I love how we were so fluffly an loved up in those days - first met Steve on a hillside at Stonehenge around '71 or '72 - everyone jammed and Hawkwind used to play all night long - and Steve, totally un-bread-head - undersold and under-rated except by the lucky ones who've listened, dreamed, believed... Love ya man, how rich the world because you are!...
Beautiful, just beautiful. The man's a genius. Period. I've watched gigs for the last 35 years, and this guy's (at Manchester in '76) was the best EVER.
Gong, Steve Hillage, Henry Cow, Hatfield and the North, the Fugs, all that early hippie anarchist music is still sweet and powerful today. Love it. SH is a huge innovator.
Remember meeting Steve at a Gong gig. He took me back stage to meet my hero at the time, Chris Cutler. What a nice guy! Never forgotten that, nearly 45 years ago!
Oh man, totally cool Hillage clip at his best! I had the best time meeting him and charming galpal Miquette at a Utopia concert in 1977. We got up in the VIP section and they were very cordial, 2 great and LOVELY people. Steve always played out his heart for the fans and was sort of overshadowed by other hot players, unfortunately. His message was of peace, it's sad that more people here could not relate to him and his music. It would be a better world for sure! Thanks for the post!
I saw Hillage during this period. His brand of funk prog has never been bettered... maybe Neverland came close. 2.59 is when you enter heaven. It once brought me to tears. Love those slushy synths and the driving drums and bass. Classic.
This is a much loved clip, and takes me back further than I'd like to remember. I dug my vinyl out just before Christmas and Live Herald was one of the first back on the table!
Steve is one of the most underrated musicians around - i've seen many a guitarist try to emulate Steve's style in the studio and on stage.......his sound and style is unmistakable
Tristan Smyth The people who dig him are all that matters. The rest can go back to their strip malls, where values are king, and listen to the rubbish music that is churned out on a regular basis
I saw Steve in Chicago, Uptown Theater in early 1977. The guy was F***ing great! He was the warm up act for Electric Light Orchestra. Just an awesome concert.
This is awesome. I have long searched for Hillage videos and finally got it! I was into his music nearly 30 years ago and have seen him play for the first time today. If I could show this to the me 30 years ago, he would faint in excitement.
seen him do this live with the Scottish National Orchestra amazing, (he was guesting doing tubular bells) can' remember the year, had a good chat with Steve and his good lady.
Fantastic.This and 'It's All Too Much' brings back happy memories of the seventies.Apart from brilliant versions by Hillage, I was blown away at the time that he played these covers by two guys that deeply influenced my direction in life.Thanks Steve, Donovan and George. P.S Liked the Rhuthun connection below!
This is from a Rockpalast television program in Germany. I had a copy of this entire performance at one point, no longer can locate it & I hope that it makes DVD some day.
If you look in the background during keyboard shots you can see a reel-to-reel tape deck! Antiques Road Show! This is the first album I ever listened to STONED. (1978)
Cette version améliore notablement l'original de Donovan... Le batteur est un peu "bourrin" mais efficace. Onsent quand même ses limites techniques sur la partie rapide du morceau... Steve a travaillé avec un batteur black au style plus "funk-jazz" dont je ne me souviens plus du nom. Se reporter au "Live Herald" sorti en 1977-78. Christian Boulé, à la rythmique assure un travail considérable et, toujours, ce son unique, à fleur de peau, de Steve. Merci pour cette vidéo!!
steve hillage is still one of my favs melodic, seaching,so well ochastated it can be over welming. I only wish peaple could take from this and continue on.
Songs from my youth. Seen him play so many times over the years. Saw him play in a barn on worthy farm the night before the festival started sometime in the late seventies. Turned up on stage with Sham69 - reading78 too. :)
His most viewed video on YT. It's hard to believe how little known the fellow is. I was lucky enough to have some older hipsters introduce me to his music back in the eighties when I lived in England. I'd have probably never have heard of him otherwise. Always a good vibe from his music (-:
At Glastonbury '79 i helped a man chop wood for his fire who said he was a drummer for Steve Hillage,it was outside his ti-pi,well he said it was his,I had no reason not to believe him and i would have helped chop him chop his fire wood whoever he was,Drummer for Mr Hillage or not.
