I always come back to this documentary; not only i am an audio nerd but to see Mark Feltham's (harmonica) superb mood and so humbly appreciation of the music and moment, for Ninet's beautiful face and effortless performance on Pariah and Paul Stacey's so humble attitude and suddenly playing that untidy gilmourish solo, Steven Wilson's sound search on synths and also that black telecaster of his. I love this video production approach where they place us as a fly on the wall.
The fly on the wall cannot be overstated. People tend to be so performative on camera nowadays. Whether they want us to look at them and get a certain impression, or they think we want them to put up that façade, it gets to be a bit much. It’s nice to see people just doing their thing. It’s real. It’s truth.
How funny is to see all those musicians achieving incredible solos with the power to move me to tears and at the end they're like OK THAT WAS OK LET'S TRY ANOTHER ONE
SW sure does wear his influences on his sleeve and I love that… Floyd solo’s .. Talk Talk distorted harmonica, ABBA changes, TFF ambience … incredible record made with love and great taste..
Mark Feltham is the most underrated musicians ever. After hearing his playing on Talk Talk's Living In Another World, I looked him up on Wiki and came to realize he's played all of the harmonica parts I've ever heard in pop/rock music. Absolute legend.
While TTB didn’t resonate with me as much as I wanted it to, its so pleasing as a fan to see Steven do what he wants with no compromise. So glad I got to see him on this tour
Same with me, but if he only made Raven, I'd be happy with that. Prob one of the greatest albums ever recorded. I'm glad to hear that PT is coming back also! That'll be a great experience for sure.
An amazing documentary. Steve Wilson aside, the fact this studio had all of the vintage gear in working condition is crazy. People can buy anything but having it working in top notch condition is a feat alone. All of this gear is temperamental and needs constant attention to work properly. The sheer amount of vintage gear and microphones, effects is nuts, the echoplex is beautiful alone. Amazing documentary, thank you so much.
This goes to show his creative process. Something that curiously goes so much further than many artists these days. Also his inclusion of vintage instruments is priceless. (Only other band I know to have recovered an old electronic instrument in recent time would be Depeche Mode) Great doco. Really loved it.
Great documentary, it's always great to follow Steven when making a new album. I have to say, however, that studio is messier than my room, and my room always looks like it was a victim of an hurricane.
great! this documentary had a way of making me feel agitated with impatience to go and listen to the album. to hear parts being played/recorded and then going back to hear the album with further reverence and a deeper sense of apreciation of the work involved is exciting!
the recording process tbh is a real nightmare scenario for a lot of people believe it or not. Sounds fun recording an album don't it? Lol. Nah playing the album live is fun - writing it is fun. Recording it is a test of severe patience. Even more so when you have this massive amount of effects and also having so many sit in musicians come in to add to that. Every bit of perfection you put into the recording and everything you add to it then creates a pressure to replicate it. You could add all of these effects on the computer but the difference between the analog and digital signals is so unfortunately flawed in the tone they produce - it would be a lot easier to just autotune any note you don't get correct every time you hit record but then it's got the digital sort of effect to it that makes it too obvious. So you can easily go crazy trying to get something perfected out. And every session you are in there, well that's pushing back your ability to meet a scheduled tour which means managers and venues agitation bleeds into your anxiety already trying to make your record. Which basically means you have to be at a point in your financial worth where you can not have leave until its all done just to get rid of that feeling - essentially your never free to make music on your own terms until you have a certain level of success to be able to have the time to create and write and rewrite and record and perfect that recording without your ability to sustain your fan base being effected because you aren't touring or aren't playing new music. Some people, if forced through the recording process would rather just quit tbh. That's why a lot of bands fail, creative differences open up in the recording of those creations - can cause a lot of in fighting as each band member just tries to give the a song what the writer wants in it, and not what you might think may be better: which if your playing could be at any moment at any time when your ability to improvise says "Hey! Try this!" you have to be like * NO SHUT UP THE BASSIST WROTE THIS SONG AND THE GUITAR PARTS ARE HIS CALL TOO UNLESS HE TELLS ME HAVE AT IT!!* lol. you have this natural urge to create on the spot then stifled. That's frustrating, which is why the most bands only really have one major songwriter in the band and everyone else has to appreciate and love what they might want to change and not have to play the same way constantly. It's a balancing act for sure. It's a hell of a balancing act on the emotions as a guitar player of 18 years. Keeping it all fresh enough to not get frustrated or bored is also a difficulty if you don't write/record quickly as well. :3
Thanks for posting this!! It made me want to listen to the album again. I need to find live version to hear, would be cool if Wilson would remix this one , I just don't care for the mix on the album. too tight in you face, I don't know,....just doesn't let me feel like I can crank it up and get inside the mix... maybe my perspective will change with time . Some really tasteful playing and sounds... I will listen to anything this artist puts out.....
