Whoever edited this video together and worked on the audio, brilliant job. You made a great video out of what some others may have considered unusable. Your work did not go unnoticed.
As a musician, literally the adjusting the mic stand on stage is like a skill- I am glad he is bringing awareness to the extra labor that musicians have been giving for years!
I love the way he changes character and delivers it with such perfection u doubt if the previous or the new one is real. Or maybe both aren't. I'm still not sure what his real accent is
One of my fav people on the planet .. he is amazing at scatting .. but his word/description/nonsense is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed... He is a genius... If I could hang out with any celebrity still alive it would totes b the master of the universe Mr Reggie Watts
I don't think that's just him. It's definitely sort of true. You understand the formula behind every song now. Every now and then you get differences in bass/melody which are more appreciated, but you basically figure out what the formula is.
Yes, but when was music's effect based on a formula only :) It's the improvisation and raw talent he has to do it, combined with humor and a type of lecture/concert feel to all his performances that grabs me most.
Addressing some comments below, yes it is quite strange that the post-production engineer decided to completely remove the audience sounds while Reggie was talking. It is good practice to have an ambient mic in the room to, in this case, not only make Reggie's voice sound more natural for the setting but also to, as expressed below, make the interactions between him and the audience seem more natural. And considering that it does seem that they had such an ambient mic set up, it is kind of puzzling that they chose to make the audience seem like a laugh track. Intentional? Still, a great video and performance.
Gah...I love Reggie. Wish the audience had been miced better. Once they fixed Reggie's mic, it sounded like the audience was on a laugh track...like they did hard cuts.
You may be right! However, after having worked in the live audio business for a while I can confirm that: 1. Shit does, indeed, happen at times. 2. Inexperienced people can land amazing gigs and fuck them up.
"I been, you know, 'cause. A lotta people like, you know, like, they, ya know like, music and stuff knomma'sayin'. But like some people, they don't like as much as other people. You know how people, you ever notice how some people, like, I really, like, love music. And a-a-a other people, like, yeah." Reggie
The separate audios of the audience and Reggie's mic really throws off the whole live feeling of the performance. Just a suggestion! Perhaps find a way to have both of them together next time.
In my opinion this crowd was rather unresponsive compared to most other Reggie Watts performances and I had no problem hearing them before or after his hand held mic was finally plugged in - go to 3:43 and listen for yourself. He also mentioned the D.C. bands Fugazi and Minor Threat and not a peep was made. No ickiness or unkindness intended :) I just felt kinda bad for Reggie. Peace
***** Or it's just pre-recorded the laughter edited in. Video's do it all the time.. just not very well in this one. That's what happens when technology fails
Way2Spirited late to this I know. However because of the technical issues they were having they didn't have a seperate mic for the audience like they do in the updated talks. Otherwise you'd be hearing them cheering like they were at the beginning.
At the end of the dubstep song I felt like I was part of Marty's 1955 audience in the first Back to the Future, when he suddenly goes into a Van Halen impro.
I think the mixing out of the audience was a little aggressive. They could've left it on at low volume so that it doesn't sound so odd when they do mix the audience response in.
he doesnt have an accent, reggie watts is more of a concept than a person...hence he is not american (born in Germany in fact) and can phase in and out of multiple personalities...he is simply, brilliant.
I wish he started doing some complete shows - you know with real songs and monologue material that isn't nonsense. :) but I guess you can't make Reggie do tricks by command like every other entertainer. He got his thing :)
all he plays are real songs, just because his lyrics are not interpreted as "serious" by the masses, does not mean that a song is less than a song because of its content.
It sounds to me (and I admittedly don't know too much about this) like whoever did the editing here was working with at least 2 feeds. One from the soundboard that was just picking up Reggie CLEAN and some other mics in the house, possibly on the cameras or something. What puzzles me is why the editor chose to fade to the house audio just for crowd laughter. I'd think it would be a lot cleaner and more effective to just splice the two audio feeds together.
This guy is insanely talented but I have to wonder if he just went crazy one day and bought a loop machine to show the world what it's like inside his head. Really awesome music though.
