Kanye West

[Matt42]

are they together all the time, or just for this gig?

Not sure to be honest, this is the first time however I've ever seen Kanye directly talk / refer to 'mike' at a gig though.. So maybe it isn't all the time

[paulmuchmore]

From wiki:

 

 

Mike Dean is an American hip hop Record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Houston, Texas. He is known for pioneering the Dirty South sound in the 1990s, particularly in work for artists from Rap-A-Lot Records. Dean has most notably worked alongside Scarface of the Geto Boys, Do or Die, Tha Dogg Pound, Yukmouth of the Luniz, C-Bo, Nate Dogg, Tech N9ne, UGK, Z-Ro, Devin the Dude, Outlawz and 2Pac among others. He has also mixed, produced and mastered many hits on multi-platinum albums.

In recent years he has also become known for his work alongside Kanye West. He contributed to the mixing of West's albums The College Dropout and Late Registration, and the production of his Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Yeezus albums. He also co-produced with West on the West and Jay-Z collaboration album Watch the Throne. Dean has made particularly heavy contributions on West's last albums, being credited on most tracks. Dean was also an additional producer on "Mercy" and "Higher" on GOOD Music's 2012 compilation album Cruel Summer.

In recent years, Mike Dean has served as guitarist and keyboardist for Kanye West at his live performances, notably headlining numerous music festivals, the Watch the Throne Tour and the Yeezus Tour.

[Winslow Leach]

The only two times I remember actually noticing mistakes during the gig itself were that prat Lee Nelson ruining Black Skinhead and whatever happened during Hold My Liquor. 

 

At the time I assumed he'd played the snippet of the Touch the Sky intro as a sort of tease before the cherry picker reveal, I didn't hear anything about Mike from where I was in the crowd. Same with Gold Digger, I assumed it was all part of the show. I still do, to an extent.

 

If I have to play a film back frame by frame to spot the continuity errors, they don't really bother me to be honest.

[ghostdancer1]

Mike Dean is one of Kanye's co-producers and performs guitar, keyboards and beats as part of his backing band on the most recent Kanye tour(s).

he's at the back left of the stage on the riser during the Glastonbury gig.

 

 

e: he's at 0:32 in this video:

 

Edited July 2, 2015 by ghostdancer1

[Rose-Colored Boy]

THANK YOU! I thought I recognised that name, but I couldn't place my finger on where from!

I thought he was the same guy who used to have a Radio 1 Punk Show too but that was Mike Davies.

[russycarps]

From wiki:

 

 

ta mate

[paulmuchmore]

ta mate

 

 

No probs. To be fair, I'd never heard of him before reading this thread!

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I assumed the touch the sky intro with Kanye shouting 'cut the music this isn't how we did it in rehearsals' was an attempt at trolling the audience... Everyone expect him to go off on one, so they booed & that made his eventual reappearance on the cherry picker even better.

[ghostdancer1]

you can actually see Mike Dean and the set-up he had at Glastonbury at 1:41:20 here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1oGQWC7Y7w

[paulmuchmore]

An extended look on Instagram: (is there an embed function on here?)

 

https://instagram.com/p/4dPJiCyEv8/

Edited July 2, 2015 by paulmuchmore

[The Placid Casual]

Everyone expect him to go off on one, so they booed & that made his eventual reappearance on the cherry picker even better.

Yeah, his face when he got up there and saw everyone going mental was a picture. He nailed that bit in my opinion. He definitely did the right songs up there too. One of his autotune numbers would have gone down like a lead balloon from there.

[stimo]

Well I loved it. Middle part was a bit of a mood killer, but I enjoyed it. 

 

He uses vocal autotune as an instrument by the way, he isn't cheating anybody by using it. 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

An extended look on Instagram: (is there an embed function on here?)

 

https://instagram.com/p/4dPJiCyEv8/

If they'd made that more obvious in the sound mix I think it'd have helped massively.

[COPG]

Going into it not a massive Kanye fan I can understand why people didn't like it, there was pretty much no crowd engagement, there was a lull of fairly slow autotuned gubbins, the stage and light show was simple and he left out a few tunes, cut short a few others.
 

On the other hand I've never seen a headliner like it, I felt like the stage managed to bring a huge festival into a small throbbing club gig and then take it back to a massive event , even though I didn't like a few of the songs the crowd around me seemed to know every song word by word and the opening 20 minutes was stunning.

 

If you were a Yeezy fan it was definitely a treat. If you didn't like Kanye, even if you were open minded it was never going to be the gig for you.

 

For me I went into it seeing him as a pop act and left it feeling like I'd just seen an artist doing exactly what HE wanted, and I enjoyed it but I didn't love it.

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I think the comparison of the staging and lighting design to an art installation or interactive exhibit rather than a common-or-garden "gig" is the most apt one I've seen.

[Spud001]

This is what the lighting reminded me of

Edited July 2, 2015 by Spud001

[The Nal]

This is what the lighting reminded me of

 

 

So hes not even original either!

[kingcrawler]

Taking your light show from Nine Inch Nails is hardly a bad thing.

[FloorFiller]

stop the press: Kanye West isn't first musician to use lowered down club-like lights for a stage show!

[ghostdancer1]

well it certainly makes any comparison with any other act a bit redundant

 

maybe that's the plan?

 

I have no issues with him being there, and headlining. It's not that controversial though, he's headlined massive shows before.

For me, it was overblown karaoke. I went to Sadler's Well Opera House to see a Matthew Bourne ballet. The dancing was fantastic, but the music was pre-recorded (to make tickets affordable, I believe) but it was a huge let down for me. Musical art (or whatever we want to call it) needs more than singing, or rapping, or whatever on top of a backing track.

 

just as well he had musicians up there with him playing instruments so, isn't it?

[frostypaw]

Wonder why plenty of bands can get away with it but a hip-hop act can't....

But that's a whole other discussion.

It's not really, just to put an end to that line remember the backlash to Oasis and U2 - both uncaring, uninvolved and uninvolving mega pyramid headliners who fell flat and got widely panned for it. There's no discrimination happening here.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

It's not really, just to put an end to that line remember the backlash to Oasis and U2 - both uncaring, uninvolved and uninvolving mega pyramid headliners who fell flat and got widely panned for it. There's no discrimination happening here.

Oasis and U2 are shit though

[ghostdancer1]

were there any?

yes, there's even a video of one of them playing posted on the previous page.

the camera catches them multiple times throughout the gig.

the guitar can clearly be heard playing during the Black Skinhead restart.

 

i'm not really sure how anyone with eyes or ears could think there wasn't musicians up there with him tbh.

[roughbloke]

to me, there has never been a headline set that could better Rage Against The Machine at Reading 08 - that was just perfect. 

 

Kanye delivered a set that equalled that for me. I thought it was just so good. I can understand the hate towards him, I have the same sort of distaste to other musicians and their music - The Who in my eyes are just drivel. However, I won't ever forget that headline set and when he screams at the start of Stronger "Throw your hands up HIGH", I still get goose bumps! I wish I could go back!

[august1]

Stronger was superb, last time I seen him was Manchester Apollo 2007 whilst he was promoting that song so seemed a fitting start