The Exorcist Theme on church organ (Tubular Bells opening theme)

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  • The Exorcist Theme on organ. Opening Theme from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells played by Theo Hes. Klais organ in Steyl NL june 2019
    update, February 2021
    Meanwhile, 100,000 visitors have passed. Thanks for all the attention and comments. Many responses point to the fact that this music comes from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. However, that was already stated in the explanation under the RUclips film. The reason I refer to the Exorcist in the title is because I translate film music (or themes used in films) to the organ. The opening theme of Tubular Bells was used in the 1973 movie 'The Exorcist'. I now have more examples of film music on organ on my RUclips channel and it will be expanded in the future. Many people have no idea that this is possible on a (church) organ. I hope I can change the conservative image of the instrument.
    There are justifiable complaints about the coughing by the audience, so I will make a new recording without an audience. Hopefully this recording will appear on you-tube this year. I will do that under the original name Tubular Bells. I don't know yet whether I will ever perform the entire Tubular Bells on organ. It is a lot of work, besides, the opening part is the most interesting for organ.

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  • @anonydun82fgoog35
    @anonydun82fgoog35 3 года назад +1991

    There's always someone who coughs during a musical performance... especially if it's being recorded.

    • @AaronEllisOfficial
      @AaronEllisOfficial 3 года назад +128

      Seriously. ALWAYS! Even when I record a song at home, I have to redo it cause someone in my family coughs. Drives me nuts

    • @TheHorsebox2
      @TheHorsebox2 3 года назад +190

      Once at church, my brother nudged me and said, "watch this."
      He coughed once, and within thirty seconds, a hundred were coughing.
      It worked every time.

    • @cazadordebarro
      @cazadordebarro 3 года назад +30

      It's a basic response of the respiratory system under an emotional production of neurochemicals.

    • @orangerooster73
      @orangerooster73 3 года назад +35

      I thought they were coughing on purpose at the right moment to create a percussion effect

    • @the20thDoctor
      @the20thDoctor 3 года назад +31

      The Beatles did it too. Coughs, sniffles, there's even a hidden f bomb in the radio cut of Hey Jude. Humans make music so there's human sounds in there too. Gotta embrace it.

  • @amarie020
    @amarie020 4 года назад +4543

    Imagine walking into church and you hear this playing...

    • @arrfffff7455
      @arrfffff7455 4 года назад +206

      I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore

    • @JubilantGratitude
      @JubilantGratitude 4 года назад +53

      @@arrfffff7455 thank you for telling us you no longer live in Kansas

    • @kariyam2202
      @kariyam2202 3 года назад +92

      "Plays a song *associated* with demonic possesion"

    • @chrisyoung5929
      @chrisyoung5929 3 года назад +90

      Well hearing this would give walking into a church some point.

    • @joshuagommers3672
      @joshuagommers3672 3 года назад +28

      LMAO, that happened to my mom when she was young!😂💀

  • @nickymadison6108
    @nickymadison6108 3 года назад +430

    Mike Oldfield recorded all the instruments himself separately, this guy just straight up playin em all at the same time

    • @Duncanlovesnaim
      @Duncanlovesnaim 3 года назад +9

      This is what makes it so superb...!

    • @kevinkean3785
      @kevinkean3785 8 месяцев назад +4

      Nearly all !

    • @kellypaws
      @kellypaws 8 месяцев назад +4

      Yes, pretty much. But Oldfield composed the piece. Our capable and flexible player did not do that.

    • @kevinkean3785
      @kevinkean3785 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@kellypaws Yes Oldfield recognized that the melody needed a slight variation every second bar 6 notes then 7 notes this makes the piece enduring ,we will most certainly be listening to it in another 50 years and beyond

    • @CharlesSmith-io9fp
      @CharlesSmith-io9fp 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@kevinkean3785 Correct! The only instrument that Mike didn't play are the drums that you don't hear until side two.

  • @knuckleguy775
    @knuckleguy775 3 года назад +347

    Absolute classic. Nearly 50 years old, and still stands up and holds its own. Bravo, Mike Oldfield.

    • @khendar
      @khendar 3 года назад +13

      And he was only 19 when he recorded it.

    • @knuckleguy775
      @knuckleguy775 3 года назад +3

      Really? I never knew.
      The album Tubular Bells certainly didn't hurt the fledgling Virgin label either!

    • @robertborchert932
      @robertborchert932 2 года назад +4

      Yes! I had this recording on LP. Absolutely brilliant composition. Oh, I'm also an old grandfather today, hehe.

    • @resurgem
      @resurgem Год назад +5

      Bravo Theo for playing all in one shot. Not layered.

    • @hoofie2002
      @hoofie2002 8 месяцев назад +2

      Indeed still an amazing piece of work

  • @ymac7245
    @ymac7245 3 года назад +1419

    When your instrument is so complex that you have to use all your limbs but you still need another set of hands

    • @boban250
      @boban250 3 года назад +82

      You also forget the group of blowers who used to physically operate bellows to provide air into the pipes themselves before electric air pumps :D

    • @dingus_doofus
      @dingus_doofus 3 года назад +22

      @@boban250 It still happens, not every organ is outfitted with electric pumps.

    • @Soruk42
      @Soruk42 3 года назад +47

      @@dingus_doofus The church in Lyminge (Kent, UK) has an organ that was retrofitted with an electric blower. I remember one morning the organist switched on the organ, there was this loud bang and all the lights went out. That service was held without lighting and two members of the church choir were conscripted into operating the bellows, which remained in situ and functional after the retrofit.