OMG I'd love to record in that studio, all that chaos, amps, drums, keyboards and pedals everywhere are soooo inspirational! Most of you guys see a disorder, some of us see a place to be ourselves, comfortably, and being able to let the music flow...
Fascinating! Absolutely fascinating. Steven is just a true genius. In fact, i haven't seen anyone on this who isn't superbly talented! But SW, as this whole project is your 'baby', i gotta say that you're the fucking man... \m/ (:o)
I love this album as much as his Prog Rock albums I don't see any problem in like both eras, also his Electronic songs are interesting. I'm not the typical close minded Rocker/Metalhead that complains about anything that's not that kinds of music. SW is not AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Kreator, etc, to do the same always thinking that nobody notice that over a 30 year career. This are modern times.
i love that Mark Feltham bloke! he's the sort of guy i would love to have a few beers with after doing some recording. if he doesn't drink beer, tap water with ice cubes would do fine!
Now Steven gotta buy all those pedals and drag em across the world for the tour. Teh power supply situation that creates gives me anxiety just thinking about it loool :D
Funny all the comments about the studio. Every studio looks like that in the middle of an album. It's chaotic organization/organized chaos. Glamour shots are when no one is actually working in a facility.
I have an idea of what sound you may like from a certain pedal. Just give me 5 hours to figure out where it is under all these hundreds of cables on the ground.
lol reminds me of Peter Framptons setup if you dumped it out of the organized case they keep all 50+ of them in for the tour. I would shaking with anxiety if I was his guitar tech hoping none of those connectors fail during a live show loool
"I don't know why.. (about the themes and overall sound of his new album) maybe I've just got fed up with being described as the most miserable bastard in the music industry" SW
Without having Dulux dripping all over you as well !!!... Michelangelo should have got some Polish painters in.... Much quicker and cheaper... Steven has something similar to Michelangelo - it is known as.. " THE SUSTAIN CHAPEL"
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Steven thinks he can do falsetto? He just learnt it? STOP IT. (WHO REMEMBERS .3 SONG? STEVEN FALSETTOS LIKE "FRODO & GANDALF RETARDED")
You're . . . unpleasant.
@@BionicleSaurus Quite so.
He is not unpleasant if he remembers and knows about . 3
You can surely do it better.
YEAH!
Love SW philosophy on music “do it because you love it, don’t even think about making a career of it”
It's a wonderful philosophy 👌 I also only write music because I love it
Ninet's scream in Pariah's climax will always put a smile on my face
I always come back to this documentary; not only i am an audio nerd but to see Mark Feltham's (harmonica) superb mood and so humbly appreciation of the music and moment, for Ninet's beautiful face and effortless performance on Pariah and Paul Stacey's so humble attitude and suddenly playing that untidy gilmourish solo, Steven Wilson's sound search on synths and also that black telecaster of his. I love this video production approach where they place us as a fly on the wall.
The fly on the wall cannot be overstated. People tend to be so performative on camera nowadays. Whether they want us to look at them and get a certain impression, or they think we want them to put up that façade, it gets to be a bit much. It’s nice to see people just doing their thing. It’s real. It’s truth.
How funny is to see all those musicians achieving incredible solos with the power to move me to tears and at the end they're like OK THAT WAS OK LET'S TRY ANOTHER ONE
Mark is the Hendrix of the harmonica . Legend
Incredible.... Incredible process, intelligence, PEOPLE, talent, production.... God, I love him.
