Mike Oldfield, the seemly forgotten genious progressive musician, who never appears in all those rankings. But he has every right to be mentioned in one line with Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and few hands full of other masters of Progressive Rock.
I had a feeling of accomplishment yesterday whilst taking my two kids (13 & 16 y/o) to band practice. My daughter selected tubular bells to listen to for the journey with my sons instant approval. My work as a parent just reached new heights.
That's great! I know every generation has said this but what most of the kids listen to now a days is some real crap. It's good to know there are parents cultivating the 'finer' tastes in music in their offspring :)
@@Pow3llMorgan You must be "old"... that's OK... I'm getting there myself... ;-) For juxtaposition, when Jazz as a music genre was up and coming, it was often likened as "the devil's music." Now... it's often seen as "old people's music." A hilarious contrast with the benefit of time. But yes, every generation thinks the music they grew up on is the zenith of the art form.
It keeps on being brought fourth but in different ways. New styles. Do we need a new Mike Oldfield or Kate Bush or Mark Knopfer, to name some Brits? They're already out there doing their genuine own thing, but less noticeable to those who know the former.
While I was waiting to hear Mike Oldfield perform this at the Macroom Mountain Festival in the late 1970s, I watched some crazy roady climb up into the scaffolding with a beer, and sit there above the Dubliners while he drank it. Then the poor bastard had to climb down and set up all the instruments for Mike O all by himself. I was unhappy that the big star was having this poor grunt do all that set up alone. Of course, the crazy roady turned to be the Man himself! An awesome performance even before a note was played!
@@hughmcnamara7697 That weekend Macroom ran out of off-license beer, and people wandered around with bottles of wine they couldn't open. I had a corkscrew on my swiss army knife, so any time I wanted a drink, I just had to hold the corkscrew in the air! People lined up to get their bottles opened, and I got first swig. But I don't remember where we slept - I think we just slept outside in sleeping bags. Ah to be young.
Mike Oldfield, genius at work. For me, the greatest guitarist/composer, he doesn't get enough credit either, easily one of the greatest guitarists ever, and a shame he is so underappreciated.
Oldfield, Jarre, Vangelis, Faltermeyer, Hancock, even Kraftwerk etc don't get enough credit. 'The Songs of Distant Earth' is one of my favourite albums.
Mike Oldfield a composé cette chanson étant encore un adolescent et il l'a enregistré en solo , c'est à dire que lui-même a joué absolument tous les instruments 😮😮😮 C'est un vrai génie 🎉🎉 Depuis Tanger en Afrique du Nord , je vous remercie ❤❤
Brilliant guitar work by Mike. He feels every note he plays. You don't just listen to his music, you find yourself being fully immersed in it, as Mike does when he is performing. He may be underrated and in some cases doesn't even feature in top 50 guitar lists, but he is highly rated by those who truly appreciate his music. There isn't a particular genre his music fits in.....Mike Oldfield music is a genre!
Le mec qui m’a donné l’envie d’être musicien et pas seulement guitariste ! Malgré les chaos de la vie j’ai toujours 15 ans dans mes 55 ans car sans passion je serai déjà près des étoiles , près des miens et de mon ami ! Merci 🙏 la musique te rend ce que tu lui donnes
I was 9 years old, 1980, living in Northland NZ, no electricity, a battery powered tape deck and tubular bells was the only tape i had, used to play it at night and went to sleep with it every night.
DAMN this is some complex music -- and Oldfield wrote every note, arranged every bar, played every instrument in the studio album. Why I owned Tubular Bells and Ommadawn. There's just nothing out there like it. Wanna see truly PROGRESSIVE rock, this is it.
That was a great era for music with all these bands playing a mix of written music and improvisation, Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Soft Machine. Much more interesting that straight 4/4 rock with three chords. But by the same time, all the Miles Davis sidemen formed their own jazz-rock bands, Return to forever (Corea), Mahavishnu Orchestra (McLaughlin), Weather Report (Shorter/Zawinul), Getaway (DeJohnette), that was really interesting music. In 1980, a young musician started a band, the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny has never stopped to compose since, and wrote a lot of tunes, often suites. Incredible guitarist. Try these bands if you love music.
