as someone so well said, Mike doesn't play the guitar, he plays his heart and the heart of those who get the incredible beauty of his music...it's almost painful...
Seeing young Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly getting completely lost in their music back in 1980 is giving me life right now. I wasn't even born then and yet these sounds are keeping me going in 2021. Thank goodness for RU-vid :)
More thanks to the ones on 1980 who recorded it and the ones who kept it somewhere safe. It's amazing that so many "ancient" recordings, both video and audio, have survived. I listen to radio shows from the 50s and earlier and some are in pristine condition. They were before my time, but they are so good, I truly enjoy them.
I don't think they're lost at all in the music, sorry, but there is nowhere where e.g., like Hendrix in concert, it's the LSD playing the guitar and no more Jimi. IDK if this stuff is sheath-written but it's very strictly played, you can't get lost in the music doing such stuff: these are complex structures with very little room, if any, for improvisation
I was a stage lighting technician on this Oldfield European Tour in 1980 and this show featured not only the Mike Oldfield Band but Roxy Music, Dire Straits and Talking Heads . What about that for a line up !
... o man ... I hardly find words for how much I love this !!! brings back great memories (visited THIS tour with my father back then!) - such good timeless music !!!
I loved this period of his music-making. After the first older albums and before the albums after Discovery which were less interesting. This is more interesting. And agree about Maggie Reilly, amazing voice! And overall musicianship is amazing too!
mit dieser Musik voller Überraschungen, mit Melodien die einem bis ins mark erschüttern, Musik mit spannungsaufbau um dann in einer ekstatischen klang Gelage sich auf zu lösen. also mit dieser Musik habe ich meine Jugend verbracht. also Mike ist j.s.bach der Popmusik.
This was a year before I was introduced to his music when a friend lent me 5 miles out. I was 12. I listened almost exclusively to his music until age 16.
Und ich war dabei...irgendwo rechts an der Bühne...irgendwo mit Freund Herbert. Unvergesslich die Zugabe...Weihnachtslieder auf Englisch. Alles ganz lang her. Meine Güte. Lasst uns die Welt umarmen 🤗
his work is too complex and too exact for a monitor at this time, I think. He simply hears the same as we do without himself. Plus 16th clicks. The unsampled Miss Reilly is worth being mentioned. She sings every note you hear.
His sound guys would have him hearing probably different tracks depending on where the song was. I bet he made them a map or well-written out directions. It would be so cool too have heard it though, I agree. I think the other responders didn't really read or understand what you meant somehow. You'd also maybe even hear people from the soundboard talking to him once in awhile. It would be neat to hear what he heard in those.
❤Como me hubiera gustado estar en ese concierto y conocer al guapo Mike Oldfield y a su grupo los cuales son músicos increíbles pero , el más increíble es el, un gran músico. Saludos.
Wonderful music, ,remembers me childhood in Karlstadt, I have an 🎹 and a guitar, and I like and Love the music from hin. All the instruments and His compocions, He was and ist a Genie. I Love all musicand He was playing wonderful instruments. I Wish him All the best and health. One time i have the hole night His music
@@34hedgehog The mix is dodgy most of the way through. IMO, MR's voice should have been treated like an instrument and mixed much lower. MO's guitar being inaudible at the beginning is indefensible.
The ZDF (Second German PublicTV) tried to make something similar to the meanwhile international Rockpalast (from the First German Public TV) and invited 4 bands but on two days for the same show. They played on two stages in the Dortmund Union Hall like a football field with the two goals I was there on the Saturday show. First Band was Talking Heads, which were very good, but nobody knows that band before. Second Band was Roxy Music and everythings rocks well. Third Band was Dire Straits and we stopped them to play further when Mark Knopfler told too much about his breakfast experience in Munich. (The show happend in Dortmund, in the West Metropole Ruhrgebiet, not in the south of germany which is Bavarian) The last Band was Mike Oldfield and they covered first the Background with some curtain. After all the people protest who sat behind the stage (which was open for Roxy Music), they let fall down the curtain during the Oldfield session, so that the people behind could also see something. (A lot of beer can already are collected by the curtain :-))) ) Anyway, after this the concert was also ok for us, even to watch the band from behind only. This concert here seems to be from the sunday session, because the background is very dark for the TV camera. Anyway, I will never forget it, but the concerts with Mike in Duesseldorf (Exposed and the next where he also played the complete Ommadown session where the best from the accoustic (Quadrophonie Speakers) and the specific smoke aroma in the hall :-)))
@@seanmcpoland5977 I am sorry if I am asking but the audience already knew that Oldfield is a greatest musician or just a good musician? I mean, the audience was aware of Oldfield's brilliant music skills or just listening different sounds?
