Kevin Ayers - whatevershebringswesing (Mike Oldfield on Bass and Guitar)

[OMA2k]

Thanks for sharing this! Where did you get all these ancient pictures?

[slowuncle]

if you listen to Oldfield's contributions to Ayers' recordings, you will hear many little riffs & phrases which show up a little later in Tubular Bells & even Hergest Ridge

[petalnpaper1]

jeeez. how could i 'have forgotten' this album. Phew! Lost and found again! x

[MisterMorizon]

This music is so goddamn chilling. I just love Kevin Ayers for the sake of delivering at about some of the best shit i've ever heard to my ears. May Kevin never die. And seriously, he's like 60 now and still looks just the same as when he was 20. Weird, funny guy. Awesome song. Plus: "You're such a fat lady" hilarious metaphor.

[MarcosRFernandes]

yes, wyatt and ayers sounds great together. love this man's music.

[killuminati63]

LOVES IT !! thanks for sharing and cheers from canadastan

[sneakyrabbits]

i'm very hungry and you...

you're very well fed

you're such a fat lady

...hilarious lyrics

[Raelspark]

Mike Oldfield playing a blues lead way better than Johnny Winter. Tasteful.

[jeknorretje]

Wow this is so sweet. I always loved Kevin Ayers for being so lyrical, airy and unpretentious and in the meanwhile making great, lovely.,lovable music.

The man is the paragon of playfulness,and at 5 ft 1 my favorite garden g nome with the deepest richest voice I could wish for.

And then Mike Oldfield, in his midteens playing like a young god. Makes me wonder how I could have neglected this music in the last ten, fifteen years. Clearly withstood the test of time. Way to go!!

[hippiescummmmm]

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO KEVIN AYERS!!!!!!!!!!!

After all, he said drink some wine and have a good time. Chill, guys.

[blinky879]

@ All

Yes please ;-)

[evajom1]

MarcoFaust

whatever point you are trying to make is utterly lost on me,as I have not ventured an opinion on Kevin Ayers,Kevin Kline,or even Kevin Keegan.You should address your bitchy little girl comments to my visiting brother who used my PC to voice his own views under my username.In the mean time grow up.

[sc00terful]

It's all about feel. This music produces a relaxed/good feeling. More on healing with music will be revealed:0)

[killuminati63]

is that an organ i hear!?!? 

[theblum2004]

i havent listened to this in 34 years- there ive given away my age

[killuminati63]

i never knew such beautiful music existed three thumbs up !!

[MaddieCoxhill]

I love this song....

[Jlipnicki]

The thing is Kevin Ayers could, can, write songs and when you add great musicians who are not show-offs, such as Mike Oldfield, the result is sublime.

A rare example of real lyricisim in rock music, there is a strong argument , not that I want to argue with anyone, that it never realy got any better after this period with the Canterbury bands, just more histrionic, over produced and either too serious or completely trivial.

[PM1970]

What else can u say about this, but WOW!!

[chevalierdefortune]

I love this song! <3

[TheMarcoFaust]

What a delusion...

After the magic promise of "May I" Kevin Ayers lost his track (if he ever'd had one!). [Mike is here recycling some Floyd sugar, but you can tell his gameplay is not Ayers's]

[evajom1]

@TheMarcoFaust

What a very odd thing to say, especially as it isn't true.

I'd be interested to know precisely what "Floyd sugar" Mike Oldfield is supposed to be recycling here. I've certainly never heard David Gilmour play in this style.

[TheMarcoFaust]

@evajom1 - Why can't I just say what I think without next door's Canterbury zealot sticking out his bald bearded head to proclaim once more what's True?

[evajom1]

@TheMarcoFaust

Because you're talking shit.

[TheMarcoFaust]

@evajom1 - Read your own words, you old fart/hag/whatever: You couldn't make my point any better, could you? Just because back then you'd still manage to get laid, it doesn't make that music ALL good.

Some was, some not; you may either come to grips with this simple fact or stay stuck right where you are, constipated in head and arse. WhateveryouchooseIcouldn'tcare­less. Get lost.

[Fredigundis22]

@TheMarcoFaust

You are without doubt the biggest wanker ever to post a comment on this particular thread.

