Times like the 80's 90's and very early 2000's will never again exist, its hard for people like me to move into the future, because now everything is extremely different, and becoming uncomfortable
This interview is FAR too short. I found SP in 1986 and they Blew My Mind! They were beyond what I even could imagine that I was looking for. I always wished I could join them. Geniuses
I first discovered them in 92 (being born in 80 I was just discovering KMFDM, NIN, Skinny Puppy, and other acts like Kraftwerk) I discovered New Order and Depeche Mode a few years prior but my late cousin introduced me to heavy metal and industrial as well as acts like WASP, Twisted Sister, Slayer, Megadeth years prior. Extremely grateful he introduced me to new horizons and I've greatly expanded on those since then. God rest his soul.
I'm 54 years old now and I still listen to the music, great sound, a band with character, especially on my Teufel 5.1 + Yamaha receiver a real pleasure ...
This man is a genius when it comes to music. Skinny Puppy being my all time favorite band I can't ever get enough. Their music pulled me through some very tough times and was the best of times . A friday night lights are off with a few friends and tripping on acid, I mean tell me where there is a better place to be. CEvin is the Skinny Puppy what Neil is to Rush.
cEvin is kind enough to meet fans after shows. Sadly, I become star struck and barely coherent when I’ve met him. I wish I could sit with him for an hour and just talk. I’d also like to tell him that he has provided the soundtrack to much of my life. A true legend.
I'm 43 now, I was around 15 when I discovered this band, it changed and altered me forever, I love these guys and their sounds, a limitless well of inspiration for me and my creative endeavours over time, Cheers!
Ha! I'm 42 and I was 15 as well. Shaped my music taste forever and life as well. I even have an all hardware synthesizer studio at home thanks to this guys...
This man is my all time hero. A black and white picture of him, Ogre and Bill Leeb (from the very beginning of Skinny Puppy) was the first thing I have ever downloaded from the internet on my 26k modem :)
100% one of the most prevelant musicians in my ear my whole life going back to the 90s, and always nice to see someone else recognize his music. Got a friend addicted to Music for Cats recently felt very happy about it.
wow. such a chill guy. so cool to hear the story of the origins of skinny puppy. i wonder if he really knows how many people he has helped through his music. such a humble guy.
When Skinny Puppy reformed and did a tour I lived in Florida at the time. Growing up I was introduced to them by a teacher of mine in the seventh grade, hearing them for the first time change my world. As a guitar player I primarily listened to metal at that time. I had always dreamed of seeing Skinny Puppy live and when they disbanded so did that dream. Seeing them in Florida was a dream come true. Sneaking into a side entrance to the club after the show I was able to meet cEvin and Ogre briefly! I thanked cEvin for all his work, meeting him was a dream come true for a kid that grew up in Maine.
In 1988 I was 16 when I for the first time (out of three) saw Skuppy live. Months before I started going out to very (VERY!) alternative places and had these songs in my head for days. They turned out to be Assimilate and The Choke not knowing what band it was. Later in 2005 before a SP show at Melkweg Amsterdam I met Ogre, very nice guy that takes a bit time for his fans. Brap on.
I know what you mean. The first time I heard Assimilate, it blew my mind. Really opened up my views on what music could be about. Still one of my alltime favourite songs.
@@illogick9062 In 2005 I met a Belgian couple pre show (Melkweg Amsterdam). The woman had contact with Ogre on a Praga Kahn forum. She asked him are you Ogre from Skinny Puppy? He answered yes!
I started on Severed Heads (and ET, CV amd TG of course) then got into SP in the early 90's. Great to hear there is some connection. Severed Heads was a very mysterious band back then. We just got tapes of tapes from people. Also the same way I discovered SP. Though by the early 90's we had the beginings of internet to look things up .
In my apartment back in the early 1990’s I had 4 15” Yamaha pa speakers with the back two and have the right and left switched and put on Too Dark Park. Those who stayed had a new experience and outlook on none radio music that made you open your mind
I love so much of the old SP, but also… Wish there was a whole load of tracks like Blue Serge! That techno-ish industrial is great stuff! Use it for my cycling nowadays!
Would love to follow this hole down into Tear Garden and have an interview with Edward Ka-Spel. He's right along these lines with Legendary Pink Dots and their ever experimental sound and ethereal riffs.