If you listen and watch for 30 seconds you'll realize that it's a technical cockup and the technician is on stage fixing it.The quality audio system is back online at 2:50
Nice one Stephen Carmickle and it just dawned on me that the audio glitch might actually have been staged. They did a nice subtle job of it if that's the case!
the world would be a better place if it were given free access to Reggie just unloading his mind like this via some type of satellite radio or smartphone app or somethin...not to mention i would never have to buy another cd for the rest of my life :)
The symbolism.....the audience were 'engaged 'at maximum level whilst the microphone was not being used. Speech in Natural Form vibrates on physical and spiritual level. Technology effects on a physical level , stimulating nerve endings...yet the devices to project voice and music waves are received by the listener are an artificial form. Are we really engaging when we hear anymore. Again... natural sound vibrates triggers an emotional response to the receiver. Technology could very well be dulling , muting ,disconnecting the way we interact with the world and people around us. These are my personal opinions and I mean no harm. My only wish is that others observe.
They just fucked up the audio, they started play from his mic instead of the one picking up everything. Then they tried to fade it in during the laughs. If you listen hard you can hear people laughing when he's talking but they only turned up their mic like every 30 seconds, sounds like shit lol.
Whoever edited this video together and worked on the audio, brilliant job. You made a great video out of what some others may have considered unusable. Your work did not go unnoticed.
I love how the timer left showing in the monitor is at zero, because he's so awesome he can go on forever ;D
The mic vs audience sound made them sound like a laugh track.
Live laughter running through a noise gate is indistinguishable from canned laughter.
As an audiovisual technician, this was painful to watch. Reggie is an absolute class act though. 💖
Definitely
By far the best mic stand tutorial out there.
I love how he shows his comedic genius then his real musical genius. BRILLIANT!
So glad I discovered this guy on TEDxMidAtlantic! I love this man's work!! So much!!
Nobody sings a song about nothing better than Reggie Watts.
As a musician, literally the adjusting the mic stand on stage is like a skill- I am glad he is bringing awareness to the extra labor that musicians have been giving for years!
Love this guy! Sounds like he's talking nonsense, yet so much truth said and sung in a delightful, crazy, different way!😜🙃👍
Reggie Watts is THE man. He always almost never fails to make me laugh. And he must be a great musician, too.
I love how his accent gets progressively more English and then when it gets to maximum Englishosity he goes Super Ghetto. Brilliant.
***** ...
Kyle Grounds If you are looking for super ghetto, I can only recommend "ratchet video weekly" on here somewhere
I love the way he changes character and delivers it with such perfection u doubt if the previous or the new one is real. Or maybe both aren't. I'm still not sure what his real accent is
Justin McMullen The real one is the regular ol' American accent.
Reggie Watts' music just makes me feel like nothing else. There's just something so pure and emotional about it.
One of my fav people on the planet .. he is amazing at scatting .. but his word/description/nonsense is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed... He is a genius... If I could hang out with any celebrity still alive it would totes b the master of the universe Mr Reggie Watts
Oh my Reggie when you turn the captions on when you sing it just reinforces the whole concept..
The problem with Reggie is that once you've listened to him, everything else seems kinda "Meh.".
I think that's just you.
The world is full of different tastes, you never know...
I for one, could not agree with you more.
I don't think that's just him. It's definitely sort of true. You understand the formula behind every song now. Every now and then you get differences in bass/melody which are more appreciated, but you basically figure out what the formula is.
Yes, but when was music's effect based on a formula only :) It's the improvisation and raw talent he has to do it, combined with humor and a type of lecture/concert feel to all his performances that grabs me most.
This was like watching a sitcom...
it's a great night... for anything that can happen
this is one of his best clips, I think. The music is so fucking on point
He seriously needs to live forever bro.
The beat @ 10:00 literally exploded my mind
When he randomly starts singing through the wire lmao
I like how he just starts singing Through the Wire at the end.
Addressing some comments below, yes it is quite strange that the post-production engineer decided to completely remove the audience sounds while Reggie was talking. It is good practice to have an ambient mic in the room to, in this case, not only make Reggie's voice sound more natural for the setting but also to, as expressed below, make the interactions between him and the audience seem more natural. And considering that it does seem that they had such an ambient mic set up, it is kind of puzzling that they chose to make the audience seem like a laugh track. Intentional?