SW sure does wear his influences on his sleeve and I love that… Floyd solo’s .. Talk Talk distorted harmonica, ABBA changes, TFF ambience … incredible record made with love and great taste..
Great little doc. Under rated album in my opinion. Fantastic tour too - lucky to catch it in Denver.
Love Ninets voice. Slightly raspy all the way powerful
The rasp is enhanced by the haircut :)
Pariah......omg.....what an amazing soultouchung song, gets me emotional everytime.
That solo in Refuge 😍
Mark Feltham is the most underrated musicians ever. After hearing his playing on Talk Talk's Living In Another World, I looked him up on Wiki and came to realize he's played all of the harmonica parts I've ever heard in pop/rock music. Absolute legend.
Fucking Love Talk Talk!!! Spirit of Eden...
Loved seeing his confidence and talent on display with this documentary. Made me really appreciate harmonica more than I knew I could! 😄
Love how Mark gets right into the moment when he plays , best harmonica player on the planet superb, on the record its dynamite
While TTB didn’t resonate with me as much as I wanted it to, its so pleasing as a fan to see Steven do what he wants with no compromise. So glad I got to see him on this tour
Same with me, but if he only made Raven, I'd be happy with that. Prob one of the greatest albums ever recorded. I'm glad to hear that PT is coming back also! That'll be a great experience for sure.
COMPLETELY DISAGREE. A perfect album....
TTB, HCE and TRTRTS are close to each other imo. SW's top three album
Magicians at work ❤
An amazing documentary. Steve Wilson aside, the fact this studio had all of the vintage gear in working condition is crazy. People can buy anything but having it working in top notch condition is a feat alone. All of this gear is temperamental and needs constant attention to work properly. The sheer amount of vintage gear and microphones, effects is nuts, the echoplex is beautiful alone. Amazing documentary, thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing this to the world! As a musician, being able to see the on going process of my favourite artist is priceless!
Steven is great musician and always surrounded by great musicians.
My son is 12 years old and he is a fan...me too!
Barcelona.
I use to play this video while I'm writing my thesis, It feels like I was working next to the band.
Nick Beggs is a beast of a bassist got a great feel, some monster tones from Nick on this, a great album from first till last
One day Steve's going to step on a Lego. He is living dangerously always being barefoot
WOW! Never seen/heard harmonica like that.
jason mills listen to his playing on Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk. He's amazing.
This goes to show his creative process. Something that curiously goes so much further than many artists these days. Also his inclusion of vintage instruments is priceless. (Only other band I know to have recovered an old electronic instrument in recent time would be Depeche Mode) Great doco. Really loved it.
Great documentary, it's always great to follow Steven when making a new album.
I have to say, however, that studio is messier than my room, and my room always looks like it was a victim of an hurricane.
xD
I would love to work there.
Or just visit it in person.
They say Einstein had a very messy desk.
the place is _not_ messy
Fire marshal would have a field day shutting that thing down lol
Such a treat to watch the making of this masterpiece! thank you Steven...
amazing ! I love this album ! one of my favourite ever ...
What a great documentary !!
One of my favorite music albums of all time.
Inspiration, thanks for the music and the insight.
Thanks for posting
Steven currently has the best sounding Albums. He knows what he wants and I love it..
Sounds great on the title track to the bone. Really suits the song .
I love this guys studio and his guitar chops!
Steven gracias por documentar la grabación de este álbum y enseñarnos a todo tu equipo y colaboradores. Espero verte pronto por Sudamérica.
Steven cool guy ,great guitarist and composer !!! Love this footage !!!!
What a fantastic insight into the production! Great documentary!