I had the chance to see SP about 10 years ago in a pretty small venue and cEvin was packing up afterwards and I called him over and as he was walking over I started belligerently yelling about how fucking awesome he was and he kind of waved me off as a drunk. If only I had kept my cool I probably could of had an interesting conversation instead of rambling like an idiot...
That's okay, that happened to me with Bob Mould. I wasn't drunk, but asked dumb questions after his show, as he was packing up. He wasn't in the mood to talk
I remember the day I bought the eyes of stanley pain like it was yesterday. We listened to the entire CD from beginning to end without stopping and after the last track everyone just kind of sat there, I think stunned. No one spoke for a minute or two trying to wrap our minds around what the hell we had just listened to. It's an amazing album. Also, it's funny he mentioned hitting a pillow. Someone gave me some drum sticks the other day, and I was hitting the edge of the couch cushion next to me and thought it sounded just like the beginning of the testure 12" remix
Me too! I borrowed the CD from a friend. It was absolutely mental. I listened to that CD no less than four times in a row while I was reading Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendez-vous with Rama". Too bad I had to return the CD next day. I nearly worn out my cassette recording listening to it over and over, specially when I returned home late nite from muy job. It was a completely magic moment.
frickin awesome,i have to say ive been a fan of all electronic music since the 70's im 48 and seen skinny puppy live and is the best sounding,best visual and fulfilling shows ive experienced,last show was at the ogden in denver co and was sic,had a great time,keep electronic music this way and win the world over,thanks and peace from loveland,colorado
Was this concert at the Ogden back in 2005 or so when they got back together and it was sold out? If so, I was there and man... Surreal. My favorite concert ever. Big fan of SP
So crazy how much they all loved the Mirage- they seem like nightmares. At least the Emax had a great workflow. But really since I knew he used it like that, I’ve always wanted a Serge. It’s been said on this a bunch, but we really do need a good Skinny Puppy documentary!
Mirage was the next benchmark at the time. It was the poor man's fairlight! And at $3000 in 1983 money, it puts thing into perspective when cEvin calls it "affordable" Puppy rocks two mirages in the classic Ain't it Dead Yet video BTW. Dwayne with an orginal Mirage and cEvin with the DSK model. Those huge choirs and orchestral hits in First Aid are amaaaaaaaazing!😱😱😱
i forgot to add,clense fold and manipulate was my first cd i ever bought,still have it everything else was on vinyl or cassette and still rock those as well,nothing like old school vinyl on old school pioneer cs99a,or my altecs still sounds amazing to this day
95-96-97...... was just so much bridging from the old midigen from that time, to the new..... "sp" to tha "dw" gen... 2:45 "smothered hope" came immediately to mind!! RIP dwayne... BRILL mindset... 'blue serge'/download/plateau-sense of things! keep leading us onwards sir!! ;)...
is this the singer..?assimilate..smothered hope, just timeless,good, creative electronic music..good memories back in the days by the late 80´s and the early 90´s on our ebm-partys..:-)
I remember crank callers in the 90's and throwing stuff like skinny puppy and trauma on when they called backed...when they heard that stuff they never called back hehe
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Cevin Key, Dwayne Goettel, Phil Western and Mark Spyby made the first 3 Download albums if you include Charlies Family. Ogre wasn't in Download. After The Eyes of Stanley Pain it's downhill from III onward IMO. It seems the absence of Dwayne's presence took all of the edge, structure and intensity away from the project and made it sound like a bunch of random noodlings.
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This music is 40 years old yet sounds like it is from 400 years in the future
Yeah we knew that when we were listening to it at the time.
Times like the 80's 90's and very early 2000's will never again exist, its hard for people like me to move into the future, because now everything is extremely different, and becoming uncomfortable
It's 2023. I JUST came back from one of the final tour shows. Holy smokes, man... so happy I went.
Me too, i just saw them last Sunday April 23 2023 in Boston Massachusetts
@@blacksunsigrune8831 honestly thought I missed the boat years ago. Happy we got one last hurrah!
Me too, saw them in Boston, epic show and farewell to a life changing band....
This interview is FAR too short. I found SP in 1986 and they Blew My Mind! They were beyond what I even could imagine that I was looking for. I always wished I could join them. Geniuses
Skinny Puppy fan since 1985! Rock on!
