[AUTOMATIC CAPTIONS BY YOUTUBE®] On the menu today join me for the culmination of my lifelong search for
the origins of this amiga demo music song
welcome hello chip dippers in the late 80s and early 90s sitting in awe of my
Commodore Amiga in the comfort of my bedroom
I'd watch name's fly by my screen like Northstar Fairlight Mahony
cactus end savage kind of like teens today watch their favorite tick tock
stars on their screens now these names were shown in so called demos and
cracktros little intros placed in front of games whose copyright
protection had been cracked and again a bit like tick tock that cracktro was
that person's opportunity to demo their skills to the world song: "i'm a savage..."
that's where this story begins because the word savage had a bit of a different
meaning to me when I was 17 I thought it might have two people today you see back
then I found a demo by the group savage that had a short music sample in it
playing this perfect loop I just fell in love
over the years I've tried so hard to find out where it was from but always to
no avail now a few years ago I even posted the sample on this forum type
website in the hope that someone might one day recognize it yeah I got
questions asking whether the demo group might have written the song themselves
and well to me it was clearly a sample of something else anyway I never got any
good leads back and Shazam and those kind of services didn't produce any
results either but with today's more modern technology we might have a way to
finally trace it so to do that it would be helpful and fun to briefly explore
exactly what the so called demo scene was all about and whose savage even is
was Fort Worth yeah you see these demo houses wolf sometimes groups mostly
centered in Europe primarily adopted the Commodore Amiga
because of its then incredible graphical capabilities and because unlike a PC the
amigas hardware was essentially locked down there was a clear benchmark and
boundary in place though the coders could try to push the limits off for the
best results they usually coded directly in the motorola 68000 assembly language
bypassing the operating system and accessing the amigas fat agnus chips
incredible copper and blitter directly and as the demo sceners in
their intense rivalry crafted theoretically impossible graphical feats
sometimes probably under myself by the amigas own developers and perhaps
interns selling more amigas for them so in turn the Amiga brought paint
Cena's into their demos at times scoring them jobs this games codice so the
industry was kind of ironically fueled by some of the very people whose
copyright protection cracks but ultimately bring it down but back then
when it all seemed like harmless fun there was some incredible demos now
considered seminal works in the field I'm not sure what they were doing in a
field but well there you go speaking of which hello hey why did the
Scarecrow win an award because he was outstanding in his field well a big
stretch I'm one of my other absolute favorites but I ordered through snail
mail back then on three and a half inch floppy disks from a shareware company
like this one yep this is one of the rare original discs that I actually kept
from my childhood on there was the North Star Fair light of mega demo 3 by well
demo groups North Star and Fairlight moths the graphical gymnastics impressed
the heck out of me and my friends at the time for me as a musician there were
sometimes a little more about the songs isn't this just the most fantastic thing
that you've ever heard the putt from my same team put some headphones on if you
can close your eyes and soak up the stereo sound Beauty the amigas polar
chip being pushed to her limits
I'm exhausted now sorry to have subjected you to that I did tell you to
close your eyes though I literally have two left feet in when I'm sitting down
anyway before we try to finally find the original song that savage used for me
one small but frustrating thing is I can't actually find the original savage
amiga demo that I saved that WAV file from so if you recognize where the
samples from comment below and I'll add a link to the savage demo in the
description below this video having said that the plot thickens
because I asked on this amiga forum and a user called hitch-hiker said how about
this demo oh oh sorry wrong one how about this demo
it turns out this is a different demo using a different sample from the same
song I knew this little heard of song from the 80s was being sampled by so
many demogroup and yet nobody seems to know what the actual song even is well
now I'm even more determined than I was before before we hopefully find the song
I should point out PCB way absolutely terrible of producing synth riffs
however if you need a PCB produce I recommend you be away because as we all
know PCB stands for parry frantic can't find bass line doesn't it as for whose
savage were well by their nature these groups were secretive but they did
