To the future generations, please make the legacy of Michael Jackson and all his collaborators live forever. Thank you, Anthony, for sharing these precious experiences, I can't get enough.
If I heard Tom playing his song SHES OUT OF MY LIFE just at a random club or wedding not knowing it having been a monster mj hit it would have floored me. It's one of those ballads.
i remember buying casettes and later cd's in the 80's and 90's and reading the linear notes because i was always interested in who the musicians and producers etc,,,,were,,,,and tom bahler was for sure a name i heard before,,,,so watching this video is really cool,,,,now i know a lot more about this person
Above all, I believe its the human element that shines through these videos that makes your channel so good... Very rare on RUclips, let alone synthesizer videos. Bravo
This was beautiful in every aspect. The long format and depth of the conversation is just perfect. Two beautiful humans. I'm so looking forward to more of such interviews.
@@anthonymarinellimusicgreat job. You have to preserve these stories. Quincy jones is 90 plus and Tom is in poor health. Most of these stories will never be told and that is sad. Very sad. You have to get these stories told and out. Thank you
Thanks for the interview. I remember reading a chapter with an interview with T. Bähler in one of Brice Najar's books about MJ and it's very nice to see an extensive video interview. I discovered this channel very recently and I have so much to catch up.
' the story of siddhartha - you keep travelling all around the world and then in the end you realise you didn't need to go anywhere , cause it was all right in the first place ' two wise men there ✅
Truly amazing watching these two musical musician genius men. WE ARE THE WORLD 🌎⚘️ 💖 this song will live on until the end of time. Thank you both for sharing this wonderful interview 👑🎤📽🎬🎶🎶🙏🏼
I absolutely love this long form interview format. You can really get into the details of these important historic musical topics. Very enjoyable. It’s like having a nice long conversation at dinner with a good friend.
God bless everything what you’re doing on RUclips Anthony. It’s a hidden gem of the internet. But I hope this will change soon. This interview deserves millions of views.
🎉🎉🎉 So here I was, around the 2:00:00 mark or so, literally having fallen asleep next to my iPhone with you guys talking and with the aforementioned telepathy ... the one we all know as dreams ... I was right there with you and filled in with comments and questions and I said "Guys..." and you looked up and Tom even reached out, smiled and shaked my hand while talking to you and I could literally smell his african aftershave. You were talking about the 45th anniversary and I said imagine the 50th. Having shared the conversation in my dream I now dream of being a part of the show because I know everything about software and hardware synth gear and I can fill in the blanks lol. 😅 Now in this meeting we had I couldn't get my voice heard but it's so funny that I woke up when you recalled MJ saying That's it! 😂❤ Thank you for an amazing video. I love your creative energies!
What an incredible interview! So full of insight, charm, wit and human warmth. It goes way beyond just music and delves into what it is to be human. At the end I still felt there was so much more to be said and so many more stories too be told. Hopefully there'll be a Part 2 at some point. Your interview technique is great too - letting people speak and only interjecting with salient points and clarification. I was thinking whilst listening if there was some way of doing something about Rod Temperton. Another huge figure who remained largely in the background. Congrats again man.
AMAZING guy .. AMAZING interview!! This channel & what u r doing is so important to Michael’s legacy!! I’m so glad Michael got to work with people like you!! Thx so much for sharing!! HAPPY HOLLIDAYS! This is a Christmas present to us fans!!❤❤
Wonderful interview! I'm 99.9% sure our father, the late Milt Holland, worked on many sessions with Tom and Anthony. Either at the back of the Sound stage in the Percussion session or doing overdubs, Milt, if you look him up on Wikipedia, was on almost everything - for Quincy on The Color Purple for example, including overdubbing all the African percussion on a major sequence, - and is considered a member of the wrecking crew, maybe the less credited ones but definitely a member (and is mentioned in the credits of Danny Tedesco's film). One of the vivid memories was dad having that answering the service they talked about at the beginning, later though he became freelance and started taking his own calls, he'd really put on the business voice for that, everything else was very casual, Musician style conversation. One story he told us that resonates with some of this is about when overdubbing first became established, he was asked to overdub and told the producers that he would have to be paid scale for each track rather than one fee for all the tracks. He didn't want them putting other people out of work just for trying to save money. So that's how it was with him and it was good to hear Tom talking about him working the same way! The music business was and hopefully still is in many cases very much a camaraderie and had a deeplyfamily feeling to it even at the highest levels, maybe even especially at the highest levels.