    • @peachythecat3731
      @peachythecat3731 3 года назад +6

      The guy should have introduced the woman to “the back of his hand” and yelled, “Back OFF”!

    • @spogelse
      @spogelse 3 года назад +36

      To be fair, Mike Oldfield recorded this in multiple tracks. It was never meant to be played by one person, on one instrument, in one go.

  • @Equality72521sr
    @Equality72521sr 3 года назад +1666

    “Tubular Bells” by the great, Mike Oldfield. A masterpiece of music always deserves its proper title.

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 3 года назад +6

      209 ✊

    • @hhds113
      @hhds113 3 года назад +20

      I believe this is Part I. There's two parts to his music.

    • @juanjavierm
      @juanjavierm 3 года назад +9

      @@hhds113 Yes. This is the opening, in the first side.

    • @Solitude11-11
      @Solitude11-11 3 года назад +30

      I agree, I was not impressed they referred to it by the title of the film that used it as a soundtrack!

    • @IamDRPMD
      @IamDRPMD 3 года назад +5

      There is actually a part 3 as well that came out in 1998. It's nowhere near as good as the previous parts but it does have some nice tracks on it

  • @IceBerg2k
    @IceBerg2k 3 года назад +278

    This guy is an abosulte master, his fingerwork combined with his feet......Insane!

    • @jimrennison1
      @jimrennison1 7 месяцев назад +1

      Find some organ videos ofJean Guillou. He never uses sheet music. Has it all memorized like Martha Argerich.

    • @Ronilac
      @Ronilac 7 месяцев назад

      Look for Cameron Carpenter

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 7 месяцев назад +1

      Look to the East on the 3rd day

  • @nickcage1991
    @nickcage1991 3 года назад +697

    The irony of this being played in church is just gold

    • @zuzannasuska2147
      @zuzannasuska2147 2 года назад +9

      Exactly

    • @grantmcauliffe3437
      @grantmcauliffe3437 2 года назад +8

      Agree.

    • @0GreatMerlin
      @0GreatMerlin 2 года назад +68

      Given that this piece existed long before “The Exorcist”, that is like saying that playing Bach's toccata and fugue in d'minor or Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake because they get used in horror films is ironic. They, along with this, were used because they set a mood, but they belong in a church.

    • @grantmcauliffe3437
      @grantmcauliffe3437 2 года назад +19

      @@0GreatMerlin Yes, we know that.
      It is still ironic.

    • @seineldin6702
      @seineldin6702 2 года назад +9

      @@grantmcauliffe3437 no it isn't redhard

  • @reactions5783
    @reactions5783 3 года назад +638

    _"The power of chords compels you..."_

    • @LateYouTuber82
      @LateYouTuber82 3 года назад +3

      Laughed a little too hard at this, for personal reasons.

    • @jozefgeusens44
      @jozefgeusens44 3 года назад +4

      HaHaHa... Top comment!

    • @brando4848
      @brando4848 3 года назад

      terrible

    • @carlw
      @carlw 3 года назад

      LOLOLOL

    • @calldwnthesky6495
      @calldwnthesky6495 3 года назад +1

      the power chords compel you in the metal church

  • @hpept
    @hpept 3 года назад +631

    This is absolutely insane. Mad respect for this master organist.

  • @robcrockett3519
    @robcrockett3519 7 месяцев назад +59

    Considering this was written using a multitrack, this organist is doing a fantastic job of interpretation. Bravo sir.

    • @anotherdamn6c
      @anotherdamn6c 4 месяца назад

      A lot shifty time signatures, too. Hats off.

  • @kokaface1
    @kokaface1 8 месяцев назад +13

    imagine walking into church and you hear this playing... and then someone coughs throughout the performance

  • @docgonzales
    @docgonzales 3 года назад +577

    Wow, the hands part is in 9/8 and 7/8 alternating and the foot pedal part is written in 5/4 . This guy has skills.

    • @GBPaddling
      @GBPaddling 3 года назад +52

      Not to mention the Woman leaning over him changing the settings!!! Bet this Guy can pat his head and rub his belly counter-clockwise simultaneously?

    • @spearmintt1342
      @spearmintt1342 3 года назад +41

      It's a little hard to follow but it's actually 7/8 + 8/8, the bass part follows the same metric pattern, in the second section with the descending bass line it's just 8+7 instead of 7+8 phrasing

    • @pavelthedog6939
      @pavelthedog6939 3 года назад +30

      I dont know what all that means, but it sure looks hard ....

    • @leepshin
      @leepshin 3 года назад +15

      Why don't you look up the actual composer whom is well known in the UK as Mike Oldfield. He explains exactly how _"Tubular Bells"_ was constructed.

    • @GlenFerrisMusic
      @GlenFerrisMusic 3 года назад +24

      @@spearmintt1342 Haha, you reminded me of a classic argument with my best bud when we were 12, it's 7/8 ...7/8 is impossible..../no it's not listen to me count...../ your weird and your pausing between 6 and 7 to make it 8./ what? ... We were 12.....signature nerds....but it prepared us for Zappa a few years later...🤣

  • @GlenFerrisMusic
    @GlenFerrisMusic 3 года назад +159

    And introducing....two slightly.. distorted coughs.....