release this little news troll and it tells he here as of 1994 who the members
of the group were and now you can reach them back then online if you were
involved in the group would love you to reach out in the comments of this video
just tell us a little bit about what it was really like
so as I mentioned today with the power of the interwebs I think we can finally
figure out where this song came from because now we have the all new Shazam
fingers crossed or try it in just a few seconds
because now we have the all new Google assistant now really Google code um if
you don't recognize it just tell me to have to pretend there's a connection
error when I'm literally one meter away from my Wi-Fi Rooter I only have two
feet you think she's allergic to dogs and Alexa was very helpful either sorry
I don't know that one okay find women's running shoes Google but out or was not
as asking a letter honestly modern technology is literally
the worst well in fact this whole video it's been a completely waste if you have
got mail wait I think I've got an email from Tom Hanks hope he doesn't have a
virus oh it's from what satsang that's the site I asked about savages demo a
few years ago and look someone thinks they recognize it
Georgey Georgey read help the man but this one really sound right does it
well let's google it on yahoo
yeah that doesn't really doesn't look like it matches the song we're looking
for okay well here's a video of the song or the HEC nothing to lose at this point
wait a minute huge thank you to PR music for helping this man find help the man
okay first thing I'm gonna do is order the vinyls myself I can actually own it
and I can see here was released in 1985 by dum-dum records hmm no wonder I like
it I'm pretty fascinating now about the track how it came together how those
super cool synth riffs were actually made would you believe the guy heard of
the music shown here on the back cover is still active and I found him by
bringing it on google yep George coach Beck he and lead vocalist
Phil Edwards are Georgie red okay he's got a website
there he is the man behind the music looks like he is a score writer a
singer-songwriter well that is definitely of the 80s and a keyboardist
in fact who's voted Germany's best keyboardist but with those interests I
can see why he's German so that makes sense why these German groups were using
this song it was probably a bit of a hit over there
now I couldn't find any info on how high this song actually went in the charts
but I wasn't the only one who had appreciated the track
well let's drop them quickie melts if he might just come back to me you've got
mail me Oh even better it's Georgie red this
is incredible he sent me a photo of him actually working on this song and he
found the mp3 of the vocal version and sent it to me for free as for how he
made it he says the intro riffs and the sequencer were Anelka synth X the
bassline is a Yamaha dx7 classic the drums are an MSD Frick
here's what that looks like actually that's why he's using in the
picture you know what let's reach out to channel patron and fellow synth keek
John McDermott how I recall has a Yamaha dx7 or at least the mini version the
reface DX see if you can find the original sound used for that cool as
cucumbers bassline
so there is 30 years on I finally own a copy of the song European demo scene as
sampled and that ended up on a share with floppy disk snail mailed it to my
bedroom 30 years ago I can't believe it I don't think George coach back could
either by the way he told me that the lyrics which we'll hear in a second were
inspired by a friend of his who at the time needed some help help the man I
wonder if he realized how much he helped this teenager and countless others
probably enjoy their days a little more - and as for today
he did point out that perhaps the lyrics that you're here are even more poignant
for the current situation that man is facing but just before we hear the vocal
version of this song one thing remains I infer that the Amiga had seemingly
limitless graphical possibilities if you knew how to push it and the thing about
that is as recently as 2018 stunning demos were still being created that
broke new technological records or that 30-year old machine
but as this videos really about the original savage sample let's queue up my
vinyl copy of help the man that arrived today and listen to it properly while
enjoying the copper and glitter chips visual treats as old truly meets new
helping manage I can do you know Thailand
beat your time waiting days prey on all the ego the main thing
come on man Oh
don't
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well as the Amiga dances out all the remains is for me to say thanks for
watching and for listening thanks also to George coach bagg for helping this
man put the video together I hope in term they're watching it has helped you
in some small way - I'll be back soon but for now subscribe and join below
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