Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells live - Part 2

[3cliffsbay]

Barry Butlins in the summer of 74 anyone?

[kohisiyo]

Mike Oldfield !!

He is a genius at learning music !! Destray music !!

[Inediblehulk]

I hear if you play it backwards at 78 rpm, it sounds awful. Probably just an urban legend.

[kimot79]

grew up with a guitar playing father, who loved it and passed the love on to me, absolutely love it and always will.........

[troebuck]

This is an excellent quality video... What is the source?

[Shaktidej]

@troebuck : hi, the source is a horrible VHS/DVD containing 1 hour of Mike's best known "tubes" like " moonlight shadow". Amidst all this crap was this incredible version. Only thing worth in the video.

[edbingey]

Crikey, this is awful! lol

[darrenmparr]

I used to listen to my dad's copy of Tubular Bells when I was seven years old. When he and my mum separated, he took it with him. Tubular Bells was the very first album I bought and I still have that poor, worn out scratched to buggery copy to this day. My musical taste has extended through the years but Mike Oldfield will always be the man!

[MrXaqter]

Do you know, I saw the Exorcist when it came out but for the life of me I can't recall the sound track.. It's not a film I would want to see again. I don't really care, I F*****g love this album and don't give a s**t about others opinions as that wont influence me at all. If you don't like it then go listen to something else that you do.

[aWhiteWinterHym]

When i was 14 in 1974 my Music Teacher Played Tubular Bells in a lesson at Moorland Lower School Darwen Lancs and at that Point in My Life i was Turned on to Music.When i Got home i asked my Mum if she would Order the LP through Kays Catalogue and that was My First Ever LP and i Haven,t Looked back since.This Brings back so Many Memories of those days ,i,m 47 this year and i Love music more than ever.Thanks for Uploading this clip and i,ll look forward to Part 3.

[82shepherd]

cool!



[grayaj23]

OK, be honest, how many ever listened to the "B" side of this album? I wore the A side out but probably only ever listened to B maybe five times total.

[spliffron]

@grayaj23 I actually am the exact opposite. I appreciate the A side but really connect alot more with the B side. The whole acoustic intro is like rolling misty mornings in a pastoral English countryside in my mind. And piltdown man has some serious epic melodies on guitar and piano. Bagpipe guitars?!? You dont know what your missin man.

[tatsujincorp]

@grayaj23 LOLWTHF?

[coughcool72]

Again, absolutely brilliant, and further thanks to the kind uploader.

[TheAMick1]

Am I crazy or is that Karl Jenkins of mid70's Soft Machine playing oboe at 2:09 onward?

[Fenlander62]

Damn some great music gets made with good drugs!

[ACDC7369]

3:58 steve hillage looks like hes destroyed! ROFL

[ACDC7369]

i love the setup....all the guitarists sitting in the center in a circle...and all the percussion and keyboards surrounding them on the outside. so badass

[Hibernatinginsomniac]

Thats some damn fine green gentlemen, damn fine.

[rainbowdragon131065]

We got to listen to this for weeks at school as we were studying this compasition. One of my all time faves Thanks for posting You made my night :))

[Arminchen]

Oh my, how I do love this! Mike Oldfield was always a kind of role model on my own music sensations. So many colours, so many different feelings... and mostly always exactly the one type of sound - widely, rocky, poppy... and selfmade - that my musicheart is fully satisfied....

Cool... very thanks for uploading this file!

[Caligula138]

For all the people that say there isnt music like this... you dont know and havent tried looking... there is always something to be found,

[plazaamador29]

@Caligula138 yes you have to look but you have to understand that this was popular back thenand some people now a days dont have the time to look for music

[JustaSmuck]

I have to share the experience of hearing TB (full length) for the first time. I was out hiking along the Bruce trail in Canada. We arrived at the trail head in Winfield Basin at around 10pm, we had no tent and just rolled out our sleeping bags beside the car. We were not alone and someone played TB. Just laying there, looking at the stars and listening to Mike Oldfield. It burns it's way into your memory and replays the experience every time I hear the song. Glad it didn't rain. :-)

[harleygal24]

@JustaSmuck - I can picture the stars, the quietness & peace & Tubular Bells. I am a Canadian too, perhaps that has something to do with it along with the fact that I've always loved this music masterpiece; still have it on vinyl. I'm glad it didn't rain too.

lol.....