BrAp oN!!¡! My man🎹🎧💫💀✋✌
I first discovered them in 92 (being born in 80 I was just discovering KMFDM, NIN, Skinny Puppy, and other acts like Kraftwerk) I discovered New Order and Depeche Mode a few years prior but my late cousin introduced me to heavy metal and industrial as well as acts like WASP, Twisted Sister, Slayer, Megadeth years prior. Extremely grateful he introduced me to new horizons and I've greatly expanded on those since then. God rest his soul.
I want 4 hours of this
skinny puppy fan here since the 80s.
And just why the FUCK didn't this interview go on for another 90 minutes...
Or 90 hours...
My favourite band EVER
I'm 54 years old now and I still listen to the music, great sound, a band with character, especially on my Teufel 5.1 + Yamaha receiver a real pleasure ...
Awesome, I'm only 27 but have listened to them since I was a kid. Love this band lol
I just saw skinny puppy play Sunday April 23rd 2023 in Boston Massachusetts.
I was there, legendary show, cheers!
Wow, so rare to see a member of Skinny Puppy talk like this. Gives us fans an insight to what was going on in their heads. Truly amazing stuff.
I agree
Such a smart, cool guy and good looking on stage back in the day. Their hair was a huge part of of skinny puppy
Utter Genius and RIP Goettel. There will never be another like him. The places these guys have sent me have been priceless.
This man is a genius when it comes to music. Skinny Puppy being my all time favorite band I can't ever get enough. Their music pulled me through some very tough times and was the best of times . A friday night lights are off with a few friends and tripping on acid, I mean tell me where there is a better place to be. CEvin is the Skinny Puppy what Neil is to Rush.
for sure SKP are the innovators of samples no band comes close
My three favorite musical acts of all time: Zappa, Johnny Cash, and Skinny Puppy... I have eclectic tastes in music. Lol
If I put my old iPod classic on shuffle all those would pop up lol
He gets an instant Like for the kitty.
cEvin is kind enough to meet fans after shows. Sadly, I become star struck and barely coherent when I’ve met him. I wish I could sit with him for an hour and just talk. I’d also like to tell him that he has provided the soundtrack to much of my life. A true legend.
I'm 43 now, I was around 15 when I discovered this band, it changed and altered me forever, I love these guys and their sounds, a limitless well of inspiration for me and my creative endeavours over time, Cheers!
Ha! I'm 42 and I was 15 as well. Shaped my music taste forever and life as well. I even have an all hardware synthesizer studio at home thanks to this guys...
@@oldschoolebm666 Awesome, I'm in the process of getting new equipment now.
Saw them in 87 at the Cameo Theater, Miami FL after getting a dj copy of Mind....Forever Fan!
Bites and remission! Way ahead of their time. Still my favorite...
Saw puppy on 4-21-23. So great 🔥🔥🔥
This man is my all time hero. A black and white picture of him, Ogre and Bill Leeb (from the very beginning of Skinny Puppy) was the first thing I have ever downloaded from the internet on my 26k modem :)
Cevin Key is a genius.
100% one of the most prevelant musicians in my ear my whole life going back to the 90s, and always nice to see someone else recognize his music. Got a friend addicted to Music for Cats recently felt very happy about it.
wow. such a chill guy. so cool to hear the story of the origins of skinny puppy. i wonder if he really knows how many people he has helped through his music. such a humble guy.
Love that he has one of his cats in his lap. :)
Fisherman!
@@greeframski3202 One of my favorites by him is a solo album called Music for Cats
@@terryr9052 ive got it! The goods.
When Skinny Puppy reformed and did a tour I lived in Florida at the time. Growing up I was introduced to them by a teacher of mine in the seventh grade, hearing them for the first time change my world. As a guitar player I primarily listened to metal at that time. I had always dreamed of seeing Skinny Puppy live and when they disbanded so did that dream. Seeing them in Florida was a dream come true. Sneaking into a side entrance to the club after the show I was able to meet cEvin and Ogre briefly! I thanked cEvin for all his work, meeting him was a dream come true for a kid that grew up in Maine.
Huge influence to both my life, and my music.
Can only imagine what Their sessions were like. Hugely inspirational!
Too Dark Park, GREATEST LIVE SHOW I HAVE EVER BEEN TO!
Same here. Unforgettable show.
In 1988 I was 16 when I for the first time (out of three) saw Skuppy live.