In hindsight now that we know that there will probably never be an artist in the world again that will have Michael's impact and influence. Tom should be proud that he made him weep 'so well' that it actually made the song feel more real then just being a typical ballad. It's 'The' Ballad cause of that crying!
All love to you Tom ❤. An entire average manlife (still I hope you have many great years ahead) on the path of music. You can really tell you love every tune you've ever written ❤
I think one thing that’s important for people to understand is a lot of these interactions he’s explaining were in person. “Are you writing a song? Come to my house and play it.” There’s amazing things about this digital age, but there’s also things that have been lost. Being in person and vibrating with other human beings is how great music is made. Also, for those who’ve made it this far in the comment, @58:45 are some very important statements. “These hands are finite” and Anthony explaining that the modern DAW, although amazing, is also finite. They’re all tools, not absolutes, and creativity should not live and die with the tools we use to create art. It’s from the soul.
@@anthonymarinellimusicThanks for making all this content. Please believe these stories are going to mentor future musicians and help them understand things to create a new generation of musical excellence. What you’re doing is important. All of these stories are very important. People must understand excellence is supported by excellence. It took a village to create all of these songs and albums. It can’t be done alone!! 💙💙💙
Joe would take the belt to Michael and tell him to sing this way and Michael would say no!!! 46:07 and Anthony ask, "Did you see that?" The liar replied, no, I read about it. The stuff people say. Good job Anthony!!
45:32 THANK-YOU! There's no doubt that Joe Jackson blessed those brothers, and he loved the family. He made sure the brothers had every opportunity, protected and provided! I hate how people want to trash him, because they can't empathize and people always need to take someone down.
Im subscribed and follow your channel videos because im a sound designer, synth patches developer, and MJ fan….. but this 3 hours of you two are PRICELESS. Thanks 🙏 ❤
OFF THE WALL was more true to MJ’s and Q’s roots. Thriller and Bad were more mainstream, influenced by MTV. I was lucky to have purchased one of the first 20,000 copies of OTW, this included the bonus 7” picture disc of ‘Ease on Down the Road’. This is a treat of an interview, thank you so much Anthony.
This is a treasure of an interview, I'm about 2/3s into it and I mean to come back asap. I wanted to ask you a question on whether or not you're familiar with Paul Meany of Mute Math and whether or not you'd be interested in collaborating with him in the future. If you happen to be unfamiliar with his work over the years, a great place to start would be his "recent" work, the video entitled "EN 2018" a live solo, loop-station remix of a previously released song Mute Math put out as a group. I feel it would be seriously EPIC if yall did even just one collaboration.
The spirit of art music , I always knew it exist , it watches artist it comes from God ,, this is the most interesting open and honest conversation I ever seen on youtube ,,,
When i first heard the background vocals on BJ Thomas “Rock n Roll Lullaby “ i for years thought it was the Beach Boys. When i finally bought the vinyl album I found out it was Tom and his brother . Excellent singing and arrangement .
I apologize for my ignorance in case you never worked on the song but I'd love to hear the story behind "Baby be mine" 🥲 Possibly my favorite song of all time it's such a beautiful track
Yes baby be mine is a deluxe pop confection ala quincy Jones. A carefully tagged demo that was given the 1982 quincy & friends deluxe treatment. One of the tracks that made the THILLER ALBUM so strong and well received.