[saramormone]

I automatically love people that love Mike Oldfield because he is a genius and I appreciate anyone who appreciates him. :)

[GordonMorrice]

I remember when I first heard this for the first time. The summer of 1998. The gold pressings if the album were made on CD and I paid the £17.99 in HMV, brought it home and... "what is this? What is THIS?" A feeling of renewal was felt.

It's a great piece of work, as is Ommadawn. Mike is rich, happy and self-aware now and rightly so. I just wish that he would create a piece of music in 24 hours that was out of control with no dubbing. Oldfield a la Neil Young!

[Sarahhyouknow]

Good job guy's. (:

[auricom314]

Rightly regarded as a masterpiece; Oldfield captured a sound evocative of only the time in which it was produced. There's a musical panorama going on here that no one's even bothered to try to replicate since. He had a sound-score in his head and did what was necessary to make it manifest, just so we could share it. This is music out of time and out of space. F**k yeah. Seminal.

[thanasse]

I was in my early twenties when I heard this for the first time. An earthquake... And Mike Oldfield did this all by himself, alone... Amazing. I still have the LP (and even the following one). This performance is really really good. It respects the mistery of the music, the beat, the sphere... Bravo!

[pinkfloydrule27]

it's a shame the only truly known part of this amazing suite is the first 4 minutes used in that damn film, 10 minutes in when oldfield gets out the acoustic guitars is where this really kicks off and the last 10 minutes of side 2 are just incredible

[daveinreno1957]

i remember when this came out and it is just as good now as it was then

[kywx01]

Toujours aussi bon. Et la réalisation est très faite.

[mmccagh23]

the groove at 3min40seconds is my fav

[goytabr]

@mmccagh23, that's my favorite part, too. Especially in the "Exposed" version. That's awesome!

[cfdcolin1979]

an excellent use of tax payers money..licence fee paid for it

[ScotsLass1960]

Love Tubular Bells, absolute Timless Classic!!!!

[fuckamericanidiot]

i have to stop because even though i don't usually advocate note-for-note-just-like-the-st­udio-version playing, in this case i do. i think this sounds poor, they aren't very tight either, some parts sound really good, like the bass playing but some parts sound feeble or just plain dated

[eddievhfan1984]

@fuckamericanidiot Well, this was technically for promotional purposes, so... yeah... Try the version from Exposed. That one really fuckin' cooks...

[modlicliani]

thanks for the flashback

[modlicliani]

thans for the flashback

[Arvias]

6:50 omg epic!

[ucutumia]

the flute part is the apogeum

[gonchujam]

this is the live version from the album "Exposed"? Thanks

[konked]

gonchujam, This is earlier studiolive performance made for TV. On theExposed tour there was orchestra and choir along the regular band so to speak

napomania, I made the dx7 comment because that instrument has often been described the epitome of push button playing everything sounding the same. Sure guitar sounds can be in vogue as well but it takes a bit more to take them out (assuming you can play :) and still the personal fingers count!

[nonaverageblonde1260]

This part just blows my mind. And I thought Part 1 was amazing!

[Dyslexica]

Best guitar riffs, bar none, at 3:27 and 4:40 when he gets 'mellow', and 5:36 letting loose, and 6:25 when they pull it all together. with four guitarists plucking as one, and 7:28 when they start to pull it home! Mike Oldfield's fingernails - right hand - note his playing technique... Awesome to say the least. At 8:28 quietly finishing out this portion of the video

[sparky1982lincoln]

WOW amazing, no-one makes music like this anymore PROPER MUSIC, you cant beat earphones in, lights off and music up FULL BLAST!!!!

