https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVapS-g0Kn0
Hope you'll enjoy playing this one with "101" live vocals.
The intro is shorter than the live one.
I added the "Pimpf" sample as an intro and outro (to fill the gap to the "Good Evening Pasadena").
All of the covers I see on Youtube are instrumentals I think it's better with vocals... Agree?
If you ask I can add Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher's backing tapes
Edit : I added a link to download the backing tapes for Alan, Martin & Andy.
Taken from the 2006 Songs Of Faith And Devotion Documentary:
About the making of some of the songs:
>In the face of adversity, you often produce your best work. And I actually believe during that period which was the most difficult time I can remember in the group, it came up with some of the strongest things we ever done... Walking In My Shoes and In Your Room, two of my all-time favourites tracks
About his departure from the band:
>I think something broke in me during the making of that [SOFAD recording], I say it's perverse because I feel it moves me more than anything else we've done... And yet my memories are very dark and I remember thinking during the second 5 weeks period we spent on Madrid... I said to myself "don't forget this moment, because this is how bad it gets"
I got into the band years after he left. And I know that some fans seperate before and after his time. Is it a matter of I being a younger generation that I find albums like Playing the Angel, Spirit and Sounds of the Universe great music and almosrt on par as Music for the Masses and Violater. In other words, is there a generational devide in what fans consider good DM? P.S: Sorry,I meant Alan Wilder in my 1st post now deleted. I was not paying attention when I wrote the title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEJSBOCR9pM
All of the info I've been able to find:
- The song was part of a radio broadcast about Alan Wilder (source - unverified, but you can hear someone start to talk at the very end of the recording.)
- There are 2 other songs by the unknown band available here, Treadmill Of Time and Here To Have Fun.
- There are 2 fake Depeche Mode albums available online that include the songs. The earliest reference to them I found was a forum post from 2005.
- Another user said they have the song on a 1990 Depeche Mode bootleg tape.
- One interpretation of the lyrics. It might be a criticism of the show Top of the Pops on BBC.
A few years old now but it shows what a bloody nice, down to earth bloke Alan is.
After several hours of digging, I found a link (not my link) to what I think are the OG tour samples that were auctioned off by Alan Wilder several years ago. The "Mercy in You" samples are particularly complete.
Here is the link, let me know if anyone has a more complete version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5x3qjq1bb1as3bi/DM_SoundFont.zip
Does anybody know the reason why Alan decided to start playing live drums during the Devotional tour? I've seen images of Alan with a few drum heads next to his setup during the Violator tour and before that they used a drum machine exclusively for the drum sounds (which in my opinion 101 has some of the best drums sounds that I even thought they had a live drummer in the concert). So why the change? Why start playing live drums in some tracks? I love that he did decide to play drums though, it fit the style of Devotional a lot.