@@ofdrumsandchords ce que tu appelles "straight 4/4 rock with chords", était une réaction, le punk sera encore plus radical en réaction à l'embourgeoisement de ces vieilles stars du rock/psyché/progressive etc. de 60 début 70, que dire du blues ? tu ne peux pas juger une musique au nombre d'accords ou à la complexité de sa structure, c'est absurde! A mon sens, plus une musique est élaborée, moins elle touche de monde. Mais ça ne veut pas dire qu'elle est moins"intéressante."
@@gillesbourgeois5348 j'ai un point de vue de musicien pro, ce n'est pas du tout ici un argument d'autorité, mais quand tu as énormément étudié la musique, t'as un peu de mal à t'intéresser à des chansons où t'as déjà tout entendu au bout de dix secondes. Tu parles de réaction à l'embourgeoisement, on a eu ça aussi avec le free jazz, qui était plus politique que musical. Pour moi, les artistes sont ceux qui font évoluer le langage en apportant des choses nouvelles. Comme la plupart des musiciens de jazz, j'ai une formation classique, et je suis fan de Bach ou de Stravinsky. Tous les grands musiciens classiques ou jazz ont intégré ce qui existait et l'ont poussé plus loin. Donc, on peut difficilement faire abstraction du langage utilisé quand on parle d'art musical. Le rock, c'est le langage du XVIIe siècle joué avec des grattes électriques.
@@ofdrumsandchords merci pour ces réponses super impliquées et simplement pour ta considération. Je pense que la difficulté chez les jazzmen avec leur bagages théorique et technique c'est de retrouver l'innocence du débutant quand il s'agit de créer et d' émouvoir. Le rap permet à des non musiciens de s'exprimer, et c'est pas rien, le problème sera toujours l'intention, pourquoi joue t-on de la musique ou pourquoi jettons-nous nos textes sur des machines. ..
L'intention si elle est honnête et sincère est toujours valable artistiquement,disons: considérable; et je considère quand même que la virtuosité est un piège.
The human brain never fails to amaze me and I am convinced that accomplished musicians abe a cut above us ordinary plebs as they can cordinate their fingers and recall from memory every note in the correct sequence in real time, I will always in in Awe and Mike Oldfield is something extra special
2024: WoW. That was so long ago. So Sweetly Done By All. Beautiful Playing. Always Loved This. I'm so glad that I found this video. Stunning, Remarkable. Thank You.
Mike’s playing is amazing. The sheer creative talent is insane. Listening to this you’re hearing the bridge between classical and even some modern dance music but I don’t think even today, 50 years on, anyone comes close
The bass guitar part is so important in this piece and is so nicely executed during the live. Congratulations to Mike Oldfield, the musicians, and especially the bassist!
I was at this performance, the only time I have been to the MJF, magical Switzerland! I had seen him the previous Summer in Cardiff. What a wonderful piece of music it is
Brings me all the way back to Oct 74. The place catterick Yorkshire The job Army Air Corps recruit. Long before personal music so listened in the time after finishing training. Kept me going through the dark lonely nights away from home, and the inevitable Dear John letter etc. Was still loving it 5 months later when I was posted to Southern England then West Germany. By this time as I was posted for 3 years bought myself a proper hi FI set up and it sounded so much better. Still love it now
@@peterdockerty8077 Hi Peter.. can’t remember my intake number but we started training Oct/Nov time in 74. The 4th Tanks where the training Reg. we had a cpl called Smith, then they moved to BAOR and the 5th Skins took over
Yeah Intake 74/13 training with the Jocks I was with 1st Royal Tanks trained by the 4th. Basic at Catterick before Bovingdon and Tidworth for trade training and flying straight off to Hong Kong for 18 months holiday. Happy days
@@peterdockerty8077 Lucky you. We all in the AAC could put down for what posting we preferred. We all ended up in BAOR on exercise every few months No matter what we had put down lol
El Exorcista es la película que más me ha inquietado desde antes de verla y al entrar a la sala: Gran experiencia; fascinado por la música, desde entonces es uno de mis grandes temas favoritos. Ahora, en octubre 2024, estoy disfrutando al máximo este video ¡Gracias!
Absolutely no idea why this came up in my recommendations but I loved this album as a kid, just like everyone else. Thank you for this. Masterpiece, both studio and this live version.
What a fantastic piece of music. Mike Oldfield plays the guitar with such passion and commitment. Simply by listening to him play and watching him engage with the superb musicians around him takes you to another dimension. This is real music to be enjoyed by all.