Artists like MJ, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, need the production of their music discussed more by the people around them. The people who were down in the weeds with their fingers on the keys should be heard.
After this long video, I had this weird thought about how it'd be interesting to have substituted some motion picture Foley artists for musicians in sessions for MJ, and Stevie Wonder, and compare their relative reactions to how each perceived that surprise? Also wondering, what are the odds I crossed paths with Anthony years ago, maybe at a NYC AES convention? I'm not sure if Richard Factor from Eventide is still around, but if so, he had an odd sense of humor, down to the requests to handle high level customer service for international products with understanding if one woke up himself or other staff covering phones 24/7? Laura (forgetting her last name, went by Hamachi and used to dye a tuna-stripe yellow streak in her hair), the firmware developer for certain of their products and Patent holder, could also be an interesting guest. (She was in New Jersey last I knew.) Another theme could be East/West coasts, where Imogene Heap is linked to the Route 128 to MIT culture, and has played with industrial robotics motion control gloves to control synths. She and Fran from Philly both have Theravins, and Fran's made pedals, which pair could be interesting against Emily the Harpist who claims a huge and unique pedal collection for processed harp sounds (but comes from a younger generation). Because of the tech sides of all of them, mixed with musicians, I'm thinking Anthony's forms of knowledge and experience could do better facilitating a group like those three, than someone like Rick Beato.
To the future generations, please make the legacy of Michael Jackson and all his collaborators live forever.
Thank you, Anthony, for sharing these precious experiences, I can't get enough.
With you
If I heard Tom playing his song SHES OUT OF MY LIFE just at a random club or wedding not knowing it having been a monster mj hit it would have floored me. It's one of those ballads.
The importance of both of these Men to music history is not lost on us at all ... ❤
God, I love listening to Tom Bähler's stories! I become a child, laying on the floor, taking everything in...
i remember buying casettes and later cd's in the 80's and 90's and reading the linear notes because i was always interested in who the musicians and producers etc,,,,were,,,,and tom bahler was for sure a name i heard before,,,,so watching this video is really cool,,,,now i know a lot more about this person
Me too. I wish they would cover some of the credited guitarist some day . There is one I never hear about.
It's study like homework
This is a man who has been deeply nurtured in his creative process and who in turn nurtured many others. It’s really touching to see.
Above all, I believe its the human element that shines through these videos that makes your channel so good... Very rare on RUclips, let alone synthesizer videos. Bravo
As soon as Tom finished playing ‘She’s Out Of My Life’ I heard the intro of ‘Can’t Help It’ playing in my mind.
No words. Just gratitude this is all being documented. Thank u.
This was beautiful in every aspect. The long format and depth of the conversation is just perfect. Two beautiful humans. I'm so looking forward to more of such interviews.
We are dropping another one tomorrow!
@@anthonymarinellimusicgreat job. You have to preserve these stories. Quincy jones is 90 plus and Tom is in poor health. Most of these stories will never be told and that is sad. Very sad. You have to get these stories told and out. Thank you
Beat it is engraved in my head the synthesizer still resonates in my head it's a masterful hit!
Me too
Beautiful, always be here ready to listen. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I’ve been listening to Tom since my Partridge Family albums during my childhood years in the early 70’s. Thank you for all
the years!
Thanks for the interview. I remember reading a chapter with an interview with T. Bähler in one of Brice Najar's books about MJ and it's very nice to see an extensive video interview. I discovered this channel very recently and I have so much to catch up.
' the story of siddhartha - you keep travelling all around the world and then in the end you realise you didn't need to go anywhere , cause it was all right in the first place '
two wise men there ✅
Exactly what I'm saying everything is the same around the globe, the life is universal
Wow! ❤❤ What else can be said. This is the best channel on RUclips.