Funny I dug out "L" the other day. Not heard it for years. Takes me back to seeing our Steve at the Palace Manchester on this tour and then about 6 times after that. Always great. I just think that L was a bit Todd Rundgren - like all things Todd if he produces,it always sounds like Utopia - well they were the backing band for that album. I think I still have Leylines To Glassdom which was on the seat in the theatre on the Motivation Radio tour - or it may have been Green? Anyone confirm that?
If I remember right, Donovan liked the studio on L. Steve was a good guitarist for his time and the studio stuff is a trip. Donovan's original version was excellent. I remembah.
Like Peter Haycock one of the most underrated guitarists. This is fantastic but Steve's lead on the original studio version of this song is one of the best guitar solos of all time
one of the most original artists EVER! heard him all my life,first time ive seen him though.people are right,he is does lool like jesus with a guitar but i think hes GOD with a guitar!!!
Saw Mr Hillage with band & Shakti Yoni at Leith town Hall in 197-something or other, an at Kelvin Hall with Royal Scottish national orchestra a coupla years before (doing "Tubular Bells" by Oldfield). If the Stones 197? at Wembley were the greatest band I ever saw (NO contest!) then Steve Hillage - Gong - Rory Gallagher - Sensational Alex Harvey Band & Incredible String Band were not far behind. GREAT guitarist. Nice guy
Lol, I love it when 2.30 into the song, when it's freakin obvious what it is, a caption saying Hurdy Gurdy Man comes up on screen! hahahaha :) I'm going to get my vinyl back out.
Let me tell you this isn't even agood recording of this song,and it's still great. I have loved Hillage's work since the mid 70's, and it still is really amazing guitar wanking.
Yeah - Jaysus with the Roly Poly Man - what a combination! Love the way Jesus really feels those notes - and how they all take the song soooooo seriously! Christ! Lush solo at the end - and love Jesus' watch too...
His solos on You got me to start using my pinky which wasn't necessary since I'd been 'Blues scale' only prior to that release in the 70s.LOL. Mr Hillside-Village keeps his pinky in the "have-a-cuppa" position relentlessly! No I dig the photo on the back of 'Fish Rising' framing the neglected phalanges...The DVD he released last year is so effin' cool-especially the interview that's tacked on the end. Mike Howlett looks beatific playing the old grooves and it was months before he would croakRIP
Listening back, have to say - that drummer is the mst un-rock-steady I've ever heard - and testament to the skill, attunement and sheer virtuosity of the band members who manage to stay with him on his frenetic cascade through to the end of the song!!! Some pretty wild moments there! Also would like to point out that the recording was not up to today's standards. Many folk have no idea how much it's evolved - and that live performances were the hardest to record then. Fabulous gig that was!
Before Punk happened, real musicianship and virtuosity was respected. Hillage is a musician’s musician. Those who are familiar with him put him up there with any guitar legend you’d care to name: Hendrix Vai, Van Halen, Page, Bonamassa, Emmanuel, whatever! Just watch those fingers!!!
jimmythecreep - you have clearly received divine reveleation into the true identity of Hillage. We await your other Scriptures in awe and wonder - that you may speak of radio gnomes, electric camembert and flying teapots, and other wonders and mysteries too....
I thought that was Colin! Amazing, and I always really loved Clive Bunker's playing on records like "Stand Up" and "Benefit." And who's that hot girl keyboardist? jeez louis!
I'd go along with that... saw SH in '77ish on the Motivation Radio tour - great album, great live set. Had never heard of him before that gig (was he ever on OGWT? Certainly never on TOTP!) and bought the ticket because the poster had this guy holding the coolest Fender Stat I had ever seen. Great gig, so many joints being smoked in the theatre everybody got stoned!
wow. to be honest i first heard this song because of the cover "neil" from the young ones. i like this. i love them on keyboards. i really wish i had a mini moog and all those old keyboards they were fantastic! i could go for a real rick wakeman set up XD Sadly i missed the whole era or all this creativiy (im 19) DAMN! xD
And by the way Tenderness is my last name and an Americanized version of the Irish O'Tindeness which was changed when my great great grandpa came to the US. And unless your screen name is your actual name "Limiting" is quite the appropriate moniker
I love how we were so fluffly an loved up in those days - first met Steve on a hillside at Stonehenge around '71 or '72 - everyone jammed and Hawkwind used to play all night long - and Steve, totally un-bread-head - undersold and under-rated except by the lucky ones who've listened, dreamed, believed... Love ya man, how rich the world because you are!...