Me too/ he takes me back and the girl singing is mine just with blond hair and Jutta is her name. Same girl, same dress all the same just different hair. Mike Oldfield very special! Much love from Germany.
I heard it then. I heard it beneath a desert sky at 2 am beneath stars and winter cloud As I returned home a neighbouring girl was playing it on a new cd machine. It blew my mind.
Simply the best guitarist of all time and the best multi instrumentalist that humanity has given us. He is a brilliant composer, producer, sound technician, masterer and everything that has to do with making, recording, composing and playing music.
An incredible performance from a guitarist who is remarkably overlooked. As even EVH once said. " Mike O makes me want to practice harder". When the greatest of all time says things like this you take notice.
Genius. Was ten years old when I discovered Tubular Bells in 1979. Been a massive Oldfield fan ever since.This is a great performance. One of my faves of the many live versions of TB.
QE2 was the first album I ever bought; then I discovered Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Crises etc. This man is a creative and musical MASTER. This is the FIRST time I've seen something of his live. LOVE IT! In an age of musical biopics, Mike Oldfield deserves his own mini-series.
I first heard this album when I was 13yo. I have never forgotten it or where I was at the time! Amazing how music can invoke so much emotion and memory.
Amazing, I heard the album as a teen when it came out and was blown away. I had never seen his right hand technique till this video. I' m proper gobsmacked, if there's anyone I could compare him to it might be Jeff Beck tone wise. Unreal performance.
I remember Mike playing Tubular himself on the Midnight Special superimposed onscreen with overdubbing one instrument at a time...those were the days, my friends 🧡
I'm 46 and Tubular Bells helped so much in my teens with depression, isolation, feeling like I didn't fit in, being an outsider etc. Years later I find out that he was feeling the same in his teens and this music saved him. You're gonna love his stuff.
2:39 my favourite part, why? That Bloody Guitar, the Drums the Chorist, everything Is Simply Amazing, An Underrated Genius. Greetings from Italy.👏🏻👏🏻🇮🇹
Wow wow wow Can you imagine any musician these days doing this. LMFAO. MIKE you are pure genius In every sense of the word You were a major part of the building blocks of today's music However as everyone knows today's music is a farce of 4 chord crap Mike your music is immortal Pure pure pure pure pure pure genius Which makes students really listen and consentrate One last thing I listen to you and it seems like you've been playing guitar for a hundred years 😁💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💛💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚❤️
having been in front of the stage during that concert, I'm sure he wouldn't have disappointed us at all. I was 13 years old and in a country-side village where it was inconceivable to let a child go at that age to such a concert in Montreaux... a different time... So I used to consume my tapes recorded directly on my portable radio-tape recorder. I have never enough of listening-watching the videos of Mike Oldfield's concerts in the '80's. It's a real myth
What are they doing with those instruments - playing them?!? Where is the sampling? Where are the dance moves? Where is the stadium light show? Is this really how people used to be entertained - with artists actually focused on playing the music? What a novel concept.
OMG WOW FUKN BEAUTIFUL. It's been years. Fell in luv with this around 50 years ago, i was 13 at the time. I love how high he takes me 🕊...and how gentle he brings me back down🙌🧘✨
Tubular Bells was a defining moment in defining my musical direction. In a six week period I was exposed to Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon", "Fragile" by Yes and in a music lesson at school this iconic track. So it's been with me since the beginning of my Progressive Journey. Only just come across this version which I'm completely blown away by. Stunning musicianship across the whole band. BTW seen Rick Fenn play many times with 10CC but didn't know he played with Mike Oldfield until now.
Mike Oldfield, the seemly forgotten genious progressive musician, who never appears in all those rankings.
But he has every right to be mentioned in one line with Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and few hands full of other masters of Progressive Rock.
Forgotten? Yeah okay boomer
well said
You left out Frank Zappa..........but then again you foking knowitalls always do!
@@zapkvr that made me laugh
Sem dúvida meu caro
I had a feeling of accomplishment yesterday whilst taking my two kids (13 & 16 y/o) to band practice. My daughter selected tubular bells to listen to for the journey with my sons instant approval. My work as a parent just reached new heights.
awesome
That's great! I know every generation has said this but what most of the kids listen to now a days is some real crap. It's good to know there are parents cultivating the 'finer' tastes in music in their offspring :)
Great stuff. Play them 'Wish you were here' album by Pink Floyd next
Well not my son but my nephew(10) is really likes this music. Is introducing him to Al Di Meola, Vai & Keith Jarrett too hardcore, too fast?
