Nice reaction... I was at that gig in 1998. It was a brilliant night. Ironically it poured down with rain during the entire night lol. Notice how the stage is almost completely dark, that's because rain knocked out the stage lighting generators. Fortunately they got them back up a few minutes after this song. Please check out more Mike Oldfield he's mainly known as an instrumentalist with long side long pieces. If you love his guitar playing, he's done many many great albums which l think you'll enjoy.
To get a quick 5 minute synopsis of what this guy can do - look up on RUclips "10 reasons why Mike Oldfield is a guitar god". He really is on another plane. But he was primarily a solo artist - lots of long form instrumentals - thematic albums. Tubular Bells was the theme from The Excorcist.
Tubular Bells II is an absolute work of art. I have always had the album in the car, back when CDs were a thing. Now, I still often stick it on Spotify. He's an incredibly talented composer and musician, and Tubular Bells II was ingrained in my brain as a child.
Congratulations! You seem to be the only RUclipsr ever to do a reaction to this excellent, but very underrated song. Mike Oldfield is pretty much my top favorite incredibly talented composer AND incredibly talented multi-skilled musician. You obviously haven't heard Tubular Bells, so definitely put that on your list. It's a long-form instrument-only magical-journey he composed in his late teens (astonishing!). He played ALL the instruments himself (back in the 1970's when he only had tape overdubbing to work with). There's now many versions of Tubular Bells. The best (IMHO) is the remastered Digital Deluxe Version (gold tubular bell on a white background, playing time 26:01 approx). If you like Tubular Bells, there's also "Ommadawn" and "Incantations" (also long-form instrumentals). As before, try to find the more recent remasterings if you can. As for more conventional songs, I like "To France", and "Moonlight Shadow", where he teamed up with female singer Maggy O'Reilly. Also, the much more recent "Man on the Island" is a passionate tour de force, as you'll see in the video.
The fast triplets guitar section in Ommadawn is sublime. But worth checking out is his arrangement of Tubular Bells that he performed at Montreux - he rearranges it for guitar - and his overdriven sound rocks. The thing about Oldfield is that he performed up to twenty different instruments on his earlier albums by himself - and Tubular Bells was written when he was 17 and recorded when he was 19.
I occasionally listened to Mike Oldfield back in the early 80s. There were singles named Shadow on the Wall with Roger Chapman and Moonlight Shadow with Maggie somebody. Tubular Bells may have a few sequels.
What a treat! Mike Oldfield is one of my all time favourites. As for this song, perhaps I'm in the minority, but having first heard it on the album I fell in love with ethereal voice of Cara Dillon (original singer), and could never get used to Pepsi version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Best stringplayer there is. And best composer. Mike is scary. Ommadawn is the best music ever recorded. Hergest Ridge is 2 best in the world. Incantations 3.
For Oldfield’s lofty standards I’m sorry to say this solo is very unimaginative and mediocre. For his real musical strength, please review First Excursion or the solos throughout Incanatations part 3 and part 4. No one approches his musicality there. The solo switching between electric and classical guitar is also very good at the coda of Tubular Bells orchestral version released 1974.
Such a clean guitar tone.
I was there in Horse Guards Parade and it poured with rain the whole time - apart from when he played this song!
Never heard of Mike Oldfied! 😮
Nice reaction... I was at that gig in 1998. It was a brilliant night. Ironically it poured down with rain during the entire night lol. Notice how the stage is almost completely dark, that's because rain knocked out the stage lighting generators. Fortunately they got them back up a few minutes after this song. Please check out more Mike Oldfield he's mainly known as an instrumentalist with long side long pieces. If you love his guitar playing, he's done many many great albums which l think you'll enjoy.
To get a quick 5 minute synopsis of what this guy can do - look up on RUclips "10 reasons why Mike Oldfield is a guitar god". He really is on another plane. But he was primarily a solo artist - lots of long form instrumentals - thematic albums. Tubular Bells was the theme from The Excorcist.
Tubular Bells II is an absolute work of art. I have always had the album in the car, back when CDs were a thing. Now, I still often stick it on Spotify. He's an incredibly talented composer and musician, and Tubular Bells II was ingrained in my brain as a child.
Mike Olfield is another level of musician.
Congratulations! You seem to be the only RUclipsr ever to do a reaction to this excellent, but very underrated song.
Mike Oldfield is pretty much my top favorite incredibly talented composer AND incredibly talented multi-skilled musician.
You obviously haven't heard Tubular Bells, so definitely put that on your list. It's a long-form instrument-only magical-journey he composed in his late teens (astonishing!). He played ALL the instruments himself (back in the 1970's when he only had tape overdubbing to work with). There's now many versions of Tubular Bells. The best (IMHO) is the remastered Digital Deluxe Version (gold tubular bell on a white background, playing time 26:01 approx).
If you like Tubular Bells, there's also "Ommadawn" and "Incantations" (also long-form instrumentals). As before, try to find the more recent remasterings if you can.
As for more conventional songs, I like "To France", and "Moonlight Shadow", where he teamed up with female singer Maggy O'Reilly. Also, the much more recent "Man on the Island" is a passionate tour de force, as you'll see in the video.
The fast triplets guitar section in Ommadawn is sublime. But worth checking out is his arrangement of Tubular Bells that he performed at Montreux - he rearranges it for guitar - and his overdriven sound rocks. The thing about Oldfield is that he performed up to twenty different instruments on his earlier albums by himself - and Tubular Bells was written when he was 17 and recorded when he was 19.
I occasionally listened to Mike Oldfield back in the early 80s. There were singles named Shadow on the Wall with Roger Chapman and Moonlight Shadow with Maggie somebody.
Tubular Bells may have a few sequels.
What a treat! Mike Oldfield is one of my all time favourites. As for this song, perhaps I'm in the minority, but having first heard it on the album I fell in love with ethereal voice of Cara Dillon (original singer), and could never get used to Pepsi version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Super 👍
MIKE IS GOD. BEST EVER!!!
Best stringplayer there is. And best composer.
Mike is scary.
Ommadawn is the best music ever recorded. Hergest Ridge is 2 best in the world. Incantations 3.
Thanks Shane! 🙂
Very nice sharing my friend
Good choice
I'd bet that we all think Helen has a lot more voice within. I bought tubular bells on vinyl when it came out.
"Man in the Rain" is a variation on "Moonlight Shadow". Mike wrote it in circa 1983 but only recorded it for the Tubular bells 3 album in 1998.
The ideal female voice : Maggie Reilly
A typical Oldfieldsl 80s Song😊 from the 90s😂.But her Voice is not so special and clear how Maggi Reilly.
For Oldfield’s lofty standards I’m sorry to say this solo is very unimaginative and mediocre. For his real musical strength, please review First Excursion or the solos throughout Incanatations part 3 and part 4. No one approches his musicality there. The solo switching between electric and classical guitar is also very good at the coda of Tubular Bells orchestral version released 1974.