    • @docgonzales
      @docgonzales 3 года назад +13

      GF ha ha, genuinely laughed big laughs at your comment

    • @nigelharris1419
      @nigelharris1419 3 года назад +4

      Very good. Clearly a fan. I salute you.

    • @Ian..
      @Ian.. 3 года назад +2

      😆 That took me right back

    • @Loreman72
      @Loreman72 3 года назад +3

      LOL
      I wonder if Viv Stanshall genuinely saw the guitars distorted owing to being so bladdered!

    • @ringerheringa3052
      @ringerheringa3052 3 года назад +3

      Thanks for that funny remark: I laughed and spat all over my tablet!

  • @cxpro750
    @cxpro750 2 года назад +88

    I am a drummer of 30 years playing and although I think I have a decent level of independence to my playing, I know I am an independence amoeba when compared to this incredible musician we see here! What a player, what a set of skills and played with such feel as well! Brilliant stuff and I have this on almost everyday at some point....love it - thank you Theo!

  • @stevenduperouzel7198
    @stevenduperouzel7198 6 месяцев назад +32

    What a talent. Would have loved him to have played that at my wedding. And have the congregation to all stare at my mother in law.

    • @tomvance8522
      @tomvance8522 6 месяцев назад

      I just woke up my wife I was laughing so hard. That silent laughter where your body shakes. Thanks for this.

    • @tomassawyer1790
      @tomassawyer1790 6 месяцев назад +4

      Diabolic 😂

    • @FrizcoKidd
      @FrizcoKidd 3 месяца назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @BILLY-px3hw
    @BILLY-px3hw 3 года назад +1012

    People coughing up demons in church while this plays

    • @gjeacocke
      @gjeacocke 3 года назад +7

      Oh so you believe Stalin was just a ‘naughty boy’ when he killed his own people? Demons are real but satan is not red or has horns or a pitchfork. Demons love hate, greed, lust, envy, pride, violence.

    • @ReasonsWhy1
      @ReasonsWhy1 3 года назад +41

      @@gjeacocke Sssshhuuuutttt uuuupppppppppp

    • @gjeacocke
      @gjeacocke 3 года назад +5

      @@ReasonsWhy1 child calm doon

    • @mikhailvasiliev6275
      @mikhailvasiliev6275 3 года назад +3

      "Bless you"

    • @ReasonsWhy1
      @ReasonsWhy1 3 года назад +2

      @@gjeacocke Yeah righto champion. Demon.

  • @caerlaveroc109
    @caerlaveroc109 3 года назад +327

    Just came across this video - the man is a genius - in the original Mike Oldfield played all the parts so he recorded each instrument separately and then joined them together - for this man to play multiple parts at the same time, and live in front of an audience - pure genius and cannot be bettered. Thank you!

    • @7he0
      @7he0 3 года назад +7

      I know and since all the parts are at different timings it’s no wonder he ended and extra hand to use the stops, limb control that I could only dream of

    • @AdrianEarnshawMusic
      @AdrianEarnshawMusic 2 года назад +7

      Welcome to the wonderful world of an organist. You need more limbs than an octopus sometimes 😂😂😂 As a fellow organist, this guy has some dexterity, top marks.

    • @lunatik9696
      @lunatik9696 2 года назад +4

      Mike Oldfield said this song took its toll on him physically and mentally.
      No doubt it is his Opus, but he was about 17 when he started this.

    • @helixvonsmelix
      @helixvonsmelix 2 года назад +1

      not the same at all.

  • @skwervin1
    @skwervin1 7 месяцев назад +30

    I was about 6 years old when this came out and my sister bought the album which I still have. Listen to it through headphones, in the dark and when the bells ring at the end, of Part I it is like lightning rings down your spine and reforms your entire nervous system.

    • @georgehays4900
      @georgehays4900 7 месяцев назад

      What are you taking? I need to get some. “Lightning “rings” down your spine and reforms your entire nervous system”. Wow that’s some powerful stuff.

    • @martinryan8101
      @martinryan8101 7 месяцев назад

      What a fabulous description…. I get it.

    • @skwervin1
      @skwervin1 7 месяцев назад

      @@martinryan8101 you understand what I was getting at...

    • @martinryan8101
      @martinryan8101 7 месяцев назад

      @@skwervin1I certainly do. And the 2003 version has an even greater impact on me - especially the introduction.

  • @abrokenframe82
    @abrokenframe82 Год назад +78

    That was absolutely astounding!. I hope Mike Oldfield has seen this. He should be truly blown away by your amazing rendition!

  • @88feji
    @88feji 3 года назад +341

    People like this are practically a genius, how do you split your brain to make 4 limbs play 4 different sets of notes individually but in unison ?

    • @crosslink1493
      @crosslink1493 3 года назад +44

      Similar to driving a manual transmission automobile in a race or on a crowded city street - clutch, shifter, steering wheel, gas pedal (and brake pedal for #5). Practice, Practice, practice.

    • @stylusfantasticus
      @stylusfantasticus 3 года назад +8

      STUDYING.-

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 3 года назад +3

      JS Bach did it! :-)

    • @Wyrmwould9
      @Wyrmwould9 3 года назад +5

      ...practice.

    • @ferrari2k
      @ferrari2k 3 года назад +7

      @@crosslink1493 I was gonna argue, because it comes so natural to me to drive a manual car, but yes, it takes practice, you are right.