I am a huge fan of Mike Oldfield and watched this video eagerly. This is an extraordinary document of how ahead he and his music was. I noticed something funny though; and irritating actually: there is not a single time when Mike enters with the guitar on a new song part that his volume is up! Everytime he changes instrument and eventually goes back to the guitar, the guy at the mixer needs half a minute to realize the guitar volume is too low. It is incredible: he doesn't get one right, missed them all with scientific precision :D Examples: the beginning of Taurus 1 (around minute 4:00), the part 4 of Platinum (around minute 28:43) and multiple times throughout Ommadawn and Tubular Bells (minute 45:22). I would have KILLED him! :D Must have been a local mixer engineer that didn't know a single damn song by Oldfield. Perhaps he worked for the tv show, I don't know. I'm mad at him, 40 years later! :D
When you think they are using these huge Westlake 'wedge' studio monitors as stage monitors, it's pretty terrifying: these things were only seen in the best recording studios on the planet. You may also spot Neumann U-series microphones on the stage... Well, the standard "do-it-all" stage mic you can see on every pro stage for half a century in front of guitar amps, used for all percussions and snare drums, even sometimes used by singers, is the Shure SM-57, well, you buy 50-60 of these with the money for a single U-series Neumann microphone. Pink Floyd post-R.Waters already came with jaw-dropping live gear, but Oldfield went further than anyone: nobody sane used to bring such gear on tour! You leave such stuff in the recording studio. Today, since home studios have became common things, you'd need a security team for the gear, not for the artists!
Yes I worked with Mike Oldfield for a number of tours as a stage lighting technician and he was absolutely in charge of and knowledgeable about every aspect of his sound and of the equipment. Those Eastlake monitors were very heavy to move about.
Mi pódium de guitarristas favoritos es: 1- Mark Knopfler. 2- Mike Oldfield. 3- Rric Clapton. 4- Santana. Aunque el 1 y el 2, se podrían alternar. ❤❤❤❤❤
The session drummer Oldfield used in the studio for 'Taurus' and 'Sheba' soon found himself rather busy by the early 80s. Needless to say he did not go on tour with Oldfield.
@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 With no doubt. Both were excellent musicians and more than a equivalent replacement for the "to busy session drummer", who played on the record. Btw. I love the drumming on "Taurus 1" and "Sheba".
interesting. the same lineup that would go on to record QE2 and Five Miles Out and tour, but the Platinum version isn't nearly the rock-guitar showcase it would become on the QE2 tour (see the Montreaux video, or listen to the live side of Complete)
9:20 You don't often see Oldfield playing Jazz Fusion. Sounds modal or something. Can anyone tell me? I don't know enough music theory to identify it myself. Cheers.
There're of course Tim Cross at keyboard, Maggie Reilly singing and Morris Pert at Drums (It's imposible to forget that haircut). The second drummer may be Simon Phillips? Doesn't seem to be Pierre Moerlen... And who's the man playing guitar with Mike?
Such a pity they mixed down Mike's guitar that painful. In the first minute of Taurus I solo you hear absolutely nothing and for the surprising and awesome Tubular Bells II solo you need to focus your ears to hear it properly. I would fire such an unable technician immediately! And no, it's not the uploader! I know this since watching the original broadcast in German TV back in January 1981.
This was mainstream back in the 80s. Compare with today. Those who say "we're not in the 80s anymore" as some imaginary imperative for bad sound and garbage "music", from a musical perspective, wish you were.
I wonder if the poster of this content is paying attention to these messages? I am trying to preserve these old videos of Mike by uprez and color, correcting them and would love to get the original copy, Please contact me if you can
Oops! Did Maggie come where she shouldn't have at about 6:10? Sounded like Tim was playing a line that she shouldn't have sung over. The perils of live performance, eh?
Why? Why Mike, in some live concerts kills tottaly tubullar bells 1??? WHY??? This is one example... The final music, tubullar bells (they call...) part 1, he kills at the same time: bass; voice; guitar; bells (they simplesly doesn't appear...), etc, etc, ... Better was stay at home and let music alone.... Pls never more make like this concert. You, Mike, with yr 2 first albuns (Tubullar bells; Ommadawn) you have definatively place in all paradises of music. For all next hundreds of centuries...
