Vangelis - Chung Kuo [Live]

[untrusted74]

Super Playback !!! 

[Hopffnung]

Vangelis is and will be forever the GOD OF SYNTHESIZERS!!

[NikuCN]

Playback ? LOL

[Erik2Ammo]

Greatest thing ever what happend to Holland!

[michaelsysley]

playback dommage !!!!

[aureliosjc]

It´s playback, isnt it? I mean, it sounds like the original recording.

[kimmie66]

@aureliosjc Yes. It couldn't go ahead because of the weather. But at least we get to see the guys together.

[touchtoremember]

I love Vangelis, but this concert is a complete ripoff of Jean Michel Jarre's concerts!

[calpilot7]

BRILLIANT!!!

[hasablad69]

I HATE THE NEW YOU TUBE PAGE!

[deckard712]

ojala un dia venga a Chicén itzá

[itsonlycapnkirk]

I wonder if the two young ladies at the beginning of the video realise that they are now immortal !

[halford99]

Truely a musical genius of our time

[a9RGYZQF]

This man is a real musical genius.

Greetings from a big FAN from the Netherlands.

[cajj721111]

Evangelos odysseas papathanassious (Vangelis), you are the best!!!

[gerrymoran1]

What distinguishes V's musical genius over Jean michel Jarre who to me seemed a button pusher, is that the man can spend 5minutes building up a multidimensional wall of sound and then strip everything away to leave only a piano solo (as with the Long March to follow) without losing the majesty of the music.

[vjrei]

Jarre is a show man, he has done some contributions but Vangelis IS a musician and a God. The music that Vangelis creates goes beyond time, it is always discovered every generation.

[Theotim92]

Difficult to compare Jarre and Vangelis. I like both, but they have two different way of composing electronic music...

For me Vangelis is a classical composer using electronic instruments.

Jarre is an electronic composer. His music is based on electronic sounds since the beginning.

Both made great music (not the case nowadays, shame !)

[daftmusician]

the best is mr- jarre there´s no doubt

[drchepa]

vangelis is much more melodic jarre goes more with the rythm.....

[LEGOFFMARTINEAU]

@Theotim92 C'est ce qui peut sembler en les écoutant, pourtant Jarre a une formation classique et Vangelis sait à peine lire le solfège (je l'ai vu dans une lointaine émission sur la TV française) car il a refusé d'apprendre le piano de manière traditionnelle (dixit Wikipedia)

[hasablad69]

Thanks, mugensx!

[astra580]

Just like Tomita and his performance in Austria (Live at Linz, 1984, Mind Of The Universe). Tomita "played" the music, from tape while he directed other aspects of the performance from a pyramid shaped control room hanging from a crane above the river. Nonetheless an awsome production.

[chekist1917]

Indeed. There is no way he or Tomita could have done all those layered tracks at once live anyway.

[astra580]

Was a cover of this ever used in a James Bond movie, or any other movie? It sounds so familiar

[thepanamahat]

yes astra580 it was

[WalkIntoWalls]

Ah, yes, Vangelis: Greek music of the Gods :)

[Syphonaptera]

I am a Vangelis fan pur sang...but this happening was a bit of a bore....I expected it to be as spectecular as a Jarre show but it was not......I taped the whole gig .....the fireworks were OK.....and besides.....99% was playback.......best part of the show? My zoom into the crowd leaving.....120000 people crossing the bridge...now THAT is spectecular.

[Tonybarzaga1]

@Syphonaptera ASSHOLE!!!!

[Syphonaptera]

@Tonybarzaga1 Asshole? For giving out the truth it all was playback? Eyy? hahaha Same to you A-hole, hahah

[justgnatjones]

This never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, one of the greatest composers of our time.

[stormatrix]

yes tear jerking one of the most beautiful tunes ever composed

[themurderock]

Tears while looking this video...

FANTASTIC....!

[BaddaBigBoom]

Fantastic...spine tingling. I particularly love it at around 3'40" when that backing sequence goes from single to twin notes.

[dowling1981]

Your words are true. When shall Vangelis retire the next replicant for the Blade Runner pantheon?

[resheniya]

A master of his work!

[davidatleta]

great!great!i´m 33 and i love vangelis near 16 years old!this is powerfull music.vangelis forever.thanks from portugal

[domacin1]

best everrrrrrrrrr

[Choefoe]

This concert should be on dvd !!!

[9mariotoledo]

the best electronic music vangelis live

[salamander163]

the best of the best!!!!

wish i could see him one day!!!!

[yedrihu]

Does this complete concert exist? in any format?..Is there anybody who have the complete concert?

[Choefoe]

I will send it to you ;)

[demeeuw116]

Me too please!!!please!!

[drchepa]

me encanta el album CHINA, es uno de esos en los que vuelves a oirlo una y otra vez, unas melodias etereas y un gran dominio del su sintetizador cs 80, como siempre en vangelis la musica de este album suena tan evocadora y eterna como en la mayoria de sus obras, tiempos analogos, tiempos de gran belleza!....

[54spiritedwill54]

beautiful ! great playback!

