted to experiment with sounds, he didn't want to produce "simple pop" music ... I expected DM to "evolve" in 90s, following the electronica of that decade (which is my favorite, as i wrote) and keeping their trademark at the same time ... But as i told, they chose a different path and i stopped being their fan : when i listend to "i feel you" for the first time, i immediately thought : "oh oh, End of line, guys !!!" ... Meantime, i fell in love with Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital. the drum'n'bass style, all the "intelligent techno and house stuff", etc ... I have to say that Pet Shop Boys did much better in the end ... they "updated" their sound but they also maintained "consistent" with their origins !
@@MagDiSante I'm not that type of fan, I know how to recognize the good and the bad of each band, I agree with "I feel you", in the same way I don't think it's a "bad" track, but it's like they lost a bit of his grace, I love the bands you mentioned, I have a couple of vinyls of each one, the beauty of electronic music is that it is very wide, I listen to all kinds of subgenres, taking advantage of the occasion I recommend that you listen to Jon Hopkins, he is a very interesting artist.
More like influenced by Human League and Joy Division.
I grew up listening to DM .. what a different world was then.. now 2022 am still listen to DM.. tq so much DM .. I love you ..
Alan wilder equates to genius 👏
такой молодой и всегда была классная музыка не обычная до сих пор для вдохновления это депеш мод
They took the world by storm, i notice at their beginnings they were always question why this why that. And he always , answer “well, we just want people to enjoy our music and have fun no real deep meaning or meditation just enjoy”
Effing great and the boys are actually playing (well almost) live!
Love the way Fletch quickly turns off the tape when Photographic starts at the end!
I believe the tape was the controller of the electronic drums like other electronic drums of the time (e.g. Cocteau Twins)
@@rsanders15 tape could have MIDI time control data recorded onto it to synchronize with drum machines etc but I think in this case they pre-recorded the drum machine and sequenced synth parts to tape then played along.
MIDI time code
No midi, foot switch turned on prerecorded tracks on tape. Midi just came out in 82, only two synths had it.
@@MrMe4444444 of course, I meant the system for embedding a timing stripe on one of the tracks of the tape machine (which presumably could've been used to generate a voltage signal for sequencing drum machines and synths of the time). The MIDI compatible ones soon followed.
Какие они молодые и милые))) Депеш ван лав)
I love that we can clearly hear Alan’s backing vocals. I really want someone to just isolate all his backing vocal contributions.
There's isolated Fletch vocals out there but only studio