I have not heard this video until today and I agree, it is playing at the top of his game. I have seen other live clips of this group line-up playing and it certainly seems that they gelled well together and the music just flows.
Indeed. I've been watching this at half speed for about three days trying to work out what he's doing. Maintaining alternate picking at that speed for so long without one single mistake is awe inspiring. Then of course there's the great final solo...
@@kvothe6627 Flattered that you ask. :-) I'm pretty useless at tabbing. What I can say is that it's probably easier to learn this one just by watching and listening. Mostly arpeggios over three chords with just a few ornaments and trills thrown in. The only really hard thing is cross picking at that speed! :-D
Dude, I'm crying. I can't make sense of that about what a genius he is. All the motifs and songs are heavenly. Ive been listening to him since I was 5.
You are absolutely right. Or just some nerd sitting in his bunker, disliking cause its not HD 4k whatever. Ridicouless. There should be no dislike button for music ;)
That is some serious skill with the rythm guitar. Sounds and looks easy enough, but try it. Oldfield has, and is still, composing the soundtrack of my life.
This man is the most under appreciated British Artist of the last 50 years....He even did the Olympic Opening Ceremony playing a "Latin Christmas Carol" in July!!!!! He will never be truly appreciated by the wider public until he is gone, lucky we know better and can appreciate him while he is still with us.
he is HARDLY UNDERAPPRECIATED. He Created the theme to ''The Exorcist'' and scared the shit out of generations for years, He Is Genius and proof of it is that he's still around for you to pronounce as ''under appreciated'' 21st century johnny come lately
@@RIXRADvidz yes, I think most older Europeans know him. In the States, pretty much unknown. Tried for years to see him in concert. Oh well, won't get that one off my bucket list I fea.
Mike is a genius! The first CD I bought when I was a child was "Crises" (1983) in 1990...I love every album, every song he wrote! But Mike isn't on a "Best guitarists" list??!!! That's a crime!
@@paulmarty6163 I'm having a go at it. The notes themselves seem fairly simple - starts with Eb major... the bastard thing is the speed of the alternate picking and the little ornaments between the arpeggios. Otherwise it's just doing the manic Oldfield style over 3 or 4 chords :-)
Only s/he who notices how a simple riff turns subtly into a miraculous solo can truly appreciate what a genius Mike Oldfield is. Both as composer and instrumentalist.
For me it is always fascinating to see how Mike plays so concentrated. North Star is a brilliant masterpiece, with all the different live versions he could fill a CD. TOP!
@@gjd9527 I have a S.E.L. rating, but most of my time is in 15 meter class (50 ft span) Sailplanes over the Sierra (Minden, Nevada & Truckee Ca.). Yes..Oxygen onboard. Google: Glasflugel H-301. (The 201 is the standard class version without flaps for high speed cross country flight). 40:1 glide ratiio in the modified H-301.
@@pilot3016 ...It Would Be Nice Up There, Up High With Only Yourself. I've done abit of glider flying with Airforce Training Corps (ATC). Flew a Piper Tomahawk.....that's all. Cheers Pilot 301. "Happy and Safe Flights" My Friend
Glad they caught this on tape. It's one of those lightening in a bottle performances.
It just 'flows' doesn't it.
J adore ❤
Du pur genie🙏🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏
En plus il a un charme💙💜❤️
I was there!
Some nice references to Ommadawn in the guitar solo at the end. Loved it!
JUST HEAVEN
Great guitar.Beatiful.
"This man is the most under appreciated British Artist of the last 50 years..." one of the greatest melodists of all times.
so true
Agreeeeeeeee
he can play more than 20 musical instruments
Never get tired of his music listening to the same songs over and over. Can’t say that about any other musician
No doubt.
Mike Oldfield Star
still after so much time my lungs catch fire
simplesmente demais!!!!!
Одна из лучших композиций.это превосходно.это великолепно.как будто шторм
Amazing.
El más grande, sin duda alguna...que maravilla!!!!
Fantastico ❤
To jest piękne mi się spodobało od razu. Zajebiste :D
Home Bless
das ist krass
Perfetto.
Para que digan lo que es una guitarra ahí está lo mejor de lo mejor
Maggie una vos como los dioses
Me encanta este tema
Tubular Bells 1y 2 y el absurdamente genial Songs of Distant Earth son obras ya míticas de la música .
Ivana kraljica
Что то необыкновенное!!!
Уважаю Майк Олдфилд!
Inarrivabile Mike...
Is that Ian Paice on the drums?
completamente de acuerdo
A stumpy colossus of weirdness. In service to a pretty good tune.
klasyka
It's easy to see why the keyboardist wears that shirt. It would look stupid on the drummer.
Except that Oldfield didn't compose this; Philip Glass did.
