The Orb "Towers of Dub" Live 1994

[monkefoahead]

superb.takes me back to a very messy time

[43932]

Wow !!!! I was there !!!! it was incredible, really, no word to say it !

[Marrie23]

I wish I was there. :O

[Hirezumi]

@Marrie23 me too... :***

[springwick]

people don't believe me about this tour. it was that insane, every night, everywhere. (sorta sux that this isn't the actual music, but... good video :)

[zlahtina]

...saw them live a year earlier (1993) at brixton academy, has anyone filmed that one, pleaseee? one of the top 10 gigs I ever attended!

[wendytrendy1]

nice one Alex! i remember you from brixton squatting days.....

[BouncePounce]

What's the music at the beginning of the video called?

[plunder23]

seems to be mixed in with some audio from the FFWD album they did with Fripp.. lovely soundscapes using his frippertronics.. its the kind of music they should put on a spacemans ipod..

[BouncePounce]

Thanks for the pointer.

[dubwoofer]

this is still the greatest orb vid i've seen. amazing.

[pouderbern]

the orb rules

[54spiritedwill54]

what a great footage.

[clocklife]

I want to cry, this is so beautiful.

[Adbut1976]

Sounds mighty like the studio version of towers of dub off of the live 93 album???

[skuzzbunny]

check the comments...P

[Adbut1976]

Yeah sorry its nothing like what I said....I was in an altered state when I was listening and typing!!

[303threeothree]

i was there, this was the orbus terrarum tour i gues, somewhere in 1995. ozric tentacles did the support for this show.

[theHeraldTV]

This is remarkable. Just saw your latest video, the one for Katskills...it led me to this. Glad you're sharing this footage!

[thestuzilla]

As the rain turned to frog spawn I looked to my ticket, 14576845. This was good, one less and I would have missed the orb. The fractions of the parsec farsec the ambivulant nature of the frang where ever you may go!

[clivetemple]

Wonderful, thanks.

[Scubadevils]

Absolutely fantastic to see this. I had the pleasure of seeing the Orb play in Dublin in 1994 and this puts a shiver through me watching now. What I wouldn't do to turn back the clock for just one night like this again :(

Thanks so much for this video and putting some images to a very special memory.

[stulan]

Delighted so many are loving this! - still makes me go funny after all these years.

LX and co manage to press all the right buttons and I think we may have captured a little of that old Orb magic with this.

all the positive feedback makes for quite a proud feeling - BIG THANKS for posting JOHN!!!

[Plustek05]

The Vorst Nationaal show was 1995, a staggering 13 years ago... I may not remember everything from that evening (for various reasons) but thàt I know.

[djech01]

glastobury, '92, the NME field, six strawberries, a spaceship hovering overhead, white light, 'singing in the rain' (clockwork orange style)... guess u had to be there!! Best Trip of my Life!! Anyone remember??

[fiftyfirstfloorfilms]

Yep, The Orb on a balmy summer evening and The Scream closing it all out. Very hazy memories...

[djech01]

Yeah, Back to the Planet and R.D.F., lots more strawberries and the three hotest days of the year, and then Rolf Harris tied his kangaroo down. It was like going to heaven and hell at the same time, Fuck yeah!

[frozenflatline]

respect to all of you who remember what the old (pre-94) days were like

[fiftyfirstfloorfilms]

Djech

Ive tried to work some of your strawberry memories into my new Orb video for Katskills...hope you like!

J

[javpanda]

Yeah i was there, seen the in cardiff also that year.

[apeoven]

@djech01

yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[0asparagus0]

i cant beleive how lucky this guy was... i wish i was behind the camera... LITERALY PRICELESS

[dubwoofer]

still the greatest youtube vid, hands down.

this one still kills.

[No1knowall]

brilliant footage...(.)

[dproos]

zaalig gewoon. live in Vorst..

Bedankt voor de fijne herinnering.

[johnneedslove]

live 93 is burned into my brain, liek i expect to hear each sound after the other and when i don't on other takes it's just not right.

patterson lost me completely after the yellow orbus record completely tho. i think he lost himself a little too. he needs to stretch again. just my feelings ....

[joleski]

top video, but isn't this just the version of towers of dub from the 'bro evil 93' album? Or is this footage from them at glasto 93? best live act ever (well, between them and leftfield!!)

[fiftyfirstfloorfilms]

Footage was recorded in Belgium but we couldnt use the live sound from the actual concert as it was too poor quality...so, yes...the track has been taken from the live 93 album, plus the FFWD album intro *see comments below.