  • @atakd
    @atakd 3 года назад +172

    I'd be more scared by the organist's supernatural co-ordination of his limbs than by the music.

  • @Camel_Jockey
    @Camel_Jockey 7 месяцев назад +5

    Imagine some jackwagon coming in to listen and cough all the way through it.

  • @18BlackMagic18
    @18BlackMagic18 7 месяцев назад +1

    If basketball and football could be played at the same time, this is your man. His ability to coordinate like that is exceptional!

  • @MustaffaCuppa
    @MustaffaCuppa 3 года назад +66

    My sister used to come home from work at lunchtime, play side 1 of this album and go back to work. I miss you sis.

  • @maxrome67
    @maxrome67 3 года назад +196

    Why anyone disliked this is beyond me, its just amazing.

    • @lavo-ld4wm
      @lavo-ld4wm 3 года назад +9

      Maybe the power of this version didn't manage to compel Pazuzu from their rotten souls...

    • @MichaelRabbitBass3
      @MichaelRabbitBass3 3 года назад +7

      Probably superstitious about playing this at a church

    • @Rickriquinho
      @Rickriquinho 2 года назад +2

      They know real music.

    • @jameshaviland6183
      @jameshaviland6183 2 года назад +7

      It could be the damned coughing that they don’t like. Can’t say I blame them if it is.

    • @revolutions88
      @revolutions88 Год назад +1

      It's her

  • @rhiannonstudios
    @rhiannonstudios Год назад +60

    I can’t believe someone sat there and coughed their way through this wonderful performance, hope their head spun a 180 when they got home, Amazing talent ❤

    • @rogerw-interested
      @rogerw-interested 8 месяцев назад +2

      i am a smoker, i cough randomly, cant control it, ppl cough for many reasons and dont do it purposely

    • @denoroberts4938
      @denoroberts4938 8 месяцев назад +18

      @@rogerw-interestedThen politely remove yourself from the venue, especially during a recording.

    • @warwickscram1656
      @warwickscram1656 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@rogerw-interestedI poop myself can I come to your wedding?

    • @monatae9725
      @monatae9725 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@denoroberts4938 Because god forbid people who aren't perfectly healthy and able be allowed to attend musical performances. Try to be less of a bigot, yeah? If they wanted a clean recording, they could have easily booked a time without an audience attending instead of recording a live concert.

    • @baronmeduse
      @baronmeduse 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@monatae9725 Could probably start by kicking the habit. It's not like it's a disability.

  • @MrSabioDice
    @MrSabioDice 7 месяцев назад +4

    The person coughing must’ve been jelly because out of respect I would’ve left the room.

  • @k1lldash9
    @k1lldash9 3 года назад +537

    Whoever is coughing, ya'll need to stop :)

    • @pinkbeatle2012
      @pinkbeatle2012 3 года назад +22

      It was god

    • @chrisglover2697
      @chrisglover2697 3 года назад +6

      I call it controversial coughing

    • @MarcMercier1971
      @MarcMercier1971 3 года назад +4

      @@chrisglover2697 I attribute it to people's slower breathing during concentrated listening causing mucus build-up and expulsion. Controversial coughing? Interesting. So if they don't like the tune, they make everyone want to pummel them due to their coughing?

    • @pj1909
      @pj1909 3 года назад +28

      You ever been in a church before?? Always someone hacking away with a germ spreading cough!!

    • @k1lldash9
      @k1lldash9 3 года назад +2

      @@pj1909 haha yeah this is true :)

  • @jawadad802
    @jawadad802 3 года назад +43

    the fact so many people were coughing would scare me a hell of a lot more walking into a church then the exorcist theme playin'...

    • @ecosseza4030
      @ecosseza4030 3 года назад +4

      2021 vs 1973 lol. Yes I agree

    • @phiodite7850
      @phiodite7850 3 года назад +2

      If you think this is bad you should listen to a chess tournament

    • @ecosseza4030
      @ecosseza4030 3 года назад

      @@phiodite7850 Interesting observation.The most prolific countries that play chess also have highest smoking related deaths.

    • @phiodite7850
      @phiodite7850 3 года назад

      @@ecosseza4030 hmm interesting

  • @davidriley1188
    @davidriley1188 6 месяцев назад +6

    How this man's mind must be working is astonishing. Truly outstanding. Thank you both for your efforts in delivering this piece.

    • @pauldarby1447
      @pauldarby1447 6 месяцев назад +1

      Brillant, note and 😂pitch perfect I was in awe of this gentlemans talent 👌.. but I did notice he didn't use his elbows... ;)

  • @annathy
    @annathy 3 года назад +20

    Amazing. So glad people still learn to play these instruments. The need to have a button pusher because all of your limbs are too busy to do it - WOW, just WOW!

  • @robbie4860
    @robbie4860 3 года назад +164

    Oldfield was 19 years old in 1973 when Tubular Bells was recorded, and he played almost all the instruments. Name one 19 year old "artist" of 2021 who can top that..

    • @johnalley8561
      @johnalley8561 3 года назад +4

      Taylor swift 🤣

    • @chrismiles1663
      @chrismiles1663 3 года назад +15

      Not to downplay the real genius of Mike Oldfield at all, but you might want to check out Jacob Collier (lots of stuff here on RUclips) -- truly frightening composition skills, an incredibly sophisticated understanding of harmony, and always expressing a real _joy_ in music...something to renew your faith in a younger generation, perhaps?