Still, a great video and performance.
"You ever notice how some people are like 'I really love music' and other people are like 'yeah'?"
I have, actually :P
Anyone else notice how he never performs the same songs twice? Genius in the moment
Because everything is impovised.
mentions D.C and starts singing about D.C punk bands. respect level reached a new level
Fugazi is no a punk band rite
I never knew a thorough explanation of adjusting a mic stand could be so interesting.
Gah...I love Reggie. Wish the audience had been miced better. Once they fixed Reggie's mic, it sounded like the audience was on a laugh track...like they did hard cuts.
I saw him in a beardy man video, didn't know he was this talented. Great speaker, funny, and one hell of a beast on the mic!
A true troll evokes emotion.
Reggie Watts and Eddie Izzard. If they would meet on stage it would make no sense but everyone would understand and fall in love with it.
Attended this TED conf and he was weird, funky and it was hilarious!
Guy is brilliant.
Who keeps letting this guy on the TED stages?? XD love you Reggie!
that guy has the best sweaters!
Definitely does
YES, thanks so much for the references. I never knew that he was actually a musician. I gotta check that out.
Reggie you absolute legend!! Love the Fugazi/ Minor Threat breakdown at the end :)
You may be right! However, after having worked in the live audio business for a while I can confirm that:
1. Shit does, indeed, happen at times.
2. Inexperienced people can land amazing gigs and fuck them up.
Reggie listens to Fugazi and Minor Threat. I think I fell in love.
haha its so funny when he changes into the black guy voice he says a lot a people like everytime every show lol
hearing reggie cover through the wire was the best thing to happen to me all day...
It's a great night.. for anything that can happen.
"I been, you know, 'cause. A lotta people like, you know, like, they, ya know like, music and stuff knomma'sayin'. But like some people, they don't like as much as other people. You know how people, you ever notice how some people, like, I really, like, love music. And a-a-a other people, like, yeah." Reggie
check out "reggie watts-pop tech!" performance. it is the best one i have seen. i just watch it over and over again. it is really really good..
the bad audio mix fading in and out is quite unprofessional, ted...
same with me, was it beardy and friends? haha reggie has some real talent beyond just musical ability. Beardyman and reggie watts are my favorite
FYI, he was born in Montana (Great Falls if you're curious)
The separate audios of the audience and Reggie's mic really throws off the whole live feeling of the performance. Just a suggestion! Perhaps find a way to have both of them together next time.
Damn, tough crowd. At least it was put up on RUclips where his fans can appreciate him and others can discover him :)
In my opinion this crowd was rather unresponsive compared to most other Reggie Watts performances and I had no problem hearing them before or after his hand held mic was finally plugged in - go to 3:43 and listen for yourself. He also mentioned the D.C. bands Fugazi and Minor Threat and not a peep was made. No ickiness or unkindness intended :) I just felt kinda bad for Reggie.
Peace
***** Or it's just pre-recorded the laughter edited in. Video's do it all the time.. just not very well in this one. That's what happens when technology fails
+Olivier Jaquet That happens a lot on these TED clips.
Way2Spirited late to this I know. However because of the technical issues they were having they didn't have a seperate mic for the audience like they do in the updated talks. Otherwise you'd be hearing them cheering like they were at the beginning.
Does anyone know what the song is he is playing on the piano?
At the end of the dubstep song I felt like I was part of Marty's 1955 audience in the first Back to the Future, when he suddenly goes into a Van Halen impro.
A mad genius..
11:42 Fugazi Fugazi Fugazi Minor Threat Minor Threat Fugazi Minor Threat.
You can really hear in this speech how he is related to Alan Watts.
Pure pioneering genius.
"Fringing Smog" refers to the Tooney Loons cartoon of 1955 "One Froggy Evening". Technology didn´t work in that cartoon either.
Wow Fugazi and Minor Threat in a Reggie Watts song, this makes my world go round.
it's just switching between different audio tracks. one recorded from a distance and one directly from his mic.
I've seen many "ignorants" commenting on Reggie's performances.
People who don't know what others know are very common, especially on the internet.
Damn, his English accent is perfect!
extremely talented musician.