Months before I started going out to very (VERY!) alternative places and had these songs in my head for days.
They turned out to be Assimilate and The Choke not knowing what band it was.
Later in 2005 before a SP show at Melkweg Amsterdam I met Ogre, very nice guy that takes a bit time for his fans.
Brap on.
I know what you mean. The first time I heard Assimilate, it blew my mind. Really opened up my views on what music could be about. Still one of my alltime favourite songs.
Truth I got to chat with him a bit before a gig of his in '08...
@@illogick9062 In 2005 I met a Belgian couple pre show (Melkweg Amsterdam). The woman had contact with Ogre on a Praga Kahn forum.
She asked him are you Ogre from Skinny Puppy? He answered yes!
Love him and this band so much.
His Dwayne impression at 6:23 is absolutely precious.
and what is 16K ?
This man is a musical genius
A good buddy used to refer to Skinny Puppy as Death Disco. Always liked that. Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is till my favorite. Great stuff.
A world of the art of industrial music. If you enter, you might not want to come back.
Wish there was more interviews like this .
unreal how creative they are,with sounds no one could produce other than them!
Love this! Grew up listening to Images In Vogue, Skinny Puppy, Download etc
Saw these guys all over Vancouver BC in the nightclubs
👍
R.I.P. Dwayne!
I started on Severed Heads (and ET, CV amd TG of course) then got into SP in the early 90's. Great to hear there is some connection. Severed Heads was a very mysterious band back then. We just got tapes of tapes from people. Also the same way I discovered SP. Though by the early 90's we had the beginings of internet to look things up .
In my apartment back in the early 1990’s I had 4 15” Yamaha pa speakers with the back two and have the right and left switched and put on Too Dark Park. Those who stayed had a new experience and outlook on none radio music that made you open your mind
Bill Leeb changed my life forever!
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I first heard Nine Times from Initial Command in 1990 and I've never looked back either... Early Delirium is incredible as well..
RIP Fisherman ❤
Fred is my friend 💕 this was so cool to listen to thanx Cevin…skinny puppy helped shape an entire time of my young woman life
Thank you Cevin for your wisdom around your creative genius. I hope you feel how important for the world of ingenuity you are
I love so much of the old SP, but also… Wish there was a whole load of tracks like Blue Serge! That techno-ish industrial is great stuff! Use it for my cycling nowadays!
The Process is a seriously underrated album!!
Why oh why can't I go back in time??
Would love to follow this hole down into Tear Garden and have an interview with Edward Ka-Spel. He's right along these lines with Legendary Pink Dots and their ever experimental sound and ethereal riffs.
I had the chance to see SP about 10 years ago in a pretty small venue and cEvin was packing up afterwards and I called him over and as he was walking over I started belligerently yelling about how fucking awesome he was and he kind of waved me off as a drunk. If only I had kept my cool I probably could of had an interesting conversation instead of rambling like an idiot...
That's okay, that happened to me with Bob Mould. I wasn't drunk, but asked dumb questions after his show, as he was packing up. He wasn't in the mood to talk
I remember the day I bought the eyes of stanley pain like it was yesterday. We listened to the entire CD from beginning to end without stopping and after the last track everyone just kind of sat there, I think stunned. No one spoke for a minute or two trying to wrap our minds around what the hell we had just listened to. It's an amazing album.
Also, it's funny he mentioned hitting a pillow. Someone gave me some drum sticks the other day, and I was hitting the edge of the couch cushion next to me and thought it sounded just like the beginning of the testure 12" remix
HexMarksthespot Same experience with that album except I had my dj headphones on sitting there with my mind blown.
Me too! I borrowed the CD from a friend. It was absolutely mental. I listened to that CD no less than four times in a row while I was reading Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendez-vous with Rama". Too bad I had to return the CD next day. I nearly worn out my cassette recording listening to it over and over, specially when I returned home late nite from muy job. It was a completely magic moment.
Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly, Delerium and LOTS of other projects fame :)
frickin awesome,i have to say ive been a fan of all electronic music since the 70's im 48 and seen skinny puppy live and is the best sounding,best visual and fulfilling shows ive experienced,last show was at the ogden in denver co and was sic,had a great time,keep electronic music this way and win the world over,thanks and peace from loveland,colorado
Was this concert at the Ogden back in 2005 or so when they got back together and it was sold out? If so, I was there and man... Surreal. My favorite concert ever. Big fan of SP
So crazy how much they all loved the Mirage- they seem like nightmares. At least the Emax had a great workflow. But really since I knew he used it like that, I’ve always wanted a Serge. It’s been said on this a bunch, but we really do need a good Skinny Puppy documentary!
