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 TH-cam :)
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 !
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.
@@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.
... 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 !!!
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 🤗
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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".
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
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?
Can you imagine there was a time not so long ago when Music this fantastic and complex and beautiful was appreciated by the masses.. not hip-hop or female singers with a producer playing the other parts on computer and all the songs are the same four chords. This is real
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. ❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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?
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)
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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.
❤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
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...
1:41 Taurus 1
12:18 Sheba
15:39 Platinium p1
20:49 Platinium p2
25:55 Platinium p3 Oans, zwoa, g'suffa!!!
27:12 Platinium p4
31:14 Tubular Bells p2
37:54 The Sailor's Hornpipe
42:25 Tubular Bells p1
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...
"Oldfield was born that way".
Ivana, great commentX
No, he literally plays the guitar.
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 TH-cam :)
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 !
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.
Considering how long ago this was recorded, both the audio and video quality are remarkable.
Aye, but unfortunately, Mike's guitar at about 4:20 is inaudible.
@@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.
... 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 !!!
Wonderfull show from my favorite musician of all time.
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 🤗
I love Mike Oldfied! The best of all times...
01:40 Taurus I
12:20 Sheba
15:40 Platinum
31:15 Tubular Bells part 2
42:30 Tubular Bells part 1
thank you
I bought the cassette version of the QE2 album in 1980 aged 16 and played it to death…….!
00:00 Taurus I
12:20 Sheba
15:40 Platinum
30:15 Tubular Bells part 2
42:30 Tubular Bells part 1
exactamente
@@conscienciapositiva8706 Pues a mi no me cuadran algunos temas...
@@Almaro82
Hombre yo no ablo castellano..lol tanbien no compreendo..
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.
My first festival, i was 17 years old. It was a great evening !!! In this time, i played the same Gibson SG Model !
Amazing. I really wish I could hear the mix Mike was getting through his headphones.
Well...do you have real headphones? I have good headphones and the sound is different if are listening from loudspeakers.
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.
Ich bin damit aufgewachsen, Gott sei Dank.
geht mir auch so. 👍👌
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.
First heard Mike Oldfield when my brother came home from late shift at a paper mill and played tubular bells and i was hooked
My musician ever
Dang Mike Oldfield and Talking Heads were on the same show in the same year. What a good year to have this station come in.
Genio ayer, hoy y siempre ✨
A genius that can be considered as the modern Beethoven..I reckon .
Mike Oldfield. The music is so profound and intriguing. And the voice of Maggie..., wonderfull and just amazing 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!
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 :-)))
I was there, can't remember the day - Roxy Music, Dire Straights, Talking Heads and Mike Oldfield....unbelievable!!!
@@seanmcpoland5977 how was the sound quality?
@@drivingschool11 on the day, fantastic. Very of the 80's though. The video doesn't do it justice.
@@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?
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.
Not really a "session" drummer 😆 But good quote.
Not a session drummer but both Morris Pert and Mike Frye were long established musicians
@@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".
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
I noticed that!!!!! The volume drops were driving me MAD!!!!! Same for whenever the bass was picked up!
The sound man was and had been Simon Johnson out front
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.
Progressive rock music still going strong into the 1980’s
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?
Mike Frey: Drums & percussion.
Rick Fenn: Bass & guitars.
Other drummer was Mike Frye of LSO etc
Super concert, la plus belle période de Mike et de son groupe.
Grande Mike anche con Gibson SG...rock'n roll
Can you imagine there was a time not so long ago when Music this fantastic and complex and beautiful was appreciated by the masses.. not hip-hop or female singers with a producer playing the other parts on computer and all the songs are the same four chords.
This is real
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.
❤❤❤❤❤
Maggie is singing too much!
maginfico concierto qe2 sheba increibles gracias por colgar esta parte de historia
Mi. Very young. Love hmmmmmm ????
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.
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?
Bravo. Mate ,,,,,
Richard Barrie Mike’s studio boffin can be seen creeping in and out sometimes wearing a Fair Isle jumper or checked shirt
Nie otrzymalem
Peter Frampton and Phillip Glass backstage. Yes that was my idea.
Hermosa vos de maggie reilly... Hermosa...
7:00 sounds like the same drum machine The Durutti Column uses.
Sorry
I live that muza
Like the Paul Weller Jam era haircut!😁
😄 I love what he and his talented a companies he do. Always and forever. 🤗🙏
1 Was 20 years old than
21!😁
This us brilliant. Anyone have a track list ?
Enjoy his music even decades after he played when I was a child.
🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💗🙏🏻🎸🎤🎹 gratitude pour cette vidéo
Mike's fantastic music and beautiful voice and woman (Maggie Reilly)
Para mi, imprescindible.
42:38 mosh pit breaks out !!!!!
Mike is a god !!
en esta epoca tocaba este excelente tecladista...pobrecito ya fallecido.
At 29:00 is it the video or do they really slow down very badly?
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)
Baltimore
Süß, damals wussten sie noch nicht, dass sie legendär werden...
That's an encore Tubular bells part 1!
mike oldfield!!!
...for thouse who knows ....o parere doar ...multumesc lor ...
Explain please?
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3:56 Very professional
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.
❤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
Ommaddon with Maddy Prior, Glasgow Apollo 1980, 2 nights in a row, pure magic as we say
Mike Oldfield made very nice music, he is a music genius, I like his music a lot!, I have all his albums! 😊😍🤩🎼🎵🎶🎙🎤🎚🎛🎹🪗🎸🎺📯🎷🎻🪕🥁🪘🎧
Do wor i 10 Johr..🤣😅🫠
eaO!!!
What a MUSIC!
11:45 that is fast and live, not playback
Ll
Noch mal ich. Hab ja schon viele Versionen von TB 1 gesehen, aber das hier mit 6 Mann ist einmalig.
Dortmund 20.12.1980
Dufte :) :) :)
Carry on please.
Wonderful.
Die sind alle wahnsinnig. Ich glaube nicht, dass wir sowas noch mal erleben werden...
Foto the Future and every good time ,every second
plein de souvenirs
Back when Mike used Taurus pedals . 😎
Maggie Reilly , my Favorite!!!
That's not a guitar it's a mandoline
The best
I love. Thangerime dreem
All the best
Thanks mate
A. Mwgg regg, ? Some time ,,?
O yessssssssss
I am in 1980 in school again....
The highest level.-thx
Her voice makes it.
Er war damals schon seiner Zeit sehr weit voraus
Musik aus einer anderen Welt,
Zeitlos,absolut genialer Liedermacher
Genial gut, ja. Aber wieso weit voraus?
@@Yankeededandy62 Hat generationen von experimentellen musikern beeinflusst
I still have contact ,,,,, with Irish witch , I love her
Maggie was of Scottish descent
siglo
Who is the female vocalist here?
Maggie O'Reilly
Prospero Maggie Reilly, I think, without "O'"
It's Maggie Reilly.
@@christianblack9426 Really?
@@martockpozo It bloody well is Martin, it bloody well is.
Drums are totally unnecessary for Tubular Bells. They change the whole vibe and lose the focus and the magic.
Disagree as in a live show , a live rock show the percussion is vital to move the songs along
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...
only GENIOUS
EXCEPtional, NEVER, they are GENIOUS
Всё таки выпросили Tubular..а Майк, Красава, не отказал.