Le Topic de Depeche Mode

[Monsieur Vilak]

Ce soir à Berlin, Strangelove par Martin.

[Manga-Addict]

Strange Love, remis au goût du jour avec la voix de Gore, ça peut être sympa.

Ce serait chouette de réentendre un jour, sur scène, The Things You Said et The Sweetest Perfection dans les mêmes conditions.

Et dans le registre des interprétations purement improbables, pourquoi pas Any Second Now ?

[Monsieur Vilak]

Il y a quarante ans aujourd'hui sortait...



Et quarante ans avant ce titre, on était en pleine deuxième guerre mondiale, des lieux comme Treblinka fonctionnaient encore...
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Pour les versions live par Martin, Ice Machine ou Stories of Old j'aimerais bien moi.

Dans l'absolu, toute chanson peut très bien être interprétée en acoustique, mais c'st vrai que certaines s'y prêtent mieux que d'autres.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Alan sur le grill :

We all know that YOU are a classically trained musician and have talent playing keyboards/synthesizers, piano and drums. What OTHER instruments can you play?
That’s about it. I did learn the flute but haven’t played it for years, I can fumble my way around a bass and I can bash out a few chords on guitar.

What about Martin (other than guitar & keyboards and that weird instrument that he plays in ‘Everything Counts’)?
I don’t think he plays anything else although he has been known to strum the banjo while impersonating George Formby.

And Dave (has he ever contributed instrumentally on any albums that you were a part of)?
Dave plays a unique form of guitar. He has his own ‘special’ style. We used some of his playing as sound effects in one of the crossfade sections of ‘Violator’.

And Fletch (other than clapping & waving and the occasional pre-programmed sound effect)?
He says he used to play bass guitar in the very early incarnation of DM but I’ve never actually heard it put to the test.

[Monsieur Vilak]

[Monsieur Vilak]

[Super Shogun]

Cette baraque montre qu'il n'est pas parti une main devant une main derrière, il a dû négocier quelque chose. Tu ne vis pas dans ce genre de palais longtemps si t'as plus de blé qui rentre. Mais peut-être que là, ça commence à faire cher.

[Monsieur Vilak]

Il a un deal avec le groupe, il est payé quand sur scène les chansons sont interprétées de la façon dont il les a produites.

Je pense que c'est pour ça que c'est le Zephyr Mix qui est utilisé pour In your room, et pas sa version studio, pour ne pas lui filer de sous.

[Super Shogun]

Tout ça est assez minable. Vu le fric que les deux cadors restant ramassent en ce moment, ils peuvent verser leur obole. Ce serait bien que Wilder écrive un livre sur ses années DM, et un livre qui raconte surtout les excès.

[Monsieur Vilak]

I Feel You, Personnal, Enjoy et NLMDA sont pas modifiables, le public ne les accepterait pas avec un autre arrangement que celui de Wilder.
Si on regarde la setlist actuelle, il y a 8 chansons qui sont toujours interprétées "à sa sauce", malgré quelques variations.
Je ne sais bien sur pas combien lui rapporte ce deal, mais je ne pense quand même pas que ce soit des clopinettes.
Après oui, comparé à ce que EUX prennent, y a pas photo., c'est une obole...

[Monsieur Vilak]

It was at Hamburg that they discovered Dave was doing heroin after Alan found the paraphernalia of addiction in his room. They were furious, not only with him but with themselves. His behaviour suddenly made sense and they wondered why they hadn’t realised before. They told him that he had to sort himself out and for a while things improved. Ultimately though, there was nothing they could do. He was still in the euphoric stages of his drug abuse and he hadn’t fully realised the extent of his problem.

" Martin, Fletch and Alan were pretty naive. They thought that I had decided to become more reclusive and become this strange rock star.” Dave

Depeche Mode - The Early Years

[Super Shogun]

C'est des trucs comme ça qu'on veut lire.

[Monsieur Vilak]

The incident was trivial, but it spoke volumes

This particular evening. Martin and Fletch were goofing around in the studio, "trying out self-defense on each other," as Martin guiltily imparted. The game was not particularly rough, but of course it involved much flailing of limbs and unconcerned leaping about. with little apparent regard for the thousands of dollars' worth of equipment that stood around the room.
Daniel, reentering the room from an errand somewhere, took in the scene in a moment and exploded. But while Martin contritely left the scene, Fletch stood his ground, barking his own anger. Swiftly Alan and Dave moved to defuse the situation, but afterward, neither could forget what they had seen: Fletch, his face red with rage, one fist drawn back to strike Miller: Daniel, white-faced and trembling, ready to reply in kind.
The incident was trivial, but it spoke volumes, not only of the tense rivalry that was slowly puilding between Daniel and Fletch-the unwilling manager ans his unwitting rival— but also the pressures that surrounded Depeche Mode as a whole.

Some great rewards

[Monsieur Vilak]

Alan Wilder:

‘When you’re travelling abroad, you’re really let off your leash. You know what it’s like when you’re in someone else’s town, you’ve got an added bravado. No inhibition at all. Compound that with the effect of being in a big gang and having your arse wiped all the time. I think Ozzy Osbourne said that this is the one job which you’re expected to do off your face and it is very easy to live the life. By the time you come off stage it’s 11 o’clock at night and you’re absolutely awake, as awake as you’ll ever be in your life. You’ve then got at least a couple of hours where you’re changing and chatting and having a beer or two. So it’s one o’clock in the morning and you want to go out partying. Before you know it, you’ve been out drinking all night, it’s seven o’clock in the morning and you still feel you’ve only just started but you know you’ve got to go to bed. Over the course of a tour that tolerance level builds up and before you know it you stay up all night drinking and you don’t even feel drunk. So that lifestyle became very normal for the band on tour, for several years really, and it didn’t feel as excessive as it must have looked.’

The Biography .

[Monsieur Vilak]

As the Devotional tour lurched into its final phase, Gahan often required cortisone shots for his voice and his performances continued to blow hot and cold. Depeche Mode fan Kevin C. Murphy recalls Gahan’s troubling behaviour at the Great Woods Center, Mansfield, Boston on 23 June:

‘This was the worst of the three Depeche Mode shows I’ve been to, mainly because poor old Dave was staggering around on stage with a bottle for most of the time and generally looked like warmed-over ass. He screwed up the words to a few songs, which is embarrassing considering the crowd is singing along reverentially. Andy had gone back to England by this point and Alan Wilder looked irritated and ready to go. Martin seemed like the only one still stepping up to the plate. His solo set was probably the high spot of the show.’

Malins, Steve. Depeche Mode