Steve Hillage - The Glorious Om Riff ( Live 1979 ) 

Ah, Steve Hillage. Fond memories of seeing the band in the late 70s at the Rainbow Theatre, London and at Glastonbury 1979. This was always one of my favourite tunes. Skin up.

Andy Anderson - wonderful human, fabulous drummer, very sad loss to the world

I do love looking at comments on videos like this. It's one of the only places on RU-vid (and maybe the whole of the Internet!) where people are nice to each other. Then again maybe that's cause we're all long hairs haha!

This is INSANE !! The album version is one of my favorite pieces of music of all time and this, impossible I thought it to be completely blows it out of the water.

What a brilliant version. Goosebumps.

the best Acid trip i have ever had

One of the best musically interesting and vibrant songs ever!!

saw this played live in 1981/82 on final Hillage Band Tour at Mayfair Suite in Birmingham, 1500 in a small hall with low roof and excellent acoustics it was outstanding, truly awesome and of its type only Kashmir (the original) comes close to it, Hillage was/is and will always be one of the great under-estimated musicians of all time

Young Hillage had such a lovely fluid guitar style, perfect for this sort of music. Good stuff.

Steve 'GONG' Hillage beautiful 👍👍👍

Proto-Ozric Tentacles. Absolutely fantastic. Luv and Peace.

If you want to see the Om Riff/Master Builder transcending time and space, drag your old arse out to see Gong. They absolutely nail it. 👌

Saw Steve in 79 with is line up...it was incredible. The band was super tight and at the same time fluid and free - form. Just exceptional, ground breaking rock'n'roll.

Remember Deeply Vale Free peoples Festival, 1977 or 78 cant remember, the last time I saw Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy.

I have a pretty substantial Hillage collection, and I reckon this is THE version. Awesome.

Steve Hillage is apparently doing lots of gigs in England. I imagine that there are still lots of Gong/Steve Hillage fans out there (like me) in North America? I suggest we fans here in North America start up a mantra: "Oh happy day! Steve Hillage is coming to North America!" (OM) "Oh happy day! Steve Hillage is coming to North America!" (OM) (You get the idea. 100x in the morning and 100x in the evening).

Tellement bon de réentendre Steve Hillage... unique et fabuleux!

John McKenzie − bass Christian Boule − guitar Steve Hillage − guitar, vocals Andy Anderson − drums Miquette Giraudy − synthesizer

the song the Ozrics took into the next era of free festivals and turned on the next generation of freaks , happy daze !

Fav RIFF ever!

Hillage = Killage !!! 🎸🔥🔥🔥

Wow! Epic. Love the studio version, but can't even imagine seeing this amazing live performance. What a band he had at this time! The musicianship is sublime. Huge fan of Green. It reminds me of brighter times when altered states (by whatever positive means) were shared far more readily & safely just up the street and around any corner. I lived in Hastings & we picked our mushrooms legally & enjoyed truly uplifiting times together. Steve Hillage was always a big part of the good vibes shared ♥

Auntie Beeb sure knows how to make a live recording.

top man for many years of my life

UN...believeble...!!!energie all'round my riff too!!Live man!!Steve and friends Rock!

Saw him at roundhouse with my now wife, great memories !!!? X

I was working in the Record Revolution #1 store in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Sometime in late

This is awesome

Gosh that really is a stonking version. I'm pretty sure I saw this lineup play at Hammersmith Odeon in 1979.

Stunning !!!!

tis truly glorius

Fantastic upload! Thank you ♥

ouvia estas maravilhas quando tinha 15 anos tenho 58 anos.aprendi tocar bateria ouvindo progressivo.guido arrastao.ex banda tiroteio.

wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding Live performance.

simplemente....el más grande

This is an evolution of "Master Builder" from _You_, isn't it?

The birth of Techno me thinks.

Top tune

Nice One

One hundred thousand miles an hour of intergalactic spaciness.

s is hard to beat as a guitar riff with graphics way up there with the top sounds bit trebly in places would love to have seen live

the best version!!!

Anyone else here, see him at ‘The Rainbow’ 1979? “Welcome to the Rainbow”🤩 Was at both shows, 2nd and 3rd March (and twice in 1977 . Not obsessed or anything😂)

So, did trance music start from this type of sound, we know David Allen went in to that sound

Wonderful, I used to listen to Steve Hillage albums all weekend every weekend... Saw him live at Music Machine with me mates, just before Music Machine became Camden Palace, what an incredible gig. We were on another plane by 'eck! I believe Jesus was there too, bless his soul.

this is very good, never heard this version

IL MEGLIO...DEL MEGLIO

Good music,good trip

Oooohyeah 🍓

Bellissimo. E mentre lo guardo ipnotizzato, ripeto a me stesso mille volte: "devo dimagrire, devo dimagrire, devo dimagrire, devo dimagrire…" Chissà se funziona.

boa gostei

Holy hell what's this?? The crystal meth mix?? They were really motoring through the riff that night weren't they?? Brilliant.

Oh Steve Hillfish !

pre dates techno by about 20 odd years

Katy Perry does an amazing cover of this tune. No wait.. maybe I'm mistaken.

Master Builder

SUBLIME

major spillage

Wonder if Kick Muck by the Ozric Tentacles started out as Ed Wynne noodling around on this riff? V similar structure (although Kick Muck is like a tongue-twister for your fingers on guitar).

Best version of this masterpiece ever! Why can't I purchase this entire Radio 1 experience? (or can I ?) Is it out there somewhere? 40+ years later and it still kills... Stuff like this is what enables me to get out of the bed in the morning.

This kinda reminds me of the band Ozric Tentacles.

Shit! At 5: 07 it gets REALLY INTENSELY HEAVY!!!!

mai mao zai zao tai tao now...

:-)

Who were the second and third guitarists? Seriously, you say this live Andy.....who were they?

What is the temple made of?

Om nava shiva ya?

by flippin' crikey,too echo jlc comments,cobgrats. do you still play?

Can I have my purple microdot back now? I will be a good girl,mommy.

Perhaps of interest: Steve Hillage, the glorious om riff time signatures explained ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UaZktCI8Isk.html

Am I mistaken or is there also a Gong song in which he employs a similar Riff ?

Pierre Moerlen on drums?

Acid music

Awesome. What was the band lineup?

All versions of this sound pedestrian compared to the version on GREEN. Steve always sounds good but his drum and bass players are too stiff. Also most versions I've heard are too damn fast.. They are rushing through it. The GREEN version is the one...for ME.

The glorious om rip off..

''🎸🎸🎹🎹📻📻🔊🔊🎚🎚🎧🎧! ''....That's easy for you to say. Try writing the prose for it. An 'Also spracht' lookalike ? Five across and one down. 6 letters.(No answer, due to use of non existent geometric language; imaginary bus replacement service provided.) This therefore is the live musical transport version? Causal logic: 1+1 = habitual implication.