Olfield has given the credit to Glass for the song. Btw, have you listened to Glass's version? It isn't as good as this.
@@diegonavia1404
It's better. Just a different style you fail to appreciate.
sahnemäßig.....
This is the definitive version of "North Star". I can never tire of hearing this.
I have not heard this video until today and I agree, it is playing at the top of his game. I have seen other live clips of this group line-up playing and it certainly seems that they gelled well together and the music just flows.
Mike Oldfield - a true musical genius.
The music is so good it could stop time
Nice lol
i first saw Mike O in Chicago back in the 90s… he had these weird balloon animals with him
For all the non-guitar players, the rhythm Mike is playing is just from another world and not easy to play.
Indeed. I've been watching this at half speed for about three days trying to work out what he's doing. Maintaining alternate picking at that speed for so long without one single mistake is awe inspiring. Then of course there's the great final solo...
@@nickgreen4731 U did write any tabs for it ;)? I would be very thankful for it xD
@@kvothe6627 Flattered that you ask. :-) I'm pretty useless at tabbing. What I can say is that it's probably easier to learn this one just by watching and listening. Mostly arpeggios over three chords with just a few ornaments and trills thrown in. The only really hard thing is cross picking at that speed! :-D
So, challenge accepted xD Maybe I’ll find some time the next weeks, i will report ;)
Corrección: Para los que no somos guitarristas no es difícil, es utópico. Sólo nos queda disfrutar de esta pieza musical.
Mike Oldfields Musik wird uns alle überdauern... Zeitlos und wunderschön!!!
Mike Oldfield est un artiste complet. Il a un talent incroyable et un musicien unique !!!!!!! 👋🎶🎶🎶🎼🎼🎼💛❤️💙👏👏👏
Maggie reilly is perfection
Voice of an angel.
Mike, you made my childhood a bit easier and sweeter. thank's for! This ist the Sound of a hole Generation. just great!
Dude, I'm crying. I can't make sense of that about what a genius he is. All the motifs and songs are heavenly. Ive been listening to him since I was 5.
Well Joswick, i'm happy to hear i'm not alone :-) Music soudld be the currency of the new world :-) have a nice time!
You've got the real words !! I'm lived the same things with is music
Dude you nailed it in your comment
Genius from another planet....😁❤🌷
His music is something else... It helps me get through life with a clear mind! Thank you Mike!
"Same" He's Fantastic Ain't He
A bit monotonous but then incredbly beautiful like a starry night
I sometimes wonder, when I see someone dislike godsent music like this, how poor someone's soul must be.....
You are absolutely right. Or just some nerd sitting in his bunker, disliking cause its not HD 4k whatever. Ridicouless. There should be no dislike button for music ;)
It's most likely the doing of an ENEMY STAND.
God sent Alright, You Nailed it. I said that years ago in a comment.
Cheers...
That is some serious skill with the rythm guitar. Sounds and looks easy enough, but try it. Oldfield has, and is still, composing the soundtrack of my life.
Mike Oldfield: il a de l'or dans les doigts, sa musique est la voix du Ciel !
Maggi is magic. Her voice make any music wondefull
+Fry Fryev Agree.
This man is the most under appreciated British Artist of the last 50 years....He even did the Olympic Opening Ceremony playing a "Latin Christmas Carol" in July!!!!! He will never be truly appreciated by the wider public until he is gone, lucky we know better and can appreciate him while he is still with us.
Dont forget Jotars Stand. Yare yare
he is HARDLY UNDERAPPRECIATED. He Created the theme to ''The Exorcist'' and scared the shit out of generations for years, He Is Genius and proof of it is that he's still around for you to pronounce as ''under appreciated'' 21st century johnny come lately
So So true.
@@RIXRADvidz yes, I think most older Europeans know him. In the States, pretty much unknown. Tried for years to see him in concert. Oh well, won't get that one off my bucket list I fea.
Someone tell Mike he is a pure genius.
Joswick Gilmer - That wasn't a question , that's a a given, right?
Bill Graefer right.
oui !!
ME :)
I'm sure he has already heard that more than once--Richard Branson, for one, ought to have told him since he got rich by publishing Mike's work.
This is the reason, why I started playing guitar. Mike, you are the greatest. I miss you in each list of the best guitarists
Love you!
Mike is a genius! The first CD I bought when I was a child was "Crises" (1983) in 1990...I love every album, every song he wrote! But Mike isn't on a "Best guitarists" list??!!! That's a crime!
hey dude im trying to learn this song on the guitar, have u write down the tab ?
@@paulmarty6163 sorry, I don't have the notes...