[4x4arcoatari]

hahaha

[Choefoe]

Blame the weather in Rotterdam,he was not allowed to play life! to dangerous,he was alreaddy floating in the river

[Choefoe]

was a very good show anyway,to see it life, with the lasers and fireworks ;)

[gfuterfas]

I remember this piece was used in a Mercury Lynx commercial in 1980 when I was a kid. I loved that commercial because of this piece. It was so beautiful and haunting. Thanks for bringing back such wonderful childhood memories. :)

[wnblair]

I remember that commercial too! Every time it played I had to hear the whole thing.

[dunnged]

was this ever used in a bond movie or is that my imagination. got into this album just when i started doin oversized hash hotknives. go well hand in hand, fond memories.

[MICKEY1JOE]

When i use to do warm up DJ in London in the early 80s and at the start of Raves i use to play this i'd safely say i was the first to play it in a club in 81 with smoke and a Laser everyone thought i was mad but they asked for it everytime i turned up and then i starting playing Another one of VANGELIS's 'TO THE UNKNOWN MAN' the loved it too. . . haven't heard either in years....nice memories tho . .from what i can remeber :)

[MrBluesman2]

I`m criyin! I should heard this song when i was just a kid!thanxs!!!!

[dirk1951]

he is my number 1.always

[Ogaitnas900]

One day after my first birthday

[demeeuw116]

ON my birthday!!

[123allvideos]

nice to see some nice work again;)

[almant2]

the master of the sound the master of the music VANGELIS IN GREECE

[dgontar]

I like Space2000's interpretation of this song better.

[drchepa]

i think that today in the world besides pink floyd, vangelis is the man that has the most powerful material for a live concert, imagine a live versions of blade runner antarctica alpha conquest of paradise.... etc....but surely he don't need that kind of shows, he his well known for cuality and super beautiful melodies.....and he will be remenbered in that way....

[fer77aa]

Wow, this is the best Vangelis' Chung Kuo cover I've listen... LOL (Just kidding)

[kishgoldsmith]

God's own creation is VANGELIS.

[GS195]

Ahh. The man himself! Playing a nice little song for everyone in Rotterdam.

I love this song, too!

[intigfx]

I think this is the only concert he did with playback. Not bad, considering JM Jarre does virtually all his concerts with playback.

[WolfgangAmadeusF]

HE IS playing live.Watch interviews here on you tube-his skill is AWESOME.He's using special layers on the keyboard and he is using pedals etc.but all is live.

LONG LIVE MASTER

[lochead1]

Absolute rubbish. This is not live. Brass sound comes from Yamaha CS80 which is not present. Brass sound alone takes two hands to reproduce. Roland JD800 (top synth right hand) not switched on. Bass sound from Moog Modular which is not present.  The biggest give away is the fact that the keyboard he's "playing" is not fucking switched on. Not surprising since it was soaking wet from all the Dutch rain and no doubt completely fucked or a shock hazzard. I could go on and on.

[Stundek]

I completely have to agree with lochead1's sentiment. Think about it: it's raining; you really THINK they're gonna have a CS-80 AND a Moog Modulator onstage?? NO. They're gonna have 'em in their roadcases!!! Yes, Vangelis is a genius - both at cutting records, and playing - as well as protecting his equipment! A-B this video against the China studio version, and THEN tell me this is still live. Go on.

[olracuk]

What? You think they put on a tape, added some pretty lights and told

the Man to twiddle the keys a bit? Really?

hehehehehe.. yep they just might ;) But, the stunning reproduction of the original - just TOO close

[jjobie]

Hate to repeat myself, but it is well documented on various Vangelis websites that the majority of the music at this performance *was* pre-recorded, and he simply played along with it. The choir is live (obviously) as were Jon Anderson's vocals on a later song. But don't take my word for it. Look it up yourself.

[redtier]

He always plays live! how about those 16 switch pedals??

[joncosm]

Ok, he's not playing live...but he still is a GENIUS, goddamnit!!!!!

[lochead1]

"Live" my oversized left bollock. I'm glad nobody had to pay for this f*cking crap.

I dimmed the lights in my fat, bearded grandads back room, sat him in front of an ironing board, got him to flop his hands all over it, put the record on and got exactly the same effect. Bollocks.

[marceloor37]

I saw the whole concert "live" and i knew from the first tone and the singing of Jon Anderson that everything was a big hoax.

Still love the music

[divyx]

@marceloor37 Yeah i hope he'd play any synth live :(( But doesn't. Great composer anyway =)

[GingerTig]

I have just spent the last 20 minutes p*ssing myself laughing at your comment. Hilarious ! (And I still love the track despite the fakery !)

[rbiro77]

Gigantic...

[drchepa]

great playback!

[etiennemontulet]

I was there, 17 yrs ago! Fabulous to see this video so long after.

[yersi]

beautiful

[johnthekeys]

My favourite Vangelis tune

[demeeuw116]

Where did you get this images from???

[L03k1]

amazing how he plays the synthesizer

[88eatne]

Last tune of the Night at Ritzy;s Portsmouth 88-90

Classic come down tune

Respect (but would of liked to stay UP!!!!)

[HOLLBIE]

Vangelis=Genious .....

[joncosm]

Vangelis rocks!!!!

[nicedog1]

A beautiful piece of music. For some reason it reminds me of dolphins.

[WoIfshead]

I'm honored to be the first to comment on this video. Fantastic and divine music, haven't heard this song in many years.. No words to describe it..