I found this in 2007, when I was 12. I've remembered it ever since, listened to it more times than I can remember, and hopefully will keep coming back to it for many years yet. It's just brilliant, start to finish.
Well it was either that or the Power Converters at the Toshi Station. But as usual, there's menial droid clean up piling up holding promising guys back on the farm.
Some lyrics: Oh, a sailor's life is the life for me How I love to sail o'er the bounding sea And I never, never, ever do a thing about the weather For the weather never ever does a thing for me!
I swear on the next tour they stretched that out and played even faster by the end, but we're talking about 39 years ago, so my memory could be tricking me.
hahaha! I've been fascinated by mike oldfield's music, and his current website picture suits him so well... he looks so distinguished and bold... but now, seeing what he used to look like! LOL! now that's just embarrassingly dorky! :P If ever there were jokes about mike oldfield, they'd center around that hair :P looks like battlestar galactica(1970s) hair!! :)
at 1:10 he looks bored "Oh my god i've played this SO MANY TIMES" and at 1:42 I have no idea what the drummer was thinking when he shaved that morning... :D
Fuckin cool!!!!!!! I bloody LOVE the Sailor's Hornpipe and they've banned it from Last Night at the Proms! SO I URGE YOU ALL TO BRINNNNG ITTTT BAAAACCCCKKKKKK!!!!! From Jenni in London! of all places LOL ;)
anyone else think the piano player looked a lot like Richard Vranch or whatever from the old series of Whose Line? the ones with Clive Anderson as the host?
He can't yell, just think that when you yell you relax all yourself, and he fells anything except relaxed. He has to move both hands veeery fast. This is a "strength face", like the one few seconds before. Very good video, 5 starts.
He left the drummer behind... the keyboard player could barely keep up... even the the audience was too slow and all they needed to do was clap... that is a masterclass of mandolin playing.