Beautiful, just beautiful. The man's a genius. Period. I've watched gigs for the last 35 years, and this guy's (at Manchester in '76) was the best EVER.
The guitar solo is mainlining straight from heaven... :-)))))))))))
Gong, Steve Hillage, Henry Cow, Hatfield and the North, the Fugs, all that early hippie anarchist music is still sweet and powerful today. Love it. SH is a huge innovator.
Don't forget National Health.
Remember meeting Steve at a Gong gig. He took me back stage to meet my hero at the time, Chris Cutler. What a nice guy! Never forgotten that, nearly 45 years ago!
Just one of the greatest British guitarists ever.
Oh man, totally cool Hillage clip at his best! I had the best time meeting him and charming galpal Miquette at a Utopia concert in 1977. We got up in the VIP section and they were very cordial, 2 great and LOVELY people. Steve always played out his heart for the fans and was sort of overshadowed by other hot players, unfortunately. His message was of peace, it's sad that more people here could not relate to him and his music. It would be a better world for sure!
Thanks for the post!
I saw Hillage during this period. His brand of funk prog has never been bettered... maybe Neverland came close. 2.59 is when you enter heaven. It once brought me to tears. Love those slushy synths and the driving drums and bass. Classic.
This is a much loved clip, and takes me back further than I'd like to remember. I dug my vinyl out just before Christmas and Live Herald was one of the first back on the table!
I saw Steve Hillage in Paris in 1976 and it was awesome! This really brings back memories!
Bloody hell, that's nice. Living the dream I lived in the 60s 70s!!
Steve is one of the most underrated musicians around - i've seen many a guitarist try to emulate Steve's style in the studio and on stage.......his sound and style is unmistakable
Tristan Smyth no he isn't. His fans (the only ones that matter) know he is the greatest.
@@pressureworks That's my point, Steve deserves more accolades not just from his fan base.
Tristan Smyth The people who dig him are all that matters. The rest can go back to their strip malls, where values are king, and listen to the rubbish music that is churned out on a regular basis
Steve used to play at the outdoor music festivals in France when I lived there in the 1970s. Some great times!
I saw Steve in Chicago, Uptown Theater in early 1977. The guy was F***ing great! He was the warm up act for Electric Light Orchestra. Just an awesome concert.
This is awesome. I have long searched for Hillage videos and finally got it! I was into his music nearly 30 years ago and have seen him play for the first time today. If I could show this to the me 30 years ago, he would faint in excitement.
how can you not love this solo????
I can't believe i'm hearing this for the first time.
This is so awesome.
Love how blissed out SH always is. What a bloke
Fantastic memories of the late 70's. Superb thanks for posting.
i was born in 95, but one can see those were some weird, different times! :)
LONG LIVE PROG ROCK!!!
This is not prog rock😎Great track
Freue mich tierisch, diesen Mann am 11.10.2009 in Oldenburg live zu sehen!!! Absolut tolle Rockmusik!!
Jesus with an electric guitar - sweet! :-) Ah, miss those days when life was so much hipper and happier!
Mr. Hillage is a fantastic musician!
he blew me away in manchester'77...still worked now!!!...great to see
seen him do this live with the Scottish National Orchestra amazing, (he was guesting doing tubular bells) can' remember the year, had a good chat with Steve and his good lady.
Fantastic.This and 'It's All Too Much' brings back happy memories of the seventies.Apart from brilliant versions by Hillage, I was blown away at the time that he played these covers by two guys that deeply influenced my direction in life.Thanks Steve, Donovan and George.
P.S Liked the Rhuthun connection below!
Saw him live a couple of times in the 70's... Just brilliant to experience...
Always loved Steve's guitar playing! Hope to see him next week in Glastonbury, playing Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells on 30th June!
This is from a Rockpalast television program in Germany. I had a copy of this entire performance at one point, no longer can locate it & I hope that it makes DVD some day.
Love it. Brings back so many memories.
If you look in the background during keyboard shots you can see a reel-to-reel tape deck!
Antiques Road Show!