Just beautiful and totally inspiring. Love you both. x
Thank you sooo much for sharing of your so great and interesting musical journey.. !! 🎈🙏
Truly amazing watching these two musical musician genius men. WE ARE THE WORLD 🌎⚘️ 💖 this song will live on until the end of time. Thank you both for sharing this wonderful interview 👑🎤📽🎬🎶🎶🙏🏼
This is not good RUclips content: this is De Luxe content. Thank you, Anthony (and Tom too!)
With you
Wonderful stories, friendships, families, friends, songs, music. 🎵 "That's Life...." 🎵 Thank you so much for sharing. Happy Holidays.
I absolutely love this long form interview format. You can really get into the details of these important historic musical topics. Very enjoyable. It’s like having a nice long conversation at dinner with a good friend.
We all appreciate you dearly 💗💗💗
God bless everything what you’re doing on RUclips Anthony. It’s a hidden gem of the internet. But I hope this will change soon. This interview deserves millions of views.
🎉🎉🎉 So here I was, around the 2:00:00 mark or so, literally having fallen asleep next to my iPhone with you guys talking and with the aforementioned telepathy ... the one we all know as dreams ... I was right there with you and filled in with comments and questions and I said "Guys..." and you looked up and Tom even reached out, smiled and shaked my hand while talking to you and I could literally smell his african aftershave. You were talking about the 45th anniversary and I said imagine the 50th. Having shared the conversation in my dream I now dream of being a part of the show because I know everything about software and hardware synth gear and I can fill in the blanks lol. 😅 Now in this meeting we had I couldn't get my voice heard but it's so funny that I woke up when you recalled MJ saying That's it! 😂❤ Thank you for an amazing video. I love your creative energies!
Thanks for doing another Episode with Tom. It's important - and he's such a gem!
What a wonderful conversation. So many years of learning shared so openly and with so much joy… future generations will benefit so much from this…
2 minutes in and I'm already so happy! You're doing the whole world a giant positive ♥️🙌
It's just beyond amazing to hear these stories, thank you!
Thank you Anthony for showing and explaining the song writing and recording process from this special time in recording history..
I just love it, thank you! I was born in the year of Thriller - 1983, the month when he did the moonwalk. I've been a fan ever since I was 8.
What an incredible interview! So full of insight, charm, wit and human warmth. It goes way beyond just music and delves into what it is to be human. At the end I still felt there was so much more to be said and so many more stories too be told. Hopefully there'll be a Part 2 at some point. Your interview technique is great too - letting people speak and only interjecting with salient points and clarification. I was thinking whilst listening if there was some way of doing something about Rod Temperton. Another huge figure who remained largely in the background. Congrats again man.
Oh my God! Thank you! This is truely amazing... Forever grateful for this... 🙏🏼
AMAZING guy .. AMAZING interview!! This channel & what u r doing is so important to Michael’s legacy!! I’m so glad Michael got to work with people like you!! Thx so much for sharing!! HAPPY HOLLIDAYS! This is a Christmas present to us fans!!❤❤
Wonderful interview! I'm 99.9% sure our father, the late Milt Holland, worked on many sessions with Tom and Anthony. Either at the back of the Sound stage in the Percussion session or doing overdubs, Milt, if you look him up on Wikipedia, was on almost everything - for Quincy on The Color Purple for example, including overdubbing all the African percussion on a major sequence, - and is considered a member of the wrecking crew, maybe the less credited ones but definitely a member (and is mentioned in the credits of Danny Tedesco's film). One of the vivid memories was dad having that answering the service they talked about at the beginning, later though he became freelance and started taking his own calls, he'd really put on the business voice for that, everything else was very casual, Musician style conversation. One story he told us that resonates with some of this is about when overdubbing first became established, he was asked to overdub and told the producers that he would have to be paid scale for each track rather than one fee for all the tracks. He didn't want them putting other people out of work just for trying to save money. So that's how it was with him and it was good to hear Tom talking about him working the same way! The music business was and hopefully still is in many cases very much a camaraderie and had a deeplyfamily feeling to it even at the highest levels, maybe even especially at the highest levels.