Paul AND Jeremy! Two great talents, and wonderful guys... what a team in this video. Ninet is a MONSTER singer, wow.
great!
this documentary had a way of making me feel agitated with impatience to go and listen to the album.
to hear parts being played/recorded and then going back to hear the album with further reverence and a deeper sense of apreciation of the work involved is exciting!
the recording process tbh is a real nightmare scenario for a lot of people believe it or not. Sounds fun recording an album don't it? Lol. Nah playing the album live is fun - writing it is fun. Recording it is a test of severe patience. Even more so when you have this massive amount of effects and also having so many sit in musicians come in to add to that. Every bit of perfection you put into the recording and everything you add to it then creates a pressure to replicate it. You could add all of these effects on the computer but the difference between the analog and digital signals is so unfortunately flawed in the tone they produce - it would be a lot easier to just autotune any note you don't get correct every time you hit record but then it's got the digital sort of effect to it that makes it too obvious. So you can easily go crazy trying to get something perfected out. And every session you are in there, well that's pushing back your ability to meet a scheduled tour which means managers and venues agitation bleeds into your anxiety already trying to make your record. Which basically means you have to be at a point in your financial worth where you can not have leave until its all done just to get rid of that feeling - essentially your never free to make music on your own terms until you have a certain level of success to be able to have the time to create and write and rewrite and record and perfect that recording without your ability to sustain your fan base being effected because you aren't touring or aren't playing new music.
Some people, if forced through the recording process would rather just quit tbh. That's why a lot of bands fail, creative differences open up in the recording of those creations - can cause a lot of in fighting as each band member just tries to give the a song what the writer wants in it, and not what you might think may be better: which if your playing could be at any moment at any time when your ability to improvise says "Hey! Try this!" you have to be like * NO SHUT UP THE BASSIST WROTE THIS SONG AND THE GUITAR PARTS ARE HIS CALL TOO UNLESS HE TELLS ME HAVE AT IT!!* lol. you have this natural urge to create on the spot then stifled. That's frustrating, which is why the most bands only really have one major songwriter in the band and everyone else has to appreciate and love what they might want to change and not have to play the same way constantly. It's a balancing act for sure.
It's a hell of a balancing act on the emotions as a guitar player of 18 years. Keeping it all fresh enough to not get frustrated or bored is also a difficulty if you don't write/record quickly as well. :3
1:22:10-1:24:05 This documentary is priceless!
man the producer is a damn good guitar player and he has a tons of beautiful equipment specially all those tape and drum delays
Tons of pedals and instruments, could consider this messy studio as a vault full of gold ;)
I'm never listen to that album in the same way. What a marvelous job. Two months to produce one hour of music. It ought to be a work of love.
Superbe travail de toute cette équipe (Y) ********
It's superb as the first encounter unlikely and messianic of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a
dissection table !
Adam is a brilliant keyboard player , he made such a difference to the album, amazing performance, he is as good as Rick Wakeman for feel
Nice One .
Such an awesome documentary. That studio. How in the world were they able to record that album?!
Woah ! I called GOTTIT about 1 second before Mr Stacey. Got the shivers off that. Twice ... so far.
Got to love those ancient Marshall PA columns ...
Very cool. Just noticing Steve is using the same bass I am (4001CS). Very, very cool. Love the behind the scenes stuff. Takes me back to the studio.
I'm new to Steven Wilson's music. LOVE IT!
EXCELLENT CHOICE
True Musicianship....
Paul is like the nutty professor so much stuff all crammed in that studio, old school guy, great producer and lovely bloke
I would love to see and hear Steven compose an original score...
Thanks for posting this!! It made me want to listen to the album again. I need to find live version to hear, would be cool if Wilson would remix this one , I just don't care for the mix on the album. too tight in you face, I don't know,....just doesn't let me feel like I can crank it up and get inside the mix... maybe my perspective will change with time . Some really tasteful playing and sounds... I will listen to anything this artist puts out.....
Wow great players / vibe !
Thanks for posting this. It's dynamite
OMG I'd love to record in that studio, all that chaos, amps, drums, keyboards and pedals everywhere are soooo inspirational! Most of you guys see a disorder, some of us see a place to be ourselves, comfortably, and being able to let the music flow...
Never heard this before.....I'm completely converted!
So much gear in there..... wow. Looks like a combination of "Hoarders" and "That Pedal Show".