This is the first album I ever listened to STONED. (1978)
Cette version améliore notablement l'original de Donovan... Le batteur est un peu "bourrin" mais efficace. Onsent quand même ses limites techniques sur la partie rapide du morceau... Steve a travaillé avec un batteur black au style plus "funk-jazz" dont je ne me souviens plus du nom. Se reporter au "Live Herald" sorti en 1977-78. Christian Boulé, à la rythmique assure un travail considérable et, toujours, ce son unique, à fleur de peau, de Steve. Merci pour cette vidéo!!
I feel high just listening to this again.
And I feel like listening to it again...high.
Wow Steve Hillage!!! This is amazing....
wow this is just great ... can't find the words. this guy rocks so hard!
steve hillage is still one of my favs
melodic, seaching,so well ochastated it can be over welming. I only wish peaple could take from this and continue on.
Genius all the way and still rocking with the babies of the rave scenes (me)
Songs from my youth. Seen him play so many times over the years.
Saw him play in a barn on worthy farm the night before the festival started sometime in the late seventies.
Turned up on stage with Sham69 - reading78 too. :)
His most viewed video on YT. It's hard to believe how little known the fellow is. I was lucky enough to have some older hipsters introduce me to his music back in the eighties when I lived in England. I'd have probably never have heard of him otherwise. Always a good vibe from his music (-:
saw them with gong in amsterdam
hillage usualy goes with an euphoric laugh spreading till way beyond of his ears
Dude! Hillage! sweeet!
I liked his stuff in Gong!
At Glastonbury '79 i helped a man chop wood for his fire who said he was a drummer for Steve Hillage,it was outside his ti-pi,well he said it was his,I had no reason not to believe him and i would have helped chop him chop his fire wood whoever he was,Drummer for Mr Hillage or not.
The drummer here is Mr Clive Bunker former founding member of Jethro Tull
Steve is amazing there's just no doubt about it...
Just got into steve hillages solo work; and im damn glad i did
Im going to see him live in november, Can't wait ^^
Good to see this again
I knew it! I knew it!. Jesus played a Gibson Les Paul. All those pictures of him playing a Fender Strat are of the devil.
+Al Kroboth lmao my thoughts exactly
vade retro satanas.Fender is the key of the garden of Eden
Music magic.You made a joke two years ago and I laugh today in Argentina
Don't you blaspheme!
@@mikejaz2 lol if only all guitarists were steve hilllage :)
Brilliant player,saw him at The Kursaal in Southend on sea Essex,and as one of the supporting artists to Queen in Hyde Park !!!
this is why i love the 70s ! superb guitarist :)
Loved him back in the day. I probably have an album of his in the loft somewhere, God in a Wooly Hat.
Buy the DVD. You get the CD as well. Steve, you're still up there with the greats!
Funny I dug out "L" the other day. Not heard it for years. Takes me back to seeing our Steve at the Palace Manchester on this tour and then about 6 times after that. Always great. I just think that L was a bit Todd Rundgren - like all things Todd if he produces,it always sounds like Utopia - well they were the backing band for that album. I think I still have Leylines To Glassdom which was on the seat in the theatre on the Motivation Radio tour - or it may have been Green? Anyone confirm that?
@mfactor88 It's Clive Bunker (ex Jethro Tull drummer) on drums...
If I remember right, Donovan liked the studio on L. Steve was a good guitarist for his time and the studio stuff is a trip. Donovan's original version was excellent. I remembah.
Brilliant - and your evident pleasure was a pleasure to watch
Steve & Miquette Giraudy great combination....just chill & enjoy
Back in the day... wow.. brilliant...
Like Peter Haycock one of the most underrated guitarists. This is fantastic but Steve's lead on the original studio version of this song is one of the best guitar solos of all time
I fully agree
Superb guitar chorus, Hendrix level ...
It was in Essen called "Grugahalle" - a greatfull "Rockpalast- Night"
So many heart players. Drums, Synth sounding out, base snuck in perfectly
Pure nostalgia... reminds me of who i used to be if i had hair i would grow it again :-)
Excellent!!!
one of the most original artists EVER! heard him all my life,first time ive seen him though.people are right,he is does lool like jesus with a guitar but i think hes GOD with a guitar!!!
great version. love this.
Very cool! I'd never even heard of this guy.
Psychedelic music is best! Hillage is a great contributor of Psychedelia.
I had one of his albums, man Gotta find it.
It was green(the LP) and had a fish on th ecover
Saw him at the kursaal in southend,and with queen at the hyde park festival they headlined around 76
Fantastic
I was at Deeply Vale in 78 and to me he was Jesus.Still is I think.Jim.Liverpool.