@@Pow3llMorgan You must be "old"... that's OK... I'm getting there myself... ;-) For juxtaposition, when Jazz as a music genre was up and coming, it was often likened as "the devil's music." Now... it's often seen as "old people's music." A hilarious contrast with the benefit of time. But yes, every generation thinks the music they grew up on is the zenith of the art form.
This type of genius will never be repeated. The 70's and 80's will live as the best music ever developed.
It keeps on being brought fourth but in different ways. New styles.
Do we need a new Mike Oldfield or Kate Bush or Mark Knopfer, to name some Brits? They're already out there doing their genuine own thing, but less noticeable to those who know the former.
I agree . . . Just put the start date back in 60’s too. 😉
AMEN. and AMEN
Then there's Tuomas Holopainen and Nightwish
And we lived through it. Wonderful!
While I was waiting to hear Mike Oldfield perform this at the Macroom Mountain Festival in the late 1970s, I watched some crazy roady climb up into the scaffolding with a beer, and sit there above the Dubliners while he drank it. Then the poor bastard had to climb down and set up all the instruments for Mike O all by himself. I was unhappy that the big star was having this poor grunt do all that set up alone. Of course, the crazy roady turned to be the Man himself! An awesome performance even before a note was played!
I was there great memories 😅
Wow, I thought you were going to say you helped him set it up. "And now you know the rest of the story" is just so much cooler.
Brilliant story matey, a perfect example of just how dedicated he is to his art
Gut so, der arme Kerl lernte daraus❤
@@hughmcnamara7697 That weekend Macroom ran out of off-license beer, and people wandered around with bottles of wine they couldn't open. I had a corkscrew on my swiss army knife, so any time I wanted a drink, I just had to hold the corkscrew in the air! People lined up to get their bottles opened, and I got first swig. But I don't remember where we slept - I think we just slept outside in sleeping bags. Ah to be young.
My first "western" vinyl ever. In the early 80's in communist Poland it was an absolute rarity. A place forever in my heart guaranteed.
Greetings from Alabama USA.
Music! A universal language!!!
In America we love this too.
not bad start for western imperialistic music, not bad at all
Mike Oldfield, genius at work. For me, the greatest guitarist/composer, he doesn't get enough credit either, easily one of the greatest guitarists ever, and a shame he is so underappreciated.
Oldfield, Jarre, Vangelis, Faltermeyer, Hancock, even Kraftwerk etc don't get enough credit.
'The Songs of Distant Earth' is one of my favourite albums.
reminds me of Steve Hackett in the early Genesis days!
I don't agree. Echoes 88.5 FM plays alot of his music.
Kraftwerk was featured on 88.5 this past week. Big interview plus the music
Mike Oldfield a composé cette chanson étant encore un adolescent et il l'a enregistré en solo , c'est à dire que lui-même a joué absolument tous les instruments 😮😮😮
C'est un vrai génie 🎉🎉
Depuis Tanger en Afrique du Nord , je vous remercie ❤❤
He plays the guitar like a bloody keyboard. What a legend.
Brilliant guitar work by Mike. He feels every note he plays. You don't just listen to his music, you find yourself being fully immersed in it, as Mike does when he is performing. He may be underrated and in some cases doesn't even feature in top 50 guitar lists, but he is highly rated by those who truly appreciate his music. There isn't a particular genre his music fits in.....Mike Oldfield music is a genre!
Le mec qui m’a donné l’envie d’être musicien et pas seulement guitariste !
Malgré les chaos de la vie j’ai toujours 15 ans dans mes 55 ans car sans passion je serai déjà près des étoiles , près des miens et de mon ami !
Merci 🙏 la musique te rend ce que tu lui donnes
I was 9 years old, 1980, living in Northland NZ, no electricity, a battery powered tape deck and tubular bells was the only tape i had, used to play it at night and went to sleep with it every night.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Sweet! Thanks for sharing. What a great memory!
Respect!
yeah we had a cassette of this too but it got MINCED when I was about 6!
in Panguru or Pawarenga ?
DAMN this is some complex music -- and Oldfield wrote every note, arranged every bar, played every instrument in the studio album. Why I owned Tubular Bells and Ommadawn. There's just nothing out there like it. Wanna see truly PROGRESSIVE rock, this is it.