    • @carloko08
      @carloko08 3 года назад

      @@chrismiles1663 jacob collier? who is that guy? first time in hell that i heard about him, he have 19 years old too and make somethign like Mike?, that was the question

    • @t8283287
      @t8283287 3 года назад

      Harry styles

    • @buffalojoe78
      @buffalojoe78 3 года назад +4

      I’m sure Prince played all the instruments on a lot of his works.

  • @66PHILB
    @66PHILB 3 года назад +52

    There's nothing more uplifting to me than a fine church organ played well. I also love Tubular Bells. This is an amazing performace of that wonderful piece. Such multidextrous virtuosity.

  • @nilanjandutta2749
    @nilanjandutta2749 2 года назад +5

    The guy starts coughing blood

  • @CanadairCL44
    @CanadairCL44 3 года назад +27

    The level of skill, talent and concentration from both musicians is beyond measurement! Bravo!

  • @mok1138
    @mok1138 3 года назад +40

    that moment when the holy water slowly begins to boil

  • @oneparticularlysmartape
    @oneparticularlysmartape 3 года назад +307

    Musicians: *start a performance*
    Audience:
    The audience's phlegm and shitty trhoats: "This... This is my moment"

    • @BiscuitZombies
      @BiscuitZombies 3 года назад +7

      LOL great comment

    • @Pikachu-sc1yc
      @Pikachu-sc1yc 3 года назад

      The audience is now....
      Uhhhhh
      I don't know...

    • @brianorozco1074
      @brianorozco1074 3 года назад +2

      The throats: This is my time to shine!

    • @smorris12
      @smorris12 3 года назад

      "Like a meeting of bronchiacs anonymous"

  • @jakekgfn
    @jakekgfn 3 года назад +7

    Imagine standing at the alter waiting for your new bride to come down and this starts playing...

  • @thepagan5432
    @thepagan5432 7 месяцев назад +7

    Very good cover, makes me feel old. 50 years ago I bought this album and since then travelled around the UK and Europe watching Mike play. Got every album and still find myself playing his earlier albums Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge, been there too. I enjoyed your playing, thank you 👍

    • @brianwillson9567
      @brianwillson9567 7 месяцев назад

      Wow, just found this. Personally I preferred ommadawn to Hergest ridge. I also went to Hergest ridge, on the strength of the album, ha ha.

    • @thepagan5432
      @thepagan5432 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@brianwillson9567 Yep Ommadawn is a fantastic album too. I went to Horse Guards Parade to the World Premier of Tubular Bells 3, absolutely soaking wet in the rain, brilliant. Never got wet before at a concert or since, lol.

  • @josephmarkey9096
    @josephmarkey9096 3 года назад +48

    Haunting. Just shows you the quality of Mike Oldfields writing.

  • @scoobydachsydoo1047
    @scoobydachsydoo1047 3 года назад +18

    Very impressive. The skill used to play it on that organ is truly skilled. For anyone that doesn't know, Mike Oldfield compiled the tune by playing various individual instruments, then combined them onto a track in a studio. I was born in 1973 when the album was first released and it was the first album to sold on Richard Branson's Virgin label. Little music fun fact there.

  • @MrBiggordy
    @MrBiggordy 7 месяцев назад +9

    WOW! What an amazing piece of musicianship. It must have sounded awesome in the venue, so expansive and LOUD!

  • @danjpoche
    @danjpoche Год назад +6

    Mike Oldfield is a genius. He composed and played all instruments in this brilliant piece. He completed it before the Exorcist was even filmed.
    It was Richard Branson's then new label (Virgin) who produced it and when William Friedken listened to the piece by chance, he knew it would be his theme song.

    • @kit888
      @kit888 6 месяцев назад

      Not exactly by chance. William Friedkin tells the story in his memoir, The Friedkin Connection. He was looking for a theme and was given a stack of albums to listen to.

  • @DanGR023
    @DanGR023 4 года назад +279

    Me playing "the exorcist theme" in my organ.
    The priest of the church: OMG.

    • @ac1281
      @ac1281 4 года назад +16

      WhY Do I HeAr BoSs MuSiC!?!?

    • @leepshin
      @leepshin 3 года назад +7

      Nooooo, the Priest says "Awww for the love of God, now I know why Smoke on the Water is banned from being played in most Guitar shops". 🤣

    • @snuggles03
      @snuggles03 3 года назад +1

      Nope .....the priest would know the movie is about the triumph of good over evil

    • @DJKickstarter
      @DJKickstarter 3 года назад +1

      @@leepshin Lol try Bachs Fuga in the church

    • @Dorian-lt5jb
      @Dorian-lt5jb 3 года назад +1

      @@leepshin *and Stairway to Heaven

  • @mattmin45
    @mattmin45 3 года назад +30

    Loved the random Covid percussions effects.

  • @vinayh546
    @vinayh546 3 года назад +15

    I wish I could hear this live.. simply beautiful!!

  • @Crookedroadpodcast
    @Crookedroadpodcast 8 месяцев назад +5

    Mike Oldfield. Have had the album for decades. quite a piece of music.

    • @bogdiworksV2
      @bogdiworksV2 7 месяцев назад

      Me too, listened the hell 😈 out of it in college.

  • @Mannizilla
    @Mannizilla 3 года назад +108

    And then Mike Oldfield (the master himself) appears and plays an incredible electric guitar solo.