Saw Mr Hillage with band & Shakti Yoni at Leith town Hall in 197-something or other, an at Kelvin Hall with Royal Scottish national orchestra a coupla years before (doing "Tubular Bells" by Oldfield).
If the Stones 197? at Wembley were the greatest band I ever saw (NO contest!) then Steve Hillage - Gong - Rory Gallagher - Sensational Alex Harvey Band & Incredible String Band were not far behind.
GREAT guitarist.
Nice guy
Lol, I love it when 2.30 into the song, when it's freakin obvious what it is, a caption saying Hurdy Gurdy Man comes up on screen! hahahaha :) I'm going to get my vinyl back out.
Great playing! he´s got the late '60s Peter Green look! cool
Let me tell you this isn't even agood recording of this song,and it's still great.
I have loved Hillage's work since the mid 70's, and it still is really amazing guitar wanking.
Yeah - Jaysus with the Roly Poly Man - what a combination! Love the way Jesus really feels those notes - and how they all take the song soooooo seriously! Christ! Lush solo at the end - and love Jesus' watch too...
His solos on You got me to start using my pinky which wasn't necessary since I'd been 'Blues scale' only prior to that release in the 70s.LOL.
Mr Hillside-Village keeps his pinky in the "have-a-cuppa" position relentlessly! No I dig the photo on the back of 'Fish Rising' framing the neglected phalanges...The DVD he released last year is so effin' cool-especially the interview that's tacked on the end. Mike Howlett looks beatific playing the old grooves and it was months before he would croakRIP
Listening back, have to say - that drummer is the mst un-rock-steady I've ever heard - and testament to the skill, attunement and sheer virtuosity of the band members who manage to stay with him on his frenetic cascade through to the end of the song!!! Some pretty wild moments there!
Also would like to point out that the recording was not up to today's standards. Many folk have no idea how much it's evolved - and that live performances were the hardest to record then. Fabulous gig that was!
what an artist
I have always loved Steve's touch
Donavan would be proud
crickey, I haven't heard this for about 48 years!
the one with the fish on the front is "Fish Rising" an earlier album than "green". Hillage rocks and will rock me to my grave.
Excellent guitar!
Before Punk happened, real musicianship and virtuosity was respected. Hillage is a musician’s musician. Those who are familiar with him put him up there with any guitar legend you’d care to name: Hendrix Vai, Van Halen, Page, Bonamassa, Emmanuel, whatever! Just watch those fingers!!!
I must smile when i see Jesus plays the solo :)
Fantastic band!
great sound /great times
Hey, I assumed that's what you meant :) Listening to the rest of your songs now - many thanks
jimmythecreep - you have clearly received divine reveleation into the true identity of Hillage. We await your other Scriptures in awe and wonder - that you may speak of radio gnomes, electric camembert and flying teapots, and other wonders and mysteries too....
love it
hurdy gurdy man ,is a trippy song to begin .but steve takes
it through another door,
brubeck_108 what do you mean? This sounds god awful
@@Woger_Rilliams we listening to the same track bruh???
I thought that was Colin! Amazing, and I always really loved Clive Bunker's playing on records like "Stand Up" and "Benefit."
And who's that hot girl keyboardist? jeez louis!
miquette giraudy
nice rendition...loved the intro
i was at deeply vale so long ago in a tepee!
magnificent!
@Biggins363 yes he does, you would be amazed watching him live is a major treat.
I'd go along with that... saw SH in '77ish on the Motivation Radio tour - great album, great live set. Had never heard of him before that gig (was he ever on OGWT? Certainly never on TOTP!) and bought the ticket because the poster had this guy holding the coolest Fender Stat I had ever seen. Great gig, so many joints being smoked in the theatre everybody got stoned!
super...
This song was used in the trailer for the series Britannia.
I love him!!
wow. to be honest i first heard this song because of the cover "neil" from the young ones. i like this. i love them on keyboards. i really wish i had a mini moog and all those old keyboards they were fantastic! i could go for a real rick wakeman set up XD
Sadly i missed the whole era or all this creativiy (im 19) DAMN! xD
And by the way Tenderness is my last name and an Americanized version of the Irish O'Tindeness which was changed when my great great grandpa came to the US. And unless your screen name is your actual name "Limiting" is quite the appropriate moniker