That was a great era for music with all these bands playing a mix of written music and improvisation, Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Soft Machine. Much more interesting that straight 4/4 rock with three chords.
But by the same time, all the Miles Davis sidemen formed their own jazz-rock bands, Return to forever (Corea), Mahavishnu Orchestra (McLaughlin), Weather Report (Shorter/Zawinul), Getaway (DeJohnette), that was really interesting music. In 1980, a young musician started a band, the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny has never stopped to compose since, and wrote a lot of tunes, often suites. Incredible guitarist.
Try these bands if you love music.
@@ofdrumsandchords ce que tu appelles "straight 4/4 rock with chords", était une réaction, le punk sera encore plus radical en réaction à l'embourgeoisement de ces vieilles stars du rock/psyché/progressive etc. de 60 début 70, que dire du blues ? tu ne peux pas juger une musique au nombre d'accords ou à la complexité de sa structure, c'est absurde! A mon sens, plus une musique est élaborée, moins elle touche de monde. Mais ça ne veut pas dire qu'elle est moins"intéressante."
@@gillesbourgeois5348 j'ai un point de vue de musicien pro, ce n'est pas du tout ici un argument d'autorité, mais quand tu as énormément étudié la musique, t'as un peu de mal à t'intéresser à des chansons où t'as déjà tout entendu au bout de dix secondes.
Tu parles de réaction à l'embourgeoisement, on a eu ça aussi avec le free jazz, qui était plus politique que musical.
Pour moi, les artistes sont ceux qui font évoluer le langage en apportant des choses nouvelles. Comme la plupart des musiciens de jazz, j'ai une formation classique, et je suis fan de Bach ou de Stravinsky. Tous les grands musiciens classiques ou jazz ont intégré ce qui existait et l'ont poussé plus loin.
Donc, on peut difficilement faire abstraction du langage utilisé quand on parle d'art musical. Le rock, c'est le langage du XVIIe siècle joué avec des grattes électriques.
@@ofdrumsandchords merci pour ces réponses super impliquées et simplement pour ta considération. Je pense que la difficulté chez les jazzmen avec leur bagages théorique et technique c'est de retrouver l'innocence du débutant quand il s'agit de créer et d' émouvoir. Le rap permet à des non musiciens de s'exprimer, et c'est pas rien, le problème sera toujours l'intention, pourquoi joue t-on de la musique ou pourquoi jettons-nous nos textes sur des machines. ..
L'intention si elle est honnête et sincère est toujours valable artistiquement,disons: considérable; et je considère quand même que la virtuosité est un piège.
Absolutely incredible. 100 years from now people will still marvel at Oldfield's genius.
The human brain never fails to amaze me and I am convinced that accomplished musicians abe a cut above us ordinary plebs as they can cordinate their fingers and recall from memory every note in the correct sequence in real time, I will always in in Awe and Mike Oldfield is something extra special
What a Performance from Mike. The Band is on fire. Best Tubular bells Version.
True1! Unreal! I will listen to it again right now and then some, So much to feel.
Beautiful guitar playing and that thumping bass line, hypnotic, well done Mike, a truly underated musician.
Tubular Bells was the first album that i buyed. 50 years later i'm still a huge fan of Mike Oldfield. :)
Mike Oldfield - guitar
Morris Pert - drums
Rick Fenn - guitar / bass
Tim Cross - keyboards
Mike Frye - percussion
Maggie Reilly - vocals
Thanks
God Maggie is stunning. Gorgeous AND the voice of an angel. Yummo.......!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍
This is for this stage session. About the album, every instrument was played and recorded by Mike alone with a rudimentary overdub.
For a moment I thought Fenn was Darryl Struemer (sp?) of Phil Collins/Genesis fame...
@@clivehatton4001 all yours Clive
I was 14, I'm 65 and this was epic. Then and now.
I was 13, now 64, and I concur.
Me to isn't it so cool, it's timeless.
Salut sirs!
I had never realised just how melodic this composition was until I heard it again today for the first time in over 30 years. Timeless classy work.
Why am I discovering this only now ?? This version is amazing !!!
Most people never get past the opening notes, but if you listen to the whole composition you get the full genius of the music.
What a performance.. No effect, fire, lasers... just pure music.... awesome.
Why not? Mike takes laser beams off his guitar. the band puts many full8hd effects
It’s a Troll “Like” comment for Ratings. You know, the same tired No Cell Phones in the audience type garbage....