    • @TheRassamee6y
      @TheRassamee6y 3 года назад

      Only montalban can Play an incredible Guitar

    • @Mannizilla
      @Mannizilla 3 года назад

      @@TheRassamee6y Not the guitar is incredible, the solo is. And btw monta who?

    • @HrLBolle
      @HrLBolle 3 года назад

      this guy got to be a close contender for the second place
      ruclips.net/video/9IrWyZ0KZuk/видео.html

  • @andrewsmith5451
    @andrewsmith5451 3 года назад +11

    “There you go Vicar, I’ve tuned the organ for you, she sounds fine”

  • @seanDB1989
    @seanDB1989 3 года назад +37

    This literally gave me chills. Absolutely outstanding!

  • @Lemma01
    @Lemma01 8 месяцев назад +10

    I know every note of this - having bought the LP as a teen. Have to say that this rendition is quite lovely - both the anarchic power and delicate, hopeful passion of the original are rendered with spirit. Heartfelt thanks.

  • @carolinehumphries4696
    @carolinehumphries4696 3 года назад +15

    That was brilliant. Can you imagine, walking past the church on a dark night hearing this coming from it. Love it

  • @nikkiroeder5774
    @nikkiroeder5774 4 года назад +59

    I don't know how they can do it. So talented.

  • @lieslnew8247
    @lieslnew8247 7 месяцев назад +2

    God bless you Mike Oldfield. Still one of my favourite albums of all time.

  • @LaserParody
    @LaserParody 3 года назад +8

    I started my day online searching for some Mike Oldfield on Spotify... to have ended up hearing this masterwork of a rendition of Tubular Bells..... simply awestruck.

  • @russellpotter7294
    @russellpotter7294 3 года назад +12

    This was one of the pieces of music played at my Sisters funeral. Means so much and it is wonderful to hear it played like this.

    • @loui7210
      @loui7210 3 года назад

      Weird to play at a funeral tbh

    • @russellpotter7294
      @russellpotter7294 3 года назад +2

      @@loui7210 Why? A beautiful bit of music by Mike Oldfield. The fact that it was used in a film doesn't take away the fact that it is a great bit of music. I did love the film as well. But often Horror and sci fi use the best music.

  • @TheCelticSeer
    @TheCelticSeer 3 года назад +19

    This had to sound so powerful and majestic down on the floor, with the full acoustics to amplify it!!!

  • @Giles29
    @Giles29 День назад

    I have a great admiration for organists. I certainly can't imagine doing something like this.

  • @defmax29
    @defmax29 Год назад +2

    I bet even Mike is impressed with this.

  • @globetrekker86
    @globetrekker86 3 года назад +180

    As fantastic as “Tubular Bells’ sounds on the piano, the composition was destined for the organ

    • @paolocremona4724
      @paolocremona4724 3 года назад +8

      Actually, this part is played on the disc by 3 organs, 2 pianos, bass and glockenspiel.

    • @RetiredBrass
      @RetiredBrass 3 года назад +7

      Mike Oldfield has said he based it in "Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565" by J.S. Bach, so organ is actually very fitting.

    • @globetrekker86
      @globetrekker86 3 года назад +2

      @@paolocremona4724 So Mike Oldfield is a one-man orchestra

    • @paolocremona4724
      @paolocremona4724 3 года назад +2

      @@globetrekker86 yes, he is indeed!

    • @cleverhardy5230
      @cleverhardy5230 3 года назад +3

      In fact, Oldfield composed the opening line on a Farfisa organ.

  • @mavil64
    @mavil64 3 года назад +7

    I think few people completely understand how difficult exactly this is. You are amazing man. I'm in awe.

    • @Cytochromeb
      @Cytochromeb 7 месяцев назад

      Yes, no one realizes the difficulty of this piece. It is a wow!

  • @scottlp2323
    @scottlp2323 3 года назад +18

    What an absolutely stunning and joyous version of this modern classic. I'm a huge fan of the genius that is Mike Oldfield. Which is why I've never seen The Exorcist. Listening to Tubular Bells always reminds me of my dad playing it in our home growing up and I never want that wonderful memory tarnished. :) Thank you. :)

  • @majorbrighton
    @majorbrighton 7 месяцев назад

    A touching haunting number of memories, like being engulfed in feelings that have been long since locked away and forgotten.
    To think the first time I heard this peace, was something of a break through for me as a teenager, because it was the very first time I had asked
    my parents to sit down in their arm chairs and let me play this song for them. Music was nothing new to my mother, yet my father had never shown
    any interest in it. I realize that now. No he never listened to any, because my mother had full right´s over the player!
    Sitting there as a bag of nerves, waiting for their reactions and no saying a word to them.
    Well, my father thought it was beautiful and that he had never heard anything like it before, those words blew me away completely
    and after that day, we started to become closer every day. Painted together and talked about anything.
    The song lives on and I think it took a peace of me with it, because every time I listen to it, I have to make shore I´m alone.
    Tears will fall easier when your so old
    So thank you for the jolt back in time, not an easy peace to play right.

  • @voice_of_reason5604
    @voice_of_reason5604 3 года назад +8

    Just stumbled across this. Blown away. It's almost as if Tubular Bells was written for the church organ. Magnificent playing also.

  • @pHD77
    @pHD77 3 года назад +5

    Man, the level of coordination required to play this piece of music... I'm in awe

  • @audioelitist3677
    @audioelitist3677 2 года назад +12

    I adore this man and consider him to be the greatest organ player that ever lived. He is legendary.