@@paulmarty6163 I'm having a go at it. The notes themselves seem fairly simple - starts with Eb major... the bastard thing is the speed of the alternate picking and the little ornaments between the arpeggios. Otherwise it's just doing the manic Oldfield style over 3 or 4 chords :-)
somebody wanna tell me why im crying like a little baby
Everytime I hear his songs and the voice of Maggie Reilly...
Because you are human.
Only s/he who notices how a simple riff turns subtly into a miraculous solo can truly appreciate what a genius Mike Oldfield is. Both as composer and instrumentalist.
North Star by Philip Glass in 1977 cover by Mike Oldfield in 1979.
Yes...but there is no comparison
love MAGGIE & MIKE
Thanks JoJo
Sutā Purachina! OraOraOraOraOraOraOraOra ORA!
Mudamudamudamudamudamudamuda
Lmao I thought I was the only one who googled “Does Star Platinum have a musical reference”
@@kikyojojimura6417 welcome to the club
this is like feeling beyond the world from another dimension
That is some truly wonderful rhythm guitar playing.
Remarkable guitarplaying indeed !!!. Mike Oldfield is a very underrated guitarist; along with Rory Gallagher and Michael Schenker ......
Well,I will say something,watch some of his recent stuff.He still knocks the socks off what the current music press thinks are the best guitarist.
💪👍Mike Oldfield is One ofe the best in my opinion!!!!Since i like musik
Jojo fans watching this
Yes , he is a genius , he composed the best song for our souls ....a point of view ....servus , Doamne Lumineaza -ne !
Um,I was going to say something.There are no words!
Mike Oldfield performing P.Glass...............two giants.
+Alessandro Venturi Yes, but it's Mikes version of North Star.
This version is the best North Star! Viva '80
Montreux 1981
The sound of the world turning...a global constant star. Beguiling forever.
Outstanding absolute world class! And Simon Phillips on the drums!!! Fan in Germany at the end of May 2020, since this days until now!!!
Was Simon Phillips the percussion player with the curly hair? I remember that the main drummer was Morris (sp? Maurice?) Pert.
That is not Simon Philips...
Definately Morris Pert on the kit. Pierre Moerlen on percussion?
So simple, so genius, 😊😊
Star platinum
For me it is always fascinating to see how Mike plays so concentrated. North Star is a brilliant masterpiece, with all the different live versions he could fill a CD. TOP!
beautiful ~ ~ ~
Exactly! that is what I've been always thinking: an album only with all the North Star version!
+O. Mon ..and maybe one with all the "Sailor´s Hornpipe" - versions =:o)
Title says North Star, RUclips says Platinum
“It must be a stand user!”
My First introduction to Mike was that song "Five Miles Out"... Many years ago..Since then Im hooked.
Was playing His Music just the other day, There Ya Go.
Hooked For Life.
Cheers All
God Bless
As a pilot... Love that song.
@@pilot3016 what do you Fly??
@@gjd9527 I have a S.E.L. rating, but most of my time is in 15 meter class (50 ft span) Sailplanes over the Sierra (Minden, Nevada & Truckee Ca.). Yes..Oxygen onboard. Google: Glasflugel H-301. (The 201 is the standard class version without flaps for high speed cross country flight). 40:1 glide ratiio in the modified H-301.
@@pilot3016 ...It Would Be Nice Up There, Up High With Only Yourself.
I've done abit of glider flying with Airforce Training Corps (ATC).
Flew a Piper Tomahawk.....that's all.
Cheers Pilot 301.
"Happy and Safe Flights" My Friend
GOD BLESS YOU FOR EVER MIKE...!!!!! for our childhood with your great music.....
@3:15, the pick goes up to the mouth and the fingers play magic. Unbelievable. And @3:42 a little bit of Incantations creeps in. Luv it!
Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly always evergreen for me
A GP's son with two musical siblings same as Kate Bush, incidentally...
I see this video one hundred times maybe and still loving
enjoying with closed eyes
wondering how many parts of the body react to this masterpiece
The greatest musician alive…there is nobody else...
I concur
Best North Star version!!!!!
STAR PLATINUM THE WORLD
Incredible precision, always right notes at right time
Simplemente fantástico!!!!
Masterpiece.
This is a JoJo reference..
North Star, Album: Platinum
Star Platinum..
Mike O. himself is a JoJo reference...
Obrigado Mike. Desde há mais de 40 anos que nos acompanhas.
Never listened to this song before. Thanks for bringing this here.
It will stay forever with you
Musical genius
génial !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect!
Ke genio ha sido y será este hombre, GRACIAS MIKE por estos brillantes transformados en música!!
Sublime
The Best!
Michael is so great.
had a major crush on her when i was very young...!!!
So did I!
Mike Oldfield "Maestro"
Thank you for sharing this it is first class
STAR PLATINUM
Thanx for posting that piece o´gold!
Genial!
isn't she out of this world
Heaven!