I think the mixing out of the audience was a little aggressive. They could've left it on at low volume so that it doesn't sound so odd when they do mix the audience response in.
you're silly \yobero , this guy is now my fourth favorite human on earth
that was one of the coolest things i've ever seen. i am now convinced this man is God
he doesnt have an accent, reggie watts is more of a concept than a person...hence he is not american (born in Germany in fact) and can phase in and out of multiple personalities...he is simply, brilliant.
Reggie is really musically talented, being funny as hail is just a bonus
I wish he started doing some complete shows - you know with real songs and monologue material that isn't nonsense.
:) but I guess you can't make Reggie do tricks by command like every other entertainer. He got his thing :)
one of the few videos i specifically search for. I call this the "fugazi song"
i love ya reggie! tryna grab yo attention cuz. im ukrainian japanese been hurtin, but your comedy always makes me laugh!!!!
all he plays are real songs, just because his lyrics are not interpreted as "serious" by the masses, does not mean that a song is less than a song because of its content.
omg, i love him so much
God I wish I could start a Trip Hop/Chillwave band with Reggie, and have him do his Funk/Soul/R&B singing over some dark heavy beats. :'(
Check out his old band Maktub.
i wish i could find some clean reggie watts vocal samples or something to work with
the noise at 8:30 really makes me laugh :P
It sounds to me (and I admittedly don't know too much about this) like whoever did the editing here was working with at least 2 feeds. One from the soundboard that was just picking up Reggie CLEAN and some other mics in the house, possibly on the cameras or something. What puzzles me is why the editor chose to fade to the house audio just for crowd laughter. I'd think it would be a lot cleaner and more effective to just splice the two audio feeds together.
Reggie Watts' clock is not running. He can be up there as long as he pleases. BOSS
Reggie is my spirit horse!!!!
This guy is insanely talented but I have to wonder if he just went crazy one day and bought a loop machine to show the world what it's like inside his head. Really awesome music though.
Is there a Nobel prize for harmonic chaos!!!?
Soooo multi-dimensionally talented. And I swear sometimes he sounds like Prince. LOL
its the chorus from "Through The Wire" by Kanye
13:07
♪ ♫
"You are not alone
I am here to stay..." ♫
♪ ♫
This audio is rubbish.
If you listen and watch for 30 seconds you'll realize that it's a technical cockup and the technician is on stage fixing it.The quality audio system is back online at 2:50
Samuel Martin So i guess if I listen and watch for 2:50. Which I will do now. Thanks.
Jack Dyason It's almost like the title has a purpose now.
Nice one Stephen Carmickle and it just dawned on me that the audio glitch might actually have been staged. They did a nice subtle job of it if that's the case!
Samuel Martin It wasn't staged. There was a technical error and Reggie improvised. His whole act, every time, is almost all improvisation.
2:06 - 2:45 Amen.
anyway to find just his music to listen to?
Does that last song he sang exist or is it a improv?
10:55 BRUH, that audio sound effect sequence was so fire 🔥
Righteous!
the world would be a better place if it were given free access to Reggie just unloading his mind like this via some type of satellite radio or smartphone app or somethin...not to mention i would never have to buy another cd for the rest of my life :)
"A great night, when anything can happen
Ce mec est un génie absolu. great job.
The symbolism.....the audience were 'engaged 'at maximum level whilst the microphone was not being used. Speech in Natural Form vibrates on physical and spiritual level. Technology effects on a physical level , stimulating nerve endings...yet the devices to project voice and music waves are received by the listener are an artificial form. Are we really engaging when we hear anymore. Again... natural sound vibrates triggers an emotional response to the receiver. Technology could very well be dulling , muting ,disconnecting the way we interact with the world and people around us. These are my personal opinions and I mean no harm. My only wish is that others observe.
sick audio mixing bro
The slayness is meaty in this vid.
I KNOW! Isn't that AWESOME????
does this have a laughter track?
Am i the only one who did not understand what he was saying?
Not sure if it's the one you mean, but at 13mins he sings Through the Fire
They just fucked up the audio, they started play from his mic instead of the one picking up everything. Then they tried to fade it in during the laughs. If you listen hard you can hear people laughing when he's talking but they only turned up their mic like every 30 seconds, sounds like shit lol.