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Post by Alrik on Oct 8, 2006 12:13:47 GMT
Hello, everyone. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Yesterday I found an really interesting item : A DVD about Mike oldfield from the "Montreux Jazz Festival" (if I remember the title correctly), and it features a concert of the 1981 QE2 Tour ! You can find it here.Browsing around this page, I found several interesting older recordings of concerts there. Plus, concert films of Mike Oldfield from the 80s are a real rarity ! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Alrik
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Post by janggut on Oct 8, 2006 15:46:35 GMT
should be interesting, Al, considering that i am delving into jazz music. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) i have no idea Mike Oldfield performed in a jazz festival & a well known festival at that. he must be up there with the best of them in the jazz scene. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Alrik on Oct 8, 2006 17:27:01 GMT
I didn't know about it either. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Here in Leverkusen we have the internationally known "Internationale Jazztage". Miles Davis was here, too ! Also, we have a similar Blues festival, where bands from all of the world are there as well ! I'm still sad I couldn't see the Blues Brothers Band in the late 80s or early 90s ... Both have quite a good reputation internationally ! By the way, I just read today that a part of Leverkusen with the name Lützenkirchen had a high reputation for the weavers living there ! The infamous Titanic even had - so I read - decoration cloth and cushion cloth made here in Lützenkirchen ! Now THAT is a reason to be proud of my town ! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) The sign telling me that stated that the last of these weavers died 1931.
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Post by Alrik on Oct 26, 2006 20:20:55 GMT
Yesterday I bought and watched / listened to a part of the above mentioned DVD ("Live at Montreux").
To me, it's really great stuff ! I've already written that live material of Mike Oldfield is quite rare, but this performance in particular is something i like very much, because it's partly music from the first albums by him I got back then in the 80s.
The Singing of Taurus I on the DVD (performed by Maggie Reilly) is basically the same tune as the "Deep Deep Sound" from Taurus II, and that's what surprised me most. I had often the feeling I wasn't listening to Taurus I but to Taurus II instead ! And that 1981 ! (Taurus II came out 1982 on the album "Five Miles Out".)
The DVD contains ( I quote here) :
01 Intro 02 QE2 Medley : Taurus 1 / Sheba / Mirage 03 Platinum Parts 1-4 04 Tubular Bells Part 2 05 Medley : Conflict / Ommadawn 06 Tubular Bells, Part 1 07 Punkadiddle
Regarding the fact that this is quite old, the picture is astonishingly good (at least for my own taste), only the very beginning looks a little bit blurred.
I bought it for 10 Euros in an electronics chain shop, and to me as a fan it's worth every cent !
It's a dual layer DVD, with dts digital surround sound, pcm stereo or 5.1 surround sound. It has English menu texts (tiny menu) and it's PAL with regon code 0, it seems to me. The package says it's about 105 Minutes long, and the whole thing was released by Eagle Rock, who seem to specialize in such things nowadays.
I know Eagle Rock from a few Yes remasters, and they also released the "Symphonic Live" DVD by Yes. They seem to really dig in such niches like rare concert DVDs and I think they make it quite good !
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