That guitar playing....
A true classic from the 20th Century!
2024: WoW. That was so long ago. So Sweetly Done By All. Beautiful Playing. Always Loved This. I'm so glad that I found this video. Stunning, Remarkable. Thank You.
Mike’s playing is amazing. The sheer creative talent is insane. Listening to this you’re hearing the bridge between classical and even some modern dance music but I don’t think even today, 50 years on, anyone comes close
The bass guitar part is so important in this piece and is so nicely executed during the live.
Congratulations to Mike Oldfield, the musicians, and especially the bassist!
This is the best bass intro then i cant listen to oldfield guitar...
He's like a machine, isn't he? Just relentless and omnipresent executing his job to perfection, over and over again with no fuss at all.
The best bass I've ever heard in my life
maybe the best bass intro of all time!
A little spotty - You can hear Oldfield drag him along perfectly once he starts playing…
Real genius and he was 19 years old or less when he created this beautiful masterpiece! I am really impressed to watch him perform! Great video❤
Only 19?????!!!!!
Started on the concept when he was 14
So great ,are sure ,19 ,popopopppp😮
This is unknown by most of people today ... and should be when comparing to soup they call music now !
@@phil84220 SOUP?? You are being polite!! 🤣
Mike Oldfield is a seriously under-rated guitar player...this performance is magical
Indeed
Yep.
HE'S "POSSESED".🎆🎇🙏🎇🎆
THEN AN EXORCISM TOOK PLACE ..
MIKE OLDENFIELD WAS NO LONGER STRICKEN WITH AGORAPHOBIA....
IN ONE MAGICAL MEDITATION SESSION
He’s an everything player really
He's no Glen Campbell. That guy is a freaking machine.
4:10 - 4:44, Goosebumps every time.
One of the most beautiful pieces of guitar music of all time in my opinion.
Gregory i agree it's a piece of art..as the whole song..the first time i took ecstasy was listening tubular bells..unique experience.
I'm 62 old rockandroll guy and I remember this from way back, beautiful music.
I was at this performance, the only time I have been to the MJF, magical Switzerland! I had seen him the previous Summer in Cardiff. What a wonderful piece of music it is
The composer's divinely beautiful masterpiece. Deep respect!!
Brings me all the way back to Oct 74. The place catterick Yorkshire The job Army Air Corps recruit. Long before personal music so listened in the time after finishing training. Kept me going through the dark lonely nights away from home, and the inevitable Dear John letter etc. Was still loving it 5 months later when I was posted to Southern England then West Germany. By this time as I was posted for 3 years bought myself a proper hi FI set up and it sounded so much better. Still love it now
I was in Catterick at the exact same time doing basic training with the Royal Armoured Corps, small world.
@@peterdockerty8077
Hi Peter.. can’t remember my intake number but we started training Oct/Nov time in 74. The 4th Tanks where the training Reg. we had a cpl called Smith, then they moved to BAOR and the 5th Skins took over
Yeah Intake 74/13 training with the Jocks I was with 1st Royal Tanks trained by the 4th. Basic at Catterick before Bovingdon and Tidworth for trade training and flying straight off to Hong Kong for 18 months holiday. Happy days
@@peterdockerty8077
Lucky you. We all in the AAC could put down for what posting we preferred. We all ended up in BAOR on exercise every few months No matter what we had put down lol
El Exorcista es la película que más me ha inquietado desde antes de verla y al entrar a la sala: Gran experiencia; fascinado por la música, desde entonces es uno de mis grandes temas favoritos. Ahora, en octubre 2024, estoy disfrutando al máximo este video ¡Gracias!
Absolutely no idea why this came up in my recommendations but I loved this album as a kid, just like everyone else. Thank you for this. Masterpiece, both studio and this live version.
I had the LP as a youngster. Listened to it over and over
What a fantastic piece of music. Mike Oldfield plays the guitar with such passion and commitment. Simply by listening to him play and watching him engage with the superb musicians around him takes you to another dimension. This is real music to be enjoyed by all.
Man Yes!!!
chillin:chillout at wan jet and ever ad-hoc spontan {[( brain/audio for sale not possýbl : ýeaaaaaaa ! )]}:)🌐🌏🌎🌍
Me too/ he takes me back and the girl singing is mine just with blond hair and Jutta is her name. Same girl, same dress all the same just different hair. Mike Oldfield very special! Much love from Germany.