If you make the music about you, god leaves the room. But, if you're there to share, he comes back in !! . Quincy, awesome!
mj was really a genius that he heard all the instrument in his head and that amazing that god gave him that talent.❤❤❤❤
You are a saint for sharing these beautiful stories ❤
THANK YOU for this AMAZING interview. Thank God this will be forever memorialized. ❤🙏👍
That was on par with Netflix specials like Quincy's and We Are the World's. What an interview-absolutely invaluable!
In hindsight now that we know that there will probably never be an artist in the world again that will have Michael's impact and influence. Tom should be proud that he made him weep 'so well' that it actually made the song feel more real then just being a typical ballad. It's 'The' Ballad cause of that crying!
❤
Really fantastic stories and journey's from Real musicians and talent!!! Please bring us more.
All love to you Tom ❤. An entire average manlife (still I hope you have many great years ahead) on the path of music. You can really tell you love every tune you've ever written ❤
I think one thing that’s important for people to understand is a lot of these interactions he’s explaining were in person.
“Are you writing a song? Come to my house and play it.”
There’s amazing things about this digital age, but there’s also things that have been lost. Being in person and vibrating with other human beings is how great music is made.
Also, for those who’ve made it this far in the comment, @58:45 are some very important statements. “These hands are finite” and Anthony explaining that the modern DAW, although amazing, is also finite.
They’re all tools, not absolutes, and creativity should not live and die with the tools we use to create art. It’s from the soul.
Beautifully said
@@anthonymarinellimusicThanks for making all this content. Please believe these stories are going to mentor future musicians and help them understand things to create a new generation of musical excellence.
What you’re doing is important. All of these stories are very important. People must understand excellence is supported by excellence. It took a village to create all of these songs and albums.
It can’t be done alone!! 💙💙💙
Beautiful song performed by the guy who wrote the song. Honoured now to know.
Joe would take the belt to Michael and tell him to sing this way and Michael would say no!!! 46:07 and Anthony ask, "Did you see that?" The liar replied, no, I read about it. The stuff people say. Good job Anthony!!
Life lessons. Mentorship and appreciation for the generosity. Nothing sweeter in life.
45:32 THANK-YOU! There's no doubt that Joe Jackson blessed those brothers, and he loved the family. He made sure the brothers had every opportunity, protected and provided!
I hate how people want to trash him, because they can't empathize and people always need to take someone down.
Im subscribed and follow your channel videos because im a sound designer, synth patches developer, and MJ fan….. but this 3 hours of you two are PRICELESS. Thanks 🙏 ❤
OFF THE WALL was more true to MJ’s and Q’s roots. Thriller and Bad were more mainstream, influenced by MTV. I was lucky to have purchased one of the first 20,000 copies of OTW, this included the bonus 7” picture disc of ‘Ease on Down the Road’.
This is a treat of an interview, thank you so much Anthony.
I am loving this sooo much. I wish I could meet you all. I don't have the words...
Beautiful journey!
Such a great video!
This interview so important. I always wondered the origin of Out of My Life. That song transcends. Thank you.
No doubt there was a special kind of magical spirit in Michael ♥️
It was so great to see you in the Thriller 40 doc! I learned so much from your channel this year that informed my music recording approach. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! So heartwarming and interesting! I wish a Bruce Swedien episode was possible… Great interview, gentlemen!
Check out Sonic Fantasy documentary
Love you guys!! 🎈🙏
Beautiful music thank you for sharing ❤
Hey Tony thanks for the video it’s a learning thing for the industry of music thanks to Tom for sharing this to us
Thank you ❤❤❤
When I heard that song on the radio it was the most powerful political event ever.
Wonderful! Thank you! ❤️
'If it feels good, say YES'
Really amazing episode! 💥🔥💥
I love all the videos with Tom Bähler.
