Omg, didn't realise your son composed better music than Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn. Please let us know his name and where we can buy his recordings. What do you mean nobody has signed him? he's a better musician than Mike Oldfield, isn't he? Or were you just talking bollocks ?
Oh .... sorry - was tubular bells actually music? LOL! Couldn't really tell through the train wreck that it sounds like ... Chimpspanner on Basick Records butthead!!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UAPBY20gJ18.html Steve Vai, Joe Petrucci, Joe Satriani and the like think he is the bollocks! Of course, you're on such a lower plane of evolution, those names and that league of musician is light years beyond you so don't bother. Oh - don't tell me - you're also one of those that thinks Hank Marvin is god's gift to guitarists :) Me? More major labels than you can count. Who's talking effing bollocks now matey??? Pfffft LOL!!! Why am I even bothering qualifying your stupid assed response? Get a job!!! Over and out ............
I pity you if you cannot appreciate the compositional genius of Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Ommadawn is a beautiful jewel. Music is not about how many notes you can play per second. There are thousands of guitarists who can play fast but there's very few who compose great music.
I've noticed a mannerism of his. Very often when picking up or setting down a guitar, he clears his throat with a grunting noise. He does it a couple of times here, and in other interviews I've seen.
He's a nervous kind of fella. Crippling anxiety at various times in his career/life. He's done amazingly well despite depression, agoraphobia and other issues. Very talented composer and musician. Tubular Bells is still phenomenal.
How wonderfully nostalgic! I recorded this myself on VHS at the time and there is some more since it was aired prior to the 10 Years On Tubular Bells concert at Wembley Arena which I attended also, around the time of "Crises", hence his playing a snippet of "Shadow on the Wall". When I dig out my copy, I'll post it for completeness.
I love watching him play during interviews. I remember the original 1980 VHS of the Knebworth performance had some fascinating footage of him playing the intro to Tubular Bells in different keys and chord progressions, explaining to the interviewer how the original riff had been ripped off so many times since, by himself included.
Yeah, the glorious Thatcher years of privatisation, when unemployment was quadrupled, the miners strike and Falklands War for nothing and IRA bombs because Thatcher wouldn't negotiate etc. Yeah, all was well 😀
Man, he sure is, what a nice dude! Who would have imagined 30 years later, that little ole 61 strat would now be worth $15000, time is a crazy thing...Mike Rules!
I was thinking that same thing... How he talks about 'tools of the trade' and the Ovation made me want to write a Spinal Tap reference, but then I saw your post! I totally agree with you! ;)
"If you're lucky enough to get a 1957 one, you can pay as much as 1500 pounds"... Nowadays, that's what you'd be paying for a new 'reissue' (copy) of a '57 Stratocaster, while the original 57s are stuck away in collector's vaults.. Worth ten times more than they were back when Mike did this interview. Awww...should have bought one back in '83 !!
An awkward moment there ,where the presenter Andrew Harvey didn't even recognize Mikes rendition of the theme tune to the very program he was presenting!
Mike really reminds of Nigel Tufnel of Spinal tap in this clip. I'm thinking of the scene where Nigel talks us through his guitar collection. I bet that amp Mike is stting in front of goes up to 11.
Wonder what that Fender guitar of his is worth today...??? 30yrs down... 70yrs to go as mike said , In a hundred years it'll be worth a fortune...! Keep rocking Mikey..!!!
un guitariste mal connu et peu reconnu ; mais incontestablement un très grand. Je suis sous le charme de tubullar bells entre autre, c'est une oeuvre magistrale proche des compositions des grands mucisiens classiques du XIII ème.
Hmm I just discovered Mike oldfield today.... Again... But kinda for the first time, and I think I see a remarkable similarity in the strength of his guitar melodies to my own..... Really quite impressed
Even if the question is out of ignorance: in the mid 80s they truly were not really fashionable - everyone used new brands and models, even apart from the Metal scene...
Really enjoyed his 'electronic rock' excursions. Purchased 'Crises' the day I left school in June 83 following a Biology exam so somewhat sentimental. His later albums became a little esoterical for my tastes but 'Crises' had a lovely melodic sound and of course the sublime 'Moonlight Shadow'. But the movement 'Crises' from the album has touches of Handel about it. Would've loved to have heard an orchestral arrangement. Nice guy Mike, always slightly leftfield but a great guitarist.
This is super! "it's got my name on it" He says about the travel guitar. Ha! Ha! Ha! Bizarre the way the clip is about the value of guitars and not music! Mike is a funny guy!