  • @claudiamiller7730
    @claudiamiller7730 7 месяцев назад +2

    Love the shots of the sneakers on the peddles…the Nuns and our Church Organist wouldn’t be having any of THAT back in the 1960’s….mass every morning before classes began AND us girls singing in the choir from Grade 4 thru 8, every stinking school day. The Catholic School System….priceless!!😄💕

    • @renejean2523
      @renejean2523 7 месяцев назад +1

      It was awful. I was an altar boy and had to attend church every Sunday. Two shows in the morning and then a Benediction performance in the afternoon! Hated it. And our Catholic church made us boys wear short shorts all winter long. In London! No wonder I grew up hating the cold. And nuns.

  • @AlphaMarthos
    @AlphaMarthos 4 года назад +24

    Your skills are insane.
    Regards from France.

  • @trevorchivers5581
    @trevorchivers5581 3 года назад +9

    That organ though. What an amazing piece of instrument art.

  • @barryschwarz
    @barryschwarz 8 месяцев назад +2

    Oh wow, I listened to this over and over between the ages of 13 and 17. I'd conduct it in the living room, my heart swelling, put it on at night when I went to bed. Forgot how beautifully the opening developed, with surprising and satisfying progressions. Written from 17 and mostly performed by a 19 year-old Mike Oldfield. A rawness to the composition with exuberance in its sweep. Same with the playing.

  • @GlennDavey
    @GlennDavey 3 года назад +2

    Look, Mike Oldfield was a maniac, anyone who can play this deserves so much respect.

  • @Loreman72
    @Loreman72 3 года назад +20

    I used to have this as a ringtone on my phone, & once or twice it went off in church.
    Because I never saw that bloidy movie, I never really understood the fuss. .

    • @then00brathalos
      @then00brathalos 3 года назад +5

      The people who get angry are totally dumb. The exorcist tells the story of two brave Priest who is willing to sacrifice themselves in exorcising the demon , and show that evil can never defeat the will of god.

    • @jeanmarienadal7268
      @jeanmarienadal7268 3 года назад

      @@then00brathalos I agree

    • @lars-oleeifler4448
      @lars-oleeifler4448 3 года назад +1

      @@then00brathalos - The music wasn't made for the movie. It was chosen afterwards. The music has not anything to do with exorcisme

  • @frankdingle9920
    @frankdingle9920 3 года назад +13

    If this was playing late at night in this setting, you would see where my exit would be, by the bricks missing. Wonderful to listen to really

  • @MelliKeppler
    @MelliKeppler 8 месяцев назад +6

    A wonderful instrument, a gifted musician, a mighty melody.

  • @phmc123
    @phmc123 3 года назад +6

    Not only is his playing extra ordinary but so is that instrument.

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck3824 3 года назад +29

    He is very busy with two keyboards, both feet, and a helper for some kind of settings. Great performance.

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 3 года назад +1

      You have heard of "pulling out all the stops?" That's what those settings are.

    • @Pau1fc
      @Pau1fc 3 года назад +8

      The person working the organ stops is called a registrant, they change the register that the organ plays in, some pieces and organs are so complex they require two registrants , one either side and a third helper to turn the pages on the musical score.

    • @joewoodchuck3824
      @joewoodchuck3824 3 года назад

      @@Pau1fc Wow.

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 3 года назад +2

      A given setting of which stops are in and which are out is called a "registration."

    • @samuelbarham8483
      @samuelbarham8483 3 года назад +2

      @@Pau1fc I'd rather explain it as -- the stops mechanically (or these days electronically) link the keyboards (manuals) to different sets of pipes (each set is often called an organ), though sometimes, as you say, the stop merely re-maps the same set of pipes to the keyboard, but shifted up or down by some interval. In any case, what is often thought of as a single instrument -- "the organ" -- is really a conglomeration of a number of distinct organs, or instruments, each with its own timbral characteristics. There are reeds, diapaisons, strings, occasionally percussion instruments, etc.

  • @therevopath6032
    @therevopath6032 4 месяца назад

    Playing an Organ is like a dance. It is so magical!

  • @arthurmartin804
    @arthurmartin804 8 месяцев назад +1

    I read somewhere that though Friedkin did use a piece of Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells in the movie, he later heard the music of Tangerine Dream and regretted not using them. He did use their music in his later film Sorcerer a much underated film.

  • @Tom-Lahaye
    @Tom-Lahaye 3 года назад +4

    For me Tubular Bells From Mike Oldfield, but WOW, what a stunning performance this.
    Those many voices recorded by Mike himself one by one and then dubbed over, or played live by many musicians.
    And Theo plays them all by himself, at the same time!

  • @joachimgutperl1478
    @joachimgutperl1478 4 года назад +24

    Applause, Applause......that was great!

  • @MoovyTimeProductions
    @MoovyTimeProductions Год назад +1

    i LOVE that he's wearing chucks

  • @mzmscoyote
    @mzmscoyote 8 месяцев назад +2

    I love his shoes! My dad had an organ. I had to take my shoes off to play it because I could not find the right pedals with shoes on. This organist is an amazing musician and knowing what he is doing with his feet, which he cannot see, makes my heart sing.