Mirage was the next benchmark at the time. It was the poor man's fairlight!
And at $3000 in 1983 money, it puts thing into perspective when cEvin calls it "affordable"
Puppy rocks two mirages in the classic Ain't it Dead Yet video BTW. Dwayne with an orginal Mirage and cEvin with the DSK model.
Those huge choirs and orchestral hits in First Aid are amaaaaaaaazing!😱😱😱
i forgot to add,clense fold and manipulate was my first cd i ever bought,still have it everything else was on vinyl or cassette and still rock those as well,nothing like old school vinyl on old school pioneer cs99a,or my altecs still sounds amazing to this day
Classic album indeed
To see Fishermen is both sad and heart warming.
Thank you for this! cEv is a living legend and it's good to see his stories documented.
There needs to be a SKINNY PUPPY day like Christmas.
I immediately recognized that these were my remastered videos
Blue surge is a masterpiece
Blue Serge
I've been waiting for this footage forever!¡¿?¡! thank you👌BrAp oN!!¡!🎹🎧💫😵👍✌
95-96-97...... was just so much bridging from the old midigen from that time, to the new..... "sp" to tha "dw" gen... 2:45 "smothered hope" came immediately to mind!! RIP dwayne... BRILL mindset... 'blue serge'/download/plateau-sense of things! keep leading us onwards sir!! ;)...
is this the singer..?assimilate..smothered hope, just timeless,good, creative electronic music..good memories back in the days by the late 80´s and the early 90´s on our ebm-partys..:-)
No, the singer is Nivek Ogre aka Ogre aka Ohgr - cEvin formed the band with Ogre and they have been the only constant members of Skinny Puppy.
@@WaveshaperMedia ah ok, thank you!
Genius
R. I. P. Duck
Like walking through our own past. Thanks!
My first sampler was the cutting edge CASIO SK-1!! What a machine... More like a robot really, with a mind of its own design!
Wonderful interview. Thank you very much.
Can't thank you enough for this.
Great interview!
Holy smoke how many machines!
God, I love him. GENIUS.
I remember crank callers in the 90's and throwing stuff like skinny puppy and trauma on when they called backed...when they heard that stuff they never called back hehe
Fantastic, wish this was longer.
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So awesome, thanks for this!
Awesome! So glad to have stumbled on this 🦇👁🦇
Awesome interview. Would love to hear him elaborate more on Dwayne's influence...
You can hear it on every album he was part of, more layers and more complex music basicly.
Listen to CF&M that is Dwayne!
Great Interview
Great interview with a legend!
Excellent
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Thanks for this!
i wish cevin would talk so much more about his experience with modular. id listen to every single word for as long as he talked.
I listen MM and Skinny Puppy, i love his songs
very cool.
Can’t wait for Even Furthur ‘19!!!
WOW, great! Love Cev and SP. Thanks
Very kool thanks 🙏
Damn that was phenomenal.
Keep up the good work!
I remember hearing Skinny Puppy for the first time in the 90s at a private all nite club in downtown Seattle...How f***in cool!
Upstairs room of the City Nightclub Portland they were on constant rotation.
PERFECT...
ACE! Thanks for sharing.
Icons... Icons!
Wow. That was pretty def👍
I literally forgot that once was a word. :)
Brazilian fan🤘🏾
Some kind of wow
I miss my PCM41 lol
There's no such thing as 'too much delay'.
Thanks K.
Kevin in his studio at his home with Fisherman the kitty.
dOWNLOAD is by far one of the best side projects cevin key and ohgr have created...
WTF? Are you joking? Nivek didn't create or participate in Download.
It was Phil Western aka dj philth rip...
Cevin Key, Dwayne Goettel, Phil Western and Mark Spyby made the first 3 Download albums if you include Charlies Family. Ogre wasn't in Download. After The Eyes of Stanley Pain it's downhill from III onward IMO. It seems the absence of Dwayne's presence took all of the edge, structure and intensity away from the project and made it sound like a bunch of random noodlings.