Huge thank you for posting! Mike Oldfield has been my absolute musical no.1 choice for 20 years, and continues to be... Love discovering all these late 70's/ early 80's live performances. Adds a whole new dimension to the songs. Beautiful mesmerizing vocalist too.
All these minimalistic slick Sounds, along w/the Voice-Vocoders and the cooling Chord-Changes - made Mike and his Troop to No.1 of a Rock-King - forever.... (Pat, Switzerland)
Tim Cross - Mike's best keyboardist over the years? Surely up there with them if not top of the pile. Puts the Prophet 5 to good use, I think the SH2000 for all the solo stuff, Vocoder... ah happy days :)
Hundreds of nights - when I was a young girl - I felt in sleep with him - and thousend of nights later I finally recognize how good he looked. It´s the second time now, that I fall in love with him. Thank you for the pleasure. Y
I guess his music isn't for everyone. As I am not like most people I can understand why others don't see the good in his music like many can not see it in me. I can not understand how once could say there is no feeling is his music though as his music has far more feeling that popular music. I would be curious to know what music you think it better than this, for I think Mike Oldfield is amazing.
I think it's because he wants to reproduce the sounds coming from his mouth as accurately and faithfully as possible. Many artists using the vocoder do the same - mouth as close as possible. My two cents.
@coltsuperocean10 Seriously? when we can compare your music on youtube to that of Mike Oldfields we can then assume that your comment is a personal opinion without substance.
@sonicdeath10 Except that I heard they mostly overspent the money generated at those days on expensive hotels and Mike almost got bankrupt thanks to these tours... Also the Branson's ripoff terms were contributing a lot... I so hate seeing the "Sir" getting this well on his spaceport venture, cause the wealth he has now is totally undeserved.
