Synthesizer Medley 1985

It's so ridicilous how foolish this idiot is acting with the TR and the TB. None of these can produce sampled sounds.

Listen to the audience reaction when Stevie is revealed- suddenly it's nolonger about the synths, as he could have been buying his groceries for all they cared. Only a special few have that kind of charisma in this world.

Hly crap i love this! Pure genius

there is obviously alot of presequenced and recorded stuff in this performance.. but there is still some live performance in place.. mainly some of the vocoder (often with a backing track) and the lead kb's herbie jumps on a few times.

anyways.. this ain't very controversial

theres a live version of rockit that herbie performed on SNL that is 100% live and easily recognized as so.

not sure what the "big" controversy is, these guys probably had 2-3 hours to rehearse for the Grammys. Everyone uses some pre-recorded background. What I love about this video is all the memories it brings back to my high school years and how much I enjoyed 80's music.

Pre-recorded or not, its still a tight video to watch!

beautiful. they are all groovin

that groove box from howard jones or a TR or something isn't connected to anything.

I remember there was an interview with the director of this segment saying how they were really struggling with getting the track recorded in the studio the previous night...

oh and I think the problem was that Howard Jones was a last minute replacement for someone else and they shoe horned his music in..

that first sentence is very hard to follow.

Anyone who for one moment desn't believe that this is not a prerecorded piece has no concept of the technical level at which these individuals function. Besides that, I would never question the word of any of them. Some folks just don't recognize integrity when they see it.

I didnt know professor stephen hawkins was from the 80,s wow!

You´re so right

Herbie Hancock's darkest hour.

haha thats the 80's for you!

Ending was kind of lame.

They all look pretty retarded but they are brilliant musicians.

hehe thanks man!

I Think it`s a Roland AX-something ..but i looked on eebay and there`s an AX1, AX7 and AXIS and i don`t think it`s any of them ..it`d be easier if I could see the other end of it ..it`s not a Probe like Jan Hammer uses or the Korg ..so either a roland or a yamaha that i`ve forgotten about? (used to know ALL this stuff in the 80`s! : ) lol

It would have been a lot better if it finished with a nice big explosion that took out the entire stage!

my god this is SOOOO obviously pre-recorded, i cant understand how anyone with a brain would thing otherwise.

OK. I'm not saying that he doesn't know how to use a synthisyzer (spl?) but he is not someone that I consider as a man to create synthetic music, such as, Vangelis or Jean Michelle Jarre. Or even Keith Emerson or Todd Rundgren. Yes Stevie is talented but I have not thought of him as part of the synth genre.

this freakin owns,thats all

this is gross