Fascinating! Absolutely fascinating. Steven is just a true genius. In fact, i haven't seen anyone on this who isn't superbly talented! But SW, as this whole project is your 'baby', i gotta say that you're the fucking man... \m/ (:o)
Bei aller Genialität, Mr. Wilson, mich stößt jedes Mal ab dass an den Füßen rum gepult wird!
1:10:54 the beautifull of musicians. I love this.
Awesome
I love this album as much as his Prog Rock albums I don't see any problem in like both eras, also his Electronic songs are interesting. I'm not the typical close minded Rocker/Metalhead that complains about anything that's not that kinds of music. SW is not AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Kreator, etc, to do the same always thinking that nobody notice that over a 30 year career. This are modern times.
When he started playing How Is Your Life Today? I got super chills
I feel like that’s his song that he just instinctively plays when he sits behind a piano
i love that Mark Feltham bloke!
he's the sort of guy i would love to have a few beers with after doing some recording.
if he doesn't drink beer, tap water with ice cubes would do fine!
The best part of the album
Quelle voix cette femme !
50:34 and 58:58 Love Will Save You
59:30 How Big The Space?
Does anyone know where can I listen "Love Will Save you"?
Now Steven gotta buy all those pedals and drag em across the world for the tour. Teh power supply situation that creates gives me anxiety just thinking about it loool :D
Good Lord, man, how do you find anything in there?? Seriously though, much respect for your work-
Funny all the comments about the studio. Every studio looks like that in the middle of an album. It's chaotic organization/organized chaos. Glamour shots are when no one is actually working in a facility.
I have an idea of what sound you may like from a certain pedal. Just give me 5 hours to figure out where it is under all these hundreds of cables on the ground.
lol reminds me of Peter Framptons setup if you dumped it out of the organized case they keep all 50+ of them in for the tour. I would shaking with anxiety if I was his guitar tech hoping none of those connectors fail during a live show loool
Ashtrays and junk on top of ARP 2600: ✔️
6K moog-one used as a door holder: ✔️
What a paradise for us gear nerds.
Mark Feltham, OG harmonica player.
Music nerd paradise!
man, that producer plays guitar like zappa! wow!
1:00:28 could anyone tell me the guitar brand and model here?
Pariah Carey?
Way too different from any other "The Making Of". Very well done!
"I don't know why.. (about the themes and overall sound of his new album) maybe I've just got fed up with being described as the most miserable bastard in the music industry" SW
1:25 Toni Kroos on drums...I love it
Where is the song "Love Will Save You" played at 50:39 ?
Is Paul Stacey the brother of drummer Jeremy Stacey? Those vintage drums in that huge drum collection looks like Jeremy's.
Confirmed, at 14:55, Jeremy on drums. Awesome drummer!
This must be what it was like for those watching the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel get painted.
Rich Boshart - Damn bro. Thanks. I'm shutting this shit down now.
Without having Dulux dripping all over you as well !!!... Michelangelo should have got some Polish painters in.... Much quicker and cheaper... Steven has something similar to Michelangelo - it is known as.. " THE SUSTAIN CHAPEL"
There's a lot of Prodigal in that Asylum song.
I want to know what Line 6 m9 has been used for?
It was quite interesting to see how he works. Beautiful documentary. Thank you
2:05 - sounding a bit like Geddy Lee with that Rick.
Who's studio?
That harmonica at around 1:08.40 .. screams Talk Talk.
I like how how is your life today played at the end
A Ricky, ok i need to listen to the track
50:40 Love Will Save You
NinaaaaaaaaAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything he speaks he reminds me of Nigel Tufnel, and it's not just the accent... I wonder if he realises he's one of THOSE musicians.
1:11:32 anyone catch how is your life today?
ofc
in a millisecond... magniificent piano tone.
I love PT and SW, but Dream theatre was kinda during simliar genre but in a even more extreme level no ?
This place is the exact opposite of studios like David Gilmour's Astoria! LOL
"A definition of an artist is you do it for yourself", for whatever reason, historical, observational, imaginary...
Blank tapes is like something from a Duncan Shiek musical (Spring Awakening).