[johnneedslove]

patterson was the first that i know of in taking the mixing board as instrument into electronic music. dub techniques mastered in a different genre.

i listened to the orb religiously for so many years. ppl thought i ws crazy.

[clocklife]

saw them at Roseland in New York in 1995. Best of all the amazing shows I've been to.

[detroit900]

amazing video, that tour was great.

[fiftyfirstfloorfilms]

Whoohooo

10000 views. Thanks for watching!

[FUCKMONY]

tentamuntfunister/fukinrocks..­echo..

[ssballs]

what a great footage.thanks.

[jwilby]

orb 4ever

[hawklord64]

Not to mention "The Wind" : )

[CHARLEYCHARLES71]

Best since eno and tangerine dream

[Catatonic1234]

Watched them at Kentish town, London. They had these floating sheep balloons with strobe lights in them. Amazing experience! Bandulu was supporting act.

[lipssmear19]

Fungi again needed in room's one 6 and thr3e.Pleases wear the sky and you'll answer that ringing phone once the neighbor's shine in the sun, dreamcraft

[BarneyMac10]

Wake up Wake up!!!

[wianbrilson]

the beginning of this track (before the phone) is from the FFWDD album..its called lucky saddle.

[fiftyfirstfloorfilms]

well spotted mate...class album

[jonnyvasuki]

ozrics were cool, loved their techno offshoot eat static, head down to megadog on holloway road every month in early-mid ninetys.. nostalgia.

[tinolapino]

its been a long time since that concert, the first group that played overthere where the ozeric tentacles.both groups where great.i've had the most laughs with ozerics ,almost no one knewed then and everybody whas doped up , and when they started ,it was with full strobos, never saw somany people dropping down. woehahaha, great memory's from that concert

[lipssmear19]

Groovy, I got to see Floyd in 1980.The Wall,It was as good as it gets until an Orb get together(RAVERS),Dig?I despratly desire to tred to Amsterdam where I can clear my HEAD.The Dead concerts dried up due to sudden bullshit...R.I.P.J.G.

[Pauluk33]

stunning video. i'll orb videos should be made with actualyl natural footage, its stunning at the beginning

[SouthernUK]

Fantastic video! It's a shame that when I got into the Orb I was only 11 and was too young to go to any of their gigs :p

[Faeden]

Its The Orb, there are no reasons why. There is no logic or reason in the human imagination, it just is. The human imagination is limitless, and with no limits to measure, there will never be a reason a why or absolute answer that you can put your finger on. Which of course is why The Orb are so effective and brilliant. There doesn't need to be a reason, just pure unlimited conscious and unconscious imaginational universal thought of mind and spirit. Let your imagination think for you :)

[aliencrap]

I saw em in Cleveland in 1995?? Anyway, it was really good stuff. I still listen to them.

[stan30068]

What is he saying at 1:44? "Destroy" something or other?

[markdcarter]

I believe the Magnetic Fields purloined this bassline (it's a great one!) for "It's a Crime" (to plagiarize?!). Sounds very similar, anyway. I love the Orb album track: classic!!

[roguetrooper68]

i tried to see the ozrics live once but their support act freaked me out. went home and chilled with some orb. i'm still livin i this one

[LeDot300]

I was there also... best orb gig I ever went to (which have been many)

[morangochris]

WOW, great to see it again, as far as i remember that was a double concert, Ozric Tentacles was the other act that day in Vorst Nationaal.

[jabbso]

Absolute Genius top top tune! takes me way back, Glasto 93 and the Brixton Academy all nighters. Magnificent stuff

[aznarder]

glastonbury 93-wonderful wasnt it?remember the look to the skys messages appearing on the side of the stage?-i was massively stoned and looked up expecting something to happen for 90 minutes!-wicked festival all round wasnt it!

[mr2gti]

Currently the best, but when someone finds the TOTP Blue Room VT, it'll become 2nd.

[aznarder]

glastonbury 93-wonderful wasnt it?remember the look to the skys messages appearing on the side of the stage?-i was massively stoned and looked up expecting something to happen for 90 minutes!-wicked festival all round wasnt it!

[zolastic]

i was there too. they pointed searchlights up at the sky. i remember strobes and bass and lasers and balloons, and colours, lying on the ground, listening to this honey in my ears. man, i was whacked. never heard anything like it before or since.

[dubwoofer]

this is the best orb vid on youtube! like seeing them back in the day.