Discovered it in 1973..... and still loving it.....Anybody else from that era?
Oh yes! I would have been 19/20 years of age
I heard it then. I heard it beneath a desert sky at 2 am beneath stars and winter cloud
As I returned home a neighbouring girl was playing it on a new cd machine. It blew my mind.
I was 17 when it came out, and I bought it then, quickly followed by all the other early Virgin releases.
I actually heard the Viv “grand piano” part on KILT AM radio in Houston when it came out. I was in third grade and was stunned
I was 15 driving my first car , had tha 8 track
I never would have thought a band could pull this off live, but they did.
A real Musical Genius and an amazing guitar player
Still one of my all time favorite videos. It's a masterpiece.
What a talent, when Reilly just walks up and hits the notes, bloody brilliant!
and delightful as always
Genius ! Brilliant Musician...Great Composer And Multi-instrumentalist...Master ! Poland Love Mike Oldfield ;-)
a music masterpiece, that will stand in hundreds of years
Simply the best guitarist of all time and the best multi instrumentalist that humanity has given us. He is a brilliant composer, producer, sound technician, masterer and everything that has to do with making, recording, composing and playing music.
An incredible performance from a guitarist who is remarkably overlooked. As even EVH once said. " Mike O makes me want to practice harder". When the greatest of all time says things like this you take notice.
Source of the Van Halen quote?
@@joaquinlezcano2372 It's been years...
Genius. Was ten years old when I discovered Tubular Bells in 1979. Been a massive Oldfield fan ever since.This is a great performance. One of my faves of the many live versions of TB.
Real music & real musicians. Cant get any better. The music of today are not even close to this and never will
QE2 was the first album I ever bought; then I discovered Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Crises etc. This man is a creative and musical MASTER. This is the FIRST time I've seen something of his live. LOVE IT! In an age of musical biopics, Mike Oldfield deserves his own mini-series.
A timeless piece of music from a master of his profession
Just the mere fact this guy plays over 100 instruments is remarkable!
no he doesn’t
I first heard this album when I was 13yo. I have never forgotten it or where I was at the time! Amazing how music can invoke so much emotion and memory.
You and I both!
One year older(-;
This was fantastic! I remember loving /tubular Bells when it was released as a record...it's taken me decades to stumble upon this live show!
This is what music is like in heaven. Breath taking. Beautiful.
That's Bach..
On long walks, with my Sony Walkman, Tubular Bells kept me going. I knew every twist and turn, every bit that was coming next. Fabulous. Thanks Mike.
Amazing version here....I had not heard this in YEARS....what a talent....
an absolute genius , he played all the instruments by himself in his album, pure music.. no showmanship needed...
It really doesn't get much better than this. Amazing performance.
Mike Oldfeild. Was a different breed. He could play Any Instrument.. You don't get music like this Anymore....👌
Amazing, I heard the album as a teen when it came out and was blown away. I had never seen his right hand technique till this video. I' m proper gobsmacked, if there's anyone I could compare him to it might be Jeff Beck tone wise. Unreal performance.
I was there in 73 trying to find my way, I have made it to 71 and it is still so fine.
71 too still don't want to grow up.
Dude this was in 1981 though ...... maybe your really only 63 ?
@@jamesjordan139 The album was released in 1973. I we weren't referring to this particular concert.
@@neuromantoo 62 and can't believe it! Still a teenager inside! 😜
This was the first large scale use of the Moog stylizer filter concept across many instruments as a production release. Massive hit.
What an amazing guitar performance for Mike. I always liked his guitar playing, but here, it is magic, I love his tone, so fluid.
As a kid you are just struck by the music. Older you recognize why, it's pure genius.
I remember Mike playing Tubular himself on the Midnight Special superimposed onscreen with overdubbing one instrument at a time...those were the days, my friends 🧡
Im 41 and I've lived this long without knowing about this awesome guitarist!?!?! He is one of my new favorites !
There is a cosmos of amazing music waiting for you 😊 But I think this was his best time. Magic.
I'm 46 and Tubular Bells helped so much in my teens with depression, isolation, feeling like I didn't fit in, being an outsider etc. Years later I find out that he was feeling the same in his teens and this music saved him. You're gonna love his stuff.
One of the best pieces of music ever written and performed.
A magician on the guitar at such a young age. Truly amazing. Stunningly talented.