This is a treasure of an interview, I'm about 2/3s into it and I mean to come back asap. I wanted to ask you a question on whether or not you're familiar with Paul Meany of Mute Math and whether or not you'd be interested in collaborating with him in the future. If you happen to be unfamiliar with his work over the years, a great place to start would be his "recent" work, the video entitled "EN 2018" a live solo, loop-station remix of a previously released song Mute Math put out as a group. I feel it would be seriously EPIC if yall did even just one collaboration.
I will love a video of how to make lyrics and music from this two Titans of history ❤
Amazing. Thanks for this interview.
Just legendary.
That was awesome, he has great energy
The spirit of art music , I always knew it exist , it watches artist it comes from God ,, this is the most interesting open and honest conversation I ever seen on youtube ,,,
That song is from on high. Everybody played their role perfectly!
Amazing!!! Just amazing!! Thank you!!
Beat It ✨👑✨
Love this!!🫶🏾🫶🏾
This interview is gold thank you
Coming here to send my heartbreak for the recent passing of Quincy Jones. RIP Quincy and Michael 🙏
50:10 😢 I cried.
This is pure Gold, Thanks¡
Thanks for bringing him back! 3:27 I complete agree
Later: oh okay….
Tack bra Håkan 👍
could hear the intro all night ❤
Can we get a follow up please Anthony? I have a feeling Tom isn't out of stories to tell.
I wish you both wonderful people a samely wonderful Chtistmas.
Amazing
When I often have mistakes in She's out my live bridge plays it on piano, now I find same story from it's composer...
Great work💯%fact👌🏽
Wonderful interview ❤
Man i love this 🔥🔥🔥
When i first heard the background vocals on BJ Thomas “Rock n Roll Lullaby “ i for years thought it was the Beach Boys. When i finally bought the vinyl album I found out it was Tom and his brother . Excellent singing and arrangement .
I apologize for my ignorance in case you never worked on the song but I'd love to hear the story behind "Baby be mine" 🥲 Possibly my favorite song of all time it's such a beautiful track
I agree. That synth lick only appearing one time? Best I ever heard.
Yes baby be mine is a deluxe pop confection ala quincy Jones. A carefully tagged demo that was given the 1982 quincy & friends deluxe treatment. One of the tracks that made the THILLER ALBUM so strong and well received.
wow
incredible! lmao
Artists like MJ, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, need the production of their music discussed more by the people around them. The people who were down in the weeds with their fingers on the keys should be heard.
After this long video, I had this weird thought about how it'd be interesting to have substituted some motion picture Foley artists for musicians in sessions for MJ, and Stevie Wonder, and compare their relative reactions to how each perceived that surprise?
Also wondering, what are the odds I crossed paths with Anthony years ago, maybe at a NYC AES convention?
I'm not sure if Richard Factor from Eventide is still around, but if so, he had an odd sense of humor, down to the requests to handle high level customer service for international products with understanding if one woke up himself or other staff covering phones 24/7? Laura (forgetting her last name, went by Hamachi and used to dye a tuna-stripe yellow streak in her hair), the firmware developer for certain of their products and Patent holder, could also be an interesting guest. (She was in New Jersey last I knew.)
Another theme could be East/West coasts, where Imogene Heap is linked to the Route 128 to MIT culture, and has played with industrial robotics motion control gloves to control synths. She and Fran from Philly both have Theravins, and Fran's made pedals, which pair could be interesting against Emily the Harpist who claims a huge and unique pedal collection for processed harp sounds (but comes from a younger generation). Because of the tech sides of all of them, mixed with musicians, I'm thinking Anthony's forms of knowledge and experience could do better facilitating a group like those three, than someone like Rick Beato.
Where's the god damn 4th snare out of the screw driver sound part???!!
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💎💎💎💎
9:04 So, what he means is that he wasn't raised in the deep south of the U.S.