Blog category: David Gahan

Knock out interviews with John Foxx, Warren Cann and David Gahan

I gathered som great old interviews in this post. All of them are from swedish TV, which has a long history of being smug, annoying and notoriously lousy on researching before interviews..

 

One of this blogs followers, Steven Eisler, sent me this clip. It's just fantastic, an hillarious interview with John Foxx in swedish TV back in the 70's.  He seems extremely frustrated and annoyed right from the start of the interview. When you watch it you understad that he must have been through hell in the preparations and set up before they kicked things off...

Short interview with John discussing Eno, punk and being a "Human Being". The ending is hillarious, with the hosts of the show picking up instruments and serenading John with "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"

 

The blond guy cutting John off is saying: "I think we will need to cut this off and actually listen to some music instead"... LoooooooL :-)

 

 

Lets check out swedish television in the 80's as well. This is an interview with Warren Cann from the popular show "Måndagsbörsen". The fact that cities are called different names in different languages can be confusing. Especially if you don't know what a city is called in your mother tounge.

Vienna, Venice, Wien, Wurzburg, Slough. Whats the difference...

 

 

This clip is also from "Måndagsbörsen" in 82. David Gahan interview and Depeche Mode performs See You. Hmm, the interviewer talks about synthesizers vs. "real" instruments. Annoying but common at the time I guess...

First you'll see a great interview with David "Dave" Gahan. Then Depeche Mode will perform See You, all @ Måndagsbörsen 1982. This television musicshow was broadcast in Sweden from 1979-1984.

Note: You can clearly see how the cameraman keeps zooming in on Andrew Fletchers hands to REALLY show that he is fake-playing his Moog Source. Not fair! They should have zoomed in on Martin Gore or Alan Wilder instead, and the nice PPG Wave 2.

 

 

Thank you Steven Eisler. Check out his band Jetstream Soldier on Myspace

 

Not so sober interview with David Gahan

In this clip, english journalist Johnny Vaughan, who also happens to be a convicted coke dealer, interviews David Gahan. The interview was in 1993, when David was into all sorts of substances, as you can see quite clearly here.

Great tip from Dave to the kids at 4.25 :-)

Youtube via KelliKellison

This is not the David Gahan I love

There are some things I don't like about Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion period. The drums, the live drums, the gospel backing vocals, the song Rush, too much guitar and that they killed 80's David Gahan. Yes, Songs of Faith and Devotion-Dave was very sexy and he looked so much "rock" and was very "Jesus-like", but I preffered 80's crew-cut-Dave.

In my opinion, David Gahan went from being the EMPEROR OF SYNTH, to being "the guy from Depeche Mode who really tries to be a rocker". But he never nailed the rock image, according to me. I guess he wasn't enough of an asshole. And that really shows in the clip below, where David "jams" with Primal Scream in 1994 at the Reading Festival. He really shouldn't have done that. He was too good to stand on that stage with those nobodys being awkward. And why the harmonica if he so obviously can't play it?

Dave starts the "show" at 1.50. It's almost unbearable. Thank God he went back to being himself when Ultra was relased.

Youtube via h0urglass2007

 

I can't understand English

I can't understand English when it's sung. I don't know why, I have no problem with spoken English. Maybe that's why I like synthesizers so much, since lyrics are totally without meaning for me. But I can still like song, it's sort of like a very boring synth sound.

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Been into synthesizers for 15 years, but never a technical geek. I'm a member of the band Velours Perfect, and have had electronic music as a hobby since I stopped playing with G.I Joe Figures. I buy and sell synths all the time, sometimes manically, and my favourite synth varies, right now it is the Alesis Ion. On this blog you can read about whatever comes out of my mind, mostly synthesizer-related stuff though. Bzzt!

 

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