I've watched this at least two dozen times. Probably more. It still makes the hair stand up on my arms.
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. The tone of his guitar is immense.
check out his other music! Some even more wow.
This song is such a masterpiece! It's captivating, beautiful!
A monstrous piece of music from a such a demonstrative time. Absolutely wonderful!
A brilliant show, fantastic arrangement. And Maggies voice is so beautiful.
Maggie and Moya Brennan(Clannad) are my favorite female singers. I really can't choose one over the other.
I absolutely agree with you Eleanor; I so miss Maggie in Mike's later live performances.
His touch and vibrato on the guitar as if he was playing a violin.. Amazing!!
Mein erstes Konzert in Hamburg /Bremen 1982 einfach großartig!
Pierre Morleen, drums und Percussion..!!!
Already 38 years ago, and still a masterpiece.
This gig is still amazing, december 2019!
No
WHAT!!??!!!?
This IS pure Meditation, Like listening to a prayer
2:39 my favourite part, why? That Bloody Guitar, the Drums the Chorist, everything Is Simply Amazing, An Underrated Genius. Greetings from Italy.👏🏻👏🏻🇮🇹
i consider mike to be the 'best" guitarist/composer ever
that is true 👍
Wow wow wow
Can you imagine any musician these days doing this. LMFAO.
MIKE you are pure genius
In every sense of the word
You were a major part of the building blocks of today's music
However as everyone knows today's music is a farce of 4 chord crap
Mike your music is immortal
Pure pure pure pure pure pure genius
Which makes students really listen and consentrate
One last thing
I listen to you and it seems like you've been playing guitar for a hundred years
😁💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💛💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚❤️
There's still some great music out there, just about knowing where to look I guess
Umphreys McGee
They say never meet your heroes but I would love to meet mike oldfield just brilliant
having been in front of the stage during that concert, I'm sure he wouldn't have disappointed us at all.
I was 13 years old and in a country-side village where it was inconceivable to let a child go at that age to such a concert in Montreaux... a different time...
So I used to consume my tapes recorded directly on my portable radio-tape recorder. I have never enough of listening-watching the videos of Mike Oldfield's concerts in the '80's. It's a real myth
Masterpiece. I am 18 again.🏵🌺🌼
Richard Branson and virgin music have a lot to thank Mike oldfield for
in 2020 there is no more music like yours.
Mike you're the best ever !
Make us dream and travel by your melodies
This is one of the most incredible jams I've heard in my life
What are they doing with those instruments - playing them?!? Where is the sampling? Where are the dance moves? Where is the stadium light show? Is this really how people used to be entertained - with artists actually focused on playing the music? What a novel concept.
Also an infuriating lack of backup dancers. He at least needs a Bez or Flava Flav to round out the proceedings.
Knowings this was a one man project played by mike oldfield all the instruments alone
The Power Of Christ compels me to thumbs up this performance.
Mike is the nicest person you could meet. We drank together in Pimlico before he joined Kevin Ayres & the Whole World.
Hauntingly beautiful. Such an incredible composition.
OMG WOW FUKN BEAUTIFUL. It's been years.
Fell in luv with this around 50 years ago, i was 13 at the time.
I love how high he takes me 🕊...and how gentle he brings me back down🙌🧘✨
This is classic. I have always wanted to see Mike live. I hope he will tour again.
2023! And I'm still digging it. 🥰😍
Tubular Bells was a defining moment in defining my musical direction. In a six week period I was exposed to Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon", "Fragile" by Yes and in a music lesson at school this iconic track. So it's been with me since the beginning of my Progressive Journey. Only just come across this version which I'm completely blown away by. Stunning musicianship across the whole band. BTW seen Rick Fenn play many times with 10CC but didn't know he played with Mike Oldfield until now.
It made Branson a multi million air! Now Branson has become a sick destroyer of the most beautiful people of the world!
Explain . .
Wow ! Stumbled across this on You Tube for first time. Awesome.
The original Tubular Bells album was quad, as was my pioneer 200 watt stereo system. Man do I miss that stereo, wonder if my neighbors then do too?
He makes that guitar sounds like a violin, astonishing!
I am lucky that my friend Louis introduced me to Mike Oldfield in the 70th and still listening, thanks to Mike and my friend Louis!!!❤😂😅😊
Brought me into tears at the end...Won!derful!
I heard this masterpiece a lot in the 80'
Hearing now again ,.. good music never dies..