  • @jimkirchner951
    @jimkirchner951 4 года назад +65

    If I could get a pipe organ installed in my split level home, I absolutely would

    • @the_r4ts
      @the_r4ts 3 года назад

      You'd need a much bigger home fam

    • @Davmm96
      @Davmm96 3 года назад +1

      Hauptwerk software is the closest you can get. Few old midi keyboard, speakers and a PC put in a little cabinet and you're golden.

    • @ricardojuricic9027
      @ricardojuricic9027 3 года назад +1

      @Jim Kirchner well Jim you could actually do so. Just got to define & design the size of it. In Buenos Aires Cathedral (Argentina) there're 4 pipe organs, smallest is about 2 meters wide, 1.5 depth, 5 high.
      Look around, surely you could find something suit for your place.
      Great idea!
      Wish you can accomplish it AND enjoy it thouroughly!!!
      Saludos = cheers
      🇦🇷Argentina
      🤙👍🤞😁

    • @lekoman
      @lekoman 3 года назад +3

      I knew someone who had a pipe organ of some substantial sophistication in a spare bedroom in their urban townhome. It’s entirely achievable.

  • @KindOldKingGeorge
    @KindOldKingGeorge 3 года назад +4

    Words cannot express how great this guy is. Simply amazing.

  • @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580
    @imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 2 года назад +1

    I had tubular bells as a ringtone on my phone, I was sat in the Hidden gem Catholic church in Manchester with my wife, watching our 10 year old son singing Christmas carols with his school choir.... I'd forgotten to switch my phone off, when it started playing the theme tune of the exorcist!😂.... Embarrassed, I quickly switched it off....If that wasn't bad enough, the person ringing was my parish priest Father Patrick!...He was trying to get in touch with my wife, who was the treasurer of our parishes St Vincent De Paul society!...We told Father Patrick about our Faux Pas later on, he found the whole thing hilarious and couldn't stop laughing! 😂

  • @tictactoe325
    @tictactoe325 7 месяцев назад +2

    Exquisite work. Just as moving as when I first heard it

  • @curly437
    @curly437 3 года назад +8

    I have put aside the whole "Exorcist" theme as I have discovered there is a lot more to this piece than the first 60 seconds of it from a movie. Well done.

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 3 года назад +1

      Mike Oldfield is one of the most versatile and original artists one could ever find.
      Without him, virgin records/space industry wouldn’t be..

    • @Rayve1609
      @Rayve1609 3 года назад +3

      @@72marshflower15 Yes. But you might know about his little morsecode in Amarok, dont you? It didnt end well, that Oldfield-Virgin marriage.

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 3 года назад +2

      @@Rayve1609 given what Branson tried to due to Venezuela recently, I'd be surprised if MO didnt have justification somewhere in his experiences to punch Branson in the face. Cant help but be curious is all.
      I'm not a violent man. It's only a matter of principle.

    • @pepeperez2774
      @pepeperez2774 3 года назад

      @@72marshflower15
      Well... Branson sell Tubular Bells for the movie without the Oldfield knowledge or consent and don´t give him a pound

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 3 года назад

      @@pepeperez2774 😒 figures..

  • @MrSamiparis
    @MrSamiparis 4 года назад +30

    awsome performance ! not easy at all

  • @CupidStatFunt
    @CupidStatFunt 2 года назад +1

    I can only just separate my left hand from my right - playing a whole melody with your feet is some next-level skill.

  • @khai2322
    @khai2322 2 года назад +1

    I come back to this at least once a week.

  • @Chippie-O
    @Chippie-O 3 года назад +13

    How this piece of beauty is not top of the YT recommendations, I'll never understand. Fantastic track, both in original and other versions I've heard, but in this version, wow, I stand in awe of your playing and the instrument. Well done and thank you so much for recording this and putting it out to the world.

  • @domquixote1615
    @domquixote1615 3 года назад +4

    This is by far the most complex, beautiful and hard instrument to play

  • @dwaterson21
    @dwaterson21 2 года назад +2

    The coughing in the background is their demon trying to escape

  • @user-eq9pc3gx9o
    @user-eq9pc3gx9o Час назад

    Wow 😮 ,amazing! I thought this was David Gilmore! Greetings from Portsmouth England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @Tommy139uk
    @Tommy139uk 3 года назад +48

    Excellent, pity there was so much coughing....

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 3 года назад

      The Rona..

    • @lapelcelery42
      @lapelcelery42 3 года назад +2

      That's the coughing of God himself.

    • @lavo-ld4wm
      @lavo-ld4wm 3 года назад +2

      not coughing... it was the exorcism that accompanied this concert !

    • @broadwings7777
      @broadwings7777 3 года назад +2

      Demons being expelled!

    • @Sophie-Ocean
      @Sophie-Ocean 3 года назад

      There is a covid19 pandemy. This was recorded a week before the big lockdown at the beginning of march 2020.

  • @TubularBelles
    @TubularBelles 3 месяца назад

    My favourite piece of music for over 50 years.

  • @ralee305
    @ralee305 4 года назад +8

    that theme song just got fucking blessed

    • @Kris.G
      @Kris.G 3 года назад +1

      it did

    • @ralee305
      @ralee305 3 года назад +1

      @@Kris.G oh yeah yeah

  • @FrikInCasualMode
    @FrikInCasualMode 7 месяцев назад

    Few instruments ever built can match the sheer majesty and volume of the sound organs can produce.

  • @captainme721
    @captainme721 6 месяцев назад +1

    The moment you realize skateboard shoes would be perfect for organ playing. For about the same reasons too.