[vinny6737]

@sparky1982lincoln turn it to eleven

[rainbowdragon131065]

@sparky1982lincoln Your absolutly right there mate. :)

[UANMA123]

que buen disco la puta madre,para mis amigos del facebook,este loco es el que hace el tema del exorcista,escuchenlo

[slashguitarhero1]

wow its amazing at first view i couldnt see mike in keyboard , mike is an amazing keyboardist strong card from Soft....

[jsbreeding]

Thank you so much for posting this! :)

[tlacuachefeliz]

Increible y simplemente maravilloso

[93riven]

6:30 - one of the best guitar riffs ever made

[AdamWoodhams]

really?

[JackyRowe]

@93riven hang on, i know that... it's not the music from the DVD menu for "The Boat That Rocked", is it?

[rugbynut]

Is that a graphic score at 6:00?

[EngaVIF1913]

Steve Hillage; the golden vibe! Gliding!

[awooooooooooga]

agree with shuichfucker, that bit gives me goose bumps! the control and feel with which it is played is just amazing [=

[PokkieV]

great

[shuichifucker]

can someone please give me the tabs from part 3.35? i love the piece and wanna play it! : D sadly i cant find em myself : (

[ofdarknessandlight]

sorry but why can't you play it by ear? it's a lovely guitar part, I think you'd do yourself a load of good just learning it bit by bit, I actually can't see how tabs could be useful in any way!

[54spiritedwill54]

incrdible!

[vladimirovicitalia]

Hi , who is at minute 4:00 ?

Red long hair ...

thank you

[J3yeJ3ye]

Steve Hillage

[vladimirovicitalia]

Thank you J3yeJ3ye.

For me Tubular Bells , and aboveall this video live , is the best thing i've ever listen in my life.

i love ommadown and hergest ridge too , but tubular is a dream to listen.

English music rules , and i love the way english people listen and understand music !

Bye from Italy

[yorratwhat]

Is he still dating Pam Anderson?

[adamberk07]

what??? who?

[metalburger2]

yeah thats Karl Jenkins, he played sax, piano, and oboe for both Nucleus and Soft Machine. If you are into fusion you should check it out. Nucleus's first album is really good. Karl also wrote an album called Bundles for Soft Machine with Alan Holdsworth on guitar.

[D3NARDI]

gordon morrice, sorry, I've clicked the wrong thumb!

I loved the oboe line too!

[D3NARDI]

Daaaamn...fuckin' great bass line...in the intro...it just blew up my mind!

[FlavioGirl]

a beautiful masterpiece done by a youthful genius.

[TwistedAnvil]

Love all things tubular! Oh, and at 6:17 - is that a gong?!

[D3NARDI]

At 6:17, no...At 6:27, yes!

At 6:17 the gong is not even shakin'!

[warcew]

what is the name of guitar player who is playing the Gibson?

[NoelGrassy]

Looks like Fred Frith did in that era. I'm usually wrong though.

[Leoneb]

That's definitively Fred Frith. You did it this time.

[micksharp]

I think most of the Henry Cow line up from that period are on this just can't see Chris Cutler.

[MusicMadMaurice]

The oboe passage from 1:55 is haunting. There was no oboe on the original was there? Lovely to hear different instruments being introduced in different version. I have every rendition of this classic including orchestral.

[GordonMorrice]

Indeed, the oboe passage works beautifully. A thoughtful inclusion to the arrangement.

[konked]

The theme resembles a lot the one on Ommadawn/Hergest Ridge (pls pardon my memory fails here) 2:28 onwards. Has this been made before or after Ommadawn?

[jdmresearch]

A couple of years before.

[ANTICHITASCIPPA]

thank you

[DJfflyffilyfbybl]

still awesome!

[cfdcolin1979]

watching this makes me feel technology has made music worse..maybe

[konked]

Well, Yamaha DX 7 the sound of the 80's was a horror to program...enter loads of presets. There's a story going that Fender Rhodes was dismissed from a session because it did not sound real against DX 7 preset LOL.

[napomania]

@konked sorry, what does it takes dx7 with this tubolar bells?

[juanmafreire]

que grande mick taylor tocando con oldfield

[evanscorner]

incrdible