You've been utterly trounced by evajom1, but you're too stupid to realise it.

What do you think you achieve by making personal insults against a person you have never met, and whose age, physical appearance and success or failure in life cannot possibly be known to you?

Also, why are you so verbally aggressive and cruel? I think you probably need some kind of help.

[Fredigundis22]

@TheMarcoFaust You must have got your friends to give you the thumbs-up for this inane remark. Why does having an opinion that differs from yours make somebody a "Canterbury zealot", and why do you assume that someone you have never seen is bald or bearded, or that it matters one bit if he actually is?

I suspect that you are just trying to deflect the question about the particular aspects of David Gilmour's guitar style that you have claimed, without evidence, to have influenced Oldfield's.

[killuminati63]

@TheMarcoFaust floyd sugar? pink floyds rejected sweet stuff!?

[xj900man]

Great to hear mike's guitar work. A taste of things to come for sure. Terrific.

[shldnbschmn]

lucid and ironic...

music for thoughtful alcoholics.

Ayers always nailed it. makes me want to be a hedonist. mission accomplished...

[nickhirst999]

Blinky879:

Wow! I hadn't actuallly watched your video before I made my last comment!

It's wonderful! Magnificent!

[RazzBedson]

Beautiful guitar!

[nickhirst999]

@RazzBedson

Yes it is isn't it. Mike Oldfield's solo is truly fantastic. Oldfield was about 19 or so when he played this. Have you heard the BBC session where Mike was rehearsing a part of Tubular Bells in Why are we sleeping? It's fantastic

[ohwotagiveaway]

@nickhirst999 Is that on YouTube?  Post the URL if it is!

[nickhirst999]

@ohwotagiveaway

No, unfortunately it isn't. However, I see sbritt uploaded Lady Rachel from the same gig (BBC 1972) 3 days ago so maybe if you ask him nicely............!

[pattycakeyumyum]

Who remembers Clarence in Wonderland?

[nickhirst999]

@pattycakeyumyum

I do!

[pattycakeyumyum]

Hello, I remember seeing them at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm quite a few times - they were great

[ledhead7489]

The harmony of Wyatts and Ayer's voices is beautiful. This is rediculously good. I might cry lol.

[brycicles]

this is soooooo good. brings back great memory of kevin ayres and the whole world at the maryland in glasgow with a 17 yrs old mike oldfield blowing us away with his smooth haunting guitar playing n lol coxhill wild on sax. ahhhhhh..great!

[marls1965]

Mike's trademark guitar sound is so apparent here, long before his solo career took off.

The guitar solo on this track clearly sounds like early sketches of the guitar solo at the end of Tubular Bells Side 2.

Mike Oldfield is a great, but very underrated guitarist, an unsung guitar hero.

[nickhirst999]

@marls1965

Mike borrowed a Bang and Olafsen tape recorder from Kevin Ayers on which he recorded the "demo" tapes for Tubular Bells. You are right in saying that there are distinct similarities between Tubular Bells and The Whole World.

Oldfield is indeed a very under-rated musician.

It is wonderful to hear them working together like this

[fireseedglass]

Ahhh... the good old days!

[narval77]

En el 7:25 se ve a David Bedford! :)

[lukaszswietek]

Wow> Rare photos. xD

[antcarjor]

maraVILLOSO SOLO DE GUITARRA. SOLO PODIA SER MIKE OLDFIELD

[kezzworld]

magical music, magical pictures, magical memories.

[qdvbhjqsdvgqwvcqbvdv]

wolud you happen' to have also Champagne Cowboy Blues? can you post it?

[qdvbhjqsdvgqwvcqbvdv]

Oh, it's the right piece to listen on a hot summer night with glass of red wine in a hand and a nice lady on youre side... and light coversation..

[rowanhudsonmusic]

I always thought it was Ollie Holsall doing the solo

[pnest]

It is amazing to listen to mike from this point of view,tnaks for sharing!!!

[amazenboy]

What a delicate electric guitar solo... whouahh !

[kebbs]

Beautiful piece... interesting to hear Oldfield solo over this soulful/bluesy progression.