Vortex 002 - Real life - Book of love - Camouflage

Hello everyone and welcome to our second emission of Vortex! Thanks each and everyone of you for watching the show, because you motivate us to keep going on with this project. Thank you so much for visiting our website that has new sections. Make sure to visit our webstore where you'd find DVD's on sale. The videos had been digitally transferred from the original master tapes, so that you can enjoy watching them with the highest quality of image and audio. Thanks to Raymi7 who's behind the camera and direction of the show. ...and thank you all very much... ...for following. So buckle up, relax and let's journey together through this Vortex! When we talk about bands that contributed greatly to electronic music in the 80's... ...then it's impossible no to talk about the Australian band "Real LIfe". David Sterry auditioned after seeing an add in the newspaper, where a guitarist was sought to start a band. There, Sterry, met Richard Zatorski and... ...surprisingly, instead of forming their own band, they became composers and began... ...writing songs... ...for other groups... ...and they were really into that. The original idea of forming a band together vanished completely. While working on these projects, they met Alan Johnson (bassist) who found them through an ad posted on the local newspaper. Johnson convinced the other two to form a trio and do some gigs, to play live and such. And they would do so, just the 3 of them with a drum machine on stage. They toured Australia gaining attention locally.. ...at first, and then in Europe. While touring in England, they made the decision to look for a percussionist, a flesh and blood drummer. Once again, they published another newspaper ad... ...looking for a drummer and became a quartet when Danny Simcic was added to the line-up. It is important to say that, Real Life was the opening act for bands such as: INXS or Midnight Oil... ...and as a result... their fame began to grow, and that's why they are so popular, even until today. Real Life was really a band of colleagues... ...because the members have never met each other before. and none of them were friends in the past. A very unusual way... ...to start a band, isn't it? Now, moving along... today we'd like to show the video of a song that was never an international hit... but it was a number one in Australia and a top-ten song in Germany along with "Send Me and Angel" in 1983. What's coming next is... in my opinion,the best song on the album. I'm talking about.. "Catch Me I'm Falling" that came out on their debut album. Real Life's first album was titled "Heart Land". and it's the one that I'm holding. It comes with a nice inner-sleeve, with 4 promotional pictures of Steve, Richard... ...David... and A. Johnson. and on the back side we have the lyrics for those of us who need to practice our English. On this LP, there are great songs like "Openhearted", their classic hit "Send me and Angel", "Under the hammer", "Always" and, of course, "Catch me I'm falling" our next video here on Vortex. To start the second part we'd like to take... the opportunity to invite you to visit our website, where you can leave your comments, suggestions and requests. We also have a nice selection of... concerts, documentaries, live-appereances and video compilations available on DVD, edited by ParalisisNYC and specially made for... our parties and private screenings. Our videos have the best quality of image, sound because they were taken from master tapes. Well, having said that, Let's continue with our show dedicated to the best of synthpop. The next band is one that I hold dear... ...to my heart. I'm talking about the talented Book of Love. Book of Love's history begins when two school friends... Susan and Ted Ottaviano graduated from their high school in Connecticut. Even though they both share the same last name, they are not related in any way, in other words, they are not family... at all. A little time will pass, and Susan leaves Connecticut to attend... the Philadelphia College of Art, where she met Jade Lee and Celeste Ries.. and started a band, as a trio, named "Head Cheese" releasing a 45" titled "Jungle Jam". with Ted's collaboration as executive producer. And although these friends where living in different cities, they were always reunited by music. Meanwhile, Ted moved to New York City to study visual arts and met Lauren Roselli who was his classmate. Ted, then, decides to make her a part of the band, consolidating Book of Love in 1983. By April, 1st of 1986, they released their eponymous album titled "Book of Love"... ...the one that I'm holding. It comes with an inner sleeve with a promotional picture of the band... in the front and in the back the lyrics for the songs on this LP. This is a very special album for me because it was signed by all four members of the band. This was signed 5 years ago, in 2009 at the reunion show celebrating the 25th year since the release of this album. Prior to the release of this LP, their label, Sire Records... invites them to be the opening band for.. Depeche Mode, during the North American Tour for "Some Great Reward" and the "Black Celebration Tour" two years later. What you are about to see is the video clip for their single "Boy". A promotional video that was filmed for an Australian production house that kept the video under circulation for a short while and now it has become very hard to find amongst collectors. Hope you enjoy this song... here is "Boy" by Book of Love. en 1983 Four friends from the city of Bissingen, in Germany, formed the band Licenced Technology. Only a year later, one of the members, left the band, so the remainding three members decided to rename themselves as "Camouflage", inspired by a song from the band "Yellow Magic Orchestra". of the same name. Camouflage's story is very interesting They began by winning a radio show contest and soon after recorded "The Great Commandment". which appears on their debut LP "Voices and Images" released in 1988. This release caught the attention of Atlantic Records, consequently signing the band to record their second album titled "Methods of Silence". The singles on this LP were "One Fine Day" and "Love is a Shield". This is the album... a gatefold version with promotional pictures of the band. It also comes with the lyrics. To add to this review, an interesting fact, was that this album was produced by Dan Lacksman. For those of you who don't know Dan Lacksman, he was, a founder of the Belgian band Telex. If you haven't listen to Telex you are missing out on a lot. It necessary to say that even though this album was released by the end of the 80's, in 1989, and the American Synthpop of the 90's was putting out their first hits this album was up to par because the recording work included the use of saxophones, violins and guitars... which turned this into a very peculiar album. What we are about to show next is a version of the song "Love is a Shield" recorded live for German TV. That was "Love is a Shield" by Camouflage. A while ago, during an interview with Marcus Meyn... he was asked what was the inspiration for this song? So he said that when he was in New York City to sign the recording contract with Atlantic Records, he was in his hotel room watching a movie... ... and Ernest Borgnine movie... and in one scenes Ernest Borgnine was telling the other character... ..that love is like a shield... ...so he was perplexed by this phrase.. and compelled him to write it down with the intention to use it for a song and that was the story behind the inspiration for this classic song. Well, guys, that's all for today.. thank you very much for being with us And thanks to Raymi 7, who was in the technical arrangements, and of the production management of the show And (my self) your friend... Chuby242 says good bye, and see you in the next show of this VORTEXXX...!!!